Views - September 2008
Tuesday September 30, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: The Simultaneous Rejection of the Bailout and a Corrupt Ruling Class
- John Nichols: A Congress That Can Say 'No!'
- Gary Kamiya: Remember Iraq?
- George Monbiot: The Free Market Preachers Have Long Practised State Welfare for the Rich
- Bill Berry: Buy Local and Help Main Street
- Laura Flanders: Protecting The Vote: Live From Main Street Columbus
- William Greider: Political Turmoil as House Rejects Bailout
- Michael Moore: Congratulations, Corporate Crime Fighters! Coup Averted for Three Days! ...From Michael Moore
- Rob Arnow: Barack Obama and the Framing of the Debate
- Ira Chernus: Moralism v. Pragmatism in First Debate
Monday September 29, 2008
- Dave Lindorff: The Power of 'No' and the Need to Keep the Pressure on Congress
- Stephen Zunes: Obama's Missed Opportunity
- Michael Moore: The Rich Are Staging a Coup This Morning ...a Message From Michael Moore
- Chris Hedges: Fueling the Fire of Real Change
- Thomas Frank: Wrecking, Wrecking, Wrecked
- Gary Younge: America Has a Terrible Headache, but It Seems Like No One Wants to Cure It
- Johann Hari: Barack Beware... They're Out to Get You
- Chalmers Johnson: We Have the Money
- Charles Reed: Crash You Heard? Temple of Corporatism Falling
- David Sirota: Top 5 Reasons to Vote Against Wall Street's $700 Billion Bailout
Sunday September 28, 2008
- Frank Rich: McCain’s Suspension Bridge to Nowhere
- Eric Margolis: Bin Laden and Me
- Robert Parry: Debate Evades Dark Realities
- Murray Waas: What Did Bush Tell Gonzales?
- Pierre Tristam: 'Freedom Is Not Free': No More of That Fortune-Cookie Bunk
- John Gray: A Shattering Moment in America's Fall From Power
Saturday September 27, 2008
- Megan Tady: Rating The Debates: America Weighs In
- Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Eric Schlosser: America Needs A New New Deal
- Robert Naiman: What Kissinger Said: "I Do Not Believe That We Can Make Conditions"
- Joseph E. Stiglitz: A Better Bailout
- Leslie Christian: Finance to Serve The Economy
- Derrick Z. Jackson : McCain's Fantasy League of Democracies
- Paul Newman: Pete Goes (Anti)Ballistic
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama Out-Hawks McCain
- James Buchan: The Great Crash of 2008
- Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Be A Poll Worker and Save American Democracy
- John Pilger: Truth and War MeanNothing At The Party Conferences
- Michael Winship: Wanted: Another Franklin Roosevelt
- Larry Beinhart: The Trillion Dollar Wrong Thing
- Christopher Cooper: But You Know, She Changed The Subject Every Time Money Came Up
Friday September 26, 2008
- Danny Schechter: Are We On The Verge of The Deluge?
- McCain Has a Meltdown of His Own
- Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman : Drinking at the Public Fountain
- Amitabh Pal: Financial Debacle Discredits US Economic Model
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Palin's Big Oil infatuation
- Walden Bello: Wall Street Meltdown Primer
- Glenn Greenwald: Correction on Sarah Palin
- Robert Weissman: Getting Wall Street Pay Reform Right
- David Michael Green: America's Elephant In The Room
- Hank Kalet: The Pyramids Crumble
- Bill Quigley: Shame: The US War Against Unarmed Working Mothers
- Thom Hartmann: How Wall Street Can Bail Itself Out Without Destroying The Dollar
Thursday September 25, 2008
- Amy Goodman: Troy Davis and the Supreme Decision
- William J. Astore : Hey, Government! How About Calling on Us?
- Glenn Greenwald: Why Is a US Army Brigade Being Assigned to the 'Homeland'?
- Helen Thomas: Republican Government-Bashers Line Up for Federal Aid
- David Korten: Main Street Before Wall Street
- Jonathan Lawson: The Local Community Radio Act Will Increase Local Voices, Choices
- Naomi Jaffe: The Wicked Witch Is Dead. Why Aren't We Dancing in the Streets?
