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April 2005

Saturday, April 30
Meir Carasso: Nuclear Looks Worse than Ever
Jerry Lembcke: Debunking a Spitting Image
Medea Benjamin: Withdraw US Troops
Joel McNally: Photo IDs Replace Dogs, Hoses in Push to Nix Rights
Helen Thomas: Commanders Responsible for Abu Ghraib
Katha Politt: Practice What You Preach
Ralph Nader: Why Are Reporters Playing it Safe Where Bush is Concerned?
Maureen Dowd: Swindler on a Gusher
Matthew Rothschild: McCarthyism Watch: Secret Service Searches Home of Protester

Friday, April 29
Tom Hayden: Open Letter to Howard Dean
Stephen Mucher: Delay’s Ethics Make a Difference
Derrick Jackson: The Insular America
Joy-Ann Reid: Bush's Fixer: Condoleezza Rice's History of Covering Bush's Failures
Studs Terkel: Pete Seeger Is 86
Molly Ivins: Our New Pluto-Theocracy
Renato Redentor Constantino: The Colors of Memory
John Kampfner: Tony Blair: The Blundering Actions of a Desperate Man
Dave Rossie: Santorum Wants to Privatize Weather Forecast
Joseph Miller: News as Commodity + Pervasive Information Control = Loss of Democracy
Hubert Locke: The People Don't Always Know Best
John Carey: Bush Is Blowing Smoke on Energy
Paul Krugman: A Private Obsession

Thursday, April 28
Joan Vennochi: A Match Made in Petroleum
Norman Solomon: Iraq: War, Aid and Public Relations
Reed Brody: Stain of Torture Lingers
Ed Garvey: Iraq Occupation has Failed; Time to Bring Troops Home
Jennet Conant: Last of the Outspoken Scientists
Barbara Ehrenreich: A Society That Throws the Sick Away
Brian Sedgemore: A Final Nail in the Prime Minister's Coffin
Michael Schwartz: The Draft: Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Elizabeth Sullivan: Lesson of Abu Ghraib? Whatever
Mark Weisbrot: A Dangerous Imbalance
Bob Herbert: On Abu Ghraib, the Big Shots Walk
John Nichols: Democrats' Reid Shouldn't Cut, Run
Jay Bookman: The Numbers Crunch Bush into a Failure
Guardian/UK: Democracy in the Dark

Wednesday, April 27
Jonathan Steele/Dahr Jamail: This Is Our Guernica
Ted Rall: Then They Came for the Children
Jack Miles: The Unholy Alliance Against the Filibuster
Ari Berman: PBS: Republican Broadcasting Corporation
Robert Kuttner: Whose Nation Under God?
Amitabh Pal: Bush's Handholding with the Saudis
Robert Steinback: Redux 1950s: We Need to Talk
John Nichols: Fight for the Filibuster
Molly Ivins: All Hail James Dobson
Ray McGovern: More At Stake In Bolton Nomination Than Meets the Eye
Jim Spencer: 2 Want To Find GOP Mystery Man
Floyd McKay: Congress Takes Wrong Turn Down the Road to Ruin
Andrew Christie: Memo to Certain Sierra Club Board Candidates
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Beyond Brusque: Style is Least of Bolton Problems

Tuesday, April 26
Juan Cole: Mainstream Media and Bloggers
Jody Williams: It's the Burmese Who Are Asking for Sanctions
Robert Scheer Fiddling While Crucial Programs Starve
Norman Solomon: Intervention Spin Cycle
Sean Gonsalves: Failing to Curb Global Poverty
Tom Engelhardt: Iraq "Uptick," Superpower Downtick?
Margi Fox: Our Efforts Can Save the Arctic Refuge
Danny Schechter: Watch Out World: Al-Jazeera Is Going Global
Paul Shannon: Bill Gates' Business Dichotomy
Ralph Nader: Lack of Democracy in the U.S.
Brian Sedgemore: I Urge Everyone To Give Blair a Bloody Nose at the Election
Ivan Eland: Evidence that the US May Be Losing the Global War on Terror
Pierre Tristam: On a Mission from God to Sow Faith
John Nichols: Patriot Act Vote Key to Feingold's Future
Josh Mitteldorf: My Election 2004 Bad Dream

Monday, April 25
Thom Hartmann: The Frauds of the Clergy
Bob Herbert: The Agony of War
Christian Science Monitor: Screen-Free, For a Week
Ellen Goodman: President Hillary? Get Me to Rehab
John Micklethwait/Adrian Wooldridge: Teflon Prime Minister
Jim Hightower: Tom's Cosmetic Make-Over
Dave Zweifel: US Takes Brakes Off Nuke Arms Race
Nicholas Kristof: Blacks, Whites and Love in America
Paul Waldman: The Right's Siege Mentality
Molly Ivins: The Whim of a Hat
Paul Krugman: The Oblivious Right

