Views - February 2008
Friday February 29, 2008
- Ruth Rosen: Let Us Remember Barbara Seaman, Crusading Pioneer of the Women's Health Movement
- Heath Haussamen: Dems Should Thank Nader, Not Trash Him
- David Sirota: The New Permanent Campaign
- Editorial: The World Has Gone to Seed
- Dan Brown: Child Poverty and How to Stem America's Prison Madness
- Naomi Wolf: Why Barack Obama Got My Vote
- Ryan Blethen: Next FCC Must Grasp Change — and Truly Understand History
- Phyllis Bennis: Iran in the Crosshairs
- Bill McKibben: First, Step Up
- Naomi Klein: Obama, Being Called a Muslim Is Not a Smear
- Tom Engelhardt and Frida Berrigan: The Commander-in-Chef Cooks Up a Storm
- Sonali Kolhatkar: Obama Intends to Swap One Failed War for Another
Thursday February 28, 2008
- Dave Koehler: Fallacies and War: Misleading a Nervous America to the Wrong Conclusion
- Amy Goodman: Taxi to the Dark Side
- Joe Conason: McCain's Political Quagmire
- Donald Macintyre: To Be in Favour of Peace Is Not Anti-Israeli
- Seumas Milne: A System to Enforce Imperial Power Will Only Be Resisted
- John Young: Iraq War Costs Americans in Health Care Tradeoff
- Patt Morrison: If a Tree's Owner Falls ...
- Frida Berrigan: Indonesia's Arms Appetite
- Martha Rosenberg: Downer Cows in Slaughter Video Were Products of Profit Happy Dairy Industry
- Hagit Ofran: West Bank Settlements Continue
- Robert Naiman: Hillary: 'Ready to Lie From Day 1' About Venezuela
- Robert Koehler: The State Religion
- Joyce Marcel: Which America Do You Live In?
- Barack Obama: October 2002 Speech: Against Going to War With Iraq
- Jeremy Scahill: Obama's Mercenary Position
- Dennis Bernstein: Obama's Sub-Prime Conflict
Wednesday February 27, 2008
- Leora Tanenbaum: Barbara Seaman: Your Pill Is Safer Because of Her
- Amira Hass: Gaza: The Breakthrough That Did Not Happen
- Suzanne Elston: Canada's Inuit Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Stopping the New Arms Race
- John Nichols: Clinton's Cringe-Worthy Moment
- Patrick Cockburn: Iraq: Divided and Disintegrating
- Walt Gardner: Lessons From Finland: The Way to Education Excellence
- Pat LaMarche: Racial Disparity: A Real Reason to Cry
- Thomas F. Schaller: Clinton Squanders Support With Inept, Unseemly Campaign
- Dave Zirin: Can't Knock the Hassle: Chávez Challenges Baseball
- Noam Chomsky: The Most Wanted List: International Terrorism
- Robert Scheer: What the Times Didn't Tell About McCain
- William Hartung: Say It Ain't So, Ralph!
- Harvey Wasserman: Did Turkey Point Again Take Florida to the Radioactive Brink?
