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Rev. John Dear: Hunger Strike for Gaza

John Taylor Gatto: Take Back Your Education

Glenn Greenwald: Cause and Effect in the 'Terror War'

Zach Carter: Crashing the Corporate Christmas Party

John E. Peck: Corporate Agribusiness Helps Scuttle Climate Justice

Monday December 28, 2009

Dean Baker: Christmas Presents for Bankers

Bruce Wark: Changing Climates

Holly Sklar: Wall Street Scroogism Wrecking America

Emily Ratner: Freedom Marching in Circles While Winding Our Way to Gaza

Lucinda Marshall: My New Decade’s Resolution

David Sirota: Democracy's Baseline Need for Transparency

Jill Richardson: Sick of Corporate Control Over Your Food?

Ali Abunimah: 'Israel Resembles a Failed State'

Paul Krugman: The Big Zero

Chris Hedges: One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists

Sunday December 27, 2009

Gideon Levy: Was Israel's Gaza Offensive Worth It?

Cenk Uygur: How Progressives Can Move Obama to the Left

David Michael Green: Well, That Sure Sucked: Good Riddance to the Devil’s Decade

Robert Reynolds: Tsunami Survivors Fight for Land Rights

Robyn Blumner: President Falls Short

James Hansen: Copenhagen Has Given Us the Chance to Face Climate Change With Honesty

Glenn Greenwald: The Joys of Airstrikes and Anonymity

Medea Benjamin: One Year After Israeli Invasion of Gaza, World Leaders Fail to Act but Global Citizens Step Forward

Saturday December 26, 2009

John Nichols: Of War, Peace and the Distant Memory of a Christmas Truce

Christopher Brauchli: Bank Presidents and US President

Billy Wharton: Healthcare Bill a Nightmare Before Christmas

Dallas Darling: Still Trying to Monopolize the Arabian Peninsula

Peter Dreier: Pass the Health Care Bill - Then Improve It

Peter Gorrie: Climate Change Doesn't Scare Us. That's Frightening

Sarah Lazare: The US Military is 'Exhausted'

Ronnie Cummins: Beyond the Darkest Hours, Grassroots Rising

The Gaza Freedom March: Open Letter to President Mubarek

Thursday December 24, 2009

John Feffer: A New START

Rodney Watson: Why a Resister Chose Canada Over the War in Iraq

Raj Jayadev: A Decade of New Youth Activism

Tom Athanasiou: Copenhagen: Just a Cop Out?

Donna Smith: A Patient’s View of the Senate Christmas Healthcare Gift

Ralph Nader: Holiday Reading List 2009

Wednesday December 23, 2009

David Sirota: Back to the Drawing Board

Matthew Rothschild: Obama Double-Crossed Progressives on Health Care

William Hartung: Obama and the Permanent War Budget

John Nichols: Of War, Peace and the Christmas Truce

John Feffer: The Art of Extraction

Neve Gordon: Breaking Palestine's Peaceful Protest

Dave Zirin: More than a Sportswriter: Lester 'Red' Rodney: 1911-2009

Jane Hamsher: Why Is Obama Ditching the Public Option — and You?

Glenn Greenwald: The NYT's View of 'Journalistic Objectivity'

Robert Scheer: Demonizing Dean Won’t Absolve This Health Care Sham

Amy Goodman: Climate Discord: From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen

Michael Winship: Where Are the Snows - and Shovels - of Christmas Past?

Jim Hightower: Hoping for a New Ethic in 2010

Tom Gallagher: But Afghanistan Is More Complicated Than Vietnam

Robert C. Koehler: A Healthy Economy

Tom Engelhardt: In Nightmares Begin Responsibilities: Why War Will Take No Holiday in 2010

Pat LaMarche: Don’t Let Them Take Food Off the Table of the Hungry

Tuesday December 22, 2009

Ray McGovern: Break the CIA in Two

Elaine Shannon: What's in Your Water?

Juan Cole: Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade; Or, the Rise of the New Oligarchs

Megan McAdams: Modern Day Slavery in Mexico and the United States

Laura Flanders: Who You Callin’ Moderate?

Derrick Z. Jackson: On Health Care, Women Compromise

Zach Carter: Wall Street’s Economic Rampage

Norman Solomon: Flares in the Political Dark

Donna Smith: Senate, White House Health Reform Tucks in Gun Rights

John Buell: Division Between Developed and Developing Countries

Monday December 21, 2009

Ralph Nader: Agent of Change

Naomi Klein: For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow

Donna Smith: Health Reform 2009: Would Nataline’s Life Be Spared?

Drew Westen: Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator

Jane Hamsher: 10 Reasons to Kill the Senate Bill

Johann Hari: After the Catastrophe in Copenhagen, It's Up To Us

Rebecca Solnit: Terminator 2009: Judgment Days in Copenhagen

Tiffany Williams: In 2010, Let’s Treat Domestic Workers Better

Andy Worthington: The Stories of the Two Somalis Freed from Guantánamo

Gary Younge: Smalltown America's Growing Voice of Rage is a Force to be Reckoned With

Jayati Ghosh: Beyond Ecological Imperialism

Paul Krugman: A Dangerous Dysfunction

Chris Hedges: Nader’s Utopia: The World According to Ralph

Marjorie Cohn: Obama’s Af-Pak War is Illegal

Sunday December 20, 2009

David Michael Green: Now I’m Really Getting Pissed Off

Jeremy Brecher: Doom and Gloom

Sen. Fritz Hollings: They're All Against Jobs

Antonia Zerbisias: My Love/Hate of Fur

Jimmy Carter: Gaza Must Be Rebuilt Now

Eric Margolis: US Turbulence Buffets Pakistan

Frank Rich: Tiger Woods, Person of the Year

Margaret Flowers and Andy Coates: Senate Speech Heralds New Social Movement

Derrick Jensen: 50 Simple Ways to Get Off

Saturday December 19, 2009

Ted Rall: Foreclose on the Banks: How to Give America Its Best Christmas Ever

Brendan Smith and Nicola Armster: A Green Art Manifesto

Donna Smith: Healthcare Crisis Tears at Fabric of Holiday Traditions

Michael Winship: Happy Holidays from America's Banks

Grace Lee Boggs: Climate Change Movement Builds at Copenhagen

Christopher Brauchli: Catholic Charities Meet the D.C. Council

George Monbiot: Copenhagen Negotiators Bicker and Filibuster While the Biosphere Burns

Bill Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins: Stephen King Meets the Estate Tax

Johann Hari: The Truths Copenhagen Ignored

Friday December 18, 2009

Paula Crossfield: Why Seed Consolidation Matters

Jane Hamsher: Obama Is 'Keeping Score' on Those Who Vote Against Him

Ben Lilliston: Different Paths in Copenhagen

Jamie Henn: Obama’s Climate Sham[e]: Empty Rhetoric in Copenhagen Speech

Tiseke Kasambala: Blood Diamonds From Zimbabwe

David Pratt: Real People Will Pay Price of a Copenhagen Stalemate

Glenn Greenwald: The Underlying Divisions in the Health Care Debate

Andy Worthington: Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo of Unwilling Yemeni Recruit

Eric Stoner: A Lesson on Nonviolence for the President

Naomi Klein: Copenhagen: The Courage to Say No

Thursday December 17, 2009

Bill McKibben: Hungry in Copenhagen

Lisa Putkey and Kevin Martin: Your Contributions Needed for NPR (No, Not National Public Radio)

Yifat Susskind: Postcard From...Copenhagen

Jo Comerford: Afghanistan: $57,077.60 - Surging by the Minute

Keith Olbermann: Special Comment: Ruined Senate Bill Unsupportable

Pat LaMarche: Holiday Hit: The Five Lies of Congress

John Nichols: 'Party of No' Blocks Debate on Bernie Sanders' Real Reform

New York Times Editorial: De-Criminalizing Children

John Gibbons: Six Reasons Why Earth Won't Cope for Long

George Monbiot: Mr Obama, Here's Your Copenhagen Speech

Wednesday December 16, 2009

Donna Smith: Sanders Says Single-Payer Day Will Come as He Withdraws Amendment

Pete Salmansohn: Can Green Kids Save the Earth?

Rinku Sen: Copenhagen and Us

John Feffer: Exceptional or Exceptionalism?

Johann Hari: It's the Protesters Who Offer the Best Hope for Our Planet

Kevin Bundy, Brendan Cummings, Vera Pardee, and Kassie Siegel: Yes, He Can: President Obama's Power to Make an International Climate Commitment Without Waiting for Congress

Thom Hartmann: Healthcare: First They Came for the Banksters

Glenn Greenwald: White House as Helpless Victim on Health Care

William Astore: 'They’re Wasted': The Price of Pushing Our Troops Too Far

Amy Goodman: Copenhagen Climate Summit: The Empire’s New Clothes

Mark Weisbrot: Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side the United States Government Is on With Regard to the Military Coup in Honduras

Tuesday December 15, 2009

Michelle Chen: Shifting Climate, Moving People: Immigration and Climate Justice

George Monbiot: This Is Bigger Than Climate Change. It Is a Battle to Redefine Humanity

Doug Ireland: Honduran Gay Activist Walter Trochez Assassinated

Farrah Hassen: Obama's Cairo Detour

Bill McKibben: Copenhagen: Only the Numbers Count – and They Add up to Hell on Earth

Salt Lake Tribune Editorial: Stop Uranium Train

Derrick Z. Jackson: Houston, We Still Have a Problem

Linda McQuaig: Afghan Affair More Than 'Nitpicking'

Chris Genovali: Hopenhagen or Dopenhagen?

David Chater: No War, but No Peace

Martin Chulov: The Dust Bowl of Babylon

Monday December 14, 2009

Joan Chittister: Copenhagen: The Beginning of the End, and, If So, Whose?

Alison Hamm: A Global Day of Action

Danny Schechter: As War Bleeds Central Africa, Obama Denounces Rape But Washington Has Yet to Do Much About It

Kerry Kennedy: Chevron and Cultural Genocide in Ecuador

Madeleine Bunting: Protesters in Seattle Warned Us What Was Coming, but We Didn't Listen

John Nichols: Financial 'Reform' Preserves Too Big Banks, Too Much Speculation

Paul Krugman: Disaster and Denial

Glenn Greenwald: War and Public Opinion

Chris Hedges: Gravel’s Lament: Fighting Another Dumb War

Sunday December 13, 2009

Saleemul Huq: December 12th Was a Tipping Point

Christopher Brauchli: The Blackness of Blackwater

A.A. French: System Change Not Climate Change

César Chelala: Wall on Gaza Violates International Law

Randall Amster: Keep Your Eyes on the Peace Prize

Evan Knappenberger: The Betrayal of Generation Hope

Bill Quigley: Why ACORN Won

Saturday December 12, 2009

Robert Weissman: (A Little Bit of) Wall Street Reform

David Krieger: The Nobel War Lecture

Gareth Porter: US-Iran Talks: The Road to Diplomatic Failure

Sarah van Gelder: Cap & Dividend: A Clear Winner

Bill McKibben: It's Going to Be Beautiful

David Michael Green: America's Race to the Bottom

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: The Land Mines Obama Won't Touch

Ralph Nader: 'Just War' Is Just Words

Friday December 11, 2009

Viggo Mortensen: 'Great Man' Theory? History Is Driven by the Little Guy

Glenn Greenwald: The Strange Consensus on Obama's Nobel Address

Burt Cohen: Populism: Democrats Ignore at Our Peril

Donna Smith: Senate Tweaks Away Your Healthcare

Harvey Wasserman: Now WE Must Earn Obama's Nobel

Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: We’re Number One – In Financial Damage From Climate Change

Ruth Conniff: The Tortured Logic of Health Care's Abortion Foes

Sarah van Gelder: We Hold the Key to Copenhagen

Antonia Zerbisias: My Spirits of Christmas Past and Present

Paul Krugman: Bernanke’s Unfinished Mission

Jeremy Scahill: Contractors Watching Contractors

Johann Hari: Leaders of the Rich World Are Enacting a Giant Fraud

Thursday December 10, 2009

Dave Lindorff: Climate Change Conspiracy Theorists Are Today’s Flat Earthers

Ann Wright: Making an American 'Impenetrable Underground Wall' the Laughing Stock of the World—Leave It to the People of Gaza

Anna White: The Movement of Movements: From Resistance to Climate Justice

Tom Engelhardt: The Nine Surges of Obama’s War

Steven Freeland: It's Time to Talk About Human Rights in the Climate Debate

Norman Solomon: Mr. President, War Is Not Peace

Haroon Siddiqui: Why It Is Essential to Stand up to Bigots

Stephanie McMillan: Artists: Raise Your Weapons

Donna Smith: Health Reform Advances 2,300 Miles Away From DC

Robert C. Koehler: The School-to-Prison Pipeline

Wednesday December 9, 2009

Senator Bernie Sanders: Bernanke Must Go

Thomas Frank: The Real Chicago Way

Richard W. Behan: The Audacity of Hype

Adolph Reed: Liberals, I Do Despise

Robert Scheer: Dear Barack, Spare Me Your E-Mails

Karyn Strickler: Getting Some Green for Your Green: Giving to Reverse Climate Change

Dave Zirin: The People Speak: When Television Makes History

John LaForge: Nuclear Power: Too Expensive, Too Risky

Laura Carlsen: Honduran Elections a Parody of Democracy

Ellen Cantarow: Living by the Gate From Hell: A Portrait of Nonviolent Resistance in One Palestinian Village

Amy Goodman: Take Me to Your Climate Leader

Tuesday December 8, 2009

Peter Dreier: ACORN 'Not Guilty'

John Cavanagh and Sarita Gupta: Jobs Crisis Needs Drastic Action

Andy Worthington: Former Guantánamo Prosecutor Loses Job for Criticizing Military Commissions

Dean Baker: Blame Bernanke

Josh Silver and Tim Winter: Comcast-NBC U Merger Could Hurt Consumers

Richard Graves: ClimateGate Is Watergate Redux

Zach Carter: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

La Via Campesina: Why We Left Our Farms to Come to Copenhagen

Conn Hallinan: The AfPak Train Wreck

John Buell: Obama and His (Virtual) Virtuous War

Stephanie McMillan: Jared Diamond’s Ecocidal NYT Op-Ed

Monday December 7, 2009

Laura Flanders: Media Monsters Threaten Net Freedom

Randy Shaw: Activists Are Giving Obama a Pass

Dave Lindorff: The Shame and Folly of Obama’s War in Afghanistan

Caroline Arnold: Escalating Afghan War Mocks Hopes of Peace, Good Will

Jane Hamsher: Why Progressive Activists Are Giving Obama a Pass

John Nichols: The Peril of Positioning Dems as Managers, Not Leaders

Stephanie Pistello, Ben Evans, Jeff Biggers and Ben Sollee: Coal Is Deadly, Not Cheap

James Carroll: Living in Shock and Infamy, Years Later

James Hansen: Cap and Fade

Glenn Greenwald: A New Report Questions 'Suicides' at Guantanamo

Matt Price: Neither Canada Nor the World Can Afford Growth of Dirty Oil

Jeff Masters: The Manufactured Doubt Industry and the Hacked Email Controversy

Gopal Dayaneni and Mateo Nube: How to Break the Climate Stalemate Between the Global South and the North

Chris Hedges: Liberals Are Useless

Sunday December 6, 2009

Helen Thomas: This Sure Seems Like Vietnam

Bill McKibben: Why Copenhagen May Be a Disaster

Medea Benjamin: International Participation in December 31 Gaza Freedom March Tops 1,000 As Registration Closes

Nicholas D. Kristof: Cancer From the Kitchen?

