Views - November 2008
Sunday November 30, 2008
- David Solnit: Seattle WTO Shutdown 9 Year Anniversary: 5 Lessons for Today
- David Michael Green : Hope You Die Before You Get Old
- John Nichols: Worried By Obama's Picks? Support Anti-War Groups
- Christine Bremer Muggli: The Great Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Jeffrey Smith: Obama's Team Includes Dangerous Biotech "Yes Men"
- Joseph L. Galloway: So Much for Letting the Free Market Rule
- Kanishk Tharoor: This is an Indian Atrocity – Not the West's
- Neal Gabler : The GOP's Joe McCarthy Gene
Saturday November 29, 2008
- Shuja Nawaz: Mumbai May Derail India-Pakistan Peace Progress
- Mohsin Hamid: Bound by Sorrows: India and Pakistan Are in this Together
- Elaine Kamarck: Look to the Internet to Fight Poverty
- Derrick Z. Jackson: This Year, Why Not Try Something Different?
- Janet Thomas: WTO Reduced to Semblance of Democracy
- Sheila Samples: Through a Hole in the Air
Friday November 28, 2008
- Colin Beavan: Christmas With No Presents
- Danny Schechter: Blaming 'the Stupids' for the Financial Disaster
- Jerome Grossman: Where Is the Change?
- Olga Bonfiglio: Women's Ordination on the Docket Again
- Glenn Greenwald: Mumbai, the NYT's Revisionism, and Lessons Not Learned
Thursday November 27, 2008
- Amy Goodman: Media Silence Doesn't Mean All's Well in Gaza
- Jonathan Steele: This is No SOP. It Is A Vote To End The Occupation of Iraq
- Deena Guzder: Why the Attacks in India Should Surprise Nobody
- Glenn Greenwald: The Obama Administration, Guantánamo, and Restoring America’s Standing
- Pat LaMarche: Lame Ducks on Thursday's Menu
- Michael Winship: Michael Pollan's Food for Thought
- John Friedrich: Thanksgiving Prayer for all the Children
- Bill McKibben: Multiplication Saves the Day
- Christopher Cooper: Drinking Heartbreak Motor Oil And Bombay Gin
- Paul Rosenberg: Bipartisanship And Truth
- Sarah van Gelder and Doug Pibel: Be Happy Anyway
- Robert C. Koehler: The Ghosts of Desert Storm
- Susan Lenfestey: Corporate Turkeys in DC Get Thanksgiving Reprieve
- Steve Hendricks: Thanksgiving We Can Believe In
Wednesday November 26, 2008
- Leo Hickman: Edible Playgrounds and Political Vegetables
- John Buell: Moving American Politics off Dead Center
- Ray McGovern: Kafka and Uighurs at Guantanamo
- Daryl Kimball: Change Nuclear Weapons Policy? Yes, We Can
- Tom Engelhardt: Custodians of Empire
- Tom Gallagher: MoveOn – Fan Club or Force?
- Dan Rosenblum: At Last, It Begins: Real, Substantive Debate on 2009 Climate Legislation
- Stephanie Wall: An Open Letter to Sen. Kennedy
- Frida Berrigan: Weapons Come Second
Tuesday November 25, 2008
- Irene Khan: Neither Violence Against Women Nor Poverty Are Inevitable
- Pierre Tristam: Lavishing Billions on Old Technology While True Innovation Is Scorned
- Jeff Biggers: Dear Al Gore: Speak Against the Rape of Coal River Mountain
- Marjorie Cohn: Guantánamo Justice After Seven Years
- John Dear: With Jon Sobrino at the SOA Protest
- George Monbiot: One Shot Left
- Nick Turse: 'We Killed Her… That Will Be With Me the Rest of My Life'
- Norman Solomon: The Ideology of No Ideology
Monday November 24, 2008
- Andrea Becker: The Slow Death of Gaza
- Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh: Bailouts Dwarf Spending on Climate and Poverty Crises
- Dave Lindorff: Idiots and Bailouts
- Danny Schechter: All the Talk of a Depression Is, Um, Depressing
- Gary Younge: Americans Have Never Felt So Excited, and Yet So Depressed
- Mary Munson: There Ought to Be a Law to Protect Animals
- James Carroll: What the Pirates Say
- Cesar Chelala: President Obama's Challenges on the Poverty, Health Front
- David Michael Green: What to Do When Your Party Sucks
Sunday November 23, 2008
- Editorial: The Price of Our Good Name
- Neal Peirce: Maybe It Takes a Community Organizer to Lead a Country
- Robert Fisk: Kabul 30 Years Ago, and Kabul Today. Have We Learned Nothing?
