All Views Articles for 2015-10-29
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Jonathan Rapping Public Defenders Key to Reducing Mass Incarceration The well-known introduction to Law & Order —the longest running legal series in TV history—is indicative of the criminal justice narrative that dominates American thinking: “In the criminal... Read more |
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Dennis Parker Stop Brutalizing Kids in the Classroom A turning point in the civil rights movement came in the spring of 1963 when the police and fire departments of Birmingham, Alabama, trained fire hoses and sicced police dogs on demonstrators... Read more |
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Robert Parry A Glimmer of Hope for Syria With new negotiations starting in Geneva – and with Iran now allowed to participate – there is finally a glimmer of hope that the Syrian slaughter might end. But that will require concessions from all sides and President Obama standing up to the neocons who put “regime change” ahead of peace Read more |
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Fossil Free MIT MIT’s Climate Plan Doesn’t Add Up. So We’re Sitting-In. We write from the office doorstep of MIT’s President, where on October 22, we began a sit-in in response to the President’s announcement of MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change (hereafter ‘Plan... Read more |
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Robert Borosage The CNBC Republican Debate: Bring In the Clowns The CNBC Republican presidential debate last night opened with a startling bolt of straight talk: “We are on the verge, perhaps, of picking someone who cannot do this job,” said Ohio Governor John... Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Storming the Bastille at the Paris Climate Summit World leaders will gather in Paris in just one month to hammer out a treaty to confront the global threat of climate change. It’s real, growing and, based on increasing scientific consensus, clearly... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Demobilization 2016: The American People and the Election Spectacle 'Four Score and Seven Years Ago... at Disney World' Read more |
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Karen Dolan How The Assault at Spring Valley High Brutally Demonstrates the ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline’ The assault at Spring Valley High is representative of the U.S.'s disturbing habit of criminalizing black and Latino children. Read more |
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Peter Oborne We Don't Need to Wait for Chilcot, Blair Lied to Us About Iraq. Here's the Evidence. With the help of the BBC and Dr David Morrison, I carried out my own inquiry. The facts are devastating for Blair, for Parliament and for all of us. Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé 'Land of the Free...' Really? The following is drawn from the newly published book, World Hunger: 10 Myths , co-authored by Joseph Collins. The billionaire Koch brothers chose the Libre [Free] Initiative as the name of their... Read more |
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Steven Gorelick Current Trade Treaties: 'A Revolution Against Law' A respected human-rights expert at the United Nations, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, has joined the global movement opposing trade treaties like TPP and TTIP. And he has novel and powerful legal arguments... Read more |
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John Feffer What Comes After Empire? Let’s say the car stops and we get our teeth around the tire. Let’s say that we bite down hard enough to let out all the air from the U.S. empire. Now what? Those of us who have campaigned for a... Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce GOP Debate: It Literally Does Not Matter What the Question Is The candidates came to say things, and they'll be damned if they aren't going to say them. Read more |
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Michael Winship The Night the Candidates Were Speechless The convergence of Tuesday night’s broadcast interruption during the first game of the World Series – caused by an electronics failure and power outage — and Wednesday night’s Republican presidential... Read more |