Views - March 2008
Monday March 31, 2008
- Sean Gonsalves: What's the 'Color of Wealth'?
- Sally Kohn: Juan's Story: Undocumented but Not Un-American
- Ray McGovern: Delusionary, Dancing Bush
- Alice Walker: Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Brave
- Robert Dreyfuss: The Lessons of Basra
- Joschka Fischer: The New Nuclear Risk
- Paul Krugman: The Dilbert Strategy
- Gary Younge: America Lauds Martin Luther King, but Undermines His Legacy Every Day
- Bridget Stutchbury: Did Your Shopping List Kill a Songbird?
- James Carroll: Forty Years After Vietnam, a Reckoning
- Nick Turse: Weaponizing the Pentagon's Cyborg Insects
Sunday March 30, 2008
- Clint Talbot: Let Us Reason Together
- John Gray: Those Who Control Oil and Water Will Control The World
- Eric Margolis: Obama-Clinton Spats A Gain for McCain
- Elizabeth Drew: Molehill Politics
- Carl Coon: Toward a Humanist Foreign Policy
- Matthew Rothschild: Disgusting Profits by Armament Companies
Saturday March 29, 2008
- Christopher Brauchli: Preachers & Politicians
- Matthew Rothschild: Bush Totally Out of It on Iraq
- John Bruhns: Time Is Not On Our Side
- Sami Ramadani: A Great Leap Backward
- Caroline Lucas: Blood On The Ice
- Chris Mooney: The Manufacture of Uncertainty
- Glenn Greenwald: Michael Mukasey's Tearful Lies
- Greg Mitchell: For the Press, No Iraq Introspection
- James Ridgeway: It's The Deregulation, Stupid
- Robert Naiman: Basra Assault Exposes Fraud of "National Reconciliation" in Iraq
- Dr. Gabriela Lemus & Hector E. Sanchez: Forming a More Perfect Union: Beyond Black and White
- Ramzy Baroud: Where Are The Iraqis in The Iraq War?
Friday March 28, 2008
- Andrés Izarra: Letter from Venezuela's Communications Minister to the Washington Post
- Steven Kull: American Public Says Government Leaders Should Pay Attention to Polls
- John LaForge: Three Mile Island at 29: Reactors and Infant Health
- Tom Engelhardt: The Little Administration That Couldn't
- Arianna Huffington: John McCain, Iraq, and the Eyewitness Fallacy
- Glenn Greenwald: Bush and McCain's Shared Foreign Policy Approach
- Garrison Keillor: Poor America
- Jennifer Daskal and Leslie Lefkow: Off-Target: Missile Strikes Harm US Foreign Policy
- David Michael Green: The Swiftboating of Barack Obama
- Chris Cooper: Lord Protect My Child
Thursday March 27, 2008
- Janine Jackson: Fear & Favor: News, Journalism, and Power
- Marie Cocco: Nixon's Heir
- Editorial: Food Without Borders
- Helen Thomas: Cheney Believes War Is Not the People's Business
- Robert Weitzel: Palestinian, Israeli kids Are Cannon Fodder for Rapture
- Joseph L. Galloway: Shame on Them and Shame on Us
- Amy Goodman: Body of War
- Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello & Brendan Smith: How Green Is Your Collar?
- Robert Weissman: How Things Work: FTC Chair to Join Procter & Gamble
- Norman Solomon: NPR News: National Pentagon Radio?
Wednesday March 26, 2008
- Ray McGovern: Frontline: Too Timid, Too Little, Too Late
- Peter Dreier: The Mortgage Mess and the Economic Meltdown: What McCain (and the Rest of Us) Should Learn From the Keating Scandal
- Robert Borosage: Who Gets Us out of the Mess?
- Mark Morford: Tax My Rich White Torturer
- Rhianna Tyson: Forsaking Space Weapons Would Spur Peace
- Pat LaMarche: Wake up and Smell the Coffee
- Zia Mian: The Costs of War
- Gary Kamiya: Rev. Jeremiah Wright Isn't the Problem
- Anita Sinha and Jill Tauber: Dreams Turned Into Rubble in New Orleans
- Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Danny Glover: Progressives for Obama
- Stephen Zunes: Hillary Clinton's Iraq Speech at GWU: An Annotated Critique
- Mark Danner: Taking Stock of the War on Terror
- Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill: Anti-War Campaigners Have to Change Electoral Tactics
- Robert Scheer: War of the Word
Tuesday March 25, 2008
- Dean Baker: Financial Meltdown: Time For a Holiday From Progressive Politics?
