Views - June 2008
Monday June 30, 2008
- Leigh Donaldson: Has Maine Set a Precedent on Anti-War Protests?
- Dean Baker: Barack Care vs. John Care: Health Care Under the Next President
- Rajendra Pachauri: The World's Will to Tackle Climate Change Is Irresistible
- Margaux Wexberg Sanchez: Bobbing in Poison Soup
- Randy Shaw: Progressive Obama Critics Should Study FDR
- Robert Parry: Iran-Contra's 'Lost Chapter'
- Marc Bekoff: Increasing Our Compassion Footprint
- Glenn Greenwald: The Baseless, and Failed, 'Move to the Center' Cliche
- Tom Engelhardt: The Good News in Iraq
- Caroline Arnold: Of Surpluses and Survival
- William Pfaff: The Illusion of Saving Nations From Themselves
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Obama Must Confront Muslim Issue
- Madeleine Bunting: Pregnancy Should Be a Cause for Cheer, Not a Reason to Fear for Your Life
- James Carroll: A Blind Eye on Soldiers' Suicides
Sunday June 29, 2008
- Pierre Tristam: Environmentalism's Legacy
- Eric Margolis: Gas Up While It's a Bargain
- Guy Reel: The Handy Reference Guide to Bush Disasters, Incompetencies, and Lies (Part II)
- Christopher Brauchli: Blind and Naked Ignorance
- Bill McKibben: When Words Fail
- Ali Gharib: All Doughnuts Lead to the Pentagon
Saturday June 28, 2008
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Holding Muslims at Arm's Length
- Editorial: People Creating Change
- Dave Lindorff: Primary Over, Hillary Won
- Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: It Was Oil, All Along
- Geoffrey Robertson: Obama's First Presidency
- David Korten: Smart Security and the End of War
- Michael Klare: End of the Petroleum Age?
Friday June 27, 2008
- Priyamvada Gopal: Mugabe Has Recolonised His People
- Noelle Robbins: Food for Thought
- John Nichols: Sign on for the Bill of Rights
- Frank Mullen: The Exxon Valdez Ruling: Requiem for Fishermen, Justice
- Cy Bolton: How Does President Bush Lie?
- Stephen Zunes: Sharp Attack Unwarranted
- Sarah van Gelder: Are Congressional Democrats Leading Us to War With Iran?
- Paul Rockwell: Welcome Home, Soldier: Now Shut Up
- Adrienne Fitch-Frankel: Tainted Love? Chocolate-Lovers: Cocoa Industry Set to Be a Heartbreaker on July 1, 2008
- David Michael Green: Now Comes the Hard Part
- Glenn Greenwald: Keith Olbermann: Then and Now
Thursday June 26, 2008
- Greg Hampikian: Salem Witch Trials, Guantanamo Have a Lot in Common
- Amy Goodman: Funny Man in an Unfunny World
- Johann Hari: Our Infantile Search for Heroic Leaders
- Timothy Karr: America's Next Moon Shot: Internet for Everyone
- Robert C. Koehler: An Urgency of Joy
- Joyce Marcel: The Sad Death of a Dangerous American
- Scott Ritter: The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was
- Sameer Dossani: Africa's Unnatural Disaster
- Mike Davis: Living on the Ice Shelf
- Dave Zirin: 'Well, There You Go': Imus the Bigot Is Back
- Medea Benjamin: US Mayors Step Into Iran Fray Calling for Diplomacy, Not War
- John Dear: Abolish the Death Penalty Now!
- Matthew Smucker: What Is to Be Done? Assessing the Antiwar Movement
Wednesday June 25, 2008
- Robert Borosage: Time for a Grand Inquest Into Bush's High Crimes
- Paul Campos: A Tale of Two Presidents
- Robert Scheer: Wasteful Weapons and the Politicians Who Love Them
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: A New Solidarity
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Abstinence-Only Policy Is Bearing Fruit
- Sen. Bernie Sanders and William D. Hartung: From Staffer to Contractor: Stopping the Pentagon's Revolving Door
- Mark Morford: We Are Doomed! Sort Of!
