All Views Articles for 2013-10-03
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Digby What Do They Really Want, Part XXIV Remember when we all assumed that sequestration could never hold and they’d just have to pull the plug and negotiate a reasonable budget when the going got tough? Yeah, that’s worked out for us. I’m... Read more |
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Robert Naiman This Week, Let's Help Burlington Kill the $1.5 Trillion F-35 Taxpayer Ripoff This Week, Let's Help Burlington Kill the $1.5 Trillion F-35 Taxpayer Ripoff by Robert Naiman We have just a week left to help Burlington, Vermont kill the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter , the biggest... Read more |
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Gar Alperovitz Five Years After the Big Bailout: Time to Begin Building a “New Economy” Five years ago today, on October 3rd, 2008, the federal response to the financial crisis began with the signing into law by then President Bush of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). After a... Read more |
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David Vine The Italian Job: The Pentagon Goes on a Spending Spree How the Pentagon Is Using Your Tax Dollars to Turn Italy into a Launching Pad for the Wars of Today and Tomorrow Read more |
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Amy Goodman Herman Wallace, Free at Last After close to 42 years in solitary confinement, Herman Wallace is free. Wallace is dying of liver cancer, with days if not hours to live at the time of this writing. In a stunning legal ruling,... Read more |
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Zillah Eisenstein Set Marissa Alexander Free! October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Marissa Alexander was imprisoned in 2010 for 20 years after trying to defend herself from a known abusive estranged husband. She shot at him after a life... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Hope Flows from Hollow Water The community was out of control — the children, oh my God, the children, were sniffing gasoline and pretty much abandoning any pretense of a future — and the social and criminal-justice systems were... Read more |
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John Feffer Syria: What’s Next? Barack Obama–the man who was about to wage war in Syria, however reluctantly–must now fall from his high horse and become a man of peace. Read more |
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Richard Eskow The GOP’s Shutdown Tab: One Billion Dollars and Counting Forty million dollars an hour. A third of a billion every day. $1.6 billion every week. That’s a conservative estimate of the money Republicans are wasting by keeping the federal government closed... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Congressional “Mad Dogs” Render the Powerful Powerless SHUTDOWN – blared the Washington Post headline. None of the powers-that-be could stop a small faction of Republicans in the House of Representatives from shutting down many federal government... Read more |