Views - December 2007
Monday December 31, 2007
- Editorial: Looking at America
- John Nichols: Edwards Wins the Mellencamp Primary
- Paul Krugman: The Great Divide
- Brooke Jarvis: Pirates on the Open Airwaves
- Bruce Friedrich: Why Not Give a Vegetarian Diet a Try for the New Year?
- Scott Ritter: The Five Iraqs
- Johann Hari: Bush Has Been Chasing The Wrong Nukes
- Shahid Mahmood: The Dream that was Benazir Bhutto
- Sean Gonsalves: Visions of Utopia or Eutopia?
- Medea Benjamin: Let's Toast to Ten Good Things About 2007
- Danny Schechter: Has Mao Become A Role Model For Our Media
- Tom Gallagher: Presidential Debates Don't Reflect American Views on Iraq
Sunday December 30, 2007
- Helen Thomas: Burning of Tapes Is Like Watergate All Over Again
- Ruben Navarrette Jr.: An Endorsement from the Wilderness
- Clint Talbott: Health Care Crises
- Glenn Greenwald: Oligarchical Decay
- Harvey Wasserman: Bringing Leonard Peltier to Iowa and New Hampshire
Saturday December 29, 2007
- Ralph Nader: The Next Step Not Taken
- Robert Fulford: Primary Lessons
- Christopher Brauchli: Air That Kills
- Bill McKibben: Gandhi: A Man for All Seasons
- Robert Fisk: They Don't Blame Al-Qa'ida. They Blame Musharraf.
Friday December 28, 2007
- Juan Cole: With Bhutto Gone, Does Bush Have a Plan B?
- Ellen Goodman: War and Peace with the Environment
- David Sirota: The Path to a National Popular Vote
- Rebecca Solnit: The Growth of Local Power Is a Bright Spot in Seven Bleak Years of Bush
- The Brattleboro Reformer Editorial: Law-Abiding Nation
- Tariq Ali: A Tragedy Born of Military Despotism and Anarchy
- Paul Krugman: Trouble with Trade
- David Michael Green: You're Damn Right I'm Angry. Why Isn't Everybody?
- Medea Benjamin: In Memory of Benazir Bhutto, Cut US Ties to Musharraf
- Heather Wokusch: Bush in Your Bedroom: Top Ten Worst Appointees for Reproductive Rights (So Far…)
Thursday December 27, 2007
- Ray McGovern: Creeping Fascism: Lessons From the Past
- Martha Rosenberg: Disgraced Former FDA Official Now Marketing Lilly Drug
- Margaret Krome: Social Glue Most Effective When It's in Positive Form
- Giles Fraser: A Very Lefty Festival: No Wonder The Christmas Story Sounds So Progressive, There's Nothing For The Right
- H.D.S. Greenway: Hope in Times of War
- Boston Globe Editorial: Sue The EPA, For Earth's Sake
- Bill Wickersham: Research Shows That War Isn't Caused by Instinct
- Sanho Tree: What Darwin Teaches About the Drug War
- Jon Wiener: What Hillary Hasn't Done in Foreign Policy
- John Nichols: Behind the Edwards Surge: Right Message at the Right Time
- Norman Solomon: Channeling Suze Orman
- Marjorie Cohn: The Torture Tape Cover-up: How High Does It Go?
- Bill Quigley: Locked Outside the Gates: Tasers, Pepper Spray, and Arrests in the Struggle for Affordable Housing in New Orleans
Wednesday December 26, 2007
- Joyce Marcel: The Goddess of Serendipity
- Seattle PI Editorial: Cluster Bombs: It's Still Not OK
- Philip Giraldi: CIA Torture and Other War Crimes
- John Nichols: "On the Side of the Rebel Jesus"
- Amy Goodman: The FCC's Christmas Gift to Big Media
Monday December 24, 2007
- Nina Rothschild Utne: I Won't Pay My Taxes If You Won't Pay Yours
- Bernice Lott: Psychologists Should Play No Role in Interrogations
- Chris Hedges: The Evangelical Rebellion
- Paul Krugman: State of the Unions
- Janet Redman: Bali's Business-As-Usual Mandate
- Cindy Sheehan: What's on Our Holiday Table
- Dewayne Wickham: Democrats Need to Jettison Lieberman As a Troublesome Traitor
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Who I Give To
- Ira Chernus: Faith and Politics: Rules of the Game
- Joseph Nevins: 'Illegal Aliens' in Our Midst: What Would Jesus Do?
