Views - October 2009
Saturday October 31, 2009
- Greg Grandin: Honduras: Solution or Stall?
- Christopher Brauchli: The Pope and the Anglicans
- David Michael Green: Big Bad Government Is Coming to Get You
- Ray McGovern: Kipling Haunts Obama's Afghan War
- Lenny Russo: Why Is the USDA Continuing Loans for New Factory Farms?
- Arundhati Roy: The Heart of India Is Under Attack
- David Korten: Path to a Peace Economy
Friday October 30, 2009
- Jeff Biggers: Coal River Mountain Emergency: Sit-Ins-Funeral March Erupt at EPA/JP Morgan Chase Offices Across Nation
- Brianna Karp as told to Claire Prentice: I'm One of America's New Homeless
- Scott Ritter: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?
- John Einarsen: Hiroshima Beckons Obama
- Bob Cesca: We Can't Reform Health Care Without Reforming Food
- David Sirota: TARP on Steroids
- Sandy Leon Vest: Savagery and Silence in the First World
- Manuel Pérez-Rocha: More Than Backpedaling on NAFTA
- Leslie Savan: Reparations?
Thursday October 29, 2009
- Robert C. Koehler: Single-Eyed Vision
- Dilip Hiro: Why Obama's Iran Policy Will Fail
- Michelle Chen: The Quest for Environmental Justice in Dixie
- John Nichols: Not-So-Robust Public Option
- Danny Schechter: What's the Word in Johannesburg as Financial Crisis Rocks 'The Rainbow Nation,' Hopes for Progress?
- Harvey Wasserman: Is This Tom Friedman's 'Walter Cronkite Moment' on Afghanistan?
- Laura Flanders: Palin’s Pet Hoffman Has Taliban Ties
- Nick Clark: Mississippi Diary: Operation Cajun
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Investigating the Mortgage Crisis
- Dennis Keeney: Monsanto and Pioneer Duke It Out Over Biotech Corn, Farmers Take the Hit
Wednesday October 28, 2009
- Donna Smith: TARP-Loving Joe Loves Bailing Out Banks but Not Providing Healthcare
- Lindsay Beyerstein: Joe Lieberman and the Opt-Out Revolution
- Mark Weisbrot: Latin America's Economic Rebels
- Saul Landau: Cuban Embargo: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
- Shawn Dell Joyce: No Such Thing as Clean Coal
- Ari Berman: Centrist Democrats = Corporate Sellouts
- Gabriella Campos: The Struggle Against Free Trade Continues
- Jay Walljasper: The Victory of the Commons
- Kevin Gosztola: Doctors Risking Arrest for Healthcare for All, Challenge System That Makes Them Complicit
- Ann Wright: An American Diplomat and a British Soldier Tell Their Leaders They Have No Clothes: No to the Afghanistan War Strategy
- Jim Hightower: Healthcare Hypocrites
- Amy Goodman: The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent
- Robert Scheer: Lieberman Twists the Knife
Tuesday October 27, 2009
- Glenn Greenwald: Former Marine Captain Resigns in Protest of Afghanistan War
- Erin Brockovich: Chromium 6 Still Threatens California's Drinking Water
- Michelle Chen: Risks and Returns: Exploiting the Immigrant Detention Industry
- Chantal Clément: Excess Hormone-Grown Meat? Don't Worry, the Kids Will Eat It
- Zach Carter: Dismantling the Wall Street Casino
- John Buell: Debating Burns’ Thesis on National Parks’ Value
- Bob Herbert: Changing the World
- Ira Chernus: Politics Sparks Religious Conflict in Jerusalem
- Ralph Nader: Rhetoric and Reality
Monday October 26, 2009
- Laura Flanders: Bombings in Baghdad Threaten DC Security
- Dean Baker: Wall Street Adds Insult to Injury
- Michael T. Klare: Welcome to 2025
- Cintli Rodriguez: Nightmare of a Dream Student
- Peter Laarman: Escalating Afghanistan: What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?