- Sean Gonsalves: Asking 'Surge'-ical Questions
- Ralph Nader: Congressional Backbone Needed
- Harvey Wasserman: Jackson Browne Nails Nuke Power on Colbert
- Norman Solomon: Finally, the Story of the Whistleblower Who Tried to Prevent the Iraq War
Wednesday September 24, 2008
- Stephen Zunes: Biden's Foreign Policy 'Experience'
- Diane Farsetta: Stealth Marketers Gone Wild: Will The FCC Act?
- John Stauber: Winter Soldier: Eye Witness Accounts of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Mark Morford: 700 Billion Fluffy Nothings
- Christopher Cooper: That Sucks You Into Feelin' Like This
- Michael Tomasky: The Biggest Story of the Campaign
- Karyn Strickler : The $700,000,000,000 Power Punch
- Frances Chapman: Perfume, Tulips, and Carbon Trading?
- Willie Nelson: It's About America
- William Greider: Goldman Sachs Socialism
- Robert Weissman: The Financial Crisis: How and Why Congress Should Play for Time
- Andrew Greeley: McCain Doesn't Grasp Cause of Finance Crisis
- Robert Scheer: A Fox to Protect the Henhouse?
- Pat LaMarche: Borrowing From Your Grandkids
- Rhetoricians for Peace: Can Obama Prevent an October Surprise Attack on Iran?
Tuesday September 23, 2008
- Las Vegas Sun Editorial: Protect the Public’s Health
- Timothy Karr: Why DC Lobbyists Fear 'White Spaces'
- Tariq Ali : Casualties of Another War
- Derrick Z. Jackson : Electronics Dumping Ground
- Thomas F. Schaller : Saving the Wealthy With Socialism, Conservative-Style
- Alan Nasser: A US-NATO War In Pakistan? – An Anatomy of the Current Crisis
- Peter Dreier: GOP: Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote
- Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati: The Bailout and CEO Pay: What's 'Excessive'?
- Devinder Sharma: Global Priorities: Feeding Markets, Starving the Hungry
- Naomi Klein: Now Is the Time to Resist Wall Street's Shock Doctrine
- Nomi Prins: Bailout Plan Won't Be End of Wall Street Bailouts
- Norman Solomon: Too Big to Fail and Too Small to Matter
Monday September 22, 2008
- Frances Moore Lappe : Our Next President Could Learn a Lot From Willie Nelson
- Sean Gonsalves: The Death of a Myth?
- Bernd Debusmann: Socialism US-Style and Ronald Reagan
- Glenn Greenwald: Growing Right-Wing Opposition to the Paulson Plan
- Stan Cox: Keep Germ Lab Quarantined
- Ted Morgan : Sarah Palin and the Politics of Distraction
- Harvey Wasserman: A Towering (but Temporary) Solartopian Victory Against Nuke Power
- Richard W. Behan: The $700 Billion Wall Street Bailout: One More Weapon of Mass Deception
- Chris Hedges: Fleecing What’s Left of the Treasury
- Rick Wartzman: The Ghosts of Tom Joad
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Do Yourself a Favor -- Read a Book
- Frida Berrigan: No Recession for Arms Sales
- Chip Ward : The Evolution of John McCain
Sunday September 21, 2008
- Danny Schechter: Our Financial 9/11: Can They Save the System?
- Robert Shetterly: Unalienable, Unavoidable, Ozymandias
- Rev. John Dear: Nonviolence in Iraq
- Susan Van Haitsma: Peace is not the Absence of Conflict; It's a Way Through It
- Eric Margolis: US Empire: An Orgy of Debt
- Joan Vennochi: Hanging the Little Guy Out to Dry
- Paul Krugman: No Deal
- Senator Bernie Sanders: The Middle Class Must Not Be Forced to Bail Out Wall Street Greed
- Larisa Alexandrovna: Welcome to the Final Stages of the Coup...
