All Views Articles for 2015-05-05
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Katrina vanden Heuvel The Enduring Shame of 'Separate and Unequal' In July 1966, James Baldwin published “A Report from Occupied Territory,” a despairing essay in The Nation contemplating race relations in Harlem and other American cities. Describing the deep sense... Read more |
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Antonia Zerbisias Omar Khadr's Road to Freedom Even if Omar Khadr becomes a free man, he will discover that there will be no escape from Harper's politics. Read more |
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Gareth Porter The Media Misses the Point on ‘Proxy War’ Yemen is a Saudi war of aggression, while Syria and Libya are the result of a dangerous Gulf-led strategy of backing groups of sectarian fighters Read more |
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John Kiriakou Letter to Loretto John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer. Back in 2007, he became the first U.S. government official to confirm — and condemn — the practice of torture by CIA interrogators. After a drawn-out legal... Read more |
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Mike Rispoli Arrests in Baltimore Highlight Need to Protect the Right to Record The recent events in Baltimore have brought into sharp focus the perils of journalists and everyday people who exercise their constitutionally protected rights to report freely and record police activity. Read more |
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Josh Levy Facebook’s Internet.org Isn’t the Internet, It’s Facebooknet This week Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Internet.org , its marquee project to “connect two-thirds of the world that don’t have internet access,” is now inviting any website or service... Read more |
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David Zurawik It Is Not OK for Fox to Get It So Wrong in Baltimore Monday Maybe Fox should stick to opinion and avoid trying to cover challenging news stories. Read more |
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky The Wars Come Home: A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond Last week, as Baltimore braced for renewed protests over the death of Freddie Gray , the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) prepared for battle. With state-of-the-art surveillance of local teenagers’... Read more |
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Robert Fisk Who Is Bombing Who in the Middle East? Let me try to get this right. The Saudis are bombing Yemen because they fear the Shia Houthis are working for the Iranians. The Saudis are also bombing Isis in Iraq and the Isis in Syria. So are the... Read more |
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Priyamvada Gopal The Texas Shooting Should Not Distort Our View of Free Speech Our knee-jerk defence of offensiveness, be it over the Dallas attacks or the Charlie Hebdo murders, overlooks the bravery of those who are truly questioning power Read more |
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Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) For Meet the Press, Bernie Sanders Is He Who Must Not Be Named Meet the Press host Chuck Todd can’t seem to get enough of the 2016 presidential race. Yet the one major candidate who announced he was running last week–Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent... Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn The Chickens Come Home to Roost in Baltimore Once again, the nation watches as prosecutors deal with the killing of an unarmed black man. “[The officers] failed to establish probable cause for Mr. Gray’s arrest as no crime had been committed by... Read more |
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Bill Quigley Alito and Scalia: Have You No Sense of Decency Sirs? In the 1940s and 1950s, countless people in the US were being bullied and brutalized by the anti-communist scare tactics and character assassinations of Senator Joseph McCarthy . The end of the... Read more |
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Peter Dreier Bernie Sanders' Presidential Bid Represents a Long Tradition of American Socialism Long deployed by the right as an epithet, this form of left-wing populism is as American as apple pie. Read more |