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August
2004
Tuesday, August 31
Michael Moore: The GOP Doesn't Reflect America
Linda McQuaig: Bush, Not Kerry, Should Face Scrutiny
Sean Gonsalves: How to Talk to Dead People
Aaron Glantz: Najaf Peace Deal Shows Why US Troops Must Leave Iraq
Paul Rieckhoff/Dafna Hochman: How the Pentagon Has Failed US Troops
John Nichols: McCain v. Moore
Tariq Ramadan: What Does America have to Fear from Me?
Garrison Keillor: We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore
Nicolaus Mills: Walking Softly, Speaking Clearly
Sheldon Rampton/John Stauber: Sinking the Swift Boats
Jill Rachel Jacobs: I'm Jill Jacobs and I Approve of This Commentary
Madison Capital Times: Dissent in New York
Robert Scheer : Israel's Albatross: US Neocons
Zainab Bahrani: Days of Plunder: Coalition Forces are doing little to Prevent the Widespread Looting and Destruction of Iraq's World-Famous Historical Sites
Monday, August 30
Juan Gonzalez: Curtain Raiser is a Show-Stopper
William Thorsell: Hear the Wounded US Lion Roar
Ray McGovern: Blowing Smoke on Intelligence; Turning Liability Into Asset
Jimmy Breslin: Marching Because Our Soldiers Can't
Roger Smith: Sen. Kerry, Prepare!
Micah Sifry/Nancy Watzman: Corporate Bucks Buy Political Bashes
Harley Sorensen: Kerry's Real Heroism Came After The War
Charles Sheehan-Miles: Swift Boat Atrocities and Why War Always Sucks
Greg Palast: Florida's Madame Butterfly Flies Off with Ballots
Tom Engelhardt: Voices from the March to Nowhere
Christopher Brauchli: Protecting the President from Dissent
Joel McNally: Goons and Gated Rallies
Eric Margolis: An Attack on the US Economy
Luke Harding: A Neo-Ba'athist Dressing Down in Najaf
Ian Bremmer: Expect a Very Different War on Terror
Madeleine Bunting: The US and UK Governments use the War on Terror to Curtail our Freedoms. Where does the Greater Threat Lie?
Friday, August 27
Naomi Klein: Bring Najaf to New York
Ananya Mukherjee Reed: Let That Be Our Protest
Carol Norris: It's More Important Than Ever: Speaking Out in NYC
Lawrence Pintak: Dangerous Delusions: Advertising Nonsense about Advertising America
William Greider: Damaged Goods: How Far Will Republicans Go to Hold Onto Power?
Norman Solomon: Beyond Hero-Worship
Joan Vennochi: Stop Talking About Vietnam and Start Talking About Iraq
Gordon Livingston: Vietnam-Era 'Chickenhawks' Deserve a Swift Kick
Jonathan Steele: Iran: Sexed-up Reports, Pressure on the UN...Here We Go Again
Timothy Karr: Big Media the Real Elephant in the Garden
John Janney: Americans Need to Connect the Dots
Patti Davis: When Did We Become so Polarized That We Lost Our Ability to Have a Civilized Discussion About Complex Issues?
Dahlia Lithwick: Bush and Justice: Foot Soldiers Always Take the Fall
Marty Jezer: Re-Fighting Vietnam
Don Williams: Hey Big Media, Connect the Dots - Nine Impolite Questions for Big Media
Thursday, August 26
William Pfaff: An 'October Surprise'? Neocons have Iran in their Sights
Thom Hartmann: What Would Machiavelli Do? The Big Lie Lives On
Lawrence Martin: Beware the Vulcans: Why this US Vote is so Critical
The Nation: A Failed Presidency
Ewa Jasciewicz: I'm Happy to Declare the Loaded Agenda for which I was Imprisoned - Human Rights and Social Justice
Sheryl McCarthy: Guantanamo Abuses Amount to War Crimes
Arianna Huffington: Focusing On Undecided Voters: Not A Very Swift Idea
USA Today: New York Tramples Bill of Rights to Protect 'Grass'?
