Views - June 2009

Tuesday June 30, 2009

John Nichols: Senator Al Franken: The Party of 'No' vs. The Party of '60'
Greg Grandin: Democracy Derailed in Honduras
Laura Carlsen: Honduran Coup Turns Violent, Sanctions Imposed
Jeremy Scahill: Iraq's 'National Sovereignty Day' is U.S.-Style Hallmark Hype
Glenn Greenwald: Bullying Congressional Progressives: Creepy, Revealing Quote from White House Staffer
Grace Livingstone: An End to Backyard Imperialism?
Capital Times Editorial: Energy Bill is Still Too Weak
Robert Dreyfuss: Little to Celebrate in Iraq
Peter Funt: Privatizing Fire Protection is Going to Burn
Jodie Evans: Iraq: What We Leave As We Withdraw
Ezra Nawi: Israel's Man of Conscience
Dean Baker: The Global Warming Lie Detector
Nathan Fisher: The Iraqi Refugee Crisis Continues
Benjamin Dangl : Showdown in Honduras: The Rise, Repression and Uncertain Future of the Coup

Monday June 29, 2009

Richard Adams: What Madoff Really Needs is Company, and Lots of It
Jeremy Scahill: A Few Thoughts on the Coup in Honduras
Robert Parry: Obama, They Want You to Fail
Lisa Magarrell & Anh-Thu Nguyen: Accountability for Torture — More About Courage than Consensus
David Morrison: The Elephant in the Room: Israel's Nuclear Weapons
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Time to End False Bipartisanship
Donna Smith: Healthcare Horror: Care Denied Over $7 Debt for Insured Patient
Paul Krugman: Betraying the Planet
Glenn Greenwald: Establishment View of Obama's Civil Liberties Record
Robert Kuttner: Pecora Swirling: Appointing the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Chris Hedges: The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free
Maria Gunnoe: MTR: Destroyer of Mountains, Streams, Wildlife, and Communities
Dilip Hiro: The Clash of Islam and Democracy in Iran
Reese Erlich: Iran and Leftist Confusion

Sunday June 28, 2009

Jeff Biggers: Top Ten List on Why President Obama Must Visit Appalachia and Launch War for Green Jobs
Jeff Kingston: When in War, Why Bomb the Innocent?
Dr. Bruce Tschantz: No Reason for Secrecy of Ash Sites
Alice Rothchild: An Honest Conversation
Robert C. Koehler: The Iron Triangle
Danny Schechter: The Crime of Our Time: Bernie Madoff To Be Sentenced Next Week
Mark Weisbrot: Was the Iranian Election Stolen? Does It Matter?
Frank Rich: 40 Years Later, Still Second-Class Americans
Eric Margolis: Iran Demands Cautious Approach
Mark Schuller: Haiti's Elections: 'Beat the Dog too Hard...'
Marie Marchand: I Want My Money Back! (Pres. Obama!)

Saturday June 27, 2009

Isabel Macdonald: Policing the Debate on Health Reform
Michael Judge: The Bard of Berkeley
Walden Bello: Global Food Price Crisis
Derrick Z. Jackson: Malaria, DDT, and Desperation in Uganda
Pierre Tristam: Obama the Collaborator Letting Naysayers Neuter Health-Care Fix
Bill McKibben: Global warming: 350 or Bust
Christopher Brauchli: White House Visitors - A Secret
Ralph Nader: Financial Reform, Words and Deeds

Friday June 26, 2009

George Monbiot: The Failed State of US Climate Change Policy
Greg Kaufmann: Fighting Like Hell for Healthcare Now
Robert Parry: False Health-Scare Ad on CNN
Richard Kim: Obama's Stonewall
Daniel Schulman: Guess Who's Selling Wall Street's Bull?
Andy Worthington: Never Forget: The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Kelly Jean Cogswell : Celebrating Stonewall When the State of the Gay Union Stinks
Ramzy Baroud: People for Sale in a Hungry World
Randall Amster: Saving Ourselves: Consuming Within Recharge Rates
Ira Chernus: Palestinian Violence Overstated, Jewish Violence Understated
Paul Krugman: Not Enough Audacity
Robert Greenwald: Farrah Fawcett, the Burning Bed Fighter
John Nichols: Michael Jackson: Imperfect Icon
Peter Tatchell: Our Lost Gay Radicalism
Tom Andrews: Glass Half Full: House Democratic Caucus Backs McGovern Afghanistan Exit Amendment

