All Views Articles for 2013-07-25
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Chase Madar The Sky Darkens for American Journalism The future of the American media is being decided in a military court Read more |
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Ajamu Baraka The Military Coup in Egypt: Requiem for a Revolution that Never Was The liberal appropriation of the term "revolution" to describe everything from the events in Libya and Syria to the Green movement in Iran not only distorts social reality but also advances a dangerous narrative. Read more |
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Marcy Wheeler Candidate Obama’s Tribute to Whistleblowers Disappears Two Days after First Snowden Revelations Sunlight Foundation discovers the Obama Administration has removed access to his 2008 campaign promises from the White House web Read more |
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Jeffrey Bachman Obama's Force-Feeding of Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikers Violates the Torture Convention The holy month of Ramadan began on July 8. At Guantanamo Bay’s Camp Delta, Muslim detainees on hunger strike, many of which have been cleared for release, continue to be force-fed against their will... Read more |
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Ira Chernus Where Have All the Dreamers Gone? Political dreaming in the Twenty-First Century Read more |
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William Pfaff US Policy Is to Keep the Veil of Secrecy in Place For some 20 years, in another and more youthful phase of my life, I was one of the (apparently) several hundred thousand Americans who possessed a “top secret” security classification. Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Democratic Establishment Unmasked: Prime Defenders of NSA Bulk Spying NYT: "The Obama administration made common cause with the House Republican leadership" Read more |
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William Greider No More Second Chances for Larry Summers Among his other outstanding attributes, Lawrence Summers is perhaps most distinguished by his mendacity. I have encountered this up close over the years in interviews. He bristles and turns nasty... Read more |
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Harvey Wasserman Fukushima Continues to Spew Its Darkness Radiation leaks, steam releases, disease and death continue to spew from Fukushima and a disaster which is far from over. Its most profound threat to the global ecology—a spent fuel fire—is still... Read more |
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Norman Solomon Congress: Obama’s Willing Executioners of the Fourth Amendment It’s now painfully clear that the president has put out a contract on the Fourth Amendment. And at the Capitol, the hierarchies of both parties are stuffing it into the trunks of their limousines, so... Read more |