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Wednesday May 22, 2013

Dave Zirin: Rahm Emanuel’s Zombie Pigs vs. Chicago’s Angry Birds
Ralph Nader: Flood of Exposés, But Mass Movement Remains Stalled
Sandra Steingraber: The Discontent of Our Winter
Michelle Chen: Farmworkers Fight Wendy’s, the ‘Last Holdout’ on Fair Food
Jeff Bachman: President Obama Loves Leaks, Despises Whistleblowers
Matt Taibbi: Deja Vu on the Hill: Wall Street Lobbyists Roll Back Finance Reform, Again
Richard Eskow: What’s Wrong With Jamie Dimon is What’s Wrong With America
Gabe Rottman: Justice Department's Overreaching on Leaks Threatens Freedom of the Press
Beverly Bell and Tory Field: From Field to Table: Rights for Workers in the Food Supply Chain

Tuesday May 21, 2013

Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford: How America Became a Third World Country (2013-2023)
Dave Johnson: The Latest Lie: IRS Targeted Conservatives
Judith Schwartz: For Climate Solution, Look to the Ground
Kathy Kelly: Afghan Voices Tell the Tales of Human Lives Cut Short by US War
Sharon Stapel: America has a Fundamental Problem with People Who Hate Gay People
Matthew Rothschild: Think the IRS Was Bad? Try the Spying on Occupy Activists
Cindy Cohn and Trevor Timm: 5 Overlooked Lessons From the AP Subpoena Controversy and Other Leak Investigations
Lori Wallach: A 'Legislative Laxative': On Fast-Tracking, Democracy, and Free Trade
Murtaza Hussain: An Increasingly Unchecked Surveillance State
Seth Freed Wessler: Homeowners to Eric Holder: Hold Banks Accountable
Husain Abdulla: In Bahrain, An Uprising Unabated

Monday May 20, 2013

Rebecca Solnit: What Comes After Hope
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Enabling Greed Makes US Sick
Paul Buchheit: The Globalization of Hypocrisy
Glenn Greenwald: Obama DOJ Formally Accuses Journalist in Leak Case of Committing Crimes
Allison Kilkenny: The Chicago Board of Education Votes This Week Whether to Shut Down Fifty-four Schools
Chris Hedges: Rise Up or Die
Robert Kuttner: Needed: A Mass Movement for College Debt Relief
Jane Mayer: A Word from Our Sponsor: Public Television’s Attempts to Placate David Koch

Sunday May 19, 2013

Laura Finley: Letting Murderers Go Free
Jim Lobe: A Nuclear Iran Would Unlikely Tilt Regional Power Balance
Robert Reich: The IRS and the Real Scandal
Ray McGovern: Boston Suspect’s Writing on the Wall
Sarah Lazare: Nerds, Jocks & Conscientious Objectors: The Hidden World of Israel’s High School War Resisters
John Nichols: The Peculiar Politics of Karl Rove's 'Outrage' Over the IRS Flap

Saturday May 18, 2013

Frida Berrigan: Inoculating Our Children Against Fear and Hatred
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: Obama's Arctic Strategy Sets Off a Climate Time Bomb
Anna Lappé and Christina Bronsing: Wendy's, What Are You Waiting For?: Calling on the Fast Food Giant to Stand up For Farmworkers
Marian Wright Edelman: How Children Transformed America
Glen Ford: Radicalized = Weaponized = Kill at Will
Subhankar Banerjee: Keep the Arctic Cold
Christopher Brauchli: Bangladesh and Texas: A Study in Contrasts
Matthew Rothschild: House GOP: No Free Lunch for 200,000 Poor Kids