- Glenn Greenwald: The Complete (Though Ever-Changing) Elite Consensus Over the Financial Collapse
Saturday September 20, 2008
- Derrick Z. Jackson: On Climate, Who Will Lead by Example?
- Robert Fisk: Why Does the US Think It Can Win in Afghanistan?
- Naomi Klein: Free Market Ideology is Far from Finished
- Alice Walker: What Our Country Desperately Needs is a Leader Who Loves Us
- Christopher Brauchli: Two Cowboys: Vladimir & George W
- Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Moguls Steal Home While Companies Strike Out
- David Corn: Is McCain More the Populist than Obama?
- Manuel Pérez-Rocha: A Violent Mexican “Independence” Day
Friday September 19, 2008
- William Pfaff: Reality Catches Up to the Free Market
- Helen Thomas: Palin + McCain Equals More Bush
- David C. Fathi : Executing the Innocent?
- John W. Dean : Vice President Dick Cheney's Incredible and Deadly Lie
- Dave Lindorff: Hang Onto Your Wallet! The Government Is About to Rescue Us
- Chuck Collins: Tax the Speculators
- J.C. Lore III: US Should Revisit Life Terms for Juveniles
- Dean Baker: The Financial Meltdown Continues
- Lawrence R. Velvel: A Crisis of American Capitalism
- William Greider: The Scent of Fear
Thursday September 18, 2008
- Jason Flores-Williams: Screw Wall Street
- Steve Fraser : Wall Street and Washington
- Amy Goodman: Wall Street Socialists
- Steve Almond : Supporting Our Troops
- Robert C. Koehler: Goo-Goo America
- Harvey Wasserman: The Senate's 'Drill Drill Drill' Bill Hides Nuke Power Mega-Theft
- Tim Enstice: Does Your Child's School Get an A+ in Lunch?
- Sally Kohn: Exploiting Poverty Caused the Financial Crisis
- Kathleen C. Barry: Using Pseudo-science at HHS
Wednesday September 17, 2008
- Joyce Marcel: Lipstick on Which Pig?
- David Corn, Jonathan Stein, and Nick Baumann: McCain Attacks Wall Street Greed—While 83 Wall Street Lobbyists Work for His Campaign
- Bruce Dixon : FCC Spreads Digital Disinformation on TV Transition
- Paul Campos: Whose Tax Plan Is Really Best?
- John R. MacArthur: Palin Using Her Child as Political Prop
- Tariq Ali : The American War Moves to Pakistan
- Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Why Hurricane Ike Demands Paper Ballots on November 4
- Robert Scheer: Earth to McCain: It’s a Crisis
- Nancy Hopkins: Hope for a Constitution Under Siege
- Todd J. Paglia : The Sierra Forests Can Prevent Global Warming
Tuesday September 16, 2008
- Amie Newman: A Culture of Violence Against Women: More Than Rape Kits
- Dave Lindorff: Anyone Want to Buy a Private Pension Plan? Going Once…
- Peter Dreier: Obama's Youth Movement
- Judith Siers-Poisson: The Gardasil HPV Vaccine: Not the Shot in the Arm Merck Hoped For
- Nomi Prins : A Taste of the Glass-Steagall Lash for Lehman
- Eugene Robinson: Palin Keeps Lying, and Lying, and …
- John Nichols: Campaigning to Restore the Constitution
- Margaret Krome: 'Water Wars' a Bad Sign of Times
- Daphne Wysham: The World Bank Takes the Money and Runs From Chad
- Dean Baker: McCain Would Privatize Social Security
Monday September 15, 2008
- James Carroll: Religious Comfort for bin Laden
- Jeremy Seabrook: Who's to Blame for Market Failure? Clue: Not the Bankers
- Michelle Goldberg: Alaska Women Cool to Palin
- Larry Beinhart: Crash Course in Economics
- Glenn Greenwald: What Illegal 'Things' Was the Government Doing in 2001-2004?
- Danny Schechter: Who Will Protect Us From Plunge Protection?
