Views - August 2008
Sunday August 31, 2008
- David Korten: We Are Hard-Wired to Care and Connect
- Michael Moore: An Open Letter to God, From Michael Moore
- Ann Wright: US Military Keeping Secrets About Female Soldiers’ ‘Suicides’?
- Bill Quigley: Waiting for the Bus in New Orleans
- Glenn Greenwald: Massive Police Raids on Suspected Protestors in Minneapolis
Saturday August 30, 2008
- Sangitha McKenzie Millar: Extraordinary Rendition, Extraordinary Mistake
- Robert Fisk: Why Do We Keep Letting the Politicians Get Away With Lies?
- John McQuaid: The Failure to Learn From Katrina
- Robert Naiman: McCain Hypes the 'Threat' From Iran
- Ira Chernus: More Than a Mile High With Barack Obama
- William Greider: McCain's Hail Mary Pass
- Christopher Brauchli: The Wandering Anti-Terrorist Funds
Friday August 29, 2008
- Tony Norman: Barack Obama: The Reality Show
- Johann Hari: The Parasite That Reveals Good News From Africa
- Neve Gordon : Refusing to Oppress
- Luz A. Vega-Marquis: Listen Up! America’s Families Demand Action
- Deepa Fernandes: Three Years After Hurricane Katrina, Homelessness Looms
- Ann Jones: Surging in Afghanistan: Too Much, Too Late?
- Joel Gulledge : Israel Must Rein in Settler Movement, Protect Palestinian Children
Thursday August 28, 2008
- Alex Kane and Jessica Lee : Police Block Veterans’ Access to DNC in Largest Protest to Date
- Glenn Greenwald: What's Missing From the Democratic Convention?
- Marie Cocco: Universal Health Care Makes More Sense Than Ever
- Amy Goodman: Poverty Is the Real Scandal
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Taking On Poverty and Inequality
- Anna Hartnell: The Disneyfication of New Orleans
- Robert Naiman: My Audacious Hope: President Obama Will Respect the UN Charter
- Dave Lindorff: The Land of the Silent and the Home of the Fearful
- Kesi Foster : Community College Students Need Not Apply: Our Reward for Bailing Out the Banks
- Robert C. Koehler: State of Denial
Wednesday August 27, 2008
- Conor Foley: Enough Is Enough
- Nick Turse : The Pentagon: Some-Things-Never-Change Department
- Timothy Karr : Networks Sleep While Democracy Burns
- Shepherd Bliss : Slow Food Nation to Release Healthy Food and Agriculture Declaration
- Robert Scheer: Running for War President at Any Cost
- Bruce Dixon: FCC Anounces 80 City 'We're Not Listening' Digital TV Tour
- Dave Lindorff: Remembering When the US Government Was at Least Approachable
- Dean Baker: The Housing Bubble Villains Deny Responsibility
Tuesday August 26, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: AT&T Thanks the Blue Dog Democrats With a Lavish Party
- Roxanne Chan and Sarah Petras: Chemical Pollutants Likely Culprits in Rising Birth Defects
- Gary Corseri : The Future That Never Comes; The Past That Never Was; The Present Inscrutable
- Linda McQuaig : Twisting the Concept of 'Elite'
- George Monbiot: Rich Countries Once Used Gunboats to Seize Food. Now They Use Trade Deals
- Sally Kohn: Beyond the Clintons
- Nanette Fondas: Fairness for Working Parents
- David Krieger: Olympic Inspiration for Peace
Sunday August 24, 2008
- Caroline Arnold: We Have a Chance to Choose a Better Road
- Haroon Siddiqui: What Obama and Dion Should Be Talking About
- Leonard Pitts, Jr.: Children of Katrina Still Bear the Scars
- Ann Wright: Another US War Resister From Canada Court-Martialed
- Editorial: Take Steps Toward a Nuclear-Free Future
- Touré F. Reed: Obama and the Legacy of the 1963 March on Washington
