Views - March 2009

Tuesday March 31, 2009

Hazem Jamjoum: Not an Analogy: Israel and the Crime of Apartheid
Jeff Biggers: Big Coal Defeat! Rednecks and Greens Announce Victory at Blair Mountain
Paul Fleisher: A Fair Shake for Labor Can Help Our Economy Rebuild
Derrick Z. Jackson: GM Reshuffling Won't Solve the Problem
Wayne Au/Bill Bigelow/David Levine: Schools Are Not Businesses
Dave Lindorff: President Obama: Small Change and the Mendacity of Hope
Aaron Houston: Pot Laws Are No Laughing Matter
Arundhati Roy: The Silence Surrounding Sri Lanka
Dave Zirin: 'Like We Were Dogs': The Story of Ryan Moats
Sarah Anderson: Why It’s in Our Interest to Support a Global Stimulus
Katrina vanden Heuvel: No to War, No to NATO
Sally Kohn & Sanford M. Jacoby: How Japan's Other Hybrid Can Save American Jobs
Jody Boehnert: G20: Nature Doesn't Do Bailouts
Andy Worthington: Torture Taints All Our Lives
Seymour Hersh: Syria Calling
Walden Bello: U-20: Will the Global Economy Resurface?
John Nichols: Sanders Puts Single-Payer On the Agenda

Monday March 30, 2009

Courtney E. Martin: The End of the Women's Movement
Ritt Goldstein: Sick Building Syndrome: Floods, Mold, Cancer, and the Politics of Public Health
John Nichols: A J'accuse for CAP, MoveOn Afghanistan Silence
Gary Olson: Populist Anger Has a Role in Shaping Economy
Gareth Porter: Debunking the Rationale for War in Afghanistan
Joan Walsh: Is Obama Wrong?
Scott Horton: Information Secured Through Torture Proved Unreliable, CIA Concluded
Tom Engelhardt: The Great Afghan Bailout
Robert Fisk: A Brave Man Who Stood Alone. If Only the World Had Listened to Him
Juan Cole: Obama's Domino Theory
Paul Krugman: America the Tarnished
Chris Hedges: Obstruction of Justice

Sunday March 29, 2009

Evgeny Morozov: Propaganda.com
Julia Steiny: Zero-Tolerance Policies Wreak Havoc on Children’s Education
Derrick Z. Jackson: Heeding John Hope Franklin's Education Warning
Elissa Ely: More to Homelessness than Needing a Home
William Greider: Trust Your Guts
Glenn Greenwald: Jim Webb's Courage v. the 'Pragmatism' Excuse for Politicians
Pierre Tristam: Pretending to be Civilized in an Epidemic of Institutional Sadism

Saturday March 28, 2009

Ray McGovern: Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President
David Michael Green: The Republican Alternative Stimulus Plan
Ralph Nader: Paying for the Deficit
Christopher Brauchli: Cheney and Spitzer- Commentators
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.: Give Me Liberty AND Give Me Death
Danny Schechter: Needed: A New Commission to Probe Corporate Crime
Michael Winship: That's No Angry Mob, It's a Movement

Friday March 27, 2009

Tom Hayden: Don't Go There Mr. President!
Yolanda Chávez Leyva: We Shouldn't Militarize the US/Mexico Border
John Nichols: Shouldn't Congress Hold the Pentagon to Account?
Andy Worthington: A Letter to Barack Obama from a Guantanamo Uighur
Bruce Ackerman: Why We Need a Commission on Presidential Power
George Hunsinger: The Corruption That Is Torture
Ramzy Baroud: Netanyahu and the ‘Future of the Peace Process’
Robert Naiman: Afghanistan: The Four Questions
Joseph Gerson: Obama, NATO, and Restoration of US 'Leadership'
Craig Aaron & Joseph Torres : Consolidation Won't Save the Media
Joseph E. Stiglitz: Reform is Needed. Reform is in the Air. We Can't Afford to Fail
Glenn Greenwald: Britain Responds to the "Rule of Law" Nuisance
Ellen Goodman: Planting the Seeds of a Revolution
William Astore: Aboard the Imperial Star Ship Ameriprise
Paul Krugman: The Market Mystique
David Sirota: Newspapers' Self-Inflicted Blows
Diane Farsetta: Nuclear Industry Targets State Laws

