Views - December 2008
Wednesday December 31, 2008
- Robert Naiman: The Gaza War is Completely Stoppable
- Gush Shalom: Israeli Peace Group Say Stop the Bombing
- Tim Dickinson: Bush's Final F.U.
- Pat LaMarche: ‘Little’ People Often Played Big ’08 Roles
- Mark Steel: So What Have The Palestinians Got To Complain About?
- John Brady: Insurance Hassles Killing Off Family Docs
- William Hartung: Why Bush Was Good for Foreign Policy (Satirists)
- Mustafa Qadri: Gaza Attacks: Murder with Impunity
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Trillion Dollar Recovery
- Robert Parry: How Hypocrisy on 'Terrorism' Kills
- Kathleen Rogers: Green Stimulus
Tuesday December 30, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: David Gregory Shows Why He's The Perfect Replacement for Tim Russert
- Robert Fisk: Why Bombing Ashkelon is The Most Tragic Irony
- Bob Herbert: Add Up the Damage
- Chris Hedges: Party to Murder
- Deena Guzder: Lights Out in Gaza, News Blackout in US
- Aaron Glantz: Obama Can End Homeless Veterans’ Disgrace
- Jim Goodman: A Change We Can Believe In - Dumping Industrial Agriculture
- Dan Radmacher: Lump This Myth with 'Frosty the Coalman'
- Corporate Crime Reporter: Documentary Doc Says AARP Is Major Impediment to Single Payer
- Richard Falk: Israel's War Crimes
- Cristina Page: Can Common Ground Prevail?
- Deborah Storie: War Will Not Bring Peace in Afghanistan
- Cecile Richards: Can You Hear Me Yet?
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Is A Sustainable Food Strategy on Obama's Menu?
- Tariq Ali: From The Ashes of Gaza
- Jess Ghannam: New US Policy Needed Toward Israelis and Palestinians
Monday December 29, 2008
- Dave Cooper: A First Hand Account of the TVA Coal Ash Disaster in Kingston, TN
- Amanda Fuller and Justin Mog: TransFARM the White House Lawn
- Geoffrey Lean: Year of The Hungry: 1,000,000,000 Afflicted
- Chris Hedges: Why I am a Socialist
- John Nichols: Obama Should Engage Now for Middle East Peace
- Robert Fisk: Leaders Lie, Civilians Die, and Lessons of History are Ignored
- Andrea Becker: Gaza: Where Civilians Become Targets
- Nir Rosen: Gaza: The Logic of Colonial Power
- Ali Abunimah: We Have No Words Left
- Glenn Greenwald: Marty Peretz and The American Political Consensus on Israel
- James Carroll: Gorbachev's Model for Obama
- Bernie Sanders: Where Do We Go From Here?
- Justin Alexander: The Assault on Gaza Will Not Stop Rockets, but Could Influence The Israeli Elections
- David Michael Green: What To Expect While We're Expecting: Politics In the Time of Obama
- Ira Chernus: Israelis Get Truth About Gaza Attack
- Norman Solomon: A Hundred Eyes for an Eye
Sunday December 28, 2008
- Wallace J. Nichols: Reduce Your Plastic Footprint
- Erika Stutzman: The Written Word: Is Writing on its Way Out?
- John Nichols: Eartha Kitt: An Anti-War Patriot
- Ewa Jasiewicz: Gaza Today: This is only the Beginning
- Ellen Goodman: Bush's No Regrets Tour
- Frank Rich: You’re Likable Enough, Gay People
Saturday December 27, 2008
- Christopher Brauchli: The Traveller, The Suitcase and the Airline
- Stephen Zunes: Feinstein: Bad Choice for Intelligence
- Robert Fisk: How Can Anyone Believe There Is 'Progress' in the Middle East?
