Views - November 2007
Friday November 30, 2007
- Terence Blacker: Britain's Brand of Fair-Weather Environmentalism
- John W. Dean: The Effort to Change California Election Law, Through an Initiative, to Help the GOP
- Tony Norman: Exploding Cells, Extreme Hubris
- The Seattle Times Editorial: A Kick in the Eye from the FCC
- Ari Berman: The War Comes Home to Iowa
- Naomi Klein: Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken
- Paul Krugman: Mandates and Mudslinging
- David Sirota: Blue Dog Democrats: Conservative, Or Just Plain Corrupt?
- Aimee Allison and David Solnit: It's Time to Stop the War Ourselves
- Jules Boykoff: 'Homegrown' Suppression of Dissent
- Cindy Sheehan: Come Together, Right Now!
- Michael Schwartz: Catch 22 in Iraq
- Robert C. Hinkley: Corporate Citizenship--Oxymoron or Necessity
Thursday November 29, 2007
- Joyce Marcel: It's Closing Time
- Marie Cocco: America's Gulag Goes Before the Court
- Ruth Conniff: Hillary's Defense Dough
- John Nichols: Out-Tancredoing Tancredo at GOP's Anti-Immigrant Debate
- Nicholas von Hoffman: Global Warming: The Rich Opt Out
- Adrian Hamilton: Annapolis's Sole Purpose Is to Serve the Bush Agenda
- Johann Hari: The Plot to Rig the 2008 US Election
- Arianna Huffington: Karl Rove's Shameless, Remorseless, Soulless Attempt to Rewrite History
- Capital Times Editorial: Coalition of the Unwilling
- Reese Erlich: US Wants to Have It Both Ways on Iranian Nonintervention Pact
- Michael Winship: Last Night's Viewing and Other Afflictions
- Harvey Wasserman: Will Congress Make Taxpayers Fund Terror-Target Nuke Reactors?
- Curt Guyette and W. Kim Heron: Bombs Away?
- Tom Gallagher: Kucinich for 'Realists'
- Robert C. Koehler: Trial by Fire Hose
- Sally Kohn: Are the Presidential Candidates in Touch with America?
Wednesday November 28, 2007
- Mark Morford: Black Friday Die Die Die
- Margaret Kimberley: Taser Nation
- Robert Scheer: Playing Roulette in Pakistan
- Amy Goodman: Have They No Shame?
- Aaron Glantz: The Soldier and the Student
- Bernie Sanders: Global Warming Is Reversible
- Conn Hallinan: The Algebra of Occupation
- Alan Weisman: Grooming the Next Ahmad Chalabi
- Frida Berrigan: Unfriendly Fire: Cluster Bombs Keep Killing
- Robert B. Reich: Why the Telecoms Shouldn't Get Immunity
- Pat LaMarche: Asking for Soldier's Money Back Unacceptable
- Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz: The Proliferation Game: How the World Helped Pakistan Build Its Bomb
- Medea Benjamin: Judges Are Heroes in Pakistan
- Ira Chernus: Spectacle at Annapolis Spurs Nuclear Danger
Tuesday November 27, 2007
- Medea Benjamin: This Revolution Will Not Be Televised
- Stephen Zunes: Broken Peace Process
- Ralph Nader: The Lost Art of Family Traditions
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Hillary and the Politics of Disappointment
- Jesse Jackson: Most Democratic Candidates are Ignoring African Americans
- Bill Gallagher: Saudis Pour Oil Money into Terror
- Paul Campos: Tom Tancredo, America's Worst Congressman
- John Buell: Education Has a Long Way to Go
- Christopher Lisotta: WGA: Picket and Click It
- Bob Herbert: Behind the Curtain
- DeWayne Wickham: McClellan Admission Evokes Memories of Nixon Era
- Scott Ross: FDR Proved Government Can Work in a Big Way
Monday November 26, 2007
- Dahr Jamail: Iraq Has Only Militants, No Civilians
- Sean Gonsalves: Let the Music Play
- Dave Zweifel: Why do 'Liberal Media' Go So Easy on Bush?