Friday May 17, 2013

Glenn Greenwald: Washington Gets Explicit: Its 'War on Terror' is Permanent
Ronnie Cummins: Genetically Modified Democracy: Monsanto and Congress Move to Stomp on Your Rights
Jill Richardson: Superbugs: Those Uninvited Guests at Your Barbecue
Christopher Cook: Farm Bill Fiasco: What Next for the Food Movement?
Deborah Burger: Hospitals Should be Care Providers not Loan Sharks
Greg Kaufmann: Fighting Poverty Through Wall Street Accountability
Kevin Gosztola: The Obama Administration’s Propensity for Chilling News Sources
Harvey Wasserman: San Onofre at the No Nukes Brink
Jake Olzen: How the Catonsville Nine Survived on Film
Thomas Ponniah: Venezuela's New Labour Law: The Best Mother's Day Gift

Thursday May 16, 2013

Ralph Nader: Patriotic Yardsticks for Unpatriotic Giant Corporations
Andy Kroll: Billionaires Unchained: The New Pay-As-You-Go Landscape of American “Democracy”
Laura Flanders: New Era for Labor: Creative Defiance from the Factory to the Street
Bryan Farrell: As New CO2 Milestone Is Reached, Climate Science and Action Grow Inseparable
John R. MacArthur: In Boston, An Exercise in Intimidation
Amy Goodman: The Three Heroines of Guatemala: The Judge, the Attorney General and the Nobel Peace Laureate
Jonathan Franklin: Is Obama the New Nixon?
Robert C. Koehler: Know-Nothing Security: No One is Safe
Ajamu Baraka: US Guilty of Genocide in Guatemala Should be Real Headline
Melody Ermachild Chavis: The Quiet Disaster: European Bees in Trouble
Michelle Chen: A More Democratic Foxconn? No One Told the Workers
David Reingold: Granting Corporate America a License to Kill
Richard Eskow: Dear Simpson-Bowles Austerity Gang: Go Home (and Take the Sequester With You)

Wednesday May 15, 2013

Glenn Greenwald: The Major Sea Change in Media Discussions of Obama and Civil Liberties
Fran Quigley: How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists
Stephen Zunes: Despite Horrific Repression, the U.S. Should Stay Out of Syria
Sadhbh Walshe: Many US Women Can't Afford To Do What Angelina Jolie Did
Jesse Hagopian: Seattle Test Boycott Victory: One Step in the Struggle for Quality Education
Jeff Bryant: America’s Education Spring: A Growing Revolt Against ‘Reform’ Mandates
Arn Pearson: The IRS Should Do More, Not Less, Scrutinizing of Political Groups
MADRE: An Open Letter to the Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala
David Vine: Baseworld Profiteering: Where Has All The Money Gone?
John Atcheson: The Fire Next Time: Media Advice for Reporting this Year’s Climate Change Stories

Tuesday May 14, 2013

Glenn Greenwald: Justice Department's Pursuit of AP's Phone Records Is Both Extreme and Dangerous
Will Bunch: The Day the Obama Administration Went All Nixon on Us
Wenonah Hauter: Monsanto and Other GM Firms are Winning in the US – and Globally
Frances Beinecke: As Arctic Council Gathers, We Must Push for Ocean Conservation
Michael Macleod-Ball and Gabe Rottman: IRS Abuses Power in Targeting Tea Party
Ari Berman: IRS Fallout: The Real Scandal Is Secret Money Influencing US Elections
Melanie Fitzpatrick: 400 PPM: We’ve Never Been Here Before
Ray McGovern: The Deepening Shame of Guantanamo
Lauren Gazzola: 'Ag-Gagging': Are We Kept in the Dark, or Willfully Blind When It Comes to Animal Cruelty?
Charles P. Pierce: Eric Holder Must Go
Cindy Cohn and Kurt Opsahl: Justice Department Subpoena of AP Journalists Shows Need to Protect Calling Records
Laura Flanders: FEMA Denies Aid To Housing Co-Ops after Sandy
Ronnie Cummins and Zack Kaldveer: Food, Farms, Forests, and Fracking: Connecting the Dots
Richard Miller: Tax Havens Are Entrenching Poverty in Developing Countries
Harold Meyerson: The Upside Down Economy