Thursday March 26, 2009

Fred Pearce: Greenwash: Shell Betrays 'New Energy Future' Promises
Dean Baker: Budget Deficits & Blow Up Dolls
Robert Costanza: Toward a New Sustainable Economy
Adrian Hamilton: We Must Get Out of Afghanistan
Jayati Ghosh: Why More of the Same Will Not Work
Medea Benjamin: Rage to Reform
Robert Dreyfuss: The Real Economic Crisis
John Hope Franklin: The Lessons of History
Edward Targett: Pop Science & Propaganda: The GM Debate Revisited
Frida Berrigan: Progress on Cluster Bombs
Bernie Sanders: Enough is Enough: Let's Stop Wall Street Loan-Sharking
Fritz Haeg: Why the White House Garden Matters
Mark Weisbrot: The G20 Should End Rich-Country Rule
Robert C. Koehler: Gold for Humanity

Wednesday March 25, 2009

Paul Buchheit: Tax the Rich? No, We Haven't Taxed the Little Leaguers Yet
Antonia Zerbisias: Canadian Speaks Out for Palestinians
Neve Gordon: Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's Shame
Bill McKibben: The Fierce Urgency of Now
Nomi Prins: Panning Geithner's Plan: Why Treasury's Toxic Assets Program Stinks
Matthew Rothschild: Cheney War Crimes: Just Look at the Statute
Dave Lindorff: Insurance Industry: The Parasite That Feeds on US Public Health System
Robert Naiman: Ban Cluster Bombs? Yes, We Can!
Russell Mokhiber: On Health Care, Diane Rehm Makes Me Sick
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Hope in the Mountains
Amy Goodman: Lessons of the Exxon Valdez
Robert Scheer: Obama’s Toxic Advisers
Pepe Escobar: Liquid War: Postcard from Pipelineistan
Atul Gawande: Hellhole: Solitary Confinement as Torture
Jim Hightower: Obama's Triple Surge Into Afghanistan

Tuesday March 24, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: A Major Difference Between Conservatives and Progressives
Scott Ritter: Obama's Plan to Save the World
Matthew Rothschild: Geithner’s Public Private Partnership Puts Public Most at Risk
Cristina Page: The Morning After Pill Conspiracy
Roane Carey: Palestinian Revolution?
Seumas Milne: Will Israel be Brought to Book?
Maryam Roberts: Economic Downturn Will Push More into the Military
Laura Flanders: Geithner's Plan: Like an Oil Spill
Joseph E. Stiglitz: Fiscal Plan Fails both Markets and Taxpayers
Carl Pope : Exxon Valdez, 20 Years Later
Derrick Z. Jackson: No More Freebies at EPA
Jonathon Porritt: Perfect Storm of Environmental and Economic Collapse Closer Than You Think
George Monbiot: Woodchips With Everything
Harvey Wasserman: People Died at Three Mile Island
Tom Gallagher: Making Ourselves Make Him Do It
Norman Solomon: These Colors Cannot Run... Afghanistan
John Nichols: Mr. Cheney, What About This 'Executive Assassination Squad'?
Robert Dreyfuss: Afghanistan: Waiting for the 'Exit Strategy'

Monday March 23, 2009

Dean Baker: The Geithner Plan: Billions More for Failed Banks
Glenn Greenwald: Howard Kurtz: Government and Media Need a "Cease-Fire" Now and Then
John Dear: The Clemency of Billy Neal Moore
Joe Conason: AIG is Chump Change -- Let's Find Corporate America's Hidden Billions
Marcelo Ballvé: A Year without a Mexican
Esther Havens/Nicky Yates/Becky Straw: Water at 'The End of the World'
Larry Elliott: G20 Must Seize the Opportunity for a Green New Deal
Shawn Dell Joyce: End of the Coal Era
Laura Vandenberg & Maricel Maffini: The Chemical in Your Baby's Bottle
Michele Naar-Obed: Six Years Later: An on-the-Ground View of Iraq
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Spitzer for Treasury?
Paul Krugman: Financial Policy Despair
Donna Smith: Healthcare Foxes are Building the Taxpayer Funded Hen House
Chris Hedges: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout
Thom Hartmann: The Real Criminals are Neither Lynndie England nor the AIG Traders