- Marie Cocco: Greed Is Not Good
- Robert Naiman: Four Thousand US Deaths Should Spark Congressional Debate
- Linda McQuaig: Iraq War Botched and Illegal
- Helen Thomas: Telling Bush the Truth Is Costly
- Nat Hentoff: The Torture President
- Pierre Tristam: When America Can't Handle the Truth
- Elaine Brower: Winter Soldier 2008: A Marine Mom's Eyewitness Account of the Testimony
- Sean Gonsalves: Just a Typical Black Person
- Tom Andrews: 4,000 and Counting...
Monday March 24, 2008
- Judith Blau: MoveOnCities.org
- Ed Ludwig: Make Oil a Public Utility
- Michael Moore: So? ...
- Bruce Speight: Politicians Must Support Safety Not the Chemical Industry
- Robert Jensen: Look Beyond War and Peace to Global Justice
- Chris Hedges: A Conscientious Objection
- J. Carl Ganter: Deep Pangs of Irony: Courting Water to Conquer War
- Robert Fisk: From 'War Criminal' to 'Statesman'
- Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger: Invest in People Not Weapons
- Michael Schwartz: The Battle of Baghdad
Sunday March 23, 2008
- Elizabeth Sullivan: In New, More Detailed DNA Tests, Geography Meets Genetics
- Monique Doyle Spencer: Working Women, Where Did We Go So Wrong?
- E. Benjamin Skinner: Slavery's Staying Power
- Eric Margolis: Dalai Lama Holds Key to Peace in Tibet
- Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: How an Unwanted Guardianship Cost a Firefighter His Freedom and His Fortune
Saturday March 22, 2008
- Eric Reeves: China's Genocide Games
- Caroline Arnold: It Doesn't Have to be this Bad
- Ramzy Baroud: The Coming Uncertain War against Iran
- Christopher Brauchli: The Clout of George Bush
- Hank Kalet: Dispatches: Across the Great Divide
Friday March 21, 2008
- Howard Zinn: Beyond the New Deal
- Frances Moore Lappé: The Only Fitting Tribute
- John Nichols: Clinton Lie Kills Her Credibility on Trade Policy
- John Bruhns: On Iraq: The People Have Spoken
- John W. Dean: Barack Obama's Smart Speech "A More Perfect Union": Did It Reveal Him to Be Too Intellectual to Be President?
- Van Jones: Shining a New Light
- Martha Rosenberg: Happy Easter From United Egg Producers, the Battery Cage People
- David Michael Green: Happy Anniversary, America! How Lethally Stupid Can One Country Be?
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Can SuperDelegates Stop the Scorched Earth Campaigning?
- David Sirota: New Crisis, Old Isms
- Glenn Greenwald: The Obama Passport Snooping and the Unchecked Surveillance State
- Gore Vidal: Gore Vidal Speaks Seriously Ill of the Dead
Thursday March 20, 2008
- Amy Goodman: Winter Soldier Marches Again
- Barbara Ehrenreich: Hillary's Nasty Pastorate
- Ann Wright, John Brown and Brady Kiesling: Why We Said No: Three Diplomats' Duty
- Nadje Al-Ali: A Blind Eye on Women
- Juan Cole: Five Years of Iraq Lies
- Joseph Gerson: Resisting the Empire
- Dilip Hiro: Bush's Napoleon Moment
- Daniel Ellsberg: Words to the Die-In Participants: We as a People Have the Power
- Robert C. Koehler: Where War Meets Peace
- Sara K. Gould: Five Years and Counting: A Call to Pundits and Politicians to Deepen the Conversation
Wednesday March 19, 2008
- Laura Kaminker: Turn off Your TV: Why I Won't Watch the Beijing Olympics
- Rebecca Solnit: Five Years Later
- Curt Guyette: Left Was Right
- Robert Scheer: Bush's Legacy of Failure
- Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign
- Robert Fisk: The Only Lesson We Ever Learn Is That We Never Learn
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: 4,000 Americans, Innumerable Iraqis, $3 Trillion
- Robert Weissman: Heads Monsanto Wins, Tails We Lose; The Genetically Modified Food Gamble
- Madeleine Mysko: Winter Soldiers
- Greg Mitchell: Unsung Heroes and Alternate Voices
- Nomi Prins: Ode to Bear, Stearns
- Joe Brewer and George Lakoff: We Need a President, Not Just a Commander-in-Chief
Tuesday March 18, 2008
- Laura Flanders: Stop the Next My Lai
- Kathleen Taylor: Let's Talk About Marijuana
- George Monbiot: Carbon Capture Is Turning out to Be Just Another Great Green Scam
- David Pimentel: Corn Can't Save Us
- Danny Schechter: As Big Banks Fall: The Bear Has Fallen and the Bull Is Gone
- Ira Chernus: The Real Eisenhower: Planning to Win Nuclear War
- Michael Winship: Cry Havoc, and Let Slip the Dogs of Torture
- Scott Ritter: Dinner With Ahmed
Monday March 17, 2008
- Tom Engelhardt: Blowing Them Away Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
- Dahr Jamail: Rule, Not Reconciliation
- Leonard Boasberg: Republican War Rhetoric Devoid of Reality
- Jon Wiener: Clinton's Iraq Vote - Five Years Later
- Sean Gonsalves: Who's the War Boss?