- Pat Elder: Military Recruiting Vans Draw Fire
- Alice Rothchild: The Judaization of East Jerusalem
- Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization
- Chris Hedges: America in the Time of Empire
- David A. Love: From Cradle to Jail in America
- Paul Krugman: Winter of Our Discontent
- Beth Quinn: Stunned by Lack of Outrage, Not Outrageous Acts
- John Atcheson: The High Price of Arrogance and the Bitter Harvest of Hypocrisy
Sunday November 25, 2007
- Haroon Siddiqui: Dose of Realism Would Help at Annapolis
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial: Radical Ethics: No Bucks From War
- Joel Brinkley: Winning Back The World
- David Morris: Why Close A Factory When It Could Be Used to Produce the Plug-In Truck of The Future?
- David Sirota: Was Perot right?
- Eric Margolis: Posing For A Peace Snap:
- Helen Thomas: US Friends and Foes Grabbing Power
- Linda Boyd: Impeachment: If Not Now, When?
- John Smith: Stem Cell Research, The Iraq War, False Victories and Deception
- Marjorie Cohn: Preventing the Impending War on Iran
- Joseph E. Stiglitz: Reckoning: The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush
- Christopher Brauchli: US Embassy in Baghdad: Incompetence & Corruption
Saturday November 24, 2007
- Scott Ritter: The Not-So-Sick Man of Europe Does Matter
- Robert Fisk: Darkness falls on the Middle East
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Hesitance on the Warming Front
- Tony Norman: At the White House, Truth is a Casualty
Friday November 23, 2007
- Paul Krugman: Banks Gone Wild
- Joseph L. Galloway: Good Riddance To Them All
- Paul Buchheit: Shut Up (About) Chavez
- Dilip Hiro: Time for Reality Check in Iran
- Olga Bonfiglio: Disintegration of the Bourgeois Brain
- David Michael Green: If Conservatism Is The Ideology of Freedom, I'm The Queen of England
- Ira Chernus: A Thanksgiving Day Ritual For 60's-Style Activists
- César Chelala: Iraqi Children Bear The Burden of An Uncalled-For War
Wednesday November 21, 2007
- Tony Newman and asha bandele: The War Comes Home: PTSD; Addiction; Homelessness and Suicide All Coming to a Neighborhood Near You!
- Sameer Dossani: Pakistan's Wounded Dictator
- Andi Zeisler: A Bitch for President
- Ted Rall: Sign the Pledge! Trim Bush from American History
- Amy Goodman: What Would Jesus Buy?
- J. Michael Bodi: Creationist Bugaboo Back Again
- Naomi Klein: Shocked in Death, Shocked in Life: More Than a Taser Story
- Gustavo Esteva: The Cancer of Growth
- Bill Maher: George Bush: Pardon All the Turkeys
- Laura Flanders: What Would Jesus Buy?
- Allan Nairn: Approach with Caution, Americans: Adam Smith Has a Gun
- Shepherd Bliss: The Approaching Holiday Shopping Spree As the US Economy Declines
- Corporate Crime Reporter: If Our Friends Do It, It Is Not Genocide
- John Nichols: Will McClellan Be John Dean to Bush's Richard Nixon?
Tuesday November 20, 2007
- Susan Lenfestey: Sending Our Cyber Waste Downstream
- Ralph Nader: Is Corporate Greenmania Real?
- Bill Gallagher: Bushes Thankful for Stupid Voters
- John Nichols: Hurricane Katrina Blows Apart New Orleans Politics
- Virginia Lockett: Excuse Me, Please, I'm Having a Bad Decade
- Norman Solomon: US Media Poodles
- Michael Winship: 'A Plank in Reason, Broke'
- George Monbiot: The Middle East Has Had a Secretive Nuclear Power in Its Midst for Years
- Jesse Jackson: Media Pundits Ignore Gathering Storm of Housing Crisis
- Courtney E. Martin: The Problem With Youth Activism
- Sean Gonsalves: Uncle Sam Fishin' for Seniors
- Marjorie Cohn: Musharraf Plays Bush for a Fool
Monday November 19, 2007
- Leigh Donaldson: America's Health-Care System Could Learn from Cuba
- Danny Schechter: As the Media Merges with Politics, Can We Resist 'Electotainment'?
