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Sunday May 27, 2012

Ethan Cox: In Quebec, A Revolution of Love, Hope and Community
Robert Reich: Memorial Day Thoughts on National Defense Spending
Raj Patel: Treaty Like It’s 1999: Connecting the Dots on Trade
Jordan Flaherty: Arson Attack on Women's Health Organization in New Orleans Sends Shockwaves

Saturday May 26, 2012

Gar Alperovitz and Thomas Hanna: Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream
Glenn Greenwald: American Rage Over Punishment of Pakistani Doctor Reveals Much
William K. Black: Doh! Romney Messes Up, Tells the Truth About Austerity
Zoltán Glück and Manissa McCleave Maharawal: How Students Are Painting Montreal Red
Gary Younge: Well, Why Shouldn't Poor White Voters Reject Democrats?
Renee Parsons: The Export of Weapons: Past, Present and Future
David Morris: How the Post Office Is Being Destroyed By a Phony Budget Crisis
Christopher Brauchli: Immigrants and Birth Certificates
John Nichols: Answers Sought From Scott Walker Amid New Evidence of Lying to Congress

Friday May 25, 2012

Liza Featherstone: US Public School System is Under Attack
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: On Memorial Day Weekend, America Reckons with Torture
Deepak Bhargava: Creating Change is the People's Job
Mehdi Hasan: Sadly Barack Obama, Like Mitt Romney, Is an Apologist for the 1%
Michelle Chen: Why a Growing Movement of Young People Could Ignite a Workers' Revolution
Eric Holt-Giménez: Obama's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: Nothing New About Ignoring Africa's Farmers
Donna Smith: Praying for Health Care Sanity
Matt Taibbi: The Facebook IPO: Shareholders Weren't Invited to the Real Party
Shawna Foster: Why I Threw Back My 'Global War on Terror' Medal

Thursday May 24, 2012

Tom Engelhardt: The Road to Amnesia: How to Forget on Memorial Day
Allison Kilkenny: Global Protests Against Draconian Education Cuts, Tuition Hikes
Martin Lukacs: Quebec's 'Truncheon Law' Richochets as Student Strike Spreads
Carl Gibson: Cut It Out: An Open Letter to Black Bloc Anarchists
Robert Weissman: Learning from Facebook
Ellen Brown: Cooperative Banking in the Aquarian Age
Pratap Chatterjee: How Obama Helped Authorize Shell's Drilling the Arctic
Robert C. Koehler: The (Burn) Pits of Hell
Amy Goodman: Memorial Day: Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded, Stop the Wars
Randall Amster: Entrapped! Confessions of a Violent Consumerist
Marian Wright Edelman: No Summer Holiday for Hungry Children
Robert Scheer: GOP and Dems Perform the 'Bain Hustle'
Jack Shenker: Egypt's Revolution Won't End with Presidential Election

Wednesday May 23, 2012

Katrina vanden Heuvel: The GOP Chooses the Pentagon Over Their Fellow Americans
Carl Gibson: This Is What Tyranny Looks Like
Raffi Cavoukian: The Environment Is Dead: Long Live Mother Nature
Kate Gould: Congress 'Un-Declares' War with Iran
Ralph Nader: The Rise of Re-Use
John Atcheson: 'Faster Than We Thought': An Epitaph for Planet Earth
Mark Weisbrot: Can Renewed ILO Help Fight Back Against Global Austerity Trend?
Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Egypt's Presidential Election Experiment
Elizabeth Parisian: A Can't-Miss Season Finale: The 99% Takes on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Damian Carrington: Busting the Carbon and Cost Myths of Germany's Nuclear Exit
Jim Hightower: Snarling Banks

Tuesday May 22, 2012

Gar Alperovitz: The Rise of the New Economy Movement
Chris Hellman and Mattea Kramer: On the War Path: The Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget
David A. Love: How America's Death Penalty Murders Innocents
Robert Naiman: Would It Make a Difference to Progressives if Norman Solomon Goes to Congress?
Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff: Protest Is Coming to the London Olympics
David Cole: Can Obama Say He's Sorry for US Role in Torture of Innocent Man?
Jim Naureckas: Why It Matters That There's No Such Thing as Simpson-Bowles
Mark Engler: The Politics of TED
Adnan Al-Daini: The 'War on Terror' Guarantee: Profit and Destruction