Monday May 13, 2013

Paul Buchheit: Atlas Shrugged Off Taxes
Chris Hedges: Murder Is Our National Sport
Jenny Brown and Stephanie Seguin: We Won't Stop Until the Morning After Pill Is Available to All, Regardless of Age
Nick Turse: Nuclear Terror in the Middle East
Richard Schiffman: Grassroots Campaigns Can Stop Fracking One Town at a Time
Raffi Cavoukian: Three Reasons To Reform Social Media Before it Re-Forms Us
John Nichols: Congressmen Seek Constitutional Guarantee of the Right to Vote
Philip Weiss: Boston Globe’s Groundbreaking salute to BDS Will Bring ‘Fierce Criticism,’ US Campaign says
Matt Bruenig: Is a Universal Basic Income Really Utopian?
John Aravosis: When 3 Gunmen Shoot 19 at a Mother’s Day Parade, It’s Not “Terrorism”
Lauren Carasik: As the UN Evades Responsibility for the Cholera Epidemic, Haitians Continue to Suffer

Sunday May 12, 2013

Robert Parry: Ronald Reagan: Accessory to Genocide
Marie Myung-Ok Lee: Occupy Mother's Day
Clive Stafford Smith: Will Pakistan Finally Stand Up Against Illegal US Drone Attacks?
Frida Berrigan: Liz McAlister’s Fearsome Mom-ness
Suzanne York: Koalas: The Canary in Australia's Coal Mine?
César Chelala: How a Bad Environment Affects Children's Health

Saturday May 11, 2013

Glenn Greenwald: Debating Bill Maher on Muslims, Islam and US Foreign Policy
Eric Margolis: A Welcome Pause in the Craziness Over Syria
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Don’t Shoot – Organize!
Michelle Chen: As Death Toll in Bangladesh Collapse Climbs Past 1,000, Another Factory Fire Claims 8 Lives
Christopher Brauchli: Corporations, Humans and Taxes

Friday May 10, 2013

George Monbiot: 400 Parts Per Million: Climate Milestone is a Moment of Symbolic Significance on Road of Idiocy
Jodie Evans and Charles Davis: Happy Mothers Day: From Guantanamo to Yemen
James Hansen: Norway, Canada, the United States and the Tar Sands
Ralph Nader: Global Pandemics: Not If, But When
Marjorie Cohn: Death is Preferable to Life at Obama’s Guantanamo
Greg Kaufmann: Twelve Things You Can Do To Fight Poverty Now
Valerie Strauss: Bill Gates’s $5 Biillion Plan to Videotape America’s Teachers
Richard Eskow: Tick-Tick-Tick: Do 60 Minutes And America’s Billionaires Want Us to Beg?
Victoria Brownworth: How San Francisco Pride Has Failed Bradley Manning
Bob Dreyfuss: Against Connecting Terrorist 'Dots'
Alexander Main: Obama and the Militarization of the “Drug War” in Mexico and Central America
Bridgette Dunlap: Defending the Right to Bodily Integrity: The Reproductive Justice Movement and Force-Feeding at Guantanamo

Thursday May 9, 2013

Yifat Susskind: How Not to End the War in Syria
Norman Solomon: Obama in Plunderland: Down the Corporate Rabbit Hole
Ruth Conniff: How School Privatizers Buy State-Level Elections
David Morris: Hidden Power Grab Stops Communities From Deciding Their Own Futures
Robert C. Koehler: Indefinite Enemies and the Inhumanity of Our 'War on Terror'
Kristen Beifus: Why the TransPacific Partnership is a Scary Big (Trade) Deal
Wen Stephenson: Thoreau's Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry
Anna Lappé: Not Lovin' It: Moms and McDonalds Don't Mix
Amy Goodman: Addressing the Epidemic of Military Sexual Assault
Peter Van Buren: Homeland Insecurity: Seven Years, Untold Dollars to Silence One Man

