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December 2000
Sunday, December 31
Mark Weisbrot: New Year's Resolutions for Congress
Robert Kuttner: Bush Picks An Extremist For AG
Paul Wellstone: Use Surplus To Invest In Kids, Now
Martin Lee: Neo-Nazism: It's Not Just in Germany's Beer Halls Anymore
Brad Newsham: 'Tell Me, How is Pinochet?'
Saturday, December 30
Mikhail Gorbachev: Mr. Bush, the World Doesn't Want to Be American
Ralph Nader: Factory Farms Continue To Be A Blight On Landscape
Anthony Lewis: John Ashcroft: An Unfit Nominee
Friday, December 29
Mark Steel: Smile, And We Might Yet Defeat Global Capitalism
Norman Solomon: Confirmation Path Greased For Ashcroft? Not So Fast!
Robert Fisk: Sham Summit Promised Little for the Palestinians
David Moberg: OSHA Turns 30 Today But Workplaces May Get More Dangerous Under Bush
Linda Brazill: Flo's One-Line Wisdom
Peter Noel: Is Jesse for Sale? Jackson-Watchers Claim Wall Street Contributors Arranged His Phone Call to Bush
Thursday, December 28
Mokhiber/Weissman: New Century, Same as the Old Century: The Ten Worst Corporations of 2000
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Bush Nominee Ashcroft Poses A Mortal Threat To Civil Rights
George Monbiot: Dying of Consumption
Wade Davis: With the Loss of Other Cultures, We Risk Being
Imprisoned in Our Own, Never Knowing What Might
Have Been
Wednesday, December 27
Naomi Klein: Corporations are Anti-Corporate Protesters. Anti-Market Protesters are a Market Niche. And Shopping Can Save the World
Polly Toynbee: Global Warming: Stormy Weather But No Sign of a Thaw in Frozen Attitudes
Sami Halaby: Why So Little on Israel's Brutality?
Jonathan Fanton: Sign Treaty for an International Criminal Court
Mary Kaldor: The South Asian Anti-Nuclear Movement Could Become an Inspiration for Global Disarmament
Tuesday, December 26
Sean Gonsalves: Star Wars: The Sequel
Paul Wellstone: Bush Should Start Over in Colombia
Christopher Hitchens: The Case Against Colin Powell
Robert Scheer: These Messes Are What Deregulation Gets Us
James McGovern: As One of His Last Official Acts, Clinton Should Go To Cuba
Monday, December 25
Salim Muwakkil: Peacemakers Often Are Shunned
Sunday, December 24
Will Hutton: Right-Wing Coup That Shames America
Robert Kuttner: We Can Easily Afford to Help Out the Homeless
Sarah Waheed: US Must Address Mideast Bias
Going Forward: Hollywood Grasps Nettle of America's Failed Drugs War
Saturday, December 23
James Ron/Charles Call: US Has Its Own Record of Atrocities
Lindsay Sobel: Do Unto Ashcroft: With Attorney General, Bush Makes His First Worst Choice
Susan Lina Ruggles: Gore's Double Betrayal
Marc Fisher: On Voting Rights, Clinton Joins D.C. A Little Too Late
Friday, December 22
William Greider: Clinton Follows the Money
Martin Woollacott: Why Peace Processes Are Breaking Down All Over
Thursday, December 21
San Francisco Chronicle: The Powell Doctrine Meets War in Colombia
Marcus Gee: So, Really, Where's the Need for Missile Defence?
Norman Solomon: And Now, The P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2000
Minneapolis Star Tribune: World Poverty is Indeed An American Problem
Wednesday, December 20
Robert Jensen: US Should Use Its Leverage To Aid Turkish Hunger Strikers
Eugene Carroll: The U.S. Appears Intoxicated With Its Role As the World's Only Superpower
J. Lee Polnachek: What Does Feminist Nader-Bashing Say About the Priorities of the Mainstream Women's Movement?
Stacy Mitchell: Abandoned Malls, Suburban Blight
Ian Urbina: The UN Must Protect Not Observe in the Middle East
Mark Hertsgaard: Be of Good Cheer, Dems; All Isn't Lost
Derrick Jackson: How the Debate Can Be Clarified for Voters Next Time
Kenneth Roth: US Must Back War Crimes Pact
Tuesday, December 19
John Nichols: Beware of Bush's Bipartisanship
Lenora Todaro: Ralph Nader Lashes Back
Sean Gonsalves: What's Good for Corporate America is Not Necessarily Good for America. Who Will Colin Powell Serve?