Monday May 21, 2012

Paul Buchheit: How the Ultra-Rich Betray America
Bernard Harcourt: US War Veterans Tossing Medals Back at Nato Was a Heroic Act
Mark Weisbrot: The Jamaicanization of the Eurozone: Crushing Austerity Creating Economic Twilight Zones
Shamus Cooke: The First Domino Falls in Greece
Ellen Cantarow: How Rural America Got Fracked: The Environmental Nightmare You Know Nothing About
Yifat Susskind: Don’t Put Monsanto in Charge of Ending Hunger in Africa
Glenn Greenwald: Democrats and Bain
Gary Younge: Nato Talks Security and Peace, Chicago Has Neither
Sam Pizzigati: Facebook and Tahrir Square, Revisited
Robert Naiman: In Chicago, Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans Put NATO's Endless War on Trial

Sunday May 20, 2012

Jake Olzen: Entrapment of Cleveland 5 and NATO 3 Is Nothing New
Harriet Rowan: A Sea of Robin Hoods Tell the G8, It's Time to Tax Wall Street!
Ellen Brown: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Quiet Drama in Philadelphia
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Tough on Crime, Tough on Justice
Donna Smith: On the Eve of NATO in My Hometown

Saturday May 19, 2012

Tim Karr: The Police, the iPhone and Your Right to Record
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: The Nato Summit Template for Policing the 'Other Chicago'
Chris Hedges: A Victory for All of Us
Robert Reich: The Commencement Address That Won’t Be Given
Christopher Brauchli: Mitt the Barber and the Church
Greg Kaufmann: A Little Help for the Long-Term Unemployed?
Haroon Siddiqui: Foreign Policy Cheerleading Masquerades as Analysis

Friday May 18, 2012

John Nichols: A New Politics That Rejects Austerity and Wars of Whim
Ed Weisbart: Medical Students Embrace Medicare for All
Carolyn Eisenberg and Gael Murphy: Civics 101: Cutting Defense Means Not Voting for $642.5 Billion for US Military
Jake Olzen: National Nurses United: Still We March
Laura Flanders: Where are the Missing Five Million Workers?
Ray McGovern: Israel and the Neocons Mounting Pre-Emptive Strike on History
Paul Krugman: Apocalypse Fairly Soon: The Moment of Truth in Europe
Phil Rockstroh: In the Name of My Father: Requiem and Renewal in the Shadow of Wall Street
Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero: Repsol Sues Argentina for $10 Billion Over YPF Nationalization
Andy Kroll: When 'Greed Is Good' and 'Inequality Is Even Better'
Laura Carlsen: Women: 50% of the 99%
Safa Joudeh: Israel’s Prison Regime Can No Longer Go Unnoticed
Robert Jensen: The Case for a Morality of Radical Caution

Thursday May 17, 2012

Michelle Chen: Shame of the Nation: House 'Violence Against Women Act' Bill Ratchets Up Attacks on Domestic Violence Survivors
George Lakey: Did the Norwegians Have a Revolution?
Barbara Ehrenreich: Preying on Poverty: How Government and Corporations Use the Poor as Piggy Banks
Bill Moyers and Simon Johnson: Are JPMorgan's Losses a Canary in a Coal Mine?
Laura Flanders: The Student Debt Bomb
Amy Goodman: Veterans Say No to NATO
Jenny Dodson: Citizens Fight Back Against Assault on Women's Health
Buddy Bell: Walking Against NATO: Agitators Stride Towards Peace
Sarah Byrnes: How Small Groups Can Power Big Change
Robert C. Koehler: Violence and Greeting Cards
Chris Anders: Tell Congress to End 'Indefinite Detention' in the United States

Wednesday May 16, 2012

Ralph Nader: Pompous Prevaricators of Power
Richard Gott: Chávez's Economics Lesson for Europe
Glenn Greenwald: Obama’s New Free Speech Threat
Jan Haverkamp: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Socializing Risks, Privatizing Profits
Roxane Assaf & Michael Lynn: From Afghanistan to Chicago, NATO's Hard Sell
John Feffer: America the Serial Killer
Matt Taibbi: Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'
David Shapiro: All Dressed Up and No Prison CEO To Debate
Jeff Conant: Back to the Land for the Occupy Movement
Heather Pilatic: What Do GMO Seeds Have to Do With Bee Die-Offs in the Corn Belt?
Vijay Prashad: Why NATO is Bad for the World
Robert Naiman: House Moots Afghan Exit, Iran War, Military Budget, and "Signature" Drone Strikes
Mark Schmitt: Big Idea: To Fight Inequality, Link Worker Pay to Corporate Taxes
Peter Hart: The Only Beltway White Guy Pundits Too Hot for the Sunday Shows?
Michael Winship: At a Military Hospital, Warriors Are Not the Only Wounded

