Views - April 2007
Monday April 30, 2007
- Phil Worden: Has Bush Committed Impeachable Acts?
- Larry Johnson et al: An Open Letter to George Tenet
- Arianna Huffington: Why Didn't George Tenet Just Resign?
- Jay Bookman: Rumbles in Military Hint at Change
- Robert Jensen: Anti-Capitalism in Five Minutes or Less
- Ray McGovern: Sorry They've Been So Mean To You, George
- Bruce Friedrich: Leather: Dead Skin, Environmental Nightmare
- Jeremy Scahill: Who Will Stop the U.S. Shadow Army in Iraq?
- Susan Deans: Censoring Science: Climate-change Info Redacted
- Gary Younge: The Iraq War Is Over. It Is The Moment for Democrats To Show Real Leadership
- Niall Ferguson: What War?
- Dan Hamburg: Why There Was No Exit Plan
Monday April 23, 2007
- Don Fitz: Consume Like There's No Tomorrow
- Ray McGovern: Levin Gives Cheney Reason To Smirk
- Jerry Lanson: They Call This The News?
- Danny Schechter: Reading Between The Lines to Find The Bottom Line
- Harvey Wasserman: Corporate Accountability is this Earth Day's Inconvenient Truth
- Chris Hedges: Jesus 'Love Bombs' You
- Jorge Robledo: The FTA Between Colombia and the US Cannot be Salvaged
- Beth Quinn: So Girls, Did You Notice You Were Raped Last Week?
- Jay Bookman: Fervent Faith in Fair Tax Defies Reason
- Jane Goodall: Life Is Hanging By A Thread
Saturday April 21, 2007
- Margaret Carlson: Hand Gonzales, Wolfowitz Pink Slips
- Matthew Rothschild: Gonzales Slips on the Stand
- E.O. Wilson: Acting Now To Save Life On Earth
- The Boston Globe: Privatizing and Profiteering
- Robert Naiman: What Price for an "Advisory" Timetable? Bar an Unauthorized Attack on Iran
- Peter Rothberg: The Kids are Alright (Part 2)
- Christopher Brauchli: The Apology People
- Brattleboro Reformer Editorial: Leading by Example
Friday April 20, 2007
- Teresa Stack: Disseminate Information, Protect Democracy
- Stephen Lendman: New US Postal Rates Undermine Small Publications
- John Seager: Effective Way To Fight Global Warming
- Public Service Is Not All About Glory
- Polly Toynbee: We Need To Focus On This Week's Deaths In Iraq - They Belong To Us
- Matthew Rothschild: Neanderthal Supreme Court Decision on Abortion
- James Hansen: Why We Can't Wait
- Paul Krugman: The Plot Against Medicare
- Sarah Olson: Another Soldier AWOL Rather Than Deploying to Iraq
- David Swanson: Putting the Gone in Gonzales?
- Norman Solomon: Bowing Down to Our Own Violence
- David Michael Green: Dark of Heartness, Part II
- Amy F. Isaacs: Labor Law Reform is Essential to Reviving America's Beleaguered Middle-Class
Thursday April 19, 2007
- Isaiah J. Poole: Sallie Mae's Menage À Trois
- Clint Talbot: Sudan's 'Last Chance'
- Ruth Conniff: Obama on Our Violent Culture
- Matthew Rothschild: When "Good Politics" Gets Lethal:
- John Nichols: Impeach Cheney First?
- Karen Houppert: Curbing Abortion Rights
- Marie Cocco: Politics Aside, Guns Still Kill
- Ellen Goodman: Governing the Womb
- Joan Vennochi: The White House Truth Gap
- Brita Sydhoff: Why We Must Tell Truth About Torture
- Louis Freedberg: The Human Face of Death
- Diane Farsetta: Onward, Free Market Soldiers:
- Philip Kovacs: Democracy and Education
- Sarah Stapleton-Gray: A Culture of Life?
- Harvey Wasserman: Is "Green" Tom Friedman The New Eco-Orwell of Solartopia?
Wednesday April 18, 2007
- Michael Colby: Antiwar Sit-Ins: A Personal Perspective
- William Spady: Federal Education Reform Policy:
- John Podesta: Officials Owe Americans, Congress The Truth
- Paul Buchheit: Arming Ourselves as the World Burns
- Ted Nace: Time to Do the Math in Iraq
- Dean Baker: Containing CEO Pay: A Case of Government Efficiency
- Peter Singer: Give Us a Smile
- Robert Scheer: Heck of a Job, Wolfie
- Tom Engelhardt: Words to Die For
- Bonnie Erbe: Now Has It Been Enough Gun Violence?