Wednesday May 8, 2013

Lee Fang: GOP Immigration Amendments Boost Drones, Incarceration and Criminalization
Jill Richardson: Hollow Bee Hives May Threaten Our Lives Too
Wenonah Hauter: Starved of Democracy and the Fight Against Corporate 'Foodopoly'
Greg Mitchell: History Repeats? 'NYT' Boosts, But McClatchy Questions, Claims of Syria's Use of Chemicals
Richard Falk: Syria, US Wars of Aggression, and the Wrong 'Red Lines'
Diane Wilson: Why I Am on a Hunger Strike to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay Prison
Matthew Harwood: President Obama, Don’t Let the CIA Control the Torture Narrative
Jim Hightower: Corporate Cowards Divert Shareholder Funds into “Dark Money”
Ross Murray: Michelle Rhee's Education Reform Group Slammed for Honoring 'Don't Say Gay' Lawmaker
Beverly Bell: Haitian Sweatshop Workers Speak: Sub-Poverty Wages and Sexual Coercion
Jamilah King: Assata Shakur and a Brief History of the FBI’s Most Wanted Lists

Tuesday May 7, 2013

Tom Engelhardt: And Then There Was One: Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth
Jim Lobe: The New York Time's Bill Keller and Mindlessness over Syria
Katrina vanden Heuvel: 'No' to US Military Action in Syria
Glenn Greenwald: Barbara Lee and Dick Durbin's 'Nobody-Could-Have-Known' Defense
Murtaza Hussain: Iraq, Syria and the Death of the Modern Middle East
Laura Flanders: On Ammonium Nitrate Big Coal is Guilty Too
Kevin Gosztola: Secret Hearing in Bradley Manning Court Martial a Preview of What is to Come During Trial
Dean Baker: Budget Austerity Proved a Joke, But the US and Europe Won't Change Course
Robert Scheer: Obama Did It For the Money
David Climenhaga: Terror of 'Terrorism' and the 2nd Amendment: Whatever Became of the Indomitable American Spirit?
John Atcheson: On 400 PPM, Mass Stupidity, and the Suicidal Language of Climate Lemmings
Gary Younge: So, Why Are We So Loyal to a President Who is Not Loyal to Us?

Monday May 6, 2013

Cindy Cohn and Trevor Timm: After the Tragedy in Boston, More Government Surveillance is Not the Answer
Sam Pizzigati: Austerity Will Leave Us Crying ’96 Tears’
Ann Neumann: Guantánamo Is Not an Anomaly — Prisoners in the US Are Force-Fed Every Day
Glenn Greenwald: Israeli Bombing of Syria and Moral Relativism
Dean Baker: The Secret of the Weak Recovery: We Had a F***ing Housing Bubble
Michael Jasny: Death and Denial
Pat LaMarche: UN to Review Whether the FBI Killed the Kids at Kent State
Berklee Lowrey-Evans: Images from the Amazon at the Belo Monte Protest
Tim Karr: Internet Uncertainty
Amanda Marcotte: Time To Demand All Birth Control Pills Be Sold Over-The-Counter

Sunday May 5, 2013

Mijin Cha: Big Oil's (Taxpayer Subsidized) Big Profits
Stephen Zunes: Syria: US Involvement Could Make Things Even Worse
Michael Shank and Matt Southworth: Authorization for Use of Military Force: A Blank Check for War without End
Jim Naureckas: Killing Civilians Is a More Popular Than You'd Think–Especially Among Pundits
David Bromwich: America's Words of Peace and Acts of War
Glenn Greenwald: Are All Telephone Calls Recorded and Accessible to the US Government?
Kathleen Schuler: Cadmium, Mercury and Phthalates—Oh My!
Philip Barnes: Environmental Ignorance Is Economic Bliss
Eric Margolis: Bin Laden's Movement Is Thriving