- Donna Smith: Why Isn’t 122 Dead Americans Every Day a National Health Emergency?
- Jeff Biggers: Battle at Coal River Mountain Explodes: Green Jobs Vs. Big Coal Showdown
- Scott Berman: Health Care Reform Is Moral Battle for the Soul of a Nation
- New York Times Editorial: The Cover-Up Continues
- Gary Younge: We Attacked the Bankers, but Took Our Eyes Off the Whole Rotten System
- Chris Hedges: War Is a Hate Crime
- Bill Quigley and Deborah Popowski: When Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib Come Home
Sunday October 25, 2009
- Margaret Knapke: Coup's Impact on Honduran Women
- Olga Bonfiglio: Who Ya Gonna Call in an Environmental Disaster?
- Helen Thomas and Craig Crawford: Veteran Reporter's 5 Lessons for Obama
- Eric Margolis: Americans Pull Strings in Afghan Election
- Frank Rich: In Defense of the ‘Balloon Boy’ Dad
- Harvey Wasserman: Beware a Times/Pentagon 'Virtual Coup' on Aghanistan
Saturday October 24, 2009
- Tony Norman: Nader Deserves More Respect than He Gets
- Samuel Claiborne: Our Embedded Media
- Alexis Baden-Mayer: And All We Get Is the White House Garden?
- Christopher Brauchli: The Prolonging of Palin
- Richard Sclove: Why the Polls on Climate Change Are Wrong
- Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Texas, the Eyes of Justice Are Upon You
- David Michael Green: Paranoia for Breakfast
Friday October 23, 2009
- Mark Weisbrot: America's Real Quagmire
- David Suzuki with Faisal Moola: Forests Count in Climate Change
- Reese Erlich and Peter Coyote: The Murders at al-Sukariya
- David Sirota: A Tale of Two Supermen
- Daniel Gewertz: BS at BU: The O’Reilly Factor
- Sandy LeonVest: US Workers Starved Into Service
- Laura Flanders: Where Are the Fighting Dems?
- Andy Worthington: Musicians (Finally) Say No to Music Torture
- David Benjamin: 'Booked on Suspicion'
- Jeff Gates: Will Israel Ensure That History Repeats Itself?
- Randall Amster: Getting One's Polar Bearings on Climate Change
- Donna Smith: 'Weiner’s Amendment Breathes 45,000 Lives into HR3200'
- Margaret Knapke: Coup's Impact on Honduran Women
Thursday October 22, 2009
- Ronnie Cummins: The Organic Revolution: How We Can Stop Global Warming
- Glenn Greenwald: What 'Controlling the Media' Really Means
- Robert Naiman: NoEscalation.org: Can the Peace Movement Reach President Obama?
- Nick Turse: Obama's Choice: Failed War President or the Prince of Peace?
- Mike Tidwell: Rising Seas, Rising Awareness
- Dave Zweifel: Women's Health Not 'Special Interest'
- Jon Reinsch: Torture and the Bomb
- Bernard Lagan: A Case of Innocence Executed
- Ruth Conniff: The Movement Against the Banks
- Joyce Marcel: Reality Bites
- Michael Moore: Michael Moore's Action Plan: 15 Things Every American Can Do Right Now
- Dan Pearson and Kathy Kelly: The Rotten Fruits of War
Wednesday October 21, 2009
- Greg Kaufmann: More OutrAIGe
- Norman Solomon: Uncle Sam in Afghanistan: Good Help Is Hard to Find
- John Feffer: Our Choice: Control Carbon or Be Cooked
- Bill McKibben: 350: The Most Important Number in the World
- Nicholas Maliska: The School of the Americas: New Legislation Brings Limited Transparency
- John Aravosis: The President Is Back to Lecturing Us About Health Care Reform
- Robert Scheer: Zooming In on the Year’s Biggest Hoax
- Johann Hari: The Three Fallacies That Have Driven the War in Afghanistan
- Amy Goodman: Trick or Treat for Climate Change
- Rick Chamberlin: Toward a Coherent Presidency
- Jim Hightower: A Corporate Monster v. 'The Vermonster'
Tuesday October 20, 2009
- Alan Fisher: The Number No One's Counting
- Tim Karr: AT&T Boss Asks Employees to Fake It
- Glenn Greenwald: A Rumsfeld-Era Reminder About What Causes Terrorism
- Wendy Norris: Media Ignores Women's Health Disparities in Shriver Report
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Don’t Bail on Wall Street Outrage
- Robyn Blumner: Americans, Their Smiley-Face Facade, and Reality
- Zach Carter: Weekly Audit: A Tale of Two Economies
- Jo Comerford: Cashing in the War Dividend
- Linda McQuaig: Ever Upward Trend for Bankers' Pay
Monday October 19, 2009
- Laura Flanders: The Real Hoax Is Health Care
- Dean Baker: Embrace the Dollar's Downfall
- Jeff Biggers: Historic EPA Game Changer: Will Jackson Veto or Regulate the Plunder of Appalachia?