- Frida Berrigan : Military Industrial Complex 2.0
- Ira Chernus: Obama-as-Sojourner v. McCain-as-Mythic-Hero
- Gary Younge: Barack Is Playing the Incognegro, but It Is Not a Risk-Free Strategy
- Patrick Cockburn: The US Strategy for Afghanistan Won't Work
- Chris Hedges: For Palin, It’s a (Christian) Man’s World
Sunday September 14, 2008
- Sanford Levinson: The Decider Can Become a Dictator
- Jessica Valenti: The F-Card Won't Wash
- Editorial: Sleeping with the Industry
- Ian Bell: A letter to America: You Cannot be Serious
- Haroon Siddiqui: Our Deafening Silence on Afghanistan
- Christopher Brauchli: Sarah and the Polar Bear
- Joanna Blythman : Small Protests Can Beat the Big Guys
- Pierre Tristam: Flat-Out Lies Finding a Receptive Audience in Voters Seeking Denial
Saturday September 13, 2008
- Roberta Riley: McCain Presidency Would Mean More of Same for Women
- Desmond Tutu: Advice for the Next US President
- Mark Engler: There Is an Alternative to Corporate Rule
- Robert Weissman: Executive Pay and the 'Market Economy'
- Sean Gonsalves: The Order of Saint William
Friday September 12, 2008
- Dave Lindorff: Experience Is Over-Rated
- Mark Hertsgaard: Our Polar Bears, Ourselves
- William Pfaff: Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan
- Tom Engelhardt : The Value of One, the Value of None
- Stephen Zunes: Assessing the Republican Party Platform
- Jonathan Freedland: The World's Verdict Will Be Harsh if the US Rejects the Man It Yearns For
- Deborah Stone: A Conservative Confidence Game
- Brittany Stalsburg and Scott Novakowski: 88 Years Later: A Promise Unfulfilled for Millions of Disenfranchised Women Voters
Thursday September 11, 2008
- George Lakoff: Don’t Think of a Maverick!
- Amy Goodman: The Party Police
- Kevin Grandia: Bees, Trees, Wind and Dynamite
- Joseph Stiglitz: Occupational Hazards
- Glenn Greenwald: The Government, the Media and Afghanistan
- Conn Hallinan: Danger in South Asia
- Ray McGovern: Iran's Road Less Traveled to Nukes
- Peter Kornbluh: 35 Years After Original 9/11: New Transcripts of Kissinger's Role in Chilean Coup
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Pit Bull Palin
- Robert C. Koehler: An Embedded Prayer
- Keith Olbermann: Republicans Have Hijacked 9/11
- Marjorie Cohn: A Palin Theocracy
Wednesday September 10, 2008
- Andrew J. Bacevich : 9/11 Plus Seven
- Nat Parry : Mocking Constitutional Rights
- Mark Morford: Evil: It's the New Good!
- Aaron Glantz: No 'Victory' in Iraq
- Robert Scheer: She’s Clueless, He’s Worse
- Norman Solomon: The Sickening Praise for 'The Daily Show'
- Sean Gonsalves: The Crazy Legacy of 9/11
Tuesday September 9, 2008
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Drilling for a 'Comprehensive' Energy Plan
- Juan Cole: What's the Difference Between Palin and Muslim Fundamentalists? Lipstick
- Dave Zirin: Why We Need A People's History of Sports
- Ray McGovern: Trickle-Down Preemption: Baghdad on the Mississippi
- Peter Dreier: From Organizer to Elected Official
- Dean Baker: The Whiner's Recession
- David Krieger: Congress Has the Last Chance to Say No to the US-India Nuclear Proliferation Deal
- George Lakoff and Chris Shutes : Death by Definition: Save the Endangered Species Act! Now!
- Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Ten Ways the McCain/Palin GOP Is Now Stealing the Ohio Vote
- Peter Erlinder: Darfur Deception
Monday September 8, 2008
- David Sirota: David May Talk, Goliath May Walk
- Glenn Greenwald: The Right Dictates MSNBC's Programming Decisions
- Ida Audeh: Another Sept. 11 Casualty
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Doublespeak as Art Form
- Ana Malinow: In Texas, the Health Care Crisis Is Only Getting Worse
- Michael Schwartz: Who Lost Iraq?
