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Sunday February 12, 2012

Katherine Stewart: The New Anti-Science Assault on US Schools
Erik Hoffner: Punishing Protest, Policing Dissent: What is the Justice System For?
Michael Moore: A 75th Anniversary for the American Dream, a 25-Year Anniversary for Me
Gareth Porter: Army Officer's Leaked Report Rips Afghan War Success Story
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: An Unlikely Environmental Evangelist
Miranda Spencer: Natural Gas and the News: Fracking Messages ‘Brought to You by Our Sponsors’
Marian Wright Edelman: Still Hungry in America
Brendan Barrett: After the Nuclear Disaster, Japan Considers a Green Future

Saturday February 11, 2012

Roger Bybee: Obama/Catholic Contraception Controversy Boils Down to Workers’ Rights
Greg Kaufmann: Perfect Storm Threatens Long-Term Unemployed
Anna Witowska: Europe Has Every Right to Be Emotional About Fracking
Gwen Hinze and Maira Sutton: Fight for an Open Internet: Don’t Let the US Pressure Canada into Repeating The Same Mistakes
Gary Younge: Election 2012: The Return of 'Culture Wars'
Troy Headrick: Reading the Revolution
Frida Berrigan: Make February ‘Muste Month’
Eric Margolis: Stop the Hysteria Before War Erupts With Iran
Joseph Torres: The People’s Media
Christopher Brauchli: My Mistress -- My Daughter

Friday February 10, 2012

Mehdi Hasan: Intervention in Syria Won’t Work, So How Do We Stop Assad?
Carl Mirra: The NDAA and the Militarization of America
Glenn Greenwald: Israel, MEK and State Sponsor of Terror Groups
Richard Wolff: This is No Bailout for Main Street America
Mark Morford: How To Be Outraged in America
Harvey Wasserman: We May Yet Lose Tokyo… Not to Mention Alaska… and Now Georgia, Too
Rajesh Makwana: Global Justice and the Future of Hope
Daisy Khan: Islamophobia is America's Real Enemy
Renee Parsons: George Washington and the 2012 Presidential Campaign
David Morris: Where is Kropotkin When We Really Need Him?
David Macaray: Germany As Our Model

Thursday February 9, 2012

Amy Goodman: America’s Pro-Choice Majority Speaks Out
Ira Chernus: Israel vs. Iran: The Truth Slips Out
Peter Van Buren: In Washington, Fear the Silence, Not the Noise
Laura Flanders: Rotten Recovery for Women
Robert Scheer: Elections Are For Suckers
Robert C. Koehler: The Barbara Tree: On Imagining an Impossible Future
Mary Bottari: WI Senate Leader Working Overtime to Stave Off Recall
Ramzy Baroud: Attacking Iran Will Not Repeat History

Wednesday February 8, 2012

Tim Karr: Obama Joins the Democracy Sell Off
Robert Reich: The Sad Spectacle of Obama’s Super PAC
Wendell Potter: The Battle for Vermont's Single Payer System
Josh Fox: Anti-Fracking Campaigners: We Won’t Be Silenced
Stephen Zunes: Syrian Repression, the Chinese-Russian Veto, and U.S. Hypocrisy
Michelle Chen: Children of Immigrants Targeted by Tax Warfare in Congress
Mike Prokosch: 'Starve the Beast' -- The Pentagon
David Benjamin: 'Hey! You talkin’ to Mitt?': Mitt Romney's 'Robert DeNiro Moments'

Tuesday February 7, 2012

Ray McGovern: Obama’s Super-Bowl Fumble on Iran
Bill McKibben: The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard
Liz Barratt-Brown: It's All About the Framing: How Polls and the Media Misrepresent the Keystone XL [Tar Sands] [Oil] Pipeline
George Monbiot: The Right's Stupidity Spreads, Enabled by a Too-Polite Left
Ralph Nader: Can Democrats Landslide Republicans?
Michelle Chen: Two Years After Haiti's Earthquake, Women Are Still Shattered by Sexual Exploitation
Robert Reich: The Downward Mobility of the American Middle Class, and Why Mitt Romney Doesn’t Know
Yifat Susskind: Once Again, It’s Not Just Abortion: The Susan G. Komen Foundation and the Global Gag Rule
Paul Buchheit: We Are the 90% (Who Don't Own Stocks)
Danny Schechter: Is The Past The Future? The News Dissector Reports From and on Iran