- Pat LaMarche: One Life Is as Valuable as Any Other
- Glenn Greenwald: Chris Dodd's Speech and a Glimmer of Hope for Stopping the FISA Bill
- Nick Turse: Billion-Dollar Babies
- Matthew Rothschild: Obama's FISA Betrayal
- Antonia Zerbisias: What We Need Is an F-Word Revolution
- Robert B. Reich: The Great Pendulum of Economic Outrage Is About to Swing Again
- Kirsten Stade: Rejuvenating Public Sector Science
- Robert Weissman: High Flyers and Soaring Inequality
Tuesday June 24, 2008
- Jesse Jackson: US in Dire Need of Home Improvement
- Marie Cocco: Oil Mania
- John Nichols: George Carlin: American Radical
- James Hansen: Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near on Global Warming
- George Monbiot: Crime Is Falling - But Our Obsession With Locking People Up Keeps Growing
- Margaret Krome: Protect Wetlands to Cut Flooding
- Martha Rosenberg: Milk on Trial as Cornell Expert Testifies at Fired Teacher's Hearing
- Sean Gonsalves: Who Cares About the VP?
- Editorial: ... Versus Nature
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Big Oil and the War in Iraq
- Pierre Tristam: Still Places Worth Drilling for Oil, but What Does US Do After That?
- John Buell: Tax Oil Companies to Help Energy Conservation Efforts
Monday June 23, 2008
- Dean Baker: Bloodletting on Wall Street
- Dilip Hiro: No Meeting of Minds in Jeddah
- Anne Davies: Candidates Are Not Coming Clean on Energy
- John Nichols: Democrats Write a Blank Check for Bush's War
- Gary Younge: Occupations Abroad Always Lead to the Erosion of Liberties at Home
- Sabin Willett: Doing Battle With Due Process
- Sara Terry: The Aftermath Project: War Is Only Half the Story
- Tom Engelhardt: No Blood for... Er... Um...
- Cenk Uygur: Why Doesn't the Press Ever Talk About the Oil?
- Danny Schechter: Catching Predators Is Good; Economic Justice Is Better
- Chris Hedges: The Hedonists of Power
- James Carroll: If Poison Gas Can Go, Why Not Nukes?
- Harvey Wasserman: Bush/McCain's Gas Price Scam Is an Enron Re-Run
- Glenn Greenwald: Time Magazine Uncritically Prints Nancy Pelosi's 'Justifications' for the FISA 'Compromise'
Sunday June 22, 2008
- Jeff Cohen: News Flash: Network Anchor Stands Against 'Unfair' Campaign Spending
- Bruce Friedrich: Taking the Food Crisis Personally
- Eric Margolis: These Wars Are About Oil, Not Democracy
- Robert Fisk: Today's Despot Is Tomorrow's Statesman
- Nicole Sault: Wearing Orange Ribbons: Speaking Out Against Torture
- John Keane: The Value of the Impeachment Process
- Harlan Johnson: Conference Call: Restore Free Speech, Stop Big Media
- Frank Rich: Now That We've 'Won,' Let's Come Home
Saturday June 21, 2008
- Joseph L. Galloway: Gen. Taguba Knew Scandal Went to the Top
- Robert Parry: Democrats Legalize Bush's Crimes
- Aziz Huq: Surveillance Bill: The Worst of All Worlds
- Kurt Cobb: Clever and Deceptive: The Oil Lobby's New Ads
- Kate Davies: Truth or Consequences -- The Real Life Version
- Dave Lindorff: Keeping America Safe: Prosecuting Children as Terrorists
- Alon Ben-Meir: Israel's Peace Offensive
- Christopher Brauchli: Private Sector Perks
Friday June 20, 2008
- Tom Hayden: Meet the New Dr. Strangelove
- Editorial: Charges Stack Up, Like KBR's Bankroll
- Editorial: Rural Importance
- Emma Gilchrist: The Great Pesticide Debate
- Gareth Porter: The Imperialist Right Threatens Obama on Iraq
- Brian Beutler: Pleading Ignorance on Torture
- David Sirota: Countering Race With Class
- Michael T. Klare: Anatomy of a Price Surge
- Tony Norman: The 'Politics of Inclusion' Takes a Hit
- Jane Anne Morris: Meat, 'Free Trade' and Democracy
- Medea Benjamin: Iraqi Refugees, America's Shame
- Nomi Prins: Who Benefits From High Food Prices?