Tuesday May 15, 2012

Katrina vanden Heuvel: It's Time to Break Up the Big Banks
Gary Younge: Strategic Madness: How Being 'The Party of No' Is Working for the GOP
Jesse Jackson: Message to NATO: We Need Smarter Kids, Not More Smart Bombs
Ramzy Baroud: The Palestinian Nakba: The Resolve of Memory
Sarah Anderson: Nurses Push Tax on Trades to Help Sick
Bill Quigley: Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal
William Astore: The National Security State Wins (Again)
Dean Baker: Deficit Reduction: The Great Distraction
Bianca Jagger: Why Tibet Matters
Immanuel Wallerstein: European Elections: Is the Center Holding?
Matthew Rothschild: Jamie Dimon’s Lack of Accountability
Jim Lobe: US Arms Sale Sends Wrong Signal to Bahrain
Maira Sutton: Internet Freedom Activists Protest Secret Trade Agreement Being Negotiated This Week
Todd Tucker: US-Colombia Trade Deal a New Low for Workers and the Environment
Harvey Wasserman: Will You Pay as New Nuke Reactors Jump $900 Million in 3 Months?

Monday May 14, 2012

Paul Buchheit: Five Facts That Put America to Shame
Tom Engelhardt: Predator Nation: America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill
Alison Hope Alkon: Farm Protesters Land Seized by UC Berkeley
Chris Hedges: Colonized by Corporations
Sam Pizzigati: No Country for Rich Men
Marjorie Cohn: Romney the Bully
Brian Moench: Climate Crisis: The Silence is Deafening
Jon Reinsch: On Empathy: Obama's, Cheney's, and Ours
Lisa Haver: The End of Public Education in Philadelphia

Sunday May 13, 2012

Medea Benjamin: Don’t Send Me Roses for Mothers Day
David Sirota: Our Guns and Butter Economy
Heather Mallick: Mitt Romney’s Anti-Gay Bullying Has a Human Face Now
Ray McGovern: Honoring a ‘Terror War’ Architect
Yves Smith: Colleges as Merchants of Debt

Saturday May 12, 2012

Robert Crawford: No Secret Why CIA is Now Romanticizing 'Harsh Interrogation' Techniques
Erika Shaker: Don’t Kid Yourself: We All Pay for the Defunding of Higher Education
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: From Superheroes to Ordinary Heroes: Time for a New Story
Robert Meeropol: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: Is Justice Possible?
Christopher Brauchli: 'The Hunger Games': Murder As Amusement For Children
Caroline Arnold: We Live in Strange Times

Friday May 11, 2012

Owen Jones: Shock Doctrine Opponents Revolt: The Austerity Backlash Across Europe
Phyllis Bennis: We're Fighting in a War We Lost Before the War Began
Matt Taibbi: How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform
Mary Bottari: Caught on Tape: Walker's 'Divide and Conquer' Plan for a Single Party State
Jeff Blum: Pentagon Spending and the War on Children
Ellen Brown: Indentured Servitude for Seniors: Social Security Garnished for Student Debts
Global Spring Movement: The 'Global May Manifesto'
Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier: Don't Buy the Spin: How Cutting the Pentagon's Budget Could Boost the Economy
Greg Kaufmann: Republicans Define 'Heartlessness' with Latest Budget Proposals
Chris Woods: Why We Must Name All Drone Attack Victims
Pratap Chatterjee: Enbridge, Bank of America CEOs Targeted for Extreme Energy Impacts
Carl Gibson: FCC: Break Up the Big Media Monopoly
Edmund White: Now Obama's Come Out on Same-Sex Marriage, Maybe So Will I