Haroon Siddiqui: America Winning Battle, Losing the War
Sidney Blumenthal: A Ruinous Trap of Their Own Making
Matthew Rothschild: Rumsfeld - and Others - Must Go
Marc Cooper: Pimps and Wimps - Swift Boats and Briar Patches
John Nichols: Include 3rd-Party Candidates in Debates
Jim Boyd: What Kerry Did - and Didn't - Say in 1971
Madeleine Bunting: Put Us All on Rations
Tuesday, August 24
Jimmy Breslin: What We've Really Lost in this Indefensible War
Robert Scheer: Iraqi Olympic Soccer Players Kick the Stuffing Out of Bush's Fantasy
John Berger: Fahrenheit 9/11 has touched Millions of Viewers across the World. But could it Actually Change the Course of Civilization?
Robert Byrd: Defending Liberty
Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Bush Air War
Jeremy Scahill: John Kerry as the Warchurian Candidate
Bill Gallagher: They'd Be More Truthful If They Called Themselves 'Swift Boat Veterans for Lies'
Ben Wasserstein: The Conservative Media's Handling of the Swift Boat Dispute is a Case Study in Bias
Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi: What is so Radical about Iraq's Rebel Cleric?
David Domke: Bush Weds Religion, Politics to Form World View
Jonathan Steele: Four Days in California: US Sociologists are Finally Challenging the Intellectual Stranglehold of Economists
Denver Post: Military Ignores Justice Again
Sean Gonsalves: What's Wrong With Flip-Flopping?
Ivan Eland: Being Pro-War Is Not Necessarily Patriotic
Bill Berry: Vermont Inventiveness Needed to Stop Threats like Wal-Mart
Monday, August 23
Gary Younge: Kerry Wounded by Friendly Fire
Vanessa Redgrave: Guantanamo's Torture Regime is a Shameful Disgrace
Jeff Cohen: Anti-Terrorism Tip: Quit Spying on Nonviolent Activists
M. Shahid Alam: The Clash Thesis: A Failing Ideology?
Antonia Zerbisias: How the Mighty Post has Fallen
Rosa Maria Pegueros: Chavez's Venezuela: A Fighting Chance for an Egalitarian Society?
Andrew Christie: 2000 Cometh Again: Will Kerry Gore Himself?
Chuck Collins: Google Wealth Built on Uncle Sam's Shoulders
Kim Antieau: It's About Time for a Little War Intolerance
Geoffrey Johnson: 'Greenwashing' Leaves a Stain of Distortion
Jay Bookman: Arctic Offers No Refuge from Oil Woes
Eric Margolis: Empire of the 21st Century
Michael Cook: Hippocratic Oath a Casualty of War
Christopher Brauchli: Regulations Work Wonders for Bush
Ralph Nader: State Courts: Justice in Jeopardy
Friday, August 20
Tom Hayden: Dissent Must Come Alive in New York
Andrew Greeley: America's Disease is Greed
Jonathan Schell/Tom Engelhardt: Jonathan Schell on the Empire that Fell as it Rose
Norman Solomon: How the News Media Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Rumsfeld
Dave Zirin: Iraqi Olympic Soccer Team Gives Bush the Boot
Philip James: If the US Wants to Restore Confidence in Its Voting System It Must Learn Lessons from the Recent Elections in Venezuela
David Sirota/Jonathan Baskin: Follow the Money: How John Kerry Busted the Terrorists' Favorite Bank
Derrick Jackson: Democrats Play Jingoist Card
David Corn: Attack on Kerry Springs a Leak
Juan Gonzalez: Ground Zero Pollution: Dust Must Clear on Veil of Deceit
Julian Borger: 'We Could Have Stopped bin Laden'
Mark Seddon: 'When Ya Gettin' Rid of Him?' Tony Blair has Become an Embarrassment to the Democrats
Harvey Wasserman: Bush's Hole-in-Head Nuke Cronies Re-open Door for Terror Apocalypse
Tony Norman: For Those who Protesteth Too Much -- Discounts!