- William A. Collins: Our Kids as Mercenaries
- Jay Bookman: A One-Word Explanation? Try 'Greed'
- Ann Wright: Iranians Ponder Future U.S.-Iranian Relations in an Obama Administration
- Cesar Chelala and Alejandro Garro: Lessons from Guantánamo
Friday December 26, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: Torture Ambivalence Masquerading as Moral and Intellectual Superiority
- Paul Krugman: Barack Be Good
- Andy Worthington: The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Parts I and II)
- Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver: Don't Fix The Economy - Change It
- Juan Cole: Top Ten Myths about Iraq, 2008
- Amy Goodman: One Man’s Bid to Aid the Environment
- Joel Berg: New President Needs New Anti-Hunger Plan
- Harold Pinter: Art, Truth and Politics
- Chris Johnson: Rep. Nadler (D-NY) Calls for an Investigation of Bush Administration Officials
- Ann Wright: Remembering Pinter: Is Our Conscience Dead?
Wednesday December 24, 2008
- Walden Bello: The Coming Capitalist Consensus
- Aziz Huq: Dismantling the Imperial Presidency
- Jonathan Freedland: Seasonal Forgiveness Has a Limit. Bush and His Cronies Must Face a Reckoning
- Sadhbh Walshe: Christmas on the Margins
- Peter Erlinder: Rwanda: No Conspiracy, No Genocide Planning ... No Genocide?
- Robert C. Koehler: Dark Prayer
- Bill Quigley: Five Bailout Lessons From Katrina
- Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Why Al Franken Should NOT Be Riding Private Planes
Tuesday December 23, 2008
- John Buell: Lessons taught by GM, United Auto Workers
- Sara Roy: If Gaza Falls . . .
- Phyllis Bennis: Detaining the United Nations
- Robert Parry: Cheney's Contempt for the Republic
- Clay Evans: Bad Company: US Fails Gay, Lesbian Citizens
- H.D.S. Greenway: At Last, Giving Bush The Boot
- Danny Schechter: TARP This: Paulson's Bailout Plan Riddled With Deception
- Jospeh Gerson: Afghanistan, Socks, and a Moral Compass
- Ira Chernus: Hannukah Lights Can Symbolize Non-Violence Too
- David Michael Green: Hey Reagan Democrats: Now Do You Get It?
- Donna Smith: There's No Place Like Home for The Holidays, Until There is No Home
- Tim Costello, Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: Green Paper Gold
Monday December 22, 2008
- Adam Zemel: Will Energy Efficiency Stimulus Distract America from the Real Task at Hand?
- Silver Donald Cameron: We Don’t Find Happiness at The Mall
- Laura MacCleery and Zachary Proulx: A Big Pill for Healthcare to Swallow
- Johann Hari: Tasers Are an Outrage We Must Resist
- Zubeida Mustafa: No Time for War: A Call for Peace Amid Rising Nuclear Tensions between Pakistan and India
- Paul Krugman: Life Without Bubbles
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: They Lied About Iraq in 2003, and They're Still Lying Now
- Dean Baker: Washington Post: The Problem is 'You', Not 'We'
- Chris Hedges: Man is a Cruel Animal
- Glenn Greenwald: Cheney says Top Congressional Democrats Complicit in Spying
- Rebecca Solnit: The Grinning Skull
- Katha Pollitt: Rick Warren is an Insulting Choice
Sunday December 21, 2008
- Tirdad Derakhshani: The American Cult of Consumerism
- Frank Rich: Who Wants to Kick a Millionaire?
- Pierre Tristam: Compelling Journalism Persists Despite Media's Business Struggle
- Eric Margolis: America Needs a Period of Pain
- Sarah van Gelder: Health Care By and For the People
- John Brown: Thoughts on the So-Called 'War of Ideas'
Saturday December 20, 2008
- Christopher Brauchli: The Formerly Wealthy Meet the Newly Unemployed
- Michael Winship: Corruption Destroys Afghanistan
- Dianne Farsetta: America Scams You: Allison Barber's Many "No-No's"
- Donna Smith: Would We Sell Our Children's Future to a Health Insurance Company?
- Robert Weissman: Auto Bailout: Ecological Sustainability Before Economic Viability
- Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern: Deterring Torture Through the Law
- Bob Herbert: Hope Amid the Gloom
- Derrick Z. Jackson: 8 Years on the Dark Side
- Glenn Greenwald: If Criminal Penalties Are Removed, What Will Deter Lawbreaking by Political Officials?
