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All Views Articles for 2016-10-09

Sunday, October 9, 2016
	Daniel Abdulah Proposed Pipeline Sparks Widespread Dissent The People over Pipelines march packed the streets with local activists in July who came together in protest and embarked on a five day trek across 55 miles, covering only a fraction of the proposed... Read more
	Michael Moore Trump Is Not the Only Grabber Who Must Go The rats are quickly jumping from the sinking ship of Trump. But not so fast, dear Republican senators and congressmen. Trump may have verbalized his misogyny, sexism and abuse of women into an open... Read more
	Sarah Aziza The Women’s Boat to Gaza Activists Are Free and Undeterred “If you’re listening to this, then you will know that myself and all the women who sailed on the Women’s Boat to Gaza have been arrested and are in detention in Israel.” These pre-recorded words by... Read more
	Eric Margolis Afghanistan: Fool's War Fifteen years ago this week, the US launched the longest war in its history: the invasion and occupation of remote Afghanistan. Neighboring Pakistan was forced to facilitate the American invasion or... Read more
	Peter Bloom Sex, Lies and America’s Deplorable Democracy Only a little more than a month before the November election, both Trump and Clinton were rocked by new scandals. Headlines around the country and world reported on secretly recorded tapes and speech... Read more
	Robert Reich Wishful Thinking: First 100 Days After November 8 1. Hillary Clinton is elected President. 2. Democrats take over the Senate, and reduce the Republican margin in the House to just 3 votes. 3. Elizabeth Warren announces she’ll challenge Hillary in... Read more
	Janine Jackson US Media Don’t Need to Look Abroad to Find an Abortion Crisis US media saw a story in the work boycott and street protests by some 6 million women in Poland that led to a reversal of government plans to put through a complete ban on abortion, including in cases... Read more
	Gareth Porter Obama’s Syria Policy and the Illusion of US Power in the Middle East One of Obama's biggest failures is letting his policy in Syria be determined primarily by the ambitions of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey Read more
	Christian Christensen Trump’s Misogyny and the Media’s “Righteous-Indignation Dollar” Twenty years ago, the great Bill Hicks had a classic stand-up bit in which he imagined ad executives watching his rant against advertising, and saying to each other: “Oh, I see what Bill is doing! He... Read more