Sunday March 22, 2009

Matt Taibbi: The Big Takeover: How Wall Street Insiders are Using the Bailout to Stage a Revolution
Donna Liquori: Strained Libraries Offer a Lifeline
Rachel Dry: A Recession Only Steinbeck Could Love
John Brown: Public Diplomacy: Stop the Solemnity!
Jim Goodman: Governor Crist: It's Time to End Slavery in Florida
Tom Engelhardt: Economic Dirty Bomb Goes Off in New York
Frank Rich: Has a ‘Katrina Moment’ Arrived?
William Greider: Obama Told Us To Speak Out, But Is He Listening?

Saturday March 21, 2009

Christopher Cooper: More Than That No Man Is Entitled To And Less Than That No Man Shall Have
Paul Krugman: Despair Over Financial Policy
Glenn Greenwald: The Virtues of Public Anger and the Need for More
Devinder Sharma: Do GM Crops Increase Yield? The Answer is No
Tim Costello, Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: How to Pay for a Global Climate Deal
George Galloway: Canada Can't Muzzle Me
Christopher Brauchli: Taxes and Didactics
Ralph Nader: What Can Bush Teach Us?
Danny Schechter: Pitchforks and Protests: The Fury Down Below
Stephen Zunes: The Budget's Foreign Policy Handcuffs

Friday March 20, 2009

Sarah van Gelder: On the 6th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq: A New Direction?
Poka Laenui: An Honorable Exit from Iraq
Peter Hart: The Short, Happy Iraq War of Howard Kurtz
Anthony Arnove: Moved On from the Struggle
Dean Baker: The AIG Saga: A Brief Primer
Donna Smith: Will Congress Pass Ponzi Healthcare? Let’s Say 'No' in Des Moines
Dave Lindorff: Obama’s Moment is Passing Quickly
Bruce Gagnon: Arms Race in Space
Liesl Gerntholtz: Women's Land Rights Can Help Battle Hunger in Africa
Mark Weisbrot: El Salvador Votes Away Its Bad Past
Robert Weissman: Lessons from AIG
Medea Benjamin: Muntadar al-Zaidi Should Be Pardoned
David Michael Green: Barack Obama and the Altar of Greed
Randall Amster: What to Do When Peace Breaks Out
Jesse Hagopian: Teachers for CEO Merit Pay!
Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger: Obama's Post-Environmental Moment
John Nichols & Robert McChesney: The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
David Sirota: A Government of Men, Not Laws

Thursday March 19, 2009

Ruth Conniff: Forget AIG Bonuses - The Next Bailout is Here
Robert S. Eshelman: The Secret War Against American Workers
James K. Galbraith: No Return To Normal
Sally Kohn: Blue Dogs? Purple Cats with Claws Would Be Better
Marie Cocco: If You’re a ‘Little Guy,’ a Contract Means Nothing
Glenn Greenwald: Republicans and Executive Compensation Limits
Barbara Lee, Lynn Woolsey, Maxine Waters: Asking the Hard Questions About the Iraq War
Timothy Garton Ash: This Torture Scandal Reveals Us as an Ineffective Jeeves to Our US master
Olga Bonfiglio: Our National Report Card on War
Mark Benjamin: Soldier Suicides Skyrocket
Ann Wright: Anniversary of My Dissent
Robin Long: A War Resister Speaks from Prison: Let GI Resisters Stay in Canada
Robert Dreyfuss: The Zardari-Sharif Battle in Pakistan
Robert Fisk: Why Avigdor Lieberman is the Worst Thing That Could Happen to the Middle East
David Korten: Too Big to Fail is Too Big

