All Views Articles for 2016-06-16
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Richard Eskow Would You Trust Henry Kissinger with Your Social Security? Years ago a political scientist said that the mass media can’t influence what people think, but it can influence what people think about. Today it does both. If you’re a billionaire who wants to... Read more |
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D'Angelo Cameron The Club Is Our Safe Space, and No One Will Rob Us of It “That could have been me.” Those are the words that play repeatedly in my mind as I see the continued coverage of the tragedy at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. For young Black and Latino gay, bisexual,... Read more |
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Bill Moyers, Michael Winship Trump, His Virus, and the Dark Age of Unreason He's the latest in a long line of American demagogues but has come closest to the White House. That makes him the most dangerous of them all. Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé, Adam Eichen Experiencing the Thrill of Democracy Two Democracy Spring marchers consider their next steps. Read more |
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Peter Van Buren The FBI ‘Missed’ Orlando Shooter Omar Mateen. What Should We Do? If I had to choose one phrase to sum up America’s efforts against terrorism since 9/11, it would be that lay definition of mental illness, doing the same thing over and over expecting different... Read more |
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Jennifer Lynch New Report: FBI Can Access Hundreds of Millions of Face Recognition Photos Today the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) finally published its exhaustive report on the FBI’s face recognition capabilities. The takeaway: FBI has access to hundreds of millions more... Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Bringing the Troika to Paris I have argued for years , and in my last post on this blog, that a big part of the story we have seen in Europe over the past eight years is a result of social engineering. This has involved a major... Read more |
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Andrew Cockburn The Pentagon’s Real $trategy: Keeping the Money Flowing These days, lamenting the apparently aimless character of Washington’s military operations in the Greater Middle East has become conventional wisdom among administration critics of every sort... Read more |
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Stephen Zunes Pick Your Poison: Clinton Vs. Trump on Foreign Policy I n their remarks to the nation following the Orlando massacre, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump made their differences—and disturbing similarities—crystal clear. Trump attacked Hillary Clinton for... Read more |
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Adam Parsons Pathways of Transition to Agroecological Food Systems A new report by leading sustainability experts has reaffirmed the case for a paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems – fundamental to which is a call for redistributing power back into the hands of those who feed the world. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Mass Karma This won’t be the last. Half a week into the Orlando tragedy, this reality remains pretty much unacknowledged, as cause-seekers focus on security and ISIS and the specific mental instability of Omar... Read more |
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Ann Wright Building Bridges of Peace Instead of Fear - Citizen Diplomacy with Russia I just flew across 11 times zones — from Tokyo, Japan to Moscow, Russia. Russia is the largest country in the world , covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, nearly twice as... Read more |
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Jake Johnson Progressives (Not Corporate Democrats) Are Winning the War of Ideas, But the Fight Isn't Over Now that the 2016 primary season is drawing to a close, many are contemplating the impact the presidential campaign of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will have on the American political landscape,... Read more |