All Views Articles for 2017-05-16
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Evan Greer Why I Fought for Chelsea Manning Chelsea Manning is my friend, but I’ve never seen her face to face, or given her a hug. That’s because Chelsea has been in prison for the last seven years, sometimes held in conditions that the... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel The US Will Never Win the War in Afghanistan President Trump hasn’t decided whether to sign off on his generals’ request for more troops for Afghanistan . Read more |
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Ed Kilgore GOP Prepares to Make Case That Poor People Must Sacrifice So Rich Can Get Tax Cuts After a considerable period of time in which other aspects of the Republican agenda held center stage, we are beginning to see some renewed attention to lurid plans to hammer federal spending... Read more |
!["When [Chelsea Manning] steps out of prison this week, she will walk into a different world than the one she left behind when she was arrested in 2010. And she will walk as a different person than she was seven years ago. Time, trauma, and survival have changed her and changed all of us."](https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_small_thumb/public/views-article/thumbs/web17-chelseamanning-1160x768.jpeg?itok=WlRdbC0U) |
Chase Strangio After Seven Years in Custody, Chelsea Manning Will Soon Be Free “I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the USDB as the person I was born to be.” Read more |
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Joe Conason Impeach Trump? Transcript Will Tell Whether President Blabbed Secrets To Russians If Donald Trump disclosed highly classified state secrets to the Russian ambassador and foreign minister, he may be vulnerable to impeachment — not because he broke the law, which evidently he did... Read more |
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II America Needs a New Poor People’s Campaign The future of our democracy depends on us completing the work of a Third Reconstruction. Read more |
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John Nichols The Donald Trump Impeachment Clock Is Ticking Congressman Mark Pocan says it has “moved us an hour closer to midnight.” Read more |
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Jonathan Lee Just How Sensitive Was the Information Trump Reportedly Revealed to the Russians? Given Monday’s bombshell report by the Washington Post claiming President Donald Trump revealed classified information relating to the Islamic State to senior Russian officials visiting the White... Read more |