Views - October 2008

Friday October 31, 2008

Naomi Wolf: 'The End of America'
Amitabh Pal: Nonviolence Is The Right Choice—It Works
Mark Hertsgaard: Wanted: A Climate Bailout
John W. Dean: The Evidence Establishes, Without Question, That Republican Rule Is Dangerous
Glenn Greenwald: Defeating McCain: Ending Not Only Neocon Policies, but Also Tactics
Farrah Hassen: Strange Strike
Susan Lenfestey: Fallujah's Sewer to Nowhere
Naomi Klein: The Bailout: Bush's Final Pillage
Dave Lindorff: The End Is at Hand (to Leftist Conspiracy Theories)
Robert Fisk: Scandal of Six Held in Guantanamo Even After Bush Plot Claim Is Dropped

Thursday October 30, 2008

George Curry: High Court's Future at Stake
Andrew J. Bacevich: Expanding War, Contracting Meaning
David Sirota: Should an Obama Presidency Be Bill Clinton's Third Term?
Conn Hallinan: Latin America's New Consensus
Ted Rall: The First Rule of Re-Election Is Don't Think About Re-Election
Donna Smith: Big Insurance Shows Its Hand – Or at Least Its Finger
Amy Goodman: Election Protection
Rob Richie and Adam Fogel: Universal Voter Registration as the Real Answer to Fraud Concerns
Jim Goodman: Will a New Administration Give Us the 'Safest Food Supply in the World'?
Robert C. Koehler: The Time Has Come
Fred Pearce: Time to Bury the 'Clean Coal' Myth
Johann Hari: How We Fuel Africa's Bloodiest War
Donald Cohen: The Education of Alan Greenspan

Wednesday October 29, 2008

Jennifer Fenton: Peace Activist Cindy Sheehan Seeks to Unseat Nancy Pelosi for Betraying the Constitution
Organic, Labor, & Fair Trade Movements: Open Letter to Whole Foods Market
Diane Farsetta: Our Country Deserves Better: The Russo Marsh Crowd Bashes Obama from Coast to Coast
Robert S. Eshelman: Meeting Myself in Bucks County
Hendrik Hertzberg: Like, Socialism
Tim Hancock: Chilling Echo of the Past
David Morris: Voter Fraud? No, Voter Suppression
Chioma Oruh: Northcom, Africom and Other Threats
Roger Doiron: Message to the Next President: Eat the View!
Chris Johnson: Restoring Hope: Viewing the World From the Ground-Up
Robert Scheer: Just How Dumb Are White Males?

Tuesday October 28, 2008

Robert Rudney: Lessons Learned from the 1932-1933 Presidential Transition
Matthew Rothschild: Bush Invades Syria. Take His War Warrant Away
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast: Drinking the ACORN Kool-Aid: How Cries of Voter Fraud Cover Up GOP Elections Theft
Christopher Cooper: And Everybody’s Shouting, 'Which Side Are You On?'
Johann Hari: The Republicans' Dirty Secret... Torture
Craig Aaron and Josh Stearns: Is America Still a Beacon for Press Freedom?
Helen Thomas: Bush Again Breaks Wall Between Church, State
Charles Knight and Chris Toensing: Yes, We Really Must Talk With Iran
Jeanmarie Simpson: Like It Or Not, Change Is Coming
Dean Baker: Greenspan Says, 'Who Could Have Known?'
Darci Andresen: Talkin ‘Bout My Generation
Gore Vidal: John McCain in the Echo Chamber
George Monbiot: How These Gibbering Numbskulls Came to Dominate Washington

Monday October 27, 2008

Phyllis Bennis: Tenuous Agreement on Maintaining US Troops in Iraq
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Capital Punishment Is Wrong, Unfair
Ian Williams: The West Is Red
Nick Turse: The Trillion Dollar Tag Sale
Mike Farrell: The Ugly America
Marc Kielburger and Craig Kielburger: Ordinary Americans Left Out of Bailout
John Brown: The Pentagon's New Iraq Propaganda
Rita Arditti: Why Cancer's Gaining on Us
Rosa Maria Pegueros: He Has a Gun and He Votes
Norman Solomon: Needed for This Election: A Great Rejection
Ira Chernus: Lefties for Obama: The Final Round
Robert Freeman: The Dirty Little Secret in McCain’s 'Socialism' Charge
Chris Hedges: Populism Arising—but Will It Be the Killer Kind?
Danny Schechter: Fixing the Crisis Is Not So Easy

