All Views Articles for 2015-04-29
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Matt Taibbi Give 'Em Hell, Bernie Bernie Sanders is more serious than you think Read more |
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Lindsay Koshgarian National Defense Authorization Act: Five Things You Should Know Today – all day and quite possibly into the night -- the House Armed Services Committee is marking up the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). But what is the NDAA, and why should we care? Here... Read more |
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Faiza Patel NSA Data Collection Program Must End The Senate’s Republican leadership has convinced itself that the revelations of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden were just a bad dream. Last week, Senate Majority Leader... Read more |
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Ben Lilliston Corporate Cash vs The Rest of Us on Fast Track The corporate lobbying frenzy is heating up as Fast Track trade authority starts to make its way through Congress. The bill’s passage, with only one hearing and a tight timeline, is being greased by... Read more |
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Deepak Bhargava Putting Families First: Good Jobs for All On a December morning nearly 60 years ago, Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a white man on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her decision wasn’t made on a whim; and the ensuing arrest,... Read more |
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Juan Cole Iran Calls for Nuclear Disarmament by US, Israel, World At a summit on Monday, Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif turned the tables on the countries demanding that Iran keep its nuclear program for solely civilian, electricity generation. Zarif... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel A Progressive’s Lament about the Trans-Pacific Partnership It has come to this. To sell his trade treaty — specifically the fast-track trade authority that would grease the skids for passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP), President Obama... Read more |
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Shepherd Bliss Big Wine Fails to Dry Farm During California's Relentless Drought California Governor Jerry Brown spent this year’s Earth Day at the elite Iron Horse Winery in the Sebastopol countryside. It was a great photo opportunity and promotion for the winery. Iron Horse is... Read more |
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Ajamu Baraka Baltimore and the Human Right to Resistance: Rejecting the Framework of the Oppressor Anti-Black racism, always just beneath the surface of polite racial discourse in the U.S., has exploded in reaction to the resistance of black youth to another brutal murder by the agents of this... Read more |
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John Nichols Bernie Sanders Readies a ‘Which Side Are You On?’ Presidential Bid Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders told The Nation more than a year ago that he was “prepared to run for president of the United States.” But he said he had to determine whether grassroots activists were... Read more |
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Jim Naureckas 'Why So Much Anger?': If You Don’t Know, Washington Post Won’t Tell You The Washington Post ( 4/28/15 ) offers: A Freddie Gray Primer: Who Was He, How Did He Die, Why Is There So Much Anger? The “who was he” part comes from the “ no angel ” school of journalism—stressing... Read more |