Views - November 2009
Monday November 30, 2009
- Peter Rothberg: Global Day of Action on Climate Crisis
- Capital Times Editorial: Don’t Expand Occupation of Afghanistan — End It
- Andy Kroll: Housing Meltdown, Ground Zero
- Dave Lindorff: Barack Obama: Manchurian Candidate Version 2.0
- Rebecca Solnit: Today's Fanatic, Tomorrow's Saint
- Chris Hedges: Addicted to Nonsense
- Jon Talton: WTO Protesters Were Right
- Roger Morris & George Kenney: Matthew Hoh Speaks Grim Truth To Power
- Glenn Greenwald: Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh: The Face of Rotted Washington
- Gary Houser: Cap and Trade: A Fatal Distraction
- Norman Solomon: The Hollow Politics of Escalation
- Tom Gallagher: Thoughts on the Eve of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner's Second Escalation Address
- John Brown: No Propaganda Obama
- Michael Moore: An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore
Sunday November 29, 2009
- Robyn Blumner: Corporate Scrooge Has Change of Heart
- John Feffer: Obama Can’t Have Both Guns and Gurneys
- Isabel Macdonald: Selling Out Democracy in Honduras: The U.S. and the Honduran Election
- EunSook Lee: The Poorest Immigrants Subsidize Healthcare for Everyone Else
- Rick Wilson: Social Status Has Measurable Effect on Health
- Eric Margolis: Afghan Scandal Sullies Canada
- Louis Clark: Don’t Let Obama’s EPA Silence Critics
Saturday November 28, 2009
- Glenn Greenwald: Is Obama's Civil Liberties Record Understandable?
- Reede Stockton: Saving Copenhagen
- Mike Tidwell: Climate Change Reset Needed
- Christopher Brauchli: The Passenger and the Airline Ticket
- Walden Bello: The Meaning of Seattle: Truth Only Becomes True Through Action
- Bama Athreya and David Batstone: Bargains Galore! But Who Pays the Price?
- Scott Ritter: The Truth of UK's Guilt Over Iraq
Friday November 27, 2009
- Harvey Wasserman: The WaPo's "Nuclear Power Regains Support" is a Big Lie
- Dana Frank: No Fair Election in Honduras under Military Occupation
- Johann Hari: Dubai: A Morally Bankrupt Dictatorship Built by Slave Labor
- Paul Krugman: Taxing the Speculators
- Ron Smith: In Afghanistan and At Home, We're Being Driven Off a Cliff
- Gwen L. DuBois: Accident Casts Fresh Doubt on Nuclear Safety
- Glenn Greenwald: A Key British Official Reminds Us of the Forgotten Anthrax Attack
Thursday November 26, 2009
- Neal Gabler: Constant Information - and Nothing Remembered
- Greg Kaufmann: Kaptur Takes on Foreclosures
- Michael Winship: A Jane Goodall Thanksgiving
- Robert Barkley, Jr.: Power v. Force
- Jerry Lembcke: We’ll Win this Time. If Only ( . . . )
- Jody Williams and Lisa VeneKlasen: Stand with the Women of Honduras
- Robert C. Koehler: Call it Ecocide
Wednesday November 25, 2009
- Ben White: In Occupied Palestine, A Desperate Throw of the Dice?
- Kathleen Barry: Obama's Afghanistan Decision
- Robert Scheer: Still Doing God’s Work on Wall Street
- Caroline Lucas: Afghanistan: Time To Go
- Glenn Greenwald: Phil Carter's Resignation from Key Detainee Policy Post
- Jim Hightower: Giving Thanks for America's Good Food Movement
- Amy Goodman: Books, Not Bombs
- Rebecca Solnit: Learning How to Count to 350: Seattle, Copenhagen, and Beyond
- George Lakoff: Give Thanks to Kathleen Sibelius For Saving 47,000 Women From Death by Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Jeff Cohen: Get Ready for the Obama/GOP Alliance
- Marjorie Cohn: Lynne Stewart: Casualty of the ‘War on Terror’
Tuesday November 24, 2009
- Ray McGovern: Obama: Profile in Courage, or Cave-In?