Thursday June 25, 2009

Joseph E. Stiglitz: A Global Recovery for a Global Recession
Gordon Jenkins: When It Comes to Kids, Change Can’t Wait
Bitta Mostofi & Bill Quigley : Time for Solidarity with Iran, But Not with McCain & Lieberman's Help
Jeremy Scahill: Paramilitary Thug With Long History With Top U.S. Democrats Arrested for 'War Crimes'
Bruce Falconer: Spanish Justice for American Crimes?
Matthew Rothschild: Obama with His Foot in the Air
Stephen Zunes: Nancy Pelosi: A Hawk in Donkey's Clothing
Laurie Williams & Allan Zabel : Cap-and-Trade Does More Harm than Good
Sarah van Gelder: The New Economy Won't Be Like the Last One
Erik Leaver & Daniel Atzmon: A Withdrawal in Name Only
Kathy Kelly: Now We See You, Now We Don’t
Norman Solomon: Full-Spectrum Idiocy: GOP and Chavez on Iran

Wednesday June 24, 2009

Jodie Evans & Malali Bashir: Afghan Women Speak Out: Malali Bashir
Tom Andrews: Common Sense vs. the Military-Industrial-Political-Complex on the Floor of the US House Today
Glenn Greenwald: The Neda Video, Torture, and the Truth-Revealing Power of Images
John Nichols: Friends of Earth Score Energy Bill as 'Step Backward'
Theda Skocpol: Moment of Truth for Obama and the Democrats
Jim Hightower: Today's Perpetrators of Gas Pump Thievery
Chuck Collins & Sam Pizzigati: What Happened to the Crackdown on Executive Pay?
Diana Gibson & Ray McGovern: Torture Eats Away at the Soul of This Nation
Johann Hari: Amazon Uprising More Urgent Than Iran's: The Planet Depends on It
Andy Worthington: Judge Orders Release From Guantanamo Of Al-Qaeda Torture Victim
Pierre Beaudet: The Endless War Continues: Taking Stock of US Strategy under Obama
Greg Grandin : Touring Empire's Ruins: From Detroit to the Amazon
Robert Scheer: Foreclosure Fiasco
Amy Goodman: Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age

Tuesday June 23, 2009

Russell Gold: Club Pigou: James Hansen and Carbon Tax Aficionados
Michael Keegan: An Open Letter to Obama: Gay Equality Needs Your Voice
James Hansen: A Plea To President Obama: End Mountaintop Coal Mining
Khadija Sharife: Françafrique: Propping Up Africa's Dictators
Tom Andrews: Congress Needs to Hear From Us Today on Afghanistan
Glenn Greenwald: NPR's Ombudsman: Why We Bar the Word 'Torture'
Bob Herbert: Who Are We?
Tom Hayden: MoveOn Weighs In
Tom Turnipseed: Banning War Toys
Ira Chernus: Israeli Leader Reveals Why Israeli Shuns Negotiation
George Monbiot: Tanks Cannot Stop This Crisis, So Let's Stop Building Them
Dean Baker: New Rules Aren't Enough
Robert Parry: Serving the Medical-Industrial Complex
Helen Thomas: Obama Running Scared

Monday June 22, 2009

John Nichols: Supreme Court Pulls Teeth From the Voting Rights Act
Tony Judt: Israeli 'Settlements': Fictions on the Ground
Katrina Heron: School Lunch Reform and Ann Cooper’s Bigger, Boulder Move
Murray Dobbin: Imagine: Prosperity without Growth
Robert Kuttner: The Policy That Dare Not Speak Its Name
James Carroll: More than Mere Lunacy
Sarah Anderson: People Power Pushed the New Deal
Paul Krugman: Health Care Showdown: The Alleged 'Center' Must Not Hold
Mike Ervin: 10th Anniversary of Freedom for People with Disabilities
Kate Sheppard: Obama's Climate Change Silence
Peter Singer: Putting Ethics Before Profits
Chris Hedges: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away
Jeff Biggers: Reckoning at Coal River