- Danny Schechter: Beyond the Dog Days of Summer: After August, Reality
- Bill Quigley: Katrina Pain Index – New Orleans Three Years Later
- Chris Hedges: Pouring Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire
- Stephen Zunes: Biden, Iraq, and Obama’s Betrayal
Saturday August 23, 2008
- David Sirota: What Biden Means
- John Nichols: VEEPSTAKES: Obama-Biden
- Matthew Rothschild: Judge Sides with Maker of 'Bush Lied' T-Shirt
- Haziz Huq: FBI Seeks Sweeping New Powers
- Osama Qashoo: Intimidation Will Not Stop Our Boats Sailing for Gaza
- Christopher Brauchli: Protecting US Citizens from George W. Bush
- Deena Guzder: Mr. Future President: This Is Iran
Friday August 22, 2008
- Dave Lindorff: Loserville: Obama Is Channeling Kerry and Gore
- Joseph Nevins: Pat Nixon at the US-Mexico Border
- Editorial: Leaving Green
- Tom Hayden: Warning to Obama on the New Cold War
- Arundhati Roy : Land and Freedom
- Cheryle R. Jackson: When Education Is Unequal
- David Sirota: The Conquest by Presidentialism
- Kerry Trueman : The Fast Track to Slow Food
- John W. Dean: Smears and Slurs Without Legal Consequences
- Rosemarie G. Sawdon : Restore Power to the People
- David Michael Green: John McCain Discovers America
- Robert C. Koehler: Predator and Prey
Thursday August 21, 2008
- Tom Gallagher: San Francisco to Vote on Iraq War Funding
- Theda Skocpol: Wake Up, Obama Camp
- Ewa Jasiewicz: Time for a Revolution
- Peter Melchett: Don't Believe the GM Apologists
- Timothy Karr : A Major Milestone in the Fight for an Open Internet
- John Feffer : Apocalypse Later
- Juan Gonzalez: $2M Settlement Is a Cop Wakeup Call
- Anthony Salloum : US-India Nuclear Deal a Non-Proliferation Disaster
- Johann Hari: John McCain and His Secretive Plot to 'Kill the UN'
- Aaron Glantz: Fallujah Fall Guy
- John Brown: America in the World: Silenced by Bush
- Kristen A. Sheeran: Endangered Species Act Redux
Wednesday August 20, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: Journalists and Their Good Friends in the White House
- Ray McGovern: Musharraf Out, Like Nixon; Bush Still In, Like Flynn
- Allan J. Lichtman: Is Georgia 2008 a Repeat of Hungary 1956, With John McCain as Agent Provocateur?
- Bill Vitek: These Revolutionary Times
- Bruce Dixon: Denver 2008: Hope Is for the Weak
- Robert Scheer: McCain's Warped Worldview
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Fateful Crossroads for America
- Tom MacMillan: Importing Food Means Exporting Drought
- Daniel Haack: Jed Babbin: The Pentagon's Most Prolific Pundit
- Michael Moore: 'Caroline: Pull a Cheney!'
Tuesday August 19, 2008
- Fidaa Abed: Blocking a Gazan's Path to San Diego
- Dean Baker: Swift Boat Economics
- Editorial: Miscarriage of Justice
- Olga Bonfiglio: A Place Where Beauty Matters
- Jerry Lanson: Some 'Cone of Silence'
- Marie Cocco: Same Old White Guys Run the Debates
- George Monbiot: The US Missile Defence System Is the Magic Pudding That Will Never Run Out
- John Buell: Torture's Political Invisibility
- Jim Goodman: G8 Clueless on Food Policy
- Dave Lindorff: Huffing and Puffing at the Pentagon
Monday August 18, 2008
- Tom Andrews: Al From Is Wrong... Again
- Tom Engelhardt: Double Standards in the Global War on Terror
- Nancy Dickeman: Loss Looms in Seattle's Urban Forests
- Dedrick Muhammad and Farrah Hassen: Christians United for Israel and Attacking Iran
- Editorial: Endangered Species Law in Danger From Bush
- Robert Dreyfuss: McCain, Circa 2003
- Johann Hari: Do We Want a Democracy or a Pantomime?
