All Views Articles for 2015-03-31
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Laura Carlsen The 'Biden Plan' for Central America Treats Child Refugees as National Security Threat A new regional policy, coupled with the deplorable US border policy, is an attack on both child welfare and human rights Read more |
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Patrick Cockburn Saudi Arabia's Airstrikes in Yemen Are Fueling the Gulf's Fire Arab intervention in Yemen risks entrenching Sunni-Shia divide and handing a victory to Isis Read more |
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Dilip Hiro The Great Game in Afghanistan (Twenty-First-Century Update) And the U.S. is losing out Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Leading Papers Incite ‘Supreme International Crime’ After the New York Times printed John Bolton’s “To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran” ( 3/26/15 ; FAIR Blog , 3/26/15), following the Washington Post publishing Joshua Muravchik’s “War With Iran Is... Read more |
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Jamie Henn The Real Way to Judge the US Climate Pledge If we don’t see global emissions peak and rapidly decline in the next few years, the world will be on track for disaster. Read more |
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Arturo Rodriguez Honoring Cesar Chavez's Birthday by Supporting the Farm Workers for Whom He Gave His Life Countless communities across America honor civil rights and farm labor leader Cesar Chavez on his March 31 birthday with annual commemorations. It's an official holiday in California and several... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Katie Powers Menendez Downfall Could Be Diplomacy’s Windfall Senator Robert Menendez, a powerful democrat from New Jersey, has been down on his luck lately. He is currently under federal investigation for corruption, and although the Senator has denied all... Read more |
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Michelle Goldberg Indiana Just Sentenced a Woman Convicted of Feticide to 20 Years in Prison Indiana’s law allowing discrimination against gay people is not the only reason that the state deserves our opprobrium. It’s also about to become the first state to imprison a woman for what it says... Read more |
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Robert Parry Deciphering the Mideast Chaos The tangle of conflicts in the Middle East is confusing to many Americans who lack some key facts, such as the transformational Israeli-Saudi alliance that is dragging the American people into a sectarian religious war dating back 1,300 years. Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Trans-Pacific Partnership Proves Rules Are Rigged in Favor of the 1 Percent “China wants to write the rules for the world’s fastest-growing region … We should write those rules,” President Obama declared in his State of the Union address . To sell Congress on giving him... Read more |
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Bernie Horn The Indiana Law Promoting Discrimination Is a New Low Last week, Indiana Governor Mike Pence (R) signed SB 101 into law, the so-called “Religious Freedom Restoration Act.” Apparently, Pence was surprised at the nationwide outcry against the law and he’s... Read more |
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Robert Reich The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich Many believe that poor people deserve to be poor because they’re lazy. As Speaker John Boehner has said , the poor have a notion that “I really don’t have to work. I don’t really want to do this. I... Read more |
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Robert Shetterly When Being Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israeli Is the Same Thing On why I painted physician, author, and peace activist Alice Rothchild Read more |