Wednesday March 18, 2009

Donna Smith: RNs from Six States Rally for Single Payer Outside White House Healthcare Forum in Vermont
Peter Rothberg: Stop Mountaintop Removal
Jeremy Scahill: President Obama, Why Did You Pay Blackwater $70 Million in February?
Robert Redford : Once Too Early on Solar Power - Now, Let's Not Be Too Late
Dan Kennedy: Newspapers Aren't Dying, Our Democracy Is
Michael T. Klare: The Second Shockwave
Barbara Koeppel: Indentured Servants, Circa 2009
TA Frank: The Failed Presidency of Barack Obama
Lenore J. Daniels: When You Can't Ignore Racism, Just Lock It up
Alan Nasser: The New TARF, the Moribund Bailout, and a Real-World Stimulus Plan
Harold Meyerson: The Nationalization Option
John R. MacArthur: Obama is Far from a Radical Reformer
Glenn Greenwald: The Dishonest "Blame Dodd" Scheme from Treasury Officials
Robert Scheer: Perp Walks Instead of Bonuses
Amy Goodman: Those Hit Hardest Get No Bailout
Pratap Chatterjee: One Country, Three Futures: The Afghanistan Americans Seldom Notice
Mark Danner: US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites
John Dear: Loving Our Enemies, The People of Iran
Joe Brewer: How To Destroy the Government in Three Easy Steps

Tuesday March 17, 2009

Richard Grossman: Beware the Madoff Diversion
Pierre Tristam: From Iraq to AIG
Glenn Greenwald: America's Inhumane Immigration Inequality
Barbara Kingsolver: What Money Doesn't Buy
George Monbiot: Emission Mitigation Failure: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Mark Crispin Miller: The End of Peter B. Collins and the Need for Media Reform
Dean Baker: Getting Lehman Wrong a Second Time
Michelle Goldberg: America, One Nation Under No God?
Yifat Susskind: Iraqi Women Want US Out
Juan Cole: Cheney's Mission Accomplished
Stephen Zunes: Neocons 1, Obama 0
John Nichols: Block Those Bonuses
Tim Costello, Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: Global Labor’s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression

Monday March 16, 2009

Olga Bonfiglio: Hot, Flat, and Bothered
Daniel Volman and William Minter: Making Peace or Fueling War in Africa
Glenn Greenwald: The Sanctity of AIG's Contracts
Marc Cooper: Leftist Victory in El Salvador Closes an Historic Cycle
John Nichols: Watching Stewart-v-Cramer with Wall Streeters and Working Folks
Kevin Drum: Real Capitalists Nationalize
Ben Ehrenreich: Zionism is the Problem
Barbara Crossette: Pakistan in Turmoil
Robert Dreyfuss: Is the Israel Lobby Running Scared?
Chris Hedges: The False Idol of Unfettered Capitalism

Sunday March 15, 2009

Richard Fireman: Time to End Business as Usual for Toxic Coal Industry
Jim Hightower: Mexican Money Deal Taints 'Times'
Stacy Bannerman: Why We Need a Federal Military Family Leave Act: Oh, What a Difference the Draft Makes
Danny Schechter: Is the Hunter Being Captured by the Game?
Eric Margolis: Time to Quit Afghanistan
Frank Rich: The Culture Warriors Get Laid Off
Robert Freeman: The US Is Facing a Weimar Moment

Saturday March 14, 2009

Christopher Hayes: Healthcare Enemy No. 1
Lynne Gillooly: Wake Up America, The Democratic Party is the Pro-Life Party.
Ramzy Baroud: Durban II: Politicizing Racism
Billy Wharton: Obama's No Socialist. I Should Know.
Robert Naiman: Obama Administration Affirms U.S. Neutrality in Salvadoran Election
Michael Winship: The Brave, Living and Dead
William Greider: Fixing the Fed
Christopher Brauchli: The Tax Payer and the Tax Collector
Ralph Nader: Seven Avoidance Indicators

Friday March 13, 2009

Jennifer O’Connor: Racing Dogs to Death
Robert Weissman: Said without Joy: We Told You So
Frances Moore Lappé: The City that Ended Hunger
Glenn Greenwald: There's Nothing Unique About Jim Cramer
Josette Sheeran: Rising Food Prices will Mean Devastation for the Bottom Billion
Helen Thomas: What are US Goals in Afghanistan?
Gila Svirsky: In Memory of Rachel Corrie
David Michael Green: The Perils of Being Right and Wrong
Grace Livingstone: Aerial Assault on Colombia's Farmers and Ecosystem
Ted Rall: Reasons to be Cheerful
Katha Pollitt: A Small Sacrifice to Help Save the World
George Monbiot: Climate Change? Try, Climate Breakdown
David Sirota: The Competitive Disadvantage of GOP Healthcare Rhetoric

