All Views Articles for 2017-10-05

Thursday, October 5, 2017
Jill Richardson
We’re Failing the US Citizens of Puerto Rico
Wanting federal aid in a natural disaster isn't wanting "everything done for you." It's what we should all expect.
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DxE photograph depicting piglets huddled up against their mothers at Smithfield-owned Circle Four Farm in Utah. DxE says the piglets were sick or starving Glenn Greenwald
The FBI’s Hunt for Two Missing Piglets Reveals the Federal Cover-Up of Barbaric Factory Farms
Abuse and torture is all a factory-farmed pig knows.
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David Korten
Let’s Talk About What We Really Want From Tax Reform
The Trump/Republican tax cut proposal is an opportunity to discuss how to redistribute wealth and power.
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The events of the day demonstrated many things to the world. The most self-evident of these is the underlying brutality and lack of imagination of the current Spanish Government led by Mariano Rajoy, as well as the many other parties (including the supposedly progressive Socialists) and media outlets that have backed his "there's nothing to talk about" approach to the Catalan question. Thomas S. Harrington
Last Sunday In Catalonia: Pirates 1, The Invincible Armada 0
The rest of the world is finally waking up to a reality that Catalans have understood for a very long time now
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The EPA estimates that current pollution control systems will prevent up to 2,000 premature deaths, avoid 2,200 hospital admissions, and eliminate 19,000 asthma attacks annually because some of these pollutants cause lung cancer, heart disease, and respiratory harm. Jonna Hamilton
Is Your Representative Setting Us Up for Another Dieselgate?
There are currently bills in Congress that would make it difficult for the EPA to regulate manufacturers from selling high-pollutant car devices.
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Juan Cole
Top 5 Signs Donald Trump Might Be an Effing Moron
Despite whatever Rex Tillerson said or did not say, the evidence is everywhere.
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Jim Naureckas
Two Charts on the Gun Crisis: One Hopeful, One Hopeless
After mass shootings, support for gun control typically doesn't change and in some cases, declines.
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Richard Eskow
The “Center-Left” Had Its Chance; It’s Time For Something New
An ideology that has become complacent and complicit: complacent in its power, and complicit in its relationship to corporate power.
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Robert C. Koehler
The Violence Comes Home Again
I’m not against gun control measures, but they’re not enough.
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Medea Benjamin
From a Concert in Las Vegas to a Funeral in Yemen, We Must Stop Mass Murder
While we try to steer the domestic conversation to the need for gun control, we should also be seeking to end the massive flow of US weapons to Saudi Arabia that is wreaking such carnage.
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