Thursday, August 19
Salim Lone: It wasn't Last Year's Bomb but American Policy which Destroyed the UN's Hopes in Iraq
Col. Daniel Smith: Into the Valley: The Occupation Faces a Major Challenge in Najaf
Jason Leopold: How Dick Cheney Got Away With $35 Million Right Before the Govt Launched a Probe into Halliburton
William Pfaff: The 'War on Terror' Distorts America's Military Moves
David Williamson: The Invasion of Iraq was Always Going to Prove Disastrous
Andrew Rice: The Politics of the Iraq War Authorization Vote: Rewind to Oct. 2002
Mary Louise Symon: Ask Bush Supporters These Basic Questions
Joyce Marcel: If You Are in Labor, Press One
Tom Maertens: Patriot Act Ineffective and Needlessly Tosses Aside Constitutional Protections
William Jackson Jr: The Al Qaeda Express: Newspapers help Elevate an Issue the White House wants to Dominate the Fall Campaign
Denver Post: FBI Tactics Erode Public's Trust
Andrew Reding: US Should Form a Marshall Plan for Latin America
John Nichols: Ballot Spot the Least of Nader's Worries
Sidney Blumenthal: Only True Believers need Apply: Neurotic Control lies at the Heart of the Republican Campaign
Wednesday, August 18
Deborah Morse-Kahn: Peace in a Boxful of Summer (Wellstone Dreaming)
Derrick Jackson: Chasing the SUV Vote
Peter Hallward: Enough Imperial Crusades: The Alternative to Armed Intervention in Darfur is not Passive Resignation, but Support for an African Union-led Solution
John Pearce: Assessing Nader’s Electoral College Impact
Margaret Krome: Test Results Show Charter Schools Not Measuring Up
Helen Thomas: Kerry Deals Away his Ace in the Hole
Mark Weisbrot: Venezuela's Referendum Should Be a Wake-Up Call for the United States
Emmanuel De Veirman: Does God Belong in Politics?
Dahlia Lithwick: Of Judicial Activism and 'Re-activism'
David Corn: Let Alan Keyes Speak! (at the GOP Convention)
Robert Kuttner: Canadian Drugs Aren't the Cure
Ted Rall: NYC to GOP: Drop Dead
Lawrence Lessig: Copyrighting The President: Does Big Media Have A Vested Interest In Protecting Bush? You Betcha
Tuesday, August 17
Jeremy Rifkin: America & Europe: Worlds Apart on the Vision Thing
Gwynne Dyer: Showdown in Najaf: US Logic Hard to Follow
Medea Benjamin: Why Hugo Chavez Won a Landslide Victory
Robert Scheer: Kerry Made a Bush League Error on Iraq
Thom Hartmann: Cheney Speaks to the Reptile Brain
Ivan Eland: Does Your Government Really Have an Interest in Protecting You from Terrorism?
Joan Vennochi: Speak for Yourself, John Kerry
Helen Caldicott: Nuclear Power Still a Deadly Proposition
John Crabtree-Ireland: McGreevey's Bittersweet Coming-out
Jim Baumer: Anti-Tax Movements: The Scourge of Narcissism
George Monbiot: The Bad or the Terrible? Those Who Insist Nader Supporters Should Vote Kerry are Holding Back US Democratization
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Squelching Protest: The Great American Hush-Up
Adam Cohen: Chasing Down Flaws in Electronic Voting
Bob Herbert: Whiff of Voter Suppression Fouls the Air
Monday, August 16
Greg Palast: Dick Cheney, Hugo Chavez and Bill Clinton's Band: Why Venezuela has Voted Again for Their 'Negro e Indio' President
Nadia Martinez: World Bank Ignores its own Advice
Danny Schecter: Is Our Media Covering its Errors or Covering Them Up?