Thursday March 12, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: The Mission of the Beltway Journalist
Frida Berrigan: Why the Pentagon Can't Put America Back to Work
Richard Falk: Israel's War Crimes
Sahar Shafqat: Marching for Democracy in Pakistan
John F. Wasik : No Reason to Demonize US Single-Payer Health
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Afghanistan: Hearings Not Escalation
Karen J. Greenberg: Guantánamo's Faceless Victims
Sonni Efron: World hunger, the Crisis Inside the Economic Crisis
Scott Ritter: Barack Obama, Meet Team B
Jim Hightower: Fighting Back in America's 30-Year Class War
Robert Kuttner: Surviving the Great Collapse
Mark Weisbrot: Who is America to Judge?
Greg Kaufmann: DC Voting Rights Debacle
Robert C. Koehler: Reversing the Cycle of Violence

Wednesday March 11, 2009

Michael Winship: Oh, What a Lovely Class War!
Erin Rosa: GEO Group, Inc.: Prison Profiteer
Anthony Giddens: This Climate Crunch Heralds the End of the End of History
Ray McGovern: Timidity Derails Obama Intel Choice
Robert Dreyfuss: Israel Lobby Defeats Freeman Appointment
Robert Scheer: Socialism Without a Soul
Don North: Can Obama's Change Find El Salvador?
Robert Jensen: Feminism's Challenge: Articulating Alternatives to Unsustainable Hierarchies
Van Jones: Why I'm Going to Washington
Rosa Brooks: Bush Era Lies Will Linger for a Long Time
Laura Carlsen: Drug War Doublespeak
Bruce Falconer and Daniel Schulman: Blackwater's New Frontier: Their Own Private Africa
Ruth Conniff: Bailout Blues: Why Bank Nationalization Makes Sense
Amy Goodman: Put Single-Payer on the Table
Peter Dreier: The Economy is a Real Killer
Pierre Tristam: Exhuming the Sabra & Shatila Massacre
Glenn Greenwald: Charles Freeman Fails the Loyalty Test
Tom Engelhardt: A Falcon of Peace

Tuesday March 10, 2009

Melissa Harris-Lacewell: In Defense of Earmarks
Katharine Daniels: Closing The Gap: A Prep School Environment for All
Matthew Rothschild: Obama Hits Right Notes on Stem Cell Research; Republicans Heartless
Isabel Hilton: The World is No Longer Looking – but Tibet's Plight Isn't Over
David Vine: Battle over Bases
Harvey Wasserman: Is This the End of the Age of the Automobile?
Deb Price: Uncle Sam Should Recognize All Marriages
Christine Ahn and Gwyn Kirk: Fashioning Resistance to Militarism
Glenn Greenwald: Charles Freeman, Roger Cohen and the Changing Israel Debate
Gary Kamiya: John Yoo is Sorry for Nothing
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity : Obama's DNI Urged to Back Freeman
Derrick Z. Jackson: A Risk Big Oil Companies Can Afford to Share
Robert Naiman: Can Congress Save Obama from Afghan Quagmire?
Dean Baker: If Private Insurers Compete with Government, They'll Lose

Monday March 9, 2009

Dean Baker: East Asia's Economic Revenge
Capital Times Editorial: Feingold's Right on Holding Wrongdoers to Account
Claire Hope Cummings: The Good Food Revolution
Phyllis Bennis: Contested Terrain: Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Plan and the Peace Movement
Danny Schechter: Do Americans Realize How The Crisis Breeds Global Chaos?
David Sirota: Um, No - We're Not Governed "In A Way That Is Entirely Consistent With Free-Market Principles"
Roy Eidelson: On the Road to Change: The Psychology of Progress
Gary Houser: Dirty Coal, Climate Destabilization and the Nonviolent Resistance Movement
Paul Krugman: Behind the Curve
Nick Turse: Younger and Hungrier in America
Ann Wright: With The Women of Gaza On International Women’s Day: We Will Not Be Silent!
Chris Hedges: We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction
George Monbiot: Climate Change: The Semantics of Denial