Friday December 19, 2008
- Tom Engelhardt: The Axe, the Book, and the Ad
- A.C. Thomas: Katrina's Hidden Race War
- Jonathan Freedland: Deep Throat's Big Impact
- Beth Schwartzapfel: Lullabies Behind Bars
- Josh Silver: Mr. Obama, Make Media Reform a Priority
- Van Jones: New Labor Secretary is Brown and Green
- Richard Falk: My Expulsion from Israel
- Glenn Greenwald: Demands for War Crimes Prosecutions Are Now Growing in The Mainstream
- Conn Hallinan: Guns, Butter, and Obama
- Robert Parry: Obama v. Washington Mythmaking
- Pat LaMarche: US Voting Access A Work in Progress
- John Young: America - The Whole Package
- Richard Thieme: The Betrayal of The Commons
- Danny Schechter: License to Steal: $50 Billion Con Rocks Wall Street
- Marjorie Cohn: Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes
Thursday December 18, 2008
- Dave Lindorff: Prosecuting Bush and Cheney for Torture: No One Can Be Above the Law
- Gary Olson: Capitalism Short Circuits Our Moral Hard-Wiring
- Thom Hartmann: Three Cups of Tea for Rick Warren
- A New York Times Editorial: The Torture Report
- John Nichols: The Trouble With Appointing Caroline Kennedy
- Michelle Goldberg: Rick Warren: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
- Amy Goodman: Workers Laid Off, Execs Paid Off
- Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: Will War Crimes Be Outed?
- Glenn Greenwald: Committing War Crimes for The "Right Reasons"
- Larry Beinhart: Why We Need To Study God
- Kirk Anderson: The Correct Way to Sell a Senate Seat
- Robert C. Koehler: The Pacifist Tree
- Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon: Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2008
- Courage to Resist: Taking a Stand With Our Fellow War-Resisters
Wednesday December 17, 2008
- Robert Redford : Stand Up Against Bush's Giveaway of America's Redrock Wilderness
- Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR): Media's Failing Grade on Education 'Debate'
- Alyssa Roy: Federal Law Turns Nation’s Public Schools into 'No-Think Zones'
- Glenn Greenwald: Prostitution v. War Crimes: The Real Moral Offense
- Matthew Duss: Cheney: The Failed Architect
- Sami Ramadani: The Shoes We Longed For
- Mark Morford: 12 Things to Throw at Bush
- Roberto Rodriguez: Obama Should Tear Down The Walls
- Mohammed Mesbahi and Adam Parsons: America: The Choice Ahead
- John R. MacArthur: A Hypocrite as Our Diplomat in Chief
- Scott Ritter: Dick Cheney's Fantasy World
- Deepak Chopra: George W. Bush Has Been Throwing Shoes at Us
- Tom Gallagher: If Obama Wants Them To Keep Their Shoes On
- Ira Chernus: Israeli Youth Resist Palestinian Occupation
- Thom Hartmann: Alexander Hamilton's Advice To The Obama Administration
Tuesday December 16, 2008
- John Nichols: Obama's Farm and Food Appointment
- Greg Palast: Obama Slam-Duncans Education
- Karyn Strickler: Reverse Climate Change: Reduce Greenhouse Gases 80% below 1990 Levels by 2025
- Robert Kuttner: Bailouts: The Ultimate Double Standard
- Laura Carlsen: Coping with Crisis, Latin America Bucks the System
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Keep Guns Out of The Parks
- Neil Watkins and Sarah Anderson: Ecuador's Debt Default: Exposing a Gap in the Global Financial Architecture
- William Borden and Carol Vecchio: Give Till It Makes You Feel Good
- Bill McKibben: The Most Important Number on Earth
- Patrick Cockburn: Keep Out... A Message for Foreign Leaders
- Nick Turse: A Recipe For Corporate Success in Tough Times?