Sunday, April 24
John Brown: Memo to Karen Hughes
Marc A. Catone: Eve Of Destruction 2005: Tribute To PF Sloan
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Nuking the Filibuster
Peter Phillips: Incomplete News Undermines US Values
Seth Sandronsky: Minuteman Project to Confront Foreign Capital
Suzanne Camino: Why I Am Still A Catholic

Saturday, April 23
Osha Gray Davidson: Bush's Most Radical Plan Yet
Sheldon Drobny: Alternative Energy: The Grand Illusion
Todd Hymas: You've Come a Long Way, Maybe
Juan Cole: The New McCarthyism
Gaylord Nelson: Bush, Congress Fail to Protect Ecosystem
Maureen Dowd: Uncle Dick and Papa
John Stauber: Bush Wins Earth Day Greenwashing Award (If There Were One)
Caroline Arnold: Engineer Jokes for Liberals

Friday, April 22
Wangari Maathai: Fourth 'R' for Earth Day - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle... Repair
A.K. Gupta: Let a Thousand Militias Bloom
Pat Aufderheide: Too Much Media
Ian McEwan: The Hot Breath of Civilization
Glen Ford/Peter Gamble: Black Caucus Losing Cohesion
Andrew Bacevich: New Boys in Town
Ira Chernus: Nazi Shadow is Slowly Passing
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Sweet Environmental Victories
Abhinav Aima: They May be Murderers, but They're Our Murderers
Janet Kauffman: The Bulldozing of America
Diane Farsetta: A Bumper Crop of Government-Produced 'News'
Chris Floyd: Global Eye: Gut Check
Julian Bond: Health and Social Dangers
Jay Bookman: Reality Can't be Altered or Ignored

Thursday, April 21
Chip Giller: The Environment's New Bling
Norman Solomon: The New Pope and Journalism's Crisis of Faith
Arianna Huffington: Nailing the Hammer?
Andrew J. Bacevich: The Normalization of War
John Nichols: Marla Ruzicka Lived, Died for Her Cause
Bill Quigley: Benedict and George - We Are Not Leaving!
Bob Burnett: America's Peak Performance
Marc Cooper Stalino-Papism
Martin Kaplan: Quitters Never Win
Steven Laffoley: Fearing Faith in Weird Truth
Kristin Breitweiser: Are We Safer?
Diane Carman: Curious About Bush Bouncer? Follow Bouncing Stall Tactic

Wednesday, April 20
Guy Reel: American Values
Seattle Times: Joseph Ratzinger: Putting the School Vice-Principal for Discipline in Charge?
Elisa Salasin:Marla Razicka, Rachel Corrie, and Revolution of Heart
Héctor Tobar: A Letdown for Mi Madre
Donna Brazile:Why Choice Matters
Joyce Marcel: A Failure of Imagination
Baltimore Sun: Pope Benedict XVI
Rabbi Michael Lerner: The New Pope is a Disaster for the World and for the Jews
Navin Nayak: The Do-Nothing Energy Bill
Sonya Vetra Tinsley: You Have to Pick Your Team
Maureen Dowd: Smoke Gets in Our News
Alan Cooperman: Steadfast Beliefs in a Tumultuous World

Tuesday, April 19
Marla Ruzicka: A US Aid Worker's Words
Sydney Schanberg: A Time for Disobedience
USAToday: An Advocate for Iraqis Falls. Will U.S. Take Up Her Cause?
Joseph Stiglitz: No Free Lunches for Pensioners
Nancy Hurlbert/Jean Byers: Unequal Payday
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Bush's iPod: Take Two
Richard Cohen: Faith-Based Pandering
Joel Wendland: Condoleezza Orders Scrapping of Terrorism Report
David Corn: One (Especially) Sad Death in Iraq
Mike Davis: Riotous Real Estate
New York Times: The Missing Energy Strategy
Roberto Rodriguez/Patrisia Gonzales: Remember Lessons that Chavez Taught about Humanity, Workers
Sean Gonsalves: The Moral Bankruptcy of Fundamentalism
Rosie Dimanno: Just Don't Expect Any Miracles
Robert Parry: John Bolton and the Battle for Reality

