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All Views Articles for 2014-08-24

Sunday, August 24, 2014
	Robert Jensen New University of Texas Chancellor's Military Background Is Cause for Reflection By all accounts, the University of Texas System’s incoming chancellor, Admiral William McRaven, is a smart, thoughtful fellow with a sense of humor who knows how to listen — all important qualities... Read more
	Vandana Shiva GMOs, Monsanto, and the Galileo Syndrome Speaking at the launch of the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at the Energy and Resources Institute, Union minister of state for environment Prakash Javadekar... Read more
	Julianne Hing Following Ferguson: Grand Jury 101 The grand jury has been seated, and it happens to be three-quarters white . Now what? “The Good Wife” can only teach so much. Los Angeles Times reporter Lauren Raab breaks down the roles and... Read more
	David Sirota Microsoft Admits Keeping $92 Billion Offshore to Avoid Paying $29 Billion in US Taxes Microsoft Corp. is currently sitting on almost $29.6 billion it would owe in U.S. taxes if it repatriated the $92.9 billion of earnings it is keeping offshore, according to disclosures in the company... Read more
	Antony Lerman The End of Liberal Zionism LONDON — Liberal Zionists are at a crossroads. The original tradition of combining Zionism and liberalism — which meant ending the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, supporting a Palestinian state... Read more
	Philip Weiss Hillary Clinton Just Lost the White House in Gaza Famously, Hillary Clinton lost her bid to be president in 2008 six years before the election, when she cast a vote for the Iraq war. Barack Obama, who’d been against that war as a nobody state... Read more
	Colin Jenkins Undercover in White America: Why Black Rage is Conscious, Justified, and Long Overdue On a crisp, Fall evening in 1992, while I was a freshman at a SUNY (State University of New York) school, the campus erupted after a white, male student assaulted a black, female student. Being an... Read more
	Dave Johnson Austerity Has Made Europe’s Depression Longer Than In The 1930s Europe’s economic depression has now lasted longer than the Great Depression of the 1930s. Meanwhile, America’s “Great Recession” also drags on thanks to cutbacks in government spending since the... Read more
	Eric Margolis Outrage To a Beheading: Shared Callousness and the Modern War Zone The alleged beheading of freelance journalist James Foley by the shadowy ISIS (or Islamic State) has sparked outrage and horror around the globe. I say “alleged” because we are not sure if the... Read more