All Views Articles for 2017-07-17

Monday, July 17, 2017
Margaret Klein Salamon
The Planet Is Warming. And It's Okay to Be Afraid
Why being fearful can be part of a healthy, heroic response to the climate crisis
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Peter Van Buren
How to Sustain Perpetual War? Easy: Hide the Bodies
Sustaining America’s state of post-9/11 perpetual war requires skillful manipulation of the public at home. The key tool used for this purpose is the bloodless narrative, a combination of policy,...
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Lawrence Wittner
How Much Is a Boss Worth?
CEO income during 2016 reflected substantial increases over the preceding year, with the typical CEO getting an 8.5 percent raise.
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Katherine Culliton-González
Immigration Data That Trump’s “Election Integrity” Commission May Use Is a Pretext to Suppress Latino Voting Rights
Much has been written that clearly demonstrates that Donald Trump’s one-sided “election integrity” commission is a sham that will be used to justify generalized voter suppression . Many states have...
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Robert Reich
The Trump Standard
What did Trump say when confronted with proof that his son jumped at the prospect of meeting with a “ Russian government attorney ” offering to dish dirt on Hillary Clinton as “part of Russia and its...
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Now Is The Time For Prophetic Moral Action
On Thursday, July 13 th , Senate Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled the latest version of his last ditch effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, whatever the cost. In obedience to Jeremiah 22, which...
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Alfred W. McCoy
Trump’s Road to Debacle in the Greater Middle East
Paving a superhighway to disaster
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Chris Hedges
Eugene Debs and the Kingdom of Evil
TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—Eugene Victor Debs, whose home is an infrequently visited museum on the campus of Indiana State University, was the most important political figure of the 20th century. He built the...
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Donna Smith
Ode to the SiCKO Decade and Single-Payer Power
When Michael Moore’s documentary film, SiCKO, was released in June 2007, the nation was yet to elect our first African American president, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA/...
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