- Harvey Wasserman: People Were Killed by Three Mile Island and Other Nuclear Disasters
- Bill Quigley: Twenty Thousand Protest at Ft. Benning: Eleven Face Federal Criminal Trials
- Madeleine Bunting: The EU is Bullying the World's Poor to Rush into a Dubious Deal on Trade
- Cynthia Tucker: US Excess Vs. Nature's Limits
- Ralph E. Shaffer and R. William Robinson: Here Come the Thought Police
- Allen E. Smith: The Road to Energy Conservation
- Michael Tomasky: Fox News: A Myth in the Unmaking
- Al Norman: Building SuperConsumers: Wal-Mart's Unsustainability Report
- Paul Krugman: Republicans and Race
- Will Durst: Nuclear Two-Step
- Sherry Boschert: Bring Back the Electric Car
- John Brown: The Bush Administration: Too Parochial for Empire
Sunday November 18, 2007
- James North: Confronting the Global Timber Barons
- Eric Margolis: Musharraf Feels the Heat
- Haroon Siddiqui: Invaders and Allies Ignore Iraq's Humanitarian Crisis
- Steve Duin: The Freezing of Love into Small Spaces
- Roberto Rodriguez: On the Verge of Democracy Collapse Disorder
Saturday November 17, 2007
- David E. Gumpert: Old McDonald Had a Farm...and He Got Arrested?
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial: Global Warming: China Says: Et Tu?
- Matthew Yglesias: Disservice Journalism at the Democratic Presidential Debates
- Thomas Nash: Cluster Bombs: Realism and Reality
- Jay Mandle: What is Wrong with Presidential Campaign Financing
- Sara K. Gould: Words Matter: What the McCain Debacle Reveals about Politics in '08
- Christopher Brauchli: Presidential Candidates, the Internet, and Very Important News
- Russell Mokhiber: California Nurses Bristle at AFL-CIO's Support of Illinois Health Plan
- Zack Knorr: Six Degrees of Exploitation: Anti-Sweatshop Activists Target Kevin Bacon
- Robert Naiman: Clinton Flogs Alleged Iranian Role in Iraq - Even More Than Bush
- David Benjamin: Strange Bedfellows -- George W. Bush & the New York Times
Friday November 16, 2007
- Sarah Anderson: Wal-Mart's New Greenwashing Report
- Tony Norman: The Gradual Abolition Act of 1780 and the Journey to Freedom?
- John W. Dean: Can Democrats Stop Bush and Cheney fom Depriving the Library of the Papers They Wish to Keep Secret?
- Laura Flanders: Pakistan vs. Punditry
- Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater's Brothers
- Matthew Duss: Naim Ateek: A History of Nonviolence
- Paul Krugman: Obama: Played for a Sucker
- Pete Letheby: On the Plains, There's Room Outside the Box
- Jonathan Steele: The Palestinian Path to Peace Does Not Go Via Annapolis
- Chris Cooper: Rattus Norvegicus, His Hindquarters, Heaven and Hell, Our Common Purpose, The State of Our Understanding Thus Far
- Olga Bonfiglio: A Review of America's 'Investment' in El Salvador
- Joan Wile: Grannies Urge Closing the US Bases on Foreign Soil
- Tom Engelhardt: How Dry We Are
- Anthony Gregory: The Man Who Bombed Hiroshima
Thursday November 15, 2007
- Cindy Sheehan: The Family That Slays Together
- Michel Shehadeh: Charges Dropped Against Last of 'Los Angeles Eight'
- Floyd J. McKay: Blackwater: Bulging Biceps Fueled by Ideological Purity
- Martha Rosenberg: Vioxx Settlement Is Classic Wall Street Denial: Bury the Losses and Say It Never Happened
- JoJo Farrell: US Media Bias and Recent Student Violence in Venezuela
- Juan Gonzalez: Democrats Cowed by GOP Scare Tactics on Immigrants
- Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater's Loopholes
- Haroon Siddiqui: Iraq Crisis' Untold Tales of Refugees
- William O. Beeman: Sanctions Against Iran Will Cure Nothing
- Richard Kim: Bridge Ladies Slammed for Anti-Bush Sign
- Adolph L. Reed Jr.: Sitting Out This Round of Candidate Charades
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Blurring Lines Between Real and Fake
Wednesday November 14, 2007
- Elizabeth Holtzman: Beyond Mukasey's Confirmation, White House Liability Issues Loom Large
- Joe Volk: The Story of Religion
- Ted Rall: Pakistan's Con Continues
- Christopher Hellman: Here's What America Really Spends on Security
- Laurie David and Gene Karpinski: Did Tim Russert Get the Memo?