Monday, April 18
Kevin Danaher/Medea Benjamin: Remembering a Friend Killed in Iraq, Marla Ruzicka
Thom Hartmann: How Rich is Too Rich For Democracy?
Bob Herbert: A Radical in the White House
Cynthia Tucker: A Rational Approach to Immigration
Matthew McAllester: US Aid Worker Killed in Iraq
Brian McKenna: Dow Chemical Buys Silence in Michigan
Chris Rose: Change the World: A Twelve Step Program
John Simpson: War Crimes--Have We Learned Anything?
Norman Solomon: When Media Dogs Don't Bark
Bruce Friedrich: Death Tax: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?
Dave Zweifel: Don't Be Fooled by 'Alternative' to AARP

Sunday, April 17
Frank Rich: Get Tom DeLay to the Church on Time
James Vesely: A Man of His Times Speaks of This Time
Larry Williams: A Winning Hybrid Shows the Way
Chris Caesar: Bremer's Invitation is a Scandal
Dawn Baldwin: Rejecting Jesus' Extreme Makeover
Lisa Rowe Fraustino: Robber Barons in the Junk Mail
Rowan Williams: A Planet on the Brink
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Sweet Victory: Maryland Stands Up To Wal-Mart
Haroon Siddiqui: US Propaganda Machine Beating Democracy Drum
Steven Bodzin: The Quest for Desired Endstate
David Morris: The Future of Ethanol
Ron Forthofer: Fiddling While Earth Burns

Saturday, April 16
Ted Lewis: The Political Lynching of Mexico's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
David Corn: Newspaper Editors Serve Bush Lame Questions
Christopher Brauchli: Cardinal Bernard Law: From Glory to Glory
Eliot Weinberger: What I Heard About Iraq
Mark Weisbrot: CAFTA Will Drive Wages in the United States Even Lower
Ralph Nader: Scientists or Celebrities?
Seth Sandronsky: Pentagon Private Accounts
Martin Jacques: The Middle Kingdom Mentality

Friday, April 15
Naomi Klein: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Lisa Lambert: GodAssault: Morality as the Ultimate Game
Adam Werbach: Should Municipalities Get in the Wi-Fi Business? Wireless wonder at a fraction of the cost
Stephanie McMillan: Fear and Art
Helen Caldicott: Nuclear Power is the Problem, Not a Solution
Molly Ivins: April 15th: You're Getting Screwed
Derrick Jackson: Eric Rudolph's Legacy
Reggie Rivers: Sharing the Tax Burden
Salih Booker/Njoki Njoroge Njehu: Debt Cancellation Should be Considered
Isabel Hilton: The Riots in China Highlight the Dangers of Using Nationalism as an Outlet for Growing Popular Frustration
John Nichols: FCC to TV: Tell the Truth

Thursday, April 14
Ray McGovern: Exposing Incompetent Incumbents
Ira Chernus: Thomas Friedman's Bad Bummer
Heleny Cook: Tax Me More
Heather Wokusch: Courting Armageddon
Robert Koehler: The Silent Scream of Numbers
John Nichols: John Bolton vs. Democracy
Angelina Godoy: CAFTA Will Threaten Lives in Partner Countries
Bob Burnett: Welcome to Bush World
Janet MacFarlane: Moses on a Big Rig
Scott Klinger: Your Risk, Their Gain
David Francis: It's Better to be Poor in Norway Than in the US
Matthew Rothschild: The Scandal of John Negroponte
Elizabeth Sullivan: Bully Bolton's Antics Revealed Heroes at State
Carolyn Winter/Roger Bybee: Culture of Life: A Platform for Progressives?

Wednesday, April 13
James Kunstler: The Long Emergency
Molly Ivins: Connect These Dots
Paul Laverty: We Must Not Move On
Susan Lenfestey: Pushing Ten Commandments; Forgetting Ten Amendments
Derrick Jackson: US Takes the Lead in Trashing Planet
Tom Turnipseed: From the Vatican to Neverland
Tom Engelhardt: George's Amazing Alphabet Book of the Contemporary World
Jonathan Steele: Don't Be Fooled by the Spin on Iraq
David Green: The Latest Neocon Con
Segall, Bannerman & Livingston: Walking Through Warfare With Eyes Wide Open
Robert Kuttner: The Biggest Tax Cheats
Robert Kennedy Jr: Playing Politics at Kids' Expense
Alicia Lucksted: An Open Letter to President Bush: Support Our Troops!
Mitchell Anderson: End of Cheap Oil is a Blessing