Tuesday February 26, 2008
- Erika Bolstad: Exxon Valdez: Long Voyage to Justice
- Leslie Griffith: US Quietly Breaks UN Treaty
- Arjun Makhijani: Nuclear Is Not the Right Alternative Energy Source
- Scott Ritter: The Mughniyeh Enigma
- Simon Lewis: Climate Change Is Killing Us. It's Time for a Body Count
- George Monbiot: Pro-Death: Religious Conservatives Are Responsible for High Abortion Rates
- Robert Weitzel and Meredith DeFrancesco: Salvadorans Offer Lesson on Trampling of Rights
- Sarah Henly-Shepard: For Sustainable Food Choices, Go Home-Grown
- Kevin Martin: Obama, Clinton, Dems – Show Leadership, Make Change Happen, End the War Now
- Ed Garvey: Nader Is Too Late to Play, and Stakes Are Too High
- Carol V. Hamilton: Fetishizing the Flag
- Ira Chernus: Election-Watchers May Miss Chances for Peace
- Danny Schechter: The Crash That's Coming: More Bubbles Are Turning 'There Will Be Blood' From Fiction to Prophecy
- Helen Thomas: Bush Legacy Already Established
Monday February 25, 2008
- Maude Barlow: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
- Julie Deardorff: We Chow Down on a Diet Salted With Mystery
- Juan Cole: Osama bin Laden's 'Second Life'
- John Nichols: Nader Runs, Obama Responds Wisely
- Chris Bond: Long March of the Protesters Who Tried to Save the World
- Chris Hedges: The Calm Before the Conflagration
- Christopher D. Cook: Meat Roulette
- James Carroll: 'National Security': The Ghost Story
- Jen Marlowe: The Tightening Noose: Gaza Under Hamas, Gaza Under Siege
- Johann Hari: The Diamond Heist That's Mass Murder
- Beth Quinn: A Thank-You Note to George W. Bush
Sunday February 24, 2008
- Howard Zinn: Election Madness
- Greg Mitchell: Five Years Ago 'Embeds' Got Ready for War Duty in Iraq: How Did That Work Out?
- Paul Greenberg: The Extinction of Political Debate
- Tara McKelvey: What Happened to Mental Health Care for Vets?
- Sean Gonsalves: The Future of Black History?
- Jonathan Rosen: The Relationship Between Humans and Nature: What a Little Bird Told Us
- Frank Rich: The Audacity of Hopelessness
- Dave Zweifel: War Cost Is the Real Danger to Our Security
Saturday February 23, 2008
- Elizabeth Holtzman: Cheney Impeachment: Courageous, but Not Surprising
- Editorial: The Final Frontier
- Christopher Brauchli: The Forgotten Promises of George Bush
- Ralph Nader: 'My Number One Priority Is to Protect You'
- Paul Rogat Loeb: How Much Damage Will Clinton Do Before She Folds?
- Stephen Zunes: Why Hillary Clinton's Iraq Vote Does Matter
- Joseph L. Galloway: Some Inconvenient Truths, Conveniently Locked in a Safe
- Glenn Greenwald: McConnell/Mukasey: Eavesdropping Outside of FISA Is 'Illegal'
- Joanne Landy and Thomas Harrison: Pushing Missile Defense in Europe
Friday February 22, 2008
- Sara Robinson: When Change Is Not Enough: The Seven Steps to Revolution
- Editorial: Congress Should Act to Preserve Net Neutrality
- Tom Gardner: Torture in 60s South Shows Error of Waterboarding
- David Sirota: A Trade Transformation
- E.J. Dionne: Wellstone Would Be Smiling
- David M. Crane: The Scourge of Child Soldiers
- Eric Schneiderman: Transforming the Liberal Checklist
- John Nichols: Valedictory in Texas...
- Editorial: No Retroactive Immunity for Unlawful Secret Wiretapping
- Shami Chakrabarti: Rendition: The Excuse That America Didn't Tell Us Doesn't Wash
- Wangari Maathai: Kenya Can't Solve It Alone
- William D. Hartung: Dems: What About the Military Budget?
- Jessi Simek: Letter From a Young American
- David Michael Green: Love, American Style
- Karen J. Greenberg: Visiting the Torture Museum
Thursday February 21, 2008
- Mark Lloyd and Joseph Torres: Net Neutrality Is a Civil Rights Issue
- Amy Goodman: Lessons of Internment
- Helen Thomas: McCain Foresees 100-Year War
- Joshua Frank: Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade With Turkey
- Joe Conason: No 'Straight Talk' on Iraq Cost
- Haroon Siddiqui: US Foreign Policy Failures Thrust Into Spotlight
- Johann Hari: We'll Save the Planet Only if We're Forced To
- Mary Beth Maxwell: Elaine Chao's Absence of Accountability
- Margaret Krome: Politicians Must Change Tone of Immigration Debate
- Rosa Brooks: Bush's Africa Burden
- Mort Rosenblum: Is It Torture? Try It
- Tim Newman: Rejecting Paternalism in Africa?