- Hamish McRae: These Are Perilous Days for the US
- Christopher Hayes: The Coming Foreclosure Tsunami
- Richard Gwyn: Pessimistic Fuel Report Too Bright
- Amy Goodman: Studs Terkel: Curiosity Didn't Kill This Cat
- Robert Scheer: Bush Stands by His Dictator
- Joe Brewer: Beyond Extreme: The Illusion of a New Climate Centrism
- Peter Schaufele: My Father -- 30 Year Career U.S. Diplomat -- Left Out To Dry
- Shepherd Bliss: US Economy--Recession, Depression, or Collapse?
- Jeff Leys: Slip Sliding Away: House Votes on Iraq War Funding Today, November 14
- Jonathan Schell: The Road from Washington to Karachi to Nuclear Anarchy
- Robert Shetterly: Fundamentalism Moves Mountains
Tuesday November 13, 2007
- Ralph Nader: Golden Parachutes Instead of Accountability
- John Buell: Wealth Fails to Trickle Down to the Lower, Working Classes
- Bill Gallagher: Pelosi, Feinstein Betraying Dems
- Jesse Jackson: 2 Million Homeowners Are Too Many to Fail: We Need Action
- Charlie Cray and Christopher Hayes: Executive Excess on Capitol Hill
- Bob Herbert: Righting Reagan's Wrongs?
- Dean Baker: Outsourcing Healthcare
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Bush's Emotion Without Reflection
- Bill Christofferson: We Can Help End the War One Third Friday at a Time
- Desmond Tutu: The Doctrine of Revenge
- Pierre Tristam: Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy: Nothing Wagered, Nothing Learned
- Laura Flanders: Victory for Ehren Watada
Monday November 12, 2007
- Deb Derrick: The VA's Claim Dodge
- Danny Schechter: What the FCC Gives with One Hand, It Takes with the Other
- Linda Milazzo: The Courage of Kucinich in Pelosi's House of Wacks
- James Carroll: Primitive Impulses of War
- Leo Hickman: Save Our Seas
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial: Wiretapping: Think Carefully
- Stephen Zunes: Pakistan's Dictatorships and the United States
- John Nichols: 11th Hour, 11th Day, 11th Month
- Robert Dreyfuss: Who's the Enemy?
- Chris Hedges: At the Mercy of the Military
- Jay Bookman: No Real Control, But We Could Get a Clue
Sunday November 11, 2007
- Frank Rich: The Coup at Home
- Haroon Siddiqui: Picking Through Pakistan's Clichés
- Glenn Greenwald: Dianne Feinstein - Bush's Key Ally in The Senate - To Support Telecom Amnesty
- Erwin Chemerinsky: Break Through Bush Administration's Executive Privilege Roadblock
- Robert Fisk: Holocaust Denial in The White House
- Eric Margolis: Who Will Be The First To Blink?
- Craig and Kathie Jamison Cote: Our Son Cannot Win an Iraqi Civil War
- Olga Bonfiglio: An Armistice Day Legacy
- Donald Cohen: The Market Made Me Do It: Health Insurance That Disappears When You Need It
- Bill C. Davis: WGA Strike: In The Beginning There Was The Word
Saturday November 10, 2007
- Virginia Lockett: Have It Both Ways: Perspective From a Progressive Ex-Pat
- Clint Talbot: Support The Troops? Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
- Norman Mailer: The White Man Unburdened
- Tom Hayden: An Appeal to Barack Obama
- Sean Gonsalves: Testing For Intelligence(s)
- Naomi Klein: Latin America's Shock Resistance
- John Nichols: Shame on Clinton, Obama, Dodd & Biden for Skipping AG Vote
- Bill McKibben: The Unsung Solution
- Christopher Brauchli: Cremation For Free?
