All Views Articles for 2013-07-04
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Jim Hightower Oh Say Can You See... Through the Frackers’ Big Lie? The surge in fracked gas is headed for export and won't boost the nation's energy independence. Read more |
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Joseph Nevins The Silence of Empire On the last Sunday of May, I was on the campus of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. I stood in the back of a crowd of a few thousand, one composed largely of graduating seniors, and family... Read more |
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Khaled Shaalan Why the Western Media Are Getting Egypt Wrong Western media coverage of the massive waves of protests in Egypt over the past two days is revealing of a number of problems that plague knowledge production about the Arab world. Read more |
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Laura Gottesdiener Revolution 2.0 in Egypt A 'popular coup' ousts president and sets stage for next precarious phase of democratic transition Read more |
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Rudo Sanyanga Will Congo’s Poor Benefit from World’s Largest Dam Project? Africa’s poorest nation, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), plans to build the world’s largest – and most expensive – hydropower dam, Grand Inga, on the Congo River’s Inga Falls. A day before I... Read more |
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Karen Hansen-Kuhn Trade Secrets – Draft EU Documents Reveal Trade Agenda With US Transparency and trade negotiations don’t seem to go together these days. Recent revelations in Spiegel disclosed that the U.S. Read more |
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Sreeram Chaulia The Roots of Social Rebellion? Social Movements Historic change eventually comes via small and modest beginnings. The current revolts in Brazil and Turkey actually started in low-key fashion at least one decade ago. Read more |
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Elizabeth Schuster There Is Nothing “Innovative” About Privatizing Our Water Yesterday, I participated in a meeting hosted by the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency on financing water infrastructure. Read more |
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Adi Kamdar Twitter Shows Way Forward with Do Not Track Twitter announced Wednesday a new way of targeting advertisements for its users, including a partnership with three online tracking firms: media6degrees (m6d), Chango, and Adara. Read more |
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David Benjamin The Definition of American Patriotism (ca. 2013) MADISON, Wis. — According to the “originalists” who currently dominate the Supreme Court, little has changed in American politics and culture since the Fourth of July, 1776. But if you look closely,... Read more |
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Amy Goodman This Independence Day, Thank a Protester More than 160 years ago, the greatest abolitionist in U.S. history, the escaped slave Frederick Douglass, addressed the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. Douglass asked those gathered, “What,... Read more |
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Juan Cole Egypt’s “Revocouption” and the Future of Democracy on the Nile The argument over whether what happened in Egypt on Wednesday, July 3, was a coup or a revolution is really an argument over the legitimacy of the actions taken. If it was a revolution, it was... Read more |
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Subhankar Banerjee Independence from Corporate Terror and the Petrostate “Within a few years we are going to have more people off the surface of this planet more often, and we’ll have to determine value in that new environment.” —Jill Tarter, chairwoman of the SETI... Read more |