Sunday June 21, 2009

Paul O’Brien: Baffling Indifference to Pakistani 'Exodus' Trauma
Pierre Tristam: How Obama Is Killing Health Reform
William Greider: Obama's False Financial Reform
Dave Lindorff: Obama's Health Reform Waterloo
Joseph Nevins: Deporting Fathers in the Name of Homeland Security
Alexandra Spieldoch: Global Land Grab

Saturday June 20, 2009

Michael Parenti: North Korea: “Sanity” at the Brink
Lisa Boscov-Ellen: Thirst for Profit: Corporate Control of Water in Latin America
Kristin Schall: The Revolution Will Be Tweeted: Activism in the Age of User Generated Content
Robert Naiman: Congress Should Require an Exit Strategy from Afghanistan
Christopher Brauchli: The Rise and Fall of the Cigarette
Lila Ghobady: No Matter Who Is President of Iran, They Would Stone Me

Friday June 19, 2009

Laura Carlsen: Trade Agreement Kills Amazon Indians
John Nichols: Don't Cede More Economic Authority to Unaccountable Fed
Mark Weisbrot: Assigning Blame for the Economic Crisis
Paul Rogers: Iraq, Af-Pak, and Beyond: The Global Cost of War
Hasan Abu Nimah & Ali Abunimah: Netanyahu's 'Brilliant' Peace Plan: Maximum Land with Minimum Palestinians
Paula Crossfield: All That Glitters is Not Gold: Biotechnology Has Failed Us, So Why Promote It Abroad?
Rob Smart: Closing the Farm to Plate Knowledge Gap
Paul Krugman: Out of the Shadows
Nick Turse: Ex-Bush Loyalists Cash In
Brad Jacobson: Reporting Incorporated: Gene Randall, Chevron, and the 'Dark Side'
Jim Goodman: The Health Insurance Industry Doesn't Deserve Our Trust
Stephen Zunes: The Iranian Uprising is Home Grown, and Must Stay That Way

Thursday June 18, 2009

Avi Lewis: Schwarzenegger's Shock Therapy - Poor Pay For Sins Of The Rich
Raúl Zibechi: Massacre in the Amazon: The US/Peru Free Trade Agreement Sparks a Battle Over Land and Resources
John Aravosis: President Obama Betrays the Gay Community
Glenn Greenwald: The Illegal Spying Game, Played Over and Over
Jeremy Scahill: 'The Responsible Left': Funding Obama's Expanding Wars
Gareth Smyth: Iran’s Power Struggle
Matthew Rothschild: Iranians Flex the Power of Nonviolence
Robert Weissman: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Financial Sector Regulation
Pat LaMarche: Promises Redeemed by Exxon
Jim Hightower: Pockets of Influence in Washington
Robert C. Koehler: Democracy's Paradox
Ann Wright: President Carter and Citizen Activists Witness Destruction in Gaza
Russell Mokhiber: Single Payer and the Duplicitous Rahm Emanuel
Sally Kohn: The Bloody Truth Behind Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric
Norman Solomon: Obama and Anti-War Democrats
Donna Smith: Well, Well... Going to Healthcare Hell

Wednesday June 17, 2009

Scott Horton: Partisan Politics and the Accountability Commission
Robert Shetterly: Courage, Commonsense, and the World Before Us
Robert Scheer: Obama's Economic Misfits Finally Get It
Pankaj Mishra: Obama's Bulldozer Risks Turning the Taliban into Pakistan's Khmer Rouge
Glenn Greenwald: Obama and Transparency: Judge for Yourself
Anthony Romero & Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld: Let's Hold Bush Officials Accountable for Torture
Amy Goodman: Congre$$, Heal Thyself
Jeremy Scahill: Shame: The 'Anti-War' Democrats Who Sold Out
John R. MacArthur: Obama a Very Smooth Liar
Laura Flanders: Novartis Prefers to Profit off Pandemic?
Ira Chernus: 'Palestinians' without 'Palestine'
Hank Kalet: Obama: 'Tilting at Windmills' or Selling Out the Left?
John Nichols: All But 32 House Dems Back Bad Wars, Big Banks
Phyllis Bennis: Netanyahu Speaks; The Israel-Palestine Ball Remains in Obama's Court

