Views - July 2009
Thursday July 9, 2009
- Michael Schwartz: Colonizing Iraq
- Jane Hamsher: Why Can’t a Better Health Care Plan Be the Next Stimulus?
- Leonard Stern: Farewell to the Lawn
- John Pilger: Mourn on the 4th of July
- Senator Bernie Sanders: The Health Care Crisis: Letters From Vermont and America
- Susan Goering: Torture Must Be Punished
- Amy Goodman: Two Standards of Detention
- Danny Schechter: Are Our Markets Being Manipulated by 'Rogues' or Firms?
- Mark Weisbrot: US Leaves Honduras to Its fate
- Norman Solomon: Escalation Scam: Troops in Afghanistan
- John Nichols: CIA: We Lied to Congress
- Ronnie Cummins: The Organic Monopoly and the Myth of 'Natural' Foods: How Industry Giants Are Undermining the Organic Movement
Wednesday July 8, 2009
- Matthew Rothschild: Obama Slides Further Down Bush’s Hill on Indefinite Detention
- Peter Hart: Fearing the Future: The Corporate Press Makes the Case for Being Saved
- Beth Quinn: Bonkers in Alaska
- Glenn Greenwald: The Obama Justice System
- Clive Stafford Smith: Zero Tolerance for Torture
- Ray McGovern: Is Texas Harboring Torture Decider?
- Michael Parenti: The Honduras Coup: Is Obama Innocent?
- George Lakey: Seeing Obama as Norwegians See Him
- Anuradha Mittal: What Will the G8 Summit Accomplish: Feed the Hungry or Fuel Hunger?
- Christopher Cooper: Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose
- Derrick Jensen: Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change
Tuesday July 7, 2009
- James Handley: Back to Plan A: The Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax
- Tom Engelhardt: Are Afghan Lives Worth Anything?
- Andrew Mack: America, Russia, and a Nuclear-Free World
- Joseph L. Galloway: Reading an Obit with Great Pleasure
- Laura Flanders: Obama Hushes Healthcare Advocates
- Jim Naureckas: Before We 'Save' Journalism
- Bob Herbert: After the War Was Over
- Dean Baker: The Green Shoots are Dead
- Ladysmith Chronicle Editorial: Carbon Tax: Open Wallets Help Open Minds
- Joseph Stiglitz & Linda Bilmes : Adding Up the True Costs of Two Wars
- Gerald LeMelle: Straight Talk: Revealing the Real US Africa-Policy
- Derrick Z. Jackson: A Quagmire for Obama
- David Gibbs: Was Kosovo the Good War?
- Matthew Rothschild: Robert Gates, Meet Robert McNamara
- Teo Ballve: Obama Must Maintain Tough Stance Against Honduran Coup
- Karyn Strickler: Waxman-Markey Will Not Do: A 'Fell-Swoop' Moment Missed
- Tom Gallagher: US Takes the Russian Route to Afghanistan
- Ira Chernus: Hamas Getting on Board Peace Train
Monday July 6, 2009
- Leo Hickman: Article 31: A Well-Spring of Human Rights
- Robert Kuttner: 3 Reasons We Need an Economic Wake Up Call
- Howard Zinn: Untold Truths About the American Revolution
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Reset or Retread with Russia?
- June Purvis: Suffragette Hunger Strikes, 100 Years On
- Charles Kleekamp: Offshore Wind: Europe Surges, US Dawdles
- Glenn Greenwald: What if the Uighurs were Christian Rather than Muslim?
- R K Pachauri: The Climate Imperative
- Medea Benjamin: Hondurans Pour into the Streets Demanding Zelaya’s Return
- Desiree Fairooz: Resisting US Bases in Italy: No a la base si a la pace!
- Thom Hartmann: Fascism Coming to a Court Near You
- Chris Hedges: The Crooks Get Cash While the Poor Get Screwed
Sunday July 5, 2009
- Olga Bonfiglio: Happy Birthday America: How Exceptional Are You?
- Linda Milazzo: President Obama, My Response To Your Fourth of July Letter
- Robert Parry: Republicans, a Threat to the Republic?