- Jon Weiner: Hillary's Big Ethics Problem: Bill
- Linda Milazzo: US Citizen Diplomats Arrive in Iran, Invited by Ahmadinejad
- Nicholas Freudenberg : Can the Economic Crisis Create New Opportunities to Advance Public Health?
- Jim Goodman: A Glimmer of Hope?
- Ray McGovern: Gates and the Urge to Surge
Saturday November 22, 2008
- Sonali Kolhatkar: Afghans to Obama: End the Occupation
- Christopher Brauchli: NOAA(H) and the Whales
- Reede Stockton: An Alternative to the Auto Bailout
- Rob Larson: In Rude Health: The Rich Take the Crisis in Stride
- Jay Greathouse: Family Farms Pulled Us Out of the Great Depression
- Tom Hayden: Frankenstein in Mesopotamia
- Mike Tidwell: Police Spy on Climate Activist While Global Warming Goes Unarrested
Friday November 21, 2008
- Paul Krugman: The Lame-Duck Economy
- Norman Solomon: A Media Parable for 'the Center'
- Laura Flanders: The Hunger News
- Tom Engelhardt: Stuff Happens
- Nancy Van Ness: The Granny Peace Brigade Campaigns to Close All US Military Bases - in Latin America and Around the World
- David Sirota: Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone
- Heather Wokusch: You're Scaring Me, Obama: Let the Bush Years Die
Thursday November 20, 2008
- Robert Fisk: Once More Fear Stalks the Streets of Kandahar
- Devinder Sharma: The Parable of the G-20: Blind to the Elephant
- Jeremy Scahill: This is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House
- Danny Schechter: The Fall of the Wall: Hard Times in Money World
- Marie Dennis: Shut the Doors on a Disgraced Military School
- Ray McGovern: Robert Gates: As Bad As Rumsfeld?
- Robert C. Koehler: History Is Screaming
- Barry Nolan: Would You Kill Jefferson Davis?
- Fred Pearce: BP and the Myth of a World 'Beyond Petroleum'
- Amy Goodman: Why Bolivia Threw Our Ambassador Out
Wednesday November 19, 2008
- Greg Hernandez: 'Milk' Relevant to Today's Politics
- Suzanne Nossel: Closing Gitmo Is Just the Beginning
- Nick Turse: A My Lai a Month
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Don't Let Fear Trump Hope
- Joseph L. Galloway: Moderation in the Pursuit of Justice Is No Virtue
- Ian Williams: The Apology Bush Owes Dan Rather
- Salt Lake Tribune Editorial: Oil Shale Frenzy
- Joyce Marcel: Lizard Brains
- John R. MacArthur: Rahm Emanuel’s Political Pirouettes
Tuesday November 18, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: Has There Been Too Much Bipartisanship or Too Little?
- Miriam Pemberton and Lawrence Korb: Keep Secretary Gates? This Simple Test Should Decide
- Juan Gonzalez: Mr. Bush, Come Tell the Ghosts in Queens Your Financial Plan
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Smart Defense
- Linda McQuaig: Bush's Willing Accomplice
- Peter Erlinder: Will President Obama Finally Bury King Leopold’s Ghost?