Dahlia Lithwick: Muzzling Free Speech
Peter Preston: Kerry is Playing into Bush's Hands with his Pseudo-Military Posturing
William Pfaff: History is Not On Your Side, Mr Kerry
Harvey Wasserman/Bob Fitrakis: Kerry, Nader and the Greens Need to Kill the Circular Firing Squad
Christopher Brauchli: Election 2004: Goats and Heroes
Richard Reeves: Why are American Troops in Najaf?
Madison Capital Times: Bush is Wrong, Kerry is Wrong
Dave Zirin: Olympic Sized Horror in Greece
Eric Margolis: Tread Softly in Sudan
Ted Halstead: Where Have All the Big Ideas Gone?
Tom Brazaitis: The Other Shoe Should Drop About When the Leaves Do
Friday, August 13
Selma James: Venezuela's President has Achieved a Level of Grassroots Participation Our Politicians Can Only Dream Of
Gail Sheehy: Rumsfeld and Bush Failed Us on Sept. 11
Dave Boyer: McGreevey's Coming Out an Act in Courage
Norman Solomon: A Time of Butterflies and Bombers
Caroline Arnold: The Highest Possible Level of Development
Eric Alterman: PBS Adds Insult to Injury
Jon Else: The Museum of Attempted Suicide
Tony Norman: Will Alan Keyes Answer Another Call to Martyrdom?
Steve Chapman: Kerry & Iraq: An Echo, Not a Choice
Andrew Greeley: Homeland Security's Heavy Hand
John Nichols: Springsteen Can Make Election Impact
Marty Jezer: Environmental Buck Private
Jules Witcover: Exploiting a Wobbly War Stance
Thursday, August 12
Tariq Ali: The Withdrawal of Foreign Troops is the Only Solution
Paul McGeough: If You Have Washington's Backing, You Can Get Away with Murder
Jimmy Breslin: 'Keep off the Grass' a Bad Plan for Rally
Antonia Zerbisias: Muzzling Begins in Iraq
Madison Capital Times: Not-So-Curious George (Bush)
David Morse: From an Old Lefty: A Plea to Young Voters
Michael Schwartz: Gambling in Najaf: Iraq as the Twenty-First Battleground State
John Borowski: Why is Scholastic, the World’s Largest Supplier of Children’s Books, giving a Venue to the “Dark Side?”
Juan Gonzalez: Big Test for Venezuela's Embattled Populist
Marty Meehan/Gloria Feldt: Lift the Family Planning Gag
Bill Maher: Bush Blew it the Morning of 9/11
Matthew Rothschild: Kerry on Iraq: Yes to the Imperial President
David Corn: Goss Is Wrong for the CIA
Sidney Blumenthal: The Party that Nixon Built has Become One of Rote Instincts
Tom Teepen: Smears by Proxy from Bush
Wednesday, August 11
Chellie Pingree/Jonathan Rintels: Broadcasters Must Be Made to Serve the Public Interest
George Woodwell/Kilaparti Ramakrishna: World Bank Undermines Efforts on Global Warming
Ariel Frank Green: Health Care System Leaves Poor to Suffer
Greg Palast: Will The Gang That Fixed Florida Fix the Vote in Caracas this Sunday?
Toronto Star: Kerry Fails Iraq Test
Patt Morrison: Lynne Cheney's Wild, Wild West
Robert Jensen: US Supports Anti-democratic Forces in Venezuela Recall
Patrick Cockburn: The Corruption is Thick in Iraq
Jonathan Freedland: A TV Station Ban, 160,000 Foreign Troops, Trumped Up Charges: Is This the Free Society Iraqis were Promised?
