All Views Articles for 2019-06-20

Thursday, June 20, 2019
Guam: one of the countless islands of the Pacific used by the United States military as a base. (Photo: VIRGILIO VALENCIA/AFP/Getty Images) Leilani Rania Ganser
From Galápagos to Guam: US Military Bases are a Threat to Local Communities
My family’s home has been forced to leave our ecological future in the hands of the United States military, one of the largest polluters globally
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Jordan Peele’s deep fake version of Barack Obama, produced by BuzzFeed. (Photo: Screenshot) John Feffer
Could 'Deepfakes' Help Swing the 2020 Election?
Deepfake technology undermines any hope of once again conducting national conversations on the basis of observable reality
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Interns are spending the summer with Congress—the smallest yet most powerful branch of government in the Constitution—where some 1,500 corporations have undermined the peoples’ delegated power. (Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) Ralph Nader
Congressional Interns and Congress Redirections—A Meeting
In the 15,000 or 20,000 days these young people have, it will be their responsibility to stop the following omnicidal threats to humanity and the natural world
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If the purpose of Trump’s speech was to make his listeners feel good, he delivered. Yet in doing so, he also relieved them of any responsibility for thinking too deeply about the event being commemorated. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Andrew Bacevich
The Fake News of D-Day and the Art of Shaping Memory
Knowing whom to remember and how to forget
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The absence of "we are one planet" voices at the highest levels of government guarantees that the government will pretty much always make simple, impulsive—wrong—decisions about national security. (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images) Robert C. Koehler
War Begets War... and Nothing Else
The U.S. government contains a terrible void where it ought to have sanity
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Shortly before April’s election, the Trump administration offered Netanyahu a campaign fillip by recognising Israel’s illegal annexation of the Golan Heights, territory Israel seized from Syria in 1967. (Photo: Mark A. Wilson) Jonathan Cook
Forget Trump’s 'Deal of the Century.' Israel Was Always on Course to Annexation
Ultimately, Israel wants the Palestinians gone entirely, squeezed out into neighbouring Arab states, such as Egypt and Jordan
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When animal manure escapes from CAFOs into nearby water sources, it can have devastating health consequences for people and ecosystems. (Photo: EWG-Waterkeeper Alliance) Tia Schwab
The Scary New Math of Factory Farm Waste
Factory farms are exempt from reporting requirements under the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. Now a new tool can provide solid evidence of the environmental harm they can cause.
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On August 19, 1953, democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the CIA and British intelligence, after having nationalized the oil industry. The Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was re-installed in the primary position of power. Massive protests broke out across the nation, leaving almost 300 dead in firefights in the streets of Tehran. (Photo by - / INTERCONTINENTALE / AFP) (Photo: /AFP/Getty Images) Brett Wilkins
The Exceptionally American Historical Amnesia Behind Pompeo’s Claim of ‘40 Years of Unprovoked Iranian Aggression’
From a CIA coup and supporting the Shah’s brutality to enabling chemical attacks, shooting down a civilian airliner and training terrorists,‘aggression’ between the US and Iran is overwhelmingly one-sided
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Norman Solomon
The Staggering Frontrunner Status of Clueless and Shameless Joe Biden
Given his desire to merely revert the country to pre-Trump days, no wonder Biden keeps saying that a good future can stem from finding common ground with Republicans. But for people who understand the present-day GOP and really want a decent society, Biden’s claims are delusional.
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