- Dean Baker: Stopping Foreclosures With the Right to Rent: One More TIme
- Davinder Kaur: Ending Poverty: Moving Beyond More Aid and Fair Trade
- Sean Gonsalves: Under a Big Mulberry Tree?
Monday November 17, 2008
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Keep the White House Drapes: Bring Back the Solar Panels
- Wendy Williams: Water: Buying a Message on a Bottle
- Veronica Cassidy: Busted Bubble
- David Korten: Beyond the Bailout: Agenda for a New Economy
- Johann Hari: Sixties Radicals Are Back. But Why?
- Nicholas Mele: Case for Nonviolent Action Is Strong
- James Carroll: Home Truths on the Economy
- Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Busted?
- Tariq Ali: Operation Enduring Disaster
Sunday November 16, 2008
- Harvey Wasserman: GM Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered
- Joan Venocci: Enough With Those Bailout Lines
- Pierre Tristam: Think US Is Moving Far Left? That Terrain's Not Even Close
- Donald M. Mihaloew: The 'Dubya' in All of Us
- Robert L. Jamieson, Jr.: Same-Sex Marriage Has Change on its Side
- Ellen Bravo: A Rescue Package for Working Women
- Jennifer Fenton: Documenting the Surge: US Soldier's Films Expose the Realities of the Iraq Occupation
Saturday November 15, 2008
- Matthew Rothschild: Bush Sells Free Market as Cure-All, Despite Crash
- Christopher Brauchli: The Mother of All Embassies
- Janet Pelz: The Triumph of Hope
- Cesar Chelala: President Obama's Chance to Change Course on Cuba
- Frances Fox Piven: Obama Needs a Protest Movement
- Geoffrey Robertson: Now America Can Right Its Wrongs
Friday November 14, 2008
- Michael Brune: Day of Action Against Coal
- Barry Nolan: Lust for Leverage
- Cynthia McClintock: Latin Americanists Urge Obama to Revamp Policies
- Cleve Jones and Dustin Lance Black: Now Is the Time for Equality for All Americans
- John Feffer: The North Korean Conundrum
- Robin Broad and John Cavanagh: Swear Off 'Market Fundamentalism'
- Leila Nadya Sadat: Restoring America's Rights Record: Memo to the President-Elect
- Sheldon Rampton: The Eisenstadt Hoax: A Real-Life Example of a 'Fake Fake'
- Robert Fisk: Obama Has to Pay for Eight Years of Bush's Delusions
- Randall Amster: Hobbes Is Dead (or at least on life support) . . . and I Feel Fine
- Jeff Cohen: What Indy Media Heroes Can Teach Us
- Naomi Klein: In Praise of a Rocky Transition
Thursday November 13, 2008
- Nancy Northup: A Quick Sigh of Relief, Now Let's Get to Work Rebuilding Reproductive Rights
- Josh Silver: Obama, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News: A Look at Media in 2009
- Amy Goodman: Obama Can Redeem the White House
- Joyce Marcel: In Memory of Bubbling Bob
- Robert C. Koehler: Hope and Vision
- Johann Hari: Obama's Chance to End the Fantasy That Is Star Wars
- John Nichols: Alice Walker's Wise Counsel for Obama
- Matthew Rothschild: What Is NorthCom Up To?
- Glenn Greenwald: The Democrats of 2002 and 2007 Haven't Gone Anywhere
Wednesday November 12, 2008
- Susan Lenfestey: A Warm November; A New American Climate
- Pat LaMarche: Recalling Checks and Balances
- Jack Balkin: Obama and the Imperial Presidency
- John Nichols: Dysfunctional Election Process Needs to Be Repaired
- Timothy Snyder: War Is From Mars, Love Is From Venus
- Dave Lindorff: 'Too Big To Fail' Has an Easy Answer: Anti-Trust or Public Control
- Dean Baker: The G-20 and Biological Warfare
- Tom Engelhardt: Don't Let Barack Obama Break Your Heart
Tuesday November 11, 2008
- Margret Hofmann: Remember the Roots of Armistice Day
- Gary Younge: Obama's Army of Supporters Must Maintain Their Level of Activism
- Donna Smith: When the Pain Unfolds for Us All, Dreamers and Pragmatists
- Benjamin Lewis and Brandon Neely: As I See It
- Joseph L. Galloway: For What Did They Die?
