All Views Articles for 2013-07-01
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Edward Snowden Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old,... Read more |
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Reza Marashi Parsing Rouhani’s Victory in Iran The election of Hassan Rouhani as Iran’s next president has elicited different interpretations in Washington. To some, Iranian officials from both sides of the political spectrum are cut from the... Read more |
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Cecile Richards Dispatch from Austin The Texas Legislature is back at the Capitol today, trying to pass a bill that would wipe out access to safe and legal abortion for millions of women in the state. Read more |
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Carina Ray Obama’s Africa Trip Needs Policy Overhaul Critics of President Obama’s trip to Africa are focusing on the wrong issue. Read more |
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Becca Cadoff Stand with Texas Women Last week, when Wendy Davis stood for over 13 hours to filibuster a sweeping anti-abortion bill , some suggested that Davis is a modern Wonder Woman. Millions of us watched - proud, inspired,... Read more |
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Andrew Nikiforuk Oh, Canada: How America's Friendly Northern Neighbor Became a Rogue, Reckless Petrostate For decades, the world has thought of Canada as America's friendly northern neighbor -- a responsible, earnest, if somewhat boring, land of hockey fans and single-payer health care. On the big issues... Read more |
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Tierney Smith Ocean Warming to Make Parts of the World "Uninsurable" Ocean warming from climate change could make some parts of the world ‘uninsurable’, according to a new report ( pdf ) from global insurance trade body, the Geneva Association. Read more |
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Owen Davis The Revolution Will Not Be Standardized The ground under education reform is beginning to shift. Families, chafing under years of state and mayoral control, are demanding a return to democratic processes . Read more |
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Bill Quigley Twelve True Patriots for July 4 On July 4, 1776, over fifty people signed the Declaration of Independence . They were openly resisting the legal authority of the King of England. Thousands joined them. They were outlaws. They were... Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Chalk Another One Up to Free Speech Hypocrisy Corporate media coverage of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has enjoyed the supposed irony of his reportedly seeking asylum in Ecuador, a country that U.S. journalists depict as failing to measure... Read more |
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Peter Van Buren The Mindset of a Whistleblower and Snowden’s Long Flight What a whistleblower thinks a fellow whistleblower might have thought Read more |
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Paul Buchheit More Evidence That US Middle Class is Sliding Toward the Third World A recent article by Les Leopold informed us that our nation is near the bottom of the developed world in median wealth, probably the best gauge for the economic strength of the middle class. The... Read more |
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Chris Hedges Bowl Phone Sex: The Unnoticed Rebellions of the Oppressed Out of sight from the wider society, lies an unseen, subterranean network that sustains the embers of defiance Read more |
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Gary Younge The US Supreme Court Thinks Racism Is Dead. It Isn't Judges gutted an act to protect black voters, saying it was out of date – but there are salient illustrations of their folly Read more |