All Views Articles for 2013-07-23
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Susan Casey-Lefkowitz As a Driver of Tar Sands Expansion, Keystone XL Fails President Obama's Climate Test In June President Obama laid out a plan for the U.S. to tackle climate change including a climate test for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. A new economic and environmental analysis from... Read more |
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Lee Fang Not Just Goldman Sachs: Koch Industries Hoards Commodities as a Trading Strategy Over the weekend, The New York Times published its investigation of how Goldman Sachs has made a tidy profit by buying up vast amounts of aluminum and slowing the delivery through the ownership of... Read more |
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Alec Karakatsanis Why US v Blewett is the Obama Justice Department's Greatest Shame Explain the paradox that the US still jails thousands of African Americans on sentences it admits were unfair? It can't be done Read more |
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Chuck Collins 11 Reasons to Divest from the Fossil Fuel Industry A future without oil, coal, and gas companies is being forged by individual, institutional and religious investors Read more |
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Eduardo Galeano Iraq Invades the United States And Other Headlines from an Upside Down History of the U.S. Military and the World Read more |
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Barbara Lubin, Danny Muller The Betrayal of Helen Thomas And a call to honor the brave women journalists who deserve our admiration and applause Read more |
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Richard Wolff Detroit's Decline Is a Distinctively Capitalist Failure The auto industry Big Three were loyal only to shareholders, not the people of Detroit. The city was gutted by that social choice Read more |
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Andrea Brower Hawaii's Local Struggle in the Global Movement for Food Justice There is a powerful and growing movement in Hawaii to protect our land, water and people’s health from the impacts of the agrochemical-GMO industry — corporate giants Dow, Pioneer DuPont, Syngenta,... Read more |
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Mary Bottari, Rebekah Wilce ALEC in 2013: Rightwing Legislative Group Fuels Race to the Bottom in Wages and Worker Rights Just How Low Can Your Salary Go? Read more |
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Dean Baker Detroit and Goldman Sachs: Makers and Takers By now everyone has heard about Detroit's bankruptcy. One of the big bills in the city's payable box is the $3.5 billion in unfunded pension obligations. The story in many people's minds is that... Read more |
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Fred Glass We're Taxing the Rich... and So Can You "There is no alternative to austerity,” insist the rich, along with their politicians, foundations, think tanks, and media. Read more |
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Ruth Rosen Why the Relentless Assault on Abortion Rights in the US? Americans have grown more supportive of same -sex marriages, gun control, immigration reform and even taxes on the wealthiest individuals. Why, then, have the cultural and political wars over abortion accelerated? Read more |