Dr. Matthew G. Masiello: War No Longer an Option for Our Nation

Robert P. Pearson: Afghanistan: Why We Can't Win There

Jody Williams: U.S. Land Mine Policy is Shameful

Joss Garman: Climate Change Deniers Cost the Earth

Frank Rich: Obama’s Logic Is No Match for Afghanistan

Pierre Tristam: Soldiers, Kids Reunite, But Cameras Exploit

Eric Margolis: America's 'Surge' May Only Expand, Intensify and Prolong the Afghan Conflict

Saturday December 5, 2009

John Halle: Connecticut Senate Race: Run, Ralph, Run

Robert Barkley Jr: Dear President Obama: You've Pretty Much Blown It

Paul Rosenberg: ...Then As Farce

Andy Worthington: Four Men Leave Guantanamo; Two Face Ill-Defined Trials In Italy

Rachel Smolker: Taking Action Against Carbon Trade: What the Clouds Say

Jodie Evans: Thank the President for Waking the Sleeping Giant

Christopher Brauchli: The Death Penalty Revisited-Again

Michael Winship: The Afghan Ambush

David Michael Green: Present at the Destruction

Friday December 4, 2009

Climate Experts: An Open Letter to Congress From US Scientists on Climate Change and Recently Stolen Emails

Jim Naureckas: Not So Fast, Filibuster

Anne Johnstone: Hot Under the Collar at Cold Shoulder for Global Warming

Jim Goodman: Obama's Broken Promises to Family Farmers: Disappointing and Dangerous

Lucinda Marshall: Family Planning for the Planet a.k.a. Population Control–Disingenuous Patriarchy That Does Not Empower Women

Glenn Greenwald: America's Regression

Chima Williams: Shell Must Clean up Its Act in Nigeria

Deborah J. Vagins: Teach (and Treat) Our Children Well

Fran Korten: 7 Ways the Battle of Seattle Changed the World

Robert Naiman: We Need a Clean Vote Now on Afghanistan Escalation

Thursday December 3, 2009

Garry Wills: Afghanistan: The Betrayal

Tom Andrews: Nation-Building in Afghanistan Instead of at Home Will Produce New 'Misery Index'

Laura Flanders: All-Too-Familiar Line on Afghanistan

Donna Smith: History in a Number: Senate Amendment 2837

Ralph Nader: The Afghan Quagmire

Mary Bottari: It's NOT Such a Wonderful Life. We Need Real Bank Reform Now

Tom Engelhardt: Victory at Last!: Monty Python in Afghanistan

Gary Olson: Obama’s First Nine Months: Change We Can Believe In?

Charles Knight: Has Obama-Era Politics Debased the Meaning of Being 'Progressive'?

Anindita Sengupta: No Justice for Bhopal, 25 Years On

Nomi Prins: Ten Reasons Bernanke Should Hit the Road

Lindsay Beyerstein: Senate Prepares to Cast First Votes

Phyllis Bennis: President Obama's Afghanistan Election Speech

Wednesday December 2, 2009

Andy Worthington: The End of Secret Evidence?

Nicolas J S Davies: Obama with Blood on His Hands

Robert Scheer: Here We Go Again

Zach Carter: Time to Audit the Fed

Joseph Gerson: Obama’s Afghan 'Strategy' – Another American Tragedy

Philip Caper: Health Care Should Be Driven by Mission, Not Money

David S. Reynolds: Freedom’s Martyr

Stephen Zunes: A Tale of Two Human Rights Awardees

Andrew Sharpless: Ocean Acidification Will Cost Us Dearly

Johann Hari: Twelve Days to Save the World

Andrew Lam: Afghanistan Can’t Wash Away Vietnam

Barbara Ehrenreich: Not So Pretty in Pink: The Uproar Over New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines

Jim Hightower: Obama's War

John Nichols: Obama Has Spoken; Now, Let's Have a Debate

Amy Goodman: Canada’s Olympic Crackdown

Tuesday December 1, 2009

Josh Silver: Mega-Media Era Begins: GE-Vivendi Deal Clears Way for Comcast-NBC Merger

Peter Dreier: Waffling Democrats' Healthcare Hypocrisy

George Monbiot: Alberta's Tar Sands Make Canada a Climate Criminal

Bill McKibben: No-Drama Obama Needs to Feel the Heat

Malalai Joya: A Troop Surge Can Only Magnify the Crime Against Afghanistan

Janet Redman: Climate Scams Won’t Save the Planet

Karyn Strickler: The People Speak on Climate Change

Nancy Mancias: Creech Air Force Base: A Place of Disbelief, Confusion and Sadness

Nomi Prins: Worse Than Enron?

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: The American Home-Owning Dream on Life Support

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 and 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: Anatomy of an Afghan Culture of Corruption

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: News Behind Pay Walls is No Help to Democracy

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

Allan Lichtman: A National Peacemaker’s Day

Alfred W. McCoy: Welcome Home, War!

John Feffer and 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 and 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: Why Military Dreams Fail -- and Why It Doesn't Matter

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 and Sarah Lazare: Where Will They Get the Troops?

Chris Hedges: Afghanistan’s Sham Army

Sunday November 8, 2009

Falguni 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

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 LeonVest: 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: Stuck in Bush Mode in a Changed World

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: American Preeminence Is Disappearing Fifteen Years Early

Roberto 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 and 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

Tim 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? Or Are We All Just Getting a Lot More Gullible?

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 and 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?

Tim 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

Wednesday September 30, 2009

Eric Stoner: Obama Is No FDR, Much Less Gandhi

Mark Harris: Mad as Hell Doctors Signal New Era of Healthcare Activism

Jane Hamsher: Hey Rahm: Twist An Arm in Support of the Public Option, Not Against It

John Nichols: Public Option Rejected As Key Dems Vote 'No'

Glen Ford: Poll Shows Public Wants Medicare for All

Dave Zweifel: Banks Too Big to Fail? Break ’Em Up

Joan Walsh: Baucus Earns His Healthcare Industry Funding

John Prados: The Hayden Letter: Torture Secrecy Continues

Matthew Rothschild: The State Department Scolds Zelaya Again

Dave Zirin: Obama's Olympic Error

Mike Ferner: G-20 Protesters Faced New Weapons

Amy Goodman: Scanning the Horizon of Books and Libraries

Robert Scheer: Exorcising America’s Diplomatic Demons

Pat LaMarche: Fantasies of Representation from Maine to Montana

John Feffer: Afghanistan: NATO's Graveyard?

Tuesday September 29, 2009

Adam Howard: Democrats Don't Deliver Healthcare Reform... Again

Juan Cole: Is the Media Exaggerating the Iranian Nuke Threat?

Jenny Price: The Cost of America's Gun Addiction

Tony Norman: The G-20: A Guest with an Iron Fist

Helena Cobban: Afghanistan: Obama's Vietnam?

Laura Flanders: All Pledge and No Punch in Pittsburgh

Andy Worthington: A Teenage Refugee Freed From Guantánamo And Released In Ireland

Connie Schultz: With ID Comes Online Civility

Dean Baker: Progressives and the Budget Deficit

Robert Reich: The Public Option Lives On

Derrick Z. Jackson: A Child Uprising on Education

Rose Ann DeMoro and Michael Moore: Why the Current Bills Don't Solve Our Health Care Crisis

George Monbiot: It's Not Sex, It's Money

Monday September 28, 2009

Ralph Nader: Time for Citizens to Convene

Matthew Rothschild: Ralph Nader Throws His Hope in with Enlightened Billionaires

Dean Baker: The Public Option Is Nothing To Fear

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity: Intelligence Veterans Back Torture Probe

Glenn Greenwald: A Glossary of Terms in Foreign Affairs

Johann Hari: Can One Woman Save Africa?

Jay Stevens: Killing the Wolf at the Door

Paul Krugman: Cassandras of Climate

Brendan Smith: Green Workers Need a Voice in the Climate Change Debate

Neve Gordon: On Palestinian Civil Disobedience

Arundhati Roy: What Have We Done to Democracy?

Chris Hedges: The War on Language

Sunday September 27, 2009

Linda McQuaig: U.S. Debate on Health Care is a Warning to Canadians

Bill Quigley: Street Report from the G20

Peter Dreier: First They Came For ACORN

Harvey Wasserman: Obama's LBJ Moment

Rick Wilson: Paranoids are Always With Us

Mark Weisbrot: The G20 Fantasy

Frank Rich: Afghanistan: Obama at the Precipice

Saturday September 26, 2009

Robert Jensen: Is Obama a Socialist? Reflection on the Degradation of Politics and the Ecosystem

Michael Moore: 'Capitalism' as Comedy and Tragedy Now Playing in NY and L.A.

Holly Sklar: Medicare for All: Yes We Can

Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos: Congress Went After ACORN. Big Business Must Be Next!

Dori Digenti: An Open Letter to John Mackey and the Board of Whole Foods Market

Christopher Brauchli: Life Insurance-Bankers' New Best Friend

Caroline Arnold: Are Republicans Autistic?

Dave Lindorff: The Best Health ‘Reform’ Money Can Buy

Friday September 25, 2009

Donna Smith: Republican Senator: No Maternity Benefits Needed

Roberto Lovato: Dobbs Plays the Victim, as Movement Demanding CNN Dump Him Grows

Robert Naiman: McChrystal's 'Ground Truth': Need Half a Million Boots on the Ground

Bill Maher: New Rule: If America Can't Get it Together, We Lose the Bald Eagle

Chris Queally: Same-Sex Unions Will Enhance the Traditions of Marriage

Susie Shutts: Costa Rica Creates Department of Peace

Michelle Frey: G20 Activists: Why Am I Here Today?

Harvey Wasserman: Tom Friedman's Idiocy Atomique

Jim Goodman: Why Are Farmers Afraid of Michael Pollan?

Glenn Greenwald: Victory on Preventive Detention Law: In Context

Laura Flanders: GOP Nuts Throw ACORN From a Glass House

Tom Engelhardt: How to Trap a President in a Losing War

Naomi Klein interviews Michael Moore: America's Teacher

Thursday September 24, 2009

Frida Berrigan: Obama at the UN: Another Step on the Long Road to Nuclear Disarmament

Jeremy Scahill: Where is the Defund Blackwater Act?

Ali Abunimah: Obama's Peace Effort Has Failed but Our Struggle Continues

Paula Crossfield: Obama’s Chief Agricultural Negotiator Nominee a Pesticide Pusher

Bruce Dixon: Why the Public Option is Doomed To Fail, and What Can Be Done About It

Tom Andrews: Classified McChrystal Report: 500,000 Troops Will Be Required Over Five Years in Afghanistan

Mobilization for Climate Justice: Open Letter to the Grassroots: Help Organize for Urgent Action on Climate Change

Cenk Uygur: Desperately Seeking Snowe

John Atlas: Don't Let a Few Bad Seeds Ruin ACORN's Image

Maryanne Schiffman: The Colombianization of California's Public Education

David Michael Green: Dumping Dubya: Why The Regressive Right Desperately Wants To Erase The Bush Presidency

Robert C. Koehler: Mission of Ignorance

John Nichols: Radical Economic Restructuring Needed, But Not Just Any Version Will Do

Joseph Cirincione: Toward a Nuclear-Free Future

Bill McKibben: Obama on Climate: Is He Even Trying?

George Lakoff: Ending Minority Rule in California: One Sentence Can Do It

Jeff Cohen: The Mystique of 'Free-Market Guy' Obama

Wednesday September 23, 2009

Richard Falk: The Goldstone Report and the Battle for Legitimacy

Thomas Frank: Liberals and Civility: Why Democrats Should Welcome a Rough Debate

Sarita Gupta: One Year After the Bank Bailout, We Still Need a People’s Economic Recovery

John Nichols: Obama At the UN: Think of Me as FDR, Not Bush

Karen Dolan: Let’s Get America’s Health Out of the ER

Constance Okollet: Climate Change is Killing Our People

Michael T. Klare: The Era of Xtreme Energy: Life After the Age of Oil

Ralph Nader: A Novel Idea

Akiva Eldar: How Israel Silenced its Gaza War Protesters

Robert S. Eshelman: Police Harassment Greets G-20 Protesters

Mark Weisbrot: Spoiling Manuel Zelaya's Homecoming

Jim Hightower: 'Local' Goes Loco

Amy Goodman: President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action

Robert Scheer: Saving the Obama Revolution

Johann Hari: Collapse or Survive: The Stark Choice Facing Our Species

Tuesday September 22, 2009

Paula Crossfield: Global Harvest Initiative Seeks Not to Feed People, But to Bolster Big Ag Profits

Titus Peachey: Battle Zone's Lethal Harvest

Verlyn Klinkenborg: Why I Still Oppose Genetically Modified Crops

Steven Hill: Obama The Impotent

Richard Hopson & John Eller: ACORN Moves Forward

New York Times Editorial: The Rights of Corporations

Russell Mokhiber: Who’s the Pimp?

Greg Grandin: Zelaya's Midnight Ride

Benjamin Dangl: The Road to Zelaya’s Return: Money, Guns and Social Movements in Honduras

Danny Schechter: Can Obama Help Forge A Global Consensus for Deep Economic Change?

Stephen Zunes: Weapons of Mass Democracy

Howard Friel: Throwing Darts for a Mission in Afghanistan

Monday September 21, 2009

Laura Carlsen: Zelaya's Return to Tegucigalpa Brings Coup Closer to its End

Matthew Rothschild: Obama Leaves Bush-Cheney Repressive Apparatus Standing

Glenn Greenwald: Our War-Loving Foreign Policy Community Hasn't Gone Anywhere

Dean Baker: Break Up America's Banks

Tim Karr: FCC Chief 'Boldly' Commits to Net Neutrality

Marc J. Hetherington & Jonathan D. Weiler: Health Care, Race and Political Polarization

Andy Worthington: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Secure Mohammed Jawad’s Release From Guantánamo

James Lovelock: Drastic Climate Therapy Could Make Things Worse

John Nichols: What Obama Should've Said on the Talk Shows

Paul Krugman: Reform or Bust

Randall Amster: Does Anyone in the Healthcare Debate Really Care About Health?

Ray McGovern: CIA Torturers Running Scared

Michael Winship: Let’s Make a Deal: Beltway Edition

Ann Jones: Is the Afghan Army a Figment of Washington's Imagination?

Chris Hedges: Globalization Goes Bankrupt

Sunday September 20, 2009

Dan Froomkin: Who Will Harness the Rage?

Phil Bloomer: No Green Shoots for Poor Countries

Frank Rich: Even Glenn Beck Is Right Twice a Day

Corporate Crime Reporter: Cuneo Gilbert Out to Disinfect FINRA with Some Sunlight

Haroon Siddiqui: Shining a Light on Israeli Aggression in Gaza

Eric Margolis: America Has Been Here Before

Saturday September 19, 2009

Elizabeth DiNovella: 'Personhood' Legislation Chips Away at Women’s Rights

Johann Hari: We Must Stop the 'Vulture Funds' that Feed on the World's Poor

P.M. Carpenter: The Phantom of a Grassroots Revolt, and the Media's Responsibility

Bryan Farrell: Enough Already with WWII Film Violence

Derrick Z. Jackson: Soda Tax: It’s the Real Thing

Christopher Brauchli: The Internet and the Ignorant

Robert Fisk: Everyone Seems to Be Agreeing with Bin Laden These Days

Friday September 18, 2009

Vandana Shiva: The Injustice of Carbon Offsets

Lynn Byczynski: Protecting Local Farms

Joe Conason: In Defense of ACORN

Mark Weisbrot: Progressives Must Push

Muntazer al-Zaidi: Why I Threw the Shoe

Ron Smith: The Awful Prospect of Turning War Over to Machines

David Sirota: Selective Deficit Disorder

David Michael Green: Can America Be Salvaged?

Rob Smart: From Fast Food Nation to Pro Food Ventures

Robert Naiman: A Winnable Fight: No More US Troops to Afghanistan

Laura Flanders: When Will Healthcare Get its Norma Rae?

Thursday September 17, 2009

Tom Engelhardt: Is America Hooked on War?

Glenn Greenwald: The Distracting Benefits of ACORN Hysteria

David Korten: Who Really Crashed the Economy?

John Buell: Reflections on Air Travel, Globalization, and 'Another World'

Matthew Rothschild: Romell Broom and the Barbarism of the Death Penalty

Mitchell Bard: The Baucus Debacle: So Democrats Can Win an Election But Can They Govern?

Laura Flanders: What the Government and Big Banks Have Failed to Learn

Ira Chernus: Obama's Israel-Palestine Gamble

Jeremy Scahill: Why is Obama Still Using Blackwater?

Robert C. Koehler: The Tossed Shoe Award

Andy Worthington: Guantánamo Envoy: US Should Have Taken Cleared Prisoners; Some Should Never Have Been Held

Mike Gaworecki: Offsets Are a CROC

Nada Elia: Nothing to Lose But Apartheid

Wednesday September 16, 2009

Christopher Cooper: Once Again The Animals Were Conscious of A Vague Uneasiness

Donna Smith: Patients Should Assign the Risk Where It Belongs

Maria Margaronis: Copenhagen in Crisis: How Much Does it Matter?

Tim Karr: What Beck, Dobbs and Limbaugh Are Really Afraid Of

Steven Hill: America's Failed Model for the World

Jeremy Scahill: Jamie Rubin, Cruise Missile Liberal, Calls for Hypnotizing Americans About Afghan War

Robert Dreyfuss: 'Safe Haven Myth' Bites the Dust

Ruth Conniff: Health Care Reform on the Homestretch

Pat LaMarche: Why Profit Can't Trump Security

Rajesh Makwana: G20 on Track to Fail the World’s Poor

Andy Kroll: Obama vs. the Lobbyists: A Scorecard for the Future of American Politics

Wendell Potter: How Corporate PR Works to Kill Healthcare Reform

Ray McGovern: Torture: the Fault is Not in Our Stars

Robert Scheer: Obama’s Presidency Isn’t Too Big to Fail

Linda Milazzo: Protest of War Games Prompts Arrests

Amy Goodman: Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

Tuesday September 15, 2009

John Nichols: Sarkozy Wants G-20 to Reject 'Cult of the Market'

Andy Worthington: Is Bagram Obama’s New Secret Prison?

