Views - February 2009
Saturday February 28, 2009
- Jane Goodall: Chimps Belong in the Wild
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Efforts to Block a Judicial Ruling on Bush's Illegal Eavesdropping
- John Nichols: Shouldn't MoveOn Oppose Obama on Afghanistan?
- Janine Jackson: Let’s Talk About Race—or Maybe Not
- Ralph Nader: An Oscar for Activism
- Michael Winship: So Much Depends...
- Christopher Brauchli: Texas Meets a Death Penalty It Dislikes
Friday February 27, 2009
- Phyllis Bennis: Iraq Troop Withdrawal or Occupation-Lite?
- Glenn Greenwald: The Corruption of the Cocoon
- Joseph Palermo: Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack: There They Go Again
- Gerald Butts: Carbon Capture No Silver Bullet for Tar Sands
- Bill McKibben & Wendell Berry: Call for Mass Civil Disobedience Against Coal
- Eric Alterman: War Is Over (If You Want It)
- Thomas Frank: Richard Perle's Apologia
- Chip Ward: After the Green Economy, Green Security
- Alexander Belenky: Photographing America's War Dead
- John Kinsman: Nation's Food System Nearly Broke
- Paul Krugman: Climate of Change
- David Sirota: Robin Hood Republicanism?
- Joe Galloway: Doomed to Repeat History in Afghanistan?
- Donna Smith: A Mother Asks President Obama To Be Honest About Healthcare
- David Michael Green: America’s Two-Party System
- Robert Naiman: Missing from the Afghan 'Surge': A Congressional Debate
Thursday February 26, 2009
- Patrick Cockburn: Warning to the US: Beware Treating Afghanistan like Iraq
- Mark Weisbrot: Can the US and Bolivia Get Along?
- Ruth Conniff: Obama: Clinton or FDR?
- Adam Serwer: The Blight of Bagram
- Harvey Wasserman: Obama's Excellent Atomic Omission
- Laura Flanders: Stress-Testing Us!
- Amy Goodman: US Should Follow Europe's Lead on Toxins
- Norman Solomon: Where The Money Goes
- Glenn Greenwald: Karl Rove: Self-Deluded or Consciously Dishonest?
- Jameel Jaffer: Free the Bush Memos
- Neil Young: Comes a Time to Fight for Family Farmers
- David Vine: Too Many Overseas Bases
- Jim Goodman: Organic Farming, Promise in the Face of Global Warming
- Robert C. Koehler: Kids for Cash
Wednesday February 25, 2009
- Isabel MacDonald: Challenging George Will's Reign of Error
- George Lakoff: The Obama Code
- Robert Dreyfuss: Chas Freeman for NIC: Lots at Stake
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb : How Bank Bonuses Let Us All Down
- Thomas Walkom: Obama's Very Own Quagmire
- Bill McKibben: Why I’ll Get Arrested To Stop the Burning of Coal
- Deb Price: Why Gay Students Don't Feel Safe
- Sarah Teather: Guantánamo: We Need the Truth
- Sarah Teather: Guantánamo: We Need the Truth
- John Nichols: Obama Offers a Comprehensive 'Yes, We Can!'
- Theda Skocpol : Obama's Masterful Speech
- John Feffer: Where is Obama's Big Ear for Afghanistan?
- David Sirota: Nationalization: It's Not Scary, It's All Around You
- Michael T. Klare: Economic Brushfires for a Planet at the Brink
- Norman Solomon: Freeing Up Resources... for More War
Tuesday February 24, 2009
- Cassie James Holdsworth and Nancy Salandra: Give Disabled a Home Choice
- Glenn Greenwald: The 'Americans Want Bipartisanship' Myth
- James S. Henry: Too Big Not to Fail?
- Josh Silver: CNN's Wolf Blitzer Lapdogs While Senator Hatch Lies
- Heather Harvey: Rape Is Cheaper Than Bullets
- Tom Gallagher: Obama's War
- Jeff Biggers: Powershift09 to Capitol Power Action: Follow the Young
- Mike Cassidy: Congress, Obama Missed Key Opportunity to Reform Health Care
- Christine Ahn and Paul Liem: Putting Peace First
- James McEnteer: The Oscar for Denial
- Joe Brewer: Beyond Scarcity: Re-Inventing Wealth in a Progressive World
- John Bruhns: What Obama's Risking in Afghanistan
- Ann Wright: Can Gaza Be Rebuilt Through Tunnels?