- Dahr Jamail: As Usual, NYT Ignores Iraqi Opinion
- Fran Quigley: Nigerians Get Their Day in Court On Human Rights Claims Against Oil Companies
Monday December 15, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: Senate Report Links Bush to Detainee Homicides; Media Yawns
- David Michael Green: Still Lying, Still Allowed To Lie
- Khaled Diab: Shock and Awe on A Shoestring
- Chris Hedges: Israel’s ‘Crime Against Humanity’
- Harold Meyerson: A Global New Deal
- Joseph E. Stiglitz: The Seven Deadly Deficits
- James Carroll: The Window and Door Factory
- Dave Lindorff: Muntadar al-Zaidi Did What We Journalists Should Have Done Long Ago
Sunday December 14, 2008
- Oliver Fein: There Is A Cure
- Scott Horton: The Torture Presidency
- Pierre Tristam: Answer to Martyrdom Bids: Oblivion in An Idaho Cell
- Timothy Egan: Final Days Fire Sale
- Ellen Brown: A Radical Plan for Funding the New Deal
- Alfie Kohn: Beware School 'Reformers'
- Eyad El-Sarraj: Catastrophe for Gaza
- Frank Rich: Two Cheers for Rod Blagojevich
Saturday December 13, 2008
- Juan Cole: Does Obama Understand His Biggest Foreign-Policy Challenge?
- Eve Ensler and Stephen Lewis: The Never Ending War
- Glenn Greenwald: Observations On Concision
- Michael Winship: Bush's Farewell Hallelujah Chorus
- Christopher Brauchli: Birth-Places and Mothers
- Arundhati Roy : 9 Is Not 11: (And November Isn't September)
- Ramzy Baroud: Cluster Bomb Treaty and The World's Unfinished Business
- Christopher R. Martin: Detroit's Problem: It's Health Care, not the Union
- Tim Costello, Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: How the American Healthcare System Got That Way
- Michael Moore: Senate to Middle Class: Drop Dead
- Robert Weissman: The Nasty Class and Anti-Union Bias of Auto Bailout Opposition
Friday December 12, 2008
- David Sirota: We Told You
- Liv Ullman: Making Life Safer for Refugee Women
- Fred Edwords: Riding the Atheist Bus
- Tom Engelhardt: Hard Times without Studs
- Michael Honey: Human Rights and The Economy Crisis
- Stephanie Mencimer : Will the Obama Administration Defend Karl Rove?
- Frida Berrigan: Mumbai Wake-up Call
- Christopher Hayes: The Pragmatist
- John Nichols: Labor Victory in Chicago
- Rose Ann Demoro: Obama and Daschle Should Opt for Single-Payer
- Dean Baker: If G.M. Was a Canadian Company It Wouldn't Be Asking for Help
- Bonnie Raitt: The Time Is Now for a Green Revolution
Thursday December 11, 2008
- Diane Farsetta: The 2008 Falsies Awards: In Memory of the First Casualty
- Jennifer Daskal: Chaos in The 9/11 Courtroom
- Amy Goodman: Sweden Wrestles with Its Own Future
- Tony Clarke: Toronto Stood Up to Bottled Water Industry
- Seumas Milne: Britain Leaves Iraq in Shame. The US Won't Go So Quietly
- Shirin Shirin: Economic Woes? Look to Kerala
- Glenn Greenwald: Top Democrat Urges "Continuity" for CIA, DNI and Interrogation Policies
- Nicholas D. Kristof: Obama’s ‘Secretary of Food’?
- Dedrick Muhammad: Post Racial Racism in the Post
- Greg Palast: Obama's "Way-to-Go, Brownie!" Moment?
- Ray McGovern: Will Obama Buy Torture-Lite?
- Max Obuszewski: Who Else Is Spying on Me?
Wednesday December 10, 2008
- Pat LaMarche: Cruelest Lies Often Told in Silence
- Mary Robinson: Climate Change is an Issue of Human Rights
- Nomi Prins: A $15 Billion Jumpstart for the Big Three?
- Joseph Nevins: In Age of Migration, Human Rights Declaration Falls Short
- Dave Lindorff: Workers of America: Wake Up! We All Need a Union!
- John Nichols: Governor Gone Wild: Blagojevich Busted
- Dean Baker: Obama's Medicine for The Economy
- Ira Chernus: The First Hundred Days or the Last Hundred Days?