James Carroll: A Time for Senator Kennedy
Monday, December 18
Mokhiber/Weissman: The People's Health
Nathan Newman: Was the Fix In? New White House Counsel Accused of Favoritism for Cheney's Halliburton
John Polanyi: End the Nuclear Dance: The Cold War's Over Yet We're Not Ending the Balance of Terror
Salim Muwakkil: Scientific Evidence Reveals We Are Family
Barbara Lubin: Netanyahu Protest Did Not Dishonor The Free-Speech Movement
Sunday, December 17
Robert Kuttner: Forget Nice Talk; New Administration Deserves To Be Questioned
Tonyaa J. Weathersbee: The Differences in Voting in Florida Were Like Black and White
Robert W. McChesney: U.S. Wouldn't Tolerate Our Election in Nicaragua
Stephanie Salter: Court's Politics: Not a Shock
Wendel Brunner: Nation Has Dismissed Precious Florida Votes
Robert Reich: All This Kissy-Kissy Sweet Talk is Sheer Baloney
Going Backwards:Corporate Democrats Blame Gore Loss On 'Populist Message'
Friday, December 15
Mark Weisbrot: Post-Election Bipartisanship Spells Trouble for Social
Security, Medicare
Jonathan Schell: Power Is A Mighty Temptation. Money Is Another. Put the Two Together, and You Have A Force To Reckon With
Mike Miles: Voices in the Wilderness: Remembering Omran
Lynnell Mickelsen: Post-Election Journey Was Far From Kansas
Gail Phares: Peace, Not War, for Colombia
Todd Gitlin: The Empire Has No Clothes
Daniel Schorr: The Supreme Fix Was In
Syl Jones: All We Get From Thomas Are the Sounds of Silence
Thursday, December 14
Jonathan Vankin: The Real Scandal Is the Voting Machines Themselves
Norman Solomon:
Media Crucial As Bush Faces 'Legitimacy Gap'
Thomas Frank:
America's Sucker-in-Chief
Jonathan Freedland: Can a System Which Allows the Winner To Lose Go Unreformed?
Stephanie Salter: Gore Now Knows What It Looks, Feels and Smells Like To Get Utterly and Irrevocably Screwed
Geneva Overholser: Persistent Drumbeat About Left-Leaning Media, However Faulty, Now Seems Frozen Into Fact
Mary McGrory: Supreme Travesty of Justice
Tamara Straus: Steep Rise In Corporate Power
Wednesday, December 13
Mokhiber/Weissman: The Real Thing: Democracy as a Contact Sport
Derrick Jackson: The Court That Throttled Democracy
Laura Flanders: A Racist Elephant
Robert Fisk: I am Being Vilified for Telling the Truth About Palestinians
Arianna Huffington: Big Donors Reap Rewards In Tax Breaks
Danny Schecter: Throwing Pies At The Media
Jonathan Freedland: The Bile of the Battle for the Presidency Has Exposed the Disunity of the United States
Tuesday, December 12
Jesse Jackson/John Sweeney: Let the Count Continue
Sean Gonsalves: Clergy Call for Clemency
Angela Oh: 'Profiling' Results in Patchwork Application of Death Penalty
Tom Teepen: At Last, Clinton Speaks Out On Criminal Justice Reform
Monday, December 11
Jim Dwyer: Justice Scalia's Legal Vision
Is Blinded by His Ambition
Peter Preston: Supreme Court Judges Bring Themselves Into Disrepute
Bob Herbert: The Game is Rigged
Thomas Oliphant: With Scalia Leading the Way, Supreme Court Commits a Blunder
Salim Muwakkil: Healing the Wounds of the 60's
Neal Peirce: Nation Needs To Build System of Modern, High-Speed Rail Lines
Garrett Epps: The Constitution Has Survived Another Crisis, But It Won't Be Out Of Danger Until...
