All Views Articles for 2016-01-04
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Dave Johnson Debate Schedule Is Allowing GOP To Frame Election Narrative There’s just no way around it: the Democrats are intentionally hiding their presidential candidates from the public. The last Democratic presidential debate was buried on a Saturday night up against... Read more |
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Robert Reich The Economy in 2016: On the Edge of Recession Economic forecasters exist to make astrologers look good, but I’ll hazard a guess. I expect the U.S. economy to sputter in 2016. That’s because the economy faces a deep structural problem: not enough... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin The Execution of Nimr Al-Nimr: One More Reason to Re-evaluate the Toxic US-Saudi Alliance The brutal Saudi execution of Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr has led to protests around the globe, as well as the burning of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, followed by the Saudi severing of relations... Read more |
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Gareth Porter US ‘Regime Change’ Madness in the Middle East Bureaucratic self-interest trumped US military’s conviction that American security is being endangered by Obama’s policy of regime change Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce What's Happening in Oregon Is Nothing Less Than Armed Sedition Its roots in our politics are deep and tangled. Read more |
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Janell Ross Why Aren’t We Calling the Oregon Occupiers 'Terrorists'? As of Sunday afternoon, The Washington Post called them " occupiers ." The New York Times opted for " armed activists " and "militia men." And the Associated Press put the situation this way: "A... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The American Empire: Murder Inc. Terror, intimidation and violence are the glue that holds empire together. Aerial bombardment, drone and missile attacks, artillery and mortar strikes, targeted assassinations, massacres, the... Read more |
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Robert Fisk Saudi Arabia Has Little to Worry About – No State Has the Moral Authority or Will to Attack This Butchery We have to remember that on the UN Council we can find such vigorous defenders of human rights as China and Russia Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Three Middle-Class-Killing Industries for 2016 Capitalist enterprises have little incentive to work for ordinary people, and instead they do whatever is necessary to enrich the owners of their corporate stock. Choosing the leading job-killing... Read more |