Tuesday June 16, 2009

Dr. Margaret Flowers & Dr. Carol Paris: The AMA Does Not Represent Us
Tom Andrews: Congress Should Vote No On War Funding Bill
Robert Fisk: Iran's Day of Destiny
Marie Cocco: Guns and the Link We Won't Admit
Andy Worthington: Obama is Confused over Terror Trials
Jane Hamsher & Robert Greenwald: A Movement to Make Obama Bring an End to War
Sabin Willett: Freedom on a Small Island with a Big Heart
Nicholas Skala: 'Public Option' Pales Next to Single Payer
Dave Lindorff: Blowing Our Chance for Real Health Care Reform
Olga Bonfiglio: Urban Agriculture as a Career Path
Glenn Greenwald: What Would Have Happened if the "Bomb Iran" Contingent had its Way?
Laila El-Haddad: No Peace from Netanyahu
Peter Hart: Treating Civilian Deaths as a ‘Sore Point’

Monday June 15, 2009

Jeremy Scahill: Will 39 Democrats Stand Up to Stop the War Funding?
Ellen Brown: Out of the Ashes of GM: the Phoenix of Renewable Energy
Diane Ravitch: Obama Gives Bush a 3rd Term in Education
Peter A. Victor: Bigger Isn't Better
Paul J Crutzen: Can We Survive the 'Anthropocene' Period?
Ken Ballen & Patrick Doherty: The Iranian People Speak
Paul Krugman: Stay the Course
Nomi Prins: The Big Bank Bailout Payback Bamboozle
Judy Norsigian & Jennifer Potter: A Singular Solution for Healthcare
Glenn Greenwald: The Obama Officials Blocking Accountability for Bush Crimes
Ann Wright: Israeli Police and Military Brutalize Peaceful Protesters at Netanyahu’s Speech
Chris Hedges: The American Empire Is Bankrupt
Tom Engelhardt: Charisma and the Imperial Presidency

Sunday June 14, 2009

Marjorie Cohn: Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
Victor Corral: Bailout Plan Hits the Poor
Pierre Tristam: Dashing Fabricated Hopes: The Meaning of Ahmadinejad's Victory
Frank Rich: The Obama Haters’ Silent Enablers
Russell Mokhiber: Single Payer vs. Public Option
Peter Dreier: Human Rights Activists Protest NBA-Linked Sweatshops
Eric Margolis: Obama Fails to Impress
Zach Carter: Small Banks, Radical Vision
Amitabh Pal: Stop Wasting on the Military

Saturday June 13, 2009

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: Why Have We Stopped Talking about Guns?
Andrew P. Morriss: Cap-and-Trade System Rewards Special Interests
Jeremy Scahill: 'A Perfect Storm for Disaster' Brewing With Washington's 'Unprecedented' Shadow Army
Jeff Biggers: Clean Coal Knee-Capping: Secretary Chu Makes $1 Billion Down Payment For More Dirty Coal
Anna Brown: Clowning Around in Israel
Christopher Brauchli: The Judge and the Urinator
Robert Naiman: Progressive Democrats We Can Believe In
Ralph Nader: Is TV Worth the Transition?
Robert Fisk: A Divided Country United by the Spirit of Democracy