- Walden Bello: Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood
- Cindy Sheehan: Open-Armed Policy
- Tom Hayden: 'End the War in 2009'
- Joyce Marcel: Hillary Clinton: Bridge Woman
Wednesday February 20, 2008
- Juan Cole: Pakistan Turns Scary for Bush's War on Terror
- Amira Hass: Palestine: If the Land Isn't Private?
- Peter Dreier: The History of Hope
- Chris McGinley and Morris Morley: Cuba Too Big a Prize for Meddling US to Resist
- Editorial: Trusting Our Safety to the Current System: A Shot in the Dark
- Dean Baker: Does Ben Bernanke Have to Go?
- Dave Lindorff: Just When You Thought the Corporate Media Couldn't Get Any Worse
- Olga Bonfiglio: See What the Young Are Saying…and Be Moved!
- Bruce Ramsey: What Would It Take to Launch a War With Iran?
- Desmond Tutu: Taking the Responsibility to Protect
- Thomas F. Schaller: Super Dilemma
- Erika Falk: The 'First Woman,' Once Again
- Pat LaMarche: Lack of Incumbent Creates Unique Election Year
- Robert Scheer: Castro and the Colossus
- Tom Engelhardt: The Million Year War: How Never to Withdraw From Iraq
Tuesday February 19, 2008
- Tim Giago: Reconciliation and Outright Apologies
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Missing on Gun Control
- Nancy Sullo, Tom Moore, Liz Robinson and Bruce Robinson: Impeachment Critical to Set Standards for Future Administrations
- John Buell: Stimulus Plan Not Based on Sound Economics
- Editorial: Arsenal of Secrecy
- Steve Suppan: Cattle Abuse, Beef Recall Highlight Systemic Weaknesses
- Michael Swigert and Sena Tsikata: Bush's Out-of-Tune AIDS Plan
- Pierre Tristam: Immigration's Tale Told on New York's No. 7 Subway Line
- Editorial: Standing Against Torture
- George Monbiot: An Exchange of Souls
- Ali Noorani: Nothing Super About These Delegates
Monday February 18, 2008
- Marianne Schnall: Jane Fonda, the 'Today' Show and the 'C-Word'
- John Nichols: Obama Meets Edwards, Pledges Party Remake
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Want to Help? Be on Time, for a Change
- Juan Wilson: The Privatization of Hawai'i: Some Things Should Be Free
- Kerry Trueman: No Cow Left Behind
- Stephen Zunes: Clinton Bought Bush's War Talk, Obama Didn't
- Philip Giraldi: What FBI Whistle-Blower Sibel Edmonds Found in Translation
- Paul Krugman: Poverty Is Poison
- Paul Rockwell: Screw the Voters. Let Superdelegates Decide!
- Cindy Sheehan: Military Tribunals and You
- Gary Younge: It's up to the Superdelegates to Prove Democrats Believe in Democracy
Sunday February 17, 2008
- Ben Wizner: A Check on Abuse of Power
- Eric Margolis: More Violence Seems Likely in Pakistan
- Elizabeth Sullivan: By Killing Satellite, US Would Send Ominous Message
- Haroon Siddiqui: No Telling Where Pakistan Is Headed
- Frank Rich: The Grand Old White Party Confronts Obama
- Glenn Greenwald: The Fun and Excitement of Civilization Wars (Fought from Afar)
- Ann Jones: The War Against Women
Saturday February 16, 2008
- Louise Slaughter: Nothing But Contempt For Those Who Trample The Constitution
- Naomi Wolf and Shahid Buttar: Musharraf's Playbook is the Same as the Bush Administration's
- Sean Gonsalves: Understanding The Obama Surge
- Ralph Nader: Open Letter To George W. Bush
- Christopher Brauchli: The Forgotten Promises of George Bush
Friday February 15, 2008
- David Sirota: The Candidate of the Permanent Will
- John Nichols: An Accountability Moment That Must Not End
- Barbara Ehrenreich: Unstoppable Obama
- Robert Kuttner: Obama's Voice, Edwards's Message
- Russ Feingold and Jack Kemp: Restoring Democracy
- Jonathan Schwarz: The Lost Kristol Tapes
- Glenn Greenwald: Jihadis Throw a Wild Bash Over the Protect America Act
- Frederick Barton: A New Course for the US and Pakistan
- Sam Stein: Mark Penn Tied to Controversial Nuclear Firm
- Marjorie Cohn: Injustice at Guantánamo: Torture Evidence and the Military Commissions Act
- Cynthia Boaz: Buffy the Cynicism Slayer: Behind the Obama Phenomenon
- David Michael Green: Not Bad. Not Half-Bad
- Michael Winship: O Brave New World, That Hath Such Re-Runs in It
Thursday February 14, 2008
- Jim Goodman: Clinton, Obama Must Answer to Farmers
- Nicholas von Hoffman: Vice President Rice?