Derrick Z. Jackson: The Polarization Card

Yael Borofsky: Clean Energy Centers Growing Worldwide, Not in US

John Nichols: Sanders’ Call for Afghanistan Exit Strategy Draws Cheers

Glenn Greenwald: Who Are the Undeserving 'Others'?

Joseph Stiglitz: For All Obama's Talk of Overhaul, the US Has Failed to Wind in Wall Street

Jeremy Scahill: Cheney and Rumsfeld's 'Close Friend' Throws Out Suit Against Alleged Abu Ghraib Torturers

Nomi Prins: Obama Banking Too Much On Banks

Eugene Lang and Philip DeMont: An Inconvenient Truth for the GOP: Canada's System is Better

Jeff Biggers: Coal Slurry Smiles: NY Times Nails Clean Water Act Crimes and Punishment

Tom Gallagher: Three Things About Obama's Health Care Speech

Jay Stevens: Feeling the Heat

Monday September 14, 2009

Lucinda Marshall: Riding The Economic Roller-Coaster: The Big Plunge Is Just Up Ahead

Harvey Wasserman: Will the Corporate Supremes Now Dance on Democracy's Corpse?

Danny Schechter: Markets 'Not Out of the Woods Yet'

Chip Ward: Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West

Stephen Mihm: Why Capitalism Fails

Bud Kennedy: A Retired General Wants to Know What's Wrong with Our Country

Gary Olson: Afghanistan: 'Necessary' War for Empire

Robert Jensen: Can Journalism Schools Be Relevant in a World on the Brink?

James Carroll: The Cloud of War

Tom Hayden: Afghan War Could Cost Obama Key Supporters

Robert Kuttner: A Virtuous Tax

Chris Hedges: Stop Begging Obama to Be Obama and Get Mad

Sunday September 13, 2009

John Gray: Walking on Lava: Apocalypse and Uncivilization

Michael Lerner: Van Jones's Resignation: Bad for the Country and Bad for Obama

Seth Wessler: Foreclosure Crisis Built on Racial Injustice

Philippe Sands: Torture and The Complicit General

Christopher Brauchli: Guarding the Classroom

Johann Hari: Our Heat is Turning the Arctic into an Alien Landscape

Roy Ulrich: What It Will Take to Win the Healthcare Debate

Katrina vanden Heuvel & Greg Kaufman: Resisting Foreclosures

Frank Rich: Obama’s Squandered Summer

Robert Freeman: Bush’s Economic Performance: A Final Tally

Saturday September 12, 2009

Daniel Ellsberg: American Planning for a Hundred Holocausts

Glenn Greenwald: Is the Right's Attack on Obama's Legitimacy New or Unprecedented?

Dave Lindorff: In Praise of Joe Wilson

Laura Carlsen: The Great Swine Flu Cover-Up

Mark Morford: Spank Me, Then Let's Do Lunch

Helena Cobban: NGO Reports on Gaza War Belie Israeli Claims

Elizabeth DiNovella: Prosecute Detainee Abuse After 9/11

Ralph Nader: Rolling the Dice Again

Tim Costello, Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: AFL-CIO Convention: Solidarity with Van Jones?

Michael Winship: Marine's Photo Reminds Us of War that Will Not End

Scott Horton: Spanish Investigators Push Justice Department On Torture Role; How Will Holder Answer?

Naomi Klein: Obama's Big Silence: The Race Question

Jeff Biggers: EPA Turns the Lights on Mountaintop Removal

David Sirota: UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As She Begins Backing Off Public Option

Friday September 11, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: How One Becomes 'Crazy' in Washington Culture

John Nichols: Afghanistan and the Wages of Empire

Maude Barlow & Meera Karunananthan: We Must All Be Stewards of Water

Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. & Bill McKibben: People, Let's Get Our Carbon Down

Naomi Klein: The Tel Aviv Party Party Stops Here

David Sirota: We’ve Seen This Trigger Before

Conn Hallinan: Afghanistan: What Are These People Thinking?

Tom Engelhardt: Why I Was So Wrong on September 11th

Andy Worthington: Remember 9/11, Remember Guantánamo

Tom Gallagher: A Fitting Tribute to September 11th Victims

Rebecca Solnit: How 9/11 Should Be Remembered

Thursday September 10, 2009

Ramzy Baroud: A Fresh Approach in Afghanistan: An End to War?

Michelle Mustonen: LGBT Activists Should Join Progressive Fights

Erica Williams: Where Are the Young Voices on Health Care?

Chris Bowers: If You Think Corporations Run The Government Now…

Colin Beavan: Stunt or No Stunt? Asking the Wrong Question of 'No Impact Man'

Matthew Rothschild: Obama Tepid on Public Option

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama Shows (Some) Progressive Spine

David Sirota: Reviewing President Rahm Emanuel's Health Care Speech

Mark Weisbrot: Michael Moore's Smash and Grab

Paul Hill: When We Allow Fear to Overcome Reason

Dave Lindorff: Censorship American-Style: Hide the US War Dead from the American People

Justin Goodman: Animal Dissection: Cutting Kids’ Heartstrings

Danny Schechter: Whose Economic Recovery?

Peter Dreier: 'Got Out and Make Me Do It'

Deena Guzder: Why Not to Buy a New Computer for College

Bob Ward: People Power is Crucial to Making Copenhagen a Success

Michael Pollan: Big Food vs. Big Insurance

Wednesday September 9, 2009

Ronnie Cummins: Open Letter to Whole Foods Market from the Organic Consumers Association

Robert Weissman: Tightening the Corporate Grip: The Stakes at the Supreme Court

Maureen Dowd: Less Spocky, More Rocky

Thom Hartmann: Medicare Part E: Everybody

Stili Klikizos: A Teacher’s View of How to Stop an H1N1 Pandemic

Thomas Frank: The Red Scare Returns

Robert Dreyfuss: Obama Readies Afghan Escalation

Mark Morford: America: Arms Dealer to the Stars!

Glenn Greenwald: The Difference Between 'Legal' and 'Illegal'

Robert Reich: Why a 'Trigger' for the Public Option is Nonsense

Jane Hamsher: We Want the Public Option

Robert Scheer: A 9/11 Reality Check

Amy Goodman: Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck

Jim Hightower: The Reality of Economic Recovery

Tuesday September 8, 2009

Jeremy Scahill: Sarah Palin, the Neocons and Howard Dean Love the War in Afghanistan

Ray McGovern: Help for Obama's Speech to Congress

Tom Engelhardt: Afghanistan by the Numbers: Measuring a War Gone to Hell

Sally Kohn: Death Bonds: Wall Street Teams Up With Insurance Companies to Kill People, Reap Profits

Dean Baker: What Exactly Did the Fed Do with $2 Trillion?

Glenn Greenwald: Meet the Press's Idea of a 'Debate'

David Sirota: Glenn Beck, Obama's White House, and the Progressive Movement

Naomi Wolf: What Happened to Mohamed al-Hanashi?

Donna Smith: Private Insurance Already Pulls Trigger on Patients, Docs

Bill Moyers: Mr. President, It's Time to Fight

Randall Amster: Disorder on the Border: Trashing the Law in the Name of Immigration Deterrence

Jeff Leys: Healthcare vs. Warfare: The Future Costs of the Afghanistan War

Kenneth Libby: Gates, Viacom, and Obama: Educational Programming That Matters

Norman Solomon: Men with Guns, in Kabul and Washington

Monday September 7, 2009

John Nichols: Van Jones Exit Isn't Right-Wing Win, It's an Obama Surrender

Christopher Brauchli: Archbishop Chaput- Catholicism Kaput

Jesse Hagopian: Hammer and Sickle High: 'Obamunism' Indoctrinates the Schools

Tom Gallagher: Labor Day 2009 - Change and Opportunity

Chris Hedges: Food Is Power and the Powerful Are Poisoning Us

Sarah van Gelder: Stand With Van Jones, A Real Patriot

Jim Goodman: Why Honor Organized Labor?

Andrea Buffa: Labor Unions’ Green Efforts Are Cause For Celebration This Labor Day

Robert Shetterly: Van Jones is Dead. Long Live Van Jones!

Sunday September 6, 2009

Carolina S. Ruiz-Austria: ICPD + 15: Debating Health Care When It’s No Longer 'Business as Usual'

Matthew Rothschild: Unhappy Labor Day

Eugene Robinson: From ‘Do No Harm’ to Torture

Harvey Wasserman: Obama Has Fed His Green Jones to King CONG

Howard Friel: The Congress and Afghanistan: Rubber-Stamping Yet Another War?

Caroline Arnold: People Vs Profits in Health Care Debate

Derrick Jensen: Side With the Living

Haroon Siddiqui: Toronto Terror Conviction and the War on Terror in Afghanistan

Saturday September 5, 2009

Matt Taibbi: How Washington is Screwing Up Health Care Reform – and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It

David Michael Green: After Obama

George Hunsinger: US Torture Programs: Obama's Mixed Progress

Megan Tady: Will ‘Astroturf’ Groups Block Net Neutrality Reform?

Ralph Nader: Words Matter

John de Graaf: No Vacation Nation

Michael Winship: Coming Soon to a Democracy Near You...

Friday September 4, 2009

David Sirota: Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party With a Movement

John Nichols: Give States an Option to Lead on Single-Payer

Tom Hayden: Zelaya Speaks

Immanuel Wallerstein: The Middle East Firestorm Ahead

Noam Chomsky: Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours

Walden Bello: The Virtues of Deglobalization

Christopher Cooper: Just A Boy And His Dog

Kate Sheppard: The US Freezes on Climate Change

Mark Weisbrot: IMF: Stop Funding Honduras

William Astore: American Militarism on Steroids

Alice Waters: A Healthy Constitution: Nutrition, Our Kids, and Democracy

Thursday September 3, 2009

FAIR: Erasing Katrina: Four Years on, Media Mostly Neglect an Ongoing Disaster

Glenn Greenwald: The Looming Political War Over Afghanistan

Bruce Dixon: Who's Blocking Health Care Reform Now? Blue Dogs? Senate Dems? House Progressives? Or the White House Itself?

Jane Hamsher: Rahm Pushing Triggers Through Olympia Snowe - The Question: Why?

Suzanne Ito: Willingham Case Highlights Fears of Executing Innocent People

Dave Zirin: Michael Steele: Meet Amanda Duzak

Matthew Rothschild: The Holocaust and Palestine

AC Grayling: Living with Cheney's Poisonous Legacy

Peter Dreier: What If Rush Limbaugh's House Was on Fire?

Robert C. Koehler: Winners Lose

Robert Naiman: Recruit a Republican Against the War in Afghanistan

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Big Bucks for Bailout Barons

Sarah Anderson: Can Europe Pop the U.S. CEO Pay Bubble?

Donna Smith: All Politics is Local: What Healthcare Reformers Forgot

Andy Worthington: Who Are The Two Syrians Released From Guantánamo To Portugal?

Wednesday September 2, 2009

Jeremy Scahill: Why Doesn't Hillary Clinton Fire Blackwater?

Ramzy Baroud: US Audacity of Hope Falters: Settlement Freeze No Longer Required

Sarah Anderson: CEO Pay Still Outrageous

Dave Lindorff: Obama's Narrowing Window of Opportunity

Paul DeMarco: Focus on Justice Makes Health Solution Obvious

Ray McGovern: Afghanistan for Dummies

Greg Jones: Even with Healthcare Coverage, My Sister Died for Being Poor

David Sirota: Primary Threats Pushing Dems to Support Public Option

Jeff Biggers: Verizon Wireless Dumped Glenn Beck: Will It Dump Bizarre Big Coal Sponsorship?

Sydney Levy: Israeli Peace Activist Called ‘Cancerous Traitor’ for Asking Tough Questions

Rev. Jim Rigby: Why Is Universal Health Care ‘Un-American’?

John Nichols: 'We Must Love One Another or Die'

Dan Kennedy: Obama Losing the Left?

Robert Scheer: Obama's Meaningless War

Amy Goodman: New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks

Jim Hightower: Holding Wall Street Bankers Accountable

David Swanson: Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

Tuesday September 1, 2009

Wendell Potter: Rally Against Wall Street's Health Care Takeover

Scott Horton: American Diplomats Advocated 'Nuremberg Defense'

Glenn Greenwald: Beltway Culture, Checks on Journalists and Secrecy Obligations

Michelle Chen: Good Gangs

Ray Ring: The New Third World

Diane Farsetta: Water: The Newest Wave of Corporate 'Social Responsibility'

Ashley Holly: A Canadian in Honduras: Eyewitness to the Coup Resistance

Aziza Ahmed: The Global 'War on Terror' and Muslim Women

Margaret Krome: For Farmers, Climate Change More Than Theoretical

George Monbiot: We're Pumping Out CO2 to the Point of No Return. It's Time to Alter Course

Seth Wessler: Inequality Has Rigged Our Economy and It Is Time to Change the Rules

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Feingold Gets Afghanistan Right

Derrick Z. Jackson: Cheney’s Dark Side - and Ours

Jeremy Scahill: Seven Points About Dick Cheney and Torture

Ralph Nader: The Drive for Single Payer

Norman Solomon: A Little Girl in Kabul

Monday August 31, 2009

Dean Baker: Reverse Bank Robbery

Gary Younge: Obama Is Losing the Health Debate – But He Can Still Mobilize and Win

Rachel Godfrey Wood: Carbon Controversies in Costa Rica

Jeremy Scahill: We Need a Special Prosecutor for Blackwater and Other CIA 'Contractors'

Brooke Jarvis: Health Care Déjà Vu

Paul Krugman: Missing Richard Nixon

Olga Bonfiglio: Water, Water—Not Everywhere

Chris Hedges: Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire

Nick Turse: Apologies, Anger, and Apathy

Sunday August 30, 2009

Tom Engelhardt: The Great Exception: If We Do It, It Doesn't Count

Leonard Pitts: Luster is Off Obama's `High Moral Ground'

Danny Schechter: Mourning with the Kennedys

Peter Dreier and Marshall Ganz: We Have the Hope. Now Where's the Audacity?

Eric Margolis: Lockerbie Part of a Bigger Story

Pierre Tristam: CIA Fails Mission to Detect Danger

Saturday August 29, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: The Washington Post's Cheney-ite Defense of Torture

Anna Manzo: America, Smitten with Financial Sector, Must Build True Wealth

Joyce Marcel: The Nineteenth Amendment

Michael Winship: Even Camelot Needed Health Care

Nathalie des Rosiers: No Trademark on Free Speech

Norman Ferris: A Modest Proposal, from a Concerned Citizen

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR): Cheney's 'Fodder'

Josh Harkinson: ExxonMobil: 'Green Company of the Year?'

Friday August 28, 2009

James Ridgeway: The Secret History of Hurricane Katrina

Jeremy Scahill: Flushing Blackwater

David Sirota: The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

Mary Kelly: Restoring Coastal Barriers Vital for Region

Greg Palast: Katrina, Four Years Later: Expert Fired Who Warned Levees Would Burst

Dave Lindorff: Obama's War: Afghanistan Is Spelled V-I-E-T-N-A-M

Robert Naiman: State Department Recommends Aid Cutoff to Honduras

Geoff Olson: Western Attitudes, Toxins Stunting African Growth

Johann Hari: This Is an Idiot's Version of Her Masterpiece

Ryan Harvey and Sergio España: Many Different Enemies: Afghan Women Fight for Their Country

Tom Engelhardt: G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero: The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism

Glenn Greenwald: Even The New Republic Now Calls for a Party Purge of Corporate-Owned 'Centrists'

Thursday August 27, 2009

Jim Hightower: Raising Astroturf

Mark Weisbrot: We Don't Want to Rule the World

Donna Smith: Liar, Liar … Well, Healthcare Pants on Fire

Laura Carlsen: CIP Americas Program Criticizes State Department Report on Human Rights Under the Merida Initiative

Jeff Biggers: Outed! Will Obama Meet the Real FACES of Coal or Exposed Big Coal Front?

Betsy Hartmann: Anything Goes: The Dangers of Linking Climate Change to National Security

David Sirota: It's Not a 'Free Market' System When Taxpayers Are Financing the Profits

Danny Schechter: Facts, and Understanding, Are Often in Conflict: Living in a Culture of Delusion Leads to Denial, Ignorance and Worse

Ray McGovern: Closing In on the Torturers

Caroline Arnold: Is It Better to Be Free in Hell or Pay Taxes in Heaven?

