All Views Articles for 2014-03-20
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Wen Stephenson, Benjamin Franta Why We Must Divest From Fossil Fuels: A Student’s Open Letter to Harvard President Drew Faust The movement for fossil-fuel divestment has swelled to what an Oxford University study calls the fastest-growing divestment movement in history, one with the potential to shift the political ground... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Free Higher Education Is a Human Right Social progress is never a straightforward, linear process. Sometimes society struggles to recognize moral questions that in retrospect should have seemed obvious. Then, in a historical moment,... Read more |
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Christian Dorsey A Progressive Budget That Is Decidely Mainstream Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Venezuela: A Revolt of the Well-Off, Not a 'Terror Campaign' John Kerry’s rhetoric is divorced from the reality on the ground, where life goes on – even at the barricades Read more |
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Sadhbh Walshe Why Do We Let 80,000 Americans Suffer a 'Slow-Motion Torture of Burying Alive'? Solitary confinement’s psychological effects are obvious enough. But you have to hear it from the prisoners to be truly horrified Read more |
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Howard Friel No Russian Ever Called Me a Terrorist Are recent events in Ukraine and Crimea more important than the mitigation of climate change? Are they more relevant to Americans than our own Stasi state and our broke cities, abandoned public... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler 'Make It Hurt': On the Small-Mindedness of Foreign Policy “After Russia invaded Crimea, a senior American official vowed to ‘make it hurt.’ More than two weeks later, Moscow has given no sign that it feels any pain, and the challenge for President Obama is... Read more |
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Ira Chernus Ukraine + Flight 370 = Bad News for Neocons In America the news is big business. That's not news. Everyone realizes that the corporate mass media make their money by delivering readers, viewers, and listeners to advertisers. The bigger the... Read more |
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Randall Amster Crimea and Punishment: Imperial Blowback from Iraq to Ukraine Russia’s brazen annexation of Crimea presents a vexing foreign policy crisis for the Western powers. How can these actions be denounced without pointing a finger back upon their own forays and... Read more |
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John Nichols An 87 Percent Vote for a $15-an-Hour Wage Political insiders and prognosticators at the national level were, barely a year ago, casting doubts on the question of whether proposing a great big hike in the federal minimum wage was smart... Read more |
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Robert Parry Neocons’ Ukraine-Syria-Iran Gambit The Ukraine crisis – in part stirred up by U.S. neocons – has damaged prospects for peace not only on Russia’s borders but in two Middle East hotspots, Syria and Iran, which may have been exactly the point Read more |