- Nomi Prins: And Justice for All: We Must Reverse Our Zeal to Incarcerate
Sunday December 23, 2007
- Harold Meyerson: GOP: God's Own Party?
- John E. Bonine: Auto Emissions and Environmental Protection
- Glenn Greenwald: Mitt Romney's Pursuit of Tyrannical Power, Literally
- Tim Watkin: Tax Lunacy
- Stephen Zunes: The Israel Lobby Revisited
Saturday December 22, 2007
- Dave Lindorff: Global Warming Will Save America from the Right ... Eventually
- Mark Engler: Progressive Good Tidings of 2007
- Peter Dreier: Bush's Class Warfare
- Sasha Abramsky: The EPA, California, and Standard Bearers
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial: Spying on Us
- Ralph Nader: Big Oil's Profit and Plunder
- Christopher Brauchli: Paper vs. Toxins
Friday December 21, 2007
- Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine in Action in New Orleans
- Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus: On Global Warming
- Naomi Klein: Zapatista Code Red
- Gary Younge: In Europe, Where's the Hate?
- David Bromwich: The Vote for Endless War
- David Sirota: Fear, Loathing and the Crisis of Confidence
- Jason Blindauer, Luis Carlos Montalvan and William Ruehl: The DéjàVu of No Accountability
- Kate Allen: Guantánamo: No Closure Yet
- Paul Krugman: Blindly into the Bubble
- Helen Thomas: President Is Happy to Govern by Veto
- Steve Early: My New Religion
- David Michael Green: Everything I Need to Know About the Regressive Right I Learned In Junior High
- Glenn Greenwald: Reid and Company Target the True Enemy: 'Dodd and His Allies'
- Carolyn B. Maloney: US Suffers As Dollars Go to Iraq War
- Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon: Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2007
Thursday December 20, 2007
- Joyce Marcel: Your Private Little Bubble
- Michael Connor and Farnum Brown: Network Neutrality, Freedom of Expression at Risk
- Johann Hari: Cluster Bombs: An Evil We Must Ban Outright
- Peter Erlinder: Inherent Powers, Ignoble History Make New Idea Anything But Innocuous
- Clint Talbott: Constitutional Reprieve, With No Help from Reid
- Haroon Siddiqui: US Needs to Engage Tehran, Not Order It Around
- Jen Angel: The Fine Art of Raising a Ruckus
- Sally Kohn: A Community Values Christmas
- Chris Edelson: Are We Electing a President, or a Pastor in Chief?
- Michelle Goldberg: Mike Huckabee, Conservative Golem
- Gore Vidal: On the Democratic Debate Debacle
Wednesday December 19, 2007
- Pat LaMarche: Coal in the Stocking of Congress
- John Atlas and Peter Dreier: The Conservative Origins of the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis
- Elizabeth Holtzman: No Vice President Is Above the Law
- Josh Silver: The FCC Voted: Time to Raise Hell
- Louise Arbour: The UN's Death Blow
- Amy Goodman: Surviving a CIA 'Black Site'
- Joshua Muldavin: China's Not Alone in Environmental Crisis
- Thomas F. Schaller: Born of GOP's 'Southern Strategy'
- Yifat Susskind and Diana Duarte: New Year, No Resolutions on Climate Change
- Dave Zirin: George Mitchell's Drugs of Choice
- Norman Solomon: The Mad Corporate World of Glenn Beck
- Marjorie Cohn: Bush Still Spinning Nukes in Iran
Tuesday December 18, 2007
- Paul W. Lovinger: Hillary as Hawk
- Chris Durang: Lieberman Peddles the Old Iraq-9/11 Connection
- Soumaya Ghannoushi: Muslim Women: Damsels in Distress?
- Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader's Holiday Reading Recommendations
- US Senator Russ Feingold (WI): Statement in Opposition to the Flawed FISA Bill
- Michael Winship: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?
- Christopher D. Cook: A Food Bill for America's Cities
- Paul Rogat Loeb: The Phrase that Could Defeat Hillary
- Rebecca Solnit: The Secret Library of Hope
- Adil E. Shamoo: Winning or Losing in Iraq
- Pierre Tristam: Free-Market Wall Protects Insurers, Not Your Health
Monday December 17, 2007
- Sean Gonsalves: Our 'Performance-Enhancing' Culture
- Madeleine Bunting: Our Tendency to Persecute Others Is As Alive Today As in Medieval Times
- Craig and Marc Kielburger: Children in China Pay Price for Our Cheap Toys
- Wendy Rochman: What's a Teacher to Do?
