All Views Articles for 2015-10-31
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Richard Kreitner Remembering and Celebrating Sheldon Wolin (1922–2015) The late scholar and Nation contributor brought left-leaning political philosophy to the fore. Read more |
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Trevor Timm US Special Forces in Syria Are Obama's Latest Broken Foreign Policy Promise Obama was elected on a promise to pull back US troops from the Middle East. Instead, the presidency has been marked by mission creep Read more |
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Lindsay Bigda A Military-Backed Comedian Will Be Guatemala’s Next President. Activists Aren’t Laughing. Amid rising violence against human rights defenders, Guatemalan activists are counting on an emboldened civil society to take on their next president. Read more |
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GRAIN, Attac Gabon REDD+ and Carbon Trading Will Not Resolve the Climate Crisis As with other mechanisms supported by "world climate governance", we doubted from the beginning that the Reduction of Emissions caused by Deforestation and the Degradation of Forests (REDD) mechanism... Read more |
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Brent Blackwelder Time to Stop Worshipping Economic Growth To remain within the nine planetary boundaries, nations must shed the fetish of economic growth and transition to a true-cost, steady state economy. Read more |
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Alicia Bannon, Scott Greytak Money Flooding State Court Elections Threatens the Promise of Equal Justice Special interest money is flooding into our state Supreme Court elections, gravely threatening the impartial justice that our Constitution promises -- and raising troubling questions about whether... Read more |
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Sarah Bardeen, Peter Bosshard Attack of the Zombie Dams (This Is Very Scary) zom·bie dam /ˈzämbē dam/ noun 1. A proposed dam project that activists successfully halt before it's built, only to see it rise again and again – years later – in different forms. We’ve all seen... Read more |
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Marian Wright Edelman Adults Are the Problem It is time for adults of every race and income group to break our silence about the pervasive breakdown of moral, family, and community values, to place our children first in our lives, and to... Read more |
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Ralph Nader An Open Letter To Chairwoman Yellen From the Savers of America Dear Chairwoman Janet Yellen: We are a group of humble savers in traditional bank savings and money market accounts who are frustrated because, like millions of other Americans over the past six... Read more |