- Mohammed Adow: The Carnage in Congo Continues
- Kerry Trueman: The No Impact Challenge: Just Say Yes!
- Paul Krugman: The Banks Are Not Alright
- Tom Engelhardt: Who's Next? Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Commendable Change in Federal Drug Enforcement Policy
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Get Ready for Conservative Bible
- Will Allen: The Good Food Revolution
- Chris Hedges: A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction
Sunday October 18, 2009
- Frank Rich: Goldman Can Spare You a Dime
- Glenn Greenwald: David Rohde's Insights Into What Motivates the Taliban
- Glenn W. Smith: Corporate Supremacy and the Rape of a Human Girl
- Harvey Wasserman: Is the Climate Bill Being Fossil/Nuked?
- Jeremy Scahill: The ACORN Standard
- Ari Melber: Maddow Responds to Bush Sr. - And 9 of 10 Republicans Fear Her
- Joan Smith: Our 'Don't Ask' Policy on Torture Demands Some Answers
- Haroon Siddiqui: It Matters Not Whether Obama Sends 20,000 or 40,000 Troops to Afghanistan
- Eric Margolis: War Next Door Creates Havoc in Pakistan
- Pierre Tristam: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' Try to Survive Crushing Stones
Saturday October 17, 2009
- Christopher Brauchli: Banks and Borrowers
- Danny Schechter: Challenging the Banks: Stand Up or Roll Over?
- Glenn Greenwald: Another Goldman Executive Named to Key Government Post as Its Profits Skyrocket
- Dave Lindorff: Agent Orange in Vietnam: Ignoring the Crimes Before Our Eyes
- David Michael Green: America, Heal Thyself: Healthcare As A Metaphor For Our National Political Pathology
- Donna Smith: US Healthcare History: Our Very Own Killing Fields
- Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Why Arianna Doesn't Get It
Friday October 16, 2009
- Isabel Macdonald: Sheriff Arpaio: "I Could Be Elected on Pink Underwear"
- Patti Lynn: Corporations Badmouth Public Water
- Ted Rall: Eight Years Later, We Still Don’t Get It in Afghanistan
- Timothy Karr: Does Astroturf Ever Die?
