All Views Articles for 2014-03-24
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Kate Fried Fossil Fuel Industry 25 Years After the Exxon Valdez: Still Reckless After All These Years Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Egypt Kangaroo Court Sentences 529 Morsi Supporters to Death The Egyptian court has just handed down one of the most grotesque sentences in Egyptian history, condemning 529 people to death in one fell swoop. The US State Department said it was “shocked” and... Read more |
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Alice Slater Time for a 21st Century US Foreign Policy With 16,000 of the world’s 17,000 nuclear bombs in the US and Russia, the US should certainly not be fanning the fires for a new cold war after the distressing events in Crimea and the Ukraine. Read more |
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Dave Zirin It’s the Racism, Stupid: Meet the Press’s Epic NCAA Fail I will say this for the much-maligned David Gregory era of Meet the Press: the weekly program, with the tenacity of a twitter-troll, remains pugnaciously beltway-centric in its perspective. Read more |
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William Greider Spy Agencies, Not Politicians, Hold the Cards in Washington I am addicted to House of Cards, the British and American versions, but I suggest that both TV series have been looking at the wrong game. Read more |
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Oliver Stone, Mark Weisbrot Obama Wrong to Isolate Venezuela Read more |
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Barry Eisler If Dianne Feinstein is Michael Corleone in the CIA-Senate War, Will She Shoot? Or will she and Harry Reid, the Tony Soprano of Washington, give in to the system that feeds their power and play nice? Read more |
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Hilary Matfess Sanctioning Russia Won’t Help Ukraine Sanctioning Russia may actually reduce its incentive to change course in Crimea. Read more |
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Michael Winship Envy and Jealousy? Gag Me With a Silver Spoon Here on our whimsical island off the coast of the Eastern Seaboard, we have a company called Manhattan Mini Storage that is as famous for the semi-snarky wit of its billboards and subway posters as... Read more |
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Zak Newman What's the Difference Between Force Feeding and Waterboarding? The Department of Defense this month publicly released its newest rationalization for the abusive force-feeding program at Guantánamo Bay. In this latest memo on hunger strike policies, the abusive... Read more |
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Owen Jones Libya Is a Disaster We Helped Create. The West Must Take Responsibility It's called the pottery store rule: "you break it, you own it". But it doesn't just apply to pots and mugs, but to nations. Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn BDS: Non-Violent Resistance to Israeli Occupation Thanks to Scarlett Johansson, the American Studies Association (ASA), and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has entered our national... Read more |