Saturday May 4, 2013

Frida Berrigan: A Place Where It’s Easier To Be Good
Lawrence Wilkerson and Akbar Ahmed: Dealing Remote-Control Drone Death, the US Has Lost Its Moral Compass
Kate Sinding: Huge Triumph for NY Towns Fighting Fracking's Risks
Julie Hollar: When Bigotry Is 'Balance'
David Roberts: What Would ‘Wartime Mobilization’ to Fight Climate Change Look Like?
Richard Eskow: Mushroom Clouds Over Texas, 500 Deaths in Bangladesh — THAT’S Why We Need Unions
John Nichols: Austerity Is 'Suffocating the Economy'
Christopher Brauchli: McCain et al vs. The Constitution
Michelle Chen: That Unemployment Form Might Violate Your Civil Rights
Megan Erickson: The Strike That Didn’t Change New York

Friday May 3, 2013

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Sandy Hook Promise: There Will Be Change
Phyllis Bennis: Syria's Chemical Weapons...Iraq Redux?
Robert C. Koehler: A Floor of Decency
Stephen Zunes: The US and Chemical Weapons: No Leg to Stand On
Ruth Conniff: Move Over, Koch Brothers: A Bigger, Darker Rightwing Funder Is Out to Destroy Public Education
The Nation Editors: Obama: Walk Your Talk on Guantánamo
Randy Shaw: Celebrating Pete Seeger, America’s Troubadour, on his 94th Birthday
Lauren Carasik: More Blood Soaked Clothing in Bangladesh
Peter Pearsall: Rights, Not Riots: What Seattle’s May Day Was Really All About
Chip Pitts: Privacy Rights and Corporate Accountability in the Age of "Big Data"
Noam Chomsky: Boston and Beyond: Terrorism at Home and Abroad

Thursday May 2, 2013

Naomi Klein: Time for Big Green to Go Fossil Free
Amy Davidson: A Hundred Hungry Men at Guantánamo
Sadhbh Walshe: Loaded: How Gun Manufacturers and the NRA Capitalize on Tragedy
Ellen Cantarow: The Downwinders: Fracking Ourselves to Death in America
Amy Goodman: Pregnant Anti-War Soldier Sent to Prison
Peter Hart: Syria and the "Red Line" Nonsense
Laura Carlsen: US Efforts to Block Democracy in Venezuela Harm Hemispheric Relations
Ramzy Baroud: Boston, Brazil and Islam: Irrational Rhetoric, Illegal Wars
Juan Cole: Why Not To Intervene in Syria
Richard Eskow: Repeal the Sequester – And the Insanity Behind It
Trevor Timm and Mark Jaycox: Questions the Senate Should Ask At Today's Briefing on the Aaron Swartz Prosecution

Wednesday May 1, 2013

Norman Solomon: Don’t Vent, Organize—And “Primary” a Democrat Near You
Jodi Jacobson: Administration Again Fails on Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception
Robert Scheer: Google’s Spymasters Are Now Worried About Your Secrets
Javier Rojo: Build a Nation, Not a Fence
Valerie Strauss: Extreme Common Core Rhetoric Clouds Serious Debate
Joseph Nevins: From the I-Word to the I-Deed
Glenn Greenwald: A Young Yemeni Writer on the Impact and Morality of Drone-Bombing His Country
Jessica Valenti: Hey, FDA: Drop the Plan B Age Restriction
Oscar Chacon and Amy Shannon: Immigration Reform in 2013 and Beyond
Tom Engelhardt: Eduardo Galeano: A Storyteller for the Planet
Jim Hightower: George W Bush's $250 Million Can of Whitewash
Laura Finley: International Workers Day: A Reminder of US Progress on Workers' Rights
Greg Kaufmann: Banks on the Run and the Homeowners Underwater
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