- Jeff Cohen: Iraq Winter Soldier Hearings: Victory for Independent Media
- Frida Berrigan: Guantánamo: The Bigger Picture
- Patrick Cockburn: A Gross Failure That Ignored History and Ended With a Humiliating Retreat
- Gary Younge: Ranking Race Against Gender Is the First Step Towards Fundamentalism
Sunday March 16, 2008
- Linda Bilmes: Another Year, Another $300 Billion
- Editorial: Devastation at 3,000 Feet
- Patrick Cockburn: Five Years of Occupation, Iraq Destroyed
- Claudia Ayers: Fear-Based Education as the Testing Season Starts
- David Cole: The Torture Veto
- Eric Margolis: Things More Important Than the Spitzer Spectacle
Saturday March 15, 2008
- David Krieger: Accountability for the Iraq War
- Tom Hayden: Reviving Vietnam War Tactics
- Lena de Casparis: Marching in March
- Dennis Jett: America Must Not Justify Torture
- Robert Fisk: Silenced by the Men in White Socks
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Prisoners of Sentencing Politics
- Raj Purohit and Rich Stazinski: In Defense of Samantha Power
- DF: Truth Time: Wright Is Right
Friday March 14, 2008
- Christopher Brauchli: A Modest Proposal
- Ellen-Rae Cachola, Lizelle Festejo, Annie Fukushima, Gwyn Kirk, and Sabina Perez: Gender and US Bases in Asia-Pacific
- Dilip Hiro: Powerless on Oil Prices
- Amy Goodman: A Cause Bigger Than Any Scandal
- David Sirota: Remembering What Nixon Learned
- Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier: The Wages of Peace
- Ryan Blethen: Time to Ditch Legacy Politics and Chart a New Direction
- Robert Fisk: The Cult of the Suicide Bomber
- Stephen Zunes: To My Daughter, on the Fifth Anniversary of the US Invasion of Iraq
- Hank Kalet: Just Around the Corner
- Ann Wright: Counter-Recruitment Is Not Counter-Military: A Letter From a Colonel
- David Michael Green: Why Eliot Spitzer Should Have Resigned... And Why He Shouldn't Have
Thursday March 13, 2008
- Editorial: KBR: Dirty Water, Dirty Deals
- John Nichols: David Paterson: Activist, Progressive...Governor
- Johann Hari: What Wouldn't Clinton Do to Secure Power?
- Alex Stein: Stalking the Arctic
- Anna Lappé: There's a Homegrown Way to Address Climate Change
- Thomas F. Schaller: Running in Reverse: From the Middle to the Right
- Martha Rosenberg: Accused of Abusing Workers, Animals and Watersheds, 'Teflon' Tyson Eyes China
- Nomi Prins: Eliot Spitzer or the Subprime CEOs – Which Crime Should Really Call up Outrage?
- Pratap Chatterjee: Spitzer versus Schwarzman
- Robert C. Koehler: The Fear Fundamentalists
- Paul Rockwell: Cluster Bombs Are Not Good for Children, Hillary
- John Atlas and Peter Dreier: The Wire: Bush-Era Fable About America's Urban Poor
- Tom Engelhardt: The First Sixth-Anniversary-of-the-Iraq-War Article
- Stan Cox: SUVs Without Wheels
Wednesday March 12, 2008
- Greg Mitchell: The Iraq Follies
- Paul Campos: Was Spitzer Targeted?
- Dave Lindorff: It's the 'Oh Shit!' Moment on Iran
- Ted Rall: Eco-Terrorism: There's No Such Thing
- Ronnie Cummins: Beyond Progressive Malpractice: Taking Down Big Pharma
- Robert Scheer: Spitzer's Shame Is Wall Street's Gain
- Joseph Stiglitz: The $3 Trillion War in Iraq
- Barbara Ehrenreich: The Fall of the American Consumer
- Sally Kohn: Poorism? What Is Inequality Coming To?