- James Carroll: The Politics of Religion in America
- Paul Krugman: Big Table Fantasies
- George Monbiot: We've Been Suckered Again by the US. So Far the Bali Deal Is Worse than Kyoto
- Chris Hedges: Is Bush Stopped in His Tracks on Iran?
- Michael Pollan: Our Decrepit Food Factories
- Medea Benjamin: Pakistan's Emergency Rule Lifted, But GEO TV Still Banned
Saturday December 15, 2007
- Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger: Blood, Tears, Toys and NGOs
- Christopher Brauchli: Some Evolve and Some Don't
- Joseph L. Galloway: The Disgraceful Treatment of Our Veterans
- César Chelala: Strangling Gaza
- Christopher Cooper: And With True Love And Brotherhood Each Other Now Embrace
Friday December 14, 2007
- Jodie Evans: Don't Buy Bush's War
- Robert Wexler (D-FL), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI): A Case for Impeachment Hearings
- Harvey Wasserman: Will Congress Plunge Us (Again) into the Nuke Power Abyss?
- Andrew Greeley: US Intelligence Usually Wrong
- John W. Dean: The Investigations of the Destruction of CIA Torture Tapes
- Paul Krugman: After the Money's Gone
- Zia Mian: How Not to Handle Nuclear Security
- John Nichols: Clinton, Obama, Drugs and the Politics of Cynicism
- Neve Gordon and Erez Tzfadia: Privatising Zionism
- Naomi Wolf: What Is Probably in the Missing Tapes
- Tony Norman: Blessed Be the Muslim Peacemaker
- Nate Mezmer: The Long Overdue Mitchell Report
Thursday December 13, 2007
- Glenn Sugameli: Bush Plays Politics with Judicial Nominations
- Katrina Vanden Heuvel: On the Media
- Daphne Wysham: Hoodwinked in Bali on Carbon Credits
- Tony Juniper: The Bali Summit and American Sabotage
- Adrian Hamilton: The UN Has Come to Be Seen As a Tool of the West
- Mary Conroy: Let's Count the Ways We've Sacrificed for the Iraq War
- Tom Teepen: Honor, Dignity and the CIA
- Rosa Brooks: Torture's Blame Game
- Timothy Karr: Big Media Myopia at the FCC
- Ralph Nader: NYT's Gail Collins and the '2nd Tier' Presidential Candidates
- Robert C. Koehler: Crooked Timber
- Norman Solomon: The USA's Human Rights Daze
Wednesday December 12, 2007
- Ray McGovern: Are Americans Really 'Better Than That?'
- Glenn Greenwald: New Poll Reveals How Unrepresentative Neocon Jewish Groups Are
- Stacy Mitchell: You'd Better (Not) Shop Around
- Stephen Zunes: Hillary Clinton on Iraq
- Nadim Rouhana: Israel's Palestinians Speak Out
- Barbara Ehrenreich: Bonfire of the Disney Princesses
- Clint Talbott: 'We Do Not Torture'*
- Renata Rendón: Mexican Human Rights As Important As Drugs
- New York Times Editorial: Weapons of War at the Mall and Church
- Jimmy Carter: Subsidies' Harvest of Misery
- Pat LaMarche: One Man's Misjudgment, America's Sour Legacy
- Amy Goodman: From Oil Wars to Water Wars
- Robert Scheer: Waterboarding Our Democracy
Tuesday December 11, 2007
- Ross Gelbspan: Beyond the Point of No Return
- Greg Grandin: The Unholy Trinity: Death Squads, Disappearances, and Torture -- from Latin America to Iraq
- George Monbiot: The Real Answer to Climate Change Is to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground
- John Kenney: Lord, Deliver Us...
- Patrick Cockburn: Only One Thing Unites Iraq: Hatred of the US
- Peter Hart: Poll-Obsessed Media Focus On Strategy Over Substance
- Pierre Tristam: Spinning Yarns of 'Good News'
- John Buell: Democrats Choice: Corporate or Kucinich Center?
- Jerry Lanson: It's Time to Clean the House
- Dean Baker: The Teaser Freezer and the Housing Market Meltdown
- Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: The Reach of Complicity
- Cindy Sheehan: Once Upon a Time
- Brian Concannon Jr.: Disturbing the Peace, in Haiti and New Orleans
- Harvey Wasserman: Two Critical (But Tentative) Green Victories Hang in the Balance
Monday December 10, 2007
- Sean Gonsalves: Where's the 'Missing Link'?