Matthew Rothschild: Bush and the Third Martyr
Scot Lehigh: Spinning the War's Absurdities
John Nichols: Kerry: No Repeat of 2000 Vote Fiasco
Rebecca Solnit: The Wild, Wild Wars in the West
Mark Morford: How Do You Know It's Time for a Major Change in American Leadership? Let us Count the Signs
Tuesday, August 10
Steve Earle: The Revolution Starts...Now
Jeff Cohen/Norman Solomon: A Global Perspective on Defeating Bush.
Ward Reilly: Thanks to Some REAL National Heroes
Amy & David Goodman: Hiroshima Cover-up: How the War Department's Timesman Won a Pulitzer
Virginia Hoffman: Misuse of US Strength
Parvez Ahmed: Attitudes of Ignorance - A Consequence of Media Portrayal of Islam and Muslims
Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas: A Different America
Robert Scheer: One More Chalabi Black Eye
George Farah: Save 'Genuine' Presidential Debates
Antonia Zerbisias: The Daily Show's John Stewart Gets Serious. Why Won't Reporters?
Ivan Eland: Bringing Back Saddam (Almost)
Sean Gonsalves: 9/11 Commission: Shooting Mosquitoes on the Titanic
Simon Tisdall: Desperation Shouldn't Blind us to the Faults of Bush's Challenger
William Raspberry: A Need to Believe That We're Not Being Manipulated
Renée Loth: Patriotism Redefined
Monday, August 9
Ray McGovern: Not Scared Yet? Try Connecting These Dots
Benazir Bhutto: Without a War on Poverty, We Will Never Defeat Terror
Dave Zweifel: Wealthy Enjoy Wall Street Journal's News
Tom Engelhardt: October/November: Surprise!
Christopher Brauchli: Past Conduct no Barrier to Bush Team
Robert Dodge: Summer Days, Presidential Campaigns and Hiroshima
Tom Teepen: Dumbing Down Miss America
Peter Preston: Beware the Monster Mall's Curse
Neal Peirce: Renewable Energy: Where Americans Instinctively Want to Travel
Andrew Christie: Looking (or Not) for a Few Good Eco-Frauds
Graham Allison: Lessons of Nagasaki for Fighting Terrorism
Eric Margolis: The Lies That Led to War
Tom Brazaitis: The Color-Coded Fear Factor
Mark Harris: In a Time of War and Fear, Seattle Writer Paul Loeb's New Anthology Discovers Hope for the Future in Dissident Voices From Yesterday and Today
John Nichols: Kerry on the Media
Friday, August 6
Greg Guma: Iyad Allawi: Saddam Sans Mustache
Tom Engelhardt: Hiroshima Story.
Thom Hartmann: Ralph Nader: Let The Voter Beware
Ralph Nader: Democratic Party Should Live Up to Its Name
Norman Solomon: From Attica to Abu Ghraib -- and a Prison Near You
Mokhiber/Weissman: National Geographic Kids Under the Corporate Thumb
Rosa Maria Pegueros: Not Just the Absence of War
Marty Jezer: Capture the Flag
John Nelson: History Teaches that War Policy is Bankrupt
Leilah Nadir: A Church Rocked to its Ancient Foundations
Ian Williams: Bush's Military Past
César Chelala: The Boom that only Oils the Wheels of Corruption
Hubert Locke: Another Horrid Legacy of War
Terry Rumsey: Why I’ve Stopped Protesting and Started Registering Voters
Stephen Zunes: Attacks against World Court by Bush, Kerry and Congress Reveals Growing Bipartisan Hostility to International Law
Thursday, August 5
Lawrence Martin: Why Bush has More to Fear than Fear Itself
Antonia Juhasz: The Hand-Over That Wasn't: Illegal Orders Give the US a Lock on Iraq's Economy
Amanda Griscom: Illinois Senate Candidate Barack Obama's Got Green Cred
Abhinav Aima: Grapes? Virgins? Does That Explain Suicide Bombers?
