All Views Articles for 2017-08-29
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Andy Rowell Houston, We Have a Climate Problem Texas has never seen rain like it. Some forty to sixty inches of rain in some places. Over 9 trillion gallons of water or maybe even more. There has been so much rain that the National Weather... Read more |
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Robert Reich What Do Democrats Stand For? The Democratic Party can lead the country in a new direction, but will it? Millions of Americans who are politically engaged for the first time in their lives are crying out for a bold alternative to... Read more |
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Hannah McKinnon A Nobel Appeal to Norway On one country's historic opportunity to redefine climate leadership Read more |
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Paul Watson The Whale Wars Continue Japan is now employing military surveillance to watch Sea Shepherd ship movements in real time by satellite and if they know where our ships are at any given moment, they can easily avoid us. Read more |
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Adam Sanchez Taking the Fight Against White Supremacy Into Schools As a history teacher, there are times when the past reasserts itself with such force that you have to put aside your plans and address the moment. Charlottesville is one of those times. The image of... Read more |
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Tom Sullivan Arpaio Pardon: The First Verifiable Impeachable Offense? Reaction to Donald Trump’s pardon of the controversial ex-sheriff from Arizona has been swift and severe, with some calling for the president’s impeachment. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper How Harvey Exposes America's Dangerously Dilapidated Infrastructure Hurricane Harvey is wreaking devastation on Houston and other parts of southern Texas. Rebuilding will cost many tens or perhaps even hundreds of billions of dollars. But what then? Climate disasters... Read more |
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Steven Singer After Hurricane Harvey, Will Houston Public Schools Be Charterized? It’s an all too familiar scene in America. A natural disaster devastates a major metropolitan city. And then the forces of profit and privatization use the chaos and uncertainty as cover to steal... Read more |
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Naomi Klein Harvey Didn’t Come Out of the Blue. Now Is The Time to Talk About Climate Change. Now is exactly the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes... Read more |
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William Cohn 'Of Men, Not Law': To Make America Hate Again To pardon a public official who refuses to obey the law (especially a direct court order) is to give the finger to the judiciary, and thus our constitutional order Read more |
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Isaiah Poole The Destruction Left By Hurricane Trump President Trump has planned a visit to the Texas Gulf Coast on Tuesday to survey some of the devastation done by Hurricane Harvey since it hit landfall on Friday. As he is doing that, let’s survey... Read more |
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Brian Terrell Trump's Call for More War in Afghanistan Was a Vicious Racist Rant President's speech on August 21 promising more war is hate speech, pure and simple Read more |