- Ray McGovern: Bomb Iran? What's to Stop Us?
- David Michael Green: The Poverty of Reaganism-Bushism
Thursday June 19, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama, Telecoms and The Beltway System
- Kerry Trueman: Lower the Heat to 350 -- Unless You Want to Broil
- Amy Goodman: Weather Reports Are Missing the Story
- Haroon Siddiqui: Afghanistan Crisis Worse Than Iraq
- John Nichols: Obama Goes Soft on Free Trade
- Johann Hari: There Is a Smart Drug – It's Called Breast Milk
- Priyamvada Gopal: Superiority and Separation
- Rosa Brooks: McCain's Terror Errors
- Raj Patel: The Food Crisis Is Over (If We Want It)
- Chip Ward: Big Bad Boom
- Conn Hallinan: A New Cold War?
- Robert Weitzel: A MAD Foreign Policy: America's Irrational Defense of Israel
- Stanley Kutler: A Government of Law, Not Fear
- Robert Freeman: Why the Economy Is Gloomier Than We Are
- Ray McGovern: Impeach Bush Now?
- Norman Solomon: Health Care and Ghosts of War
Wednesday June 18, 2008
- Major General Antonio Taguba, USA (Ret.): War Crimes Committed and Justice Denied
- Robert Fisk: Snapshots of Life in Baghdad
- Robert Scheer: Is Clinton the Ticket for Obama?
- Antonia Juhasz: AFRI(OIL)COM
- Thomas F. Schaller: 'Straight Talk Express' Often Reverses Course
- Ted Rall: Oops Nation
- Antonia Zerbisias: 'Demographic Winter' Is Just Overheated Rhetoric
- John Feffer: Mother Earth's Triple Whammy
- Cynthia Cooper: Failing to Use the 1st Amendment to Defend the Bill of Rights
- Laura Flanders: Of Weddings and Wedges
- Tom Gallagher: Say It Ain't So
- Paul Buchheit: Gini's Turning 1
- Paul Campos: Very Serious 9/11 Untruths
Tuesday June 17, 2008
- Bill Berkowitz: Christian Zionist Gathering Mired in Controversy
- Sam Turton: Of Gasoline and Gardens: A Look at the Future
- Marie Cocco: Impatient Justice
- Linda McQuaig: 'Friendly Disrespect' for Market
- George Monbiot: How Many Innocent People Are Going Out of Their Minds Today?
- Nicholas D. Kristof: The Weapon of Rape
- Almerindo Ojeda: Guantanamo and the Betrayal of American Values
- Jonathan Rynn: How to Enter the Global Green Economy
- Cynthia Boersma: Real ID, Real Problem
- Jesse Jackson: We Can't Afford to Ignore Foreclosure Crisis
- Glenn Greenwald: John Yoo's Ongoing Falsehoods in Service of Limitless Government Power
- Pierre Tristam: Journalism's Tim Russert Problem
- John Brown: George W. Bush's New 'So?' Man
- Editorial: Impeachment: It Still Matters
- Sean Gonsalves: Understanding 'Media Bias'
Monday June 16, 2008
- Bill Moyers: We Just Might Rekindle the Patriot's Dream
- Evo Morales: 42 Days? Try 18 Months
- William Major: Wilderness: A Place Apart
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: One Simple Question
- Lynn Perrin: The Peaceful Revolution in Farmers' Markets
- Felicity Lawrence: Our Diet of Destruction
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Reading a Book -- An Act of Sedition?
