All Views Articles for 2017-07-16
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Jim Hightower 1984 at the Grocery Store Amazon is buying Whole Foods, and that's bad news for humans Read more |
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Brent Patterson Will Mexico sign on to the energy proportionality provision in NAFTA? This past April U.S. President Donald Trump made comments about Canadian energy exports in relation to the upcoming renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) set to begin next... Read more |
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Ray McGovern Moral Corrosion of Drone Warfare The U.S. government uses drones to eliminate risk to its soldiers and thus domestic opposition to war, but that heightens the moral imperative to challenge the remote-controlled killings, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. Read more |
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Rebekah Barber The Limits of the Sandra Bland Act Two years ago this week, Sandra Bland was found hanged in her jail cell in Waller County, Texas, three days after State Trooper Brian Encinia stopped her for failing to signal a lane change and... Read more |
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Joe Lo All the Fun of the (Arms) Fair This Sunday A fun day out for all the family has a dark side, as arms dealers shake hands with oppressive military regimes right alongside the picnic blankets. Read more |
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César Chelala Gazans Are the Victims of Their Own and Israel's Leadership The curtailing of electricity to Gaza conducted by the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah in connivance with Israeli authorities seriously hurts the people of that region. They have become the victims... Read more |
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Sue Branford, Maurício Torres Temer Signs Law That Could See Millions of Acres Lost in the Amazon MP 759 changes a key land program to make acquisition better for wealthy land thieves and worse for peasant families — a huge threat to the Amazon rainforest, say experts. Read more |
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Erin Sagen A Trillion-Ton Iceberg Broke Off Antarctica and All I Can Think About Is Food Climate change is getting worse, and policymakers are ignoring one of the biggest factors. Read more |
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Steve Suppan The Biotech Trade Empire Strikes Back—at USDA! The American Farm Bureau organized letter on proposed new rules regulating genetically engineered (GE) crops is short, just two pages, with three pages of agribusiness signatories, 103 organizations... Read more |