Monday February 23, 2009
- Jim Hightower: End Culture of Corporate Entitlement
- Danny Schechter: As New Scammers Emerge, Is It Jailout Time Yet?
- Glenn Greenwald: Ryan Lizza's People Magazine Love Letter to Rahm Emanuel
- Patrick Dunn: GI Resistance Alive and Well in Chicago
- Binyam Mohamed: Worse Than My Darkest Nightmare
- Robert Dreyfuss: Afghan-Pakistan War Council
- Jeff Cohen: Will TV News Ever Apologize for Condit Hoax?
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: A Depressing Saga of Secrets, Lies and Medieval Horrors
- Chris Hedges: A Choice Between Peace and Peril
- Paul Krugman: Banking on the Brink
- Nick Turse: Tough Times in Troubled Towns
Sunday February 22, 2009
- Jay Mandle: The Politics of Bank Nationalization
- Glenn Greenwald: Fox News "War Games" the Coming Civil War
- Barbara Ehrenreich: My Unwitting Role in Acts of Torture
- Tim Diago: Renew the Fairness Doctrine
- Joseph L. Galloway: Afghanistan: Think South Vietnam in 1965
- Benjamin R. Barber: Which Capitalism Will It Be?
- Editorial/London Independent: Obama, Tell Us the Whole Truth
- Frank Rich: What We Don’t Know Will Hurt Us
Saturday February 21, 2009
- John Pilger: Cambodia's Empty Dock
- Ru Freeman: M.I.A. in the USA: An Oscar for a bin Laden Next?
- Robert Fisk: Obama was Unconvinced by Bibi’s Desire for Peace
- Thomas Walkom: Is Obama a Closet Conservative?
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Pull the Plug on US Automakers
- Robert Parry: Obama's 'Seven Days in May' Moment
- Michael Winship: On Capitol Hill, Money Is the Root of All Hypocrisy
- Christopher Brauchli: The Pope and The Prelate
- Ralph Nader: Banking on Credit Unions
- Barbara Ehrenreich and Chuck Collins: Corporate America, Ground Your Jets
Friday February 20, 2009
- Mike Ervin: Jerry Lewis Doesn’t Deserve a Humanitarian Award at the Oscars
- David Sirota: Past the Point of No Return
- Alice Waters and Katrina Heron: No Lunch Left Behind
- Senator Patrick Leahy: The Case for a Truth Commission
- Casper ter Kuile: Power Shift: Global Youth Climate Movement Comes of Age
- Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg: Will Obama Restore Constitutional Government?
- David Michael Green: Who Will Be There for Obusha When the Floor Drops Out?
- Pratap Chatterjee: The Military's Expanding Waistline
- James Hansen: Obama's Tar Sand Trap
- Marjorie Cohn: War Criminals, Including Their Lawyers, Must Be Prosecuted
- Jane Mayer: The Hard Cases
- Scott Horton: Investigating Bush's Crimes
Thursday February 19, 2009
- Mark Weisbrot: Venezuela, An Imaginary Threat
- Hasan Abu Nimah: Chasing Mirages in The Middle East
- Anne Miller: Stimulate Peace, Not War
- John Nichols: Finally, Some Bailout for Homeowners
- Rosa Brooks: We Need a Bailout Too
- Irwin Cotler: Repatriating Khadr: Justice and Politics
- David Krieger: Creating a World Free of Nuclear Weapons: A Speech for President Obama
- Shelley Alpern: Tar & Feathers: Even Investors Should Be Wary of Canada's Dirtiest Oil
- Dave Lindorff: Organize! Many Employers Are Just Using the Recession to Stick it to Workers
- George Monbiot: I Hope Obama Jumps the Right Way on Canada's Tar Sands
- Robert C. Koehler: Cross of Irony: Defense Spending of The Absurd
- Elaine Brower: Wake Up Call: Activists Visit 'The Army Experience'
- Stephen Hazell & Carl Pope: Obama Should Not Give a Pass to Tar Sands Oil
- Khushal Arsala & Stephen Zunes: The US and Afghan Tragedy
- Aaron Glantz: 'You Saved My Life' . . . A Reason to Keep Reporting
Wednesday February 18, 2009
- Steven Conn: Guess What? The New Deal Worked!