Sunday March 8, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Britain's Bizarre Reaction to War Crimes Allegations: Investigations Needed
Wajahat Ali: The Pakistani Monster
C.W. Nevius: Fight for Marriage, Family is New Protest Focus
Josh Garman: This is Not Youthful Rebellion. We See the Catastrophe Ahead
Marlena Rich: International Women's Day Celebrates Peace Today
Eric Margolis: Pentagon's Nuclear Weapons Theory Bombs
Richard Louv: A Walk in the Woods: A Right or Privilege?
Frank Rich: Some Things Don’t Change in Grover’s Corners
Joe Galloway: A Shining City on a Hill Can't Have Dungeons in Its Basements

Saturday March 7, 2009

Sangita Nayak: For International Women's Day, We Should Get Paid Parental and Sick Leave
Seth Freedman: Hillary in the Holy Land
Glenn Greenwald: Preventing a Judicial Ruling on the Power to Imprison without Charges
The Rebirth of Education: The Rebirth of Education
Clive Stafford Smith: Binyam Mohamed: Here But Also There
James O’Nions: Our Friends in The South
David Nicholson-Lord: Planet Overload
Megan Tady: Five Days on the Digital Dirt Road
FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting): Media Blackout on Single-Payer Healthcare
Margot Pepper : The Costs of the Embargo
Blair Bobier: Broken Elections
Robert Weissman: 12 Deregulatory Steps to Financial Meltdown
Jesse Hagopian: The Dog Eats Its Tail: Oversized Classes, Overpopulated Prisons
Christopher Brauchli: Rush & Joe Assume Command
Ralph Nader: The Bottomless Bailout

Friday March 6, 2009

Timothy Egan: Fears of a Clown
Tom Hayden: Rage is Good
Ann Friedman: Broad Rights: Reproductive Healthcare Effects Us All
Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali Abunimah: Did Clinton Sabotage a Palestinian Reconciliation?
Jon Eisenberg: Obama's Bush League Decision
Glenn Greenwald: The Casual, Corrupting Use of Anonymity for Political Officials
Seumas Milne: If This Becomes Obama's War, It Will Poison His Presidency
Phyllis Bennis  and Farrah Hassen: President Obama Has Things Backward in Afghanistan
Michael Moore: Why I'm Not Now and Have Never Been the Democrats' Rush Limbaugh
Andrée Zaleska: Postcard from Capitol Climate Action
David Michael Green: Smart Is The New Stupid (And Other Subtle But Profound Effects of the Obama Era)
Karen J. Greenberg: Obama's Guantanamo? Bush's Living Legacy at Bagram Prison
Paul Krugman: The Big Dither
Rebecca Solnit: The Revolution Has Already Occurred
John Nichols: Talking About Health Reform, But Not About A Cure
Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher Jr.: Reimagining Socialism: Rising to the Occasion
Donna Smith: The Health Summit or American Healthcare Brought to You by Humana and Friends

Thursday March 5, 2009

Joseph E. Stiglitz: A Bank Bailout That Works
Kevin Gallgher: Developing World Too Big to Fail
Robert Parry: War Crimes and Double Standards
Simon Chaitowitz: Why I Take Animal-Tested Drugs
George Monbiot: Biofuels Do Far More Harm Than Good
John Nichols: On Bush, Cheney Crimes: Seek Truth and Accountability
Timothy Karr: Obama's FCC Pick Another Good Sign for Open Media
Thomas Frank: Conservatives and Their Pity Parties
Tom Hastings: Spending to Stimulate Peace
Mark Morford: Ode to the Unhappy
Gareth Porter & Ray McGovern: Iran in the Crosshairs
Sally Lehrman: The Danger of Losing Ethnic Media
Jürgen Todenhöfer: Steering clear of Afghanistan’s Graveyard of Invaders
Stephen Zunes: Obama and Israel's Military: Still Arm-in-Arm
César Chelala: Iraqi Children Bear the Costs of War
Olga Bonfiglio: Apologize, Apologize, Do Not Feel Free to Avert Your Eyes

