All Views Articles for 2015-11-10

Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Democracy Beats Oligarchy
“From coast to coast, conservatives score huge victories,” announced a Washington Post headline after last week’s elections. “Liberals Got Smoked Across the Country Last Night,” read another in Slate...
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Cameron Fenton
Justin Trudeau Needs To Stand Up To The Oil Industry
Last Friday, Barack Obama did something no other politician ever has -- rejected a major fossil fuel project because of its impact on the climate. At the exact moment that the President was making...
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Michael McPhearson
Don’t Thank Me Anymore... Just Care for Veterans Who Return and Work To End All War
This past Saturday morning in Saint Louis, MO I was walking home when I saw a people gathering and portions of the street being blocked. I live downtown, so it could have been another run, walk or...
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Mike Lofgren
Republicans Are Revolutionaries, Not Conservatives
A response to Thomas Schaller
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Gideon Levy
Hillary Clinton Is No Friend of Israel
The Democratic presidential candidate’s love letter to Israel last week was simply embarrassing, and proves she is an obstacle to what is best for the Israeli state.
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John Feffer
On the Verge of the Great Unraveling
Splinterlands: The view from 2050
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Vandana Shiva
The West’s ‘Fail-Anthropy’
In 2008, before the climate summit in Copenhagen, I wrote the book Soil Not Oil . It was a time when the intimate connections between climate and agriculture, air and soil were not being recognised...
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Nick Cunningham
Rise of the Climate Justice Candidate?
On both sides of the Atlantic, a leftward shift in mainstream politics is changing the conversation on climate change. In the US, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has shocked the political...
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Tom Engelhardt
A Better World Through Bombing
The story of U.S. air power and how it fails and why Washington never notices
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Robert Reich
What I Learned on My Red State Book Tour
I’ve just returned from three weeks in “red” America. It was ostensibly a book tour but I wanted to talk with conservative Republicans and Tea Partiers. I intended to put into practice what I tell my...
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