- Brad Warthen: Can Anyone (Any Viable Candidate, That Is) Say 'Single-Payer'?
- Al Gore: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
- James Carroll: The US: All Power, No Influence
- Steve Kallick: The Pipeline Dream Lurking in Canada's Wild
- Craig Unger: A Failure of Intelligence
- John Nichols: Pelosi and Torture
- Paul Krugman: Henry Paulson's Priorities
- Mike Hudema: BP's Project in Alberta: A License to Wreak Environmental Havoc
- Nomi Prins: Home Sweet Gone
- Chris Hedges: Why We Resist
Sunday December 9, 2007
- Doug Pibel: Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
- Eric Margolis: Final Disgrace for Bush & Co.
- Steve Fraser: The Perfect Campaign Storm of 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: Democratic Complicity in Bush's Torture Regimen
- Elizabeth Sullivan: No hero at Home, Hotel Rwanda Protagonist is a Critic In Exile
Saturday December 8, 2007
- John Kaminski and Gary Higginbottom: Public Sentiment For Impeachment Expands
- Christopher Brauchli: Bad Presidents
- Mark LeVine and Salman Ahmed: Led Zeppelin: Force For Peace
- Aimee Allison and David Solnit: People Power: It's Time To Stop The War Ourselves
- David Korten: Only One Reason to Grant a Corporate Charter
- Jonathan Hafetz: Time for Meaningful Justice at Guantanamo
- Glenn Greenwald: "Missing" Evidence Is Familiar Bush Pattern
- Matthew Yglesias: Beyond Preemption: Front-running Democrats Miss The Point on Foreign Policy
- Scott Ritter: Calling on Congress to Stop a War
- Ray McGovern: White House & Press Spinning Iran's Centrifuges
- César Chelala: Now Is The Time For Serious Diplomacy With Iran
- Cindy Sheehan: What is Peace?
Friday December 7, 2007
- Michael T. Klare: Iraq and Climate Change
- Joseph Stiglitz: Carbon-Taxing the Rich
- Peter Dreier: NPR Debate Moderators All Wet on Sweatshop Labor
- Sean Penn: Piano Wire Puppeteers: The Constitution, Media & Dennis Kucinich
- Anne Miller: Top Candidates Wrong on Iran
- Juan Cole: Romney: Some Beliefs Are More Equal than Others
- David Sirota: Flying Coach on a Planetary Scale
- Medea Benjamin: Deported At Gunpoint by Pakistani Government
- Paul Krugman: Obama's Health Care Plan: The Mandate Muddle
- Tony Norman: Mitt Romney Steps into the Lion's Den
- David Michael Green: Getting Past 'Oh!': Why Americans Misunderestimate the Depravity of the President They Hate
- Barb Olson and Amal Othman: Summit's Goal: Perpetuate Repression of Palestinians
- David Domke and Kevin Coe: Mitt Romney's Case for Pastor in Chief
- Helen Thomas: Iran: Bush Loses Even More Credibility
- Jonathan Steele: The Surge Is a Sideshow. Only Total US Pullout Can Succeed
- Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater's Bu$ine$$
Thursday December 6, 2007
- Boston Globe Editorial: Why We Can't Trust Our Food
- Rosa Brooks: For Once, Let's Use Our Intelligence
- Khaled Diab: Survivors of Cluster Bombs: From Victims to Champions
- Marc Cooper: The CIA 'War' on Bush: The New Neocon Ploy
- Haroon Siddiqui: Speaking Truth to Power on Iran
- Jay Bookman: New Intel on Iran Offers a Chance to Rethink Policy
- Peter Rothberg: Media Ownership Fight Moves to Congress
- Jon Wiener: Arguing About Gitmo
- Joe Conason: Telling the Truth About Iran
- Joyce Marcel: The State of Journalism: We're Killin' All the Bees
- Allan Nairn: It Takes (Out) a Village: Illegitimate American Power
- Robert C. Koehler: Iraq's Million
- Jane Anne Morris: High Court Rulings Threaten State 'Labs of Democracy'
- Olga Bonfiglio: Seven Palestinian Women
- Robert S. Rivkin: Another Gun Massacre on America's Crazy Road
- Kathy Kelly: Traveling Light
- Judith Blau: Thinking Internationally - Acting Locally