- James Carroll: Taking Stock as Summer Wanes
- Norman Solomon: Progressives and Obama: The Clash of Narratives
- Danny Schechter: I Won't Be Politically High in the Mile-High City
Sunday August 17, 2008
- Frank Rich: The Candidate We Still Don't Know
- Bill C. Davis: Faith For Whom?
- Ramzi Kysia: Standing Up for Justice in the Middle East
- Matthew Rothschild: Detention In America Should Not be a Death Sentence
- Thomas Frank: The Plot Against Liberal America
Saturday August 16, 2008
- Peter Erlinder: The Precedent Was Set In The Balkans
- Molly Birnbaum: Slow Food Nation Celebrates The Good, clean and Fair
- Misha Glenny: Superpower Swoop
- Mark Weisbrot: Bolivia Gets the Change It Asked For
- Christopher Brauchli: Bush, Babes, and Human Rights
- Peter Hart and Jim Naureckas: Georgia/Russia Conflict Forced Into Cold War Frame
- Rebecca Solnit: Looking Away From Beauty
- Megan Tady: Wireless to The People
- Ray McGovern: Out Damn Blot: A Letter to Colin Powell
- Daniel Burnstein: Bag Law Not A Threat To Freedom
Friday August 15, 2008
- Eliot J. Chandler: Behind Politics, A Philosophy of Fear
- Maura Kelly: Death and Texas
- Tom Hayden: The Defunding of the Peace Movement
- Robert Fisk: Al-Qa'ida Sends Its Warriors From Iraq to Wage 'Jihad' in Lebanon
- David Michael Green: My Army Went to Iraq and All I Got Was This Lousy Airlift
- Lynne Henderson: Rushing to Acquit
- Stephen Zunes: US Role in Georgia Crisis
- Jonathan Tasini: Hillary Clinton's Original Sin
- William D. Hartung: Georgia: Background to War
- Deborah Stone: Two Ways to Think About Gas Prices
Thursday August 14, 2008
- Juan Cole: Putin's War Enablers: Bush and Cheney
- Robert Weitzel: Can Obama Bridge America's Wall of Ignominy?
- Joe Torres: Journalists Must Speak Up
- Amy Goodman: Don't Cage Dissent
- Josh Silver and Josh Stearns: FCC Commissioner's Scare Tactics Reach New Low
- Alison Benjamin: Why Bees Matter
- Robert C. Koehler: Civilian Diplomacy
- Laura Flanders: The NYT Finds Heroes in Tbilisi -- In Baghdad, Only Terrorists
Wednesday August 13, 2008
- Michael Klare: Russia and Georgia: All About Oil
- Judy Helgen: Hey -- Let's Stay in Touch
- Dmitri Vitaliev: Corporate Complicity With the Great Firewall
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Frozen Katrina
- Dan Kennedy: The Meat of the Matter for Whole Foods
- Dave Lindorff: This War Report Has Been Approved by Your Government
- Editorial: Mr. Mukasey in Denial
- Robert Scheer: Georgia War a Neocon Election Ploy?
Tuesday August 12, 2008
- Benjamin K. Sovacool: Toward a Sustainable Energy Policy
- Chris Sweeney: In Sunday's Recall Vote, Morales' Populist Agenda Clashes With Santa Cruz-led Eurocrats
- Diane Farsetta: Cracking the Pentagon Pundit Code
- Donna Smith: The DNC's 'Guaranteed Healthcare' Reality Check
- Ahdaf Soueif: The Laureate of All Arabs
- Scott Ritter: 'Where Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?'