Friday June 12, 2009

John Nichols: Why Vote 'Yes' for the War and the IMF?
Paul Smalera: Cool, Refreshing Legislation for Philip Morris
Severine von Tscharner Fleming: Greenhorns: Building A Movement of Young Farmers
Liza Featherstone: Out of Reach: Tuition Increase and Student Outrage
Andy Worthington: Who Are the Four Guantanamo Uighurs Sent to Bermuda?
Robert Dreyfuss: Iranians Poised for Change
Margo Kaplan: Behind Bars for Being Pregnant and HIV-Positive
David Sirota: All Politics, and Change, Is Still Local
Paul Krugman: The Big Hate
Glenn Greenwald: Should the US also Suppress Evidence of Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan?
Danny Schechter: Who Can We Bank On, Who Who Can We Trust, as Crisis Sharpens?
Ramzy Baroud: A Boy and an Artificial Leg: A Gaza Story
David Michael Green: The Rhetorical President
Michael T. Klare: It's Official: The Era of Cheap Oil Is Over

Thursday June 11, 2009

Tom Laskawy: Big Ag Goes Green
Chris McCoy, M.D.: Dear AMA: I Quit!
Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Still Working in Iraq for the International Republican Institute, According to New Lawsuit
Joe Conason: Why So Scared of a Public Plan?
Robert Scheer: A Republican to Save Us
Jeff Biggers: Who Will Save the Mountains?
Harvey Wasserman: The GOP’s 100-Reactor/Trillion-Dollar Energy Plan Goes Radioactive
Kevin Zeese: The Case for Disbarment of Lawyers Who Facilitated Torture Grows
Chip Berlet: Holocaust Museum Shooting, Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories, and the Tools of Fear
Russell Mokhiber: Conyers Rips Rangel, Waxman for Backing Off Single Payer
William Greider: Wall Street's False Armistice
John Vidal: Shell Settlement with Ogoni People Stops Short of Full Justice
Tom Hayden: MoveOn: Break the Silence on Torture and War
Duncan Green: Climate Action Must be a First Resort
Kathy Kelly & Dan Pearson: Down and Out in Shah Mansoor
Donna Smith: The Pompous or the Populists: Who Will Win the Healthcare Debate?

Wednesday June 10, 2009

Jodie Evans: Afghan Women Speak Out: Mariam Nawabi
Roy Romanow: There's More to Life Than GDP
Robert Dreyfuss: Iran's Vote, Obama's Challenge
John Nichols: Afghan Woman Knows Why US Policy is Failing
Robert Kuttner: Five Questions We Should Ask About Financial Oversight
Glenn Greenwald: How Civilized, Law-Abiding Countries Imprison Terrorists
Robert Parry: Obama's Era of Openness Is Closed
Lamar Waldron & Thom Hartmann: After 45 Years, a Civil Rights Hero Waits for Justice
Jesse Jackson: US Needs New Industrial Policy
Laura Flanders: Wells Fargo: Too Big to Jail?
Naomi Klein /Noam Chomsky /Neve Gordon: Ezra Nawi: An Activist in Need
Andy Worthington: From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?
Ben Powless: Peru: Battle Lines Drawn over the Amazon
Jeff Biggers: West Va. Supreme Court Affirms Toxic Coal Silo as Wonderful Playground
Kathy Kelly: Visitors and Hosts in Pakistan
Robert Weissman: The IMF Accountability Moment
Sally Kohn & Deepak Bhargava: Prepare Which Way?
Amy Goodman: Two Men Who Stood Under the Plunderers’ Knives
Frida Berrigan: Cyberscares About Cyberwars Equal Cybermoney

Tuesday June 9, 2009

Mark Weisbrot: The Next Big Taxpayer Bailout? IMF Could Get Hundreds of Billions for European Banks
Rachel Morris: Could Cap and Trade Cause Another Market Meltdown?
John Buell: Recenter Abortion Debate on Equality of Sacrifice
Bernie Sanders: Health Care Is a Right, Not a Privilege
Dave Gilson: Give When It Hurts
Joseph E. Stiglitz: Break the Banks, for the Good of the People
John Nichols: This is the Age of Paine
Trudy Lieberman: Who Will Be at the Table? PhRMA and the AMA Join Forces with Insurers
Glenn Greenwald: Defeat of Graham-Lieberman and the Ongoing War on Transparency
Paul Rogat Loeb: Gutting the Health Care Plan: The Scorpion and the Congress
Stephen Zunes: Obama Fails to Prioritize Human Rights on Middle East Trip
Derrick Z. Jackson: NRA's Ill Wind Blows through the Windy City
Stan Cox: Ethanol's Drug Problem
Deborah Rich & Jason Mark: Hold Steady: Population Growth on a Shrinking Planet
William Greider: The Trouble with Democrats