Ira Chernus: 'Socialized Medicine' and Hamas: Big Lies Thrive

Michael Parenti: Italian American Identity: To Be or Not To Be

Tiffiniy Cheng: Public Discourse in Peril - Science to the Rescue

Wednesday August 26, 2009

Amy Goodman: Who Is Obama Playing Ball With?

Frida Berrigan: Afghanistan: War Trumps Elections

Rose Ann DeMoro: A Bailout for the US Healthcare Industry

Peter Beaumont: The CIA's Willing Torturers

Robert C. Koehler: The Scapegoat's Apology

Norman Solomon: The Afghanistan Gap: Press vs. Public

Laura Flanders: Right-Wing Mad Scientist and His Mindless Murdering Drones

Robert Scheer: Remembering the Real Deal

Sandy Heierbacher: Upgrading the Way We Do Politics

Jill Richardson: Food's Role in the Health Care Crisis

Jack Newfield: The Senate's Fighting Liberal

Tuesday August 25, 2009

FAIR: Where Is the Afghanistan Debate?

Jeff Biggers: Urgent 911 to EPA, OSM: Fearless Tree-Sit in Coal Blasting Area Calls Out WV DEP Scandal and Failed Regulations

Laura Raymond and Bill Quigley: Haiti Hurricane Devastation Remains One Year Later

Alistair Alexander: Putting People Before Profit

John Nichols: Holder -- and Obama -- Must Focus on Torture Accountability

Mark H. Greenberg: It’s Time for a Better Poverty Measure

Derrick Z. Jackson: Bottled-Water Scam Finally Feels Squeeze

Peter Dreier: Turn Up the Heat on the Insurance Industry

Evaggelos Vallianatos: A Quota of Daily Pollution

Robert Naiman: Coup Protestor Gang-Raped by Honduran Police

Brian Donohue: The Corporate Person Without a Country: AIG Spits in America's Eye, Again

Howard Friel: On Senator Grassley's 'Moderation'

Mary Dejevsky: A Mean Streak in the US Mainstream

Monday August 24, 2009

Ralph Nader: Between the Rhetoric and the Reality

Farrah Hassen: Elections Unlikely Barometer for Change in Afghanistan

Sophia Murphy: Do We Need Industrial Agriculture to Feed the World?

Thom Hartmann: Want to Stimulate the Economy? Lower the Retirement Age to 55 Now!

Glenn Greenwald: Bush Critics: Still Evil, Crazy Extremists

Frank Lipman: True Health Care Reform: 10 Missing Pieces

Rob Smart: Is Whole Foods Losing Its Sustainable Luster?

Charles Ferndale: The Fog of War in Afghanistan

Paul Krugman: All the President’s Zombies

Chris Hedges: This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery

David Michael Green: My Country, Misery

Robert Freeman: The Debilitating Myth of the 'Free Market' Alternative

Sunday August 23, 2009

T.R. Reid: Socialized Medicine? Not Quite

Eric Margolis: Quittin' Time in Afghanistan

Lucinda Marshall: From Afghanistan To The DRC–How U.S. Imperialism Endangers The Lives Of Women

Bill Bigelow: The Big One: Teaching about Climate Change

Franklin Kalinowski: A Nation of Addicts

Bernard Keenan: Secret Prisons and Sovereignty

Ann Wright: Could US Officials Please Treat a Nobel Peace Laureate with Respect?

Frank Rich: The Guns of August

Lisa Pease: Lockerbie Doubts

Saturday August 22, 2009

Christopher Brauchli: "Wheaties Fuel"-Successor to Champions

Anthony DiMaggio: War of the Words: How Town Hall Crashers are Transforming Public Opinion

David Sirota: Freedom From Fear—and the Second Amendment

Anna Husarska: 'Humvees in a China Shop' No Help in Afghanistan

Robert Reich: Why the Gang of Six Is Deciding Health Care for Three Hundred Million of Us

Juan Cole: Obama's Fate as Much in the Balance as Afghan Presidential Candidates

Annie Shattuck and Zoe Brent: Calling Out Whole Foods: Whole Foods Quietly Cutting Employee Free Choice

Kavita Ramdas: Elections Alone Won’t Help Afghan Women

Mary Bottari: Bank Looting Bonuses Reported--Will the SEC Awake from Its Slumber?

Wendell Potter: Warning: Co-op Kool Aid Is Bad for Your Health

Friday August 21, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Has Obama Lost the Trust of Progressives, as Krugman Says?

Nezua Limon: The Drastic Illusion of Division

Robert Naiman: By How Many Days Can We Shorten This War?

Zach Carter: Depression-Era Inequality, Only Worse

David Sirota: Ban Guns From Public Political Events

Paul Krugman: Obama’s Trust Problem

Ann Wright: With Its Record of Rape, Don’t Send the US Military to the Congo to Give 'Sensitivity' Training to the Congolese Military!

Michelle Chen: The US, Canada and Tar Sands: Pollution Without Borders

Heraldo Muñoz: Pinochet's Enablers in US, Brazil

Mark Weisbrot: Obama's Deafening Silence on Honduras

Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg: End the State of Emergency!

Michael Winship: Tom DeLay and the Woodstock Nation

Faris Giacaman: Can We Talk? The Middle East 'Peace Industry'

John Atlas: Rove vs. ACORN

Ray McGovern: Unwritten Death Contract Awarded to Blackwater

Jennifer Epps: “If Stephen Hawking Lived in England” and Other Great Points the Left Doesn’t Want You to Know

Thursday August 20, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Fringe Leftist Losers: Wrong Even When They're Right

Jonathan Glancey: Our Throw-Away Culture Could Learn Much From Lego

Neve Gordon: Boycott Israel

Jim Hightower: Taking Us for a Ride on Health Care

Kevin Grandia: US Coal Industry Won't Give up Easily on Using Atmosphere as a Dumping Ground

Bob Hepburn: Why I'd Rather Be Sick in Canada Than in the US

Gideon Levy: A Tough Country

Robert C. Hinkley: Changing the Corporation

Danny Schechter: Searching for the Depression—And Finding It!

Robert C. Koehler: Guns That Talk

Joy-Ann Reid: Battered President Syndrome

Daniel Denvir: Why Bad Healthcare Policy Makes for Bad Politics, Too

Ira Chernus: Israel Not As Powerful As You May Think

George Lakoff: The PolicySpeak Disaster for Health Care

Wednesday August 19, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Why the Health Care Debate Is So Important Regardless of One's View of the "Public Option"

Michael Hureaux Perez: Eshu’s Blues: Obama and Duncan’s “Race to the Top”

Adam LeBor: Freedom Is Now Flowing From West to East

Sandy LeonVest: As Goes California: Halliburton Could Decide Who Gets Health Coverage

Sara Franklin: Agriculture and the Healthcare Debate: Inextricably Linked

Robert Kuttner: Rage the Left Should Use

Joyce Marcel: Like Arguing With a Table

Ann Jones: Ballots and Bullets for Afghanistan

Pepe Escobar: The Afghan Pipe Dream

Amy Goodman: Troy Davis and the Meaning of ‘Actual Innocence’

Jeff Biggers: Take This Mine and Shove It: India Fights Coal, as Tribe Fights Mountaintop Removal

Howard Friel: Guns at Political Events: A Chilling Effect on the First Amendment

Johann Hari: Republicans, Religion and the Triumph of Unreason

Tuesday August 18, 2009

Donna Smith: Healthcare Reform Fraud: A Repugnant Act of Faith

William Greider: Squandered Opportunity

Malalai Joya: Why Afghans Have No Hope in This Week's Vote

Robert C. Hinkley: The Best Interests of the Corporation

Wendell Potter: Is Obama Planning to Sign Congress' Health Care Reform Bill With Lipstick?

T. Christian Miller: Sometimes It’s Not Your War, But You Sacrifice Anyway

George Monbiot and Paul Kingsnorth: Is There Any Point in Fighting to Stave off Industrial Apocalypse?

Bob Herbert: This Is Reform?

Glenn Greenwald: The Lanny Davis Disease and America's Health Care Debate

Timothy LaSalle: Organic Agriculture Beats Biotech at Its Own Game

Ramzi Kysia: Nonviolent Direct Action, Solidarity and Struggle

Kerry Trueman: Re-Examining the Roots of A Movement: Earth Days

Slavoj Zizek: Quiet Slicing of the West Bank Makes Abstract Prayers for Peace Obscene

John Buell: Weight of Government’s Hand on Capitalism’s Scale

Monday August 17, 2009

Donna Smith: Congress, President Ready to Legislate More Women’s Health Disparity

Ted Glick: Health Care, Climate and the Progressive Movement

Robert Dreyfuss: Karzai, the Pashtuns, and the Taliban

Wendell Potter: How Insurance Firms Drive Debate

Paul Krugman: The Swiss Menace

Joseph Ellis: Is Government 'Us' or is It 'Them'?

Robert Kuttner: Killing Yourself with Kindness

Sherwood Ross: Iraq War's Winners and Losers

Robert C. Hinkley: The Commons Exposed

Bill Quigley and Davida Finger: Katrina Pain Index – 2009

Ann Wright: Guam Resists Military Colonization

Cori Ring-Martinez: President Obama: Stand Up for the Change We Voted For

Jim Goodman: 'Deathers' One, Obama Zero

Andy Worthington: Bagram Isn’t the New Guantánamo, It’s the Old Guantánamo

John Nichols: If Obama Discards Public Option, What's Left of Reform?

Sunday August 16, 2009

Marjorie Cohn: In Memoriam: Lawyer, Activist Doris Brin Walker

Thom Hartmann: Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal

John Atcheson: Global Warming and the Only Question that Matters

Gordon Clark: When Republicans Attack

Peter Dreier: Is Max Baucus the New Phil Gramm?

Cenk Uygur: Is Obama Just Another Politician?

Saturday August 15, 2009

Michael Winship: The Gorilla Dust of Health Care

Eric Stoner: Mercenaries and Murder in Iraq

César Chelala: Girl Soldiers are Neglected Casualties of War

Christopher Brauchli: KBR: Crime Without Punishment

Ray McGovern: Pundits Trying to Help Cheney Avoid Jail

Ralph Nader: "Now Make Me Do It"

Gary Engler: A Critical Mess? Yes It Is. If We Lock Up All Those Responsible for Current Traffic Problems, the Traffic Jams Would Be Gone.

Friday August 14, 2009

Sandy LeonVest: Townhall Forums Unmask Dark Side of American Culture

Chuck Collins: Taxing Wealth for the Common Good

Mark Weisbrot: US Economic Myths Bite the Dust

Laura Carlsen: Lack of North American Leadership

Laura Flanders: Spending Political Capital, Now!

Radley Glasser and Steve Rendall: For Media, ‘Class War’ Has Wealthy Victims

Marcy Wheeler: John Brennan's Dangerous National Security Advice

Mark Morford: Dick Cheney Rolls in His Grave

Paul Krugman: Republican Death Trip

Katha Pollitt: Healthcare We Can Believe In

Thursday August 13, 2009

Drew Westen: Change We Can Believe In: Feelings Toward the Administration by Those Who Elected It

Marc Raskin and Megan Cheney: The Pursuit of True Security

Nomi Prins: Time to Do Something About 'Too-Big-to-Fail' Banks

Tom Engelhardt: Biking Out of Iraq

Robert C. Koehler: We Shall Not Be Moved

Guy Reel: The Attack of the Useful Idiots

John Foster: Afghanistan and the New Great Game

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Woodstock: When We Gave Peace a Chance

Jodie Evans: Pelosi Is an Expert at 'Drowning Out Opposing Views'

Brad Friedman: Democracy's Gold Standard

Haroon Siddiqui: Harper Consistently Embarrasses Canada Abroad

Jeff Biggers: Big Coal Denial Calls for Hellraisers

Russell Mokhiber: Boycott Whole Foods

Norman Solomon: When the Dead Have No Say

Wednesday August 12, 2009

Salena Tramel: Why Food Sovereignty Is the New Food Security

Shane Bauer: The Sheik Down

Adam Cohen: A Century-Old Principle: Keep Corporate Money Out of Elections

Scott Horton: Obama's Torture Hangover

Antonia Zerbisias: Femicide: There's Not Enough Outrage

Tom Gallagher: Indiana Survey Finds Little Edge for 'Public Option' Over Single Payer

Pat LaMarche: The Culture of Violence in America

Robert Scheer: Letting the Banking Rats Out of the Bag

Ira Chernus: Inching Toward Compromise in the Middle East

Jim Hightower: The 'Anti-Starbucks' Starbucks

Robert Naiman: Mr. Obama, You Do Have a Button to Reverse the Coup in Honduras

Robert Tickner: Even Wars Have Laws

Ann Wright: Corporate Responsibility—Products for War and Occupation or Products for Peace

Johann Hari: The Forgotten War That Could Kill Millions of Children

Amy Goodman: Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero

Mark Engler: Climate Disobedience: Is a New 'Seattle' in the Making?

Tuesday August 11, 2009

Mark Weisbrot: More of the Same in Latin America

Robert Reich: How the White House's Deal With Big Pharma Undermines Democracy

Digby: Let's Talk About Tasers

Tobin Jacobrown: Registering for Peace

Jeff Biggers: Breaking: Coalfield Uprising Grows, More Sit-ins: Will Feds Take Down WVA's Embarrassing DEP?

Rob Smart: Seeing Through Industrial Food’s 'Personal Responsibility' Smoke Screen

Jim Naureckas and Peter Hart: Misjudging Sotomayor Coverage

Carrie Lowe: American Library Association Wants Network Neutrality

Linda McQuaig: Profit Takes Precedence Over Reform

Danny Schechter: Can We Stop Banksters From Killing Financial Reform?

David Michael Green: My 1933 Nightmare

Monday August 10, 2009

Donna Smith: Washington Post Misses the Healthcare Reporting Mark, Again

Kate Murphy: Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates

Rachel Godfrey Wood: Colombia and Ecuador: Two Different Countries, Two Mining Futures

Russell Mokhiber: In Defense of Disruption

Dave Lindorff: Stop Complaining About Right-Wing Protests! The Left Should Be (Re)Learning How It's Done

James Carroll: Aquino’s Ripple Effect

Chris Hedges: Nader Was Right: Liberals are Going Nowhere With Obama

Christy Hardin Smith: Tortured Logic: In The Government’s Own Words

Paul Krugman: Averting the Worst

Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare: Echo Platoon: Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland

Sunday August 9, 2009

Jane Hamsher: Democrats in Pay-For-Play Deal With PhRMA?

Sara Robinson: Fascist America: Are We There Yet?

Barbara Ehrenreich: Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?

Joseph L. Galloway: This Country Needs an Outburst of Common Sense

Michelle Chen: Reading Race in the Death Penalty

Ira Glunts: Netanyahu's Sister-in-Law Detained by Police; Calls Sheikh Jarrah Evictions an Unjust Folly

Frank Rich: Is Obama Punking Us?

Rupert Cornwell: War Hero Tackles US Over Degrading Prison Conditions

Saturday August 8, 2009

Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein: The Health Insurers Have Already Won

John Nichols: The Cheney-Like Secrecy of the Obama White House

Christopher Brauchli: Three Strikes and You're In

Jessi Roemer: The Ezra I Knew: The Man with the Roses

Miguel Tinker Salas: Observations on Latin America

Ralph Nader: Faulty Forecasting

Robert Naiman: The Minimum Wage and the Coup in Honduras

Friday August 7, 2009

Mike Lux: The Window Is Closing

Lila Ghobady: Exchanging Puppets: Why the International Left Should Not Support the So-Called Iranian Reformist Leaders

Mark T. Harris: The Health Care Debate Has Only Just Begun

Moira Birss: Seven New US Military Bases in Colombia Is Hardly a Move to the Left

Elaine Shannon: Will Obama Crack Down on Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water?

Andy Worthington: A Plea to Barack Obama From the Guantánamo Uighurs

Mark Morford: 10 Amazing Truths You Already Suspected

Peter Dreier: We Need More Protest to Make Reform Possible

Paul Krugman: The Town Hall Mob

John Feffer: Our Suicide Bombers: Thoughts on Western Jihad

Megan Tady: The Internet: A Recession Lifeline

Thursday August 6, 2009

Jeff Biggers: Let Them Eat Coal Ash: OSM Nominee Pizarchik Must Be Stopped Now

Conn Hallinan: Honduran Coup: The US Connection

Cesar Chelala: Corporate Greed Vs People's Health in America

Olga Bonfiglio: The Oak Ridge Conundrum of War and Peace

Gideon Levy: From Sheikh Jarrah to Sheikh Munis

Daniel Ellsberg: Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Cherie Eichholz: Time for United States to Keep Promise on Nuclear Disarmament

: Food Security in Africa: Will Obama Let USAID’s Genetically Modified Trojan Horse Ride Again?