Thursday May 10, 2012

James Hansen: Game Over for the Climate
Glenn Greenwald: Obama 'Evolves' on Marriage
Amy Davidson: Mitt Romney, Bully
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: Help Wanted: Strong Leadership on Climate Change, Starting Immediately
Robert Scheer: Hope and Hesitation in Obama’s Sudden Conversion
Amy Goodman: Holding Bank of America to Account
Amanda Marcotte: The Real Reason Romney is Struggling with Women Voters
David Morris: A Commons Mistake: Romney Confuses Public Roads with Private Pipelines
Michael T. Klare: Oil Wars on the Horizon
Tom Engelhardt: Imprisoning Protest
Dave Lindorff: The ‘Subsidized’ Loan Charade: US Government Profits from Struggling Students

Wednesday May 9, 2012

Roger Bybee: Ryan Shrugs: Overlooked GOP Budget Provision Would Fuel Offshoring With New Tax Incentives
John Feffer: Waiting for Copernicus: On the Slow-Death of Neoliberalism
Leeann Brown: Profits over Health: A Short History of the Pesticide Lobby
Jonathan Cook: Netanyahu Crowns Himself King of Israel
Robert Naiman: Against War and Austerity, Hollande is Right and Obama Should Agree
Ralph Nader: The Greediness of Brain Drain
Mary Bottari: ReMatch! Barrett to Face Walker in Historic Wisconsin Recall Election
Jim Hightower: Making Chemical Giants Happy at Our Expense
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: Welcome to the Knowledge Factory
Bruce Friedrich: Foie Gras: Evidence of a Cruel and Illegal Food System
Afghan Peace Volunteers: An Afghan Okinawa: There Will Be No US Troop Withdrawal in 2014
Shilpa Jain: Shikshantar: 'Transforming the Way We Live and Learn'
David Dayen: Activists Want DNC Convention Moved Out of Charlotte After Amendment One Passage
Renee Parsons: The Strategic Partnership Agreement and Pakistan
John Nichols: Wisconsin Progressives Easily Outpoll Scott Walker as Recall Race Is Set

Tuesday May 8, 2012

Noam Chomsky: A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age?
Linda McQuaig: Quebec Students Send a Message Against Austerity
Matt Taibbi: Austerity Can't Be Just For Regular People
Glenn Greenwald: US Attack Kills 5 Afghan Kids
John Atcheson: Arsonists Posing As Firemen: US Austerity and the Destruction of a Nation
Tom Engelhardt: Words From Beyond the Grave on a Darkening Future
Katrina vanden Heuvel: On Saving Good Journalism
Richard Falk: The Massive Palestinian Hunger Strike: Traveling below the Western Radar
Jay Walljasper: How Cities Can Learn to Ride Bikes
Shamus Cooke: One Town's Struggle to Fight Austerity
Eric Holt-Giménez: We Already Grow Enough Food for 10 Billion People… and Still Can’t End Hunger
Ali Abunimah: Slamming the Door to Justice on Palestinians
Jackie Smith and Patrick Rafail: Media Attention and the Political Impacts of Occupy Wall Street

Monday May 7, 2012

Ernest Callenbach: Epistle to the Ecotopians: Last Words to an America in Decline
Maria Margaronis: The Day After: Europe Rejects Austerity
Pat LaMarche: None of the Poor Children Matter
Dan Gillmor: Meanwhile, in the Land of the Free…
Paul Krugman: Those Revolting Europeans: How Dare the French and Greeks Reject a Failed Strategy!
Paul Buchheit: Why America's Rich People Are Better Than Everyone Else's
Jeff Cohen: Progressive Election Strategy and the Norman Solomon Campaign
Elizabeth Parisian: The Most Powerful Company You've Never Heard of: Meet CME Group
Glenn Greenwald: Surveillance State Democracy
Wenonah Hauter: How Private Bottling Companies Water-Down Education to Boost Profits
Harvey Wasserman: The Nuclear Industry Has Melted in Japan and France

Sunday May 6, 2012

Robert Freeman: What is Good Teaching? A Reflection
John Nichols: Wisconsin Turns Against Scott Walker
Jeanne Kay: The End of Austerity in Europe?
Allison Kilkenny: Occupy Our Homes Fights On as Media Ignores Foreclosure Plight
Eric Margolis: Osama’s Almost Letter To Me
Valerie Strauss: Major Groups Beg Congress to Rewrite NCLB

