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