- Joseph Stiglitz: Scarcity in an Age of Plenty
- Jim Goodman: Why You Should Care How Your Meat Is Raised
- Editorial: Bush Still Plays Politics With Disaster Aid
- Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater's Bright Future
- James Carroll: 'Open Carry' Guns at Our Children's Risk
- Tom Engelhardt: The Greatest Story Never Told
- Robert Fisk: The Middle East Never Tires of Threats
- Laurie King-Irani: What Remains After the Storms
- Glenn Hurowitz: In Obama's America, Road to Power No Longer Runs Through Law Firms
- Jeff Cohen: Izzy Stone, Patron Saint of Bloggers
Sunday June 15, 2008
- It's Conyers's Time to Act on Impeachment
- Matthew Rothschild: A Discordant Note on Tim Russert
- John Nichols: Tim Russert and the End of No-Talking-Points Journalism
- Robert Scheer: Empire or Republic?
- Eric Margolis: A Line Not To Be Crossed: American-led War on Terror Cannot be Allowed to Spread Into Pakistan's Pashtun Tribal Area
- Glenn Greenwald: British Debate Highlights The Cravenness and Complicity of Congressional Democratic "leaders"
- Ben Manski and Karen Dolan: Has Your Town Declared Peace Yet?
- Peter Hart: The Press Corps' Unshakeable Crush on McCain
- Martha Rosenberg: Lighter Side of Foreclosures
- Caroline Arnold: Fantasies, Fables No Longer Enough For Fragile World
Saturday June 14, 2008
- Naomi Klein: Obama's Chicago Boys
- John R. Talbott: The Obama Economic Plan
- Larry Beinhart: 35 Reasons To Call (202) 225-5126
- Rebecca Solnit: Revolutions Per Minute: Radical Transformation Is All Around Us
- Christohper Brauchli: Rewards For The Bush Faithful
- Glenn Greenwald: Conservatism vs. Authoritarianism: The British vs. The US Right
- James Ross: Supreme Court to Bush: You're Not Above The Law
- Jonathan Hafetz: Supreme Court Deals Death Blow to Gitmo
- Isabel MacDonald: From Water Torture to 'Waterboarding'
Friday June 13, 2008
- David Sirota: An Anti-Clinton for VP
- Paul Krugman: Bad Cow Disease
- Barbara Ehrenreich: This Land Is Their Land
- Editorial: Time's Right for Rail
- Matthew Rothschild: A Great Decision on Habeas Corpus
- Michael Winship: Media Reformers: It's the Economy!!
- Ronnie Cummins: The Food, Climate, and Energy Crisis: From Panic to Organic
- Michael T. Klare: Garrisoning the Global Gas Station
- Anne Landman: Pinkwashing: Can Shopping Cure Breast Cancer?
- Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg: State of Emergency: The US in the Final Six Months of the George W. Bush Administration
- Robert Naiman: "What About Afghanistan?"
- David Michael Green: Ugly: The Future of the Republican Party
- Tom Gallagher: You Can't Beat Something With Nothing
- Evan Frisch and Joe Brewer: Jujitsu in Action -- The Smart Way to Fight Smears Against Obama
Thursday June 12, 2008
- Sarah van Gelder: Canada Says 'Sorry.' Will We?
- Bruce Dixon: Grand Theft Digital: How Corporate Broadcasters Will Hijack Digital TV
- Amy Goodman: This Way to Better Media
- Haroon Siddiqui: From Microcredit to Social Entrepreneurship
- Gore Vidal: Gore Vidal's Article of Impeachment
- Patrick Cockburn: Iraqi Sovereignty and US Bases
- Tariq Ali: NATO's Lost Cause
- Frida Berrigan: Trouble at the Pentagon
- Robert C. Koehler: Be the Media
- Norman Solomon: Deadly 'Diplomacy'
- John Bruhns: The Acceptance of Unaccountability
- Ray McGovern: Jail Time for Tenet?
