Views - January 2009
Saturday January 31, 2009
- John Rockefeller: Final Piece in Our Economic Collapse
- David Sirota: Will Obama Keep His 'Buy America' Promise?
- Harvey Wasserman: A $50 Billion Nuke Power Bomb Is Dropping Toward Obama's Stimulus Package
- Tom Gallagher: Sanity Reigns in Washington? Not Just Yet
- Ray McGovern: From Prison to Award for Iraq War Whistleblower
- Michael Winship: Dr. Gregorian's 3 R's: Reading, Writing and Recession
- Christopher Brauchli: Local Pride and Supermax
- Ralph Nader: Wither Wall Street
Friday January 30, 2009
- John Nichols: Vote for White House Farmer
- Jordan Flaherty: What About Closing Angola, Mr. Obama?
- Erica Gies: Rebuilding Green: The Next Revolution
- Robert Pollin: Doing the Recovery Right
- Katha Pollitt: Stalling Over Birth Control
- Laura Flanders: It’s Not the Lobbying, It’s the Agreeing!
- David Sirota: Moving the Political Center
- Donna Smith: Cognitive Dissonance: The Healthcare Reform Battle's State of Mind
- Pat LaMarche: In Support of Protest, Free Speech
- Stephen Zunes: Holbrooke: Insensitive Choice for a Sensitive Region
- Christopher Cooper: More Black Than Ashbuds In The Front Of March
- David Michael Green: George Bush’s Gift To The World: The End of American Imperialism
- Jay Bookman: A Couple of Political Morsels to Chew On
- Betsy Moon: What Would Molly Think?
Thursday January 29, 2009
- Robert Dreyfuss: Iraq's Election: What to Watch For
- Ali Gharib: Dennis Ross as Iran Envoy?
- Nick Turse: Meltdown Madness: The Human Costs of the Economic Crisis
- Seumas Milne: The Seeds of Latin America's Rebirth Were Sown in Cuba
- Helen Thomas: Obama Pledges Open Government (But We've Heard That Before)
- Al Gore: We've Arrived at a Moment of Decision
- James Ridgeway: Will the FDA Finally Get Out of Bed With Big Pharma?
- Conn Hallinan: Purple Hearts: A Cold-Blooded Decision
- Robert Parry: GOP Schools Obama on Partisanship
- Brent Harold: Keeping Hope Out of The Closet
- Ramzy Baroud: For Palestinians, Obama's Message is Crystal Clear
- Kathleen Rogers: Better Nutrition Equals Better Education
- Glenn Greenwald: Dick Armey and Post-Partisan Harmony
- Ruth Rosen: Women Are Not “Pork”
- Bruce Friedrich: Solving the Global Food Crisis: The Case for a "Poverty Czar"
- Geoffrey Pleyers: World Social Forum 2009: A Generation’s Challenge
Wednesday January 28, 2009
- Joyce Marcel: News We Can't Use
- Tom Andrews: Out of Iraq in 16 Months: Yes We Can - Yes We Must
- Peter Rothberg: Coalition of Immokalee Workers to Crist: End Slavery
- Johann Hari: Why Should I Respect These Oppressive Religions?
- John Feffer: War on Terrorism Over?
- Glenn Greenwald: The Definition of A "Two-Tiered Justice System"
- Matt Leonard: Taking Action: Do Our Tactics Unite or Divide Us?
- Amy Goodman: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail
- Dave Zirin: Tiger's Tepid 'Coming Out Party'
- Danny Schechter: In the Week of the Economic Circus: Which Way Recovery?
- Robert Scheer: Economic Policy Could Scuttle Obama’s Good Start
- Mark Weisbrot: Obama Has Opportunity to Reverse Mistake on Offshore Drilling
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Stiffed: Why Are Bailed-Out Banks Helping Pfizer Buy Wyeth?
- Chisun Lee: Bush’s Secret Counterterrorism Law Book—and the Demands to Release It
- Mariah Blake: Bad Reactors: Sub-prime Nuclear Loans
- Yifat Susskind: 'Organizing for America' Means Fighting for Human Rights Worldwide
- Guy Reel: The United Haters of America
Tuesday January 27, 2009
- Bob Herbert: The Same Old Song
- ZP Heller: Let's Rethink Military Escalation in Afghanistan Before It's Too Late
- Russell Mokhiber: What if Israel Were in Your Neighborhood?