- Johann Hari: Spielberg Has Taken a Stand. We Must Too
- Joe Roman: Of Whales and War
- Robert Fisk: Bloody End of Man Who Made Kidnapping a Weapon of War
- Andy Worthington: Torture on Trial
- Amy Goodman: Lessons of the Chesapeake Sweep
- Rosa Brooks: Bush's Last Push for Torture
- Chris Frasier: Gas That Need Not Pass Unused
- Matt Rice: 'Eco-Friendly' Fur? That's Fuzzy Thinking
- Olga Bonfiglio: A Valentine's Day Tribute: The Things They Do for Love
- Tom Andrews: Congressional Democrats Swing and Miss on Capitol Hill
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Behind Obama's Wave of Victories: The More They Know Him...
Wednesday February 13, 2008
- Sam Sedaei: Not Revising History on Tom Lantos
- David Broockman: Beware of Democrats Bearing Compromise
- Rosa Maria Pegueros: Washington Is Not Dodge City
- Antonia Zerbisias: Without Us, They'd Just Fight and Eat out of Cans
- Ted Rall: There Should Be Blood
- Bronwen Maddox: The World Sees America in the Dock
- Dave Zweifel: '60s Icon Takes up Today's Challenge of Bullies
- Andrew Murray: We Didn't Stop That War, but May Have Stopped the Next
- Stephen Zunes: Teachers and the War
- Christina Kasica: King's Dream, Foreclosed
- Editorial: A Poor Excuse for Justice
- John Feffer: Asia's Hidden Arms Race: Six Countries Talk Peace While Preparing for War
- Billy Briggs: Painful Aftermath of War Never Ends With a Ceasefire
- Robert Scheer: Aboard the Condoleezza Rice
- Pat LaMarche: Xenophobe: Warrior Princess
Tuesday February 12, 2008
- Gary D. Barnett: The New Crime of Thinking in the US
- Tom Hayden: Death of Reform, Birth of Reform: Clinton Democrats Face the Obama Future
- Jesse Jackson: No Voting Division Splits Latinos, African Americans
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Our Crimes in Iraq Must Not Be Forgotten
- George Monbiot: Apart From Used Chip Fat, There Is No Such Thing as a Sustainable Biofuel
- Victoria Brittain: Smoke, Mirrors and American Justice
- Froma Harrop: Smell the Wildflowers, Kids
- Susan Jacoby: Darwin's Belated American Birthday Present
- Pierre Tristam: Neo-Hawks Rely on Distortion to Peddle War-for-Democracy
- Glenn Greenwald: Amnesty Day for Bush and Lawbreaking Telecoms
- Dean Baker: Own to Rent: Yes, We Can!
- Ralph Nader: Let the Sun Shine on Government Contracts
- Dave Lindorff: Obama and Progressive Change
- Ronnie Cummins: Corporate Globalization: Standing at the End of the Road
Monday February 11, 2008
- Kevin Brooker: Peace Symbol Says Style, Not Hope
- Eugene Robinson: Damage That Must Be Undone
- Kathleen O'Hara: Farming Carbon as a Cash Crop
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Every Year Brings Us Closer to 1984
- Frida Berrigan: Surge in Spending on Nukes a Grave Error
- Katie Kohlstedt: Mexicans Say: Integrate This!