- Aaron Glantz: On Veterans Day, Don't Forget About the War
- Patrick Cockburn: The US Can Quit Iraq, or It Can Stay. But It Can't Do Both
- Simon Tisdall: War Without Borders
- Sean Gonsalves: Opening Move: Charge the Center?
- Marjorie Cohn: Obama Spells New Hope for Human Rights
- Judith Siers-Poisson: How Far Have We Really Come From the 'One-Drop Rule'?
- Ira Chernus: 'Obama' for Lefties
- Mike Ferner: Remembering the War to End All Wars
Monday November 10, 2008
- Kenny Ausubel: Dreaming the Future Can Create the Future
- Lionel Beehner: Put the Bombs Away
- Al Gore: The Climate for Change
- Sameer Dossani: The Case for US Withdrawal From Afghanistan
- The Vancouver Provice Editorial: Time to Zap the Taser
- Stephen Zunes: The Disenfranchisement of My Daughter
- Bill Quigley: Anger and Hope: Haitian Families Furious Over School Collapse
- Michael T. Klare: Obama's Toughest Challenge
Sunday November 9, 2008
- Danielle Maestretti : Shelf Life: A Criminally Insane System
- Walden Bello: How To Spend The Honeymoon
- Naomi Klein: The New Trough
- Danny Schechter: The Reckoning: Obama Between A Rock and A Hard Place
- Henry Porter: Activism, Involvement and A Pursuit of The Common Good - That's The Key
- Frank Rich: It Still Felt Good The Morning After
- Ananya Mukherjee Reed: Obama: What Is In Store For South Asia?
- David Michael Green: My Michelle Moment: America Does Itself Proud
- Tom Turnipseed: Obama's Victory Brings Hope for Peace, Not Fractious Tribalism
- Peter Dreier: Shifting Gears: Transforming Obama's Campaign into a Movement for Change
Saturday November 8, 2008
- Guy Reel: The Truth Will Tell
- David Sirota: Obama, Be Progressive!
- Bill McKibben: President Obama’s Big Climate Challenge
- Joel McNally: The Threat of Fairness
- Bob Herbert: Take a Bow, America
- Theresa Alt and Marty Luster: For the Left, This is Not the Time to Relax
- John Nichols: Obama's Best Advice Will Come From Reich, Bonior
- Christopher Brauchli: Bush and Industry Vs The Rest of Us
- Howard Zinn: Obama's Historic Victory
- Ray McGovern: Try These on Your CIA Briefer, Mr. President-Elect
Friday November 7, 2008
- Howard Zinn: Howard Zinn Defends Studs Terkel From Red-Baiting in the Times
- Paul Krugman: The Obama Agenda
- Jonathan Steele: Now He Must Declare That the War on Terror Is Over
- Brattleboro Reformer Editorial: The Wrecking Crew Leaves
- John Nichols: Obama's Disappointing First Choice
- Kate Sheppard: Energy: Can Obama Keep It Clean?
- Katha Pollitt: Sayonara, Sarah
- Karyn Strickler: History and This Election Say: Don't Govern From the Middle
- John Brown: Rejuvenate Public Diplomacy! Bring Culture Back to the White House
- Dante Zappala: Rest Easy, Dad. We Win
- David Cook: American History X
- Rebecca Solnit: A Great Day, Nine Years, Three or Four Centuries
Thursday November 6, 2008
- Ruth Rosen: Dancing in the Streets
- Steven Freeland: Destroying the Environment Is Also a War Crime
- Amy Goodman: Organizer in Chief
- Naomi Klein: Real Change Depends on Stopping the Bailout Profiteers
- Dean Baker: Obama's Path to Greatness: Healthcare as Stimulus
- Matt Peiken: Dear John McCain Voters
- Rob Richie: Electoral Reform on the Ballot: Wins for Instant Runoff Voting and More
- Robert C. Koehler: Our Fragile Dream
- Harvey Wasserman: A Chicago-Area Electoral Victory Says 'No We Won't' to Nuke Power
- Tom Gallagher: San Franciscans Endorse Iraq War Funding Cutoff
- Mike Lux: And So It Begins...
