All Views Articles for 2014-10-23
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Carolyn Raffensperger, Kaitlin Butler Economics As If Future Generations Mattered Creating a commons ethic for ecological restoration and social justice Read more |
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Karl Nerenberg Who are the Victims of Wednesday's Attacks at the War Memorial and on Parliament Hill? The news that a soldier was shot at the War Memorial broke at just before 10.00 a.m. Wednesday, October 22. On CBC Radio One's local Ottawa newscast, reporter Giacomo Panico breathlessly described... Read more |
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Peter Hart Chuck Todd, Militarism and Media Diversity To his credit, NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd is doing interviews with some press critics; he spoke to NYU professor Jay Rosen ( 10/9/14) recently, and also to liberal watchdog group Media... Read more |
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Brandon Buskey Pushed into Homelessness by Their Own Government On the outskirts of Florida's Miami-Dade County, dozens of individuals formerly convicted of sexual offenses live as exiles on an abandoned strip of land near a railroad track. The area has no... Read more |
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Damian Kahya What’s at Stake as EU Leaders Sit Down to Hammer out the Next Batch of Energy and Climate Targets? Renewables targets, gas wars, power outages and nuclear subsidies - possibly the biggest energy issues over the past few years and all linked in one way or another to deals made in the EU over the... Read more |
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David Bromwich The Importance of Being Exceptional From Ancient Greece to Twenty-First-Century America Read more |
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Rajesh Makwana The Coming Financial Crisis: A Harbinger of World Renewal? As the prospect of global financial crisis beckons once again, will our elected leaders finally accept the need for an entirely new economic approach that breaks away from the primacy of growth and profit – or will their hand be forced by a resurgence of mass public protest? Read more |
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Kayla Schultz Wind and Solar Create More Jobs When They’re Locally Owned, Report Finds At last month’s People’s Climate March, among the most popular signs were ones supporting renewable energy like wind and solar as the best way to avoid a climate catastrophe. And because of the... Read more |
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Terrance Heath Rev. William Barber’s New Book Reminds Us Why We Must Vote With Election Day just two weeks away, the words of Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award recipient and Moral Mondays movement leader Rev. William Barber remind us, “If we ever needed to vote, we... Read more |
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John Feffer The Sum of Our Fears What we see on our screens has primed us to make the obvious mistake of worrying overmuch about improbable threats and worrying undermuch about the more probable ones. Read more |
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Nelofer Pazira Ottawa Shooting: Harper’s Pro-US Agenda Has Turned Canada into a Target – and Divided Society The impact of the country’s participation in the US-led war against Isis has already been felt Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler One My Lai a Month “When somebody asks, ‘Why do you do it to a gook, why do you do this to people?’ your answer is, ‘So what, they’re just gooks, they’re not people. It doesn’t make any difference what you do to them;... Read more |