- Floyd J. McKay: Congress Should Return Public Records To The Public
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Target Global Warming, Target Exxon
- Kerry Kennedy: Farmworkers Bring Down the Golden Arches
- Floyd Rudmin: 32 Senseless Deaths: A Chance for Empathy, Change of Heart, and Change of Course
- Amy Goodman: Patriot's Day: Stop the Violence
- Kirk W. Johnson: Hounded by Insurgents, Abandoned by Us
Tuesday April 17, 2007
- Danny Schechter: A Student Crisis
- Howard Friel: On Finkelstein and Dershowitz
- Robert Naiman: Is the U.S. Government Planning for Withdrawal from Iraq?
- Sean Gonsalves: The Expert and Public Opinion Gap
- Harvey Wasserman: This Earth Day, Beat King CONG & Sign Up For Solartopia!
- Brooke Shelby Biggs: Life in Solitary Confinement: 12,775 Days Alone
- Robert W. McChesney: Post Office to the First Amendment: Drop Dead
- Michael Winship: Va. Tech: People Kill People -- With Guns
- Clint Talbott: More Campus Carnage: Analysis Begins Too Soon After Tragedy
- Rupert Cornwell: Will This Terrible Day In Virginia Be Enough to Dent America's Love Affair With Guns?
- John R. MacArthur: The Vast Power of the Saudi Lobby
- Eugene Robinson: One Word Describes These Bush Cronies: Unbelievable
- Katrina Vanden Huevel: Beyond Thoughts and Prayers
- John Nichols: "A Tragedy... of Monumental Proportions."
- Bill McKibben: Green Activists Stepped It Up
- Joshua T. Lozman and Lainie Rutkow: Time for America To Stand Up For Children's Rights
Monday April 16, 2007
- Ralph Nader: Outrageous Words, Outrageous Deeds
- Gore Vidal: Hail and Farewell: The End of the American Empire
- James Carroll: New Thinking To Save The Earth
- Greg McPherson: Leafy, Green and Good
- Neal Peirce: Pedal Pushers Making Headway
- Dilip Hiro: Sadr's Rising Star to Eclipse Bush's Surge?
- Camillo “Mac†Bica: Collateral Damage: A Military Euphemism for Murder
- George Lakoff and Bruce Budner: Progressive Taxation: Some Hidden Truths
Sunday April 15, 2007
- A Boston Globe Editorial: East Timor Struggles On
- Jonathan Curiel: Vets Are Home and Homeless
- Haroon Siddiqui: Let Canada Lead Peace Drive in Afghanistan
- Elizabeth DiNovella: The War of Ideas
- Benjamin R. Barber: Overselling Capitalism with Consumerism
- Frank Rich: Everybody Hates Don Imus
- Al Meyerhoff: Science For Sale at UC Berkeley -- Also Known As 'UCBP'
- H. Candace Gorman: Kangaroo Tribunals Give a Kafkaesque Edge to Guantanamo
- Eric Margolis: Afghanistan Fight Will Only Get Tougher
- Rupert Cornwell: Out of America
- Stéphane Dion: Time To Put Big Industry On a Carbon Diet
- Stephen Soldz: Psychology and Coercive Interrogations in Historical Perspective
Saturday April 14, 2007
- Dr. César Chelala: The Growing Toll of Iraqi Civilian Deaths
- William Greider: The Establishment Rethinks Globalization
- Neil Clark: Silence of The Hawks
- Ann McFeatters: Need For 'Czar' Shows Chaos of War
- Marjorie Cohn: U.S. Attorneys and Voting Rights
- David Swanson: Record of Iraq War Lies to Air April 25 on PBS
- Christopher Brauchli: Their Arms and Their Man: Musharraf Gives and Takes For Bush-Cheney
Friday April 13, 2007
- Larry Elliott: Wolf At The Door:
- Helen Thomas: Pelosi's 'Mixed Message' to Syria Is More Direct Than The President's
- Rosa Brooks: To The Rest of the World, We're Cheapskates
- New York Times Editorial: Loosening the Stem Cell Binds
- Paul Krugman: For God's Sake
- Stephen Hale: Stirring Speeches Won't Tackle Climate Change
- Seth Freedman: 'Never Forget' Is Never Enough
- We Cannot Look From The Sides As We Are Led Towards Crisis Over Iran
- Peter Rothberg: The Green Festival
- Scott Ritter: The Final Act of Submission
- Dave Lindorff: Bush's Greatest Impeachable Crime
- Harvey Wasserman: Peace Be With You, Kurt Vonnegut
- Robert B. Reich: The Real Scandal of Student Loans
- David Michael Green: Dark of Heartness:
Thursday April 12, 2007
- Terence L. Kindlon: The Few and Proud Can Certainly Be Female
- Ruth Conniff: Imus and Other Big, Fat Idiots
- Zine Magubane: Why 'Nappy' Is Offensive
- Michael Shank and Samuel Rizk: Turning A Blind Eye to Egypt Gives U.S. a Black Eye In Region
- Reza Dibadj: Can Postmodernism Save World?