Tuesday, April 12
Terry Jones: Let Them Eat Bombs
Baker, Rosnick & Weisbrot: CEPR to the Washington Post: Misinformed Public is The Real Problem
Martha Burk: Women Earn Less, Period
Alan Farago: Toxics More Valuable Than Democracy?
James Carroll: Far from Texas, in Dire Need
Marc Pilisuk/Neil Wollman: What Democracy?: A Brief Look at U.S. Foreign Policy
Marie Cocco: Loyalty to Bush, But Not to the Nation
David Zirin: War Games and War Names
Mokhiber/Weissman: Corporate College
Madeleine Byrne: The Pitfalls of Privatizing War
Christian Christensen: Media 101: General Motors and the LA Times
Timothy Karr: Is Cheap Broadband Un-American?
Ed Garvey: Catholics Need to Take a Hard Look in Mirror
Robert Scheer: The Pope Pleaded. We Didn't Listen.
Pierre Tristam: Tipping a Glass to Saul Bellow, Who Long Outlived Augie March
Ernie McCray: Trying to Make the World a Better Place
William Pfaff: Why Make an Enemy of Russia?

Monday, April 11
Michael Klare: Oil, Geopolitics, and the Coming War with Iran
Ari Bergman: Monopolies Good, Breasts Bad
Jeff Halper: A Palestinian Prison-State?
Neve Gordon: Democratic Occupation
Ritt Goldstein: US Refugees: Persecuted at Home, Discriminated Against Abroad?
Byron Williams: Jobs, Not Same-Sex Marriage, Paramount Issue for African Americans
Laura Flanders/Steven Rosenfeld: Republican Vigilantism
The Capital Times: Congress Should Block CAFTA
Peter Preston: The Fire That's Smouldering Under Bush

Sunday, April 10
Eric Margolis: US Commission on Iraq Just the Latest Surge in a Niagara of Whitewash
Frank Rich: A Culture of Death, Not Life
Linda McQuaig: Media Became Cheerleading Comforters Instead of Acting as Neutral Observers
William O'Rourke: TV News Buries Iraqi Civilian Deaths
Stephen Vincent Kobasa: Mocked by Terror
Jim French: Reform Farm Policy for the Public Good
Jon Vote: When We Get to Where We Failed Before
Seth Sandronsky: Younger Workers and Social Security: Privatization of the Program Undermines Their Future

Saturday, April 9
Laura Carlsen: Failing Democratic Transition in Mexico: Government Removes Popular Presidential Hopeful
Hywel Williams: Marching Towards the Gas Chamber and the Model T
Erin Campbell: Orwell is Alive and Well in the Bush Administration
Felicity Arbuthnot: 'The Gate of God Opens Wider'
Christopher Brauchli: One Law for All? Not for Mr. Bush
Susan Van Haitsma: The Recruiter in Each of Us
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Sweet Victory: Montana Acts Patriotic
Mary Hunt: When Catholic Women are Equal Partners
Randy Shaw: How the Pope Squashed Activism in San Francisco
Nicols Fox: Volunteer Workers of the World, Unite
Brita Rose: Israel-Palestine: Give Peace a Real Chance

Friday, April 8
Mark Danner: Iraq: The Real Election
Matthew Rothschild: Some Non-Pope News
Emily Hawkins: Students Take Over the Capitol for Darfur
Michael Klare: Imperial Reach
Helen Thomas: Buck Doesn't Stop at This President's Desk
Bob Herbert: Black, Dead and Invisible
Richard Cohen: A Breach of Faith with America
Jonathan Chait: It Was Only a Matter of Time for DeLay
Jonathan Steele: We Are Rewriting the History of Communism's Collapse
Joel Connelly: Alaska's Politicians More Predatory Than Any Wolf
Polly Toynbee: Not in my Name
Michael Hiltzik: The Rich Are Behind Trust Fund Myth
New York Times: The Worst of the Bad Nominees

Thursday, April 7
Sidney Blumenthal: Politics in a Red Robe: Bush's Attendance at the Pope's Funeral
John Nichols: Better SAFE than Sorry Patriot Act
Amy Goodman/David Goodman: Un-Embed the Media
Guardian/UK: Stumbling Forward
Maureen Dowd: The Passion of the Tom
Frida Berrigan: Nepal: Washington's Wait and See Attitude on Coups and Human Rights Abuses
Norman Solomon: Beyond the Narrow Limits of News Coverage
Roderick Nordell: Saul Bellow Chastised America for its Own Good
Joyce Marcel: A Quiver Of Female Opinion Arrows
Jonathan Schell: Faking Civil Society
Matthew Harwood: Pinkertons at the CPA: Iraq's Resurgent Labor Unions
Lim Li Ching: Smallpox Should be History
Roger Cohen: A Personal Glimpse of the Pope's Belief in Life
Haroon Siddiqui: Americans Alienate Indonesia