- Martin Scorsese: Martin Scorsese on the Woodstock Festival
- Clancy Sigal: Britain's National Health Service: Simple, Sensible and Civilized
- Frank Rich: Bernie Madoff Is No John Dillinger
Saturday July 4, 2009
- John Hank Edson: Declare a Democratic Worldview
- Gail Collins: Sarah’s Straight Talk
- Glenn Greenwald: The NYT Calls Iranian Interrogation Tactics "Torture"
- Christopher Brauchli: The Art of Adultery
- Ruth Conniff: Jobs Report Sign of Deeper Economic Trouble
- Medea Benjamin: No Press Freedom in Post-Coup Honduras
Friday July 3, 2009
- Brian Beutler: Will Wal-Mart Cash In Support For Health Care Reform To Crush EFCA?
- Haroon Siddiqui: Iraq a Failed Imperialist Venture
- Andy Worthington: Why Trial Date For African Embassy Bombing Suspect Is Good News
- Mohammed J. Herzallah: Why Obama Should Fire General Dayton
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia
- Jeff Biggers: The Film Big Coal Does Not Want You to See
- Jeannette Wicks-Lim: How the Green Economy Can Promote Equal Opportunities for Women
- Rose Hayden-Smith: Make This July 4th Your Food Independence Day
- Rob Smart: Pro Food Is…
- Johann Hari: The Other 9/11 Returns to Haunt Latin America
- Leslie Savan: Destroying America to Save It
- Sasha Abramsky: California's IOU to the World
- Paul Krugman: That '30s Show
- Ramzy Baroud: Hamas’ Political Impasse: Between Principal and Necessity
- Michael Winship: My State Legislature's Crazier than Yours. Oh Yeah?
- Robert Gordon: Letter to Obama from a Dying Man
Thursday July 2, 2009
- John Nichols: Totalitarian Rightists Put Orwellian Spin on Honduras Coup
- Ralph Nader: Ignoring Propethic Predictors
- Bo Webb: Coal Country is Ground Zero in Climate Change Battle
- Chalmers Johnson: How to Deal with America's Empire of Bases
- Mark Morford: Confirmed: God is Slightly Gay
- Jeremy Scahill: Pakistanis Reject U.S. "Aid" Flights, As Lawsuit is Filed Against U.S. Drone Attacks
- Corporate Crime Reporter: Obama’s Financial Regulation Plan Doomed to Fail
- Benjamin Jealous: Saving Troy Davis
- Matthew Rothschild: Franken, the Fight, and the Wellstone Seat
- Andy Worthington: Release of the 'Holy Grail' of Torture Reports Delayed Again
- Daryl Hannah: Why I Was Arrested in Coal River, West Virginia
- Tom Klammer: Who Sits at the Health-Reform Table?
- Glenn Greenwald: The Still-Growing NPR 'Torture' Controversy
- Gary Kamiya: Californians Are Sinking Themselves
- Wendell Potter: Obama's False Friends of Health Reform
- Mark Weisbrot: Does US Lukewarm Response Bolster Honduran Coup?
- Medea Benjamin: Hondurans Call Out for Help from the International Community
- Robert C. Koehler: W is for Withdrawal
Wednesday July 1, 2009
- Dennis Kucinich: Troop Movement, Not Troop Withdrawal
- Andy Bichlbaum & Mike Bonanno: For Once, the Yes Men Say No
- Robert Dreyfuss: WTF: No More Troops in Afghanistan?
- Pat LaMarche: The Infidelity We Should Worry About
- Megan Garber: L’Affaire Froomkin, as Told by Froomkin
- Johann Hari: Homosexuality Exists Everywhere, So Too Should Equal Rights
- Robert Scheer: The Root of Madoff's Evil
- Amy Goodman: Undo the Coup
- Alberto Valiente Thoresen: Why President Zelaya's Actions in Honduras Were Legal and Constitutional
- Dean Baker: Banks Own the US Government
- Stephen Zunes: Iran's Do-It-Yourself Revolution
- Frida Berrigan: Weapons: Our #1 Export?
- Dahr Jamail: Refusing to Comply: The Tactics of Resistance in an All-Volunteer Military
- Jim Hightower: The Fourth of July is a Celebration of Agitation
- Norman Solomon: Abstract Quality Journalism for War
- Ann Wright: Breaking the Siege of Gaza: Governments Refuse While Citizens Act
- Robert Weissman: 150 Years