- John Nichols: Senators Expand Inquiry of Political Prosecutions
- Haifa Zangana: The Iraqi Resistance Only Exists To End The Occupation
- Cindy Sheehan: Number 3291
- Behzad Yaghmaian: Bonded at Birth
- Johann Hari: The Selfishness of The Self-Help Industry
- Malalai Joya: The US has Returned Fundamentalism to Afghanistan
- Norman Solomon: Awful Truth About Hillary, Barack, John... and Whitewash
Wednesday April 11, 2007
- Amy Goodman: Take Back the Airwaves
- Sally Kohn: 'The Condemned' Reflects Real Life: People Are Disposable
- Dean Baker: The IMF: A Sandbox to Play In
- Debi Smith: March's Fallen
- Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith: Labor Confronts Global Warming
- Robert Malley: Forget Pelosi. What about Syria?
- Matthew Rothschild: Feingold Leads the Way on Iraq Again, But Does Not Go Far Enough
- Barbara Stocking: The World Before Iraq
- Mark Klempner: Time for New Marshall Plan to rebuild, Heal World
- Ted Rall: Ban The Banks
- Robert Scheer: Iraqis Finally Unite—Against the U.S.
- Dave Lindorff: A Terrifying Truth
Tuesday April 10, 2007
- Paul Campos: An Orwellian PR Stunt
- Gwen Ifill: Trash Talk Radio
- Dilip Hiro: The New Power in Iraq
- Salim Lone: Somalia: Islamic Courts Unexpected Stand Offers Way Out of Deepening War
- Robert Jensen: Impeachment, All Down The Line
- Harvey Wasserman: Why Must Nuke-Power Lemmings Again Flock to the Radioactive Sea?
- Sean Gonsalves: 'The Hand That Rocks The Cradle'
- John Nichols: Which US Attorneys Did Rove's Bidding?
- Nicholas Von Hoffman: The Ethanol Hoax
- Stephen Burd: The Student-Loan Scam
- Scot Lehigh: A Long, Contentious Grind
- George Monbiot: There Is Climate Change Censorship - And It's The Deniers Who Dish It Out
- Tom Matthews: Sometimes, These Colors Must Run
- H.D.S. Greenway: Cambodia Reflected in Iran Waters
- Pierre Tristam: Recipe For The Republic Depends On Diluted Power; Not Bush Rule
Monday April 9, 2007
- John Brown: Karen Hughes and Her "Diplomacy of Deeds"
- Peter Rothberg: Step It Up 2007
- Adam Howard: No More Imus
- Neal Peirce: Paving The Way For Smarter Roads
- Andrew J. Bacevich: 'Your Iraq Plan?' Is a Pointless Question
- James Carroll: Fingerprint Foreboding
- David Abromowitz and Joan Ruttenberg: Sharing The Burden of War and Taxes
- Miami Herald Editorial: Secrecy, Coercion, Torture: This Is Legal?
- Tom Engelhardt: Six Crises in Search of an Author
- Katrina Vanden Heuvel: The Media's Ideological View of Pelosi's Trip
- Cynthia Tucker: The Bloody Results of America's Bizarre Love Affair With Guns
- Paul Krugman: Sweet Little Lies
- Chris Hedges: Praying for the Apocalypse
- Linda Milazzo: Tell Me, William Donohue, Would A Vanilla Jesus Do? The Real Truth About Chocolate Jesus
Sunday April 8, 2007
- Ezra Klein: This Time, We Want Healthcare Reform
- Eric Margolis: Power to the Pelosi
- John Nichols: Exit Iraq? Republicans say "Yes!"
- Haroon Siddiqui: Address Root Causes of Terror, Expert Advises
- Mark LeVine: Moderation Rocks in Pakistan
- Christopher Cooper: The Blessings Of Liberty To Ourselves And Our Posterity
- David Lindorff: Torture Blowback and Selective Outrage
- Caroline Arnold: The High Price of Mediocrity
Saturday April 7, 2007
- Johann Hari: Big Oil's Vendetta Against the Electric Car
- Alka Chandna, Ph.D.: FDA is MIA on Safe Pet Food Regulation
- Ralph Nader: Get Your Telephone Excise Tax Refund: It's Your Money
- Andrew Christie: The Big Circus Tent: Industry Hucksters Get in on Global Warming
- Cesar Chelala: Pelosi's Visit Offers New Peace Opportunities
- Eric Alterman: The Politics of Pundit Prestige...
