Articles by Boston Globe
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Republican Congressman Sparks Outrage for Family Christmas Photo with Guns Days after School Shooting
Lauren Booker | Boston Globe - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
4 Dec 2021 – Republican US Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky received swift condemnation for posting a Christmas-themed photo of him and his family holding firearms today. It has been called insensitive given the 30 Nov school shooting in Michigan that resulted in the deaths of four Oxford High School students.
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In an Astonishing Turn, George Soros and Charles Koch Team Up to End US ‘Forever War’ Policy
Stephen Kinzer – Boston Globe,
8 Jul 2019
30 Jun 2019 – Besides being billionaires and spending much of their fortunes to promote pet causes, the leftist financier George Soros and the right-wing Koch brothers have little in common. Could a Soros-Koch think tank end “endless war”?
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Climate-Proofing Our Communities
Ban Ki-moon and Patrick Verkooijen – The Boston Globe,
18 Mar 2019
14 Mar 2019 – There seems to be no limit to the earth’s fury these days, as polar vortices, hurricanes, floods, and forest fires wreak havoc with increasing regularity… This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get it right. A program that prioritized smart adaptation would pay for itself several times over in healthier and more resilient communities, better productivity, higher economic growth, and higher standards of living.
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Jeffrey D. Sachs - The Boston Globe,
13 Feb 2017
5 Feb 2017 – Today’s China offers a rude awakening for Americans who believe that the United States and the United States alone should dominate world power. Donald Trump seems to count himself among these neoconservatives, and China is their deepest phobia today… If Trump tries to provoke China into a new arms race or trade war, the results will be a huge debacle for the United States and a potential threat for the world.
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Jeffrey D. Sachs – The Boston Globe,
7 Nov 2016
The far smarter approach will be to maintain America’s defensive capabilities but end its imperial pretensions. This, in practice, means cutting back on the far-flung network of military bases, ending wars of regime change, avoiding a new arms race (especially in next-generation nuclear weapons), and engaging China, India, Russia, and other regional powers in stepped-up diplomacy through the United Nations, especially through shared actions on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, including climate change, disease control, and global education.
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Jordan Michael Smith – Boston Globe,
24 Oct 2016
The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon.
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John Kaag and Clancy Martin – Boston Globe,
23 May 2016
“When the guilt of our roles in facilitating this systematic loss of innocent life became too much, all of us succumbed to PTSD.” These words are from an open letter to the Obama administration, crafted by four former Air Force servicemen, each of whom played a role in the nation’s targeted killing program.
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Bill McKibben – The Boston Globe,
7 Mar 2016
5 Mar 2016 – Thursday [3 Mar], while the nation debated the relative size of Republican genitalia, something truly awful happened. Across the northern hemisphere, the temperature, if only for a few hours, apparently crossed a line: it was more than two degrees Celsius above “normal” for the first time in recorded history and likely for the first time in the course of human civilization.
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Stephen Kinzer – The Boston Globe,
22 Feb 2016
Americans are being told that the virtuous course in Syria is to fight the Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian partners. We are supposed to hope that a righteous coalition of Americans, Turks, Saudis, Kurds, and the “moderate opposition” will win. This is convoluted nonsense. Much blame for this lies with our media.
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Thomas Piketty – Boston Globe,
21 Sep 2015
The plight of the refugees is an opportunity for Europeans to jump-start the continent’s economy. Germany’s attitude is a model to follow.
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Stephen Kinzer – The Boston Globe,
14 Jan 2013
This catastrophe did not “just happen.” It is the direct result of an episode that may at first seem unrelated: the US-led intervention in Libya last year. Rarely in recent times has there been a more vivid example of how such interventions can produce devastating unexpected results.
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Boston Globe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Authorities in Brazil say nearly 700,000 people have celebrated in a gay pride parade at Copacabana beach. Many participants waved rainbow flags and wore lavish Carnival costumes as loud music blasted from more than 15 sound trucks in Sunday’s [9 Oct 2011] festivities.
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Joe Keohane – The Boston Globe,
9 Aug 2010
Researchers Discover a Surprising Threat to Democracy: Our Brains
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Mark Feeney and Bryan Marquard – Boston Globe,
28 Jan 2010
National treasure, and acclaimed author of "People’s History of the United States" passed away at age 87. Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam… died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was […]
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Bryan Bender - The Boston Globe,
9 Jan 2010
Pentagon is rethinking the unthinkable: Making major changes to Cold War arsenal.CHARLIE MISSILE ALERT FACILITY, Mont. – After an hourlong ride down a nearly deserted highway covered in ice and snow, the two young officers arrive for their shift at this highly secure outpost deep in the northern Rockies. Air Force Captain Chris Ferrer and […]
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