All Views Articles for 2014-01-09
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Robert Reich Why The Republican’s Old Divide-and-Conquer Strategy—Setting Working Class Against the Poor—Is Backfiring For almost forty years Republicans have pursued a divide-and-conquer strategy intended to convince working-class whites that the poor were their enemies. The big news is it’s starting to backfire. Read more |
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Sasha Abramsky Why We Need a New War on Poverty The deepening crisis today demands an effort as ambitious as the one launched fifty years ago this week. Read more |
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Daniel Ellsberg On Secrecy, Oaths, and Edward Snowden These two pieces, the first by Marcy Wheeler , in part commenting on the second by Amy Davidson in the New Yorker (along with Snowden himself, in Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Starving Refugees: How We Disowned Palestinians in Syria A worst case scenario is unfolding in Syria, and Palestinian refugees, particularly in the Yarmouk refugee camp, are paying a heavy price for Syria’s cruelest war. Read more |
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Richard Schiffman Harassment of Climate Scientists Needs To Stop Climate change denialists are suing scientists, seeking access to their private emails. They will stifle inquiry and scientific progress Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Peak Oil Is Dead, Long Live Peak Oil! Among the big energy stories of 2013, “peak oil” -- the once-popular notion that worldwide oil production would soon reach a maximum level and begin an irreversible decline -- was thoroughly... Read more |
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Rachel Stoeve Movement to Resist Tar Sands 'Megaloads' Brings Together Northwest Tribal Members, Environmentalists As the sun set in Umatilla, Ore., the temperature plunged. It was December 21. My hands were going numb, but word was the megaload might roll that night, and I wanted to be there if it did. Read more |
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Kshama Sawant I Wear the Badge of Socialist With Honor The full text of the new Seattle city council member’s inauguration speech Read more |
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Mike Elk Obama Administration Stays Quiet as Boeing Strikes Major Blow to Pensions On Friday, yet another nail was put in the coffin of the defined-benefit pension in America. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) , the percentage of U.S. Read more |
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Elise Gould Inequality Is the Main Cause of Persistent Poverty I couldn’t agree more with Paul Krugman’s blog post this morning when he says, “the main cause of persistent poverty now is high inequality of market income.” We looked at precisely this question in... Read more |
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John Nichols Christie’s Access Lane Onto the Presidential Trail Gets Gridlocked Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher Discovering a Legal Tool to Curb Climate Change A new book champions the commons-based Public Trust Doctrine for saving the earth Read more |
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Ruth Rosen US Republicans and Their “Female Troubles” Now that it’s 2014, American political analysts, strategists, and operatives are revving up for the November midterm elections . High on the Republican agenda is the goal of convincing women to... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Cosmetic Surgery in Iraq Destroyed by US “In Iraq, al-Qaeda launched an offensive to take control of two cities, Fallujah and Ramadi, that U.S. troops sacrificed heavily to clear of terrorists between 2004 and 2008.” And so the new year... Read more |