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May 2008

Thursday, May 15
Naomi Klein: China’s All-Seeing Eye
Amy Goodman: Whistle-Blower Points to Target List in US Attack on Hotel
Dan Froomkin: Bush’s Idea of Sacrifice
Ida Audeh: Israel at 60: The Cost of US Support
Johann Hari: Are There Just Too Many People in the World?
Robert Koehler: The Penta-Pundits
Tom Engelhardt: Kiss American Security Goodbye
Donna Hall: Family Planning Must Be a Priority
Warren Karlenzig: Smartly Plan Our Way out of Oil Addiction
Haroon Siddiqui: Failed War on Terrorism on Display
Marie Cocco: The Face of Torture
The Vancouver Sun: Let’s Ignore the Sideshow and Stand Up for the Children of War
Laurie Tarkan: Toxic Wombs
Jerome Grossman: Solving the Oil Crisis
John Nichols: Obama-Backing Edwards Elbows Aside Clinton
Lucy Jarosz: Increase Diversity of Grain Supplies

Wednesday, May 14
Robert Scheer: The Tortured Law on Torture
Ted Rall: The Silver Lining of Economic Collapse
Alice Rothchild: The Other Side of Israel’s Birth
Pat LaMarche: Correcting Those Sins of Omission
Miriam Pemberton: A Climate Change Industrial Policy
Ira Chernus: Israel at 60: Zionism’s Fatal Flaw
Joyce Marcel: Back in the USSR
William Moseley: Forget Another 'Green' Revolution - Support Real Sustainable Agriculture
Glenn Greenwald: Tom Friedman’s Latest Declaration of War
Jonathan Steele: Obama Says He’ll Reshape US Foreign Policy. But Can He?
Erica Sackin: A Generation in the Red
John Young: Where Bush Draws the Line on Iraq Costs: Education Benefits for Veterans
Catherine Cooper: Give Something Back
Gerald Bracey: The Mounting Collateral Damage of No Child Left Behind
Robert Borosage: Rebranding Republicans

Tuesday, May 13
Herman Daly: Climate Policy: From ‘Know How’ to ‘Do Now’
Hope Shand: Corporations Grab Climate Genes
Pierre Tristam: Schools in the Bogus Age of Terror
Danny Schechter: Is Who Becomes the Next President All That Matters?
John Buell: Food Pantries for Poor, Loans for Hungry Bankers
Paul Rogat Loeb: Did the Limbaugh Effect Also Flip Michigan?
Guy Reel: The Handy Reference Guide to Bush Disasters, Incompetencies, and Lies
John Nichols: John McCain: Eco Warrior
George Monbiot: Guantánamo: How to Build a Human Bomb
Dilip Hiro: Lebanon: The Army’s Role
Jesse Jackson: Marketing Won’t Hide GOP’s Lack of Ideas for Real Change
Marie Cocco: A Farewell to the ‘Hillary Nutcracker’ and Other Obscenities
Las Vegas Sun: Mining the Grand Canyon

Monday, May 12
Medea Benjamin: Next Mother's Day Let’s Invite the Whole Family
James Carroll: Preventing an Arms Race in Outer Space
Scott Ritter: Taking a Stand Against War
Sean Gonsalves: Whistleblowers: The Canaries in the Coal Mines
Larry Beinhart: Fog Facts: Petraeus’ Fog of War
Gaylynn Burroughs: Too Poor to Parent?
Katrina vanden Heuvel/Greg Kaufmann: Invasions of Privacy: Burger King and Espionage
Neva Hassanein: Rooted in the Soil: Local Food and Community Self-Reliance
Juan Cole: Clinton and Obama on Al-Jazeera
Barbara Ehrenreich: Hillary’s Gift to Women
Glenn Greenwald: John McCain’s Vietnam-Based View of War
David Runnalls: Planting Ideas to Solve the Food Supply Crisis

Sunday, May 11
MotherVerse Magazine: Día de la MADRE: In Celebration of Mothers around the Globe
Bill McKibben: Civilization's Last Chance
Cindy Sheehan: Mother's Day 2008: Peaceful Idealism v. Political Pragmatism
Haroon Siddiqui: Harper’s Extreme Posture No Way to Support Israel
Mary Shaw: Spoiled Americans Fail the Green Test
Joan Vennochi: The Change We Can Believe In?
Saree Makdisi: Forget the Two-State Solution
Aaron Glantz: The Truth About Veteran Suicides
Michael Lynn: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

