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
- François 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?
- Rubén 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