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Thursday December 31, 2009

Sarah van Gelder: Nine Ways Our World Changed During the ‘00s
Donna Smith: A New Year's Dream for the Health Reform Effort
Oisín Coghlan: Climate Crisis Will Be the Challenge of New Decade
John Nichols: Good Riddance to Decade That Began With Theft of the Presidency

Wednesday December 30, 2009

Jane Hamsher: Right and Left Agree: Mandates are the Road to Neo-Feudalism
Kenneth Roth: Geneva Conventions Still Hold Up
Thomas Walkom: Who Won the Decade? The Terrorists
Pam Rasmussen: Gaza's Border Must Be Opened. Now!
Adam Serwer: Tortured Talking Points
Amy Goodman: The Poetic Justice of Dennis Brutus
Jim Hightower: Six Things to Do in 2010
Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg: Leading an Empire in Decline: Obama’s First Year
Jeff Cohen: New Year’s Resolution: Don’t Apologize for Democrats
Johann Hari: Amid Dark Times, Meet the Most Inspiring People of 2009
Robert Scheer: The Global War on Stealth Underwear

Tuesday December 29, 2009

Ray McGovern: Are Presidents Afraid of the CIA?
Jon Walker: With Real Health Care Reform, US Would Not Need Affordability Tax Credits
Dave Lindorff: Paul Krugman’s Health Care Sell-Out: The Health 'Reform' Bill in Congress Is Worse Than Nothing
Robert Naiman: US Press Ignores Egyptian Suppression of Gaza Freedom March
Rev. John Dear: Hunger Strike for Gaza
John Taylor Gatto: Take Back Your Education
Glenn Greenwald: Cause and Effect in the 'Terror War'
Zach Carter: Crashing the Corporate Christmas Party
John E. Peck: Corporate Agribusiness Helps Scuttle Climate Justice

Monday December 28, 2009

Dean Baker: Christmas Presents for Bankers
Bruce Wark: Changing Climates
Holly Sklar: Wall Street Scroogism Wrecking America
Emily Ratner: Freedom Marching in Circles While Winding Our Way to Gaza
Lucinda Marshall: My New Decade’s Resolution
David Sirota: Democracy's Baseline Need for Transparency
Jill Richardson: Sick of Corporate Control Over Your Food?
Ali Abunimah: 'Israel Resembles a Failed State'
Paul Krugman: The Big Zero
Chris Hedges: One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists

Sunday December 27, 2009

Gideon Levy: Was Israel's Gaza Offensive Worth It?
Cenk Uygur: How Progressives Can Move Obama to the Left
David Michael Green: Well, That Sure Sucked: Good Riddance to the Devil’s Decade
Robert Reynolds: Tsunami Survivors Fight for Land Rights
Robyn Blumner: President Falls Short
James Hansen: Copenhagen Has Given Us the Chance to Face Climate Change With Honesty
Glenn Greenwald: The Joys of Airstrikes and Anonymity
Medea Benjamin: One Year After Israeli Invasion of Gaza, World Leaders Fail to Act but Global Citizens Step Forward

Saturday December 26, 2009

John Nichols: Of War, Peace and the Distant Memory of a Christmas Truce
Christopher Brauchli: Bank Presidents and US President
Billy Wharton: Healthcare Bill a Nightmare Before Christmas
Dallas Darling: Still Trying to Monopolize the Arabian Peninsula
Peter Dreier: Pass the Health Care Bill - Then Improve It
Peter Gorrie: Climate Change Doesn't Scare Us. That's Frightening
Sarah Lazare: The US Military is 'Exhausted'
Ronnie Cummins: Beyond the Darkest Hours, Grassroots Rising
The Gaza Freedom March: Open Letter to President Mubarek

Thursday December 24, 2009

John Feffer: A New START
Rodney Watson: Why a Resister Chose Canada Over the War in Iraq
Raj Jayadev: A Decade of New Youth Activism
Tom Athanasiou: Copenhagen: Just a Cop Out?
Donna Smith: A Patient’s View of the Senate Christmas Healthcare Gift
Ralph Nader: Holiday Reading List 2009

