All Views Articles for 2013-07-29
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Caroline Arnold 'A Man Don't Have To Die To Go To Hell' "A Man Don't Have To Die To Go To Hell" ....... according to a song of cowboy singer Brad Paisley. After a bout with cancer and the encroaching infirmities of age (I’m 82) my thoughts have recently... Read more |
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Rooj Alwazir Yemeni Journalist Jailed at Obama's Request Blossoms The Meaning of Consciousness: On July 23 2012, Abdulelah Haider Shaye, a Yemeni journalist imprisoned since 2010 at the request of Obama,was finally released from Yemeni State Prison. Read more |
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John Lindsay-Poland Enough! Accounting and Remembering the Long War in Colombia US military interventions differ greatly from each other. Some, like the one currently contemplated in Syria or the invasions of Kosovo and Haiti, are publicly rationalized as humanitarian in purpose... Read more |
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Cora Currier Who Are We at War With? That’s Classified In a major national security speech this spring, President Obama said again and again that the U.S. is at war with “Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces.” So who exactly are those... Read more |
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Maude Barlow Lac Mégantic: Don't Blame the Engineer How easy it would be to lay the blame for the tragedy in Lac-Mégantic on the engineer who ran the train. But the real responsibility lies with the governments on both sides of the border who have... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Major Opinion Shifts, in the US and Congress, on NSA Surveillance and Privacy Pew finds that, for the first time since 9/11, Americans are now more worried about civil liberties abuses than terrorism Read more |
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Lee Fang Lawmakers Protecting NSA Surveillance Are Awash In Defense Contractor Cash Though it failed by a twelve-vote margin, Congressman Justin Amash’s (R-MI) amendment last week to curtail the NSA’s dragnet surveillance efforts reveals new fault lines in the debate over privacy... Read more |
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César Chelala A Lesson from Pope Francis’s Visit to Brazil During his visit to Brazil, Pope Francis’ visit to Varginha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro drew crowds of thousands of people, most of them young. It was a good opportunity for him to preach social... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Business of Mass Incarceration Debbie Bourne, 45, was at her apartment in the Liberty Village housing projects in Plainfield, N.J., on the afternoon of April 30 when police banged on the door and pushed their way inside. The... Read more |