Saturday, May 10
Eli PaintedCrow: Mother's Day Veteran: Moms Wear Combat Boots, Too
Charlie Jackson: Support the Mothers
Diane Farsetta: When Recycling Isn't: Lessons from a Nuclear Industry Conference
Derrick Z. Jackson: Clinton's Diminishing of Black Voters
Desmond Tutu: Unjust Debt Weighs Down Poor Nations
Roby Alampay: No News Is Bad News
Bill Fletcher, Jr.: Rev. 'Icarus', the Obama Campaign, & the Left
Bob Herbert: Seeds of Destruction
Christopher Brauchli: The Failure of Privatized Tax Collectors

Friday, May 9
Christopher Cooper: Don’t Make No Difference What Nobody Says
Helen Thomas: People Can Handle the Truth About War
Vincent Bugliosi: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
Megan Tady: Why Big Media Needs Propaganda to Survive
Robert Weissman: Global Poverty: More Big Business Is Not the Solution
Glenn Greenwald: CNN, the Pentagon’s ‘Military Analyst Program’ and Gitmo
Michael Klare: Portrait of an Oil-Addicted Former Superpower
Mike Moore: Memo to Next US President: Keep Space Free of Weapons
Sam Sedaei: Deafening Silence on McCain, Hagee and Parsley
Roy Ulrich: Loving, Revisited
Ann Wright: Protest Camps Against American Military Bases in Japan and Italy
Jill Rachel Jacobs: A Television Show That May Make You Sick
Nick Turse: War’s Shopping Cart
Ross Tuttle: Gitmo in Disarray

Thursday, May 8
Amy Goodman: The US War on Journalists
Johann Hari: The Loathsome Smearing of Israel’s Critics
Robert Koehler: Apology Denied
Marjorie Cohn: From the Department of Justice to Guantánamo Bay: Administration Lawyers and Administration Interrogation Rules
Martha Rosenberg: Remembering the First School Shooting and Its Gunwoman
Glenn Greenwald: Neocons and the Truth: Bitter Enemies to the End
Erik Leaver: The Iraq Supplemental: A Three Ring Circus
Russ Feingold: Government in Secret
Robert Fisk: Lebanon Descends Into Chaos as Rival Leaders Order General Strike
Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement: Hawaii Needs You
Benita Jones: Voting Rights and Wrongs: Agencies’ Failure Costs Poor Communities Power
Bob Hepburn: Obama and the Politics of Race
Bernard Weisberger: The Super Problem

Wednesday, May 7
Robert Scheer: Battle of the Hawks
Frida Berrigan: Dismantling Peace Movement Myths
William Astore: The Air Force Above All
Norman Solomon: Obama’s Clarifying Win: The Fly on the Wall Is the Wall
Ehab Lotayef: Palestinian Refugee Problem Cannot Be Ignored
Andrew Greeley: Why Media Fix on Wright and Ignore Hagee
Ciara Gilmartin: The ‘Surge’ of Iraqi Prisoners
Leonard Pitts Jr.: The Land of the Almost Free to Speak Up
Alis Headlan: NCLB and Education Today: Fighting an Uphill Battle
Larry Cox: Like Bush, I’d Like ‘Guantánamo to End’
Joyce Marcel: Junkie Nation
Pat LaMarche: Imprisoning Palestinians Because of Fear

Tuesday, May 6
Michael Winship: White Houses, Right Whales and Moby Dick Cheney
Michael Washburn: Tortured Justification
Derrick Jackson: High Oil Prices for Obama and Clinton
John Cheney-Lippold: Mission Impossible
Ira Chernus: Let’s Get Serious About Patriotism
Betsy Hartmann: Wright or Wrong: What’s Going On?
Dean Baker: The Return of the Granny Bashers: More Attacks on Social Security and Medicare
Gilbert King: Cruel and Unusual History
Las Vegas Sun: Deaths of Immigration Detainees: Too Much Secrecy
David Wallinga/Lindsay Dahl: Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products: Latest Scare Isn’t the Last
Marie Cocco: Culture of Misogyny
Pierre Tristam: Down and Out With the Democrats? Maybe Not, Look at the ‘48 Election
Danny Schechter: Will the White Collar Perps of Subprime Crime Ever Do Time?
Jesse Jackson: Bush Heads Wrong Way on Global Food Crisis
The Christian Science Monitor: Armed to Kill in National Parks?