- Sumayyah Waheed: Human Rights Violations in Our Own Backyard
- Harlan Baker: Where Are All The Socialists? Here, There and Everywhere
- Blair Bobier : Instant Runoff Voting
- Joseph E. Stiglitz: Capitalist Fools
- Sean Gonsalves: This Is Our Mainstreet Here
- Scott Boehm: On Human Rights, Spain is Different
Tuesday December 9, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: Gen. Hayden and The Claimed Irrelevance of Presidential Appointments
- Peter Dreier: Chicago Factory Sit-In: A Symbol of What's Wrong and What's Needed
- Shaun Waterman: Costs of War: Silent Suffering
- Eugene Robinson: A Whitewash for Blackwater?
- Marcia G. Yerman: Speak Up for Human Rights - The Price of Silence is Much Too High
- Timothy Karr: Obama's Broadband Roadmap
- George Monbiot: Cyberspace Has Buried Its Head in a Cesspit of Climate Change Gibberish
- Daniel Bradlow: Charting a Progressive International Financial Agenda
- Jeremy Scahill: Justice, of a Sort, for Blackwater
- Michael Kagan: Refugees and Obama's American Values
- Jameel Jaffer and Ben Wizner: Don't Replace The Old Guantánamo with a New One
- James K. Galbraith: Stimulus Is For Suckers
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Burger King's Greasy Campaign
- Robert Naiman: Kinzer: Surge Diplomacy, Not Troops, in Afghanistan
- Benjamin Dangl: Workers Occupy Chicago Factory: Echoes of Argentina's 2001 Worker Uprising
Monday December 8, 2008
- Julia Marton-Lefèvre and Nikita Lopoukhine: Managing Our Investment in Nature
- Andy Worthington: Obama and Holder Must Return to a September 10th Mind-Set
- Norman Solomon: The Silent Winter of Escalation
- Ewa Jasiewicz, Ramzi Kysia and Lubna Masarwa: Free Gaza: A 'Cool Idea' That Should Be Put Into Practice
- Danny Schechter: Donald Trump Blames Crisis on Divine Intervention
- Tom Engelhardt: The Imperial Transition
Sunday December 7, 2008
- Diane Farsetta: An Officer and a Conflicted Man: McCaffrey, the Pentagon and Fleishman-Hillard
- John Nichols: Making a New New Deal: Sitdown Strike in Chicago
- Richard Graves: Which Path Will the Youth Climate Movement Take?
- Barry Nolan: 'He Kept Us Safe' - Unless You Count the Dead People
- Harvey Wasserman: John 'Nuke Bailout' Bryson Must NOT Be Secretary of Energy
- Larry Beinhart: The Fall of a Free Market Prophet
- Matthew Bolton: Ban These Pernicious Weapons
- Sarah van Gelder: The Obama Economic Stimulus -- Will It Take Us Where We Need to Go?
Saturday December 6, 2008
- Christopher Brauchli: Lies and Deception George Bush Style
- Marcus Raskin and Robert Spero: A Toast to President-Elect Barack Obama and the American People: We're Going to Need It!
- Jim Goodman: Food Is Different
- Bruce Friedrich: 'Yes We Can' Create a Sane Food Policy in the US
- Robert Fisk: Whenever I'm in Tajikistan, My Mobile Phone Says I'm in Dubai
- Karen AbuZayd: Action, Not Words
- Channapha Khamvongsa: Drawing the Future From the Past
Friday December 5, 2008
- Marjorie Cohn: Obama: Ratify the Women’s Convention Soon
- Najlaa Al-Nashi and David Smith-Ferri : Hope, Change, and the Iraq Displacement Crisis
- Burt Cohen: Our Biggest Problem Is Bigness
- Daphne Wysham: Paying Our Climate Debt
- Tani Bellestri: Blood in the Machine
- Peter Erlinder: Applying the Rule of Law to All Heads of State
- Hazel Weiser: Let the Walls Speak: Collecting the Stories From the War on Terror
- Nat Hentoff: Obama's First 100 Days
- Jeremy Scahill: Obama Doesn't Plan to End the Iraq Occupation
- Jesse Hagopian: 'I'm Changing the School's Name to Chrysler'
- Michael Winship: Obama's Familiar Orbit
Thursday December 4, 2008
- Anand Gopal: Who Are the Taliban?
