All Views Articles for 2015-03-25
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Wenonah Hauter Monsanto Wants to Keep You in The DARK In the absence of a federal requirement to label GMOs , food activists have taken matters into their own hands, passing labeling laws in Vermont, Maine and Connecticut and putting the issue on the... Read more |
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David Morris The Politics of the NCAA Sweet Sixteen When television cameras zoomed in on Kansas Governor Sam Brownback in the middle of the Kansas-Wichita State NCAA basketball game a thunderous chorus of boos broke out. Viewers gained a rare glimpse... Read more |
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Isaiah Poole House Democrats Will Be Measured By Their People’s Budget Vote Politics isn’t always the art of compromise. Sometimes, it is the imperative of standing up for principle. Sometimes, it is the refusal to accept the boundaries of the politically acceptable and,... Read more |
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Neema Singh Guliani Unchecked Government Drones? Not Over My Backyard On last Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration gave Amazon the green light to begin testing drones While you aren’t likely to be getting your Amazon order delivered by drone anytime soon, as... Read more |
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Marge Baker Shining a Light on Corporate ‘Dark Money’ President Obama should issue an executive order to let voters see for themselves who's trying to buy political influence Read more |
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Patrick Woodall A Mega-Merger Too Far: Kraft Foods-H.J Heinz Announce Merger Do you like ketchup with your mac and cheese? H.J. Heinz and Kraft sure appear to. This morning, processed food powerhouse Kraft Foods and ketchup kingpin H.J. Heinz announced a merger that will... Read more |
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Rachel Rye Butler The Smithsonian’s Koch Problem Two of our most celebrated natural history museums have a serious Koch problem. David Koch sits on the board and is a major donor for both the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History... Read more |
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John Baglow Harper Plays His Election Cards and Chooses Fear Politicians—and governments—are usually far smaller than the issues that plague us. Take the economy, for example. A good economic situation, by which I mean one where large profits are made, is a... Read more |
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Nadia Kayyali White House Confirms: If Section 215 Expires, So Does Bulk Phone Records Collection There’s some good news coming from the White House today that deserves repeating. Reuters is reporting that Ned Price, a spokesman from the President’s National Security Council , has unequivocally... Read more |
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Rebecca Vilkomerson Change in Israel Will Only Come from Outside Pressure Israel's recent election was a clarifying moment. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's appeal to Israelis' worst racist instincts worked. Between Netanyahu's declarations during the last week on the... Read more |
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Hannah McKinnon TransCanada’s Other Massive Pipeline Plan TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has been front and center in a heated continental energy and climate debate for over four years now – and President Obama is sounding more and more like... Read more |
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John Hanrahan Whistleblowers and the Press Heavyweights Following the late January guilty verdicts in the espionage trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, more proof emerged — if any more were needed — that many elite mainstream journalists abhor... Read more |
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Ajamu Baraka Netanyahu’s Victory Is a Victory for Palestinian Solidarity Movement The cover of respectability that obscured the brutal and immoral reality of the Israeli colonial project may have been permanently ripped away by Benjamin Netanyahu’s angry declaration that if re-... Read more |
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Kevin Martin Which is the Most Responsible Nuclear Nation – Iran, Israel or the United States? The U.S. and five other world powers – Russia, China, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, known collectively as the P5+1 for the permanent United Nations Security Council members plus Germany –... Read more |
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Liliana Segura A Prosecutor Seeks Redemption. Can We Allow Prisoners the Same? BY NOW MANY have read and been moved by the extraordinary mea culpa published in the Shreveport Times by a man named Marty Stroud III, who more than thirty years ago sent Glenn Ford to die for a... Read more |