Wednesday March 4, 2009

Robert Parry: How Close the Bush Bullet
Christopher Cooper: Whole World Is Rough, It’s Just Gettin’ Rougher
Robert Weissman: Wall Street's Best Investment: Paying for Policy in Washington
Ellen Brown: Bank On It: How Cash-Starved States Can Create Their Own Credit
Jamal Juma: Sustaining Global Solidarity After Gaza
Jill Fraser: Farewell to Jobs
Naomi Wolf: Yoo and The Subversion of Liberty Narrowly Averted
James Ridgeway: 36 Years of Solitude
Dean Baker: Staving Off Another Great Depression
Capital Times Editorial: Fairness Doctrine Not the Path to Media Reform
Harold Meyerson: Where Are the Workers?
Margaret Kimberley: Endless War
Benjamin Dangl: Grassroots Beer Brewers Score a Victory in Utah
Amy Goodman: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling
Robert Scheer: AIG: Billions Dished Out in the Shadows
John Nichols: Geoghegan Loses an Election, But May Yet Win Battle of Ideas
Marjorie Cohn: Memos Provide Blueprint for Police State

Tuesday March 3, 2009

Corporate Crime Reporter: Obama to Single Payer Advocates: Drop Dead
Glenn Greenwald: The Newly Released Secret Laws of the Bush Administration
Mike Lux: Obama and The Progressive Movement
Tariq Ali: Pakistan's Drift into the Hands of Extremists
Nancy Cole: The 60's are Back: Students March for Environmental Change
Harry Shutt: Redistribution and Stability: Beyond the Keynesian/Neo-liberal Impasse
Sarah van Gelder: A Shout Out to Climate Activists
Jane Hamsher: Ellen Tauscher (D-BofA) Helps Bank Lobbyists Write Our Laws
Barry Estabrook: Florida's Slave Trade
Bob Herbert: Wars, Endless Wars
Glenn Greenwald: Is Obama Embracing the Lawless, Omnipotent Executive?
Derrick Z. Jackson: Battle Over Clean Air is Bound to Get Dirty
Ivan Eland: Erasing Red Ink: Slash the Defense Budget
Robert Naiman: Could Obama Say a Few Words for Democracy in El Salvador?
Robert Pallitto: Prosecuting the Bush Team?
George Monbiot: The Proceeds of Crime
Russell Mokhiber: March 11: Burn Your Health Insurance Bill Day

Monday March 2, 2009

Jeremy Scahill: Mercenary King Eric Prince Resigns as Blackwater CEO
Sonia Nettnin: Medical Mission Heroes in the Middle East
Danny Schechter: Who Will Rescue Us as Economy Remains in Free Fall?
Robert Dreyfuss: The Charade of Not Talking to Hamas
Tom Hayden: Partial Peace, Looming War
Jeff Biggers: Dirty Coal Has Left the Building
Mark Weisbrot: Health Care Reform Is Needed Now More than Ever
Ezra Klein: Foodie Politics
Robin Tyler: Prop. 8: A Case About Justice
Andrew Sim: Beware The Magic Bullets of Climate Change
Gary Younge: Time for Obama's Movement to Get Moving
Roger Doiron: The First Vegetables
Joan Walsh: Class Warfare? Bring It On
Tom Engelhardt: The Imperial Unconscious
Jessica Lee: Thousands of Youth Storm Capitol, Demand New Climate Change Policy
Chris Hedges: It's Obama's War, Now

Sunday March 1, 2009

Eric Margolis: US Influence in Iraq Far From Over
Miriam Pemberton and Suzanne Smith: Budget Makes No 'Sweeping Shift' in Security Spending Yet
Frank Rich: The Ecstasy and the Agony
Marc Pilisuk: The Hopes for Obama May Die in Afghanistan
Roger Pulvers: Obama Please Note: Those Who Fail to 'Master the Past' Are Guilty, Too
The Citizen of Laconia Editorial: Is Obama's War Strategy a Wise One or a Betrayal?
Bill McKibben: The Carbon Addicts on Capitol Hill
Neil deMause: The Recession and the ‘Deserving Poor’
Dave Lindorff: America’s Stupid Health Care Debate