Wednesday June 11, 2008
- Robert Scheer: Blame Rising Oil Prices on Bush
- Deborah Rich: Hay Belly Nation
- Stephen Zunes: Obama's Right Turn?
- Josh Silver: Moyers vs. Murdoch: Journalism vs. Megalomania
- John Young: One More Year in Iraq or 100?
- Elizabeth Sawin: $4.00 per Gallon Gasoline and Climate Change Both Call for the Same Solution: Collective Investment in Clean Energy
- Ira Chernus: Lesson of '72: Compromise on War Plank
- Joyce Marcel: Our 'Cheap Oil Fiesta' Is Over
- Pat LaMarche: Skillful Actor Needed to Portray Bush in Miniseries
- Andrew Greeley: Fall Election Hinges on Race
Tuesday June 10, 2008
- Robert L. Jamieson Jr.: The Face of the Anti-War Movement Fires Back
- George Bisharat: The Fallacy of Islamic 'National Suicide'
- Scott Ritter: Investigate This
- Jeremy Seabrook: Consuming Passions
- George Monbiot: These Objects of Contempt Are Now Our Best Chance of Feeding the World
- Yifat Susskind: Food Policies Leave People Hungry
- John Buell: The Anti-Union Campaign
- Olga Bonfiglio: Overlooking the Elephants in the Room
- Jordan Flaherty: Organizing for Freedom
- Neal Peirce: As the Nation's Top Metro Regions Show, It's Time to Reinvent Our Energy Future
- Glenn Greenwald: Comcast Censors Criticisms of Itself and Rep. Carney
- Pierre Tristam: Lazy Diplomacy in Foreclosure
- Stephen Zunes: Lebanon Intrusion
- Saree Makdisi: Banned in the USA (Almost)
- Gar Smith: Tapping the Fat of the Land
Monday June 9, 2008
- Heba Aly: Travelling 'Torture Caravan' Disturbing Sign of the Times
- Shayana Kadidal: Ghost Ships
- Robert Weitzel: US Military's Middle East Crusade for Christ
- Ann Wright: Canadian Immigration Blinks on Use of FBI Database for US Peace Activists
- Joseph Gerson: The US War in Afghanistan: Goals, Future, and Alternatives
- Gary Younge: Obama Could Set an Earthquake Under the Established Electoral Map
- Greg Grandin: Losing Latin America
- James Carroll: Here's What She Wants
- Chris Hedges: The Iran Trap
- Harvey Wasserman: King Fossil Loves Global Warming and Removes McCain's Mountaintop
Sunday June 8, 2008
- Tom Hayden: Obama and the Open and Unexpected Future
- Megan Tady: The Tipping Point for Media Reform
- Robert Naiman: Will Congress Heed McClellan's Iran Warning?
- Seamus Milne: Justice the Victor for Jara
- Dave Zirin: The NFL's Tillman Offense
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Panic and Paranoia
Saturday June 7, 2008
- Robert Fisk: The West's Weapon of Self-Delusion
- David Krieger: Firings and Hirings: The US Nuclear Arsenal Versus the People
- Tad Daley: No Instant Runoff Voting? No Nationwide Popular Vote? Looks Like Here in California, I'm Going to Be Disenfranchised Again
- Christopher Cooper: Come On, Take a Walk With Me, Arlene
- Ruth Rosen: Tales From Inside the Editorial Board Room
Friday June 6, 2008
- Christopher Brauchli: George Bush and Than Shwe, Katrina and Nargis: A Study in Style
- Maude Barlow: Life, Liberty, Water
- Josh Silver: The Future of Media Doesn't Belong to Murdoch; It Belongs to Us
- John Nichols: The Antiwar Plank
- Ted Rall: The E-Word
- Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater's Private Spies
- William J. Astore: Attention Geeks and Hackers
- Cristina Page: The Fight to Stop Contraception
- David Emblidge: My Bobby Kennedy and Yours
- David Sirota: The Populist Uprising
- Stephen Zunes: Why Obama Won
- David Michael Green: A Whole School of Trout in the Milk: What We Already Know About Iraq From the People Who Launched the War
- Martha Rosenberg: Your Brain on $4 a Gallon Gas
Thursday June 5, 2008
- John Feffer: The Way to a Just Foreign Policy
- Amy Goodman: Obama Strikes a Chord With a Disaffected Republican
- Bud McClure: Tuesday, Tuesday with Obama in St. Paul
- Malini Johar Schueller: On Borders, Globalization, and Terror: A Picture from Beirut
- Larry Beinhart: Old Myths From the Age of Idiocy (the One We're in Now) to Be Replaced by: New Truths for the Age of Reality (the One We Hope to Enter)
- Robert C. Koehler: Now What?