- Jay Walljasper: Giving Thanks for What We Share
- Dean Baker: The Budget Deficit Crisis: The Blame Is Bipartisan
- Leslie Berliant: Grassroots vs. Astroturf: The Climate Spin Machine Goes Into Overdrive
- Nicolas JS Davies: Why Afghans Dig Empire Graveyards
- Glenn Greenwald: Greg Craig and Obama's Worsening Civil Liberties Record
- Miriam Pemberton: Bush-Style Military Spending Not Over Yet
- Han Shan: Oil Giant Chevron Accused of 'Extortion' on Capitol Hill
- Oscar Reyes: Taking Care of Business: How Big Business Has Hijacked Climate Talks
- William Greider: In the Shadow of Hoover
- John Buell: Bad Times Could Get Worse for Obama
- Nick Turse: The Pentagon Garrisons the Gulf
- George Monbiot: Global Warming Rigged? Here's the Email I'd Need to See
Monday November 23, 2009
- Sasha Abramsky: No Escape from Debt by Selling Jails
- Jane Hamsher: It’s Harry Reid’s Choice: Reconciliation = Majority Rule
- Eyal Press: A Blow to Privatization in Israel (and Perhaps Beyond)
- Stephen Funk: This Land is My Land, Your Land is My Land
- Donna Smith: Before You Carve that Turkey: All In for Bernie Sanders
- John Nichols: Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan
- Gary Younge: Those Who Follow Sarah Palin are Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Destruction
- Jeff Biggers: Copenhagen, USA: Don't Miss Dec 7th Showdown at Climate Change Ground Zero
- Gary Wills: A One-Term President? Why Not, If He Ended an Endless War
- Chris Hedges: Refuse Allegiance to Coal
Sunday November 22, 2009
- Johann Hari: Corporations: The Real Reason Obama is not Making Much Progress
- Ellen Goodman: Attitude and Blame
- Bob Ward: This Climate Email-Hacking Episode is Generating More Heat than Light
- Jill Richardson: Thanksgiving Dinner: More American Than You Think
- Christian Parenti: Zombie Nuke Plants
- Andy Worthington: Obama’s Failure to Close Guantánamo by January Deadline Is Disastrous
- Dedrick Muhammad: Thanksgiving: Time to Consider Native Americans' Plight
- Frank Rich: The Pit Bull in the China Shop
Saturday November 21, 2009
- Michael Winship: New York's Tough Enough for Terrorist Trials
- Ray McGovern: McChrystal Testing the Limits
- Glenn Greenwald: Rule-of-Law Extremism Engulfs Primitive Eastern Europe
- Danny Schechter: Moyers Message to Obama: Study History or Repeat its Mistakes
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Drug Firms’ Tired Song and Dance on Reform
- David Michael Green: A Show About Nothing: The Placeholder Presidency of Barack Obama
- David Benjamin: St. Sarah of Wasilla
- Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg: Still the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave?
- Steven Hill: America's House of Lords Debates Health Care
Friday November 20, 2009
- Kevin Martin: Afghanistan: War of Necessity? Or Opportunity for Peace, Reconciliation and Development?
- Peter Rothberg & Andrea D'Cruz: Toward Copenhagen: Do Something!