- Chris Hedges: Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention
- David Michael Green: Country Last
Sunday September 7, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: The Mighty, Scary Press Corps
- Lester R. Brown: Let's Use Wind to Power Cars
- Layla Aslani: Create Your Own Workplace
- Eric Margolis: Republicans Born Again
- Frank Rich: Palin and McCain’s Shotgun Marriage
- Caroline Arnold: O Brave New World: What Forum for Common Values and Goals?
Saturday September 6, 2008
- John Nichols: The Anti-Republican Who Is Really a Republican
- Peter Dreier & John Atlas: GOP Mocks Public Service
- Rosa Brooks: Taking A Closer Look at Palin's Independence
- Glenn Greenwald: Will The GOP's Negativity Produce A Backlash?
- Bill Maher: Republicans, Stop Calling Obama Elitist
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Chasing Nuclear Energy Windmills
- Daina Saib: Doctor's Orders: Health Coverage for Everyone
- Chris Carlsson: Building an Anti-Economy
Friday September 5, 2008
- Juan Cole: Rambo and the Mean Girl
- Stephen Zunes: The 2008 Democratic Party Platform and the Middle East
- Robert Parry: The Anti-Obama Hate-Fest
- John Nichols: Spiro T. Palin
- Dave Lindorff: The Things They Left Behind (or Didn’t Remind You About)
- Naomi Klein: New Orleans: The City That Won't Be Ignored
Thursday September 4, 2008
- Glenn Greenwald: Sarah Palin and Mark Halperin's Complaints of 'Liberal Media'
- Robert Weitzel: Obama’s Zionist Wannabe Veep
- Robert B. Reich: Corporations and the Conventions
- Robert C. Koehler: Logical Consequences
- Tom Engelhardt: Going on an Imperial Bender
- Norman Solomon: Beyond the Conventions
- Rosa Maria Pegueros: Bristol Palin: What a Difference Four Decades Makes
- Amy Goodman: Why We Were Falsely Arrested
Wednesday September 3, 2008
- Johann Hari: The Storm Clouds That Hang Over John McCain
- Timothy Karr : St. Paul Mayor and Media Mum on Journalism Crackdown
- Dean Baker: John McCain Wants to Drill in Your Tolilet: Part II
- Nat Hentoff: Bush Pushes for More Police Power
- Tom Hayden: The Problem Is Empire
- Michael Moore: Michael Moore Responds to Joe Lieberman
- Bill Quigley: Living in the Car After Gustav
- Robert Scheer: Palin’s Alaska Reaps the Windfall Profits McCain Decries
- Shepherd Bliss: Slow Food Nation Draws 50,000
Tuesday September 2, 2008
- Naomi Klein: One Year After the Publication of The Shock Doctrine, A Response to the Attacks
- Simon Tisdall: Locked in Burma
- Michael T. Klare: Putin's Ruthless Gambit
- Barry Nolan: When Fairness Became a Four-Letter Word
- Margaret Krome: Need Grows for Fed Funds for Schools
- Patrick Cockburn: White House Strategy Is to Help McCain Win in November
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Rovian Politics Chose Sarah Palin
- Marjorie Cohn: Preemptive Strikes Against Protest at RNC
- George Lakoff : The Palin Choice
Monday September 1, 2008
- Christopher Hayes: If It Keeps On Raining...
- Glenn Greenwald: Federal Government Involved In Raids On Protesters
- Chris Hedges: Curb Your Enthusiasm for Obama
- Kate Sheppard: Palin Comparison: The Not-So-Green Governor
- Michael Honey: Labor Day 2008: Support Employee Free Choice
- Dean Hammer: A Call for A Truth Commission
- Gary Younge: Those Who Are Tasked to Police This Democracy Are Blinded by Confetti
- Sam Pizzigati and Sarah Anderson: Workers Need Added Clout To Close The Pay Gap with CEOs