Monday February 6, 2012

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Saul Alinsky, Who?
Bill Quigley: Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power
Richard Eskow: How to Score a Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Deal
Tom Engelhardt: Offshore Everywhere: How Drones, Special Operations Forces, and the U.S. Navy Plan to End National Sovereignty As We Know It
Vandana Shiva: The Seed Emergency: The Threat to Food and Democracy
Chris Hedges: The Cancer in Occupy
Daphne Wysham: Fracking Perils: A Dangerous Misstep on the Road to U.S. Energy Independence
Tom Gallagher: On Not Asking the 'Job Creators' the Tough Questions
Pat LaMarche: Roseanne Barr Joins Other Green Party Candidates

Sunday February 5, 2012

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: If You Want to Fight Cancer, Turn Those Pink Ribbons Green
Jim Horn: Wild Dreams: Anonymous, Arne Duncan, and High-Stakes Testing
Dave Zirin: Why Protests Should Be a Part of Super Bowl Sunday
Ellen Brown: Why the AGs Must Not Settle: Robo-signing Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Robert Parry: Return of Cheney’s One Percent Doctrine
David Korten: Beyond the Bubble Economy

Saturday February 4, 2012

Andrew Murray: An Attack on Iran Must be Stopped
Brooke Jarvis: Big News on Bank Transfers
Gareth Porter: US Leak on Israeli Attack Weakened a Warning to Netanyahu
Robert Fisk: An Attack on Tehran Would Be Madness. So Don't Rule It Out
David Morris: Is the Super Bowl Socialist?
Pepe Escobar: Exposed: The Arab Agenda in Syria
Robert Reich: America’s Jobs Deficit More Important than the Budget Deficit
Peter Hart: Iran and the Threat of Not Having Future Wars
Frida Berrigan: No Retirement for the Good: A Testimonial for (Uncle) Dan Berrigan
Glenn Greenwald: The Growing Iranian Military Behemoth
Christopher Brauchli: The Undercover Drone
Emil Guillermo: A War Anniversary the US Wishes to Forget

Friday February 3, 2012

Wendell Potter: Paying For Cancer Treatment for Children in America With a Car Wash, Bake Sale and Fish Fry
Yifat Susskind: Justice Delayed But Not Denied for Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala
Paul Buchheit: So Say the Rich: "Don't Blame Us For Having All the Money!"
Katha Pollitt: The Komen Foundation Pinkwashes Anti-choicers, Punks Planned Parenthood
Laura Flanders: The Deal That Saved Detroit (and Banned Strikes)
Greg Kaufmann: On Poverty: If It’s Sunday, It’s Myths in the Press
Jeff Biggers: If We Can Stop the Keystone Pipeline, We Can Stop Mountaintop Removal. Right?
Walden Bello: The Apple Connection
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: Reproductive Rights Redux
David Macaray: Indiana Lets It All Slip Away

Thursday February 2, 2012

Robert Scheer: The Democrats Who Unleashed Wall Street and Got Away With It
John Buell: Mitt’s Faulty History
Amy Goodman: Romney’s 1 Percent Nation Under God
Ted Morgan: Occupy Chicago in 2012, Not 1968
Michelle Chen: In Year of Uprisings, Reporters Brave Crackdowns from Wall St. to Tahrir Square
Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher: Keystone XL Opponents Need a Jobs Program
Robert C. Koehler: Transforming Troubled Schools
Russ Baker: Close Reading: The Saudis, a Twitter Investment, and the End of Arab Spring?
Dustin Beilke: Corporate Education Reformers Plot Next Steps at Secretive Meeting
Bruce Dixon: Presidential Hypocrisy on School Reform
Robert Lipsyte: Four Reasons to Watch the Super Bowl

Wednesday February 1, 2012

Jodi Jacobson: The Cancerous Politics and Ideology of the Susan G. Komen Foundation
Ray McGovern: Divining the Truth about Iran
Ralph Nader: Why Are US Health Costs So High? Follow the Bills
Navid Hassibi: Avoiding a War in the Gulf
William Pfaff: Focus on Iran and China Could Hasten American Decline
Adnan Al-Daini: The Arab Spring - Fears and Hopes
Simon Tisdall: NATO Prediction of Taliban Victory in Afghanistan Is Immensely Damaging
Emily Gilbert: Harper's Border Deal Expands the National Security State
Dave Lindorff: And We Actually Pay These Guys?: 'Intelligence' Chief Warns of Threat of Iran Attacks Inside US
Phil Rockstroh: A Journey To The End Of Empire: It Is Always Darkest Right Before It Goes Completely Black
John Nichols: Romney Still Can't Clear 50 Percent Hurdle
Joel S. Hirschhorn: No Matter Who Wins, Americans Lose
Josh Levy: A Push for Privacy in the Wake of the Carrier IQ Controversy
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