- Neve Gordon and Yigal Bronner: Fueling the Cycle of Hate
- Nick Metel: Time Has Come for Single-Payer Universal Health Care System
- Dean Baker: The Anti-Stimulus Crowd Blows a Gasket
- Cesar Chelala: Recalling the One Who Mixed Politics, Poetry
- Linda McQuaig: Financial Elite Have No Shame
- Sandy Tolan: Mitchell's Challenge: After Gaza, Five Questions about Palestinian and Israeli Realities
Monday January 26, 2009
- Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith, and Tim Costello: 'Globalization From Below' Tackles the 'Great Recession'
- Robert B. Reich: The Union Way Up
- Chris Hedges: With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again
- Barbara Crossette: 'Global Gag Rule' Lifted
- Gerald E. Scorse: The Annual Bailout of 'Investors'
- Glenn Greenwald: To Favor Due Process Is to Favor Terrorists' Rights
- Joseph L. Galloway: It's Time to Choose Right Over Wrong
- Stephen Zunes: Is Mitchell Up to the Task?
- Thom Hartmann: Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years
- Norman Solomon: 44 Years Later, LBJ's Ghost Hovers Over the 44th President
Sunday January 25, 2009
- Eric Margolis: Closing Gitmo Just the Beginning
- Benjamin R. Barber: A Revolution in Spirit
- Ralph Nader: Open Letter to President Obama on Consumer Protection
- Frank Rich: No Time for Poetry
- Mitch Albom: The Worst Lies of All? The Ones You Expect
- Toronto Star Editorial: Resisters of a 'Dumb' War
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Far-Right Obama Critics Get a Reply
- Muriel Gray: America, You’ve Much to be Proud of... but Drop the World-Leader Idea
Saturday January 24, 2009
- Robert Reich: How America Embraced Lemon Socialism
- César Chelala: Jewish Voices of Dissent on Gaza
- Bob Herbert: More Than Charisma
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Outside, Things Are Looking Brighter
- Christopher Brauchli: Bank of America Meets Due Diligence
- George Hunsinger: Ending US Torture: A Time for Hope and Healthy Skepticism
- George Hunsinger: Ending US Torture: A Time for Hope and Healthy Skepticism
- Dr. Mona El-Farra: Gaza Needs Many Years to Heal
- Ralph Nader: Open Letter to President Obama on Consumer Protection
- Scott Ritter: The Wrong Man for the Job
Friday January 23, 2009
- Michael Klare: Repudiate the Carter Doctrine
- Medea Benjamin: End the Occupation
- Christopher Hayes: 'I Saw My People'
- Glenn Greenwald: The Newest Fear-Mongering Campaign From the Right and the Media
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial : Alternatives to Prison Protect the Community
- Jim Hightower: Obama Must Be Even Bolder Than FDR
- Johann Hari: Is the US About to Treat the Rest of the World Better? Maybe...
- David Michael Green: What Was Said, and What Was Not
- David Sirota: The Gulf Between Hope and Change
Thursday January 22, 2009
- Victor Navasky: Seeking Obama's Center
- George McGovern: Calling a Time Out
- Alisa Gravitz : 7 Fixes from the Green Economy
- Amy Goodman: Push Obama to Follow Through on Peace Vows
- Glenn Greenwald: New Poll on Torture and Investigations Negates Beltway Conventional Wisdom
- Catharine Cooper: Proud to be an American
- Maude Barlow: Water is a Human Right
- Danny Schechter: How Long Will The Honeymoon Last?
- Joyce Marcel: We Have Overcome
- Jules Boykoff: Obama Must Rein in 'Terrorist' Databases
- Kathy Kelly: Worse Than an Earthquake
- Robert C. Koehler: Childish Things
- Robert Fisk: So Far, Obama's Missed The Point on Gaza...
- Tom Engelhardt: The Day the Earth Still Stood
Wednesday January 21, 2009
- Glenn Greenwald: Mohammed Jawad and Obama's Efforts to Suspend Military Commissions
- Robert Scheer: Time To Get To Work
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: How Audacious Will Obama Choose to Be?
- Naomi Wolf: Obama Inauguration: A New Tone. No More Fake Optimism for The People
- Capital Times Editorial: Urge Congress to Enact Single-Payer Health Care
- George Monbiot: A Better Way to Make Money
- Helen Thomas: 44 Takes Office with Blunt Rejection of 43
- David Corn: A Bad-Weather Speech for Bad-Weather Times
- Kathy Kelly: The Strongest Weapon of All
- Michael Parenti: Capitalism's Self-Inflicted Apocalypse
Tuesday January 20, 2009
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Tone and Challenge in the Obama Era
- Ben White: Israel Wanted a Humanitarian Crisis
- Mary Beth James: A Triumph of Hope over Despair
- Robert Parry: Historical Mystery of Bush's Presidency
- Michael Honey: What Would King Tell Obama?
