Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, But Will the Patriot Act Live On?
by Aaron Swartz
on May 05, 2011
The Patriot Act is (again) up for renewal this month. Now remember, it was initially enacted as a supposedly temporary measure in the wake of 9-11, but more and more of it keeps getting made permanent and the rest has been continually extended for the past decade. With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the "bad guys" were scary enough.
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Lessons Learned From Osama bin Laden?
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
on May 04, 2011
It has taken the United States ten years, over $400 billion and more than 2,421 US and coalition lives to get to this point. Since those who fail to understand their history are doomed to repeat it, it is imperative that we ask what lessons can be learned from Afghanistan as those such as Senator's McCain (R-Arizona) and Graham (R-South Carolina) call for greater involvement in Libya, and the US struggles to find common ground in Israel.
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"5 Million Barrels of Oil Does Not Disappear": Author, Activist Antonia Juhasz on the BP Spill, One Year Later
by Amy Goodman
on April 18, 2011
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the worst maritime oil spill in history. Last year on April 20 an oil rig leased by oil giant BP exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and releasing nearly 200 million gallons of oil, tens of millions of gallons of natural gas and 1.8 million gallons of chemicals. We speak to Antonia Juhasz, author of the new book, Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill. Juhasz attended the BP shareholders meeting in London last week and spoke on behalf of Gulf Coast residents denied entry.
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Our Endless War Shuffle
by Tom Engelhardt
on March 10, 2011
Someday, when historians look back, they will undoubtedly be struck by the utter inanity, not to say collective insanity, of the United States fighting what our president has called a “ war of necessity,” now in its tenth year, in Afghanistan, as well as a “covert” war in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. It will undoubtedly look like a classic case of a declining empire overextending itself, squandering its treasury, and then, in its moment of crisis, extending itself yet further.
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It's Time for Change, Not Celebration
by Bill Shein
on March 10, 2011
I’d like to propose that we, as Americans, reserve boisterous chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” for events other than war, killing, and death.
Instead, let’s repeat our nation’s initials and wave American flags when we cut our ballooning child-poverty rate in half, and then by three-quarters, and then to zero.
Let’s rally outside the White House on that day when no American goes without quality health care or is forced into bankruptcy because of illness. Or to celebrate bold action to address the environmental crises that are rapidly destroying what’s necessary for human life.
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"21st Century Full Employment & Training Act” (H.R. 870)
by administrator
on March 10, 2011
The full text of HR 870, Congressman Conyers' 21st Century Full Employment & Training Act.
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Join a call with economist Dean Baker and policy expert Julie Kerksick
by Aimee Allison
on March 03, 2011
Dean Baker, among the most brilliant economists of our times, will be the featured guest on the Economic and Social Justice Issue Organizing Team (IOT) call at 9pm EST Wednesday March 2. Dean will discuss Rep. John Conyers' 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act, and the issue of the extended and unacceptable unemployment rate in the United States. He's joined by Julie Kerksick, Administrator of the Division of Family and Economic Security since July 2008.
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U.S. Groups look to Spain for torture-related indictments of Bush era officials
by Aimee Allison
on November 30, 2010
Press Advisory. Until now, US officials who authorized torture have escaped punishment. Now as a Spanish court considers a key case, dozens of US groups take their appeal directly to the Spanish people.
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A call to protest ignites a call to arms
by Aimee Allison
on November 30, 2010
RootsAction endorser Barbara Ehrenreich discusses the "tyranny of the armed" evident in violent threats to social scientist Frances Fox Piven.
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Hosni Mubarak and America's Corporate Cable Companies Have Something in Common: Banning Al Jazeera
by Aimee Allison
on November 30, 2010
What do Hosni Mubarak and the major United States cable companies have in common? RootsAction partner Truthout exposes the Al-Jezeera connection.
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