Sunday October 26, 2008

Scott Boehm: Manufacturing Sympathy: Sarah Palin, Special Needs and Identity Politics
David Michael Green : Remind Me Again – Who Won The Cold War?
Mitchell Rofsky: Obama's Tax Plan: Who's Really Rich, and Why Does It Matter?
Linda LeTendre: Waging Peace: Not Guilty!
Paul Krugman: Desperately Seeking Seriousness
Haroon Siddiqui: Prejudice in a Post-9/11 World
Joseph L. Galloway: Republicans Summon Ugly Old Ghosts

Saturday October 25, 2008

David Corn: Alan Shrugged: Greenspan, Ayn Rand and Their God That Failed
Katha Pollitt: Still Lots of Right-Wing Mayhem to Go Around
Linda Hirshman: Obama Echoes New Deal to Counter 'Greed is Good'
Christopher Brauchli: John the Candidate Meets Joe the Plumber
Bill McKibben: What the Next American Leader Needs to do to Deal with Global Warming
Mark Morford: When History Spanks
Donna Smith: Quenching the Thirst for a Better America
David Morse: Can Georgia Do Right?

Friday October 24, 2008

Nat Hentoff: Nine Executioners
Michael Schwartz: Wrecked Iraq
Ellen Bravo: A Rescue Package for Working Women
John Pilger: Under Cover of Racist Myth, a New Land Grab in Australia
Frida Berrigan: Too Many Guns
David Sirota: McCain Banking on a Confederacy of Dunces
John Nichols: Michele Bachmann Versus Paul Wellstone
Dave Skoloda: Economy Needs to Become More Local
Stan Cox: Thinking About Shrinking: A Green Path Through Hard Times?
Dan Coleman: 2008 Is Not the Year for McKinney or Nader
Robert Barkley Jr.: Grandfather’s Apology
Sally Kohn: Why I Love Taxes -- And Why Most Americans Do, Too
Larry Beinhart: Keep Religion Away From the Ballot
Peter Dreier and John Atlas: The GOP's Blame-ACORN Game
Matthew Rothschild: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Disinvites William Ayers After Death Threats, Financial Pressure

Thursday October 23, 2008

Patricia Schroeder: Amendment 48 Goes Too Far
Sarah Wildman: Preying on the Right
Richard Hopson: ACORN Fights Back
Haroon Siddiqui: Disturbing Complicity on Torture
Sarah van Gelder: How to Stop the Rigging of Election '08
Glenn Greenwald: Bipartisanship and Threats of War Toward Iran
Patricia J. Williams: Predatory Scapegoating
Chuck Williams: Never a Better Time for Health-Care Reform
George Hunsinger: Iraq: Did the Surge Work?
Allan J. Lichtman: What Voter Fraud?
Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood: Taking Politics Seriously: Looking Beyond the Election and Beyond Elections
Robert C. Koehler: Redesigning Democracy
Amy Goodman: Change Big Donors Can Believe In

Wednesday October 22, 2008

Andy Worthington: Guantánamo's Bleak Farce
Marianne Mollmann: Abortion, Reproductive Health: Not Just Rights to Me
Joyce Marcel: McCain and Palin: To Their Eternal Shame
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Now Is the Time
Kathleen Taylor: Don't Ignore Constitution During Election Season
Tom Engelhardt: F Is for Failure
Robert Scheer: The Battle for Obama’s Economic Soul
Christopher Hayes: How I Committed Voter Fraud
Dean Baker: Any Pay Cuts on Wall Street Yet?
Linda Burnham: The Great Unmasking
Robert B. Reich: No Company Should Be Too Big to Fail
Norman Solomon: In the Battle for a Progressive Congress

Tuesday October 21, 2008

Demitrious C. Sinor: No Child Left Behind Fails Us All
Linda McQuaig: Maybe the Rich Are the Problem
George Monbiot: If an Hour Is a Long Time in Politics, We Must Start Thinking in Centuries
H.D.S. Greenway: The Grand Illusion of American Power
Jeff Biggers: Speak Now Against Bush's Great Coal Giveaway
Seth Kantner: That Sarah Palin Is One Unreal Alaskan
Robert Buzzanco: Spreading the Wealth Around? Why Not?
Bill Gallagher: McCain Gambles Rove's Way, Making Vile Bet
Sean Gonsalves: Brother, Can You Spare the Time?
Carol V. Hamilton: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off!
Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati: Rewrite Bailout Rules on CEO Pay