- Johann Hari: The New President Must Stay Strong
- Gideon Levy: Repackaging America
- Matthew Norman: When You Want Your Child to Share America's Moment
- Norman Solomon: A Mandate for Spreading the Wealth
- Andrew J. Bacevich: Evangelical Foreign Policy Is Over
Wednesday November 5, 2008
- Cecile Richards: A Winning Night for Women
- Aaron Hicklin: Gay Marriage: An Electoral Liability
- Jeff Cohen: Big Election Winner: Indy Media
- Sean Gonsalves: Anything Is Possible
- John Nichols: Barack Obama's Many Majorities
- Ru S. Freeman: America’s Choosing Day
- Robert Scheer: Morning Again in America
- Mark Weisbrot: After Four Decades, Finally: The Beginning of the End
- Robert Weissman: Mordor Brightens; Obama's Challenge -- And Ours
- Medea Benjamin and Arun Gupta: Now That the Election Is Over, the Fight for Economic Justice Begins!
- David Corn: Obama Wins and Redefines Real America
- Mark Morford: Yes We Did
Tuesday November 4, 2008
- Peter Rothberg: Combat Vote Suppression
- H.D.S. Greenway: The Next President's Task in War on Terror
- Timothy Karr: Broadcasters: Don't Fence Those White Open Spaces
- Jesse Jackson: Bush's Last 100 Days the Ones to Watch
- the New York Times Editorial: So Little Time, So Much Damage
- Nancy Snow: Obama Wins (Really!)
- Linda McQuaig: 'Common Good' Rediscovered
- The Rev. Madison Shockley: To This Minister, Prop. 8 Is Repugnant
- Chuck Collins and Sam Pizzigati: Ike Wanted to Spread Wealth, Too
Monday November 3, 2008
- Ken Brociner: Old Dreams, Present Opportunities
- Andy Worthington: More Treachery at Guantanamo
- James Carroll: As New Doors Open, We Can't Shut Out the Past
- John Cusack: No Currency Left to Buy the Big Lies
- Simon Schama: Nowhere Man: A Farewell to Dubya, All-Time Loser in Presidential History
- Johann Hari: In the Age of Transformation, Obama's Time Has Come
- Joseph L. Galloway: They’ve Squandered Lives, Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor
- David Sirota: Mandate '08: Reagan vs. FDR
- Tom Engelhardt: Foreclosed: The George W. Bush Story
Sunday November 2, 2008
- Victoria Brittain: From Goma to Gaza, Mr Miliband
- Van Jones: Working Together for a Green New Deal
- Christopher Brauchli: The Fertilized Egg and the Decapitated Flower
- Pierre Tristam: Between Hope and Despair Over Who Will Define Nation's Identity
- Larry Beinhart: The New Know-Nothings
- Gary Younge: Me, My Son and Obama: One Father's Story
- Jeff Cohen: Studs Terkel: He’ll Never Be Silenced
- Glenn Greenwald: The Single Worst Expression in American Politics
Saturday November 1, 2008
- Eve Ensler: The Beginning of Hope or the End of It
- Stanley Kutler: Closing Guantanamo
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Curse of the Falling Gas Prices
- Katherine Coon: The Food Crisis and Gender
- Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: The Sounds of Voting -- and Check Writing
- David Michael Green: Thirty Years Too Late: The Implosion of John McCain and the Demise of the Regressive Right
- RJ Eskow: 100 Million Suspects
- John Nichols: The Grand Immoderation of Studs Terkel