Views - April 2008
Wednesday April 30, 2008
- Thom Hartmann: Interview With Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman
- Chalmers Johnson: A Litany of Horrors
- Stephen Zunes: The Clinton Smear Campaign Against Obama
- Paul Campos: A Nation of Hysterics
- Susan Walsh and Wilhelmina Pelegrina: Wealthy Nations Fuelling Unrest
- Robert Scheer: No Country for Old Men
- Barbara Ehrenreich: Truckers Take Their Case to the Capitol
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Where Is Justice?
- Cecile Richards: Message to McCain: Prevention Works
- Peter Cole: Longshore Union Strikes Against War
- Ted Rall: Arrest Bush
- Pat LaMarche: Cartoon Hero Will Save the Day
- Charlie Cray: War Profiteers: The Bush Baghdad Bubble
- Stephen Mathis: Protect America, Not Just George Bush
Tuesday April 29, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: Brian Williams Nominates Peggy Noonan for a Pulitzer Prize
- Pierre Tristam: But Does Business Really Outperform Government?
- John Buell: Obama Appears to Take Social Values Seriously
- Gary Kamiya: Taking Back the Debate Over Israel
- Sheldon Rampton: Pentagon Pundit Scandal Broke the Law
- Dean Baker: Developing the New "Capitalists' Man"
- Robert B. Reich: The Best Thing Not to Have Happened During the Bush Administration
- Michael Winship: Mom and Hamas: Carter Back in the Middle East
- Sarah Stillman: Bloated in Baghdad
- Marie Cocco: The Cutting Edge of Backward Thinking
- Jesse Jackson: Starving Haiti Needs Help From America
- Sean Gonsalves: Who's Feeding the Watchdog?
Monday April 28, 2008
- Marie Marchand: Mothers Know the Cost of War
- Johann Hari: Israel Is Suppressing a Secret It Must Face
- Erica Jong: Inspiration Versus Degradation
- Raj Patel: The Angry Hungry
- Gary Younge: Hillary Has Cynically Turned to the One Argument She Has Left: Race
- Michael T. Klare: The US and China Are Over a Barrel
- Jimmy Carter: Talking to 'Terrorists'
- Mollie Matteson: On a Freefall Toward Extinction
- James Carroll: Hunger Affects Us All
- Lauren R. Stevens: Bush of the Yellow Stockings
- Tom Engelhardt: Selling the President's General: The Petraeus Story
- Danny Schechter: On the Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Election: Why Political Campaigns Are Only One Road to Social Change
- Ann Wright: Is There an Army Cover Up of Rape and Murder of Women Soldiers?
- Thomas Palley: Curse of the Clintons
- Jeff Cohen: Military Propaganda Pushed Me Off TV
Sunday April 27, 2008
- Audrey Schulman: How to Be a Climate Hero
- Glenn Greenwald: John McCain's Serious Foreign Policy
- Nancy Grape: TV Military 'Analysts' Are Part of What Ike Warned Against
- Thomas Axworthy: Eat Locally, Survive Globally
- Mark Weisbrot: The IMF's Dwindling Fortunes
- Eric Margolis: The Neoconning of a Nation
Saturday April 26, 2008
- Tim Rutten: Diamond Lanes for the Rich
- Harvey Wasserman: Making YOU Pay for the Next Chernobyls…in Advance!!
- Laurie King-Irani: Amen, Rev. Wright!
- Christopher Brauchli: The Prostitute and the Moderators -- A Suggestion
- Andrew Wimmer: Obliterate Them!
- Errol Louis: It's Our Duty to Protest Bell Decision
- Bryan Farrell: Penn State's Frightening Defense
Friday April 25, 2008
- Mark Morford: All the President's Liars
- Dan Hamburg: Is an Attack on Iran Imminent?
