All Views Articles for 2014-02-17
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Heather Long President's Day: Another Reminder How Messed Up US Holiday Policies Are About one in four working Americans get no paid vacation or holidays. None. Read more |
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Marc Bamuthi Joseph If We Don’t Connect It to Race and Class, Then Green Politics Is Just High-End Consumerism As environmentalism goes mainstream, corporations are marketing the word “green” as a panacea for the world’s climate crisis. Today the word describes a set of prescribed, mostly consumerist actions... Read more |
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Dinah PoKempner Privacy in the Age of Surveillance A strong global right to electronic privacy demands recognition, in U.S. law and internationally. Read more |
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Brendan Fischer Verdict in Jordan Davis Case Highlights Continuing Injustice of "Stand Your Ground" Once again, Florida's Stand Your Ground law has helped a man escape conviction for killing an African-American teenager. After thirty hours of deliberations, on February 15 a Florida jury declared it... Read more |
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Susan Casey-Lefkowitz Secretary Kerry Is Right. Climate Change Needs to Be Tackled Like a "Weapon of Mass Destruction" Secretary Kerry got it right when he identified climate change as one of the most urgent issues facing the world in a February 16 speech in Jakarta . Kerry got it right on the science, the urgency,... Read more |
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Massoud Derhally Israel and Palestine: Shifting Paradigms and a Single State It's time for Israelis and Palestinians to reconsider how they view the conflict and their own aspirations. Read more |
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Joshua Holland How Fear Beat the UAW in Tennessee Read more |
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Patrick Cockburn Are Protesters Overthrowing a Brutal Despot, or Merely Bad Losers at the Polls? In the spring of 2011 I was in Benghazi, standing in a crowd of anti-Gaddafi demonstrators protesting outside the hotel of a visiting delegation. Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola ‘Why Have You Gone to Russia Three Times in Two Months?’—Heathrow Customs Agent Interrogates Snowden Lawyer A lawyer who represents National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden and has spoken on his behalf numerous times was detained while going through customs at Heathrow airport in London. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Our Sinister Dual State On Thursday the former National Security Agency official and whistle-blower William E. Read more |
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Peter Van Buren The Divine Right of President Obama? How to Build a Post-Constitutional America One Killing at a Time Read more |
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Paul Buchheit How Privatization Perverts Education Profit-seeking in the banking and health care industries has victimized Americans. Read more |