Views - October 2007

Wednesday October 31, 2007

Antonia Zerbisias: Toss Your Briefs at the Guys with Briefcases
Wendy C. Wolf: The Facts of Life for Voters - It's Really About Important Life Decisions
Glenn Greenwald: Jay Rockefeller Channels Dick Cheney's Fear-Mongering to Urge Telecom Amnesty
Cindy Sheehan: Organized Money Vs. Organized People
John Nichols: Dem Debate: Edwards, Not Obama, Hits Clinton Hardest, Smartest
Amy Goodman: For Whom the Bell's Palsy Tolls
Jeremy Scahill: State to Blackwater: Nothing You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You in a Court of Law
Andrea Kavanagh: Risking Kids to Sell Fish
Pat LaMarche: Bringing Rumsfeld to Justice
Michael Schwartz: Why Did We Invade Iraq Anyway?
Robert Scheer: Cashing In on Terror
Yifat Susskind: Feed People, Not Cars: We Need a Moratorium on Agrofuels
Bill Quigley: Criminal Justice Meltdown in New Orleans?
Ray McGovern: Attacking Iran for Israel?

Tuesday October 30, 2007

Sean Gonsalves: Actually, It's 'E' Before 'I'
Ann Wright: Banned from Canada for War Protest
Michael Winship: 'The Weak Slat under the Bed of Democracy'
Abbas Edalat and Mehrnaz Shahabi: Turning Truth on Its Head
John Nichols: Al Gore: The Write-In Front-Runner
Marie Cocco: Public Relations Disaster Management
Derrick Z. Jackson: The Climate Change Censor
Pierre Tristam: Showtime for Justice Dept. Shams, with Press' Support
John Buell: The Immigration Blame Game
George Monbiot: Civilization Ends with a Shutdown of Human Concern. Are We There Already?
John Tirman: RIP Randy Forsberg: An Inspiration Against Nuclear Arms
Dean Baker: The Success of Amazon: Welfare As We Should Know It
Laura Flanders: Obama Be Bold: Break with a Backer on Torture...

Monday October 29, 2007

Marty Kaplan: No Blood for No Oil
Donna Marie-Artuso: Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
Johann Hari: While California Burns, Hurricane Giuliani Looms
Max Hastings: Iran's Leaders Need Enemies Like Bush, and at Every Turn He Obliges Them
Cynthia Tucker: Young Immigrants' Dreams Die in Senate
Michael Hochman and David Himmelstein: Say Yes to National Health Care
Tom Engelhardt: The Bureaucracy, the March, and the War
Ann Wright: Blood on Her Hands
Chris Hedges: The American Police State
James Carroll: Giuliani's Iron Fist
Gary Younge: Democrats Are Hocking Their Agenda As If They Were at a Fire Sale

Sunday October 28, 2007

Lisa Hajjar: Israel's Military Court System is the Model to Avoid
Alec Dubro: Right Resolution, Wrong Genocide
Olga Bonfiglio: Nukes and Nuns
Cindy Sheehan: The Morning After
Sarah Churchwell: Late arrivals at the Hotel Protest
FranÃ§ois Furstenberg: Bush's Dangerous Liaisons
Eric Margolis: Creation of a Virtually Independent Kurdish State in Northern Iraq Was Certain to Provoke Turkey
Sarah Wilson: We Cannot Allow Institutions Like the World Bank to Impose Ill-Conceived Carbon-Based Energy Reforms on Developing Nations

Saturday October 27, 2007

Laura Flanders: 40 Years On, a New Call to Resist?
John Pilger: The Politics of Hypocrisy
Derrick Z. Jackson: The Budget Lies that Haunt Us
Katha Pollitt: Women Will Get Abortions, Legal or Not, so Keep it Safe
Christopher Brauchli: Blackwater and 'Fiscal Responsibility'
Paige Doughty: Don't Rush It. Dig In: Defining Advice for the Possibilities Ahead
Ralph Nader: Rule of Law Under Attack