- Jonathan Stein: John McCain's Miserable Record on Hurricane Katrina
- David Michael Green: Get Out, Hillary
- George Hunsinger: History Will Not Absolve Us
- John Nichols: The World Food Crisis
- Mark Hertsgaard: Running on Empty
- David Sirota: Matthews vs. McNulty
- Robert Fisk: 'You Become Accustomed to the Smell of Blood During War'
- Conor Foley: Avoidable Hunger
- Ryan Blethen: All Eyes on Media Glutton Murdoch
- Tony Norman: We've Got Dreams to Remember
- Nick Turse: The Real Matrix
Thursday April 24, 2008
- Josh Silver: TV's Response to Pentagon Propaganda? Never Happened
- Joe Conason: The Ritual Flaying of Jimmy Carter
- Editorial: Torture of the Law
- Amy Goodman: The Single-Payer Solution
- Laura Santina: Hillary: Another Feminist Perspective
- Tad Daley: Backyard Democracy
- Mark Engler: The Democrats 'Free Trade' Divide
- Robert Weissman: Opening the Schoolhouse: Undoing the World Bank's Damage
- Robert C. Koehler: Shattering the War Consensus
Wednesday April 23, 2008
- Lester Brown and Jonathan Lewis: End Food-to-Fuel Diversion: The World Is Getting Hungry
- Dave Lindorff: What Double-Digit Win!: Rounding Out the Pennsylvania Primary Story
- Tom Hayden: Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream
- Editorial: Gender Wars: Make Pay Equal
- J. Peter Scoblic: Meet John 'Dubya' McCain
- John Nichols: Chaos? Not in Pennsylvania
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: A Hunger for National Purpose
- Ted Rall: One Nation, Under a Heartless God
- Robert Scheer: Clinton Threatens to 'Obliterate' Iran
- Shahid Buttar: Subsidizing Corporate Crime and Rewarding Constitutional Abuses
- Steve Fraser: The Great Silence
Tuesday April 22, 2008
- Peter W. Fulham: When Will Young Americans Get Angry About the War?
- Editorial: Uranium Bonfire: Air Force Incinerated Radioactive Waste
- Sean Gonsalves: A Bad Week for Journalism
- George Monbiot: The Most Potent Weapon Wielded by the Empires of Murdoch and China
- David Domke and Kevin Coe: The 'God Bless America' Test
- Pierre Tristam: A Black Eye for Beijing, Cameras Rolling
- Jesse Jackson: US Needs to Take Lead Against World Hunger
- Steve Niva: The New Walls of Baghdad
- Robyn Blumner: Obama Chose Right Word: Who Wouldn't Be 'Bitter' About Being Bushed?
- Editorial: Propaganda at Home
- Brendan Smith: From Scorched Political Earth to Scorched Actual Earth
- Sheldon Rampton: This Earth Day, Let's Scrape Off the Greenwash
Monday April 21, 2008
- Cindy Sheehan: In Love and Hope for a Peaceful World
- Editorial: Tuesday Is Earth Day: The Drops of Life
- Glenn Greenwald: Major Revelation: US Media Deceitfully Disseminates Government Propaganda
- Harvey Wasserman: Where's George?
- Gareth Porter: The Pentagon's Corrupt Sock Puppet 'Military Analysts' Exposed
- Lucinda Marshall: Reproductive Rights: The Abortion Conversation That We Should Be Having
- Ira Chernus: Carter's Hamas Talks Could Aid Exodus to Peace
- Norman Solomon: Party Like It's 1932: The Obama Option
- Michael Moore: My Vote's for Obama (If I Could Vote) ...
- Glenn Hurowitz: The Twisted Logic of the Border Wall
- Tom Engelhardt: Unraveling Iraq
- Chris Hedges: The Left Has Lost Its Nerve and Its Direction
- Charles Derber and Yale Magrass: Rethinking 'War Hero'
Sunday April 20, 2008
- Mark Kurlansky: Turn the Other Cheek, or Pop Him on the Nose?
- Susan Jacoby: Talking to Ourselves
- Nicholas D. Kristof: Our Favorite Planet
- Frank Rich: Shoddy! Tawdry! A Televised Train Wreck!
- Les Payne: Ask Not What We Want to Hear
- Joan Vennochi: Obama's Patriotism
- Arthur J. Magida: The Shackles That Remain
- Haroon Siddiqui: Mbeki Looks on Sphinx-Like While Zimbabwe Simmers
- Shelley Berkley: There's Only Toxic Waste at the End of Yucca Mtn. Rainbow
Saturday April 19, 2008
- David Edgar: With Friends Like These . . .
- Raul Reyes: Government Authority Is Crossing a Line
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Tough Questions or Just Plain Bias?
