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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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