All Views Articles for 2016-09-12
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Astrid Caldas No Need To Wait for the Future: Global Warming Impacts Are Happening Right Here, Right Now. One thought hit me today, and it was not a very optimistic one. I thought that one may get so used to the fact that that month after month temperature records are being broken, that the issue of... Read more |
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John Nichols North Dakota Wants to Arrest Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman for Engaging in Journalism The independent journalist was documenting private security personnel using dogs to attack Native Americans activists. Read more |
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Lorne Stockman The Dakota Access Pipeline Will Lock-In the Emissions of 30 Coal Plants The Dakota Access pipeline would carry oil from the Bakken formation in North Dakota to Gulf Coast refineries and export terminals via Patoka, Illinois. With a maximum capacity of 570,000 barrels per... Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder, Dallas Goldtooth The Big Difference at Standing Rock Is Native Leadership All Around This year’s massive buildup of resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline follows closely on the heels of the victory over Keystone XL pipeline, something often credited to feverish organizing by 350... Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman Making Beautiful Things Where Everyone Gains and No One Profits My friend Annette Aylward is trying to make a living as a crafts person. She makes beautiful handmade linen towels. She believes in craft. She loves to make these things. To make a living making... Read more |
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Sujata Dey From NAFTA to TPP, Canada Hasn't Learned From Free Trade Mistakes Barbed wire still protects the cracked pavement where an abandoned John Deere plant used to operate in Welland, Ontario. The building, still standing, is testimony to the Niagara region's former... Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola What If America Happened To Forget The September 11th Attacks? The United States will never forget the September 11th attacks. It is interwoven into the fabric of the nation. Its identity is partially defined by remembering the horror that unfolded that day, but... Read more |
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Jake Johnson Seizing the Moment: Young Socialists Take on the Old Democratic Guard It should be no surprise that a growing percentage of millennials dislike capitalism. Having come of age during the Great Recession or in the midst of the dismally slow (and profoundly unequal )... Read more |
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Bill Moyers We, the Plutocrats vs. We, the People Saving the Soul of Democracy Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Five Deadly Sins of Big Pharma For Mylan, it was a perfect plan—diabolical, unstoppable. The company made changes in its anti-allergy EpiPen dispenser in 2009, enough to give it patent protection. Then, in 2012, it began to give... Read more |