All Views Articles for 2018-05-22

Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Alfred W. McCoy
Golden Shower Diplomacy and the Hidden Meaning of American Decline
Preserving the positive legacy of an empire in decline
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Andrea Dutton, Michael Mann
Water’s Rising Because It’s Getting Warmer
That research shows that sea levels are rising and human-caused climate change is the cause. Don’t just take our word for it; help yourself to the mountain of scientific literature showing as much.
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Patty Lovera
A Food Revolution: The Climate Case for a Factory Farm Ban
We need to take bold action over the next decade in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. This includes tackling the greenhouse gas emissions created by food production, including meat and other animal products.
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President Trump waves as he arrives for the National Peace Officers Memorial Service on Capitol Hill on May 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Adele M. Stan
Trump’s Authoritarian Grip Tightens
Changes implemented by the administration on every front add up to a frightening pattern.
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"At the very least, citizens in countries supplying weapons to the Saudi-Emirati coalition must demand their legislators forbid all future sales." (Photo: Campaign Against Arms Trade/Flickr/cc) Kathy Kelly
Scourging Yemen
“There is extensive evidence that irresponsible arms flows to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition have resulted in enormous harm to Yemeni civilians."
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"Many of whom who hold dual Israeli-American citizenship, e.g., Chuck Schumer, Barbara Boxer, Richard Blumenthal, John Bolton, have stepped up their protectionist agenda by instigating and supporting legislation which stifles free speech and makes illegal any criticism of and demands for Israeli accountability." (Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Flickr/cc) Camillo Mac Bica
Rationalizing Genocide
It’s long past time for the United States to end its complicity with Israeli war crimes.
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"It is this climate that prompted the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to move their Doomsday Clock to two minutes till midnight, nuclear apocalypse, this past January - the closest to midnight since the height of the Cold War in 1953." (Photo: CreativeCommons) Robert Dodge
At The Brink of Nuclear War, Who Will Lead?
The American people when provided with the facts about nuclear weapons overwhelmingly oppose their use and want to see them eliminated.
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“They want to bring that oil through here, but we say that we will stop Kinder Morgan,” George-Parker said. “It is not happening.” (Photo: Emma Cassidy, Greenpeace) Andy Rowell
“We Are Going to Not Allow Kinder Morgan to Finish This Pipeline”
Not only is the growing resistance from the local community, indigenous rights groups and local and US-based environmental groups to the pipeline, but even the financial community thinks the economics and changing energy market is stacked against it.
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"Pompeo, a Kansas oil man backed by the Koch brothers, is just a former congressman and a virulent Christian fundamentalist with white nationalist tendencies." (Photo: AP) Juan Cole
How Pompeo’s “Severest Sanctions” on Iran Will Backfire
Pompeo, a Kansas oil man backed by the Koch brothers, knows little about the world and is among the worst prepared secretaries of state in American history.
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“If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.” (Photo: Astrid Riecken/Getty Images) Richard Eskow
Real Corruption: Mick “Pay and We’ll Talk” Mulvaney
When it comes to this kind of deep corruption, which perverts government’s role for the benefit of the privileged few, Mick Mulvaney is a master of the art.
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