- Tom Andrews: Shoot First, Ask Questions Later? Say It Ain't So, Mr. President.
- Van Jones: The Stimulus: A Down Payment on a Green Future
- Glenn Greenwald: Charlie Savage on Obama's Embrace of Bush/Cheney 'Terrorism Policies'
- Amy Goodman: Jailing Kids for Cash
- Anthony Gregory: The Price of America's Prison Gulags
- Eric Stoner: No Mercy for Mercenaries
- Paul Waldman: The Tyranny of the Centrists
- Sanjeev Bery and Manan Ahmed: US Policies Have Weakened Pakistani Civilian Rule
- Jodi Jacobson: The Obama Mandate: End Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs
- Adam Zemel: Obama: Sowing Seeds for Stimulus 2.0?
- Tom Engelhardt: Burning Questions: What Does Economic "Recovery" Mean on an Extreme Weather Planet?
- Pat LaMarche: Time for Universal Care
- Robert Scheer: Good Money After Bad
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Don't Bleed Resources in Afghanistan
- Donna Smith: Don’t Know Who Offends Me More, Blitzer or Trump
Tuesday February 17, 2009
- Glenn Greenwald: America's Law-Free Zone
- Medea Benjamin: To Gaza, With Love
- Holly Sklar: Corporate Executives Overpaid, Undertaxed
- Robert Dreyfuss: "Barack of Afpakia"
- Gary Kamiya: The Death of The News
- Robert Naiman: Conditioning Part of US Aid to Israel on Implementation of US Policy
- Jeremy Brecher: Can Green Jobs Be Good Jobs?
- James Saft: Nationalization by Autumn, Bank on It
- Dean Baker: Saving Social Security
- Jane Hamsher: DC Journalists Love GOP Obstructionists, But Americans Don't
- Robert Parry: Obama and the Media Dilemma
- Ira Chernus: Thinking Big on Foreign Policy Too
- Jeff Cohen: Coming to NBC: 'To Catch a Cheney'
Monday February 16, 2009
- Danny Schechter: Obama: Learn From Lincoln and Do The Right Thing
- Joe Brewer: Ending the Hidden Agenda Behind Tax Cuts
- Bruce Anderson: Israel is Trapped, and the Chance of Peace is Ever More Remote
- Paul Krugman: Decade at Bernie's
- Kenneth Roth: Alison Des Forges: A Heroine for Human Rights
- Courtland Milloy: Education Still The Pathway to Freedom
- Joshua Reichert: Protecting the Arctic Marine Ecosystem
- Glenn Greenwald: Do We Still Pretend That We Abide by Treaties?
- Chris Hedges: Bad News From America’s Top Spy
- Peter Singer: Un Nouveau Capitalisme Est-il Possible?
- Frankie Sturm: Wired for War: Exposing The Threat of Robotic War
- Gary Younge: Obama Will Get No Warning When The People's Response to This Crisis Comes
- William Astore: Is the US Military Now an Imperial Police Force?
Sunday February 15, 2009
- Matthew Richardson & Nouriel Roubini: Nationalize the Banks! We're all Swedes Now
- Jim Goodman: USDA Sees a Problem, Not the Solution
- Sarah Lazare: Canadian Government Continues Ouster of US War Resisters
- David Pratt: Understanding Generation Kill
- Joe Nocera: Chorus Grows: Nationalize the Banks
- Will Hutton: Obama Has Picked the Wrong Hero for Our Times
- James Hansen: Coal-Fired Power Stations Are Death Factories. Close Them.