- Ralph Nader: The Price of Oil
Friday November 9, 2007
- Amartya Sen: We Can Best Stop Terror by Civil, Not Military, Means
- Susan Faludi: They Always Play the Gender Card
- Imran Khan: The Battle for Pakistan
- David Michael Green: A Beautiful Corpse: Sixteen Sure Signs That the Regressive Right Is Over
- John Nichols: 75 Years Ago FDR Read the Results Right, and Took a Left Turn
- Jeremy Scahill: All Cowboys Out Now
- Eugene Robinson: Driving the Masses Mad
- Daniel Smith: Paying for the Wars' Wounded
- Tony Norman: Congress' Majority Wimps
- Paul Krugman: Health Care Excuses
- Glenn Greenwald: What Happened to the Senate's '60-Vote Requirement'?
- Russell Mokhiber: AFL-CIO Leaders Work to Derail Rank and File Drive for Single Payer
- Cindy Sheehan: Faith and War
Thursday November 8, 2007
- Ali Eteraz: Pakistan, Prince of Denmark
- Editorial: Move to Impeach Not Another Distraction
- Jon Soltz: Yet Another Alarm Sounded on Homeless Vets and PTSD. But, Who's Listening?
- Joliange Wright: Environmentalism With a Social Conscience
- Johann Hari: Stop This Strategy of Strangulation
- Rosa Brooks: Torture: The New Abortion
- Jeff Halper: Whose Road Map?
- David Antoon: The Cancer from Within
- Avi Lewis: Think Twice Before Imitating the Irish Miracle
- Marcus Raskin and Robert Spero: Bush's Dangerous 14 Months--And Ours
Wednesday November 7, 2007
- Corporate Crime Reporter: Democracy, Corpocracy, Kleptocracy
- Lynne K. Varner: Please, Please, Please, FCC
- Daniel M. Smith: Lies Make the War Go Round
- Pat LaMarche: Count Votes and Mark a Real Holiday
- Ted Rall: The Time-to-Make-the-Doughnuts Candidate
- Lewis Diuguid: Building Peace While Picking Up the Pieces
- Michael Winship: Why We Want Our Words' Worth
- Joe Brewer: Climate and the Psychology of Loss
- Michael Schwalbe: Common Wealth and the 'Entirely Self-Made' Myth
- John Dear: The Legacy of Franz Jagerstatter
- Joyce Marcel: Hillary and the Rat
- Bonnie Raitt and Harvey Wasserman: No Government Subsidies for New Nuclear Plants
- Robert Scheer: Our Man in Pakistan
- Amy Goodman: A Vote for Mukasey Is a Vote for Torture
Tuesday November 6, 2007
- Pierre Tristam: Tibbets Did Duty in Dropping Bomb, But Then Reveled in It
- Jesse Jackson: Trade Pacts Have Paved Way for Toxic Toys
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Democratic Majority Meaningless Once Again
- Frida Berrigan: How Much is Enough?
- John Laughland: On the Path to Barbarity
- The Guardian/UK: The Western Appetite for Biofuels Is Causing Starvation in the Poor World
- James Moore: Freedom's on the March!!!!!
- William Greider: Citigroup: Too Big to Fail?
- Haroon Siddiqui: Musharraf Plays His Hand Craftily
- Marie Cocco: Smearing Code Pink
- James Carroll: For Turkey, the War Is Real
- Tom Hayden: Rating the Presidential Candidates on Iraq, Another Agonizing Year Ahead
- Guy Reel: The Party of Chumps
- Keith Olbermann: The Presidency Is Now a Criminal Conspiracy
- Twenty-four Former Intelligence and National Security Officials: Former US Intelligence Officers: On Mukasey and Waterboarding
- Ira Chernus: US Hypocrisy, and Worse, on Pakistan Democracy
- Glenn W. Smith: Slippery Scribes Shaft Striking Screenwriters
Monday November 5, 2007
- Adrian Boutureira: The Hidden Costs of Free Trade
- Neal Peirce: Fire, Water and Denial
- John Nichols: Mukasey Is (Much) Worse Than Gonzales
- Paul Krugman: Wobbled by Wealth?