Saturday May 5, 2012

David Cay Johnston: Social Security Is Not Going Broke
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: To Avert Climate Change Disaster, Connecting the Dots Must Go Viral
Jim Hightower: Walmart: The Stench of Bentonville Spreads to Mexico -- and Back
Rebecca Kemble: Walking to NATO Protest in Chicago
Kristine Mattis: "Licensed to Ill"
Mark Weisbrot: Argentina's Model, an Alternative to Austerity
Pepe Escobar: The French Elections: Off With King Sarko's Head
Stephen Leahy: Standing Up for the Planet and the Future

Friday May 4, 2012

David Macaray: There Is a Plague Loose Upon the Land
Renee Parsons: NATO: A Twenty-First Century Failure
Sarah Anderson: Wall Street's Speed Demons: A 10-Point Primer
Robert Reich: The Jobs Stall Has Arrived
Paul Krugman: Plutocracy, Paralysis, Perplexity
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn: 40 Years after Kent State: The Shredding of Constitutional Liberty Still Goes On
Harvey Wasserman: Japan May Go Nuke-Free Tomorrow…but Will the US and China Follow?
The Nation Editors: End Student Debt!
Robert Naiman: John Brennan Should Tell the Whole Truth About the Drone Strikes
Jeff Biggers: Coal Train Uprisings

Thursday May 3, 2012

Kristen Breitweiser: Heights of Hypocrisy: The Universal Use of 9/11 in Politics
Bill McKibben: A Warmer World and Weather Gone Wild: The Most Important Story of Our Lives
Tom Hayden: Obama's Afghanistan Speech: A Guide for the Perplexed
Amy Goodman: The Real Mad Men: Following the Money Behind TV Political Ads
Laura Flanders: May Day 2012: Love in a Hopeless Place?
Naureen Shah: Drone Attacks and the Brennan Doctrine
Sam Pizzigati: A Rich Man's Message to America: You Need Us To Get Even Richer!
Martin Lukacs: Quebec Student Protests Mark 'Maple Spring' in Canada
Kari Hamerschlag: Subsidy Buffet for Agribiz, Table Scraps for Good Food
David Suzuki: Environmentalism Has Failed: On Adopting a Biocentric Viewpoint
Ray McGovern: Obama's Counter-Terrorism Adviser Befuddled Over the ‘Why’ of Terrorism
David Cole: 39 Ways to Limit Free Speech
Ramzy Baroud: Illegal Settlements Bonanza in West Bank

Wednesday May 2, 2012

Ralph Nader: The Ghost of Osama bin Laden
Diane Ravitch: The People Behind the Lawmakers Out to Destroy Public Education: A Primer
Vandana Shiva: Beyond Fossilized Paradigms: Futureconomics of Food
Cenk Uygur: Friendly Advice to CNN -- Change Everything
Kevin Horrigan: A Bad Case of PIISD: Private Insurance Induced Stress Disorder
Robert Naiman: What Did We Get for 381 US Dead Since the Death of bin Laden?
Kevin Martin and Michael Eisenscher: One Year After Bin Laden’s Death, Bring the Troops Home Now
Heather Mallick: Spain's Pain is No One's Gain
Ross Caputi: The Vicious Cycle of Jihadism and Patriotism
Jim Horn: NCLB Tutoring Fraud Part of Larger Pattern of Privateering

Tuesday May 1, 2012

Rebecca Solnit: American Dystopia: Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games
John Atcheson: Budgets: The Ultimate Lie-Detector
Michelle Chen: Freeing the University: Education Occupation on May Day
Mike David: Why Are We Striking? Or to Put it Another Way – What’s Wrong with the World?
Charles P. Pierce: Waterboards, Drones, and the Drones Who Love Them
Robert Reich: The Tinder-Box Society
George Monbiot: Imperialism Didn't End. These Days It's Known as International Law
Medea Benjamin: 'Shame on You': Why I Interrupted Obama Counter-Terrorism Adviser John Brennan
Gary Younge: Bin Laden's Death Has Had Zero Impact on America's Security
Jameel Jaffer: Further Reflections About John Brennan's Targeted Killing Speech
Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake!
David MacDonald: The Big Banks’ Big Secret in Canada
Arun Gupta: How to Rebrand Occupy
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