- Marie Staunton: Building a World Fit for Children
- Paul Krugman: The Big Squander
- Mark Weisbrot: Honduran Dictatorship Is A Threat to Democracy In the Hemisphere
- Katie Robbins & Andy Coates: Health Care, Essential to Democracy
- Bill McKibben: An Inconvenient Solution: Al Gore's "Our Choice"
- Kate Sheppard: The Coal Industry's $47 Million PR Spending Spree
- Robyn O'Brien: 8 Steps Obama Could Take to Save Our Food System
- Glenn Greenwald: The Administration Guts Its Own Argument for 9/11 Trials
Thursday November 19, 2009
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: The New (Green) Arms Race
- Tom Engelhardt: The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't)
- Helen Thomas: Declare Victory, Leave Afghanistan
- Donna Smith: Tiny Tims and Our Nation's Healthcare Scrooges
- Dave Zweifel: Split Up The Banks! Restore Glass-Steagall
- Deena Guzder: Nobody Is Beyond Redemption
- Robert C. Koehler: Hell Comes Home
- Pierre Tristam: Nuclear Power’s Megafraud
- Frida Berrigan: Massive Ordnance Problem: The Conventional Arms Control Challenge
- Ralph Nader: Advice on Afghanistan
Wednesday November 18, 2009
- James Ridgeway: Let Them Eat Zoloft
- Glenn Greenwald: The Weekly Standard's ACLU Smear Indicts Only Itself
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Affectionate Jousting with Michael Tomasky
- John R. MacArthur: History Promises Disaster in Afghanistan for Blind America
- Raj Patel: The Trap of Green Consumerism
- Michael Winship: In a Chilly London November, War and Remembrance
- Ray McGovern: Afghan Lessons from the Iraq War
- Jim Hightower: The Worthiness of Banker Charity
- Alan Nasser: Obama’s Bad Case Against Single Payer
- Sarah Lazare & Clare Bayard: The Architecture of Apartheid
- Pat LaMarche: Bow Sends Pundits Chattering
- Robert Scheer: Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer We Elected President?
- Thomas Frank: The Persecution of Sarah Palin
- Amy Goodman: Hungering for a True Thanksgiving
- Tom Engelhardt: Afghaniscam
Tuesday November 17, 2009
- John Nichols: Congress Can Move Now to Prevent Layoffs, Plant Closings
- Tom Andrews: Profiles In Hypocrisy: James Inhofe
- Pratap Chatterjee: Paying Off the Warlords
- Greg Kaufmann: Can FCIC Investigations Instigate Bold Financial Reform?
- Dave Lindorff: Let's Not Lecture Chinese About Censorship
- Michael Lind: The Pledge of Allegiance is un-American
- Jeff Biggers: Where's the Love? Will Lisa Jackson and Nancy Sutley Ever Visit a Mountaintop Removal Site?
- Paula Crossfield: A New Report Reveals that GM Seeds Encourage Pesticides Use, Contribute to Growth of Superweeds
- Christian Schwägerl: Obama Has Failed the World on Climate Change
- Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger: Apocalypse Fatigue: Losing the Public on Climate Change
- Thomas Noyes: A Decade Late and Billions Short
- Harvey Wasserman: For Obama It's One (Term) if by War, Two if by Peace
- Tom Hayden: Honduran Crisis Outfoxes US Attempts at Negotiation
- Bill McKibben: Mr. President: Time to Quit Fibbing and Spinning
- Laura Flanders: Buried Bonanza for Over-Builders
Monday November 16, 2009
- Steve Almond: Economic Lessons from the Playground
- Robert Kuttner: A Wake Up Call on Jobs
- Johann Hari: Renouncing Islamism: To the Brink and Back Again
- Bill Maher: Vaccination: A Conversation Worth Having
- Paula Crossfield: Hunger’s Solution Might Not Be Found at the FAO World Summit on Food Security
- Ralph Seliger: J Street Grows, But Can It Change the Game?
- Carol Miller: Health Deform
- Norman Solomon: Biggest State Party to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan
- Ray McGovern: Shining Light on Roots of Terrorism
- Chris Hedges: The New State Solution
Sunday November 15, 2009
- John Perkins: Poverty, Global Trade Justice, and the Roots of Terrorism
- GRAIN: The New Farm Owners
- Max Blumenthal: The Rogue Way: How Sarah Palin Made Herself Indispensable While Destroying the GOP
- Michael Lerner: Just Say “NO” to the War in Afghanistan
- Robert Jensen: How I Stopped Hating Thanksgiving and Learned to Be Afraid
- Edward Platt: A State of Collapse
- Frank Rich: The Missing Link From Killeen to Kabul
- Chris Edelson: Does Wolf Blitzer Think It's Time to Call Out the Lynch Mob?