- Daanish Faruqi: Open Season on Gaza Activists in Egypt
- Haroon Siddiqui: Naomi Klein, Who Shot to Fame after her First Book, is Withholding Judgment on Obama
Saturday February 14, 2009
- Steve Rendall & Isabel Macdonald: Venezuela’s Referendum: Media’s Double Standards
- Christopher Brauchli: The Resurrection of KBR
- Ted Rall: It Couldn't Happen Here. Could It?
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Schools Take the Back Seat Again
- Adrienne Fitch-Frankel: New Report Released on Valentine's Day Eve: Chocolate and Heartache?
- Tim Costello / Brendan Smith: WSF: Is Another World Possible?
- Ralph Nader: It's Going to Take a Civic Jolt
- Michael Winship: The Oligarchy's Bailout Ball
Friday February 13, 2009
- Rebecca Solnit: Elegy for a Toxic Logic
- Mark Morford: Death by Moron
- Melisssa Hahn: Foreclosures Hit Home: A Microcosm of America’s Mortgage Crisis
- Harold Meyerson: The Ghost of Democratic Agenda
- Amitabh Pal: International Criminal Court Faces Big Test With Israel
- David Sirota: Addicted to Fake Outrage
- Ann Wright: The Israeli Smashing of Gaza and International Silence
- David Korten: Don't Fix Wall Street, Replace It
- Johann Hari: The Answer to The Problems of Free Speech is Always More Free Speech
- David Michael Green: Serve Republicans for Breakfast, Don't Take Them To Dinner
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama and Liberals: A Counter-Productive Relationship
- Dahr Jamail: Iraq's "Teflon Don"
- Thomas Frank: Wall Street Mocked American Values
- Phyllis Bennis: Israel: Rise of the Right
- Paul Krugman: Failure to Rise
Thursday February 12, 2009
- John R. MacArthur: Studs Terkel, 'Radical Conservative'
- Scott Bontz: Put Conservation Before Efficiency
- David Loye: The Ghost at the Birthday Party
- Jonathan Freedland: A Toxic Force Rises in Israel
- Johann Hari: Obama and the Lethal War on Drugs
- Van Jones: Enough Is Enough: Confirm Hilda Solis Now
- Conn Hallinan: Gaza: Death's Laboratory
- John Cavanagh: A Bold Proposal for a New Economy
- Anne Penketh: Obama Will Need All of His 'Out-of-The-Box' Thinking to Tackle Israel
- Nouriel Roubini: Nationalize Insolvent Banks
- Dean Baker: The TARP Dog and Pony Show
- Glenn Greenwald: Congress Takes First Step to Impose Limits on Obama's Executive Power
- George Monbiot: The Christopher Booker Prize: Our Man in Michigan
- Robert C. Koehler: Truth and Healing
Wednesday February 11, 2009
- Ann Wright: Under Siege Again, But Gaza Will Not Die
- Amy Goodman: Obama’s Afghan Trap
- Joyce Marcel: A Different Kind of Mother
- Laura Flanders: Reconstruction Now!
- Donna Smith: Working Americans: Propped up or Just Poster Children?
- Barbara Crossette: How Will Obama Engage on Human Rights?
- Rudi Batzell: Health Care as a Human Right
- Christopher Cooper: He Sows Hurry and Reaps Indigestion
- Riki Ott: The Human Cost of Bush's Arctic Policy
- Neve Gordon: Few Peacemakers in Israel's Knesset
- Steve Fraser: The 'Best Men' Fall
- Harriet Malinowitz: Columbus and Israel: Thought for Israel's Election Day
- Marjorie Cohn: A Call to End All Renditions
Tuesday February 10, 2009
- Kathy Kelly: How Do People Keep Going?
- Harvey Wasserman: Why is That $50 Billion Radioactive Antique Toilet Still in the Stimulus Bill?