- John Nichols: Conservatives for the Constitution
- Robert Fisk: The True Story of Free Speech in America
- Robert Kuttner: The Housing Squeeze
Friday April 6, 2007
- Laura Flanders: Bottom-Up Power
- Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial: Karl Rove and the GSA
- Carole Whelan: In This Mission Impossible, Politics Kills Soldiers
- Mark Floegel: A Way Forward
- John Atcheson: Snatching Defeat From The Jaws of Victory
- David Michael Green: Playing Politics With War
- Richard W. Behan: The Complicity of Congress in a Criminal War
- Rosa Brooks: Bring On The Iraq Micromanagers
- Craig Bowron: More Powerful Than We Imagine
- Paul Krugman: Children Versus Insurers
- Elizabeth R. Sawin: Climate Change: A Window of Opportunity
- Tom Engelhardt: The President's Global War of Terror
- Juan Cole: How to Get Out of Iraq
- Noam Chomsky: What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
Thursday April 5, 2007
- Danny Schechter: Memo To Our Media: How To Cover The Debt Crisis
- Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman: Ohio's Election Protection Movement Wins Two Big Victories
- Boston Globe Editorial: The True Cost of Campaigning
- Marianne Means: Bushies Remember They Can't Recall
- Matthew Rothschild: Bush Plays Superhero in Iraq
- Kate Allen: This Guantánamo Man May Have Gained a Trial, But It's Not Justice
- Ben Wizner: The Real Crime in The David Hicks Case
- Joshua Colangelo-Bryan: No Hope in Guantánamo
- Vali Nasr and Ray Takeyh: What We Can Learn From Britain About Iran
- Peter Rothberg: Refunds For Good
- Pierre Tristam: "Operation Wetback": Illegal Immigration's Golden-Crisp Myth
Wednesday April 4, 2007
- Ellen R. Shaffer: Universal Healthcare and the 2008 Campaign:
- John Smith: The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act
- Guardian Editorial: A Lack of Charity
- Bernardo Alvarez: What Venezuela's Revolution Is About
- New York Times Editorial: More Than a Feeling
- Derrick Z. Jackson: One of The Greatest Rulings on Earth
- Robert Scheer: Leave Your Morals at the Border
- Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon: The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV
- Elizabeth de la Vega: Doin' the Karl Rove Dance
- Tom Hayden: Stop The Dirty War
- Mark Weisbrot: Is Hugo Chavez a Threat to Stability? No.
- Benjamin R. Barber: Overselling Capitalism
- Bill Quigley: Protesting Priests Escape Jail Before Torture Trial
Tuesday April 3, 2007
- Scott Bontz: How Will Our Grandchildren See Us?
- Jesse Jackson: Invest In Hope, America, Not Despair
- John Buell: Climate Science and The Politics of Economic Growth
- Eugene Robinson: Torture of Terror Suspect Surprises No One
- DeWayne Wickham: Bush Conjures Up Tortured Defense of Executive Privilege
- Pierre Tristam: The Talented Mr. Dowd
- George Monbiot: Sharks Deserve The Conservation Status We Give To The Giant Panda
- John Burke: 300 Seen as a Tool To Work Up Anti-Iran Sentiment
- Brendan Smith, Tim Costello, and Jeremy Brecher: Undue Influence
- Robert Naiman: Senator Obama, Congress Has Many Options Besides Full Funding Without Withdrawal
- Jennifer O’Connor: Iditarod Deaths Stain Race's Reputation
- Ralph Nader: Community Garden Decontamination
- Mark Weisbrot: Every Uninsured Child Should Have Access to Health Care
- Larry Beinhart: Ah, Alberto Gonzales
Monday April 2, 2007
- David Michael Green: American Mugabe
- Monica Benderman: On Keeping Men Alive
- Robert C. Hinkley: Another Inconvenient Truth
- Norman Solomon: While McCain Walks in McNamara's Footsteps
- Harry P. Pachon: Paying Too Much To Be American
- Kevin Watkins: Tide of Suffering
- Carol Pier: A Pact With The Devil
- Michael Gawenda: U.S. Values on Trial Alongside Hicks
- Lyse Doucet: Mideast Facing Iraq Refugee Crisis
- Jay Bookman: When Myths Take Priority Over Facts
- Christopher Hayes: The Sum of Our Fears
- Melinda Burns: Unionizing to Save The Santa Barbara News-Press
- Paul Krugman: Distract and Disenfranchise
- Dennis Jett: Get Out - Now
Sunday April 1, 2007
- Clint Talbott: Spurned Whistle-Blower
- Elizabeth Sullivan: Let's Vote The Detainees Off The Island
- Michael K. Dorsey: Carbon Trading Won't Work
- Nancy Wohlforth and Fred Mason: Iraqi Oil Belongs To The Iraqi People
- Jennifer Daskal: This Was A Trial?
- Rosa Maria Pegueros: Cringing at the Stars