All Views Articles for 2013-10-15
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Moath al-Alwi 'We Will Remain on Hunger Strike' I write this after my return from the morning’s force-feeding session here at Guantanamo Bay. I write in between bouts of violent vomiting and the sharp pains in my stomach and intestines caused by... Read more |
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Bianca Jagger Ecuadorian Victims' Struggle for Justice Against Chevron And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right." -- Martin Luther King, Jr... Read more |
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Ray McGovern Snowden Showing Dangerous Symptoms of Patriotism President Obama says he welcomes the debate on post-9/11 surveillance of Americans and the world, but that debate was only made meaningful by the disclosures of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who was then indicted and sought asylum in Russia, where he just met with some ex-U.S. intelligence... Read more |
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Carrie Mess South Dakota's Cattle Cataclysm: Why Isn't This Horror News? Ranchers in South Dakota lost tens of thousands of cattle from a freak storm. Thanks to the shutdown, no one is paying attention Read more |
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Eric Boehlert The Shutdown's Radical Birther Streak That the Press Can No Longer Ignore Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Making Peace with War What if we had politicians who believed in the abolition of war with as much passion as the Republican right believes in the abolition of taxes? Read more |
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Humna Bhojani Dear President Obama, What Have You Fixed by Meeting Malala? Dear President Obama, Thank you for your meeting with an impressive young lady from my country, and for showing concern over the citizens of Pakistan. In the picture from the White House, you are all... Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Fossil Fuel Euphoria: Hallelujah, Oil and Gas Forever! For years, energy analysts had been anticipating an imminent decline in global oil supplies. Suddenly, they’re singing a new song: Fossil fuels growing scarce? Don’t even think about it! The news... Read more |
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Jose Luis Vivero Pol Why Food Should be a Commons Not a Commodity Food is treated as a private good in today's industrial food system, but it must be re-conceived as a common good in the transition toward a more sustainable food system that is fairer to food... Read more |
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Sam Koplinka-Loehr Protectors vs. Destroyers: Canadians Unite to Stop Fracking in New Brunswick For the past two weeks, an unprecedented coalition of Acadians, Anglophones and members of the Elsipogtog First Nation have blockaded a compound in the Canadian town of Rexton, New Brunswick, where... Read more |
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Mary Bottari Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson Reach New Heights of Hypocrisy in "Fix the Debt" Ad The Campaign to Fix the Debt, the $40 million dollar astroturf “supergroup” that CMD exposed on the cover of the Nation magazine , has shifted into high gear in an effort to leverage the debt ceiling... Read more |
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Dean Baker Republicans Are Delusional About US Spending and Deficits The story of out-of-control debts and deficits is just plain wrong. US deficits have fallen in the past four years Read more |