All Views Articles for 2017-08-21
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Robert Reich How to Remove Trump With Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, it’s unlikely Trump will be impeached or thrown out of office on grounds of mental impairment. At least any time soon. Yet there’s another way... Read more |
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Andrew Rosenberg Going in the Wrong Direction: We Need More Advice on the Impacts of Climate Change As of Sunday, the federal Advisory Panel for the Sustained National Climate Assessment is no more. The charter for the panel was not renewed . That makes little sense from any perspective I can... Read more |
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Juan Cole Why No Eclipse Denialists? The Same Science Predicts Global Heating Eminent physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s tweet pointing out that there are no eclipse denialists the way there are dedicated climate change denialists went viral: Odd. No one is in denial of America’s... Read more |
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Jon Rainwater Why the U.S. Resistance Should Support Protests in Okinawa Last week tens of thousands of people gathered to demonstrate for human rights and against harmful U.S. government policies. At a huge racetrack, they held thousands of identical signs that carried a... Read more |
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Aviva Chomsky How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence "Protesters are eager to expend extraordinary energy denouncing small-scale racist actors. But what about the large-scale racist actors?" Read more |
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Abeer Ismail Almasri In Gaza, We Get Four Hours of Electricity a Day — If We’re Lucky Some friends threw me a surprise birthday party last month. They placed a chocolate cake lit with candles before me and told me to make a wish for the year ahead. I immediately blurted out, “24-hour... Read more |
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James Zogby Charlottesville and Beyond: The Never-Ending Struggle The tragic and deeply disturbing events in Charlottesville last week provoked a debate as old as America, itself. Our nation watched as a motley collection of bigots descended on that town,... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Corruption of the Law I drink coffee in the morning on a round, ornate oak table that once belonged to Harlan Fiske Stone, a U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1925 to 1946 and the chief justice for the last five of those... Read more |
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Matthew Hoh The Lies on Afghanistan Trump Will Now Tell There has never been progress by the U.S. military in Afghanistan, unless you are asking the U.S. military contractors or the Afghan drug barons, of whom an extremely large share are our allies in... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Absurdity of Corporate Tax Cuts During the Corporate Pillaging of the Middle Class It could be argued that the greatest American pillaging is the transfer of taxpayer funds into the bloated military, or a greed-driven private health care system that deprives human beings of... Read more |