All Views Articles for 2013-07-25

Thursday, July 25, 2013
Chase Madar
The Sky Darkens for American Journalism
The future of the American media is being decided in a military court
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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.
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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
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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...
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Ira Chernus
Where Have All the Dreamers Gone?
Political dreaming in the Twenty-First Century
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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.
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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"
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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...
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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...
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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...
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