Tom Engelhardt: Hiroshima and Me

Dan Kennedy: Turning the US Army Against Americans

Danny Schechter: Why Does Barack Obama Follow the George W Bush Playbook?

Tom Gallagher: Health Care Change We Can Believe In? Well, Maybe

Wednesday August 5, 2009

Bob Edgar and Bill Goodfellow: Where Our Defense Money Goes

Jim Hightower: Non-Organic Organic Food

Montreal Gazette Editorial: Borderline Paranoia by Homeland Security

Robert Scheer: Banking Bandits Get Their Reward

Jim Goodman: Obama Needs to Take a Stand on Trade

David Michael Green: Hey, Did You Hear That Democrats Won The Election?

Norman Solomon: The Incredible Shrinking Healthcare Reform

Amy Goodman: A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House

Johann Hari: The Hidden Truth Behind Drug Company Profits

Tuesday August 4, 2009

Donna Smith: Health Insurance Giants Arrest Children While Senators Arrest Seniors, Nurses, Doctors

Christopher Cooper: Sick Man Lookin’ for a Doctor’s Cure

Tim Karr: Seven Reasons: Why We Need Net Neutrality Now

Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff: The Paulsons' Edifice Complex

Ira Chernus: Tel Aviv Murder Reflects Israeli Fears

Derrick Z. Jackson: Who Will Stand Strong in Heat of Healthcare Fight?

John Nichols: Why Single Payer Advocacy Matters Now More Than Ever

Frida Berrigan: For the Sixty-Fourth Time: No More Nuclear War

Monday August 3, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: The Scope -- and Dangers -- of GE's Control of NBC and MSNBC

Donna Smith: Healthcare Justice Movement Mourns Loss of Leader

Ralph Nader: Purloining the People's Property

Nidya Sarria: Femicides of Juárez: Violence Against Women in Mexico

Andy Worthington: Guantánamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave

Las Vegas Sun Editorial: Coal Ash: An Environmental Mess

Laura Flanders: MSNBC and Fox: Posing Divided, United They Stand

Paul Krugman: Rewarding Bad Actors

JoJo Farrell: US Activists Challenge Obama on Cuba

Lucinda Marshall: The Olbermann-O’Reilly Feud: Freedom of the Press and the Economic Value of the ‘News’

James Carroll: Reinterpreting Early August

Jeff Biggers: This Little (Coal-Fired) Light of Mine: Will President Heed 45 Million Prayers?

Chris Hedges: So Much for the Promised Land

Clive Stafford Smith: Bowing to US's 'Naked Political Power'

Sunday August 2, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: GE's Silencing of Olbermann and MSNBC's Sleazy Use of Richard Wolffe

Samuel P. Jacobs: The Right-Wing Op-Ed Insurgency

Tom Hayden: How Many Civilian Deaths are Acceptable?

Haroon Siddiqui: Inept at Both Killing and Coddling Terrorists

Frank Rich: Small Beer, Big Hangover

Christopher Brauchli: Cereal Boxes and Consumers

Saturday August 1, 2009

Mazin Qumsiyeh: Thoughts on Fatah Convention and Thoughts on Palestine

John Prendergast: The New Blood Diamonds

Paul Kingsnorth: A Wind Farm Is Not the Answer

David Bercuson: Remember the Gilded Age: A Progressive Morality Play

Ray McGovern: 'Christians' Wink at Torture

Olga Bonfiglio: Gardening Changes Fast Food Addict's Life

Michael Winship: Pay-to-Play Is Washington's Sport of Kings

Danny Schechter: As Obama's Support Erodes, the Right is Resurgent

Lindsay Shade: Honduras Crisis Exposes Weakness of US Democracy

Rory O'Connor: Declaring Victory, Going Home

Friday July 31, 2009

Paul Rogers: A New Security Paradigm: The Military-Climate Link

Ali Abunimah: Why Obama's Peace Process is Still Going Nowhere

Paula Crossfield: Organic Versus Conventional Food: UK Report Flawed

Mark Weisbrot: Restoring Democracy in Honduras

David Sirota: Health Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists

Lisa M. Hamilton: Why Not Start AgriCorps, for a New Crop of Farmers?

Glenn Greenwald: Practicalities v. Principles: The Prime Beltway Affliction

Marcy Wheeler: Seven Days, 250,000 Cars

Paul Krugman: Health Care Realities

Trudy Lieberman: Health Reform Too Boring for Broadcast?

Andy Worthington: As Judge Orders Release Of Tortured Guantanamo Prisoner, Government Refuses To Concede Defeat

Herman Daly: On a World without Growth

Lance Tapley: Our Journalism Echoes Our Politics

Bruce Dixon: Top Ten Ways To Tell Your President & His Party Aren't Fighting For Health Care For Everybody

Thursday July 30, 2009

Isabel Macdonald: Real Journalism: A Prerequisite for Real Debate on Healthcare

Nidya Sarria: Water in Latin America: The Importance of Gender Relations

David L. Scheiner, M.D.: Obama's Doctor Speaks Out for Single-Payer Healthcare Reform

Mark Weisbrot: Right Wing Media, Strategists Seize Upon Gates Arrest and Controversy

Jodie Evans: Hey, Joe Biden! Put Down the Pom-Poms

Chalmers Johnson: Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire

Laura Flanders: Beer is Nice but Equal Protection's Better

Jeff Cohen: Are Liberal Netroots Groups Helping Obama Fail?

Daniel Kessler: Young Climate Activists Call On Clinton to Stop Tar Sands Pipeline

Robert C. Koehler: Cheap Frames of Expensive War

Moazzam Begg & Binyam Mohamed : Helping the Victims of Guantánamo

Catherine Lutz: Obama's Empire: An Unprecedented Network of Military Bases That is Still Expanding

Ruth Conniff: Harry and Louise's Deadly Embrace

Glenn Greenwald: British Foreign Secretary: Clinton Threatened to Cut-Off Intelligence-Sharing if Torture Evidence is Disclosed

John Nichols: Squeeze Insurance Profiteers, Not Medicare

Nomi Prins: How You Finance Goldman Sachs’ Profits

Wednesday July 29, 2009

Naomi Klein: Capitalism, Sarah Palin-Style

Diane Farsetta: Pentagon Propaganda Gets a Pass

David Sirota: A Secret Physiological Link Between Affinity for Guns & Affinity for Health Insurance Bureaucrats?

Teryn Norris & Jesse Jenkins: Will America Lose the Clean-Energy Race?

Laura Flanders: Zero Sum Stupidity

Sasha Abramsky: California's Budget Fiasco

Stephen Flohr: The Writing on the Wall

David Michael Green: The Great Miscommunicator

Robert Scheer: The Chinese Come Calling

Chris Hayes: Bend It Like Obama?

Cristina Page: The Breakup of the Pro-Life Movement

Hugh O'Shaughnessy: How Obama Betrayed Honduras

Robert Parry: Obama Faces Carter/Clinton Parallels

Amy Goodman: Obama’s Military Is Spying on US Peace Groups

Tuesday July 28, 2009

Matthew Rothschild: The Military Spies on Anarchists in Olympia

Frida Berrigan & Will Hartung: Pro-Nuclear Pundits Debunked

Lucinda Marshall: Women’s Lives: The Misogynist Football In The Healthcare Debate

Cenk Uygur: The 'Bipartisan Compromise' Scam

George Monbiot: Denialogues and Politically Transmitted Diseases

Audrey Mayer: The Truth about Socialized Medicine

Zia Mian: Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink

Rev. John Dear: The Peace of Chaco Canyon

Suzanne Morrison: International Movements Breaking the Siege on Gaza

Jeff Biggers: Letter from Europe: Foreign Disbelief of Topless America

E.J. Dionne: Gun Control: Put Up or Shut Up

Helen Thomas: Obama Ignores Torture

Tim Jackson: Thinking the Unthinkable: Not Growing the Economy

Arundhati Roy: And We Call This Progress?

Dean Baker: How to Solve the Housing Crisis

Juan Cole: Empire's Paranoia About the Pashtuns

Monday July 27, 2009

Isabel Macdonald: Prescription for a Real Healthcare Debate

Helena Cobban: Afghanistan: 'Armed Nation Building'?

Rob Smart: Guess Who’s Controlling Our Food Supply

Bruce Dixon: Is the Obama Health Care Plan Really Better Than Nothing?

Glenn Greenwald: The Washington Post Endorses Abu Ghraib Scapegoating for Torture

Robert Kuttner: Wall Street on Speed

Colin Horgan: The Truth About Canadian Healthcare

John Nichols: Single-Payer Advocates Must Seize This Opening

Paul Krugman: An Incoherent Truth

Danny Schechter: When Wall Street is the Problem, Is Bernanke the Answer?

Roger Burbach: Obama and Clinton Nix Change in Honduras

Chris Hedges: Happiness Consultants Won't Stop a Depression

Thom Hartmann: Profiling CEOs and Their Sociopathic Paychecks

Sunday July 26, 2009

GRAIN: Global Food Crisis: The Other 'Pandemic'

Ben Williams: Why Nuclear Energy Is Not the Answer to Climate Change

Jim Goodman: Health Care Debate Must Include Farmers

Alice Walker: The Best Place One Could Be on Earth

Brian Tokar: Politics-As-Usual While Planet Burns: ACESA Can’t Solve Climate Crisis

JoJo Farrell: End an Irrelevant Era: Lift the Cuba Travel Ban

Glenn Greenwald: The War Being Waged on the TARP Watchdog's Independence

Elaine Elinson : Prepare to Disengage: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent

Dave Lindorff: Agent Orange Causes Blindness

Frank Rich: And That’s Not the Way It Is

Malalai Joya: The Big Lie of Afghanistan

Saturday July 25, 2009

Adil E. Shamoo & Bonnie Bricker: Iraq: Nightmare or New Democracy?

Jay Griffiths: The Transition Initiative: The Head, Heart, & Hands of Energy Descent

Glenn Greenwald: The Cheney Plan to Deploy the US Military on US Soil

Naomi Klein: Capitalism, Sarah Palin-Style

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Ain't Nothing Centrist About Them

Ray McGovern: Marking When Bush Poodle Wagged UK Tail for War

Ralph Nader: Health Care Hypocrisy

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: Obama's Health Care Struggle -- Waterloo or Water Down?

Friday July 24, 2009

Holly Sklar: Minimum Wage Stuck in the 1950s

Michelle Mustonen: Be Authentic and True to Yourselves

Joe Conason: Blue Dogs Heel When Lobbyists Whistle

Glenn Greenwald: New Report Contradicts Central Obama Claim for Preventive Detention

Simon Lewis: A Force of Nature: Us

Bill Maher: New Rule: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit

Donna Smith: Blue Dog and the Blue Blood Flu

Richard Graves: Unregulated Carbon Credit Markets Threaten Local Sustainability Projects Worldwide

Mark Weisbrot: Lawyers, Guns, and Money: A Coup Tests Obama's Will

Ingrid E. Newkirk: The Saddest Show on Earth

Tom Gallagher: San Francisco Dems Tell Pelosi to Support McGovern 'Afghan Exit' Bill

Ray McGovern: Dubya's Dallas: Into the Belly of the Beast

Ellen Goodman: Putting Obesity Out of Business

David Sirota: The Attack of the 1-Percenters

Tom Engelhardt: An American Hell: Don't Turn the Page on History

Thursday July 23, 2009

Ruth Conniff: Obama's Health Care Push Eerily Similar to Bill Clinton’s

Bernie Sanders: We Need an Energy Revolution

Helen Thomas: Can America Prevail on Afghanistan/Pakistan Front? No!

Jeff Biggers: 'Regulating' Mountaintop Removal or Sanctioning Human Rights Abuses?

Devon Swezey: Japan Plans to Make Solar Energy Cheap

David Swanson: The Censored Health-Care Option

Matthew McDermott: Obama Should Implement Carbon Tax, Eminent Climatologist Says

Marianne Schnall & Patty Goodwin: Women Connecting Across the Generational Divide: From Gloria Steinem to Courtney Martin

Medea Benjamin: Time for President Zelaya to Return to Honduras

Dedrick Muhammad: Structural Inequality: News Not Fit to Print?

Brad Jacobson: Tributes Censor Cronkite's Anti-Iraq War Stance

Norman Solomon: Spinning Healthcare: A Bad Case of Vertigo

Father Roy Bourgeois and Margaret Knapke: School of Coups

Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Seeks Gag Order

John Nichols: Obama Recognizes He Must Lead on Health Care

David Michael Green: Kill The Supreme Court

John Buell: US Lurching from One Quagmire to Another

Wednesday July 22, 2009

George Monbiot: US Continues Down Perilous Biofuels Path

John McQuaid: Mountaintop Mining Legacy: Destroying Appalachian Streams

Amitabh Pal: Hillary Peddles Worst Sort of Wares in India

Nancy Kricorian: Stolen Beauty: The Struggle for a Just Peace in the Middle East Coming to a Store Near You

Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein: Why Obama's Public Option Is Defective, and Why We Need Single-Payer

Kwaku Osei: Fighting the Forgotten War: Students' Activism for the Congo

Naomi Starkman: The Seeds of a New Economy

Laura Carlsen: Twenty-first Century Coups d'Etat

David Bromwich: How Serial War Became the American Way of Life

James Bamford: The NSA Is Still Listening to You

Jim Hightower: Real Competition Can Stop Health Insurance Gouging

Tim Costello, Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: Lessons from Hard Times Past

Glenn Greenwald: Stephen Colbert on Chuck Todd and Torture Investigations

Robert Scheer: Deep-Sixing the F-22

Amy Goodman: The 21st Century Color Line

Tuesday July 21, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: First Steps Taken to Implement Preventive Detention, Military Commissions

Lucinda Marshall: US Military Presence Continues To Imperil Lives of Afghan Women

George Lakey: Socialist Health Plan? In Norway, Obama's Plan Not Even Close

Christina Baldwin: Obama, Change and The Missing Conversation

Sean Penn/Ross Mirkarimi/Reese Erlich: Support Iranians, Not US Intervention

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Eric Cantor's Cant

William Greider: The New Truth-Teller?

Robert Parry: To Save the Republic, Tax the Rich

Dean Baker: Seance on Wall Street

Ivan Eland: Making Sense of Cheney's Madness

Andy Worthington: Access to Uighurs: No for US Congress, But OK for China

Melissa McEwan: George Bush's Sex Education Failure

Neal Gabler: Hope, Caught Up in a Sea of Obstruction

John Nichols: To Investigate CIA You Must Target Cheney

John Prados: The Intelligence Oversight Mess

Thom Hartmann: The Great Tax Con Job

Monday July 20, 2009

Johanna Peace: Will Obama Break His $150 Billion Promise?

Megan Tady: If You Love the Internet, Fight for It

Bill Bigelow: Schools Foster Climate Illiteracy

Julie Mason: Canadian Health Care: A Reality Check on a Reality Check

Robert Kuttner: Smoking the Green Shoots

Robert Parry: Cronkite's Unintended Legacy

SF Chronicle Editorial: Still Wrong on Wiretapping

Miriam Pemberton: Mass Transit Helps Cut Global Warming and War

Benamar Benatta: Bitter Anniversary for Rendition Victim

Tom Hayden: Pentagon Enlists Feminists for War Aims

Jennifer Rogers: Regulation of Chemicals Needs Drastic Overhaul

James Carroll: The End Is Near

Jeff Biggers: Jimmy Carter's Next Urgent Mission: Polarized Appalachian Coalfields

Norman Solomon: Beyond the Hype: Cronkite and the Vietnam War

César Chelala: Breaking the Silence on Gaza

Chris Hedges: War Without Purpose

Sunday July 19, 2009

Maureen Dowd: Pharisees on the Potomac

Pierre Tristam: Universal Health Care Closer Than a Moon Shot for US

Eric Margolis: Assassinations Anyone? CIA Claims of Cancelled Campaign are Hogwash

Tom Engelhardt: Borrowed Time: The World at 65

Ira Chernus: Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise

Saturday July 18, 2009

John Nichols: A Real Win for Single-Payer Advocates

Glenn Greenwald: Celebrating Cronkite While Ignoring What He Did

Dave Lindorff: Dark Days But a Ray of Hope for Embattled Workers

David Michael Green: Scare-Ya Palin Outdoes Herself

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Oysters for Health Care

Robert Naiman: The Day They Arrested President Roosevelt

Ralph Nader: Back in the USA

Friday July 17, 2009

Candace Clement: Want Better Radio? Pick Up Your (micro)Phones

Isabel MacDonald: Censored by ABC, Obama's Doc Speaks Out

Donna Smith: The People’s House Provides Glimpse of Real Democracy: Healthcare Reform Debate Provides Bipartisan Victory

NYT Editorial: Illegal, and Pointless

Sonali Kolhatkar: Afghanistan: Marines' Mission Doomed to Failure

Michael Busch: El Salvador's Gold Fight

Don Monkerud: US Income Inequality Continues to Grow

Matthew Harwood: Liz Cheney Inherits the Family Business

Wendell Potter: Go Ahead, Congress, Please Make Our Day

Anita Sinha & Daniel Farbman: Sotomayor, Ricci and the Preferential Treatment Myth

Eric Ross: Beyond Reform: A Renewed Vision of Medicine

Ramzy Baroud: Gaza and the Language of Power

Rinku Sen: What the NAACP Means to Me

Paul Krugman: The Joy of Sachs

Heather McRobie: Canada's Dirty Secret

Mark Weisbrot: Who's in Charge of US Foreign Policy?