Friday October 26, 2007

Nick Turse: (Un)Fair Game: Targeting Iraqis as 'Big Game'
Marshall Helmberger: Wellstone's Voice Sadly Missed in a Spineless Congress
Heidi Sopinka: Spilling the Beans on Soy
Stephen Zunes: The United States and the Kurds: A Brief History
Matthew Yglesias: Disasters in the Making
Ana C. Perez: Bush Pursues Archaic Cuba Policy on Anniversary of Missile Crisis
Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Everybody Look What's Going Down
John Nichols: Bush, Cheney, Rice and Kucinich on Iran
Jared Genser and Meghan Barron: America Must Do More to End Myanmar Misery
Arianna Huffington: Ending the War: Time for the Dems to Play Hardball
Paul Krugman: A Catastrophe Foretold
David Michael Green: Just for the Sake of Argument, What Would It Look Like If a President Didn't Give a Damn About Terrorism?
Eric Haas: SCHIP and the Rigged Health Insurance Game
Clive Stafford Smith: The Case of the Contraband Underpants

Thursday October 25, 2007

Naomi Klein: The Business Press and Me: A Case of Unrequited Love
Mark Hertsgaard: If Gore Were Arrested...
Rosa Brooks: Straitjacket Bush
Peter Erlinder: Fallibility + Unchecked Power = Trouble
Pam Costain: Paul and Sheila Wellstone: Inspiring Us with Each Passing Year
Jay Bookman: Altered Words Not Enough to Alter Reality
John Buell: Is US Capitalism Headed for a Sea Change?
Michael Birmingham: What Happened in Nahr Al Bared?
Judith D. Schwartz: Tinderbox Nation
Howard Friel: The New York Times, Iran, and International Law
Megan Tady: Justice for Some
Cindy Sheehan: Pete, Nancy, George and WWIII
Kelly Bjorklund: Paul and Sheila Were Our Friends
Joyce Marcel: An Evening with Garry Trudeau
Tom Turnipseed: Creating Our Own Hell on Earth
Bill C. Davis: Coup de FOI

Wednesday October 24, 2007

Amy Goodman: Hold Politicians' Feet to the Fire
Andrew Greeley: Why Those Who Love America Are Feeling Brokenhearted
William A. Collins: A Great Nation, Poisoned by War
Tom Oliphant: The Trap That Is Iraq
Lynn Feinerman: What It Means to Get Out and March Against the Wars: October 27, 2007
Russell Mokhiber: Jackson Browne Backs Off Support for Pro-Nuke Obama
Thomas F. Schaller: Facing the Reality of America's Lost War (No, Not That One)
Joe Bageant: America's Good Burghers Living in Debtors' Prison
Simon Tisdall: Bush's Plan to Spend Away the Terror
Maureen Dowd: Madness as Method
Neil Macdonald: When is Torture not Torture? When The President Says It Isn't.
Juan Cole: The Collapse of Bush's Foreign Policy
Robert Scheer: War Costs Spiral out of Control
Shepherd Bliss: Bioneers Evolve and Gain Momentum

Tuesday October 23, 2007

Brian Obach: Organic Vision Marred by TV Dinners
Jesse Jackson: Punish Speculators, Aid Homeowners in Mortgage Crisis
Pierre Tristam: The Spies Who Shagged Your Fourth Amendment
Sean Gonsalves: What about the Babies?
Ralph Nader: The Imperial Presidency
Barbara Ehrenreich: It's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week!
Robert Goodland: How to Aid Destruction
Sam Daley-Harris: Microcredit Best Tool to Fight Poverty
Dean Baker: Hostage Taking Bankers and Subprime Borrowers
Danny Schechter: In the Age of the Superbugs: What Is the Remedy?