Wednesday December 23, 2009

David Sirota: Back to the Drawing Board
Matthew Rothschild: Obama Double-Crossed Progressives on Health Care
William Hartung: Obama and the Permanent War Budget
John Nichols: Of War, Peace and the Christmas Truce
John Feffer: The Art of Extraction
Neve Gordon: Breaking Palestine's Peaceful Protest
Dave Zirin: More than a Sportswriter: Lester 'Red' Rodney: 1911-2009
Jane Hamsher: Why Is Obama Ditching the Public Option — and You?
Glenn Greenwald: The NYT's View of 'Journalistic Objectivity'
Robert Scheer: Demonizing Dean Won’t Absolve This Health Care Sham
Amy Goodman: Climate Discord: From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen
Michael Winship: Where Are the Snows - and Shovels - of Christmas Past?
Jim Hightower: Hoping for a New Ethic in 2010
Tom Gallagher: But Afghanistan Is More Complicated Than Vietnam
Robert C. Koehler: A Healthy Economy
Tom Engelhardt: In Nightmares Begin Responsibilities: Why War Will Take No Holiday in 2010
Pat LaMarche: Don’t Let Them Take Food Off the Table of the Hungry

Tuesday December 22, 2009

Ray McGovern: Break the CIA in Two
Elaine Shannon: What's in Your Water?
Juan Cole: Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade; Or, the Rise of the New Oligarchs
Megan McAdams: Modern Day Slavery in Mexico and the United States
Laura Flanders: Who You Callin’ Moderate?
Derrick Z. Jackson: On Health Care, Women Compromise
Zach Carter: Wall Street’s Economic Rampage
Norman Solomon: Flares in the Political Dark
Donna Smith: Senate, White House Health Reform Tucks in Gun Rights
John Buell: Division Between Developed and Developing Countries

Monday December 21, 2009

Ralph Nader: Agent of Change
Naomi Klein: For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow
Donna Smith: Health Reform 2009: Would Nataline’s Life Be Spared?
Drew Westen: Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator
Jane Hamsher: 10 Reasons to Kill the Senate Bill
Johann Hari: After the Catastrophe in Copenhagen, It's Up To Us
Rebecca Solnit: Terminator 2009: Judgment Days in Copenhagen
Tiffany Williams: In 2010, Let’s Treat Domestic Workers Better
Andy Worthington: The Stories of the Two Somalis Freed from Guantánamo
Gary Younge: Smalltown America's Growing Voice of Rage is a Force to be Reckoned With
Jayati Ghosh: Beyond Ecological Imperialism
Paul Krugman: A Dangerous Dysfunction
Chris Hedges: Nader’s Utopia: The World According to Ralph
Marjorie Cohn: Obama’s Af-Pak War is Illegal

Sunday December 20, 2009

David Michael Green: Now I’m Really Getting Pissed Off
Jeremy Brecher: Doom and Gloom
Sen. Fritz Hollings: They're All Against Jobs
Antonia Zerbisias: My Love/Hate of Fur
Jimmy Carter: Gaza Must Be Rebuilt Now
Eric Margolis: US Turbulence Buffets Pakistan
Frank Rich: Tiger Woods, Person of the Year
Margaret Flowers and Andy Coates: Senate Speech Heralds New Social Movement
Derrick Jensen: 50 Simple Ways to Get Off

Saturday December 19, 2009

Ted Rall: Foreclose on the Banks: How to Give America Its Best Christmas Ever
Brendan Smith and Nicola Armster: A Green Art Manifesto
Donna Smith: Healthcare Crisis Tears at Fabric of Holiday Traditions
Michael Winship: Happy Holidays from America's Banks
Grace Lee Boggs: Climate Change Movement Builds at Copenhagen
Christopher Brauchli: Catholic Charities Meet the D.C. Council
George Monbiot: Copenhagen Negotiators Bicker and Filibuster While the Biosphere Burns
Bill Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins: Stephen King Meets the Estate Tax
Johann Hari: The Truths Copenhagen Ignored

Friday December 18, 2009

Paula Crossfield: Why Seed Consolidation Matters
Jane Hamsher: Obama Is 'Keeping Score' on Those Who Vote Against Him
Ben Lilliston: Different Paths in Copenhagen
Jamie Henn: Obama’s Climate Sham[e]: Empty Rhetoric in Copenhagen Speech
Tiseke Kasambala: Blood Diamonds From Zimbabwe
David Pratt: Real People Will Pay Price of a Copenhagen Stalemate
Glenn Greenwald: The Underlying Divisions in the Health Care Debate
Andy Worthington: Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo of Unwilling Yemeni Recruit
Eric Stoner: A Lesson on Nonviolence for the President
Naomi Klein: Copenhagen: The Courage to Say No

