All Views Articles for 2015-12-11
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Naomi Klein We Are Out of Time... We Need to Leap The climate crisis is a once-in-a-century chance to make our world more equitable Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Was San Bernardino the End of Civilization as We Know It? Who can’t feel that something’s in the air? Some mood of fear, panic, and pure meanness ratcheting up in the planet’s “exceptional” nation. Or at least exceptionally jumpy nation. In the wake of the... Read more |
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Kevin Smith Despite Protest Ban, Amazing Things Have Been Happening at COP 21 This morning the location and concept behind the much-talked about Red Lines action was announced . It’s happening at noon, tomorrow - 12 o’ clock on the 12th of the 12th - and will involve thousands... Read more |
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Cassady Sharp It’s Time: Why the Department of Justice Must Investigate Exxon What happens if Exxon misses a subpoena deadline? Nothing, apparently. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas NYT Rewrites Scalia to Make Him Sound Less Racist New York Times Supreme Court correspondent Adam Liptak ( 12/9/15 ) recounted a startling moment in the Court’s oral arguments over the University of Texas’ affirmative action plan: In a remark that... Read more |
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Conn Hallinan So Why Did Turkey Shoot Down That Russian Plane? Powerful forces are maneuvering to torpedo any Syrian peace process that could leave room for Bashar al-Assad. Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein Minimum Wage Is Not a Livable Wage Donald Trump is no stranger to inflammatory remarks, but one statement really struck home for me. During the presidential debate on November 10, Donald Trump claimed that current wages are “ too high... Read more |
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Michael Winship In Congress, Christmas Is a Time of Giving – and Receiving The one bipartisan thing on which both Democrats and Republicans agree: at holiday time a little something tucked away in legislation in exchange for campaign largesse is the greatest gift of all. Read more |
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Hamid Dabashi Trump Is a Symptom Not the Disease On the same day that the depth of Donald Trump's racist bigotry hit a new low by calling for a "total and complete" ban on Muslims entering the United States, another news item emerged that was... Read more |
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Red Lines Coalition Red Lines: It’s Up To Us To Keep It In The Ground On Saturday, the 12th of December, at noon (that is 12-12-12), thousands of people will gather in the streets of Paris carrying red flowers to honour past and future victims of climate change, driven by respect, determination and hope. Read more |