- Rob Smart: 10 Things We Should Teach Every Kid About Food
- Ralph Nader: Barney Frank and the Planet of the Banks
- Jessica Irvine: Girl Power Takes on Selfishness
- Clive Stafford Smith: MI5 Can't Keep Turning a Blind Eye to Torture
- Mark Morford: The Gang Rape and the Republicans
- Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg: Obama Renews Bush's 9/11 State of Emergency
- Michael Winship: The Nobel Prize with an Asterisk
- Paul Krugman: A Hatchet Job So Bad It’s Good
- Naomi Klein: Obama's Bad Influence
Thursday October 15, 2009
- Jeremy Scahill: The ACORN Standard
- Simon Tisdall: With Friends Like the US, Pakistan Doesn't Need Enemies
- Roger Doiron: On World Food Day: Crunching the Numbers
- John Gibbons: Time to Pull the Plug on the Bottled Water Swindle
- Glenn Greenwald: GOP House Members Call for Investigation of Muslim Political Activity
- Bill McKibben: Organizing the Biggest Day of Action the World Has Ever Seen
- Ellen Brown: Reviving the Local Economy With Publicly Owned Banks
- Ben Lilliston: The Cost of Palm Oil
- Roger K. Smith: Barack and Alyn
- Gideon Levy: The Golda Wars
- Amy Goodman: Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country
- Tom Gallagher: A Tough Week for the Antiwar Movement
Wednesday October 14, 2009
- Cesar Chelala: The IDF Violated Nuremberg Principles During Operation ‘Cast Lead’
- Laura Flanders: Equality March Shows What Grassroots Can Do
- John Buell: Justice for the Unemployed
- Saul Landau: General Mcmoreland in Vietistan
- Antonia Zerbisias: Conservatives Sweeping 'Liberal Bias' From Bible
- Jennifer Doak and Miriam Pemberton: The Secret About Jobs Military Contractors Don't Want You to Know
- Donna Smith: No Surprises: Baucus-Braly-Blue Cross Bailout Advances to Final Act
- Margaret Maffai: Closing the Loophole: Private Military Contractors and Rights Violations
- Jim Hightower: Obama Must Get Going on Jobs
- Barbara Ehrenreich: Are Women Getting Sadder?
- Robert Scheer: Public Health Before Wall Street Wealth
Tuesday October 13, 2009
- Ralph Nader: CBO Report on Medical Malpractice Flawed
- Lynn Sloman: Thinking Beyond Electric Cars
- Mary Bottari: Put Out the FIRE on Capitol Hill With a Consumer Financial Protection Agency
- Sarah van Gelder: Senate Apology to Native People—A Good First Step
- Patricia T. Morris: The International Violence Against Women Act: What Are We Waiting For?
- Margaret Krome: It’s About Time: EPA to Probe Atrazine Again
- Mark Hertsgaard: Climate Roulette
- Nomi Prins: Paulson's Revealing Phone Records
- Robert Parry: Insurers Make Case for Public Option
- Alan Nasser: Dubious Economics: Obama's Recovery Plan and the Median Wage Earner
- Glenn Greenwald: Democrats and Afghanistan: What's at Stake
- Laura Flanders: Geithner’s All Ears for Debt Cartel
- Neal Gabler: One Nation, Under Illusion
- Tom Engelhardt: A Vietnam Syllabus for President Obama
- Dean Baker: Take America Back From the Banks
Monday October 12, 2009
- David Morris: Of Health Care, War, Costs and Consequences
- Glenn Greenwald: Gay Issues, the 'Fringe Left' and the Liberal Veal Pen
- Kevin Martin and Medea Benjamin: Premature Peace Prize or Call to Action?
- Sandy LeonVest: Obama’s Choice: Play It Safe or Risk It All to Keep Hope Alive
- Gary Younge: The System Let Obama Be President. But He Still May Not Be Able to Beat It
- Thom Hartmann: A Columbus Day Meditation - As Nobel Laureate Obama Decides Whether to 'Conquer' Afghanistan...
- Andrew J. Bacevich: Afghanistan - The Proxy War
- William J. Astore: Obama at the Precipice
Sunday October 11, 2009
- Frank Rich: Two Wrongs Make Another Fiasco
- Eric Margolis: What Lies Beneath the War in Afghanistan
- Harvey Wasserman: That Nobel Screams: 'Out of Afghanistan & Go for Solartopia!'
- Mark Weisbrot: Occupying Afghanistan Is Making Things Worse
- Jose Antonio Vargas: Why Gays Can't Wait - Gay Rights is Civil Rights
- Christopher Cooper: They Oughta Give Me The Wurlitzer Prize
- Michael Moore: Second Thoughts
Saturday October 10, 2009
- Michael Lerner: Say No to War in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Glenn Greenwald: Accusing Obama Critics of 'Standing with the Terrorists'
- Howard Zinn: War and Peace Prizes
- Christopher Brauchli: Lethal Injection Revisited
- Yifat Susskind: On Afghanistan, We Need a Policy, Not a Macho Hissy-Fit
- Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: In Washington, The Revolving Door Is Hazardous to Your Health
- Jerica Arents: The Price of Peace
Friday October 9, 2009
- Michael Moore: Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize -- Now Please Earn it!