- Eric Mink: 'Taxi to the Dark Side'
- Sean Gonsalves: The Superdelegate 'Firewall'
- Chris Hedges: The War Against Tolerance
- Michael Schwartz: Iraq's Tidal Wave of Misery
- Naomi Klein: Police and Tasers: Hooked on Shock
Sunday February 10, 2008
- Elizabeth Stephens: Border Wall Slashes Through Texas' Soul
- Jerry Lanson: All the Dirt that's Fit to Print
- Harvey Wasserman: There's Nothing Mainstream About the Corporate Media
- Ray McGovern: Waterboarding for God, With Decency and Compassion
- Laurie King-Irani: Turning the Corner to a New Season?
- Yifat Susskind: Inequality, Not Identity, Fuels Violence in Kenya
- Rupert Cornwell: Out of America
Saturday February 9, 2008
- Derrick Z. Jackson: An Education Lesson for Clinton and Obama
- Robert Shetterly: My Mother-in-law, Aborigines, Law, and the Election
- Kate Michelman: What I Really Wanted to Say to Chris Matthews
- Seymour M. Hersh: A Strike in the Dark
- Guy Reel: The Right-Wing: SOL
- Matt Taibbi: The Chicken Doves
- Chrisotpher Brauchli: The Cigarette
- Ann J. Simonton: Slow Sex: Moving Toward Informed Pleasure
Friday February 8, 2008
- Adam Doster: The Conscious Classroom
- Rick Steiner: Chukchi Sea Lease Sale Is a Risky Fix for Our Oil Addiction
- Jeffrey Kaplan: Corporations Given 'Human Rights,' Humans Are Denied Them
- Joe Conason: What Will McCain Do Now?
- David Sirota: The Democrats' Class War
- Douglas A. Johnson: It's Past Time to End the Use of Torture
- Steve Valandra: Europeans Ponder the US After Bush
- David M. Gitlitz: Waterboarding and Inquistion
- Laura Flanders: A New Moment? The Grassroots and the Party, 1964 and 2008
- Danny Schechter: What Is the 'Change We Can Believe In'?
- David Michael Green: Particide in Six Easy Steps: Diligent Democrats Demonstrate Dumbness Daily
- Medea Benjamin: Our Terrorist in Miami
Thursday February 7, 2008
- Dave Lindorff: To Hell With the Chief!
- Ron Blackwell and Thomas Palley: Winning the Edwards Vote
- Tom Hayden: After Super Tuesday, Time for Peace Movement to Get Off the Sidelines
- Michelle Chen: New Orleans: Vanishing City
- Peter Hartcher: America's Choice, Our Future
- Margaret Krome: Bush Budget Designed for Maximum Damage
- James Wellman: The Civic Gospel of Hope
- Rosa Brooks: A National Mood Swing
- Editorial: US Needle Policy Hurts AIDS Sufferers
- Riane Eisler: Opportunity to Protect Our Children
- Editorial: Forging an Energy Path
- Tom Athanasiou: Toward a Defensible Climate Realism
- Dilip Hiro: A Nuclear-Free Mirage
- Amy Goodman: Millions Without a Voice
- Gar Smith: Make Sure Your Valentine's Day Roses Are Green
- Caroline Arnold: The Ticking Time Bomb Thought-Experiment
Wednesday February 6, 2008
- Editorial: GWOT or Global Warming: The Right Fight?