Monday October 22, 2007

Mariann Lloyd-Smith and Jo Immig: Homes Turned Into Toxic Zones
Madeleine Bunting: Scientists Have a New Way to Reshape Nature, But None Can Predict the Cost
Scott Ritter: On the Eve of Destruction
Stephen Zunes: US Denial of the Armenian Genocide
Holly Sklar: Billionaires Up, America Down
Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Pelosi's Stark Rebuke
Michael Tomasky: Is the US Just Tired of Bush, or Have Conservatives Had It?
Marjorie Cohn: Michael Mukasey: Another Loyal Bushie
Greg James: Self-Righteous Warmongers Phony Patriots
James Carroll: Forgotten Faces of War
Michael Parenti: Mother Teresa, John Paul II, and the Fast-Track Saints
Ira Chernus: New Pieces Changing the Iraq Puzzle

Sunday October 21, 2007

Antonia Zerbisias: Model Vanishing Act Echoes Cultural Famine
Sally Kohn: Whose Values?
Phillip Bannowsky: The Left Must Remain in the Conversation
Rick Wilson: Nobel Prize Sees What Market-Fundamentalists Don't
John Pilger: Who's Afraid of Michael Moore?
Glenn Greenwald: The False Beltway Script Never Changes
Tariq Ali: A Massacre Foretold
Richard Glover: Desire and the Green Cure

Saturday October 20, 2007

Editorial: With Democrats Like These...
Christopher Brauchli: Creationists Strike Abroad
Tim Watkin: Cruel Intentions
Kelly Toughill: Press Must Remain Proud and Free
Naomi Klein: Outsourcing Government
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial: Children in Prison: Locked-up forever
Robert Kuttner: Banking on a Bailout
Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker: The Costs of War for Oil
Tom Engelhardt: Bush's Pentagon Papers
Christopher Cooper: I Swear I Found The Key to the Universe

Friday October 19, 2007

John W. Dean: Why, Even If You Have Nothing To Hide, Government Surveillance Threatens Your Freedom
Conor Foley: In the Dock
John Nichols: An Assault on Media Diversity and Democracy
Edward Mast: Palestinians' Lives Invisible to Israelis
Mark Weisbrot: IMF Misses Epoch-Making Changes in the Global Economy
Rahul Mahajan: A Tale of Two Atrocities -- Blackwater and Haditha
Elizabeth Holtzman: Mukasey Should Be Confirmed Only If He Agrees to Appoint a Special Prosecutor
Olga Bonfiglio: 9/11 Fatigue
David Michael Green: Al Gore's Inaugural Address: January 20, 2009

Thursday October 18, 2007

Conn Hallinan: The Casualties of Iraq
Brian Sonntag: A Government That's Open, Accessible and Responsive
Mark Morford: Wi-Fi, the Death of Us All
Patt Morrison: 'No Fly' on Steroids
Amanda Robb: Abstinence 1, S-Chip 0
Robert B. Reich: Corporations Won't Lead the Way on Solving Global Warming
Norman Solomon: The United States of Violence
Harvey Wasserman: Nukes Are Back and So Are We

Wednesday October 17, 2007

Mark Danner: 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
Christopher Lisotta: Does the 'T' Stand Alone?
John Buell: Terrorism and the Forgotten Threat
Amy Goodman: Imagine Peace—A Ray of Light in Dark Times
Andrew Greeley: Will We Fall For War Vs. Iran?
RubÃ©n MartÃnez: Don't Fence Them In
12 Former Army Captains: The Real Iraq We Knew
Robert Scheer: Dissent from the Front Lines
Richard W. Behan: Democrats Live the Lie—to Their Peril and to the Nation's
Ellen R. Shaffer and Joe Brenner: The Ill Winds of Free Trade
Danny Schechter: Can the Foxes Save the Hen House?
Margaret Kimberley: Nancy Pelosi, Public Enemy Number One
Russell Mokhiber: What Do Brazil, Mexico, Russia and the USA Have in Common?
Cindy Sheehan: The 'Fix'

Tuesday October 16, 2007

Billy Bragg: How the Queen Charmed the Pants off Me: Confessions of an Old Leftie
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith: Watada's Double Jeopardy
Terry J. Allen: E-Wasting Away in China
William Hartung: A Peace Primary?
Norman Solomon: The Pro-War Undertow of the Blackwater Scandal
Yifat Susskind: World Food Day
Mike Gravel: Note to Obama and Edwards: Step-Up on Iran
Dean Baker: Pete Peterson Doesn't Need His Social Security
Ray McGovern: What Did Pelosi Know About NSA, and When Did She Know It?