Gregory Palast: Inside Republican America: A Blacklist Burning for Bush
Sunday, December 10
Robert Kuttner: The Lynching of the Black Vote
Robert Scheer: George W. Bush's Victory Will Stand as a Low Point in the Annals of American Democracy
Noel Rubinton: Media Underreported Florida's Obstacles to 'Voting While Black'
Ralph Nader: A Tribute to David Brower, Champion of the Environment
Michael Shifter: 'Plan Colombia' Isn't Working
Saturday, December 9
Jill Schneiderman: Act Now to Curb Global Warming
Colbert King: Ghosts in Florida
Mary Preus: Plan Colombia: America's Ill-Conceived War on Drugs
Norman Solomon: How to Improve on the Feats of Network News
Mark Lawson: Following in Daddy's Footsteps: Blood is More Important Than Talent at the Court of George II
Tony Palmeri: What Will Historians Say About the Consequences of the Presidential Election of 2000?
Friday, December 8
John Passacantando: U.S. Insists on Loopholes for Toxics
Derrick Jackson: If Only Malcolm X Were Alive And On CNN
Philadelphia Inquirer: Tyranny's Puppets: R2K Raid Had Police Dancing to a Troubling Tune
Thursday, December 7
Jill Schneiderman: Act Now to Curb Global Warming
Bob Herbert: Keep the Coloreds Out of the Voting Booths
Dr. Lester Grinspoon: Why Won't Government Let Us Use Marijuana As Medicine?
Steven Hill: Make One Man, One Vote Count
Christian Science Monitor: Mass Transit: Getting US Back on Track
Harold K. Bush Jr: John Lennon:
A Rebel. A Thinker. A Poet Who Dreamed Of A Better World
Wednesday, December 6
Naomi Klein: Ya Basta! The Masks of Chiapas
Derrick Jackson: Choking the Florida Black Vote
Liese Klein: Confessions of a Scab
Matthew Rothschild: Florida's Foul-Ups--And Worse
Mark Weisbrot: Bursting Greenspan's Bubble
Omaha World-Herald: No Wonder Seniors Buy Canadian Drugs
Tuesday, December 5
Sean Gonsalves: Taking It To the Bank
John Gray: Will It Take Technical Fixes To Be Found For Environmental Problems That Have Proved To Be Politically Insoluble?
San Francisco Chronicle: A Widening War in Colombia
Marc Cooper: Now the U.S. Must Face Its Past on Chile
James Carroll: How Jesse Helms is Sparking a Real Constitutional Crisis
Stephanie Salter: Community's Where You Find It
Eric Weinberger: Where Death Penalty Is Not Taken Lightly
Hilary Wainwright: We Need A Guerrilla Strategy To Break the Corporate Grip on Democracy
Monday, December 4
Salim Muwakkil: The Racial Subplot of the Electoral Impasse
Joanne Jacobs: 'Make Sense, Not War': Public Wises Up to Bad Drug Policies
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Gold and Green -- Payoffs of Environmental Stewardship
Sunday, December 3
Ed Vulliamy: America in the Grip of Bush's 'Iron Triangle'
Stephanie Salter: Attack on Luna Another Test for Julia Butterfly Hill
Clay Evans: Don't Kill For Me, America
Marilyn Langlois/Gwen Watson: Closing the School of the Americas is a Moral Imperative
Robert Kuttner: Let's Grant Amnesty to Ralph Nader
Ron Forthofer: In Israel, US Is No 'Honest Broker'
Saturday, December 2
Mokhiber/Weissman: Enemies of the Future
Norman Solomon: A Dire Shortage of Pre-Inaugural Schlock
Dennis Roddy: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Just Our Bill
David Shipler: The Myth of Democracy
Sara Marcus: The Way Philadelphia's Police Reacted to Activists at the Republican Convention Leaves a Bad Legacy
Fergal Keane: AIDS: If We Give Enough of a Damn and Shout Loud and Long, We May Be Able To Save Millions of Lives
Friday, December 1
Donna Britt: World AIDS Day: Putting a Face -- A Young Face -- on World's Horrors
Syl Jones: A Polarized State Further Divides A Nation
Richard Sennett: Return of the Tired Men: An Old Guard of Businessmen Will Follow Bush Into Power
John Nichols: Bush Camp is Wrong, And It Knows It
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