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
- Jesse Hagopian: A Nobel Worthy Effort: Ending Youth Violence From Chicago to Afghanistan
- Brattleboro Reformer Editorial: Fighting Fraud
- Andy Worthington: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize: OK, He’s A Nice Guy, But …
- David Michael Green: Barry in the Bush With Smiles
- Robert Naiman: Nobel Committee, Strategic as Ever, Taps Obama for Peace Prize
- Jim Goodman: Common Sense Could Go a Long Way to Promote Food Safety
- Greg Grandin: Honduran Coup Regime in Crisis
- Paul Krugman: The Uneducated American
Thursday October 8, 2009
- Mark Weisbrot: The IMF's Misguided New Mission
- Glenn Greenwald: A Historian's Account of Democrats and Bush-Era War Crimes
- Jodie Evans: Afghanistan: Will Obama Listen to the Women?
- Tom Engelhardt: War of the Worlds
- Stephen Zunes: The Goldstone Report: Killing the Messenger
- Laura Flanders: What’s Changed in Washington?
- Margot Canaday: The March to End a Century of Persecution
- Peter Hart: Healthcare Reform Minus the Public Option—or the Public
- Paul Hochfeld: Letter to Obama From the Mad As Hell Doctors
- Timothy Egan: Restoration Harvest
- Jim Riccio: Boxer-Kerry Climate Bill Greenwashes Nuclear Power
Wednesday October 7, 2009
- Keith Olbermann: Special Comment: Saving American Lives
- Sandy LeonVest: Copenhagen Talks Better Off Without US Version of Climate Action
- Frida Berrigan: Losing the Moral High Ground
- Chuck Collins: Neighbors Banding Together in Tough Times
- Lucinda Marshall: Franken Amendment Step Towards Ending Militarism's Culture of Impunity Regarding Sexual Assault, More Needed
- Glenn Greenwald: The Suffocatingly Narrow Afghanistan 'Debate'
- Ira Chernus: Obama Trapped Behind Wall of Mideast Containment
- Marion Nestle: The High Human Cost of Unsafe Food
- Michelle Chen: White House Raises Hopes for Kinder, Gentler Immigrant Detention
- Amy Goodman: Watch What You Tweet
- Tom Engelhardt: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Middle Eastern-Style
- Garrison Keillor: I Was So Wrong
- Robert Scheer: A War of Absurdity
- Thomas Frank: Health Care and the 'Predator State'
- Jim Hightower: Goofing up Health Care Reform
Tuesday October 6, 2009
- Liz McAlister: We Are Standing Up to the Powers of the World
- Janine Jackson: Institutional Racism Ignored
- The Yes Men: The Yes Men Fix the World's a Riot. No, Really
- Laura Flanders: Will Gas Drilling Destroy NYC’s Drinking Water?
- Sahil Kapur: Democrats With Guts
- Marcy Wheeler: Announcing National Use Zazi to Gain New Surveillance Powers Day!
- John Nichols: Obama Should Meet 'Rethink Afghanistan' Caucus
- Peter Dreier and Todd Gitlin: Demonstrations at CEO Mansions? Ho Hum
- Deb Price: A Decade Later, Matthew Shepard Act Still Needed
- Glenn Greenwald: The Joint Post/Obama Defense of the Patriot Act and FISA
- Jeremy Scahill: An ACORN Amendment for Pfizer
- Linda McQuaig: Give Peace a Seat at Cabinet Table
Monday October 5, 2009
- Dean Baker: Banks 1, America 0
- Ralph Nader: The Cash or Credit Conundrum
- Jill Richardson: Norman Borlaug's Unsustainable Green Revolution
- Rebecca Griffin: On the 8th Anniversary, 8 Things to Remember About the War in Afghanistan
- Joshua Holland: H1N1 Just Isn't That Scary: Why There's No Reason to Go Overboard With Swine Flu Hysteria
- Scott Klinger and Rebecca Adamson: The National Parks: America’s Best Idea?
