All Views Articles for 2019-10-28
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Peter Bloom Forget Russia, The Real Threat to Democracy Are Corporate Assets Like Clinton and Trump Here's a truth that is very unpopular among many in the U.S. mainstream: the nation's democracy is being corrupted from the inside, not from abroad. Read more |
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Jackie Smith Corporate Influence Threatens Human Rights in Communities Nationwide National network of cities files report to UN Human Rights body on corporate power and local human rights challenges. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Duke Students Protest Speech by Tzipi Livni, Former Israeli Foreign Minister Accused of War Crimes "Hosting [Livni] for a lecture minimizes the lives and deaths of her victims while encouraging future reproductions of her crimes." Read more |
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Ashoka Mukpo I Went to Mexico to Meet Asylum-Seekers Trapped at the Border. This Is What I Saw. How will we respond to their suffering? Will we allow the most hateful and uncaring among us to write our history, or will we fight back and demand better? Read more |
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Harry Blain How the Judiciary Is Chipping Away at the War on Terror Lower courts are slowly but steadily eroding the legal basis for some of the most reactionary war on terror policies. Read more |
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James Carroll What the Dismantling of the Berlin Wall Means 30 Years Later And the return of war-as-the-answer. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq We can work to abolish war, mourn the deaths of Al-Baghdadi's children and question how conditions inside U.S. military camps, in Iraq, led to the extremism of Al-Baghdadi and his ISIS followers. Read more |
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Juan Cole US Militarism, Having Provoked ISIL Into Being, Kills Cult Leader Baghdadi People in eastern Syria were brutalized and then suffered enormous damage as the US bombed their towns and villages to defeat ISIL, which had taken them over. Read more |