Monday October 15, 2007

Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield: Gothic America
Ron Forthofer, Dick Williams and Gretchen Williams: Time to Ban Weaponized Uranium
Rajendra Pachauri: Climate Change Threatens the Fight to End Poverty
Bridget Kelly Ries and Margaret Kelly: Protecting Small-Scale Food Projects from the Ground Up
Gary Younge: The Land of Optimism Is in the Dumps, But Refuses to Accept How It Got There
Philip S. Golub: Sun Sets Early on the American Century
Paul Krugman: Gore Derangement Syndrome
James Carroll: Religion and Nation
Chris Hedges: Outsourcing Torture
Cindy Sheehan: Matthew 7:3 (Look It Up)

Sunday October 14, 2007

Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger: On the Climate Change Front
James D. Marston: The Texas Lesson: Bush's Global Warming Reduction Goals Won't Work
Frank Rich: The 'Good Germans' Among Us
Glenn Greenwald: The Beltway Establishment's Contempt For The Rule of Law
Rene Wadlow: World Food Day: No Day Off For Women
Johann Hari: The Price of Freedom: Naomi Klein's 'Shock Doctrine'

Saturday October 13, 2007

Mark Morford: The Whine of Voracious Liberals
Christopher Brauchli: Rudy and Propriety
Tom Engelhardt: A Future Only a Pentagon Planner Could Possibly Love
A Boston Globe Editorial: A Nobel For Truth
Jeff Cohen: Can Al Gore Be Trusted?
Bill Maher: American Flag Pins Are For Idiots
Cynthia Boaz: Some Thoughts About The True Miracle in The Andes.
Ralph Nader: Dodging Impeachment
Joe Brewer: Missing the Real Message in Nobel Prize?

Friday October 12, 2007

Thom Hartmann: Ann Coulter and Justice Antonin Scalia to Synagogue - Jews Are Safer with Christians in Charge
Naomi Wolf: American Tears
Pat Williams: Where Have You Gone, Paul Wellstone?
Jeremy Scahill: Iraqis Sue Blackwater for Baghdad Killings
Ryker Labbee: Myanmar: Guns Vs. Google
Laurence H. Ebersole: Imagine No More Guantanamos
Helen Thomas: US Torture Tactics Shame Us All
Tony Norman: Here Come da Judgment Day
Ellen Goodman: Tinkering with Death
David Michael Green: The Coming Progressive Era
Rosa MarÃa Pegueros: No More Naked Emperors
John Pierre Ameer: 1860, 1932, 2008

Thursday October 11, 2007

Susan Lenfestey: What If They Had a Peace Rally and (Almost) No One Came?
Maureen Dowd: Bomb, Bomb Iran
Suzanne Nelson: What's Really in Your Food?
Ruth Coniff: The Republican Debate: Who Needs the Constitution?
Barbara Ehrenreich: John Templeton's Universe
Seumas Milne: Claims of a Turning Point in Iraq Are Just Wishful Thinking
Rosa Brooks: Too Much Cloak and Swagger
Joyce Marcel: Tell the Damn Truth Already
Mark Weisbrot: Why the 'Free Trade' Agenda is Losing Steam
Nick Turse: Slum Fights
John Atcheson: Democrats: Slack-Jawed Yokels at a Three-Card Monte Festival
Joe Brewer: Who's Afraid of Sick Kids?
Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Five Years On...
Nancy Kricorian: It Takes A Village to Start World War III

Wednesday October 10, 2007

Pat LaMarche: What Larry Craig Has Done for Marriage and Values
David I. Steinberg: Myanmar, Minorities, and the Military
Amy Goodman: Time Is Running Out for Brother and Sister
Christine Daniels: Civil Rights for LGB . . . and T
Ted Rall: Scapegoating Blackwater
Thomas F. Schaller: Microphone Marines
Stephen Zunes: The Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq War Resolution: Why We Can't Forgive or Forget
Mark Steel: However Debased the Image, Che's Legend Lives On
Richard Silverstein: Land of the Free?
Scott Ritter: No Legitimate Justification for War with Iran
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: How the Military Can Stop an Iran Attack
Robert Scheer: The Martyring of Che Guevara