- Bob Herbert: Road Map to Defeat
- Casey Bush and Joshua Seeds: Apocalypse Found
- Christopher Brauchli: Funerals and Abortions
- Carolyn Bennett: Papal Pomp, Millions' Misery
Friday April 18, 2008
- Karen Houppert: KBR's Rape Problem
- Gwen DuBois: Don't Dismiss Nuclear Risks
- Editorial: It's Time to Scrap the Ethanol Boondoggle
- David Sirota: Colorado Still Sneers at Labor
- John Nichols: Edwards Wins Colbert 'Debate'
- Clive Stafford Smith: Cruel and Unusual
- Christopher D. Cook: Sowing Disaster: Why We Need a New Farm Bill
- Olga Bonfiglio: The Way to Peace Can Be Paved With Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Negotiation
- Christine Ahn and GRAIN: Food Safety on the Butcher's Block
- Andrew Greeley: Bush's Victory: Blame the Democrats
- David Michael Green: Let's All Pretend
Thursday April 17, 2008
- William Astore: Leaving Cheyenne Mountain
- Joe Conason: Whose Elitism Is Worse?
- Lawrence Lessig and Ben Scott: Public Must Fight to Maintain Net Neutrality
- Amy Goodman: The Orangeburg Massacre
- Will Bunch: An Open Letter to Charlie Gibson and George Stephanapoulos
- Sally Kohn: The War on Immigrants
- Jerry Lanson: A Pathetic Round of 'Gotcha' Questioning
- Joyce Marcel: Houses Built on Sand
- Kathy Kelly: Weary of War? Don't Collaborate
- Robert Shetterly: One Hand Clapping in the Coal Fields
- Marjorie Cohn: Center for Constitutional Rights Supports National Lawyers Guild Call for Dismissal and Prosecution of John Yoo
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Letter to Hillary: Remember When John McCain Slimed Your Daughter
- Robert C. Koehler: The Done Deal
- Ira Chernus: Obama's 'Other Wordly' Gaffe
Wednesday April 16, 2008
- Katrina vanden Heuvel and Greg Kaufmann: Ending Slavery for Pennies
- Jim Goodman: Food Shortage Looming if Crop Focus Isn't Altered
- Sally Kohn: The Unmaking of the Market
- Paul Campos: A Tortured Defense
- Peter Singer: Righting Wrongs
- Jennifer Wilkins: Good Reasons to Support Local Farmers
- Ted Rall: The Cavalry Isn't Coming
- Pat LaMarche: US Won't Get a Gold Medal for Human Rights
- Conn Hallinan: Basra: Echoes of Vietnam
- Robert Scheer: The Man Who Would Be Bush
Tuesday April 15, 2008
- Michael T. Klare: The End of the World As You Know It … and the Rise of the New Energy World Order
- Stacey Warde: Fascism Is Creepy
- Eugene Robinson: Just a Regular Gal
- John Nichols: The Pope and the President
- David Cronin: Fueling the Food Crisis
- Jesse Jackson: As Food Costs Soar, US Must Step Up to Plate
- John Buell: Real Worry Is Medicare, Not Social Security
- Manuel Pérez Rocha and Sarah Anderson: Three Amigos Summit
- George Monbiot: Credit Crunch? The Real Crisis Is Global Hunger. And If You Care, Eat Less Meat
- Robert Reich: Obama, Bitterness, Meet the Press, and the Old Politics
- Derrick Z. Jackson: One Less Burger, One Safer Planet
- Dean Baker: Sanctity of Contracts: Mortgages and Credit Cards
- Roger K. Smith: Some Voters Are Bitter, but More Voters Are Sweet
- Barbara Koeppel: Clinton's Experience: Fact and Fancy
- Holly Sklar: Tax Day Gifts for the Rich
Monday April 14, 2008
- Robert Weissman: IMF: The Times They Are A-Changin'
- Floyd Rudmin: The Hypocrisy and Danger of Anti-China Demonstrations
- Matthew Rothschild: Irish Peace Activist Denied Entry Into the United States
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama Is Right
- Bradley Burston: I Want the Palestinians to Win
- James Martin: How Iraq Spawned Wider Terrorist Chaos
- Joe Lauria: The Coming War with Iran: It's About the Oil, Stupid
- Sidney Blumenthal: Dick Cheney Was Never a "Grown Up"
- Gary Younge: The US Needs To Talk About Class, But Politicians Don't Have The Vocabulary
- Seattle PI Editorial: Torture: Beyond The Pale
- James Carroll: America's Whipping Boy For 9/11
Sunday April 13, 2008
- Tony Judt: What Have We Learned, If Anything?