Thursday July 16, 2009

Arundhati Roy: Into the Inferno: Hollow Language and Hollow Democracies

Andrew Rich: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission: Summoning the Ghost of Ferdinand Pecora

Ali Abunimah: Obama's Prizes for Israel Are Not 'Pressure'

Paula Crossfield: A Recipe for America and How You Can Help

Paul Rogat Loeb: The Sotomayor Hearings - Branding the Neo-Confederates

Ann Jones: Everything That Happens in Afghanistan Is Based on Lies or Illusions

Dan Paden: Giving Farmed-Animal Abusers Their Due

Haroon Siddiqui: Give Canadians the Choice of Al Jazeera TV

Merrick Godhaven: Consumption: The Root Cause of Climate Change

John Nichols: Feingold Pushes AG to Hold Torture Architects Accountable

Nick Dearden: Time to Pay Our Climate Debt

Conn Hallinan: Blood and Oil in Central Asia

Wednesday July 15, 2009

Jeremy Scahill: The Democrats' Selective Amnesia on Assassination: Clinton Did It and Obama Does It Too

Glenn Greenwald: Chuck Todd's Arguments Against Investigations

Pat LaMarche: Try Baking the Change We Knead

Eugene Robinson: Whose Identity Politics?

Danny Schechter: Can Doing What Seems to Be the Right Thing Turn Out to Be the Wrong Thing?

Stacey Warde: Ducking the Shadows of Suburban Life

Kevin Mattson: Revisit Carter's Energy Speech

Sally Kohn: Race-Colored Glasses: Seeing What’s There

Ray McGovern: Cheney Sweats Out the Summer

Robert Scheer: ‘Government Sachs’ Strikes Gold ... Again

Amy Goodman: Health Insurance Whistle-Blower Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried

Donna Smith: Four Voices in the Senate for Healthcare Justice

Michael T. Klare: Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump?

Tuesday July 14, 2009

Brian Thompson : The General In His Labyrinth: Who Remembers Manuel Noriega?

Niels S. Nokkentved: Nuclear Power Isn't Clean or Cheap

Walden Bello: Robert McNamara's Second Vietnam

Daniel Schulman: Treasury's Transparency Two-Step

Derrick Z. Jackson: Common Sense on Needle Exchange

Norman Solomon: The North Bay Needs a Green New Deal

Jeremy Scahill: Is Obama Continuing the Bush/Cheney Assassination Program?

Linda McQuaig: Rich Cause the Crisis, Workers Get the Blame

Arianna Huffington: Bearing Witness 2.0: You Can't Spin 10,000 Tweets and Camera Phone Uploads

Richard Louv: Getting Children Back to the Great Outdoors

George Monbiot: The Rich Can Relax. We Just Need the Poor World to Cut Emissions. By 125%

Thom Hartmann: Obama Drinks Friedman’s Kool-Aid

Laura Flanders: Of Breadlines and Banks

Monday July 13, 2009

Jeremy Scahill: Wall Street Journal Loves Obama's Drone War Vs. Pakistan: 'Unmanned Bombs Away'

GRAIN: Update on Swine Flu

Marvin Ammori: What Sotomayor Could Mean for Network Neutrality and the First Amendment

Tom Gallagher: Robert McNamara and Smedley Butler

Barbara Garson: The Mystery of the Missing Unemployed Man

Robert Naiman: US Press Falsely Claims Honduran Plurality for Coup

Richard Silverstein: Defending the Indefensible Settlements

Paul Krugman: Boiling the Frog

Chris Hedges: The Man in the Mirror

John Nichols: The Balance Begins to Tip Against Cheney

James Carroll: McNamara and Our Nuclear Madness

Sunday July 12, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: The Holder Trial Balloon: Abu Ghraib Redux

Sanjay Khanna: From Climate Science to Climate Justice: Climate Change a Symptom of Man's Inhumanity to Man

Michael Ashley Stein and Janet E. Lord: Ratify the UN Disability Treaty

Jimmy Carter: The Words of God Do Not Justify Cruelty to Women

James MacGregor Burns: Judicial Supremacy and the Rise of the High Court

Saturday July 11, 2009

Paula Crossfield: G8 Promises $20 Billion in Agricultural Aid: Real Change or Business as Usual?

Timothy Karr: Helping Iran Target Iranians

Stephen Zunes: Showdown in 'Tegucigolpe'

Murray Dobbin: The Left Needs Soul Searching

David Michael Green: I Saw the News on Television Today, Oh Boy

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Some Choice Words for the 'Select Few'

Bob Herbert: The Human Equation

Ralph Nader: Practically on the Table

Friday July 10, 2009

Rona Kuperboim: Thought-Police Is Here in Israel

Carol Goar: Just Fair-Weather Friends of the Environment

James Hansen: G-8 Failure Reflects US Failure on Climate Change

Jim Hightower: Big Bankers Mounting Sneak Attack on Consumers

Rob Smart: Pro Food: Slow Food With an Entrepreneurial Twist

Robert Reich: When Will The Recovery Begin? Never

George N. McNeil: It's a Public Service, so Health Care Should Be Publicly Funded

Paul Krugman: The Stimulus Trap

Kia Mistilis: Niger Delta Standoff

Dave Lindorff: With Friends Like These: Wal-Mart, Health 'Reform’ and Obama’s 'Public Option’

Stephanie Westbrook: Yes We Camp

Wendell Potter: The Ultimate Irony: Health Care Industry Adopts Big Tobacco's PR Tactics

Thursday July 9, 2009

Michael Schwartz: Colonizing Iraq: The Obama Doctrine?

Jane Hamsher: Why Can’t a Better Health Care Plan Be the Next Stimulus?

Leonard Stern: Farewell to the Lawn

John Pilger: Mourn on the 4th of July

Senator Bernie Sanders: The Health Care Crisis: Letters From Vermont and America

Susan Goering: Torture Must Be Punished

Amy Goodman: Two Standards of Detention

Danny Schechter: Are Our Markets Being Manipulated by 'Rogues' or Firms?

Mark Weisbrot: US Leaves Honduras to Its fate

Norman Solomon: Escalation Scam: Troops in Afghanistan

John Nichols: CIA: We Lied to Congress

Ronnie Cummins: The Organic Monopoly and the Myth of 'Natural' Foods: How Industry Giants Are Undermining the Organic Movement

Wednesday July 8, 2009

Matthew Rothschild: Obama Slides Further Down Bush’s Hill on Indefinite Detention

Peter Hart: Fearing the Future: The Corporate Press Makes the Case for Being Saved

Beth Quinn: Bonkers in Alaska

Glenn Greenwald: The Obama Justice System

Clive Stafford Smith: Zero Tolerance for Torture

Ray McGovern: Is Texas Harboring Torture Decider?

Michael Parenti: The Honduras Coup: Is Obama Innocent?

George Lakey: Seeing Obama as Norwegians See Him

Anuradha Mittal: What Will the G8 Summit Accomplish: Feed the Hungry or Fuel Hunger?

Christopher Cooper: Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose

Derrick Jensen: Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change

Tuesday July 7, 2009

James Handley: Back to Plan A: The Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax

Tom Engelhardt: Are Afghan Lives Worth Anything?

Andrew Mack: America, Russia, and a Nuclear-Free World

Joseph L. Galloway: Reading an Obit with Great Pleasure

Laura Flanders: Obama Hushes Healthcare Advocates

Jim Naureckas: Before We 'Save' Journalism: The Future of News Reporting Shouldn't Be Its Past

Bob Herbert: After the War Was Over

Dean Baker: The Green Shoots are Dead

Ladysmith Chronicle Editorial: Carbon Tax: Open Wallets Help Open Minds

Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz: Adding Up the True Costs of Two Wars

Gerald LeMelle: Straight Talk: Revealing the Real US Africa-Policy

Derrick Z. Jackson: A Quagmire for Obama

David Gibbs: Was Kosovo the Good War?

Matthew Rothschild: Robert Gates, Meet Robert McNamara

Teo Ballve: Obama Must Maintain Tough Stance Against Honduran Coup

Karyn Strickler: Waxman-Markey Will Not Do: A 'Fell-Swoop' Moment Missed

Tom Gallagher: US Takes the Russian Route to Afghanistan

Ira Chernus: Hamas Getting on Board Peace Train

Monday July 6, 2009

Leo Hickman: Article 31: A Well-Spring of Human Rights

Robert Kuttner: 3 Reasons We Need an Economic Wake Up Call

Howard Zinn: Untold Truths About the American Revolution

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Reset or Retread with Russia?

June Purvis: Suffragette Hunger Strikes, 100 Years On

Charles Kleekamp: Offshore Wind: Europe Surges, US Dawdles

Glenn Greenwald: What if the Uighurs were Christian Rather than Muslim?

R K Pachauri: The Climate Imperative

Medea Benjamin: Hondurans Pour into the Streets Demanding Zelaya’s Return

Desiree Fairooz: Resisting US Bases in Italy: No a la base si a la pace!

Thom Hartmann: Fascism Coming to a Court Near You

Chris Hedges: The Crooks Get Cash While the Poor Get Screwed

Sunday July 5, 2009

Olga Bonfiglio: Happy Birthday America: How Exceptional Are You?

Linda Milazzo: President Obama, My Response To Your Fourth of July Letter

Robert Parry: Republicans, a Threat to the Republic?

Martin Scorsese: Martin Scorsese on the Woodstock Festival

Clancy Sigal: Britain's National Health Service: Simple, Sensible and Civilized

Frank Rich: Bernie Madoff Is No John Dillinger

Saturday July 4, 2009

John Hank Edson: Declare a Democratic Worldview

Gail Collins: Sarah’s Straight Talk

Glenn Greenwald: The NYT Calls Iranian Interrogation Tactics "Torture"

Christopher Brauchli: The Art of Adultery

Ruth Conniff: Jobs Report Sign of Deeper Economic Trouble

Medea Benjamin: No Press Freedom in Post-Coup Honduras

Friday July 3, 2009

Brian Beutler: Will Wal-Mart Cash In Support For Health Care Reform To Crush EFCA?

Haroon Siddiqui: Iraq a Failed Imperialist Venture

Andy Worthington: Why Trial Date For African Embassy Bombing Suspect Is Good News

Mohammed J. Herzallah: Why Obama Should Fire General Dayton

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia

Jeff Biggers: The Film Big Coal Does Not Want You to See

Jeannette Wicks-Lim: How the Green Economy Can Promote Equal Opportunities for Women

Rose Hayden-Smith: Make This July 4th Your Food Independence Day

Rob Smart: Pro Food Is…

Johann Hari: The Other 9/11 Returns to Haunt Latin America

Leslie Savan: Destroying America to Save It

Sasha Abramsky: California's IOU to the World

Paul Krugman: That '30s Show

Ramzy Baroud: Hamas’ Political Impasse: Between Principal and Necessity

Michael Winship: My State Legislature's Crazier than Yours. Oh Yeah?

Robert Gordon: Letter to Obama from a Dying Man

Thursday July 2, 2009

John Nichols: Totalitarian Rightists Put Orwellian Spin on Honduras Coup

Ralph Nader: Ignoring Propethic Predictors

Bo Webb: Coal Country is Ground Zero in Climate Change Battle

Chalmers Johnson: How to Deal with America's Empire of Bases

Mark Morford: Confirmed: God is Slightly Gay

Jeremy Scahill: Pakistanis Reject U.S. "Aid" Flights, As Lawsuit is Filed Against U.S. Drone Attacks

Corporate Crime Reporter: Obama’s Financial Regulation Plan Doomed to Fail

Benjamin Jealous: Saving Troy Davis

Matthew Rothschild: Franken, the Fight, and the Wellstone Seat

Andy Worthington: Release of the 'Holy Grail' of Torture Reports Delayed Again

Daryl Hannah: Why I Was Arrested in Coal River, West Virginia

Tom Klammer: Who Sits at the Health-Reform Table?

Glenn Greenwald: The Still-Growing NPR 'Torture' Controversy

Gary Kamiya: Californians Are Sinking Themselves

Wendell Potter: Obama's False Friends of Health Reform

Mark Weisbrot: Does US Lukewarm Response Bolster Honduran Coup?

Medea Benjamin: Hondurans Call Out for Help from the International Community

Robert C. Koehler: W is for Withdrawal

Wednesday July 1, 2009

Dennis Kucinich: Troop Movement, Not Troop Withdrawal

Andy Bichlbaum & Mike Bonanno: For Once, the Yes Men Say No

Robert Dreyfuss: WTF: No More Troops in Afghanistan?

Pat LaMarche: The Infidelity We Should Worry About

Megan Garber: L’Affaire Froomkin, as Told by Froomkin

Johann Hari: Homosexuality Exists Everywhere, So Too Should Equal Rights

Robert Scheer: The Root of Madoff's Evil

Amy Goodman: Undo the Coup

Alberto Valiente Thoresen: Why President Zelaya's Actions in Honduras Were Legal and Constitutional

Dean Baker: Banks Own the US Government

Stephen Zunes: Iran's Do-It-Yourself Revolution

Frida Berrigan: Weapons: Our #1 Export?

Dahr Jamail: Refusing to Comply: The Tactics of Resistance in an All-Volunteer Military

Jim Hightower: The Fourth of July is a Celebration of Agitation

Norman Solomon: Abstract Quality Journalism for War

Ann Wright: Breaking the Siege of Gaza: Governments Refuse While Citizens Act

Robert Weissman: 150 Years

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

Sunday June 28, 2009

Dilip Hiro: The Clash of Islam and Democracy in Iran: The Islamic Revolution Faces the Classic Dilemma of All Revolutions

Reese Erlich: Iran and Leftist Confusion

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

Thursday June 25, 2009

Tom Andrews: Glass Half Full: House Democratic Caucus Backs McGovern Afghanistan Exit Amendment

Joseph 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 and 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: Media and Nation Must Bear Witness to Coalfield Tragedy This Week

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

Friday June 19, 2009

Lila Ghobady: No Matter Who Is President of Iran, They Would Stone Me

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

Margaret Flowers and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 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 and 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 and 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: Missing Word, Missing World

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

Rev. 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

Sunday May 31, 2009

Frank Rich: Who Is to Blame for the Next Attack?

Haroon Siddiqui: Muslims Wait for Obama to Deliver

Kevin Zeese: Max Baucus Should Not Be Deciding Health Care for America

Abdul Malik Mujahid : Engaging American Muslims Will Give a Far Better Message to the Muslim World than Speeches

Karen Yi: Sonia Sotomayor and the Status Quo

Joe Copeland: Nuke Test Makes Nuclear Abolition More Important Than Ever

George Lakoff: Empathy, Sotomayor, and Democracy: The Conservative Stealth Strategy

Bill Quigley: Revolutionary Haitian Priest, Gerard Jean-Juste, Presente!

Saturday May 30, 2009

Rajendra Pachauri: The Silent Suffering

Frida Berrigan: Defense Budget Shell Game

Curtis White: The Barbaric Heart

Christopher Brauchli: The Credit Card and the NRA

Caroline Arnold: Single Payer: Not Cash Cows, but Good Neighbors

Ralph Nader: Letter to President Obama

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Everyone Should See 'Torturing Democracy'

Friday May 29, 2009

Jitu Brown/Eric Gutstein/Pauline Lipman: Arne Duncan and the Chicago Success Story: Myth or Reality?

Irene Khan: Underlying the Economic Crisis is a Human Rights Time Bomb

Madeline Ostrander: Climate Crisis: What Would it Look Like to Do Everything We Can Imagine?