Wednesday December 5, 2007
- Jerome Grossman: The Iranians Have Disappointed Us
- Ben Burkett: Peru Free Trade Agreement a Disaster for Farmers Everywhere
- Jeffrey Smith: The Hidden Truth About Genetically Modified Foods
- Carah Ong: New Intelligence Estimate Calls for Credible Diplomatic Option to Extend Iran's Nuclear Weapons Halt
- Joseph Gerson: Empire and Nuclear Weapons
- David S. Marshall: Detainees Deserve Habeas Corpus
- Bernard Crick: Immokalee Workers: Nobodies No Longer
- Mark Weisbrot: Venezuela Is Not Florida
- Martha Rosenberg: The Many Faces of Big Pharma's Disease Mongering
- Glen Ford: When NOT to Vote Black (At Least in Memphis)
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Hillary Clinton and the Ghosts of 2006
- Robert Scheer: It Turns Out Ahmadinejad Was the Truthful One
- Amy Goodman: The Dubious Mr. Dobbs
Tuesday December 4, 2007
- Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Hillary, Obama and Healthcare
- Bill Gallagher: Bush Eyes Iran with Evil Intent
- George Monbiot: This Crisis Demands a Reappraisal of Who We Are and What Progress Means
- Tom Andrews: Win Without War
- Marjorie Cohn: Guantanamo Detainees' Fate at Stake in Boumediene
- Juan Cole: Why Bush's Troop Surge Won't Save Iraq
- Glenn Greenwald: Our Serious Foreign Policy Geniuses Strike Again
- Walter Cronkite and David Krieger: Our Troops Must Leave Iraq
- Dmitri Iglitzin and Steven Hill: Businesses Impeding Free Speech Rights in the Workplace
- Ira Chernus: Liberal Hawk Says Iraq No Longer Matters
- Michael Winship: Rudy's Numbers Don't Add Up
- Barbara Ehrenreich: McMansions Meet the Mortgage Crisis
- Stephen Zunes: The Failure of Annapolis
- Pierre Tristam: Obama the Terrorist: The Vote-Baiting Smear Begins
Monday December 3, 2007
- Ray McGovern: Fact-Based Intelligence Prevails on Nukes and Iran
- Leigh Donaldson: America's Claim to Be Real Democracy for All Is Doubtful
- Ralph Nader: Cut the Corporate Welfare Umbilical Cord
- Beth Quinn: Readers Find Common Ground in Shared Despair
- Peter Heller: Japan's Whaling Shame
- Russell Mokhiber: Civics 101: USA v. Al Arian
- Sean Gonsalves: The Get-Tough-On-Crime Bug
- Jay Evensen: First, We Ditch No Child Left Behind
- Jonathan Hafetz: Give Detainees Their Day in Court
- Tom Engelhardt: Iraq As a Pentagon Construction Site
- Madeleine Bunting: Eat, Drink and Be Miserable: The True Cost of Our Addiction to Shopping
- Paul Krugman: Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis
- Bill Quigley: HUD Sends New Orleans Bulldozers and $400,000 Apartments for the Holidays
- Marjorie Cohn: Operation Iraqi Freedom Exposed: Bush Negotiates Permanent Presence in Iraq
Sunday December 2, 2007
- Carla Seaquist: The Conscientious Public
- Medea Benjamin: Vigil Outside a 'Sub-Jail' in Lahore
- Arsalan Iftikhar: Romney, a Victim of Bigotry, Turns On US Muslims
- Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith and Tim Costello: Labor Goes to Bali
- Simon Webster: The Seeds of Discontent
- Clay Evans: Endangered Truth: Exposing the Administration's Lies on Science
- Dilip Hiro: Musharraf Will Soldier On
Saturday December 1, 2007
- Peter Rothberg: World AIDS Day
- Elizabeth Pisani: AIDS Prevention and Gender: We Can't Wait for Equality
- Christopher Brauchli: Bush and the Despots He Admires
- Steve Rendall: Rudy Giuliani, Teflon Candidate
- Robert Weitzel: The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act: A Tutorial in Orwellian Newspeak
- Tom Hayden: How the Peace Movement Can Win: A Field Guide
- Tsela Barr, Judith Laitman and Haley Michaels Pollack: Jews Need to Speak Out on Abuse of Palestinians
- The Brattleboro Reformer Editorial: Really Supporting the Troops