Thursday December 17, 2009

Bill McKibben: Hungry in Copenhagen
Lisa Putkey and Kevin Martin: Your Contributions Needed for NPR (No, Not National Public Radio)
Yifat Susskind: Postcard From...Copenhagen
Jo Comerford: Afghanistan: $57,077.60 - Surging by the Minute
Keith Olbermann: Special Comment: Ruined Senate Bill Unsupportable
Pat LaMarche: Holiday Hit: The Five Lies of Congress
John Nichols: 'Party of No' Blocks Debate on Bernie Sanders' Real Reform
New York Times Editorial: De-Criminalizing Children
John Gibbons: Six Reasons Why Earth Won't Cope for Long
George Monbiot: Mr Obama, Here's Your Copenhagen Speech

Wednesday December 16, 2009

Donna Smith: Sanders Says Single-Payer Day Will Come as He Withdraws Amendment
Pete Salmansohn: Can Green Kids Save the Earth?
Rinku Sen: Copenhagen and Us
John Feffer: Exceptional or Exceptionalism?
Johann Hari: It's the Protesters Who Offer the Best Hope for Our Planet
Kevin Bundy, Brendan Cummings, Vera Pardee, and Kassie Siegel: Yes, He Can: President Obama's Power to Make an International Climate Commitment Without Waiting for Congress
Thom Hartmann: Healthcare: First They Came for the Banksters
Glenn Greenwald: White House as Helpless Victim on Health Care
William Astore: 'They’re Wasted': The Price of Pushing Our Troops Too Far
Amy Goodman: Copenhagen Climate Summit: The Empire’s New Clothes
Mark Weisbrot: Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side the United States Government Is on With Regard to the Military Coup in Honduras

Tuesday December 15, 2009

Michelle Chen: Shifting Climate, Moving People: Immigration and Climate Justice
George Monbiot: This Is Bigger Than Climate Change. It Is a Battle to Redefine Humanity
Doug Ireland: Honduran Gay Activist Walter Trochez Assassinated
Farrah Hassen: Obama's Cairo Detour
Bill McKibben: Copenhagen: Only the Numbers Count – and They Add up to Hell on Earth
Salt Lake Tribune Editorial: Stop Uranium Train
Derrick Z. Jackson: Houston, We Still Have a Problem
Linda McQuaig: Afghan Affair More Than 'Nitpicking'
Chris Genovali: Hopenhagen or Dopenhagen?
David Chater: No War, but No Peace
Martin Chulov: The Dust Bowl of Babylon

Monday December 14, 2009

Joan Chittister: Copenhagen: The Beginning of the End, and, If So, Whose?
Alison Hamm: A Global Day of Action
Danny Schechter: As War Bleeds Central Africa, Obama Denounces Rape But Washington Has Yet to Do Much About It
Kerry Kennedy: Chevron and Cultural Genocide in Ecuador
Madeleine Bunting: Protesters in Seattle Warned Us What Was Coming, but We Didn't Listen
John Nichols: Financial 'Reform' Preserves Too Big Banks, Too Much Speculation
Paul Krugman: Disaster and Denial
Glenn Greenwald: War and Public Opinion
Chris Hedges: Gravel’s Lament: Fighting Another Dumb War

Sunday December 13, 2009

Saleemul Huq: December 12th Was a Tipping Point
Christopher Brauchli: The Blackness of Blackwater
A.A. French: System Change Not Climate Change
César Chelala: Wall on Gaza Violates International Law
Randall Amster: Keep Your Eyes on the Peace Prize
Evan Knappenberger: The Betrayal of Generation Hope
Bill Quigley: Why ACORN Won

Saturday December 12, 2009

Robert Weissman: (A Little Bit of) Wall Street Reform
David Krieger: The Nobel War Lecture
Gareth Porter: US-Iran Talks: The Road to Diplomatic Failure
Sarah van Gelder: Cap & Dividend: A Clear Winner
Bill McKibben: It's Going to Be Beautiful
David Michael Green: America's Race to the Bottom
Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: The Land Mines Obama Won't Touch
Ralph Nader: 'Just War' Is Just Words

