All Views Articles for 2013-06-24
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Robert Jensen Terror v. Surveillance? Keeping Americans Safe in Two Simple Steps In the frenzy over Edward Snowden’s leak of classified information about government data-mining surveillance, public officials and pundits have tried to lock us into a narrowly defined and... Read more |
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Allison Kilkenny 'A Slow-Motion Train Wreck': The Real Consequences of the Sequester The Republican-led House voted to eliminate $1.5 trillion in discretionary spending through 2022 during the much-publicized sequester, causing widespread pain and havoc through American communities,... Read more |
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Dave Zirin Brazil: Yes, Blame the Damn World Cup Sepp Blatter, the all-powerful don of FIFA; Dilma Rousseff, the president of Brazil; and Pelé, the legendary soccer star; are three extremely different people. Read more |
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John Nichols Glenn Greenwald is "Aiding and Abetting" Democracy Imagine if the Sunday morning talk shows had existed in 1776. Surely, they would have welcomed the most widely-read and provocative journalist of that historic year. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati A Congress Only CEOs Could Love House Republicans, with help from some Wall Street-friendly Democrats, are rushing to repeal the most promising Dodd-Frank Act check on excessive executive pay. You won’t believe their rationale. Read more |
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Chip Ward Rewilding the Great West One Footfall at a Time Treking West for a new era of conservation Read more |
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Valerie Plame Wilson, Joe Wilson The NSA's Metastasized Intelligence-Industrial Complex Is Ripe for Abuse Where oversight and accountability have failed, Snowden's leaks have opened up a vital public debate on our rights and privacy Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Pursuit of Edward Snowden: Washington in a Rage, Striving to Run the World Rarely has any American provoked such fury in Washington’s high places. So far, Edward Snowden has outsmarted the smartest guys in the echo chamber—and he has proceeded with the kind of moral clarity... Read more |