- Alexia Kelley: Redefining 'Values Voters'
- Antonia Zerbisias: Afghan Evils Ignored at Our Peril
- Ted Rall: Puffing up John McCain, POW
- Mark Morford: The Machine Gun of Capitalism
- Jules Boykoff: Security or Liberty? It's a False Choice
- Tom Engelhardt: Exit Poll: Your Enthusiasm and the Media's
- Miriam Pemberton and Anita Dancs: Bush Budget Adds to Military, Cuts Prevention
- Pat LaMarche: New Orleans Still Looking to Recover From Katrina
- Robert Scheer: The Legacy of Bush II
- Michael Parenti: Bad Boys, Nasty Boys: Out of the GOP's Closet
- Ray McGovern: Powell's UN Fiasco: Fresh and Festering
Tuesday February 5, 2008
- Christopher D. Cook: Why I'm (Still) Voting for Edwards
- Barbara Ehrenreich: The Boom Was a Bust for Ordinary People
- Carolyn Anderson: The 60-Plus Population: Living History
- Lisa Margonelli: Five Myths About Greener Energy
- Marie Cocco: Permanent Disaster
- David Roberts: Obama v. Clinton: Who's Greener?
- John Nichols: Ten Tips for Sorting out Super Tuesday Spin
- Sherman Yellen: Crimes Without Punishment
- Seumas Milne: The War That Can Bring Neither Peace nor Freedom
- Pierre Tristam: Compelling Leaders in a Party Impaired by Assassins and Bores
- Jesse Jackson: Super Tuesday Voters Are Energized, Eager for Real Change
- Laura Flanders: Which Womanhood?
- Scott Ritter: Iraq's Tragic Future
- Dean Baker: These Loans Were Made for Walking: The End of the Subprime Crisis
Monday February 4, 2008
- Martha Rosenberg: Viewers Cringe at Slaughter Video While USDA Spins
- John Pearce and Kathy Cramer: Hillary's Looming Electability Crisis
- Jamison Foser: Rich Media, Poor Debates
- Stephen Zunes: Behind Obama and Clinton
- James Carroll: JFK's Torch for Obama
- Philip Giraldi: Sibel Edmonds Must Be Heard
- Gary Younge: In This Great Meritocracy, Only One Thing Matters: Who Is Your Daddy?
- Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg: Rule by Fear or Rule by Law?
- William J. Astore: The Tenacity of American Militarism
- Sean Gonsalves: What Is the Point of Congress?
Sunday February 3, 2008
- Jim Goodman: The State of the Union and the Davos Forum, Singing From the Same Hymnbook
- Jerry Lanson: Can the Democrats Blow It Again?
- Joseph Nevins: US Must Atone for Aiding Suharto
- Paul Rogat Loeb: How Obama Could Create a Long-Term Democratic Majority
- Karl Grossman: Money Is the Real Green Power: The Hoax of Eco-Friendly Nuclear Energy
- Editorial: Bush's Digital Dysfunction
- Robert Fisk: Torture Does Not Work, as History Shows
- Glenn Greenwald: Is Michael Mukasey Prioritizing the Harassment and Imprisonment of Journalists?
Saturday February 2, 2008
- Bud McClure: The Republican Debate: The Ghouls Came out and Danced About…
- Peter Weiss: Torture Unnecessary to Get Information
- Derrick Z. Jackson: How Edwards Advanced the Democrats' Debate
- Christopher Brauchli: Cigarettes, Drugs and Corporations
- Stephen Zunes: Hillary Clinton Again Lies about Iraq
- Ralph Nader: No Debate
- Dave Zirin: The Super Bowl: Who Stole the Soul?
- Tim Rutten: Mukasey's Confession
- Saree Makdisi: The Strangulation of Gaza
- Nomi Prins: The State of Whose Union?
Friday February 1, 2008
- Bryan Farrell: Lessons from Protesting Guantánamo
- Juan Cole: Blowback From the GOP's Holy War
- Barry Lando: Giving Israel a Pass
- Christopher Hayes: The Choice
- Helen Thomas: Bush Plans to Leave a Lot of Unfinished Business
- Tom Devine and Adam Miles: A New Golden Age for Whistleblowers
- Naomi Klein: Disowned by the Ownership Society
- Ray McGovern: Iniquities and Inequities of War
- Jeff Cohen: Stepford Republicans: All Caught on Tape!
- David Michael Green: Clinton Reflux Syndrome
- Ira Chernus: The Edwards Campaign: What Went Wrong?
- Michael T. Klare: Something Had to Give: How Oil Burst the American Bubble