Scott Ritter: Challenging Kerry on His Iraq Vote
Timothy Garton Ash: Let's Rock the Boat: Europeans should be Cautious Recruits to a President Kerry's War on Terrorism
Father John Dear: Remembering Hiroshima at Los Alamos
Antonia Zerbisias: Profit, 'Hot' Stories and the Big Chill
James Wellman: Mixing Church and State can Damage Both
Wade Hudson: Talking Politics with People Unlike Ourselves
Clarence Page: Obama's Drama and Our Dreams
Sidney Blumenthal: What the Terror Alerts Really Tell Us
Jimmy Breslin: Remember the Moral of the Story
Reed Brody: Where's the Promised Accountability for US Abuse of Prisoners in Iraq?
Wednesday, August 4
David Sirota/Christy Harvey: Evidence White House Knew It Was Lying About Iraq
Joe Conason: Somebody Owes Howard Dean an Apology.
Ron Reagan: The Case Against George W. Bush
Ted Rall: America's Last War
Simon Chapman: Corporate Responsibility is Fast Becoming a Smoke-Free Zone
Joel Campagna: Al Jazeera: Leave it to Viewers
Kathy Eder: Drafting the Truth
Steve Ritea: Knight-Ridder Stood Alone in Questioning WMD Claims
Ghassan Rubeiz: Is Armed Struggle Leading Palestinians to Liberation?
John Borowski: Teachers, Before Buying “Tampering with Nature” for the Classroom, Know the Truth about John Stossel
Jane Roberts: “W” Does Not Stand for Women
Robert Kuttner: Digging Out of Bush's Tax-cut Hole
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Why Did Ridge Act Sunday?
Dave Wheelock: An Indigenous Perspective on Corporate Rule
Tuesday, August 3
Ray McGovern: 9/11 Commission Chimera
Sean Gonsalves: Our "Manchurian Candidates"
Ihab Shalbak: The False Identity that Helped Provide a Moral Case for War
Robert Scheer: Kerry's Past Is Key to His Future
John Brown: John Kerry and St. Paul's School - An Outsider's Recollections
Barbara Ehrenreich: To Defeat Terrorists, try Listening to Feminists
Evan Weiner: Sports Owners Profit from Taxpayer Deals
Antonia Zerbisias: At a Big Party, Missing the Big Picture
Martin Kettle: On Both Sides of the Atlantic, Progressives Could be Braver
Matthew Rothschild: Why No Bounce?
Mark Weisbrot: No Boost for Development in World Trade Negotiations
Ronald Bruce St John: High Time Bush Defines the Enemy
Bill Gallagher: Eisenhower's 1956 Message Lost on Today's Misguided Republican Party
Tom Engelhardt: Attack Dogs
César Chelala: HIV/AIDS Delivers Heavy Blow to Third World Education
Monday, August 2
Robert Fisk: Can’t Bush and Blair See Iraq Is About to Explode?
Sibel Edmonds: Public Letter to 9/11 Commission Chairman from FBI Whistleblower
Karen Armstrong: Saddam Wasn't a Satisfying Scapegoat, So Now it's Off to Iran
John MacArthur: Iraq Confounds, Kerry Contorts
Katha Pollitt: Let's Not Devalue Ourselves
John Laughland: Sudan: The Mask of Altruism Disguising a Colonial War
Michael Schwalbe: New Tobacco Image Masks Deadly Business as Usual
Stephen Zunes: Democratic Party Platform Shows Shift to the Right on Foreign Policy
Eric Margolis: Bush Like Custer
Linda McQuaig: Is Florida Facing a New Polling Fiasco?
Mark Hertsgaard: Kerry is Green, But Brown is Showing
Rebecca Solnit: Hatred at One End, Rejection at the Other
Ralph Nader: DNC Convention: Predictable Banality and Commercialism
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