- John Nichols: A Commander-in-Chief Elected to End a War
- Eugene Jarecki: An Ode to Tomorrow
- Peter Dreier: Pete Seeger Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
- Bernie Sanders: An Inauguration for The American People
- Harvey Wasserman: A Ten-Point Solartopian Starter Agenda for the Age of Obama
Monday January 19, 2009
- Leigh Donaldson: Is Our Army Glamorizing War and Violence to an Audience of Children?
- Chris Hedges: Peace Is in the Eye of the Beholder
- Judith Laitman and Tsela Barr: We Must Demand a Just Peace for Palestinians
- Dean Baker: The Role of Government: Keeping the Wealthy Rich
- Andy Kroll: The Duncan Doctrine
- David Korten: The Speech President Obama Should Deliver… But Won't
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
- John Nichols: Most Valuable Progressives: Code Pink's Transition
- Robert Kuttner: Fiscal Follies
- Philip Warburg: The New Deal Wasn't Built in a Day
- Cristina Page: Bush, Our Ex-Boyfriend
- Bill Gallagher: Good Riddance, Vile Prince
- Robert Jensen: A "Citizens' Oath of Office" for Inauguration Day 2009
- Deron Lovaas & Paul Loeb: Missing the Train on the Recovery Package
- Norman Solomon: The Return of Triangulation
Sunday January 18, 2009
- Glenn Greenwald: Binding US Law Requires Prosecutions for Those Who Authorize Torture
- Kate Smith/Rob Edwards: 2008: Year of the Global Food Crisis
- Frank Rich: White Like Me
- John Brown: Rest Easy, Kansas City: Israel to the Rescue
- Christopher Cooper: Many Days You Have Lingered Around My Cabin Door
- Dennis Bernstein: Is Israel's Gaza War a New War Crime?
- Donna Smith: The Horror of Healthcare in America
Saturday January 17, 2009
- Philip S. Wenz: Go Green: Our Earth's Future Depends on It
- Ahdaf Soueif: The Palestinians Say: 'This Is a War of Extermination'
- James F. Vesely: President Obama Should Dispense with 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
- Christopher Brauchli: CitiGroup and the Credit Card
- Dan Hamburg: We Need a Hero
- Ralph Nader: Punishing the Palestinians
- Audrey Stewart / Kathy Kelly: Suddenly Bombs Started Falling
- Robert E. Griffin: King’s Message of Nonviolence Should Not Be Overlooked
Friday January 16, 2009
- Randall Kuhn: When Israel Expelled Palestinians: What if it was San Diego and Tijuana Instead?
- Tim Costello, Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: Social Movements 2.0
- Glenn Greenwald: FISA Ruling: A Case Study in 8 Years of Lying and Ignorance
- Mary Frances Berry: Gay but Equal?
- Daniel Solomon: We Need a Unity of Purpose to Rebuild America
- Matthew Rothschild: Bush Tarnishes Medal of Freedom by Bestowing It on Uribe
- Jonathan Steele: Beware the JFK Analogy
- Ray McGovern: What's CIA Director Hayden Hidin'?
- Erika Stutzman : Your Right To Be Informed
- Paul Krugman: Forgive and Forget?
- John Nichols: Holder: Waterboarding Is Torture
- Elizabeth Holtzman: Holding Bush Accountable
- Caoimhe Butterly : Still Breathing, A Report from Gaza
- David Michael Green: So, How'd You Like Your Beer?
- Thad Williamson: What Peace Activists Can Achieve in the Age of Obama
- Anne Brown: Witness Against Torture Fast for Justice: Day Five
Thursday January 15, 2009
- Nick Turse: Future Shock at the Army Science Conference
- Dave Lindorff: Only Rats Get Fat as Misdirected Bailout and Stimulus Funds go Down the Rat Hole
- Robert Naiman: Kucinich to Introduce Gaza Ceasefire Resolution - Who Will Co-sponsor?