- Bill McKibben: Where Have All The Joiners Gone?
- Boston Globe Editorial: Can't Eat Ethanol
- Rebecca Solnit: Men Explain Things to Me
- Frank Rich: The Petraeus-Crocker Show Gets the Hook
- John Nichols: Cheney, Torture and the Chance to Restore the Rule of Law
- Joe Galloway: In Iraq and In Washington, Reality Bites
- Dave Lindorff: Finding Voters 'Bitter and Frustrated,' Obama is Sounding Like Nader
Saturday April 12, 2008
- Christopher Brauchli: Savoir Faire
- Robert Fisk: Semantics Can't Mask Bush's Chicanery
- Robert Weitzel: 'Suffer The Little Children' Takes On A New Meaning
- Helen Thomas: War Without End
- Glenn Greenwald: John Yoo: Spearhead or Scapegoat?
Friday April 11, 2008
- Maryam Roberts: April Fools – Lessons From Inside the Peace Movement
- Chris Cooper: I'm Goin' Down In It Three Times, But Lord I'm Only Comin' Up Twice
- John Nichols: Colombia Trade Fight is a Human Rights Test
- Helen De Michiel: Next President Should Launch The Digital New Deal
- David Sirota: The Long, Sorrowful Ludlow Legacy
- Tom Engelhardt: Catch 2,200
- Matthew Rothschild: Bush Hypes Threat from Iran in Surge "Success" Speech
- Peter Tatchell: Not Just Tibet, China Too
- Joe Conason: McCain's Lack of Candor on Reproductive Rights
- Janet Redman: The World Bank's Carbon Deals
- Michael Parenti: Dubious Design
- David Michael Green: Seven Ridiculously Practical Recommendations For Curbing America's Addiction To War
Thursday April 10, 2008
- Marie Cocco: Failing the Troops
- Patrick Cockburn: Riding the Tiger: Muqtada al-Sadr and the American Dilemma in Iraq
- Frida Berrigan: Bush Woos Europe
- Maryam Roberts: April Fools – Lessons From Inside the Peace Movement
- Robert C. Koehler: Truth's Wreckage
- Amy Goodman: A Torture Debate Among Healers
- Indra Sinha: Victims of the Bhopal Disaster: Abandoned to Their Fate
- Daniel Imhoff: We'll Reap What We Sow
- Jay Bookman: We're Locked and Loaded Into Our Rambo Fantasy
Wednesday April 9, 2008
- Jeremy Seabrook: India: Disappearing the Poor
- Robin Mittenthal: Enough Already
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Arrogance, Indiscipline Come Down From the Top
- Robert Scheer: Everything His President Wants to Hear
- Aaron Glantz: Petraeus' Testimony
- Pat LaMarche: Bigger Will Never Be Eco Friendly
- Bill Moyers: Journalists As Truth-Tellers
- Tom Andrews: It's Time to Challenge Gen. Petraeus
- Sean Gonsalves: Where – and What – in the World Is Diego Garcia?
Tuesday April 8, 2008
- Michael Winship: John Yoo's Tortured Explanations
- Leonard Doyle: Hillary's Mr Fix-It: The Rise and Fall of Mark Penn
- Marie Cocco: Seven Years of Scandal
- Barbara Ehrenreich: Truckers Hit the Brakes
- Joseph Stiglitz: A Deficit of Leadership
- Pierre Tristam: Dog and Petraeus Show
- Jesse Jackson: America Should Invest in the 'Front Side of Life'
- Olga Bonfiglio: What the Peace Movement Has Wrought and Opportunities for the Future
- Dilip Hiro: A Convenient Culprit
- Dean Baker: The Foreclosure Prevention Act (aka the Bank and Builder Bailout Act)
Monday April 7, 2008
- Chris Hedges: On Secular Fundamentalism
- Ira Chernus: General Entrap-Us or General Entrapped?
