All Views Articles for 2013-10-23
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Richard Kim What the Democrats Can Learn From Ted Cruz He's a fraud and a wacko bird, but at least the Texas senator has the courage of his convictions. Read more |
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Seumas Milne It's The Spies, Not the Leaks, That Threaten Our Security The NSA-GCHQ machine is about global power, not protecting its citizens. US and British intelligence still fuel the terror threat Read more |
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Omar Barghouti A Secular Democratic State in Historic Palestine – A Promising Land “Because it is a distortion of being more fully human, sooner or later being less human leads the oppressed to struggle against those who made them so. In order for this struggle to have meaning, the... Read more |
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David Dayen Big Bank Punishments Don't Fit Their Crimes The SEC is "getting tough" and extracting admissions of wrongdoing in financial fraud settlements; in practice they're nothing more than insincere apologies. Read more |
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Ralph Nader How About Reviewing the Sunday New York Times? The New York Times reports, reviews and evaluates a wide range of human, corporate and governmental behavior under its motto “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” Here’s one brief review by a long-time... Read more |
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Peter Hart iPads, Flying Pets and Other Things More Newsworthy Than Deadly Drone Strikes People who watch the evening newscasts regularly often note that the shows follow the lead of the New York Times in selecting news stories. If a story is on the front page of the Newspaper of Record... Read more |
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Jay Walljasper Bike Lanes To Somewhere: On Race, Health, and Equity Rev. Kenneth Gunn’s ministry at Chicago’s Bread of Life Church encompasses both the Bible and bicycles. He organized a bike club that regularly rides from the South Side church to Lake Michigan and... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin $40 Million Allocated for Drone Victims Never Reaches Them Read more |
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Jim Hightower Corporate Greed is Literally Making Us Sick The failure of our corporate and political leaders to make sure every worker gets good health care is causing some unpleasant consequences – not just for them, but for all of us. Consequences like... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Dear House-Senate Budget Committee: The Country Needs Jobs Details are emerging about the House-Senate conference committee charged with developing a new budget. Read more |
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Naureen Shah Time for the Truth about 'Targeted' Killings and US Drones' Civilian Victims The Obama administration is like a reckless hit-and-run driver. Congress must not let John Brennan's CIA get away with murder Read more |
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Robert Reich The Triumph of the Right Conservative Republicans have lost their fight over the shutdown and debt ceiling, and they probably won’t get major spending cuts in upcoming negotiations over the budget. But they’re winning the... Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why Snowden’s Passport Matters When the State Department revoked Edward Snowden’s passport four months ago, the move was a reprisal from a surveillance-and-warfare state that operates largely in the shadows. Top officials in... Read more |