Monday June 8, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: ABC News' Interview with Lakhdar Boumediene and Our Current Policies
Noam Chomsky: Turning Point?
Elizabeth DiNovella: Fighting Militarism’s Toxic Legacy
Robert Kuttner: Fantasies of Green Shoots
Robert Parry: 119 Million Americans Must Be Wrong
John Sauven: The Amazon is Dying
Phyllis Bennis: Changing the Discourse: First Step Toward Changing the Policy?
Alfred W. McCoy: Back to the Future in Torture Policy
Anna Brown: Grief and Solidarity on the Road to Gaza
Chris Hedges: Hold Your Applause
Gordon Bennet: Courage in Journalism: Chris Satullo on the Fourth of July
Tom Gallagher: Dick Cheney and Aunt Helen
Norman Solomon: Words and War
Cynthia Boaz : Why Torturing to Prove Torturing is Wrong is Never Okay: A Note to Keith Olbermann

Sunday June 7, 2009

Frances Kissling: Obama's Poor Choice for Faith Leader
Robert Fisk: A Glimpse of Obama in a Cairo Emptied of Its People and Its Poor
Tessa Salazar: Eating for the Planet
Rhonda Hackett: Debunking Canadian Health Care Myths
Glenn Greenwald: What the New Jim Comey Torture Emails Actually Reveal

Saturday June 6, 2009

Barbara Ehrenreich: Welcome to a Dying Industry, Journalism Grads
Mary Alice Carr: The Culpability Factor
Michael Winship: The Privatization of "Obama's War"
Christopher Brauchli: The Nominee and the Attack Dogs
Dave Lindorff: If We Only Had a Leader with Guts: What a State-Run GM Could Do
Danny Schechter: As World marks Tiananmen Protest Anniversary It's Time to Improve Coverage of Human Rights in China
Robert Reich : How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option, And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do
David Korten: Why This Crisis May Be Our Best Chance to Build a New Economy

Friday June 5, 2009

Jeff Biggers: Rep. Hechler to President Obama: Time for a Harry S. Truman Moment in the Coalfields
Greg Mitchell: 'NYT' Finally Corrects Botched Front-Pager on Gitmo Prisoners 'Returning to Jihad'
Lexington-Herald Leader: Obama Caves in to Coal Pressure
Mark Morford: Nice Try, Dick
Peter Rothberg: Time to Break Up the Banks
Zia Mian: Nuclear Promises
James Ridgeway & Jean Casella: Life on Permanent Lockdown
Rosa Maria Pegueros: Tears of Joy
Mike Ferner: We Don't Need the General Motors Corp.
Ahdaf Soueif: We Wanted a World Leader. We Saw Only a US President
Karyn Strickler: Gag Me with Clean Coal
Nick Turse: Econocide: Body Count 3
Steve Rendall: Glenn Beck Is No Howard Beale
Khaled Diab: Is Obama's Change Simply Cosmetic?
John Nichols: Bad Bailout Backlash
Aura Bogado: Arpaio vs. Immigrants: Most Affected Left Out of Debate
David Sirota: Whither the Sacred Campaign Promise?
Faramarz Farbod: Obama and Iran: New Hopes, Old Dangers

