All Views Articles for 2015-04-01

Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Ronnie Cummins
Factory Farm Meat: Why Vegetarians, Ranchers and Conscious Omnivores Need to Unite
The large meat industry interests have monopolized the market by brainwashing the public into believing that cheap meat, from animals raised on brutal factory farms, is the best we can do. It's a lie.
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Karen Dolan
Guilty of Being Poor
When a community issues arrest warrants for more offenses than it has residents, something's deeply wrong.
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Harvey Wasserman
How Ohio’s Energy Economy Became a Radioactive 19th Century Relic
Back in early 2010 Ohio stood at the cusp of a modern 21st century technological revolution. It had won a new federal-funded rail line to finally re-join Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati...
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Rachael Prokop
Shell’s Arctic Drilling Plan Just Got Presidential Approval
This is outrageous. On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and then followed that up by approving Shell’s climate-killing plan to drill in the...
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Mary Bottari
Corporate Lobby Spends $600,000 to Demote Chief Justice as Criminal Probe of Walker Campaign Looms
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC), Wisconsin's premier lobby for corporate tax breaks and low wage jobs, has unleashed a $600,000 ad blitz to strip Wisconsin's independent Chief Justice of...
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Terrance Heath
The Backlash Against Discrimination And GOP’s “Indiana” Problem
The powerful grassroots backlash against Indiana’s anti-gay “religious freedom” law is yielding results and inspiring hope. Right-wing supporters of the law were seemingly caught unawares by a...
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Emily Cassidy
Feeding the World – Without GMOs
EWG released a new analysis on Tuesday debunking the myth that genetically engineered crops (often called GMOs) will be crucial to “feeding the world” as the population soars. My report takes a hard...
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Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger
Burning Our Bridges: Failing Infrastructure in the Age of Corporate Tax-Dodging
President Obama and some members of Congress think the easiest way to fund infrastructure is by granting corporations a large tax cut on their untaxed offshore profits.
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Gareth Porter
Iran Demands Lifting of Sanctions for 'Irreversible' Moves, Says Insider
Source in contact with negotiators tells MEE core issue in nuclear talks remains how and when sanctions will be lifted
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