All Views Articles for 2015-08-08
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Ralph Nader Open Letter to Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Dear Senator Sanders, You’ve come a long way without my advice, but now that you are running for president, you may be interested in these suggestions: You’ve taken progressive positions on “decent... Read more |
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Kate Aronoff Obama's Climate Plan Won't Save the Planet, But It's the Result of a Movement That Will In Thursday’s marathon prime-time Republican debates, climate change was not at the top of the agenda. Aside from a few mentions of “the energy revolution,” a buried and affirmative reference to the... Read more |
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Elliott Negin On the A-Bomb's 70th Anniversary, Obama Wants to Spend a Trillion Dollars on New Nuclear Weapons News organizations love anniversary stories, and if for some reason you haven't heard, it's the 70th anniversary of when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. The first exploded over... Read more |
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Dave Lindorff Make Deal Not War!: Obama’s, and Washington’s, Absurd Choice of a Nuclear Deal or War on Iran I don’t know which is worse: President Obama asserting, in defense of the nuclear deal he and his Secretary of State John Kerry negotiated with Iran, that “The choice we face is ultimately between... Read more |
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Michelle Chen Is the Senate Finally Getting Behind Fair Pay for Government Contractors? Federal contract workers are pushing Congress for living wages and a union on Capitol Hill—but the fight is not over yet. Read more |
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Bree Newsome When Oppression Is the Status Quo, Disruption Is a Moral Duty History teaches us that legislative action rarely happens without organized protest. This is why the Black Lives Matter movement is so essential today. Read more |
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Peter Dreier They're All Reactionaries The news media is understandably trying to parse the words, tone, and body language of the Republican candidates' debate performances Thursday night to decide who "won" and "lost," who is on the rise... Read more |