- Michael Boyle: In The Shadow of Nixon
- Peter Rothberg: Justice for Oscar Grant
- Glenn Greenwald: Establishment Washington Unifies Against Prosecutions
- Valeria Fernández : Communities Foreclosed
- Bruce Robbins: It's Time for US to Cut Israel Off
- David Miliband: 'War on Terror' Was Wrong
- David Corn: Why Eric Holder Represents What's Wrong with Washington
- Amy Goodman: Nothing to Fear Except No Health Care
- Michael Lerner: Why the Obama/Clinton Path to Mideast Peace Will Fail
- Frida Berrigan: Israel and The United States: Up In Arms
- Donna Smith: 2.6 Million New American Jobs and a Working Healthcare System…Who Knew?
- Danny Schechter: What Is The King-Obama Lineage?
- Robert C. Koehler: The Moral Dead Zone
Wednesday January 14, 2009
- Glenn Greenwald: Tom Friedman Offers a Perfect Definition of 'Terrorism'
- Howard Friel: Chronology: Which Side Violated the Israel-Gaza Ceasefire?
- Sally Kohn: Stimulus for All?
- Eve Ensler, Kavita Ramdas and Zainab Salbi: Women's Voice and Leadership Crucial for Change: Open Letter to President-Elect Obama
- Dave Zweifel: GOP Clings to Reagan Myth
- Anastasia Moloney: The Challenge of South America's Populist Left
- Bill McKibben, Joseph Romm and John Whitehead: Greening The Stimulus
- Michelle Goldberg: Israel's Free Ride Ends
- Mary Kane: Scapegoating Minorities for Failures of Banking
- Tom Engelhardt: The Apology: How to Turn Over a New Inaugural Leaf
- Matthew Rothschild: Don’t Give the Banks Another $350 Billion
- David Cook: We Need Your Help Here in Eastern Tennessee
- Robert Naiman: Could Dennis Ross Set the Stage for Future War with Iran?
- Adham Khalil: Every Second There is a Bomb
- Kathy Kelly: Cease Fire, Cease Siege
- Rev. William G. Sinkford: Hope and Change for Low-Wage Workers
Tuesday January 13, 2009
- Glenn Greenwald: Criticisms, Political Pressure and Barack Obama
- Robert Dreyfuss: Obama: Declare an End To 'The War on Terror'
- Jeff Madrick, Dean Baker and James Hamilton: Teach America: Government Can Work
- Barbara Ehrenreich: The Growing Clout of the Nouveau Poor
- David Corn: No Soul, No Regret: George W. Bush's Non-Mea-Culpa Tour 2009
- Ira Chernus: Does Israeli Intelligence Lie?
- Morgan Strong: Gaza and the End of Days
- Esther Kaplan: Can Labor Revive the American Dream?
- Jamal Dajani: Gaza: The War on Children
- Janet L. Parker, Ph.D.: Faith-Based and Secular Groups Join Forces to Fight Big Coal in Virginia
- Randall Amster: Peace is the New War
- Ivan Eland: We Can No Longer Afford The Empire
- Danny Schechter: Hope for Swearing In, Not Swearing At
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Saving the Economy, One Furnace at a Time
- David Sirota: Four Reasons to Oppose the Bush-Obama Request for Another $350 Billion Bailout
- Lindsay Hagerman: Fasting for Justice
Monday January 12, 2009
- Larry Beinhart: Time For Tax Hikes
- John Nichols: How to Push Obama
- Ru Freeman: The First Mistake: Barack Obama’s Silence on Gaza
- Mohammed Fares Al Majdalawi : Gaza is Sinking in a River of Blood: A Message from a Gazan to the World
- Jeffrey E. Surma: Finding A Sustainable Future at The Dump
- William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh : Reach Out To Cuba
- Uri Avnery: Israel Is Losing This War
- Paul Krugman: Ideas for Obama
- Dean Baker: Right to Rent: Helping Homeowners Without Throwing Money at Banks
- Angela Blackwell: Make The Stimulus Big, Smart and Fair
- Chris Hedges: The Language of Death
- Ann Jones: The Afghan Scam
Sunday January 11, 2009
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Allegedly "New" Centrism and His ABC Interview Today
- Kathy Kelly: Tunnel Vision
- Andy Worthington: Seven Years of Guantanamo, Seven Years of Torture and Lies
- Haroon Siddiqui: Jewish Dissenters Speak Out Over Gaza
- Helen Thomas: History Cannot Save Him
- Frank Rich: Eights Years of Madoffs
- John Nichols: House Refuses (Overwhelmingly) To Encourage Gaza Peace
- Anne Butterfield: Coal Pollution: Hiding in Plain Sight
- Deepak Chopra: Memo to Obama: How to Convert to A Peace Economy
- Matthew Rothschild: The Great Recession
- Julia Irwin: Getting Away with Murder
- Bill Quigley: Report from Rafah: Doctors Stopped At Borders
- David Cay Johnston: Fiscal Therapy
Saturday January 10, 2009
- Robert Fisk: Wherever I Go, I Hear The Same Tired Middle East Comparisons
- John Nichols: Impeachment Made Easy: The Illinois Model
- Laura Carlsen: Obama and NAFTA
- Glenn Greenwald: Bill Moyers on Israel/Gaza
- Christopher Brauchli: The Critics and The Credit Card
- John W. Dean: The Damaged Institution of the Presidency, How the Obama
- Gideon Levy: The Time of The Righteous
- Suzanne Baroud: Children of Gaza, Run to the Angels
- David Michael Green: Is There A Pill For Regressive-Induced, Hypocrisy-Produced, Chronic Nausea?