Monday October 20, 2008

Nell Levin: Mountaintop Removal Destroys Wildlife and the Way of Life for Local Residents
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Fear Has Profoundly Changed Us
Johann Hari: Don't Kill the Planet in the Name of Saving the Economy
Stephen Zunes: The Republicans Embrace the Cootie Effect
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Critical US Supreme Court Ruling Against Rovian GOP Vote Meddling May Prove Temporary
John F. Borowski: Corporate Curriculum: Teaching the 'Science of Death'
Bill Quigley: Swedish Peace Activists Repeatedly Break Into Weapon Factories
Jeanmarie Simpson: The Revolution Has Arrived
Nick Turse: The Rising Body Count on Main Street
James Carroll: Courage, Wisdom in an Age of Fear
Chris Hedges: The Idiots Who Rule America
Michael Winship: A Mighty Hoax from ACORN Grows

Sunday October 19, 2008

Nir Rosen: How We Lost The War We Won
Linda Milazzo: How Spreading The Wealth Rescued A Mother Thanks To CODEPINK and ANP
Jeff Goodell: Change Everything Now
Mark Danner: The Radical Face of Obama
Jessica Mosby: Soldiers of Conscience: Opposing the Iraq War
Eric Margolis: Maybe US Needs Yard Sale
Jay Bookman: GOP Terrified of American Voters
Olga Bonfiglio: Will Catholics Move On or Will They Cave to Same-O, Same-O?
Jim Rucquoi : Reading The Election

Saturday October 18, 2008

Aziz Huq: Use It or Lose It?
Tim Dickinson: Make-Believe Maverick
Joan Hamilton: The Electronic Activist
Bill McKibben: Green Fantasia
Joesph Stiglitz: Guided by An Invisible Hand
Christopher Brauchli: Lucky Sarah Palin
Ray McGovern: Attack on Iran Off the Table?
David Michael Green: Payback’s A Bitch
Michael Sears: GOP Strategy: Voter Suppression
Philippe Sands: The Torture Time Bomb

Friday October 17, 2008

Michael T. Klare: The Crisis and the Environment
Brattleboro Reformer Editorial: Diverse Voices, Ideas Missing From Debates
Amy Goodman: Who Gets to Vote?
Richard Kim: Waiting for the Barbarians
Glenn Greenwald: Poor John McCain: Forced Against His Honor to Run an Ugly Campaign
Suzanne Smith: McCain Said It, Why Don't We?
Dan Brook: Courage, Cowardice, and John McCain
Ralph Nader: Closing the Courthouse Door

Thursday October 16, 2008

Philippe Sands: 10 Years of the Pinochet Principle
Peter Dyer: US Journalists and War-Crime Guilt
Michele Swenson: McCain Works Against Access to Contraception
Ellen Goodman: Endangering Choice
Johann Hari: Scribbled in the Margins: The Character of the Next President
Glenn W. Smith: Why the Media Can't See the Trees for the ACORNs
Andy Worthington: The Trail of Torture
Ira Chernus: Lefties for Obama, Round Two
David Benjamin: The Little Lie, and How It Grew
Ann Wright: 'In a Way, It’s Surprising That There Aren’t More Bodies Piling up at Military Bases All Over This Nation'
Dave Lindorff: Why I’m Voting for Obama

Wednesday October 15, 2008

Juan Cole: The Great Reagan Pyramid Scheme Comes Crashing Down
Phyllis Bennis: As Its Economic Power Wanes, Does the US Lean Harder on the Military?
Keith Olbermann: McCain, Suspend Your Campaign
Mike Davis: Can Obama See the Grand Canyon?
John Nichols: How to Fix the Debates: Better Moderators
Matthew Rothschild: Paulson, the Treasurer of Wall Street
Mark Morford: More Booze and Cake!
Pat LaMarche: Defining ‘Socialized’ Medicine
Diane Santoriello: An Open Letter to Cindy McCain From a Gold Star Mom
Nomi Prins: Paulson's Plan B
Robert Weissman: Public Ownership -- But No Public Control
John R. MacArthur: Americans Unwilling to Face Reality
Paul Rogat Loeb: Volunteer Energy and Political Tipping Points
Robert Scheer: The Hoover-Palin Ticket
Stephen Kinzer : The Reality of War in Afghanistan

Tuesday October 14, 2008

Isabel MacDonald and Steve Rendall: Islamofascism Awareness Week
Laura Flanders: Defending ACORN and the Right to Vote
Timothy Karr: AT&T Promises Not to Spy on You... Sort Of
Alan Cumming: Why Is America So Content With Mediocrity?
George Monbiot: This Stock Collapse Is Petty When Compared to the Nature Crunch
Derrick Z. Jackson: McCain Plays the Race Card
Sean Gonsalves: We're Not in Kansas Anymore
Rosa Maria Pegueros: Sins of Omission
Guy Reel: A Pit Bull Doesn't Lie
Rory O'Connor: Seeds of Hatred
Cynthia Boaz: Why 'Change' Has Already Won
Robert Naiman: Pentagon Challenge: Ask Iraqis How Many Have Died
Jeanmarie Simpson: Jeannette Rankin, the Anti-Palin
Tom Engelhardt: My Depression -- or Ours?