- Paul Krugman: Grains Gone Wild
- Patrick W. Quirk: Democracy Promotion Doublespeak
- Glenn Greenwald: Cokie Roberts Speaks Out on the War on Behalf of the American People
- Oliver Miles: Still Occupied
- Iain Hunter: Canada Turns Its Back on Thirsty World
- James Carroll: Paranoia Backed by Just Cause
- David Rovics: The Truth About the 9/11 'Truth Movement'
- Dave Zirin: Common Bond for Uncommon Men: Roberto Clemente and Martin Luther King
- Caroline Arnold: Soldiers in Modern Wars All Die in Vain
- Tom Engelhardt: Petraeus's Ponzi Scheme
- Jeremy Scahill: Contract Justice
Sunday April 6, 2008
- Queen Rania Al Abdullah: Gaza's Crushed Childhoods
- Katrina vanden Heuvel and Greg Kaufmann: Bernie Sanders Does Small 'd' Democracy
- Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes: $3 Trillion May Be Too Low
- Jim Doherty: The Pack Is Back
- Dave Lindorff: Listen to the General (No Not Petraeus!)
Saturday April 5, 2008
- Jessica Mosby: The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
- Robert Fisk: The Fearful Lives in a Land of the Free
- Jameel Jaffer: Notes on Torture
- Glenn Greenwald: The US Establishment Media in a Nutshell
- Christopher Brauchli: The Quick and the Dead and McCain
- Grace Lee Boggs: Living for Change: Obama and MLK
Friday April 4, 2008
- Tom Devine: The Biggest Threat to Freedom
- Larry Beinhart: The Road to Esfahan
- Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
- Jeff Cohen: 40 Years Later, (The Late) Martin Luther King Still Silenced
- Editorial: The Fox and the Henhouse: Conflict of Interest at Yucca Mountain
- David Sirota: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
- John Nichols: Dems Flunking Trade 101
- Jonathan Steele: In Backing the Basra Assault, the US Has Only Helped Sadr
- Tom Engelhardt: American Grand Delusions
Thursday April 3, 2008
- Alison Mondi: Students Pay the Price for Inadequate Sex Education
- Glenn Greenwald: Why Doesn't the 9/11 Commission Know About Mukasey's 9/11 Story?
- Jesse Jackson: MLK's Legacy Is Alive and Well
- Martin Luther King III: Speaking Truth to Poverty
- Marie Cocco: Doctors and Patients Agree
- Amy Goodman: Where Do We Go From Here?
- Bob Hepburn: Calling on Youth to Save Our Planet
- Michael Takiff: Oh, What a Lovely War! So?
- Margaret Krome: Health System Keeps Stigma on Mental Care
- David Vine: The Other Guantánamo
- Gary Olson: The Emotional Power of Photography: From the Civil Rights Movement to Iraq, How Empathy Can Impact Change
- Peter Dreier: HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson's Resignation -- A Window Into Bush Administration's Corruption, Indifference, and Incompetence
- Carol V. Hamilton: Obama, JFK, and 'A Sense of History'
- Robert C. Koehler: Fire and Race
Wednesday April 2, 2008
- Marko Beljac: Arms Race in Space
- Aijaz Husain: Counting the Cost in Iraq
- Ted Rall: Don't Move On. Start Over
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Can You See the Promised Land of Equality?
- Dennis Martinez: Land Grab on a Global Scale
- Robert Scheer: A Submarine to Fight al-Qaida's Navy
- Pat LaMarche: Our Leaders Don't Care: 'So?'
- John Dear: The Last Words of Dr. King
- Michael Tomasky: Rolling Back History
- Harvey Wasserman: Will Al Gore Help Shut the Nuke Power Loophole?
- Yifat Susskind: The US-Colombia Unfair Trade Agreement: Just Say No!
- Howard Zinn: Empire or Humanity?
Tuesday April 1, 2008
- Juan Cole: Why al-Maliki Attacked Basra
- Michael Hansen and Rhonda Perry: Lobbyists Try to Keep Milk Information From Consumers
- Editorial: An Unsustainable Scam
- Michael A. Kroll: A Lesson on Protest From the 1980 Olympics
- Wayne Barrett: Could the Republicans Pick the Democratic Nominee? -- The Untold Story of How the GOP Rigged Florida and Michigan
- John Buell: Current Tax System Unfair to Working Class
- Nomi Prins: Why Fed Reform Won't Work
- Dave Zirin: Sportswriters Swoon Over DC Ballpark
- Jeff Leys: Fracturing the Peace to End the Iraq War
- Michael Winship: "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo" Illuminates and Devastates
- Bud McClure: War Math
- Robert Weissman: Philip Morris International Commences New Plans to Spread Death and Disease
- Jesse Jackson: We Mustn't Give Up Fight for King's Cause
- Daphne Wysham and Shakuntala Makhijani: World Bank Climate Profiteering