- Michael Winship: Making A Bid for the American Wild?
- Harvey Wasserman: Obama's Stimulus Money Must NOT Be Wasted on Nuke Reactors
- Aaron Glantz: Obama and Shinseki Should Let Vets Get Their Benefits
Friday January 9, 2009
- Russ Baker: Shock and. . . Oil?
- Ari Melber: Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov
- Janelle Weiner: Online Giving Replaces Bakesales: 'Citizen Philanthropists' Contribute to US Classrooms
- Paul Krugman: The Obama Gap
- Ralph Nader: Open Letter to President-Elect Obama
- Arianna Huffington: Why Are the Media More Interested in Blago Than in Unraveling the Bailout Mystery?
- Matthew Rothschild: Obama Hits Many High Notes in Speech on the Economy
- Jonathan Freedland: Talking to Hamas Is a Step Toward Peace
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama Must Get Afghanistan Right
- Dave Zirin: No Justice, No Play? Gaza Anger Overwhelms Hoops Contest
- Ray McGovern: Obama Picks a Conscience for The CIA
- Ben Burkett: Family Farmers Demand Real Change
- Jayati Ghosh: The Outcry Is Muted, But The Food Crisis Is Getting Worse
- Naomi Klein: Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction
- Danny Schechter: Inaugurate This: Waiting for Barack Obama
Thursday January 8, 2009
- Craig Aaron: Keep the Sock Puppets Out of Your Stimulus
- David Sirota: Prioritizing the Movement Over the Party
- Jimmy Carter: An Unnecessary War
- Glenn Greenwald: The DOJ Pursues The "Real Criminal" in The NSA Spying Scandal
- Roberto Rodriguez: Our Nation's Soul Sickness - Part II
- Cora Weiss: Vision for A New Foreign Policy
- Tom Hayden: Obama's Silence
- Helen Thomas: War Is Hell
- Juan Cole: Neoconservatism Dies in Gaza
- Steve Niva: War of Choice: How Israel Manufactured the Gaza Escalation
- Jim Goodman: Centrist Cabinet, Progressive President?
- Robert C. Koehler: Be The Peace
- Michael T. Klare: The Problem of Cheap Oil
- Charles Knight, Carl Conetta, James P. McGovern: It's Time To Scrutinize The Pentagon Budget
- Ben Brabson, Ph.D. & Lisa Ramsden: 'Clean Coal' Doesn't Exist, Despite Industry Marketing Campaign
Wednesday January 7, 2009
- Teryn Norris and Jesse Jenkins: The Danger of Green Stimulus
- John Geyman, MD: Memo to Obama: National Health Insurance The Only Solution
- Darin Gilley: Did the Four Horsemen Destroy the Auto Industry?
- Robert Naiman: Can Congress Speak Out Against Gaza Violence? Yes, They Can!
- Mark Steel: What Creationists Hate Is That We Emerged by Accident
- Robert Fisk: Why Do They Hate The West So Much, We Will Ask
- Margaret Krome: Innovations in Mexico Lift Up Country's Poor
- Ted Rall: New Year's Revolutions
- Dean Baker: Free Market Myth
- John Feffer: Israel: Mini-Me?
