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All Views Articles for 2014-03-17

Monday, March 17, 2014
	Kevin Gosztola ‘Most Transparent Administration Ever™’—Obama Administration Makes Mockery of Open Government Days after President Barack Obama’s inauguration, he pledged to have his administration create an “unprecedented level of openness in government.” Then-chief of staff, Jack Lew, later contended the... Read more
	Jack Rasmus Who Benefits From Ukraine’s Economic Crisis? (Hint: Not Average Ukrainians) Read more
	John Buell Comcast Merger Threatens Our Democracy as Much as Our Pocketbooks Much business news is pretty opaque to many citizens. Terms like leveraged buyouts, puts, and calla seem to be the stuff of expert financiers or con artists. Nonetheless, the media have recently... Read more
	Norman Solomon When Hope Turns Rancid: From LBJ to Obama Hope makes history. So does betrayal of hope. Early in his presidency, Lyndon Johnson inspired enormous hope. But the promise for a Great Society imploded — and disappointment jolted many former... Read more
	Jack Eidt Boots on the Ground Beat Back Big Oil Inspired by California’s worst drought in 500 years, record melt of Arctic Sea ice, and worldwide extreme weather events, climate and clean energy marchers have gone into the streets several times... Read more
	Cecily Jones The Caribbean People Have a Legitimate Claim for Slavery Reparations The economic and social poverty of parts of the region are a lasting legacy of slave trading Read more
	Lewis Lapham Crowd Control: Political Revolt and the Accumulation of More [ This essay will appear in "Revolution," the Spring 2014 issue of Lapham's Quarterly . This slightly adapted version is posted at TomDispatch.com and re-posted at Common Dreams with the kind... Read more
	Robert Parry Mainstream US Media Is Lost in Ukraine The U.S. mainstream news media is reaching a new professional low point as it covers the Ukraine crisis by brazenly touting Official Washington’s propaganda themes, blatantly ignoring contrary facts and leading the American public into another geopolitical blind alley Read more
	Paul Buchheit The Untaxed Americans: The Speculators, Hustlers, and Freeloaders of Wall Street Purchases of American products generally come with a sales tax, and often an excise tax, and possibly state and local add-on taxes. Read more
	Howard Friel On Democracy and Orchestrated Overthrows in Venezuela and Ukraine Read more
	Chris Hedges Israel’s War on American Universities The banning of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Northeastern University in Boston on March 7, along with a university threat of disciplinary measures against some of its members, replicates... Read more