Saturday November 14, 2009
- Jim Naureckas: Public Media and the Decommodification of News
- Christopher Brauchli: Banks and Vaccines
- Glenn Greenwald: The Right's Textbook 'Surrender to Terrorists'
- Katha Pollitt: Time for Men to Make a Sacrifice
- David Michael Green: Twenty Years From Now, You Will Lie To Your Children
- César Chelala: A Muddle Called Afghanistan
- Juan Cole: The Only Anchor
Friday November 13, 2009
- Katrina vanden Heuvel w/ Bernie Sanders: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
- Conn Hallinan: Why the Afghan Surge Will Fail
- William Greider: The Blue Dog: Money Man's Best Friend
- Renée Loth: Calling the Filibuster Bluff
- Robert Naiman: Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan
- Glenn Greenwald: Detainees to Get 'The-State-Always-Wins' System of 'Justice'
- Mark Weisbrot: US Must Solve Its Own Economic Problems
- Mark Morford: The Lethal Injection College Fund
- Lucinda Marshall: The Nighmare Of Coat Hangers Revisited
- Peter Brown & Geoffrey Garver: Economics without Ecocide
- Naomi Klein: Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up
Thursday November 12, 2009
- FAIR: Lou Dobbs, Immigrant-Bashing Host, Eyes Next Move
- Alfred W. McCoy: Welcome Home, War!
- John Feffer & Alexis Dudden: Obama: Visit Hiroshima
- Gbemisola Olujobi: Digital Dumping and the Global ‘E-Cycling’ Scam
- Robert Weissman: Reflections on Glass-Steagall and Maniacal Deregulation
- Nicholas Kristof: America’s Defining Choice: Endless War or Healthcare?
- Laura Flanders: No Armistice In War on Poor
- Glenn Greenwald: The Sleazy Advocacy of a Leading 'Liberal Hawk'
- Robert Barkley, Jr.: Dear Mr. President, Try Harder and Do Better
- Harold Meyerson: The Do-Nothing Senate
- Sarah Lazare & Stephen Funk: Resisting Occupation with 'Free Funk' and Solidarity
- Norman Solomon: The War Stampede
- Thomas Frank: The Real Danger of 'One Big Regulator'
- Christopher Cooper: If Any Question Why We Died, Tell Them Because Our Fathers Lied
Wednesday November 11, 2009
- Shepherd Bliss: Oklahoma City, Columbine, Virginia Tech and Now Ft. Hood
- Ralph Nader: Still Waiting for Health Care
- Jonathan Safran Foer: Quitting Meat: A Process Of Change
- Ali Abunimah: Israeli Jews and The One-State Solution
- David Sirota: Obama Helping Lobbyists Weaken Offshore Tax Crackdown Dems Passed in 2002 over GOP Opposition
- Malalai Joya: US Is Doing No Good in Afghanistan
- Frank Smyth: El Salvador’s Cold War Martyrs
- Robert Scheer: Gorbachev’s Sermon on the Mount
- Jim Hightower: Real Recovery Is Easy to Spell: J-O-B-S
- Moira Birss: Signing of Colombia Bases Deal Could Set the Stage for 'Expeditionary Warfare'
- Amy Goodman: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in ‘The Wizard of Oz’
- Tom Engelhardt: Drone Race to a Known Future
- Matthis Chiroux: The Violence Within Is The Veteran Without
- Phyllis Bennis: Can Talks with Iran Lead to Obama's 'World without Nuclear Weapons'?
- Thom Hartmann: Major Hasan and The Legacy of George W Bush
Tuesday November 10, 2009
- Stephen Zunes: The Power of Nonviolent Action in Honduras
- Shamai Leibowitz: Give Juveniles A Chance!