- Robin Wright Penn & John Prendergast: Cell Phones and Congo's War Against Women
- Amy Goodman: Israeli Voices for Peace
- John Friedrich: Killing Children is Never Legitimate
- Marjorie Cohn: Israel’s Collective Punishment of Gaza
Tuesday January 6, 2009
- Ira Chernus: To Help Palestine, Be Pro-Israel Too
- Ru Freeman: Allowing the Destruction of Palestine, We Die Hungry Too
- Jerry Lanson: When The Press Corps Packs It In
- Esra Özyürek : A Turkish 'I Apologize' Campaign to Armenians
- Moazzam Begg: Why Guantanamo Detainees Deserve Asylum in Europe
- George Monbiot: Shell Game: It Will Take More Than Goodwill and Greenwash to Save The Biosphere
- Ghassan Michel Rubeiz: International Community Must Stop Gaza War
- Eric Stoner: Obama: Listen to Iraqi Opinion
- Gary Kamiya: The Israel Rules
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Impressive New OLC Chief
- Tom Engelhardt: The Ponzi Scheme Presidency
- Steve Macek and Mitchell Szczepanczyk: America's DTV Transition Beset with Problems
- Dean Baker: The Anti-Stimulus Crowd: The Fear of Success
- Mark Weisbrot: Stimulus Time: The Fierce Urgency of Now
- Lewis Milford: States Should Lead Green Recovery Investment
Monday January 5, 2009
- Neve Gordon: Israel's New War Ethic
- Bill McKibben: Think Again: Climate Change
- Pierre Tristam: Compelling Journalism Persists Despite Media's Business Struggle
- Robert Parry: Israel's Looming Catastrophe
- Pamela L. Finmark and William D. Chalmers: 'Patriot Dollars' to Reform Politics
- Chris Hedges: Lost in the Rubble
- Robert Fisk: Keeping Out The Cameras and Reporters Simply Doesn't Work
- Wes Jackson & Wendell Berry: A 50-Year Farm Bill
- Jessica Mosby: Flow: Who Owns the World’s Water?
- Robert Dreyfuss: Bush's Last War Crime?
- Bruce Fein & Ralph Nader: Bush-Cheney Deserve Censure for Declaring War Against The Constitution
- Robert Naiman: Calling Out Bush's War in Gaza
- Cliff Schecter: George W. Bush's Legacy of Failure
- Donna Smith: The PT Barnum Factor in American Healthcare: One Prescription at a Time
Sunday January 4, 2009
- Rupert Cornwell: Bush Burns the 'Midnight Rules' Oil
- Gideon Levy: And There Lie the Bodies
- Simon Tisdall: Obama Is Losing a Battle He Doesn't Know He's In
- Glenn Greenwald: Orwell, Blinding Tribalism, Selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza
Saturday January 3, 2009
- Laila Al-Arian: To Live and Die in Gaza
- Robert Fisk : What's in a Name? Quite a Lot, Where the Military Is Concerned
- Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Making 'Duck Soup' Out of 2009
- Frida Berrigan: We Arm the World
Friday January 2, 2009
- Glenn Greenwald: More Oddities in The US "Debate" Over Israel/Gaza
- Johann Hari: My New Year Resolution is to Lose My Bottle – and Quit Coke
- Ali Abunimah: Inheriting Bush's Blinkers
- Amy Goodman: Remembering Voices of Resistance
- David Sirota: FDR prolonged the Great Depression? Really?
- Sarah van Gelder: 10 Reasons to be Hopeful about 2009, and 3 Reasons to be Terrified
- Wenonah Hauter: Murky Waters: Why Privatization Is Not the Solution to Fixing America’s Aging Water Infrastructure Systems
- Peter Dyer: Torture & the Crime of Aggressive War
- Ramzy Baroud: Gaza and the World: Will Things Ever Change?
- David Michael Green: More Jefferson, Less Rove
- Danny Schechter: As The New Year Begins, The Old Year Refuses To Die
Thursday January 1, 2009
- Rosa Brooks: Israel Can't Bomb Its Way to Peace
- Timothy Garton Ash: 2009 Brings Hard Choices Over the Future of Capitalism
- Michael Tomasky in Washington: Welcome to America's Hall of Shame
- Roberto Rodriguez: America's Soul Sickness & Permanent War: Obama's Rude Awakening
- Christopher Cooper: Go Upright And Vital And Speak The Rude Truth In All Ways
- Ralph Nader: Letter to Bush on Gaza Crisis
- Robert C. Koehler: The Future of Civilization
- Jen Marlowe: Abeer’s Baby
- Neve Gordon and Jeff Halper: Where's the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?
- Glenn Greenwald: Another Brutal Year for Liberty