- Linda McQuaig: Disarmed to Nuclear Danger
- Robert M. Saper: Food Crisis in Mexico: A US Policy Disaster That Bodes Increased Immigration
- Stephen Zunes: The Democrats' Twisted Morality
- Stan Cox: Let's Handcuff the Property Cops
- Dean Baker: Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Comes to Brookings
- Ed Kinane: Charging the Victim: Who Should Pay to Rebuild Iraq?
Monday August 11, 2008
- Roberto Rodriguez: Questions Journalists Never Ask
- Charles Knight: Like a Mirage in the Desert: US Exit From Iraq May Recede Into the Time Horizon
- Caroline Arnold: Abortion: A Matter of Power, Not God
- Oliver Tickell: On a Planet 4C Hotter, All We Can Prepare for Is Extinction
- Christopher Brauchli: The Games and the Promises
- Danny Schechter: The Next Bubble Is on the Way: Credit Card Debt
Sunday August 10, 2008
- Gareth Porter: How Tenet Betrayed the CIA on WMD in Iraq
- Pierre Tristam: As China Proves, Olympic Panel Can't Separate Sports and Politics
- Chris Hedges: What's Sex Got to Do With It?
- John Nichols: Platform Fight: Activists Win Commitment to Guaranteed Care
- Harvey Wasserman: McCain's Michigan Melt-Down Madness
- Stephen Soldz: Ending the Psychological Mind Games on Detainees
- Julie Hollar: Carrying a Torch for Anti-China Protests
- Kathy Kelly: The Big Voice
- Susan Campbell: Rolling Out the Welcome Mat for the Good Samaritan
Saturday August 9, 2008
- John W. Dean: Judge Bates Slams the Bush White House's Claims of Congressional Immunity: Why There May Be No Consequences for the White House, Despite the Clear Ruling
- Ted Rall: It's the Torture, Stupid
- Editorial: Writing Off Disabled Children
- Mark Ames: Getting Georgia's War On
- Becky O'Malley: The Locavore's Dilemma: Finding Places to Plant
- John Young: Doing It for Country? No, for Cash
Friday August 8, 2008
- Benjamin Zawacki: August 8, 1988: No Moving Backwards, Despite the Junta
- Andy Worthington: Salim Hamdan's Sentence Signals the End of Guantanamo
- Tony Norman: Andre Thomas Is Dead. Why?
- David Michael Green: The Fire This Time?
- Lance Dickie: Vital Signs For National Health Insurance
- Medea Benjamin: Bolivia Racked by Political Divisions on the Eve of a Recall Vote
- Ronnie Cummins: USDA Report Indicates That Organic Labeling Fraud Is Increasing
- Lori Singleton: Using Less Can Mean Having More Resources
- Robert Dreyfuss: McCain the Antichrist?
- Robert Fisk: The Tragic Last Moments of Margaret Hassan
- Peter Tatchell: IOC Risks Legal Action Over Smog
Thursday August 7, 2008
- Robert Parry: Why McCain May Well Win
- Robert C. Koehler: No Name for the River
- Haroon Siddiqui: Verdict Is in on Bush-Style Justice: Guilty
- Joseph Stiglitz: Turn Left for Growth
- Naomi Klein: The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0
- Editorial: Against the Wal
- Amy Goodman: Threats, Lies and Audiotape
- Robert Weitzel: President Obama Up Against the Middle East 'Berlin Wall'
- Johann Hari: Don't Let the Games Blind Us to the Plight of China's Workers
- Sahr MuhammedAlly: The Hamdan War Crimes Trial: An Illusion of Justice
- Mark Lynas: Climate Change Catastrophe by Degrees
Wednesday August 6, 2008
- Pat LaMarche: Unfurling the Flag of the United States of Greed
- Robert Scheer: Terror From the Inside
- Ron Suskind: The Forged Iraqi Letter: What Just Happened?