Monday October 13, 2008

Dave Zirin and Daniel Denvir: Palin Drops the Puck
Mark Anthony Rolo: On Columbus Day, Correcting Columbus’ Legacy
Gary Younge: The Politics of Smear Won't Work in the Middle of a Stockmarket Crash
Chris Hedges: America’s Political Cannibalism
Brian Moench: EPA Ignores the Toxic Threat in Our Drinking Water
James Carroll: Preventing the Other Meltdown
Mary Shaw: Is John McCain Still Trapped in Vietnam?
Norman Solomon: Requiem for the Bailout Storyline

Sunday October 12, 2008

Frank Rich: The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama
Václav Havel: Water: A Source of Middle East Peace?
Pierre Tristam: 'Kill him!'? Silence as McCain/Palin Response is Deafening
Christopher Brauchli: I Spy
Mitchell Rofsky: Lies, Damn Lies, and (Conservative) Statistics
Joel McNally: GOP Battles the Spread of Democracy
Rick Salutin: Blowback from Afghanistan

Saturday October 11, 2008

Boston Globe Editorial: Subprime Scapegoats
Bob Fitrakis/Harvey Wasserman: GOP Attacks on American Voters Turn Desperate, Ugly and Dangerous
Mark Weisbrot: Wall Street Bailout Won't Do Much to Help Ailing Economy
Donna Smith: My Heart is Breaking Again Today
Isabel Macdonald: The Anti-Muslim Smear Machine Strikes Again?
David Michael Green: This Just In: Greed Is Not Good
Robert Fisk: 'Collateral Damage' or Targeted Killing, the Effect Is Much the Same

Friday October 10, 2008

Ari Berman: McCain and the Meltdown
Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Woman Greenspan, Rubin & Summers Silenced
Thomas S. Harrington: Unequal Charges: When Balanced Is Not Fair
Michael Pollan: Farmer in Chief
Bill Kaufmann: Nuclear Not the Answer
Ken Bode: Why McCain's Health Matters
Bruce Fein: Palin vs. Palin
Dean Baker: It's Time for Paulson to Cut the Crap and Do His Job
Richard Murphy and John Christensen : The Threat Lying Offshore
Glenn Greenwald: Major Shock: Eavesdropping Powers Abused Without Oversight
David Sirota: Crony Communist or Businessman?
John Walcott: Truth Is Not Subjective
Noam Chomsky: Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
Jim Goodman: McCain and Obama Need to Talk Real Farm Policy
Michael Winship: Say Anything
Robert Dodge: The Earth Charter: A Declaration of Interdependence
Jesse D. Hagopian: So There Is Money that Could Have Helped Schools
Bertha Lewis and Steve Kest: The Truth About ACORN's Voter Registration Drive

Thursday October 9, 2008

Sarah Wildman: The Bush Sex Ed Doctrine
Jeff Biggers: The Banality of Clean Coal: Extraction Crimes
Ken Gude: Guantánamo's Prisoners of Cowardice
Medea Benjamin: Should Henry 'The Fox' Paulson Guard the Henhouse?
Anand Gopal: The Surge That Failed
Christopher Cooper: Blowin’ Like a Circle ‘Round My Skull
Danny Schechter: The Edge of the Abyss
Robert C. Koehler: Brace Yourself
Stephen Zunes: Haidar's Struggle
Tara Mahtafar: Sarah Palin and the Confederacy of Dunces
Amy Goodman: Open the Debates

Wednesday October 8, 2008

Donna Smith: Wall Street Flops Cannot Become Patient 'Swaps'
Antonia Zerbisias: Actually, It's Pro-Family to Advocate Policies That Give Women Choices
Mark Morford: Planet Obama
Brattleboro Reformer Editorial: A Silent Disaster
Peter Costantini: This Sucker Could Go Down
Dave Zirin: Sarah Palin's Extreme Sports
Matthew Rothschild: Leahy Concerned About NorthCom’s New Army Unit
Robert Scheer: A Plague Upon the White House
Sam Oliker-Friedland: Make Absentee Voting Easier for All