Wednesday, April 6
Eric Schlosser: A Side Order of Human Rights
Bill Nemitz: A Murder, a Casualty of War: A Father Mourns a Love Story Cut Short
Derrick Jackson: A Pope of Peace and Bush's War
Greil Marcus: Like a Rolling Stone: How Does It Feel ... 40 Years Later?
John Dear: The Church After JPII
David Corn: Banned In Arkansas
New York Times: The Judges Made Them Do It
Catherine Sundberg: What They Can't Control
Steven Laffoley: Is There Still a Dream?
Nikki Kallio: Humanitarian Worker in Iraq Says Things Have Gotten Worse
Scott Klinger: More Billionaires, More Poverty: Get Used To It
Victor Rozek: I Miss My Country
Philip Kovacs: Bill Gates and the Corporatization of American "Public" Schools

Tuesday, April 5
John MacArthur: Iraq War Coverage Reminds Me of Vietnam
Molly Ivins: US Had Hand in Violating Iraq Oil Sanctions
Jeffrey Sachs: The End of the World As We Know It
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Playstations for Peace
Robert Scheer: Bush Threw Us a 'Curveball'
David Corn: Thinking About a Dead Pope...And Remembering Bush's Exploitation of Anti-Catholic Bigotry
Tom Engelhardt: Drugs, Bases, and Jails: The Bush administration's Afghan Spring
Liza Grandia: Contaminating the World's Food Supply: An Honest Mistake?
Pierre Tristam: Closing Frontiers of Imagination Has Lead to a Nation of Narcissists
Bonnie Erbe: Moral Judgments on Birth Control Endangering Women's Lives
Michael Meacher: America Is Usurping the Democratic Will in Iraq
George Monbiot: I'm With Wolfowitz

Monday, April 4
Marcin Król: Papal Legacy: Questioning Capitalism
Joshua Frank: The Minuteman Project: Gunning for Change but Shooting Blanks
John Nichols: The Pope's 'Seismic Shift'
Karyn Strickler: Seal Pup Slaughter and the Canadian Fish Boycott
Mokhiber/Weissman: The Wolfowitz Coup
Lisa Martinovic: Is Mercury the New Exploding Gas Tank?
Jay Bookman: When Facts Collide With Beliefs . . .
Paul Rogat Loeb: Stories Sway Personal Choice
Roberto Rodriguez: The Culture of Life
John Kitzhaber: Congress' Implicit Healthcare Rationing
Dave Zweifel: Dems' Filibustering Serves a Majority
Terry Eagleton: The Pope Has Blood On His Hands
Glenn Cheney: The Real Terrorists Are Holed Up In Washington

Sunday, April 3
Scott Ritter: Ritter on Tony Blair: Don't Let the Warmonger Off the Hook
Amy Goodman/David Goodman: Why Media Ownership Matters
Mark Chmiel: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Pope (and the Rest of Us)
Linda McQuaig: The Rightwing 'Smear Campaign' Against World Body
Maureen Dowd: Curveball the Goofball
Michael Klare: Arctic Drilling Is No Energy Answer
William Greider: Pro-Death Politics
Ralph Nader: The Latest Convergence of Liberal and Conservative Activity
Tom Teepen: Taking Care of Ma Earth

Saturday, April 2
Nick Turse: If You Build It, They Will Kill
Anwaar Hussain: This President Is Right Indeed
Christopher Brauchli: The Dinosaurs Fear of Evolution
John Laughland: The Mythology of People Power: The Reality of US-backed Coups in the Former USSR
David Datz: For Service, Try Public Servants
Frank Miller: Not the Indian Way
Matthew Rothschild: Bush, Cheney, Get Their Whitewash
David Crockett: Credit, Conspicuous Consumption and Crisis
Alan Kobrin: Who is Brain-Dead?

Friday, April 1
Ira Chernus: Culture of Life is a Culture of Fear
Helen Thomas: Screened Audiences, Fake News Promote Bush Agenda
Rahul Mahajan: WMD Commission -- Yet Another Intelligence Failure
Ray McGovern: Honest Intelligence Needed
Jawad al-Khalisi: The Gates of Hell Are Open in Iraq
David Corn: WMD Commission Continues the Stonewall for Bush
Bob Herbert: We Can't Remain Silent
Robin Cook: Why American Neocons are Out for Kofi Annan's Blood
Derrick Jackson: A Faulty Intelligence Report
Zeynep Toufe: You Too Can Lose Weight and Keep it Off: The Terri Schiavo Success Story
New York Times: Bush's WMD Commission: A Profile in Timidity
Russ Baker: Miller's UN Reporting
Matthew Rothschild: Terri Schiavo and Troubling Concerns
Dave Rossie: No Way To Put Happy Faces On These Guys

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