Monday, May 5
Scott Ritter: The Pentagon vs. America
Caroline Arnold: Issues Raised in 1970 Remain Unresolved
James Carroll: The New Immorality of Iraq War
Sean Gonsalves: Shhhh …This Is a ‘Secretocracy’
Ann Wright: Despite Bush Administration Pressure, the Japanese People Continue to Say ‘No More War’
Tom Engelhardt: The Last War and the Next One
Nomi Prins: It’s the Profits Stupid! The Rise and Rise of Exxon’s Take From America
Russell Mokhiber: Corporations Bad for Public Health
Robyn Blumner: Military Makes Mincemeat of Church-State Separation
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Voter ID: Another Reason to Stay Home

Sunday, May 4
Glenn Greenwald: The Media, The Right and 1988: Endless Deja Vu
Stacy Bannerman: McCain’s Noble Cause
Bill Moyers: Beware The Simplifiers
Olga Bonfiglio: Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Doesn’t Mince Words About War and Justice
Joan Vennochi: We’re In A War - Where Are The Media?
Faith D`Aluisio/Peter Menzel: A Full Plate Today, Uncertainty Tomorrow
Bud McClure: Atonement: I'd Rather Fall With Obama Than Win With Clinton
Frank Rich: The All-White Elephant in the Room
Tim Lott: Tribute To Albert Hofmann: My LSD Trip Down Memory Lane

Saturday, May 3
Diane Farsetta: What the Pentagon Pundits Were Selling on the Side: Propaganda Meets Corporate Lobbying
Jeffrey Kaplan: The Gospel of Consumption
Christopher Brauchli: Hiding Truth
Sami Abdel-Shafi: Gazans: A Strangled People
Katrina Vanden Heuvel/Greg Kaufmann: Faith-Based Missile Defense
Bruce Falconer: Contractors Gone Wild
Matthew Rothschild: ACLU of Colorado Sues to Ensure DNC Protesters’ Rights
Robert Gordon/James Kvaa: McCain’s Delusional Tax Plan

Friday, May 2
Robert Weissman: Big Pharma Digs In
Helen Thomas: Bush Admits He Approved Torture
Stephen Zunes: The 2008 Presidential Race: A 1972 Redux?
David Sirota: The Plague of Potomac Fever
Sandy George/Diana George Chapin: Fighting GMOs: Counter-Revolutionaries in Montville
Glenn Greenwald: What Backroom Conniving Are Steny Hoyer and the Chris Carney Blue Dogs Up To on FISA?
Dave Lindorff: American and Israeli War Crimes: Same Atrocities, Different Responses
Betsy Reed: The Clinton Campaign: Playing the Race Card and Driving a Wedge Into the Feminist Movement
Eric Alterman: Mickey Mouse Media
John Dean: Contrary to His Claims, Senator John McCain Is Not a Goldwater Conservative
Eugene Robinson: The Power of a Stupid Idea
Shirley Wilcher: The Devil Wears Pantsuits: Gender and the Exercise of Power
Timothy Karr/Megan Tady: Why Big Media Is Mum About Its Propaganda Habit
Pepe Escobar: The Iranian Chessboard

Thursday, May 1
Jay Bookman: America Could Use a Little ‘Tough Love’ From Leaders
Joyce Marcel: Crumbcatchers: America Wakes From Its Long, Low Dream
Glenn Greenwald: Brian Williams’ 'Response' to the Military Analyst Story
Joe Andrew: Clinton’s Former-DNC Chair Switches to Obama: ‘I Have Been Inspired’
Russell Mokhiber: Farm Broadcaster Ousted After Ripping Monsanto’s Goon Squads
Amy Goodman: Ticker Tape Ain’t Spaghetti
Charles Derber/Yale Magrass: The ‘Wright Problem’ Belongs to America
Graham Thomson: Mother Nature’s Protest
Ashley Powdar: One of History’s Great Atrocities: The Corporate Theft of the Public’s Natural Right to Water
Marie Cocco: Mythmaking and Democracy
John Farrell: An Energy Incentive Is Drifting in the Wind
Blake Fleetwood: 40 Years Ago Today, the Police Tried to Kill Me at Columbia University
The Miami Herald: Scratch Torture From US Rule Book
Andrew McBee: The Well-Manicured Lawn: A Global Menace
John Nichols: Bill O’Reilly’s Foxy Lady
Danny Schechter: The Fire Bell in the Night and Our Real Terror
David Nassar: Why Wal-Mart Does Not Strengthen Our Economy






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