- James Denselow: No-Man's Land: Palestian Refugees in Syria
- John Pilger: The Prisoner of Dhaka
- Reed Jarvis: Allowing Weapons Ruins Sanctuary
- Tom Teepen: Bush's Chamber of Horrors
- Pat LaMarche: President Bush's Stinking Endorsement
- Conn Hallinan: Afghanistan: A River Runs Backward
Tuesday March 11, 2008
- Peter Erlinder: The Torture of Sami Al Arian
- Eugene Robinson: So Much for the Surge
- Dan Carol: The Math on Government Spending
- Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith: Labor's War on Global Warming
- Geoffrey R. Stone: Loyalty Oaths Fail the Test of Democracy
- Sarah Browning: Hear This Hammer Ring
- Deborah Orrick: Lifting the Global Gag Rule on Day One
- Nat Hentoff: Guantánamo Trials Fail the Nuremberg Test
- Pierre Tristam: Terrorism Less Deceptively Defined
- Michael T. Klare: The Bad News at the Pump
- Dean Baker: The War and the Recession
- Ira Chernus: Hillary Flirting With Fear
- Norman Solomon: Warfare and Healthcare
Monday March 10, 2008
- Juliet Lyon: Statue of Liberty?
- Marian Wright Edelman: Where Are the Children in President Bush's Budget?
- Editorial: Abuses Show Need for Net Neutrality
- Ellen Kadransky: Voting Security Needed Now!
- Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Did Republicans Give Hillary Her Victory in Ohio?
- Robert Costanza: Our Three-Decade Recession
- Olga Bonfiglio: BTW, What Do the Iraqis Want?
- James Early: Cuba's Post-Castro Revolutionary Transition
- Dave Zweifel: War Profiteers Work Their Schemes in Iraq
- Cynthia Banham: At Last, Australia Takes a Stand Against the Dark Side
- Chris Hedges: The World As It Is
- Sean Gonsalves: Chewing on the Constitution
Sunday March 9, 2008
- Nomi Prins: Subprime Lending's Smartest Guys in the Room
- Haroon Siddiqui: Chaos of Gaza Cries Out For a Political Deal
- Eric Margolis: Mutual Assured Spending: India Ready To Join US and China Military Buildup
- Pierre Tristam: Bush The Torturer, The Tyrant, The Disgrace
Saturday March 8, 2008
- Auden Schendler: The Big Green Lie
- Nir Rosen: The Myth of The Surge
- Lissa Weinmann: Getting Smart About Cuba
- Helen Thomas: Keep The New York Philharmonic On The Road
- Chris Hedges: Dr. Al-Arian's Third Strike
- Glenn Greenwald: Tucker Carlson Unintentionally Reveals The Role of The American Press
- Aaron Glantz: Winter Soldier Hearings
- Martha Rosenberg: USDA Says It's None of the Public's Business Who Ate Recalled Meat
- Bernie Sanders: Changing Our National Priorities
- Christopher Brauchli: Iraq & Sleepovers
Friday March 7, 2008
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Missile Defense: 'Longest Running Scam' Exposed
- Anika Rahman: Giving Birth Should Not Cause Death
- David Sirota: Hope in the Time of NAFTA
- Glenn Greenwald: The Banality of the Surveillance State
- John Lindsay-Poland: Yankees Head Home
- Tom Hayden: The New Phase for Obama, Clinton and the Rest of Us
- Stephen Fleischman: Plan Colombia: Mixing Monsanto's Roundup With Bush's Sulfur
- David Michael Green: A Not-So-Simple Twist of Fate: Could Hillary Bequeath Us Our Long-Awaited Third Party?
- Greg Grandin: Fidel Castro, the First Superdelegate
- Caroline Arnold: Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet
- Jeff Malachowsky: 10,000 Maniacs
Thursday March 6, 2008
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Did Clinton Win Ohio on a Lie?
- Robert C. Koehler: Losing the Future
- Betsy Hartmann: The Election That Might Not Happen
- Bruce I. Afran and Carl J. Mayer: Halting Illegal Spying on Americans
- Roger Doiron: Peak Oil? Peak Soil!
- Irma Montoya: The Least Among Us
- Heather Wokusch: Breaking the Nuremberg Code: The US Military's Human-Testing Program Returns
- Tom Gallagher: Ralph Nader-Apoplexy Season All Over Again
- Monica Hesse: Greed in the Name of Green
- Amin Saikal: US Deafening Silence on Israel Speaks for Itself
- Joe Conason: McCain's Very Own Farrakhan
- Amy Goodman: As Goes Vermont
- Ruth Rosen: The Politics of Fear -- Again
- Lucinda Marshall: With Strength, With Wisdom, With Solidarity: Reflections on the Importance of International Women's Day
Wednesday March 5, 2008
- James Cowie: Don't Let Verizon off Privacy Hook
- Jonathan W. Hutto, Sr.: Soldiers and Democracy: Know Your Rights!