- Bob Herbert: A Word, Mr. President
- Emily Douglas: The Stupak Stupor
- Sarah van Gelder: People Power Brought Down the Berlin Wall
- Dean Baker: Making Wall Street Pay
- Glenn Greenwald: Denying Responsibility for the Wars One Cheers On
- Robert Naiman: Mr. Netanyahu, Tear Down This Wall
- Jesse Jackson: Let's Get To Work on a Jobs Stimulus
- John Buell: Capitalism’s Incarnations
Monday November 9, 2009
- Brian Gilmore: D.C. Sniper Should Not Be Executed
- John Nichols: Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill
- Holly Sklar: Change Wall Street Can Believe In
- Megan Tady: Consolidation Station: News ‘Sharing’ Erodes Journalism
- Bill McKibben: Congress, Climate Cheapskate
- William Pfaff : America Owned by Its Army
- Marcia Angell: Is the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?
- Jeff Leys: Admiral Mullen Announces Afghanistan Strategy: Prepare to Nonviolently Resist
- Frances Kissling: The Answer to the Stupak? Overturn Hyde Now
- Paul Krugman: Paranoia Strikes Deep
- Steve Almond: Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Fairness Doctrine?
- Dahr Jamail & Sarah Lazare: Where Will They Get the Troops?
- Chris Hedges: Afghanistan’s Sham Army
Sunday November 8, 2009
- Falguni A. Sheth: Reckoning With Ourselves: Malik Nadal Hasan
- Lucinda Marshall: Dems Sell Women’s Rights Down River Of Health Care Denial
- Lee Stranahan: Kucinich's Brave Health Vote Vs. Obama's Failed Promise
- Nicholas D. Kristof: Chemicals in Our Food, and Bodies
- Haroon Siddiqui: Same Rights Standards Must Apply to All Nations
- Pierre Tristam: Prejudice Guides Speculation Over Fort Hood Killings
- Dennis Kucinich: Why I Voted NO
- Patrick Cockburn: Afghanistan: Time to Leave
Saturday November 7, 2009
- Max Cleland: The Forever War of the Mind
- Jane Hamsher: And the Catholic Bishops Endorse! A Special Thank-You To Planned Parenthood and NARAL
- Amitabh Pal: Crunch Time for Planet Earth
- Robert Fisk: America is Performing Its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator
- Christopher Brauchli: The Bible-New and Improved
- Dave Lindorff: Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh?
- Noam Chomsky: War, Peace and Obama’s Nobel
- Chris Edelson: The Republican Party Has Failed–And That’s Not Good For Anyone
- Donna Smith: I’ll Bet the 10.2 Percent Can’t Keep What They’ve Got
Friday November 6, 2009
- Ruth Conniff: President Obama Comes to School (And It Is Not Good News)
- Juan Cole: Israeli Settlements Could Cause One-State Solution
- Dennis Kucinich & John Conyers: Co-Authors Question Stand Alone Vote on National Single Payer
- Sandy LeonVest: Public Option is Just Another Private Party – and We’re Not Invited
- Paul Krugman: Obama Faces His Anzio
- John Nichols: Horror at Fort Hood Inspires Horribly Predictable Islamophobia
- Aaron Glantz: After Fort Hood: Count All the Dead
- Derrick Jensen: Would We Listen to Nature if Our Lives Depended on It?
- David Michael Green: Can You Hear Us Now?
- Jim Goodman: Corporate Agribusiness Divides Farmers
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Eight Reasons the Democrats Lost Virginia & New Jersey—and How to Recover
- Tom Gallagher: Time for Hardball on the Health Care Bill
Thursday November 5, 2009
- Mike Lapham: Three Steps to Save Wall Street
- Nick Turse: 2014 or Bust: In Afghanistan, The Pentagon Digs In
- Tim Jackson: Economic Growth Has Failed Us. What's the Alternative?
