All Views Articles for 2015-10-15
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Ali Gharib Obama Pledged to Stop the Afghanistan War, But Its End is Nowhere in Sight It’s hard to see how extending the longest conflict in American history, as the president announced today, is anything but endless war Read more |
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Isaiah Poole A Trojan Horse In Clinton's Pledge To "Enhance" Social Security? Unless you listened carefully, you might have missed the expanse of daylight between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders when asked about their plans for Social Security at the CNN Democratic debate... Read more |
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Scott Klinger Don’t Pave Our Potholes with Corporate Tax Cuts If drivers won’t pay 21st century prices for 21st century roads, our once world-class infrastructure will go the way of dial-up Internet. Read more |
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James Lyall, Daniella Martinez Welcome to the Border Region Where the Border Patrol Has Implemented Its Own Southwest ‘Stop and Frisk’ Policy A woman is driving home at 9:30 p.m. with her four-year-old daughter. She pulls into a rest stop. A vehicle appears behind her, with headlights so bright she can’t see. Nervous, she drives away. The... Read more |
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Patricia J. Williams How Could Tamir Rice’s Death Be 'Reasonable'? Imaginative legal reasoning deals a real blow. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Lessons from NAFTA for the TPP There are many lessons from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that are relevant to the current debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). First, like the TPP, NAFTA was never... Read more |
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Robert Naiman Anderson Cooper: Opposing Illegal CIA Wars Is Unelectable A key reason that the US has so many wars is that big US media have a strong pro-war, pro-Empire bias. You rarely see big US media badgering a politician for supporting a war that turned out to be a... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The Fog of Intelligence (Or How to Be Eternally “Caught Off Guard” in the Greater Middle East) 1,500. That figure stunned me. I found it in the 12th paragraph of a front-page New York Times story about “senior commanders” at U.S. Central Command ( CENTCOM ) playing fast and loose with... Read more |
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Toula Drimonis Dirty Campaigning: Harper’s Racist Wedge Politics the Oldest Trick in the Book After this country’s most famous niqab-wearing woman, Zunera Ishaq, was finally sworn in as a Canadian citizen, I went to the gym. I found myself sandwiched on the treadmill between a woman wearing a... Read more |
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Gunar Olsen Pundits Thought Clinton Beat Sanders–but Did Viewers? A New York Times article ( 10/14/15 ) by Alan Rappeport about who won last night’s Democratic presidential debate reported today that “Hillary Rodham Clinton was the clear victor, according to the... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler An International Conscience “The Pentagon said on Saturday that it would make ‘condolence payments’ to the survivors of the American airstrike earlier this month on a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Kunduz,... Read more |
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Bernard Weisberger What One Historian Wishes Bernie Sanders Said About Being a Socialist Tuesday night’s first gotcha question from Anderson Cooper about whether the American people would ever elect a socialist to office was one that Bernie Sanders was no doubt expecting. Progressive... Read more |