All Views Articles for 2016-03-14
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Heather Weaver Ida-NO: Gem State Lawmakers Consider Bill to Allow Bible in Science Classes Idaho’s public school students may soon have an additional reference text in science class — the Bible. Senate Bill 1342 , which will be heard this week by the House Education Committee, would... Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot The Political Economy of Argentina’s Settlement with the Vulture Funds After 15 years of court battles, injunctions, smear campaigns, lobbying, and other interventions, the vulture funds have finally won a tentative agreement with the new Argentine government. Vulture... Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Faced With Exonerated Man, Clinton Invokes Terrorism To Defend Death Penalty Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was asked by Ricky Jackson, a black man wrongfully convicted of murder who spent 39 years in prison, how she could support the death penalty, despite... Read more |
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Sian Cowman, Philippa de Boissière For Indigenous Peoples, Megadams Are 'Worse than Colonization' These mega-projects expropriate land, spoil environments, and pollute democracies. Berta Cáceres gave her life resisting them. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Mexicanization of the United States The neoliberal ideology that is the engine of corporate capitalism spews its poison around the globe. Constitutions are rewritten by judicial fiat in a mockery of democracy. Laws and regulations that... Read more |
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Emily Arasim, Osprey Orielle Lake Women on the Front Lines Fighting Fracking in the Bakken Oil Shale Formations In the rolling plains of North Dakota, companies like Halliburton, Hess, Crestwood Energy, Whiting Petroleum Corp. and Enbridge have crowned themselves king and are acting with a level of impunity beyond measure. Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald The Rise of Trump Shows the Danger and Sham of Compelled Journalistic 'Neutrality' As Donald Trump’s campaign predictably moves from toxic rhetoric targeting the most marginalized minorities to threats and use of violence, there is a growing sense that American institutions have... Read more |
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Gareth Porter Kerry Sought Missile Strikes to Force Syria's Assad to Step Down Kerry sought to 'send a message' to Assad via cruise missile strikes against Syrian government positions but Obama refused proposal Read more |
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Rev. John Dear Building New 'Nonviolent Cities' Last year, I was invited to give a talk on peace in Carbondale, Illinois. I was surprised to discover that in recent years, activists from across Carbondale had come together with a broad vision of... Read more |
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Nancy Altman Social Security: The GOP vs. the American People In case anyone had any doubts, the most recent Republican presidential debate made crystal clear how out of touch the Republican establishment is with the American people. Social Security is... Read more |
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Dave Johnson What’s The Problem With 'Free Trade' Our country’s “free trade” agreements have followed a framework of trading away our democracy and middle-class prosperity in exchange for letting the biggest corporations dominate. There are those... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Unsure About Socialism? Here's More Evidence That Capitalism Is Killing America A recent Gallup poll found that less people would vote for a socialist than for an atheist, a Muslim, or an evangelical Christian. Media-numbed Americans still believe that "government is the problem... Read more |
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Bob Dreyfuss It Can’t Happen Here... Can It? Trump’s Storm Troopers and the Possibility of American Fascism Read more |