All Views Articles for 2015-07-01
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Medea Benjamin While the Flotilla Didn’t Make it to Gaza, Israel Didn’t Win Israel Defense Forces violently intercepted the Swedish boat named Marianne in the early hours of June 29 to prevent it from landing in Gaza, using tasers against unarmed passengers. The 18... Read more |
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Peter Dreier Is Bernie Sanders Too Radical for America? Although pegged as a fringe candidate, Sanders' views are surprisingly mainstream... Read more |
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Juan Gonzalez Puerto Rico—like Greece—Will Default on its Debts, as the U.S. has Ignored the Island’s Financial Problems for Decades Obama to Puerto Rico: Drop Dead. That was the message from the White House this week to 3.5 million U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico — our own version of Greece. No one is even considering a bailout for... Read more |
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Naomi Klein "People and Planet First": On the Moral Authority of Climate Justice and a New Economy Our current economic system is both fueling the climate crisis and actively preventing us from taking the necessary actions to avert it. Read more |
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Chris Toensing Yemen Is Starving, and We’re Partly to Blame A Saudi-led war supported by Washington has sparked a devastating humanitarian crisis. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Where Are the Presidential Candidates on the Minimum Wage? As the 2016 campaign season gets underway, working families across the country will be very interested in where presidential candidates stand on raising the minimum wage. Currently, the Federal... Read more |
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David Michael Green History Interrupted: Welcome to the 1970s They say that if you can remember Woodstock, you weren’t actually there. It is therefore with some trepidation that I invite readers to cast their minds back to America, circa 1970. No point in... Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Fear Alert: US Press Unquestioningly Spread Predictions of ISIS Attacks on July 4th Holiday A number of US media organizations are spreading fear based on a “bulletin” shared by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security Department that reportedly warns of possible attacks by... Read more |
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Anders Vang Nielsen Fracking with the Happy People How the search for shale gas is exposing cracks in Denmark's showcase democracy Read more |
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Joseph Stiglitz, Martin Guzman Hope vs. Depression: Argentina Shows Greece There May Be Life After Default When, five years ago, Greece's crisis began, Europe extended a helping hand. But it was far different from the kind of help that one would have wanted, far different from what one might have expected... Read more |