Friday December 11, 2009

Viggo Mortensen: 'Great Man' Theory? History Is Driven by the Little Guy
Glenn Greenwald: The Strange Consensus on Obama's Nobel Address
Burt Cohen: Populism: Democrats Ignore at Our Peril
Donna Smith: Senate Tweaks Away Your Healthcare
Harvey Wasserman: Now WE Must Earn Obama's Nobel
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: We’re Number One – In Financial Damage From Climate Change
Ruth Conniff: The Tortured Logic of Health Care's Abortion Foes
Sarah van Gelder: We Hold the Key to Copenhagen
Antonia Zerbisias: My Spirits of Christmas Past and Present
Paul Krugman: Bernanke’s Unfinished Mission
Jeremy Scahill: Contractors Watching Contractors
Johann Hari: Leaders of the Rich World Are Enacting a Giant Fraud

Thursday December 10, 2009

Dave Lindorff: Climate Change Conspiracy Theorists Are Today’s Flat Earthers
Ann Wright: Making an American 'Impenetrable Underground Wall' the Laughing Stock of the World—Leave It to the People of Gaza
Anna White: The Movement of Movements: From Resistance to Climate Justice
Tom Engelhardt: The Nine Surges of Obama’s War
Steven Freeland: It's Time to Talk About Human Rights in the Climate Debate
Norman Solomon: Mr. President, War Is Not Peace
Haroon Siddiqui: Why It Is Essential to Stand up to Bigots
Stephanie McMillan: Artists: Raise Your Weapons
Donna Smith: Health Reform Advances 2,300 Miles Away From DC
Robert C. Koehler: The School-to-Prison Pipeline

Wednesday December 9, 2009

Senator Bernie Sanders: Bernanke Must Go
Thomas Frank: The Real Chicago Way
Richard W. Behan: The Audacity of Hype
Adolph Reed: Liberals, I Do Despise
Robert Scheer: Dear Barack, Spare Me Your E-Mails
Karyn Strickler: Getting Some Green for Your Green: Giving to Reverse Climate Change
Dave Zirin: The People Speak: When Television Makes History
John LaForge: Nuclear Power: Too Expensive, Too Risky
Laura Carlsen: Honduran Elections a Parody of Democracy
Ellen Cantarow: Living by the Gate From Hell: A Portrait of Nonviolent Resistance in One Palestinian Village
Amy Goodman: Take Me to Your Climate Leader

Tuesday December 8, 2009

Peter Dreier: ACORN 'Not Guilty'
John Cavanagh and Sarita Gupta: Jobs Crisis Needs Drastic Action
Andy Worthington: Former Guantánamo Prosecutor Loses Job for Criticizing Military Commissions
Dean Baker: Blame Bernanke
Josh Silver and Tim Winter: Comcast-NBC U Merger Could Hurt Consumers
Richard Graves: ClimateGate Is Watergate Redux
Zach Carter: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
La Via Campesina: Why We Left Our Farms to Come to Copenhagen
Conn Hallinan: The AfPak Train Wreck
John Buell: Obama and His (Virtual) Virtuous War
Stephanie McMillan: Jared Diamond’s Ecocidal NYT Op-Ed

Monday December 7, 2009

Laura Flanders: Media Monsters Threaten Net Freedom
Randy Shaw: Activists Are Giving Obama a Pass
Dave Lindorff: The Shame and Folly of Obama’s War in Afghanistan
Caroline Arnold: Escalating Afghan War Mocks Hopes of Peace, Good Will
Jane Hamsher: Why Progressive Activists Are Giving Obama a Pass
John Nichols: The Peril of Positioning Dems as Managers, Not Leaders
Stephanie Pistello, Ben Evans, Jeff Biggers and Ben Sollee: Coal Is Deadly, Not Cheap
James Carroll: Living in Shock and Infamy, Years Later
James Hansen: Cap and Fade
Glenn Greenwald: A New Report Questions 'Suicides' at Guantanamo
Matt Price: Neither Canada Nor the World Can Afford Growth of Dirty Oil
Jeff Masters: The Manufactured Doubt Industry and the Hacked Email Controversy
Gopal Dayaneni and Mateo Nube: How to Break the Climate Stalemate Between the Global South and the North
Chris Hedges: Liberals Are Useless

Sunday December 6, 2009

Helen Thomas: This Sure Seems Like Vietnam
Bill McKibben: Why Copenhagen May Be a Disaster
Medea Benjamin: International Participation in December 31 Gaza Freedom March Tops 1,000 As Registration Closes
Nicholas D. Kristof: Cancer From the Kitchen?
Dr. Matthew G. Masiello: War No Longer an Option for Our Nation
Robert P. Pearson: Afghanistan: Why We Can't Win There
Jody Williams: U.S. Land Mine Policy is Shameful
Joss Garman: Climate Change Deniers Cost the Earth
Frank Rich: Obama’s Logic Is No Match for Afghanistan
Pierre Tristam: Soldiers, Kids Reunite, But Cameras Exploit
Eric Margolis: America's 'Surge' May Only Expand, Intensify and Prolong the Afghan Conflict

