All Views Articles for 2015-05-19
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Kirsten West Savali Malcolm X Matters: Icon’s Words Still Ring True Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Neb., would have been 90 years old today. Read more |
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Dave Johnson Let The Public Read The Completed Parts Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership Basic facts about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are under public dispute. Fast track must not be approved until this is cleared up. We the People deserve to know what is being voted on with... Read more |
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Debbie Nathan Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the End of Innocence Let’s fight for the right to make horrible mistakes, but remain in the realm of the living. Read more |
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John Buell Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Is Latest Threat to Our Democracy Conservatives warn us that deficit spending will turn the U.S. into a fiscal basket case, like Greece. No longer truly independent, Greece is ruled by the IMF, the ECB, and the European Commission... Read more |
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Louise Rouse 5 Ways Shell’s Not Walking Its Talk on Climate Change Shell says a lot about the need for the oil industry to be credible on climate change. It talks about the fight against climate change being a moral obligation , about the expectations it has of its... Read more |
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Peter Maass The CIA and the Myths of the Bin Laden Raid If you read the sketchy New York Times article on the Delta Force raid into Syria a few days ago — how an ISIS leader was killed when he “tried to engage” American commandos while his fighters used... Read more |
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John D’Amanda Jr. Trying to Survive in a Broken Economy (Confessions of a McDonald's Employee) My name is John D’Amanda, and I have been a loyal employee at a McDonald’s in Oakland, California for five years. Prior to working in fast food, I was a small business owner like millions of... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Tomorrow's News Today: 9 Surefire Future Headlines From a Bizarro American World It’s commonplace to speak of “the fog of war,” of what can’t be known in the midst of battle, of the inability of both generals and foot soldiers to foresee developments once fighting is underway... Read more |
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Michael Wessel I’ve Read Obama’s Secret Trade Deal. Elizabeth Warren Is Right to Be Concerned. "You need to tell me what’s wrong with this trade agreement, not one that was passed 25 years ago,” a frustrated President Barack Obama recently complained about criticisms of the Trans Pacific... Read more |
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Trevor Timm US Officials Leak Information About the ISIS Raid That’s More Sensitive Than Anything Snowden Ever Leaked Over the weekend, the US government announced that special forces soldiers entered Syria to conduct a raid that killed an alleged leader of ISIS, Abu Sayyaf. In the process, anonymous US officials... Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Obama Task Force Recommends Array of Measures to Curb Warrior Mindset Among Police A task force on policing setup by President Barack Obama issued its report and a number of the recommendations appear to be geared toward reducing the warrior mindset adopted by officers in police... Read more |
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Robert Fisk Canada's Plan To Make Boycotting Israel a 'Hate Crime' Is Stupid and Counterproductive The new law would put Jews and civil society groups on trial for anti-Semitism Read more |
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Robert Reich The Revolt of Small Business Republicans Can it be that America’s small businesses are finally waking up to the fact they’re being screwed by big businesses? For years, small-business groups such as the National Federation of Independent... Read more |