Ali Abunimah: Mr. Abbas Goes to Washington

Jeremy Scahill: When Gibbs Attacks

Stephen Zunes: Defending Israeli War Crimes

Camillo Bica: If Iraq was a Mistake, Why are We Still There?

NYT Editorial: Forests and the Planet

Harvey Wasserman: The NYTimes Finally Reports the Economic Disaster of New Nukes

Olga Bonfiglio: Who Wants to Be George W. Bush?

Ray McGovern: The Facts Thwart Rehab of Colin Powell

Medea Benjamin: During His Trip to Egypt, Obama Should Visit Gaza

Thursday May 28, 2009

William Astore: Educating Ourselves to Oblivion

Harvey Wasserman: The 8 Green Steps to Solartopia

Peter Marcuse: Socialism One Sector at a Time

Mary Jo Leddy: Let Iraq War Resisters Stay in Canada

Mark Weisbrot: The US and UK Need More Stimulus

Christopher Cooper: First We Got The Bomb And That Was Good

Margaret Krome: Children Plant Carrots and Democracy

Robert Parry: Obama Caves to 'Scaredy-Cat Nation'

Roane Carey: Israel: Prussia on the Mediterranean?

Laura Flanders: The President of Paradox

Thomas Frank: The GOP's Feigned Outrage

Ted Rall: An Early Call for Obama's Resignation: With Democrats Like Him, Who Needs Dictators?

Mark Morford: The Big Gay Shrug

Danny Schechter: Will This Financial Crisis Lead to True Reform or Plunder without End?

Tom Gallagher: Make the Afghanistan War Supporters Hear Us – At the Polls

Ralph Nader: Avoiding Corporate Liability

Wednesday May 27, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Justice Samuel Alito on Empathy and Judging

David Sirota: Teabags vs. Douchebags

Linda Martín Alcoff: Sotomayor’s Reasoning

Matthew Rothschild: FBI Infiltrates Iowa City Protest Group

Andy Worthington: Guantánamo and the Many Failures of US Politicians

Michael Schwalbe: Radical Vision and Elbow Grease

SF Chronicle Editorial: Proposition 8 Ruling: Separate and Unequal

John Feffer: Nightmare on Cheney Street

Tad Daley: Taking North Korea at Their Word

Single Payer Action: Disruption of Congress or Corruption of Congress?

Tom Hayden: The Silence of MoveOn

Faramarz Farbod: Obama and Iran: New Hopes, Old Dangers

Donna Smith: Baucus 8 Charged: It’s an Outrage Outdone Only by Their Humanity

Amy Goodman: Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil

Robert Scheer: Stuff the Bankers, Starve the Kids

Tuesday May 26, 2009

Conn Hallinan: Shadow Wars

Jeff Biggers: New York is Burning

Jay Walljasper: Here's Good News About Your Net Worth

Robert Naiman: IraqTortureGate: Powell Denies Knowing He Used Tortured Evidence for UN Case

Marcy Wheeler: The CIA's Torture Untruths

Bob Fitrakis: Democratic Socialists? Democrats Not Half That Good

Peter Singer: The Value of a Pale Blue Dot

Robert Kuttner: Tough Love for Obama

Jeremy Scahill: If Iran Freed Roxanna Saberi, Why Won't the US Release Journalist Ibrahim Jassam?

John Nichols: Obama's Pick, Sonia Sotomayor, Reflects America

Derrick Z. Jackson: Deadly - Guns in National Parks

David Michael Green: Overcoming the Poverty of Ambition: Barack Obama and the Bully Pulpit

Andy Kroll: The Financial Bailout: How It Scams Taxpayers, Subsidizes Wall Street, and Props Up Our Broken Financial System

Monday May 25, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Backlash Grows Against Obama's Preventive Detention Proposal

Dean Baker: Waterboard the Fed?

Robert Parry: Colin Powell Skates Free on Torture

Marjorie Cohn: Obama’s Guantánamo Appeasement Plan

James Carroll: War Room is No Place for Bible Study

Sarah Lazare: Just One More Thing, Soldier

Chris Hedges: ‘Clean’ Energy and Poisoned Water

Hanan Habibzai: Poets Mirror Feelings of Afghans Caught in Conflict

Josh Ruebner: Rethinking the Costs of Peace

Gary Younge: If Obama Cedes Ground on Torture to Cheney, We'll All Pay a Heavy Price

Jeff Biggers: Raising the Dead: Memorial Day Activists Jailed in Protest to Stop 998 Coal Sludge Deaths

Sunday May 24, 2009

Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr.: Now at Last It's Time for Shell to Atone for My Father's Death

Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Call for Universal Voter Registration

Frank Rich: La Cage aux Democrats

Laray Polk: RadWaste and Texas' Future

Phillip Bannowsky: Capitalism Produces Rich Bankers, but Socialism Produces Happiness

Saturday May 23, 2009

Dr. Marcia Angell: Held Hostage by the Health System

Steve Carlson: The Awful Sound of Silence

Paul Hawken: Paul Hawken's Commencement Address to the Class of 2009

David Sirota: The House That Taxpayers Built

Cary Alan Johnson: Exporting Homophobia

Sibel Edmonds: Two Sides of the Same Coin: Heads-Heads

Friday May 22, 2009

Ray McGovern: Cheney: Support for Israel Feeds Terrorism

Karyn Strickler: A Failure of Leadership: Rapid and Massive Action Needed to Avert Climate Change

Salena Tramel: Windows Into Gaza

Bryan Farrell: Green Camo: Seeing Through the Military’s New Environmentalism

Robert C. Koehler: Never Again

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Rx and the Single Payer

Cesar Chelala: Torture Is Not a New US Foreign Policy Tool

Paul Krugman: Blue Double Cross

Andy Worthington: My Message to Obama: Great Speech, But No Military Commissions and No 'Preventive Detention'

Madeline Ostrander: To Obama and the EPA: The Threat Is Real, It's Time to Act

Tom Engelhardt: Going for Broke: Six Ways the Af-Pak War Is Expanding

Thursday May 21, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Civil Liberties Speech

Andy Worthington: Out Of Guantánamo: African Embassy Bombing Suspect To Be Tried In US Court

Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls: America's Viceroy in Afghanistan

Phyllis Bennis: Netanyahu at the White House: Not Yet Change We Can Believe In

Matthew Rothschild: Democratic Socialists? You Bet!

Jeremy Scahill: US Colonel Advocates US 'Military Attacks' on 'Partisan Media' in Essay for Neocon, Pro-Israel Group JINSA

David Corn and Steve Aquino: Reid Helps GOP Go NIMBY on Gitmo

Jodie Evans: Hiding Behind The Skirts Of Women

John R. MacArthur: As Hitler Tightened the Screws: Hypocrisy and Conniving in France

Jane Hamsher: Alan Grayson says 'Audit the Fed'

Ted Rall: Bail Out Your Own Damn Self! Time for a Tax and Mortgage Strike

Danny Schechter: Frauds R' Us: The Scams and Crimes of Wall Street

Russell Mokhiber: Baucus Flees From Single Payer Advocates

Janet Weil: It’s Time for the President To Get Real on Afghanistan

Jasmin Ramsey: Obama's Prison

Joseph Gerson: Obama, Nuclear Weapons and Abolition

Mark Weisbrot: Big Business Gearing Up to Defend Protectionism Against UN Climate Negotiators

Norman Solomon: The March of Folly, Continued

Wednesday May 20, 2009

Peter Hart: Does the CIA Ever Lie? Parsing the Pelosi Torture Controversy

Gregory Kaufmann: Shotguns, AK-47's and Your National Parks

Gerald Paoli: Life and Death in the Qandil Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan

Dave Lindorff: John Walker Lindh: The Original Bush Era Torture Victim?

Sarah Simpson: Local Seeds vs. Big Guns

Tom Schueneman: A Bit of Advice on Waxman-Markey: Beware the Lobbyists

Pat LaMarche: Patriotism is More Than a Flag

Kimberly Chase: Remote Warfare Radically Changes the Front Lines

Glenn Greenwald: Terrorists in Prison: Is There Anything the Right Doesn't Fear?

Roane Carey: Cultivating Peace in Palestine

Robert Scheer: Our Loss Is BlackRock’s Gain

Amy Goodman: Yoo’s Views Make Philly News

Andy Worthington: Guantanamo: A Prison Built On Lies

Dan Hamburg & Lewis Seiler: Mistakes Were Made

Jeff Cohen: Will Obama Move Supreme Court Rightward?

Tuesday May 19, 2009

Greg Mitchell: The (Unsurprising) Psychic Toll of the War in Iraq

Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith: The Trials of Ehren Watada

Suren Surendiran: Sri Lanka's Untold Story

John Cusack: A War on Terror by Any Other Name

Saleemul Huq: Bridging the Climate Change Gap

Kevin Knobloch: Climate Legislation Opponents Up to Same Old Tricks

Laura Flanders: Torturer in Chief: Media Pick Pelosi over Cheney

Noam Chomsky: Unexceptional Americans: Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia

Rick Reyes: What Was I Fighting For?

Dean Baker: Money to Burn: Was the Bank Bailout Really Necessary?

Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Embrace of Bush Terrorism Policies is Celebrated as "Centrism"

Josh Harkinson : Pelosi and Waterboarding: Why All The Fuss Over Old News?

Robert Dreyfuss: Obama's Great Afghanistan Gamble

Tom Gallagher: Why Are We in Afghanistan?

Andy Worthington: Pain at Guantánamo and Paralysis in Government

Ray McGovern: Colin Powell Got Snookered at CIA

Monday May 18, 2009

Marcy Wheeler: The 13 People Who Made Torture Possible

Jeremy Scahill: Spanish Investigation Reveals 'An Approved Systematic Plan of Torture' Under Bush

Elizabeth DiNovella: Prima Facie Refugees

Juan Cole: Obama Must Cow Netanyahu, Not the Other Way Around

Deb Price: Gay Marriage Putting Down Strong Roots

Kevin Zeese: Using Law License to Facilitate Torture Should Result in Disbarment

Fawaz Gerges: Why Obama Should Release Photos

Glenn Greenwald: The Myth of the Parasitical Bloggers

Roberto Rodriguez: War & Torture: Subterfuge and the Science of Repeating Lies

Nirmala Rajasingam: Sri Lanka's Silenced Dissenters Still Speak Volumes

Gary Dorrien: A Case For Economic Democracy

Robert Parry: Knowing 'What's Good for the Country'

Olga Bonfiglio: Back to the 'Old Normal' of Domesticity

Ira Chernus: CIA Briefs Obama for Talk with Netanyahu

Chris Hedges: The Disease of Permanent War

Sunday May 17, 2009

Asif Mehdi: The 21st Century's Bleak Harvest

Eric Margolis: US Stirs a Hornet's Nest in Pakistan

Richard Silverstein: AIPAC's Hidden Persuaders

Bill McKibben: Can 350.org Save the World?

Abdul Malik Mujahid: The Afghan Tragedy Continues

Glenn Greenwald: Distorting Public Opinion on Torture Investigations

Frank Rich: Obama Can’t Turn the Page on Bush

Donna Smith: Middle Class Healthcare Reform? Bend Over…

Andy Worthington: UK Government Lies Exposed; Spy Visited Binyam Mohamed In Morocco

Saturday May 16, 2009

Patrick Cockburn: These Killings Will Only Strengthen the Taliban

Glenn Greenwald: The NYT Sums up Obama's Civil Liberties Record in One Paragraph

Michael Winship: What's So Funny about Washington?

Christopher Brauchli: Baptism, Bees, and Salvation

Joy-Ann Reid: The Media’s Collective Yawn Over Torture for War

Dean Starkman: Power Problem: The Failure of the Business Press

Dave Lindorff: Caught in a Lie: US is Using White Phosphorus in Afghanistan as a Weapon

Gregg Kleiner: The Local UP-Side of the Global DOWN-Turn

Howard Zinn: Changing Obama's Mindset

Ralph Nader: Time For Renewable Energy

Friday May 15, 2009

Andy Worthington: Death in Libya, Betrayal in the West

Tom Andrews: Time to Stand Up as Congress Stands Down with War Funding Bill

Jeremy Scahill: Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama

Paul Cummins: Fund Education, Not Occupations

Matthew Harwood: America's Growing Surveillance State

Joe Conason: We Tortured to Justify War

John W. Dean: The Politics of Excusing Torture in the Name of National Security

Ted Rall: Excuses You Might Believe In

Sarah van Gelder: Single-Payer Advocates Deserve a Place at the Table

Matthew Rothschild: Obama Is Becoming an Accessory after the fact to War Crimes

Christopher Cooper: It's All Good

David Sirota: Health Care's Enigma-In-Chief

Joe Brewer: The Progressive Tribe and Improving the World

Thursday May 14, 2009

Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis: The Cure for Layoffs: Fire the Boss!

James Ridgeway: Congress' Credit Limit

Dahlia Lithwick: The Incredible Shrinking Torture Defense

Dan Froomkin: Deconstructing Obama's Excuses

James Carroll: Cheer, Cheer for Old Notre Dame

Glenn Greenwald: We Wouldn't Want to Inflame Anti-American Sentiment

Gavin Schmidt: The Public Deserves the Full Picture on Climate Change

Clive Stafford Smith: Without Truth About Torture, No Reconciliation

Scott Horton: Torture Smoking Gun?

Robert C. Koehler: Goliath's Vulnerability is the Truth

Mark Weisbrot: Stealth Move in Washington Aims to Get $100 Billion for IMF Without Congressional Debate

Ray McGovern: 'Ugly' Questions for Gen. Myers

Tom Hayden: McChrystal's Rise: More Secrets, Less Daylight

Amy Goodman: Baucus’ Raucous Caucus

Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Latest Effort to Conceal Evidence of Bush Era Crimes

Wednesday May 13, 2009

Andy Worthington: The "Suicide” Of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi: Why The Media Silence?

Matthew Rothschild: McChrystal Wrong Man for the Job

Richard Register: Cities Can Save the Earth

Aaron Glantz: Ghost of Haditha Haunts American Shooting Spree in Iraq

Jim Hightower: Look Who's Begging for Regulation

César Chelala: Nuremberg is Valid Precedent for Iraq Trials

Peter Dyer: Obama, Pakistan, and the Rule of Law

Thomas Frank: You Can't Starve Government and Blame It Too

John McQuaid: The Semantics of Torture (and How It Tortures American Journalism)

Pepe Escobar: Pipelineistan in Conflict

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Progressive Caucus Report on Afghanistan

Michael Winship: Murtha: If I'm Corrupt, It's Because I Care

Robert Scheer: Pelosi The Enabler

Glenn Greenwald: The Massive Expansion of America's "Hard Left"

Juan Cole: The Hidden Hand of Dick Cheney

Tuesday May 12, 2009

Peter Dreier: Beware: Big Business is Targeting Moderate Dems with Campaign Dollars and Crying Wolf Arguments

Jeff Biggers: Dear Mr. President: Declare August 3rd as Armistice Day in the Appalachian Coalfields

Rose Hayden-Smith: There is No Box: Big Ideas About Urban Agriculture and Local Food Systems

John Nichols: Bush, Cheney, Pelosi and Testifying About Torture

Laura Flanders: Robbing Us and Paying Out

Robert Dreyfuss: New General, Same War

Abdul Malik Mujahid: The Mistake of Afghanizing Pakistan

Paul Campos: How to Torture the Bush Six

Sheila Samples: Seeds Of Truth

Bob Herbert: 'What Color is That Baby?'

Ivan Eland: Bloated Empire and the Financial Crash

Joe Galloway: Six Lessons from Our Past Wars

James Ridgeway: The Health Care Industry's PR Scam: Will Obama Fall for It?

Leonardo Boff: The Century of The Rights of Mother Earth

Tom Hayden & Joseph Gerson: The Politics of Escalation

Dean Baker: Relief from the Stress Tests

Norman Solomon: A Progressive Challenge to Jane Harman

Monday May 11, 2009

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR): The Bad PR of Dead Civilians

John Nichols: The Future of Journalism

M.S. Bellows, Jr.: Is Obama Naive About the For-Profit Health Industry's Commitment to Real Reform?

David Smith-Ferri: We, Too, Are Underdogs

Paul Kawika Martin: 60 Minutes Bombs on Drone Story

Roy Eidelson: How Americans Think About Torture - and Why

Vandana Shiva: Harvest of Suicides

Barbara Ehrenreich: Use Jobless Time to Build Better World

Glenn Greenwald: Roxana Saberi's Plight and American Media Propaganda

Robert Kuttner: Collateral Damage and Double Standards

Nick Turse: A Woman at the Edge

Donald Cohen and Peter Dreier: Crying Wolf Again: Big Business Gearing Up for a Fight Against Obama's Environmental Program

Joseph Stiglitz: Green Shoots? Don't Speak Too Soon

Chris Hedges: Becoming What We Seek to Destroy

Sunday May 10, 2009

Fran Korten: Would Obama’s Mother Be Amazed?