Saturday December 5, 2009

John Halle: Connecticut Senate Race: Run, Ralph, Run
Robert Barkley Jr: Dear President Obama: You've Pretty Much Blown It
Paul Rosenberg: ...Then As Farce
Andy Worthington: Four Men Leave Guantanamo; Two Face Ill-Defined Trials In Italy
Rachel Smolker: Taking Action Against Carbon Trade: What the Clouds Say
Jodie Evans: Thank the President for Waking the Sleeping Giant
Christopher Brauchli: The Death Penalty Revisited-Again
Michael Winship: The Afghan Ambush
David Michael Green: Present at the Destruction

Friday December 4, 2009

Climate Experts: An Open Letter to Congress From US Scientists on Climate Change and Recently Stolen Emails
Jim Naureckas: Not So Fast, Filibuster
Anne Johnstone: Hot Under the Collar at Cold Shoulder for Global Warming
Jim Goodman: Obama's Broken Promises to Family Farmers: Disappointing and Dangerous
Lucinda Marshall: Family Planning for the Planet a.k.a. Population Control–Disingenuous Patriarchy That Does Not Empower Women
Glenn Greenwald: America's Regression
Chima Williams: Shell Must Clean up Its Act in Nigeria
Deborah J. Vagins: Teach (and Treat) Our Children Well
Fran Korten: 7 Ways the Battle of Seattle Changed the World
Robert Naiman: We Need a Clean Vote Now on Afghanistan Escalation

Thursday December 3, 2009

Garry Wills: Afghanistan: The Betrayal
Tom Andrews: Nation-Building in Afghanistan Instead of at Home Will Produce New 'Misery Index'
Laura Flanders: All-Too-Familiar Line on Afghanistan
Donna Smith: History in a Number: Senate Amendment 2837
Ralph Nader: The Afghan Quagmire
Mary Bottari: It's NOT Such a Wonderful Life. We Need Real Bank Reform Now
Tom Engelhardt: Victory at Last!: Monty Python in Afghanistan
Gary Olson: Obama’s First Nine Months: Change We Can Believe In?
Charles Knight: Has Obama-Era Politics Debased the Meaning of Being 'Progressive'?
Anindita Sengupta: No Justice for Bhopal, 25 Years On
Nomi Prins: Ten Reasons Bernanke Should Hit the Road
Lindsay Beyerstein: Senate Prepares to Cast First Votes
Phyllis Bennis: President Obama's Afghanistan Election Speech

Wednesday December 2, 2009

Andy Worthington: The End of Secret Evidence?
Nicolas J S Davies: Obama with Blood on His Hands
Robert Scheer: Here We Go Again
Zach Carter: Time to Audit the Fed
Joseph Gerson: Obama’s Afghan 'Strategy' – Another American Tragedy
Philip Caper: Health Care Should Be Driven by Mission, Not Money
David S. Reynolds: Freedom’s Martyr
Stephen Zunes: A Tale of Two Human Rights Awardees
Andrew Sharpless: Ocean Acidification Will Cost Us Dearly
Johann Hari: Twelve Days to Save the World
Andrew Lam: Afghanistan Can’t Wash Away Vietnam
Barbara Ehrenreich: Not So Pretty in Pink: The Uproar Over New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines
Jim Hightower: Obama's War
John Nichols: Obama Has Spoken; Now, Let's Have a Debate
Amy Goodman: Canada’s Olympic Crackdown

Tuesday December 1, 2009

Josh Silver: Mega-Media Era Begins: GE-Vivendi Deal Clears Way for Comcast-NBC Merger
Peter Dreier: Waffling Democrats' Healthcare Hypocrisy
George Monbiot: Alberta's Tar Sands Make Canada a Climate Criminal
Bill McKibben: No-Drama Obama Needs to Feel the Heat
Malalai Joya: A Troop Surge Can Only Magnify the Crime Against Afghanistan
Janet Redman: Climate Scams Won’t Save the Planet
Karyn Strickler: The People Speak on Climate Change
Nancy Mancias: Creech Air Force Base: A Place of Disbelief, Confusion and Sadness
Nomi Prins: Worse Than Enron?
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