- Timothy Karr: The Washington Post Needs to Come Clean on Net Neutrality
- Jane Hamsher: Countdown to Lieberman
- Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati: Getting Past the Smoke and Mirrors
- Deb Richter: Lack of Universal Health Care Is a Mass Killer
- Paul Krugman: The Politics of Spite
- Chris Hedges: Celebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia
- Matt Bivens: Follow the Money
Sunday October 4, 2009
- John Atcheson: Fear, Ignorance and the Summer of Our Discontent
- David Noonan: Uranium Policy a Hypocrisy
- Robert Parry: Democrats Ponder Health-Care Suicide
- Frank Rich: The Rabbit Ragu Democrats
- Caroline Arnold: Cut the 'Nonsense' for a Decent Society
- Haroon Siddiqui: West Needs to Strike a Grand Bargain With Iran
- Susan Goering: Rethink the Patriot Act
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Fight for Financial Reform
Saturday October 3, 2009
- Rinku Sen: ACORN Is the New Dirty Word
- Daniel Fireside: Life's Best Lessons Are Outside the Classroom
- Greg Kaufmann: Do They Take Us for Schmucks?
- Sadhbh Walshe: America Is a Toxic Dump
- Sanho Tree: The Drug War Has Failed. What Comes Next?
- Faramarz Farbod: Iran, Israel, and the Muzzled US Press
- Suzanne Ehlers: Don't Mess Around in Texas
- Michael Winship: Gelbart and Schulberg: Two Writers Depart an Ever Stranger Land
Friday October 2, 2009
- Deborah Pasha James and Jeanne B. Hewitt : Connecting Transit and Health
- Pepe Escobar: Jumpin' Jack Verdi, It's a Gas, Gas, Gas
- David Sirota: Who Are the 'Deciders'?
- Paul Krugman: Mission Not Accomplished
- Ellen Goodman: A Question of Health and Women’s Equality
- Julia Olmstead: Climate Billl Is the Wrong Place for Farm Policy
- John Nichols: Who Decides About War? What About the People?
- Elizabeth Goitein: Electronic Border Control
- David Michael Green: If the Russians Did This to Us, We’d Kill ‘Em
- Tom Gallagher: Obama's Afghanistan Problem – It's in Our Hands
- Jeff Biggers: The Coalfield Uprising
- Naomi Klein: Copenhagen: Obama Better Go Back
Thursday October 1, 2009
- Stephanie Brault and Michaela D'Ambrosio: Honduras Update: Micheletti Spirals Downward as the US Fails to Fully Condemn the De Facto Regime and Insists on Mincing Around With the Appointees Who Don’t Wear Its Colors
- Juan Cole: Top Things You Think You Know About Iran That Are Not True
- Chuck Collins: An Estate Tax Victory by Any Other Name
- Jeremy Scahill: Bizarro World: Karl Rove Blasts Obama for 'Outsourcing Afghanistan'
- Andy Worthington: A Truly Shocking Guantánamo Story: Judge Confirms That an Innocent Man Was Tortured to Make False Confessions
- Helen Thomas: Health Care Scare
- Jayati Ghosh: The Global North-South Carbon Divide
- Bill C. Davis: Symptoms of the Occupation
- Alyssa Katz: Ending Foreclosure Profiteering
- Megan Tady: Drowning Out the Noise Machine
- Pepe Escobar: It's Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran Time
- Jim Hightower: Wall Street's New Halloween Trick
- Robert C. Koehler: Reviving the Peace Dividend
- Mark Engler: Casino Capitalism as Usual
- Norman Solomon: Starting Another Year of War in Afghanistan