- Cynthia Tucker: Interrogation Abuses Undercut Our Moral Authority in Eyes of World
- Madeleine Bunting: The Iraq War Has Become a Disaster That We Have Chosen to Forget
- Michael Tomasky: This Is One Dangerous Man: It's George Bush with Brains
- Asma Jahangir: Musharraf Has Lost His Marbles and Is Targeting Progressives
- Bianca Jagger: Cluster Bombs and Teddy Bears
- Jennifer Matesa: Blood Diamonds and Sweatshop Shirts
- Tom Engelhardt: Advice to a Young Builder in Tough Times
- Naomi Wolf: A 'Paper Coup,' and Blackwater Eyes Midtown Manhattan
- Mary Trotochaud: Cluster Bombs in Iraq: The Deadly Footprint
Sunday November 4, 2007
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Serving Up Fear du Jour
- Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Waterboarding Justice
- Rami G. Khouri: Karen Hughes' Two-Year Halloween
- Haroon Siddiqui: Humanitarian Tsunami Sweeping Across Iraq
- Tom Hayden: San Francisco No Longer Sweat-Free
- Tariq Ali: Pakistan Takes Yet Another Step into the Dark Night
- Michael Pollan: Weed It and Reap
- Frank Rich: Noun + Verb + 9/11 + Iran = Democrats' Defeat?
- Joseph L. Galloway: Attacking Iran Makes No Sense
- César Chelala: Indigenous Rights Champion Fights On
- Ian Williams: DéjàVu All Over Again
Saturday November 3, 2007
- Tim Rutten: Regarding Media
- Barbara Ehrenreich: The Gap: New Frontiers in Child Abuse
- Robert Fisk: Warning, This Film Could Make You Very Angry
- Josh Freedman Berthoud: Friends and Enemies
- Editorial: Snowflakes and Scare-Mongering
- Amitabh Pal: Hiroshima Bomber Unrepentant till Death
- Ray McGovern: Iraq's Early Vietnam Moment
- Christopher Brauchli: 'The Tongue Can No Man Tame'
- John Brown: Out to Pasture
Friday November 2, 2007
- Robert Shetterly: Mountaintop Removal and Kitty Genovese
- Tony Norman: The Tortured Logic of the Torturers
- Arianna Huffington: Unhinged: Giuliani Buys Into His Own Testosterone-Fueled Myth
- Naomi Klein: Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen
- Helen Thomas: Giuliani Follows Hard-Liners' Script
- Paul Krugman: Prostates and Prejudices
- John Nichols: Frances Moore Lappé's Recipe for Radical Renewal
- Robert Naiman: Deescalate with Iran: Free the Irbil Five
- Arnie Alpert: Clinton Must Speak Clearly on Nukes
- John Dean: Political Processes Matter: Although They Are Often Ignored by American News Media, a New British Import Has Addressed the Issue Directly
- Chris Cooper: It Don't Look Like They're Here to Deliver the Mail
- Medea Benjamin: George Bush and CODEPINK: Women for Peace
- David Haven Blake: Prophetic Face in the Crowd
Thursday November 1, 2007
- Mike Davis: San Diego Builds a Statue to an Arsonist
- Shahid Masood: Where Wrongs Make Right
- John Nichols: Kucinich's Challenge
- Seumas Milne: The Siege of Gaza Is Going to Lead to a Violent Escalation
- Haroon Siddiqui: Iraq's Little-Known Humanitarian Crisis
- Arthur J. Magida: Disconnect Between Anti-War Activism Then and Now
- David Bromwich: The Power of Inspection and the Claim of Impeachment
- Stacy Bannerman: War IS a Women's Issue, Senator Clinton
- Paul Waldman: Tim Russert: Stop the Inanity
- Rosa Brooks: Mukasey's Black Magic on Torture
- Karen Dugdale: The Untold Stories
- Simon Tisdall: Facing Defeat in Afghanistan