All Views Articles for 2017-08-28
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Sarita Gupta 54 Years After the March on Washington, We're Far From Racial Pay Equity Fifty-four years ago this week, on Aug. 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of people gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The event marked a turning point in our society in... Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Trump's New Venezuela Sanctions Will Do More Harm Than Good The Trump administration announced new, unprecedented sanctions against Venezuela on Friday that are designed to cut off financing to Venezuela. The Trump team pretends that the sanctions are only... Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump’s Anti-Worker Labor Day This will be the first Labor Day of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, who came to office riding a wave of anti-establishment anger from average working people. No one can say they didn’t see it... Read more |
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Dean Baker Houston, Bangladesh, and Global Warming We are seeing many terrible pictures from Houston as a result of Hurricane Harvey. People with young children and pets are wading through high water in the hope of being rescued by boat or helicopter... Read more |
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Bernard Weisberger A Fire Bell in the Night Contemplating the grave ramifications of the Arpaio pardon. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Afghanistan and the Collapse of American Governance For years Donald Trump called for an end to America’s war in Afghanistan. Yet as president he has quickly decided to expand the war. Since Trump’s presidency fails daily on so many levels, it’s easy... Read more |
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Mark Decena Not Without Us – Organizing Our Way to Solve the Climate Crisis On December 12 th , 2015, when the halls of the Bourget erupted in applause with the signing of the United Nations Climate Change Accords in Paris, climate justice activists recognized a different... Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Wisconsin’s Foxconn Deal Enriches Billionaires With Taxpayer Cash Taiwanese billionaire Terry Gou every once in a while likes to think “outside the box.” Back in 2010, for instance, the giant electronics manufacturer that Gou runs — Foxconn — was facing what... Read more |
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Juan Cole Top 5 Ways Man-Made Climate Change Made Hurricane Harvey Much Worse The images from Houston and its environs are heart-breaking and we at IC wish all those affected a speedy and safe return to normality. Extreme weather events are associated with climate change, and... Read more |