Wednesday June 4, 2008
- Joyce Marcel: Of Iron Butterflies and Bridge Women
- Johann Hari: No Wonder 'Gone With the Wind' Has Failed
- Timothy Karr: The Cure for America's Internet
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: McClellan's 'Mea Culpa' Way Too Late
- Joseph Cirincione: A Critical Mass for Disarmament
- Robert Scheer: What Makes McCain Tick?
- Pat LaMarche: Beggars on the Boulevard of Oil Dreams
- Walden Bello: Destroying African Agriculture
- Chris Hedges: Collateral Damage
- Joseph Nevins: Apartheid's Global Face: From South Africa to the United States
- Medea Benjamin: War Resisters May Yet Find Sanctuary in Canada
- Laura Flanders: Why They Rooted for Hillary
Tuesday June 3, 2008
- E.J. Dionne: Using Communion as a Weapon
- Linda McQuaig: Go Ahead and Reopen NAFTA
- John Nichols: Obama's Super Tuesday
- Tom Hayden: New York Times Lends Legitimacy to Pentagon Policy on Iraq Inmate Abuse
- Glenn Greenwald: McCain, Spying and Executive Power: A Complete Reversal in 6 Months
- Daniel Allen: A Cluster of Fallacies
- Sean Gonsalves: Let the Sun Shine
- George Bisharat: The Hope of a Victimized People
- Michael T. Dolan: Dedicated to the Pursuit of 'Stuff'
- Jesse Jackson: What Will Be at Heart of Obama-McCain Race
- Pierre Tristam: Insured or Not, Few Are Secure in US Health System
- George Monbiot: War Criminals Must Fear Punishment. That's Why I Went for John Bolton
- Clive Stafford Smith: The Incredible Hulks
- Norman Solomon: Obama, Clinton and Anger to Burn
Monday June 2, 2008
- Jesselyn Radack: Report on FBI Interrogations Omits the Lindh Case of Torture
- Chris Cobb: The Carnage of Cluster Munitions
- Harvey Wasserman: Coming June 3: The Twin Towers of Internet Censorship and Atomic Reactor Terror
- Sameer Dossani: Hungry for Justice: Modern-Day Slavery in New Orleans
- Danny Schechter: McClellan's Missile: Media Crimes As War Crimes
- Allan J. Lichtman: George W. Bush's Revisionist History
- James Carroll: The War-Hero President and the Pacifist
- Olga Bonfiglio: Moving From the Margins to the Mainstream
- Alice Slater: Global Article 9 Campaign to Abolish War Launched in Japan
- Tom Engelhardt: Presidential Bloodlust
Sunday June 1, 2008
- Editorial: Cluster Bombs, Made in America
- John Pilger: Cowardice of Silence
- Gabriel San Roman: Joan Jara: Justice for Victor Jara, Justice for Chile
- Robert Scheer: Indefensible Spending
- Margaret Wertheim: Reef Madness
- Linda Boyd: Our Nation's Self-Respect Demands Impeachment
- Carol Tashie: Keep it in Vermont
- Robert Fisk: So Al-Qa'ida's Defeated, Eh? Go Tell it to the Marines