- John Pilger: The Lies of Hiroshima Live On, Props in the War Crimes of the 20th Century
- George Monbiot: I'd Rather Be a Hypocrite Than a Cynic Like Julie Burchill
- Alexandra Spieldoch: The Food Crisis and Global Institutions
- Robert Weissman: The Commercial Games: How Commercialism Is Overrunning the Olympics
- Dave Lindorff: Obama Is Right: It's Easy to Reduce the Nation's (and Your Own) Fuel Bill Dramatically
- John Dear: Hiroshima, Ninevah, and Los Alamos
- Jonathan Schell: A Powerful Peace
Tuesday August 5, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: The FBI's Emerging, Leaking Case Against Ivins
- Justin Elliott: Don't Know Much About History
- Katha Pollitt: Stealth Assault on Reproductive Rights
- Robert Naiman: DeFazio to USTR: Say No to Chevron's Bullying!
- Dean Baker: The Compromise 'Drill Anywhere' Plan
- Dave Zirin: Why He Fears the Fist: A Response to Jonah Goldberg
- George Monbiot: The Stakes Could Not Be Higher. Everything Hinges on Stopping Coal
- E.G. Vallianatos: Revoke EPA's Licenses to Pollute
- Thomas Frank: Follow This Dime
- Walden Bello and Mary Lou Malig: The Dracula Round
- Shepherd Bliss: Slow Food Nation Gains Momentum
- John R. MacArthur: Money Over Morals: Obama's the Candidate of the Hedge-Fund Partners
Monday August 4, 2008
- William D. Hartung: The Pentagon's Kinder, Gentler Strategy for Global Dominance
- Bruce Molholt: Nukes Can't Work, Sen. McCain
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: The Partisan Injustice at Justice
- Johann Hari: The WMD That Really Should Be Worrying Us
- Robert Fisk: Syrian Leader Gets Top Billing in Middle East by Doing Nothing
- Andy Worthington: Diego Garcia: The UK's Shame
- Jeff Pausma: Congress Takes Another Potshot at Family Farmers
- Christopher Brauchli: A Fairy Tale From South Dakota
- Chris Hedges: A War of Self-Destruction
- Harvey Wasserman: The REAL 1960s Terrorists Were Named Westmoreland, Johnson and Nixon
- Rosa Maria Pegueros: Playing Race Cards
- Guy Reel: McCain Unhinged: The Must Issue for the Obama Campaign
- Ann Wright: Sexual Assault in the Military: A DoD Cover-Up?
- Danny Schechter: 'Da Nile:' Many Tuning Out the Economic Squeeze
Sunday August 3, 2008
- C. Fraser Smith: 'Everyone Deserves a Place to Sleep at Night'
- Eric Margolis: US Vilifies Faithful Old Ally
- Ellie Herman: Testing My Patience
- Haroon Siddiqui: Shining a Light on US Sbuses
- Joseph A. Palermo: John McCain is the 'Great White Hope'
Saturday August 2, 2008
- Barbara L. Minton: Crisis Looms as Corporations Seize Control of Commodities
- Deluded We Stand on Race and Gender
- Bob Herbert: Running While Black
- John Shattuck: How the US Can Get its Groove Back
- Jeannette Kagame / Seth Berkley: A Vaccine is Essential to Eliminating AIDS
- Garrison Keillor: No Time for Dithering
Friday August 1, 2008
- Jonathan Tasini: Why Are Democrats Taking Money From Wal-Mart?
- David Sirota: Sanity from the Silver Screen
- Tribune Editorial: EPA Gagged: What Does Agency Have to Hide?
- Robert Dreyfuss: The Crisis in Pakistan
- Mark Lynas: The Climate Change Clock is Ticking
- Ellen Goodman: The New Equality in Unemployment
- Editorial: Reinforced Bridges, Infrastructure
- Tom Engelhardt: Bush's Fierce Global War of Denial
- Johann Hari: Do You Want Free Trade -- or Fair Trade that Helps the Poor?
- Mark Weisbrot: Offshore Drilling Won't Help But 'Green Stimulus' Can
- David Michael Green: Barackis Dukakis?
- Glenn Greenwald: Vital Unresolved Anthrax Questions and ABC News