Tuesday October 9, 2007

Scott Ritter: Oil, Israel, and America: The Root Cause of the Crisis
Ned Resnikoff: Corporations Versus Democracy
John W. Warnock: Depleted Uranium: Enduring Risk
Nicholas von Hoffman: Bonehead U
Pierre Tristam: Outrunning 'The Kite Runner'
Paul Campos: Combating 'Noble Lies'
Jesse Jackson: It Saves Money and Makes Kids Healthy -- What's the Problem?
Bob Herbert: High-Stakes Flimflam
H.D.S. Greenway: A Tortured Stance on Torture
Tom Gilroy: How Pelosi Ended 'The War With Iraq'
Glenn Greenwald: What FISA Capitulations Are Democrats Planning Next?
Robert Stormer: Nuke Transportation Story Has Explosive Implications
Marjorie Cohn: Torture Endorsed, Torture Denied

Monday October 8, 2007

Paul Brown: Glacial Acceleration - A Sea of Troubles
Dante Zappala: The Not-So-Small Price of Iraq
Scott Ritter: The Big Lie: 'Iran Is a Threat'
Ira Chernus: Laughing and Crying with Thomas Friedman
Thom Hartmann: Columbus Day - As Rape Rules Africa and American Churches Embrace Violent 'Christian' Video Games
Beth Quinn: President Offers Noogies Instead of Health Care
Neal Peirce: Get Cool with Smart Growth
Amy Goodman: Chevron's Pipeline Is Regime's Lifeline
Steve Chapman: McCain Should Know the Truth about Medical Marijuana
James Carroll: A Troubling Turn in American History
Cynthia Tucker: The Damage Is Done
David A. Love: Academic McCarthyism Threatens Democracy

Sunday October 7, 2007

Noam Chomsky: US/Indo Nuclear Agreement: Derailing a Deal
Mario M. Cuomo: How Congress Forgot Its Own Strength
Norman Solomon: How Sputnik Contributed to the Marriage of Science and Weaponry
Robert Weiner: Orwell in 2007
Elizabeth Sullivan: How the Law Lost Out to Laws of Politics at the Justice Department
Peter Rothberg: Bush v. Children
John J. Sweeney and Mike Cerbo: Veto Funding for Children's Health Care? What Could You Be Thinking?
Rupert Cornwell: Out of America
Daniel Baer: The Immorality of Blackwater
James Bovard: Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners?
Cynthia Boaz and Shaazka Beyerle: Burma's Saffron Revolution: Goodbye, Generals.
Heather Wokusch: Pope Versus President

Saturday October 6, 2007

Johann Hari: The Last Green Taboo: Engineering the Planet
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Fair Trade
Brian Eno: This Ban Will Not Stop Us
Jeremy Scahill: The Scandal of Blackwater
Christopher Brauchli: A Panglossian View of Success
Ray McGovern: So Who's Afraid of the Israel Lobby?
Mark Weisbrot: Threats, Dirty Tricks, Fake Polls: Costa Rica Votes Under Duress on 'Free Trade'

Friday October 5, 2007

Mark Hertsgaard: The Making of a Climate Movement
Seumas Milne: The Fallout from an Attack on Iran Would Be Devastating
Helen Thomas: The Democrats Who Enable Bush
Clive Stafford Smith: Gitmo: America's Black Hole
John Bailey: Global Warming Requires Local Solutions
Margaret Krome: We Need Peacemakers to Counteract Warmongers
Paul Krugman: Conservatives Are Such Jokers
Andrew Greeley: Why Are There No War Crimes Trials?
Paige Doughty and Maureen Thompson: Unencumbered Travel: Environmental Impacts on the Border, Disposable Cups, and Old Band-Aids
Christopher Cooper: To Find Out Something Only Dead Men Know
Glenn Greenwald: The Latest Revelations of Lawbreaking, Torture and Extremism
David Michael Green: Murdering Butter with Guns
Rosa MarÃa Pegueros: 'The War'? I'm Sticking to 'Law and Order'
Jeff Cohen: Pundit Elite Enraptured by Hillary's 'Flawless Campaign'