- Michael Paarlberg: Hilda Solis's Hard Labor
- Paul Kingsnorth: A Line in the Green Sand
- Glenn Greenwald: The 180-Degree Reversal of Obama's State Secrets Position
- Walden Bello: Asia: The Coming Fury
- Derrick Z. Jackson: Shovel-Ready Stimulus Buries Schools
- John Nichols: Senate Should Pursue Truth About Bush-Cheney Abuses
- Eugene Robinson: Slam The Door on Compromise
- Russell Mokhiber: Et Tu, Atul?: Test-Case for a Single-Payer Hypothesis
- Christopher Cook: Beyond Stimulus: It's the Revenue, Stupid
- Robert Freeman: Fixing the Economy: Of Fences and Futures
Monday February 9, 2009
- Dave Lindorff: The Third-Party Delusion and the Need for a Mass Movement for Progressive Change
- Dean Baker: Economic Stimulus on The Cheap
- Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould: To Surge or Not to Surge? Asking the Wrong Questions in Afghanistan
- Jamison Foser: Fundamentally Flawed Stimulus Coverage
- John Nichols: Save the Solis Nomination
- Alexia Eastwood: The Earth Belongs to Everyone
- Mary Sanchez: Jailing Illegal Immigrants — Good for Business?
- Glenn Greenwald: Israel's Elections and US Policy
- William Lambers: Food For Peace
- Joe Brewer: Breaking Down Media Spin on Obama and Stimulus
- Danny Schechter: The Farts of Compromise; Hacking the Stimulus
- Mustafa Barghouthi: Steadfast Before Goliath
- Robert Kuttner: Stimulus, Yes; Bank Bailout II, No
- Robert Parry: The GOP's Filibuster Hypocrisy
- Paul Krugman: The Destructive Center
Sunday February 8, 2009
- Paul Krugman: What the Centrists Have Wrought
- Bill Scheurer: Military Families Still Pay The Price
- Dean Baker: Dealing With Bankrupt Banks: Nationalization or Welfare
- Brett Drugge: Two Americas, Two Educations
- Juan Cole: Obama May Postpone Afghan Surge
- Sarah van Gelder: Breakthrough on Nuke Reduction?
- Rebecca Solnit: The Icelandic Volcano Erupts
- Frank Rich: Slumdogs Unite!
- NLG Delegation: What We Found in Gaza
- Tim Malnick: Evolving Beyond Homo Economicus
Saturday February 7, 2009
- Michael Winship: Get Away from Those Spinning Doors
- Christopher Brauchli: A Requiem for KBR and Blackwater
- Winona LaDuke: Uranium Mining, Native Resistance, and the Greener Path
- Robert Fisk: War Reporters Used to Prefer Morality over Impartiality
- Glenn Greenwald: Counter-Terrorism Logic
- James Carter: Obama: Cut Arms Exports
- The Nation Editors: Don't Escalate in Afghanistan
- Ray McGovern: Leon Panetta Makes Nice
- John Nichols: More Bipartisanship, Less Stimulus
Friday February 6, 2009
- Laura Bonham: Americans Should Not Stand for Lock-down on Single-Payer Discussion
- Michelle Goldberg: Getting Religion Out of the Workplace
- Joseph E. Stiglitz: Fear and Loathing in Davos
- Amitabh Pal: Obama Not Bold Enough on Foreign Policy
- George E. Bisharat: Hold Israel Accountable for Gaza
- Johann Hari: The Nightmare of Netanyahu Returns
- Ben Cohen: The Hypocrisy of The West
- David Sirota: Despite Obama's Promises, Rival Views are Scrubbed from White House
- Paul Krugman: On The Edge
- Katha Pollitt: The Kindness of Strangers
- Donna Smith: The Big, Bad Joke of Healthcare Reform
- David Michael Green: All the Comforts of Home: Republicans Destroy, Democrats Serve Cookies
- Olga Bonfiglio: Opportunity Knocks When it Comes to a Local Food Economy
- Yifat Susskind: Un-Gagging Women's Human Rights
- Naomi Klein: Tide of Anger
Thursday February 5, 2009
- Joan Walsh: The New Great Communicator... Isn't
- James Hansen & Anniek Hansen: Dear Barack and Michelle
- John Feffer: Our Pirates and Theirs
- Robert Parry: First, Jail All of Bush's Lawyers
- Clive Stafford Smith: An Admission of Torture?
- Tom Engelhardt: The Empire v. The Graveyard
- D'Anne Witkowski: Yes on Prop. 8 Donors
- Angela Glover Blackwell: How Obama Must Sell His Recovery Plan
- Robert Naiman: Would It Kill Us to Apologize to Iran for the Coup?