Tuesday October 7, 2008

Ira Chernus: Lefties for Obama
Kelly Campbell : On Anniversary of Bombing Afghanistan, We Need a Surge in Diplomacy
Jesse Jackson: Wall St. Implodes, but Bad Ideas Survive
David Nassar: Wal-Mart Moms Could Vote to Change Wal-Mart
Fran Quigley: Taking to the Streets for the Poor
Sam Leibowitz and Mazin Qumsiyeh: Can 'Shana Tova' and 'Eid Mubarak' Coexist in Israel/Palestine?
Harvey Wasserman: Casting Paper Ballots Is Our First Victory
Chalmers Johnson : Voting the Fate of the Nation
George Monbiot: This Green Subsidy for Car Makers Is Just a Disguised Corporate Bailout
Juan Gonzalez: Bailout Dish Has Heaping Side of Pork
Linda McQuaig : Bulking up Pentagon North
Robert Fisk: Secrets of Iraq's Death Chamber
Stephen Gabow: Why America's Problem Is Cultural, Not Political

Monday October 6, 2008

James Carroll: Making Some Sense of $700b
Ann Wright: 'My Daughter’s Dream Became a Nightmare': The Murder of Military Women Continues
Norman Solomon: Projecting an Obama Victory
Jeffrey Locke: Population, Family Planning and Presidential Priorities
Johann Hari: McCain Is Deluding Himself Over the 'Surge'
Tom Engelhardt: Spying on the Future
Chris Hedges: Dennis Kucinich on the Democrats’ Bailout Betrayal

Sunday October 5, 2008

Caroline Arnold: A High Price for Looking the Other Way
David Smith Ferri: Building Peace in Iraq
Steve Ralls: Ten Years After Matthew Shepard’s Murder, We Need to Act
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Compassion, Certainly, but Justice, Too
Stephen Zunes: The VP Debate: Dishonest Foreign Policies

Saturday October 4, 2008

Barbara Ehrenreich: The Communist Manifesto Turns 160
Mark Engler: The Impact of the 'Battle In Seattle'
Robert Fisk: When It Comes to Palestine and Israel, the US Simply Doesn't Get It
Glenn Greenwald: A Country in Shambles, Under GOP Rule
Donna Smith: Trickle Down Has Finally Trickled Up

Friday October 3, 2008

Dennis Kucinich: We Had Alternatives
Dean Baker : The President Who Provoked A Panic
Josh Marshall: The Growth of Talking Points Memo and Independent Media
Laura Flanders: Phoney Wars and Real Ones
David Sirota: Saying ‘No Deal’ to This New Deal
Derrick Z. Jackson: Cold on Climate Warming
Bill C. Davis: All They Talk About Is Money
Annie Shattuck and Eric Holt-Giménez: The Wall Street Mega Bailout: Bad News for the World's Hungry
Teresa Van Deusen: Ike: The Silent Storm
Robert C. Koehler: The War to Promote Terror
Ru Freeman: Drills, Shoots & Lies: The Palin Doctrine
Solomon Hakim: It's the Stupidity, Stupid!
Juan Cole: The Non-Debate

Thursday October 2, 2008

Haroon Siddiqui : The Wreckage of Harper-Bush Policies
Helen Thomas: McCain Surely Needs Lessons in Diplomacy
Jennifer Daskal: More Blowback From the War on Terror
Josh Silver: How the Media Sold Their Souls to Wall Street
Howard Zinn: From Empire to Democracy
Johann Hari: This Crisis Is Also a Big Opportunity
Steve Fraser : The Specter of Wall Street
Amy Goodman: Invasion of the Sea-Smurfs

Wednesday October 1, 2008

Donna Smith: From Coast to Coast: Health Care Not Wealth Care?
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Greg Kaufmann: Bailing on Poverty and Ordinary Americans
Robert Scheer: Boston Tea Party, 2008
John Nichols: After Bush Abuses, We Need New Farm Policies
Sarah van Gelder: They Stood Up to the Banks
Ira Chernus: How Forgotten Iraq May Elect the Next President
Barry Nolan: Of Lipstick, Law and Order
Steven Wallman: Solve the Credit Crisis With No Bailout
Barbara Dudley: It Started With NAFTA
Deborah Stone: Big Chain Pharmacy Can't Fill the Prescription
Ray McGovern: To Joe Biden: Time for Confession
George Lakoff: A Brief Guide to the Debates
Debi Smith: My Lunch With Sarah