Thursday October 4, 2007

Patt Morrison: Blackwater: Not in Our Backyards
Adrian Hamilton: Sanctions Won't Bring Down Burma's Government
Charlie Cray: Blackwatergate
Ramesh Thakur: US, Iran Play with Fire
James P. McGovern: The Iraq Money Pit
Matthew Yglesias: Who's Giving Money to Bill Clinton?
Leonard Pitts: A Thousand Ways to Disconnect, and Now a Hugging Ban, Too
David Lebedoff: New Quiz Should Leave Prospective Immigrants at a Loss for Words
Megan Tady: Recipe For Disaster
Rev. John Dear: The Martyrdom of Burma's Marching Monks
Peter F. Spalding: Myanmar: It is Time to Play the Olympics Card.
Cecilie Surasky: Dissenting at Your Own Risk
Norman Solomon: Sputnik, 50 Years Later: The Launch of Techno-Power
Cindy Sheehan: Imagine Peace

Wednesday October 3, 2007

Joyce Marcel: Demonize This!
Joan Chittister: Ahmadinejad's US Visit Was a Missed Opportunity for Us
Zia Mian: How Not to Win Friends and Influence People
John Frohnmayer: At the Heart of Who We Are As a People
Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Obama and Edwards Get It on Nukes
Maureen Dowd: Sinking in a Swamp Full of Blackwater
Mark Morford: Is It OK to Love Whole Foods?
Robert Scheer: The State Dept.'s Murderous Guardians
Jeff Leys: Our Bonhoeffer Moment
Robert Naiman and Susan Chenelle: Prove the Intensity of Anti-War Sentiment on October 27
Tom Engelhardt: We Count, They Don't
Sally Kohn: From Here to Junta: Stop Shopping At Wal-Mart, Save The UN And Help Burma

Tuesday October 2, 2007

Scott Horton: Beating the Drums for the Next War
Barbara Ehrenreich: The Clinton Campaign: Running on Ambien
Arianna Huffington: McCain and the Monks of Myanmar: Two Very Different Ways of Mixing Religion and Politics
Paul Campos: Delusion of Exceptionalism
Jesse Jackson: Jena 6 Case Highlights Racial Disparity in American Justice
George Monbiot: The Junta's Accomplices: Western Interests
Barbara F. Walter: You Can't Win with Civil Wars
Derrick Z. Jackson: Admiral Mullen Reports for Duty
Dean Baker: From WMDs to Social Security: More Bush Stories
Michael Winship: My Thermonuclear Coloring Book
Frida Berrigan: The War Resisters League Bestows Its Peace Award.
Marianne Schnall: Hillary, Condi, Aung Sun Suu Kyi and You
Laura Flanders: A Campaign to Love

Monday October 1, 2007

Paul Rogat Loeb: Pre-Empting the Next War
Gary Younge: This City Is Not Nearly As Liberal or Different As New Yorkers Believe
Craig and Marc Kielburger: Non-Violent Protest Has Gone Online
James Carroll: History and the Drumbeat of War
Sean Gonsalves: Prayer for the War-Weary
Ann Wright: More Bounties in Afghanistan and Pakistan Will Result in Detention of Innocent Civilians
Seymour M. Hersh: Shifting Targets
Johann Hari: President Giuliani? He'd be worse than Bush
Salle Engelhardt: Killing Is Okay. Dying, However, Is Not.
Norman Solomon: Political 'Science' and Truth of Consequences
Michael N. Nagler: Burma and the Press
Nick Turse: NYC, the NYPD, the RNC, and Me
Susan C. Strong: An 11th Hour Sequel
Deborah James and Medea Benjamin: Bolivia's Evo Morales Wins Hearts and Minds in US
Chris Hedges: Israel's Toy Soldiers