- Russell Mokhiber: Occupied Territory
- Joe Brewer: Calling Out the Conservative Lies on Stimulus
- Robert C. Koehler: Keeping The Bush Era Viable
- Riane Eisler: Investing in Our Human Infrastructure: The Real Wealth of Our Nation Is Its People
Wednesday February 4, 2009
- Ralph Nader: Tax the Speculators
- John Buell: Inequality Alive and Well in US
- John Nichols: Is Dean the Best Replacement for Daschle?
- Henry Porter: The Horror of a National ID Card System
- Robert Scheer: Runaway Wall Street
- Amy Goodman: Facing Foreclosure? Don't Leave. Squat
- Dean Baker: Rationalize The Banks!
- Robert Dreyfuss: No Quick Fix for FATA
- Matt Vogel: Still Shutting Down Guantanamo, Still Saying "No" to Torture
- Adam Zemel & Jesse Jenkins: From Rhetoric to Reality: Is Obama's Clean Energy Goal Really That Ambitious?
- Johann Hari: Strike, Yes – But Not at This Target
- Elizabeth DiNovella: Time to Plant Seeds
- David Sirota: Blacklisting Progressives: The Untold Story Beneath the Daschle Headlines
- Thomas Frank: Wall Street Bonuses Are an Outrage
- Peter Hart: Bipartisanship=Shifting Right?
Tuesday February 3, 2009
- Ali Abunimah: Can Mitchell turn Jerusalem into Belfast?
- John Nichols: Don't Mourn for Daschle
- Robert Reich: The Real Fight Starts after the Stimulus is Enacted
- Katrina vanden Heuvel w/ Kavita Ramdas: Helping Afghan Women and Girls
- Jill Filipovic: For Feminists, The Time is Now
- Sally Kohn: Senate Republicans: Please Help
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Those Who Seek Justice Do So In Vain
- Federico Fubini: Delusional in Davos
- Deepak Chopra & Ken Robinson: A Military Solution to a War on Terrorism is Doomed
- Jane Hamsher: Obama Financial Team to Taxpayers: You’ll Get Nothing, and Like It
- Bob Herbert: Risking the Future
- Roberto Rodriguez: Fear and Hate Policies Along the Border: R.I.P.
- James Saft: Play by The Rules, Close Failing Banks
- Sara K. Gould: New Connections Will Pave the Road to Economic Recovery
- Chalmers Johnson: How Taxpayers Finance Fantasy Wars
- Laura Flanders: GE Uses Yip Harburg to sell its Oz Mythology
- Norman Solomon: Why Are We Still at War?
Monday February 2, 2009
- Glenn Greenwald: The L.A. Times, Obama & Renditions
- Adam Green: NBC Has an Erin Burnett Problem
- Howard J. Gale: Innocence, Morality Ravaged in Gaza
- Philip Brenner and Saul Landau: Farewell, Monroe Doctrine
- Robert Dreyfuss: Sunnis, Nationalists Make Gains in Iraq
- Kristina Rizga: Green Jobs: Good Work If Youth Can Find It
- Alec Dubro: The Myth of the Efficient Car
- Uri Avnery: Israel's Black Flag
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama--Let Daschle Go
- Diane Farsetta: Debating the Ban on Domestic Propaganda
- Shepherd Bliss: Agrotherapy: How Farms Heal
- Danny Schechter: Will The Recovery Plan Lead To the Stimulation We Need?
- Simcha Leventhal : My Military's Moral Low
- Gary Younge: By Courting the Republicans, Obama Could Get the Worst of All Worlds
- Paul Krugman: Bailouts for Bunglers
- Chris Hedges: It’s Not Going to Be OK
- Thom Hartmann: Citigroup's Football Madness
Sunday February 1, 2009
- Caroline Arnold: We All Have a Voice in Right vs. Wrong
- Aziz Huq: Obama's Security Priorities
- Gideon Levy: The Silence of the Jurists
- Glenn Greenwald: The Daschles: Feeding at the Beltway Trough
- Harold Meyerson: Labor's Real Fight
- Frank Rich: Herbert Hoover Lives