- Thomas Frank: Health-Care Reform Could Kill the GOP
- Michael Ratner: Obama Should Prosecute Bush Officials Who Designed Torture Policy
- Priyamvada Gopal: Comparing Mumbai to 9/11 Diminishes Both Tragedies
- Amy Goodman: Chevron in the White House
- Donna Smith: Will We Be Honest in Our Healthcare Reform Effort?
- Robert C. Koehler: Redefining 'Realism'
- David Williamson: Financial Crisis Could Herald a Renaissance of Radical Thought
- Glenn Greenwald: Why Do Feinstein and Wyden Sound Much Different on the Torture Issue Now?
- Mark Brenner and Jane Slaughter: Cutting Wages Won't Solve Detroit 3's Crisis
- Jerome Grossman: Can Obama Do Change?
- Cyril Mychalejko : Dealing With Killers and Kidnappers: The High Cost of Free Trade
Wednesday December 3, 2008
- Eugene Jarecki: Keeping Track of Change (It Takes More Than Hope)
- Pat LaMarche: New Brand of Eager Holiday Shoppers
- Scott Ritter: For Bush - and Obama - a Gut Check
- Michael Klare: '2025' Report: A World of Resource Strife
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Our Destructive Love of Stuff
- Ira Chernus: Community Organizers Press Obama for Real Change
- John Young: Our Stampede Mentality
- Yifat Susskind: From Mumbai to Washington: Now Is the Time to Renounce the War on Terror
- Mark Weisbrot: Obama Should Make a Clean Break With the Past on Latin America
- Robert Weissman: Nationalize GM -- Or at Least Think About It
- Stephen Zunes: Maldives: Another Dictator Bites the Dust
- Karyn Strickler: Bail US Out of the Fossil Fuel Economy
- Michael Moore: Saving the Big 3 for You and Me...
Tuesday December 2, 2008
- Concerned Citizens of India and Pakistan: Mumbai Bloodbath: A Statement by Concerned Citizens of India and Pakistan
- Amitabh Pal: A Shadow Falls on Mumbai
- Tom Hayden: Iraq Pact Challenges Antiwar Movement
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Robert Gates: Wrong Man for the Job
- Stanley Kutner: Bush's 11th-Hour Bid for Secrecy
- Glenn Greenwald: NBC and McCaffrey's coordinated responses to the NYT story
- Nir Rosen: Songs for the Mahdi Army
- Annie Shattuck: A Message for Climate Change Negotiators: Small Farmers Key to Combating Climate Change
- Laura Flanders: DC to Delhi: Only Our Missiles, not Yours.
- Dean Baker: Paulson and Bernanke Spread the Wealth Around
- Robert Parry: Bush Still Lies about Iraqi Inspections
- Teresa DeCrescenzo: Where's The Bailout for Nonprofits?
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Obama Needs to Bail Out Workers
- Lynn Bradach: Ban The Cluster Bomb
- Jeremy Scahill: Barack Obama's Kettle of Hawks
- Marc Fisher: Maryland Police Play Spies--And Look Like Fools
- Michael Parenti: Afghanistan, Another Untold Story
Monday December 1, 2008
- Sean Gonsalves: Can You Afford to Pay Attention?
- Tom Andrews and Lt. Gen. Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.): It's Not Hillary, It's The Policy Stupid!
- Paul Krugman: Deficits and the Future
- Susan Blumenthal and Melissa Shive: AIDS: A Stigma Endures
- John Nichols: Barack Obama's AIDS Advocacy
- Deb Price: It's Irrational Not To Let Gay Couples Adopt
- David Sirota: Obama's Post-Election Moves Make Some Wonder About "Change"
- Ted Nordhaus and Michael Schellenberger: Getting Real on Climate Change
- Steve Fraser: Beyond the Bailout State
- Glenn Greenwald: The Ongoing Disgrace of NBC News and Brian Williams
- Noreena Hertz: Unhealthy Incomes
- Gregory Wright: The Zero Decade: Restarting The 21st Century and Rebooting America, In The Nick of Time