- Jodie Evans: Stop US Meddling; Support Afghan Women at the Table
- Michael Shuman: Localization is Way to Redefine Globalization
- Thomas Frank: Glenn Beck's Hotline to Nowhere
- Dialogues Against Militarism: War Resisters Reach Out in Dialogue
- Sarah Anderson: Clash on Investment: Global Trade and an Opportunity for Civil Society
- Melissa McEwan: Mourning Gay Marriage in Maine
- Danny Schechter: Time to Rally for Financial Reform
- Salena Tramel: Congress, Accountability, and the Goldstone Report
- Stephen Zunes: Bipartisan Attack on International Humanitarian Law
- Robert C. Koehler: A Hole in the Night
- Mark Weisbrot: President Obama's Credibility on the Line in Honduras
- Norman Solomon: The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid
Wednesday November 4, 2009
- Matthew Rothschild: House Shames Itself on Goldstone Report
- John Nichols: A Year Later, Obama Needs to Start Campaigning Again
- Janet Redman: Happy Anniversary, Obama. Now Sign a Climate Deal
- Barbara Ehrenreich: The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-up
- Amy Goodman: The Tortured Logic Continues
- Robert Scheer: Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy
- Jim Hightower: Who Deserves Wall Street Bonuses?
- Lucinda Marshall: No More Women’s Unhealthy Healthcare
- Stan Cox: Unnatural Gas: The Inflated Promise of a Not-So-Clean Fuel
- Ray McGovern: Afghanistan as Vietnam: Heeding George Kennan's Wise Advice
- Guy Reel: The Gullible Dittoheads
- Bitta Mostofi: Death to No One: 30 Years after the Iran Hostage Crisis
- Glenn Greenwald: A Court Decision That Reflects What Type of Country the US Is
- Frida Berrigan: Arms Trade: A 'Booming' Business
- Ralph Nader: Why and To What End in Afghanistan
Tuesday November 3, 2009
- Lester Brown: We Only Have Months, Not Years, to Save Civilization from Climate Change
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Can We Get Some Small-d Democracy?
- Robert Weissman: The Medicare-for-All Moment
- Paul Rogers: AfPak-Iraq: Wrong War, Wrong Thinking
- Naomi Starkman: Tests Find Wide Range of Bisphenol A in Canned Soups, Juice, and More
- Paula Crossfield: The Obama Administration and Food, Year One
- Bill Maher: Is This as Good as It Gets From Obama?
- Mamoon Alabbasi : Noam Chomsky: No Change in US 'Mafia Principle'
- George Monbiot: Climate Change Deniers Are Not Skeptics - They're Suckers
- Sonali Kolhatkar: A Call for Clarity on the Afghanistan War
- Brian Baird: Israel and Gaza Deserve Better Than HR 867
Monday November 2, 2009
- Matthew Rothschild: Afghanistan Just Got Messier
- Dean Baker: Breaking Up the Banks is Hard to Do
- Jeff Biggers: Cowed Interior to Consider Mountaintop Removal Rule Once Plundering Is Over in 2011
- John Nichols: 'Tea Party Activists Are the New GOP'
- Adam Federman: Trading the Watershed to Trash the Catskills
- Naomi Wolf: Renewing the News
- Kim Sengupta: Karzai Did the Deals That Made Him a Winner Anyway
- Greg Kaufmann: The Heart of Wall Street
- James Carroll: Our Sense of Troubled Normalcy Returns
- Robert Parry: Cheney and the Plame-Gate Cover-up
- Tom Engelhardt: Too Big to Fail? Why All the President's Afghan Options Are Bad Ones
- Ira Chernus: US Words Thwart Middle East Peace
- Michael Ratner: Congress Should Not Reject the Goldstone Report
- Tom Gallagher: Where Were the Anti-War Demonstrators?
- Chris Hedges: Opium, Rape and the American Way
Sunday November 1, 2009
- Andy Worthington: Six Uighurs Go to Palau; Seven Remain in Guantánamo
- Pierre Tristam: Loose With Numbers: Medicare Fraud Report a Fiction
- Caroline Arnold: Are We Willing to Start Living for Others?
- Karyn Strickler: Carbon Cuts: 350 Is Not Adequate
- Isabel Macdonald: Was CNN Host Lou Dobbs Really Shot At?
- Frank Rich: The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
- Gideon Levy: America, Stop Sucking up to Israel
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Latest Use of 'Secrecy' to Shield Presidential Lawbreaking
- Donna Smith: Nataline Keeps Bending the Arc of Healthcare Justice