All Views Articles for 2015-05-09
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Derek Davison Saudi Arabia and Turkey Rejoin Hands in Syria A recent Associated Press report filed makes clear that the recent successes of Syria’s rebel Army of Conquest (JAF, after its Arabic name, Jaysh al-Fatah ) have been enabled by a thaw in relations... Read more |
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Jennifer Dalven Why Are We Still Asking if a Dying Woman Should Be Able to Get an Abortion to Save Her Life? A recent analysis of abortion attitudes by The New York Times came to the right conclusion: The divide on how Americans feel about abortion is much smaller than partisan politics would have us... Read more |
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Dave Lindorff US Still Seeks Jail for 'Fighter' Captured at 15 in Afghanistan The good news is that an appellate judge in Canada has had the courage and good sense to uphold the release from jail on bail of Omar Khadr, a native of Canada who was captured as a child soldier at... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Suddenly, Baltimore – Wonder Why? Suddenly, the mass media is writing about or televising the conditions in West Baltimore. Conditions that Washington Post columnist, Eugene Robinson, summarized as decades long “suffocating poverty,... Read more |
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Greg Kaufmann Did the Stigma of Poverty Drive This Couple to Suicide? The deaths of Jodi and Randy Speidel illustrate how weak our safety net really is. Read more |
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Frida Berrigan Echoes of the original Mother’s Day Proclamation at home and abroad “From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says ‘Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.’” Julia Ward Howe wrote these words 145 years ago,... Read more |