- John Nichols: Now It Gets Dangerous for Democrats
- Seumas Milne: Gaza: To Blame the Victims for This Killing Spree Defies Both Morality and Sense
- Editorial: Internet in Jeopardy as Neutrality Erodes
- Ted Rall: Afghanistan: A War We Can't Believe In
- Jerold M. Starr: The Other Side of the McCain Lobbyist Scandal
- Robert Scheer: The 'Great Satan' Strike Out
- Pat LaMarche: Little-Known Candidate Fighting for Your Future
- Michael T. Klare: The China Syndrome
- Robert Naiman: Obama Glosses Over Colombian Attack in Ecuador; Clinton Calls for Escalation Against Venezuela
- Steven Hill: A Way Out of the Spoiler Dilemma
- William D. Hartung: War Is Hell, but What the Hell Does It Cost?
- Carlos Martinez: Plan Colombia: The Real Destabilizing Force in South America
Tuesday March 4, 2008
- Michael Winship: Peanut Butter and Buckley
- Pierre Tristam: How Democrats Self-Destruct
- Nicole Whittington-Evans: Alaskan Wildlife Refuge Should Not Be Held Hostage to Greed
- Joseph L. Galloway: The Pentagon Is Financed Like Enron and Run Like General Motors
- Editorial: Supreme Caveat: FDA Approval
- David Michael Green: Good Time(ing) Bill: William F. Buckley and the Damage Done
- David Corn: McCain's Nuclear Waste
- Al Eisele: New Hampshire 1968: A Primary That Really Mattered
- John Buell: Ralph Nader Is Not Simply a Spoiler
- Bill Quigley: Half New Orleans Poor Permanently Displaced: Failure or Success?
- Dean Baker: The Low-Income Homeowner Tax
- Norman Solomon: The War Election
- Bill Berry: Real Patriots Don't Waste the Nation's Resources
- Jonathan Turley: Mukasey's Paradox
- Editorial: Roosevelt: Words That Inspired
- Jesse Jackson: Dem Contest Shows America's Transformation
Monday March 3, 2008
- John Nichols: Dennis Kucinich's Media Fight
- Alexandra Klass and Sandra Zellmer: Exxon Should Pay Its Penance
- Gary Younge: Obama Must Build a Movement to Take Him Beyond the White House
- Editorial: Iran: Diplomacy Works
- Tasneem Khalil: Surviving Torture in Bangladesh
- Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger: Justice Slow for Female War Victims
- Glenn Carroll: This Is the Time to Reject Nuclear Arms
- Glenn Greenwald: House Democratic Leadership: Not Just Complicit but Also Self-Destructive
- James Carroll: Torture Shocks
- Thomas Moore: The Lies of War
- Paul Rockwell: Clinton's Duplicity on Michigan, Florida Delegates
- Robert Lipsyte: The Monster Must Die! Clemenstein, or the Post-Modern Prometheus
- Ira Chernus: Israeli Violence Endangers Us, Not the Presidential Candidates
- Gideon Levy: Self-Deception and 'Restraint' in Israel
Sunday March 2, 2008
- John Nichols: Crisis in Gaza? Not for Obama or Clinton
- Jack Hedin: My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables)
- Elizabeth Sullivan: Trade: It's Just Not a Serious Conversation for the Candidates
- Joan Vennochi: A Delicate Line for Michelle Obama
- Robert D. Putnam: The Rebirth of American Civic Life
- Sean Gonsalves: Hillary: What about "Womenomics"?
- Ted Lewis: Linking NAFTA and Immigration
- Donald Cohen: Shifting Ideas, Shifting Narrative: Is the Tide Turning Against the Right Wing Attack on Government?
- Bethany Woolman: The Obama Generation - He's No Pied Piper
Saturday March 1, 2008
- Eric Umansky: Department of Pre-Crime
- Rebecca Solnit: One Nation Under Elvis: An Environmentalism For Us All
- Alan Block: Democrats Offer Only Shallow Changes
- Ari Berman: Why the Muslim Smear is Bigger than Islam
- John Nichols: Clinton Cuts a McCain Commercial
- Christopher Brauchli: Corrupt Dictators and Their Friends
- Robert Weissman: Human Rights Hypocrisy: Hidden In Plain Sight
- Robert Fisk: The Gardens of The Devil, Still Sowing Death