Thursday June 4, 2009

Noam Chomsky: The Grim Picture of Obama's Middle East
Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Seat at the Table for Single-Payer
Elsa Rassbach: US War Resister in Germany Awaits Obama
Ali Abunimah: Obama in Cairo: A Bush in Sheep's Clothing?
Robert Kuttner: Facing Down the Private Insurance Industry
Mary Robinson & Alicia Yamin: Let's Stop Women's Suffering
Jeremy Scahill: Military Admits "Errors" in Civilian Bombing in Afghanistan, But Still Defends the Attacks
Jonathan Clarke & Amy Zalman: Pull Out of the War on Terror
Laura Flanders: Jackasses on Sotomayor Ignore Wichita and New York
Julie Hollar & Isabel Macdonald: Media Quarantine of Single-Payer Continues
Terry Keleher: Jump Starting Racial Justice
Robert Weissman: GM Nationalization: The Path Not Taken, Choices Still Ahead
Robert C. Koehler: See No Evil
Randall Amster: The Times They Aren't A-Changin' ... Yet
Stephen Zunes: Echoes of Solidarity 20 Years after Tiananmen
E.J. Dionne: Rush and Newt Are Winning
Tariq Ramadan: Action Must Follow Obama's Words
Medea Benjamin: Hamas Delivers Peace Letter to President Obama

Wednesday June 3, 2009

Ruth Conniff: Getting the GM Bankruptcy All Wrong
Robert Fisk: Police State is the Wrong Venue for Obama's Speech
David Swanson: America's Future Moves Forward
Daniel Moss: Another Water World Is Possible
Harold Meyerson: The GM 'Precedent'
Wayne Barrett: Barrett: Why Don't MSNBCers Question 'Morning Joe' About Abortion Doc Killings?
Robert Parry: Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?
Ira Chernus: Annotate This: Obama's Speech on National Security
Medea Benjamin: Obama Should Visit Gaza
Tom Engelhardt: To the Graduating Class of American Empire, 2009
Amy Goodman: Dr. George Tiller Didn’t Have to Die
Free Gaza Movement: Mr. President, Help Us Free Gaza
Jim Hightower: Stopping the Desecration of Mountaintop Removal
Robert Scheer: Reagan Didn’t Do It
Glenn Greenwald: Another Club Gitmo Guest Kills Himself
Andy Worthington: Yemeni Prisoner Muhammad Salih Dies At Guantánamo

Tuesday June 2, 2009

Eric Boehlert: Sotomayor, Gingrich, and the Demise of Our Press Corps
John Dear: Nobel Laureates Come to Los Alamos
Thomas Berry: The Meadow Across the Creek
Ed Garvey: Arrogant 'War' Secretary Should Set Off Alarm Bells
Roberto Rodriguez: Sotomayor Falls in Journalism's Blind Spot
Ray McGovern: Navy Vet Honored, Foiled Israeli Attack
Robert Weissman: Bankrupt Thinking
Christian Christensen : NBC News and Populist Politics: Who Needs Glaciers or the Rule of Law?
David Michael Green: He Kept Us Safe (Except When He Didn’t)
George Monbiot: Blue Desert: Who is Brave Enough to Take On the Fishing Industry?
Robert Fisk: Most Arabs Know This Speech Will Make Little Difference
Roane Carey: The Rape of Gaza
Derrick Z. Jackson: GOP Race Mongering on Sotomayor
Dean Baker: Economic Recovery is Wishful Thinking
John Nichols: The 'New GM': Layoffs, Factory Closing, and Offshoring
Kathy Kelly: A Weaver's Welcome in Swat Valley

Monday June 1, 2009

Eyal Press: George Tiller: Casualty of the Culture Wars?
Deepak Chopra: Can We Have Security without Fear?
Richard A. Clarke: Cheney and Rice Remember 9/11. I Do, Too.
Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Support for the New Graham-Lieberman Secrecy Law
Charlie Clements: A Salvadoran Resurrection
Robert Kuttner: Betting the Fed
Adam W. Parsons: Has the World Given Up on Sustainable Development?
Pratap Chatterjee: Is Halliburton Forgiven and Forgotten?
Andy Worthington: Free The Guantánamo Uighurs!
Robert Parry: America's Political/Media Kabuki
Paul Krugman: Reagan Did It
Cristina Page: The Murder of Dr. Tiller, a Foreshadowing
Chris Hedges: War Is Sin
Michael Moore: Goodbye, GM