All Views Articles for 2014-02-27
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Glenn Greenwald, Murtaza Hussain The Moazzam Begg Arrest: Part of the Effort to Criminalize Muslim Political Dissent Moazzam Begg, a native-born British citizen of Pakistani descent, spent three years incarcerated in the most notorious detention camps created in the post-9/11 “War on Terror”: all without ever being... Read more |
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Zoë Carpenter Keystone XL Might Make You Sick, Literally Ever since President Obama announced that the Keystone XL pipeline would only be in the national interest if it “does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution,” the project has... Read more |
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Donna Smith Second Guessing a Life: US Health Care System Robs Security and Human Dignity The dysfunction of the US health care system does more damage than causing the deaths and the bankruptcies forced on the sick and injured who don't have enough coverage or cash to afford life-saving... Read more |
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Subhankar Banerjee Interpreting the Climate Impasse from India to America The two countries I know best are India and the US. I spent the first 22 years of my life in the former, and the following 24 in the latter, where I continue to live. Recently I returned home, after... Read more |
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Karen Greenberg The Five Commandments of Barack Obama How “Thou Shalt Not” Became “Thou Shalt” Read more |
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Harvey Wasserman Documents Say Navy Knew Fukushima Dangerously Contaminated the USS Reagan A stunning new report indicates the U.S. Navy knew that sailors from the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan took major radiation hits from the Fukushima atomic power plant after its meltdowns and... Read more |
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Robert Parry Cheering a ‘Democratic’ Coup in Ukraine Read more |
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Margaret Kimberley America vs. the World The word imperialism fell into disuse in recent decades. If it seems slightly retro, that is only because there aren’t enough Americans committed to telling the ugly truth about their government. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Remembering Chokwe Lumumba Can you be a revolutionary and a mayor? Chokwe Lumumba—who spent eight months as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, before he died this Tuesday—did his best to be both. Read more |
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Yan Zhu Security Experts Call on Tech Companies to Defend Against Surveillance Open Letter to Tech Companies Includes 10 Principles to Protect Users From NSA Sabotage Read more |