Jen Marlowe: The Death Penalty Club

Jonathan Schwarz : Cheney Learned Iran-Contra Lessons

Dave Lindorff: The Obama Administration is Becoming a Stand-Up Comedy Act

David Michael Green: Get Obama

Marion Roach: Obama's Bad Stem Cell Compromise

Patrick Cockburn: Who Killed 120 Civilians? The US Says It's Not a Story

Frank Rich: The American Press on Suicide Watch

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Blacks Must Confront Their Homophobia

Saturday May 9, 2009

Margaret Flowers: Why We Risked Arrest for Single-Payer Health Care

Christopher Brauchli: U.S. Credit Cards and Spanish Debt Collectors - A Contrast

Will Allen: We Need Food and Farming Regulation Now!

Donna Smith: Happy Mother’s Day from America’s Health Insurance Plans and Mr. Baucus

Paul Paz y Miño: Chevron’s Environmental Disaster in Ecuador

Jim Hightower: Populism is Not a Style, It's a People's Rebellion Against Corporate Power

Ralph Nader: Stop the Single Payer Shut-out!

Friday May 8, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: If the US Does It, It's Not Torture

Frida Berrigan: The News on Nukes

John Nichols: A Democrat Calls for Executive Accountability

Tom Porteous: Gaza: Pursuit of the Laws of War

Johann Hari: Dear God, Stop Brainwashing Children

Robert Kuttner: A Stalled Counter-Revolution

George Monbiot: Climate Change Displacement Has Begun – but Hardly Anyone Has Noticed

Eric Alterman: David Broder: Eyes Wide Shut

David Sirota: Piggish Capitalism Endangers Us All

Marcy Wheeler: Breaking News! CIA Manipulating Briefing Process

Katrina vanden Heuvel & Greg Kaufmann: Smart Power in Pakistan/Afghanistan?

Dave Lindorff: Stain Removal in the Ninth Circuit: The Bybee Challenge

Ramzy Baroud: War without Context: Fatah, Hamas and Flawed Language

Diane Farsetta: Pentagon Rejects Its Own Pundit Program Whitewash

Denny LeBoeuf: Obama Can't Fix the Military Commissions

Julie Hollar: Congo Ignored, Not Forgotten: When 5 million dead aren’t worth two stories a year

Paul Krugman: Stressing the Positive

Thursday May 7, 2009

William Greider: Stress Test: Obama's Rosy Scenario

Robert Fisk: Civilians Pay Price of War from Above

Tom Engelhardt: The Everyday Extremism of Washington

William Greider: Come Home, America

Andy Worthington: Obama's Mixed Message on Torture Policy

John Nichols: The Year of Same-Sex Marriage!

Jeremy Scahill: A Response to Those Who Say Don't Prosecute Bush's Torture Lawyers

Glenn Greenwald: What 'Oversight' Means in Washington

Mark Weisbrot: US Strategy in Latin America was Wrong

Leon Kreitzman: A World Out of Time

Bangor Daily News Editorial: Marriage Equality in Maine: The Way Life Will Be

Joseph Nevins: Pirates vs. Emperors

Jodie Evans: In the Name of Mothers Around the World

Joe Brewer: Building a Culture of Trust in Politics

Rae Abileah: Where was Tikkun Olam at the AIPAC Conference in DC?

Robert C. Koehler: The Hounds of Heaven

Timothy Garton Ash: This Epochal Crisis Requires Us to Resolve the Paradox of Capitalism

Jim Hightower: US Senate Stiffs the People, Cheers Wall Street

Tom Andrews: The Missing Exit Strategy for Afghanistan

Nick Baumann & David Corn: A Cheney Cover-Up?

Wednesday May 6, 2009

Scott Horton: On Torture: Win One for the Gipper!

Jeff Biggers/Vernon Haltom/Janet Keating: Urgent Letter to EPA and Interior Secretary

Medea Benjamin: Who Will Stop the AIPAC Jews Before it is Too Late?

Ray McGovern: Rudman: Deus ex Machina on Torture

Andy Worthington: New Chief Prosecutor Appointed For Military Commissions At Guantánamo

Neve Gordon: Israeli Activist to be Jailed for Caring

Candice O'Grady: Hate Speech, Media Activism and the First Amendment

Vanessa Ortiz: Postcard From...Bi'lin

George Monbiot: How Much Should We Leave in the Ground?

Glenn Greenwald: The Faux Defense of Western Liberties from the Anti-Muslim, Mark Steyn Right

John Nichols: Tax Haven Rhetoric Doesn't Trump Job-Loss Reality

Mike Davis: A Day Without Tourists: Tijuana Versus the Plague

Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Battle for Healthcare Begins

Robert Scheer: Cashing In on ‘Government Sachs’

Amy Goodman: Pete Seeger Carries Us On

Marjorie Cohn: Stanford Anti-War Alumni, Students Call for Condi War Crimes Probe

Norman Solomon: We Need a Green New Deal

Thom Hartmann: Arlen Specter Checked A Card

Tuesday May 5, 2009

Robert Parry: 'One More Bubble!'

Jeremy Scahill: Al Jazeera Strikes Back at Pentagon, Releases Unedited Footage of US Soldiers' 'Bible Study' in Afghanistan

Donna Smith: Doctors, Single Payer Activists Arrested

Claudia Chaufan: The Uninsured Are the Symptom, Not the Disease

Glenn Greenwald: Jeffrey Rosen, TNR and the Anonymous Smears Against Sonia Sotomayor

Bill Ong Hing & David Bacon: Immigration Reform: Rights, Not Raids

Rela Mazali: Israel's War Against Youth

Michael Lind: The 'Best and the Brightest'? Spare Me

Todd Wilkinson: Wanna Shoot a Wolf? Come to Idaho!

Andy Worthington: Obama Returns to Bush Era on Guantánamo

Frances Kissling: You Can Spare a Dime to Save a Kid

Dean Baker: Outsourcing Top Management: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler

Robert Naiman: Stopping Pakistan Drone Strikes Suddenly Plausible

Monday May 4, 2009

Jeremy Scahill: US Soldiers in Afghanistan Told to "Hunt People for Jesus... So We Get Them into The Kingdom"

Jeff Leys: President Obama's War Budget: Analyzing the Numbers

Susan Van Haitsma: The Planet’s Imperative: Stop War, Shine On

Peter Dreier: Pete Seeger Deserves One More Honor - the Nobel Peace Prize

Bob Kincaid: Making a 'Sacred Zone' in Appalachia

Russell Mokhiber: Don't Even Go Near Single Payer

Carol Goar: Giving Voice to Recession's Victims

Jim Hightower: Bank Profits, Banker Pay and Other Banker Tricks

Dilip Hiro: China: Defying the Economic Odds

Chris Hedges: Buying Brand Obama

Sunday May 3, 2009

Bama Athreya: May Day Fails Its Promise to Workers

Lucinda Marshall: Aporkalypse Now—Finding the Real Swine in the Pandemic Pandemonium

Mark Weisbrot: Why Latin America's Left Keeps Winning

Eric Margolis: Pakistan Has World's Attention Now

Glenn Greenwald: UAE 'Torture' Scandal and Cover-up Sparks Outrage in the US

Peter Rothberg: Pete Seeger at 90

Donna Smith: Get Them Out: Rotten Apples in Congressional Witness Bushel on Health Reform

Saturday May 2, 2009

Robert Fisk: Right to the Very End in Iraq, Our Masters Denied Us the Truth

Robert Naiman: On Israeli Settlement Freeze, Public Has Obama's Back

Michael Moore: Bernie Madoff

Danny Schechter: Banksters on the War Path: How Wall Street Is Fighting Back and Winning Their Fight for the Status Quo

Russell Mokhiber: Inside the Beltway Baucus

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Mortgaging the White House

Christopher Brauchli: Silence, Prayer and Other Activities

Ralph Nader: The Lethargy Virus

Friday May 1, 2009

Greg Mitchell: A 6th Anniversary Look Back at Media Coverage of 'Mission Accomplished'

Jeremy Scahill: New UN Report Shows the US Combo of Torture and Impunity Thrives in Iraqi Prisons

Johann Hari: Paying the Price for Cheap Meat

Glenn Greenwald: Ronald Reagan: Vengeful, Score-Settling, Hard Left Ideologue

Robert Fisk: A Historic Day for Iraq – but Not in the Way the British Want to Believe

Gary Kamiya: America's Necessary Dark Night of the Soul

Mark Morford: The Right Goes Insane

Robert Parry: Who Betrayed Objective Journalism?

David Michael Green: The Party Is Over

Ramzy Baroud: Clinton’s Unpromising Start

James K. Galbraith: Causes of the Crisis

Mairead Maguire: Finding Heart and Courage: An Open Letter to President Obama

David Sirota: Democrats and 'The Magic Bullet'

Karen Greenberg: Kiss the Era of Human Rights Goodbye

John Nichols: Obama Likely to Pick Woman to Replace Souter

Thursday April 30, 2009

Laura Carlsen: Mexico’s Swine Flu and the Globalization of Disease

Mike Elk: EFCA: Making Green Jobs, Good Jobs

Abigail Wendle: Empowerment for Peace: Afghanistan’s Unlikely Presidential Candidate

John Nichols: Don't Let Insurance Company Greed Block Swine Flu Response

Glenn Greenwald: Top Senate Democrat: Bankers 'Own' the US Congress

Jeff Biggers: Mr. King Coal's Neighborhood: Washington DC, Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Robert C. Koehler: Torture and Treason

Ann Wright: Two Mormons & Two Different Ethics on Torture

Andrew J. Bacevich: Farewell, the American Century

Jim Goodman: Agriculture and the Environment, It's Our Choice

Christopher Cooper: Spruced Up And Lookin’ In Me Prime

Sally Kohn: Is The Media (And Blogosphere) Killing Immigration Reform?

Donald Cohen and Peter Dreier: Crying Wolf on Universal Healthcare and Labor Rights

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity : An Anti-Torture Memorandum for President Obama

Wednesday April 29, 2009

Nicholas von Hoffman: As Good as Their Word

Pat LaMarche: Support a Happy Ending for Women

Capital Times Editorial: The Progressive's Kept the Faith for 100 Years

Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Progressive Caucus and Obama

Scott Horton: Bybee Weighs In

Robert Scheer: The Clinton Bubble

Amy Goodman: Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the '70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation

Philip Radford: Planet Earth: Too Big to Fail

Dave Lindorff: Specter Joins Dems, Puts Party on the Spot

Frida Berrigan & Jeremy Varon: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: Accountability, Torture, and the Obama Administration

Russell Mokhiber: Standing Against Single Payer

Diane Farsetta: Corporate Think Tank Dives into Water Policy

Jeremy Scahill: What if Instead of the Nuremberg Trials There Was Only a Truth Commission?

Tuesday April 28, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Major Defeat for Bush/Obama Position on Secrecy

John Stauber: Beyond MoveOn: Using the Internet for Real Change

John Nichols: A Liberal Democrat Returns to the Fold

Stanley Kutner: Enough with this '100 Days' Nonsense

Robert Fisk: Obama Falls Short on Armenian Pledge

Dean Baker: FTT: The Cost of Business on Wall Street

Jeff Biggers: Obama's First 100 Days of Coal: A Few Honest Words, Please

Jeremy Scahill: Obama's Iraq: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Naomi Wolf: We Are All Torturers in America

Mark Harris: As Long As We're Talking About Socialism

Charles Siegel: Shrinking Our Way Towards Happiness

Stephen Zunes: Pelosi the Hawk

Andy Worthington: CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan 8 Months Before DOJ Approval

Ru Freeman: Taliban: 60 Miles from Islamabad

Laura Flanders: Fighting Swine (Geithner) Flu

Mike Davis: Swine Flu Crisis Lays Bare the Meat Industry's Monstrous Power

Monday April 27, 2009

Scott Horton: Broder for the Defense

Katrina vanden Heuvel & Greg Kaufmann: Chasing Ghosts in Afghanistan

Michael Winship: Put Wealth on Trial

Paul Krugman: Money For Nothing

Danny Schechter: Stress Testing Obama

Michelle Chen: E-waste: America's Electronics Feed the Global Digital Dump

Glenn Greenwald: David Broder and Media Culpability for Bush Crimes

Jess Hunter-Bowman: More of the Same Drug War Isn’t the Answer

Nick Turse: A Tsunami of Hunger: Is New York City About to Be Overwhelmed?

Robert Naiman: Reform US Foreign Policy by Passing EFCA

Russell Mokhiber: How Corrupt Is That?

John Nichols: GOP Know-Nothings Fought Pandemic Preparedness

Chris Hedges: Obama Has Missed His Moment

Judith Blau: Human Rights is a Local Issue

Marjorie Cohn: Torture Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11

Sunday April 26, 2009

Brant S. Mittler: Time for Single Payer: How Insurers Pass Risks and Costs to You

Pierre Tristam: Correcting America's Dark Chapter of Torture

Frank Rich: The Banality of Bush White House Evil

Harvey Wasserman: Who Will Pay for America's Chernobyl Roulette?

Saturday April 25, 2009

Andy Worthington: Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah?

Sarfraz Manzoor: How to Tell I'm Not a Terrorist

Matthis Chiroux: Confessions of a War Resister

Eric Alterman: Bill Kristol's Guide to Falling Upward

Ralph Nader: Where's My Change?

Mark Weisbrot: IMF Shouldn't Get Money Without Reform

David Michael Green: Of Tea Parties and Teleprompters

Friday April 24, 2009

Megan Tady: Big Cable’s Internet Rip-Off

Sarah van Gelder: Is President Obama Serious about a New Relationship with the Americas?

Jesse Jenkins: The Sherrod Brown Test: Finding Consensus on Climate Policy

Paul Krugman: Reclaiming America’s Soul

Nomi Prins: The Unbearable Vagueness of Timothy Geithner

Tom Engelhardt: Killing Civilians: Questions to Ask in the Dead of Night

Andy Worthington: Five (More) Terrible Truths About the CIA Torture Memos

David Sirota: Don't Pooh-Pooh Populism

Jane Hamsher: FBI Weren't the Only Ones Objecting to Torture in 2002 - So Did the Army, Marines & Air Force

Glenn Greenwald: Media Behavior and the Torture 'Debate'

Jeremy Scahill: Are leading Democrats Afraid of a Special Prosecutor to Investigate Torture?

Thursday April 23, 2009

Michael Pollan: A Food Revolution in the Making from Victory Gardens to White House Lawn

Adrian Hamilton: Walking Out on Ahmadinejad was Just Plain Childish

Gary Kamiya: Torture Works Sometimes, But It's Always Wrong

Robert Parry: How Bush's Torture Helped Al-Qaeda

William Greider: Testicular Politics: Obama and the Big Dogs

George McGovern: Bring Our Troops Home from Mideast This Year

Dennis Damon: Marriage Equality: The Way Life Should Be

Laura Carlsen: Words and Deeds in Trinidad

Thom Hartmann: Will Obama Reboot Capitalism Anew?

Robert C. Koehler: Wall of Fear

Marjorie Cohn: Not the Better Part of Valor: Obama's Duty to Prosecute Torturers

Ray McGovern: Obama Plays Hamlet; Shredders Hum

Stephen Zunes: Obama Caves to Right-wing in Boycotting UN Anti-Racism Conference

A Killer, aka Terry Jones: Free the Torturers – and the Rapists Too!

Wednesday April 22, 2009

John Nichols: Impeach Jay Bybee

Pat LaMarche: Deadly Sins Taking Toll on the Earth

Jeremy Scahill: A Closer Look at Obama's 'New' Position on Torture Prosecutions

Donna Smith: My Harry Winston Diamond and My Healthcare

Emily Spence: Lies and Torture: When Policies and Words Diverge

Glenn Greenwald: Jane Harman: Angry, Partisan, Civil Liberties Extremist

Andy Worthington: Five Terrible Truths About the CIA Torture Memos

Dave Zirin: The Pinstripe Patriot Act

Hank Kalet: Election Reform: Follow the Money

Jim Hightower: What's Up With the Governor of Texas?

Amy Goodman: Torturers Should Be Punished

Robert Scheer: Thievery Under the TARP

John Feffer: The Piracy Problem: Monsters vs. Aliens

Norman Solomon: Obama: Beyond Savior or Trickster

Tuesday April 21, 2009

Mark Kastel: Paint It Green—with Recycled, Phony Rhetoric

Teryn Norris: If the WSJ is Calling for Bank Restructuring -- Where is Obama Team Getting Its Advice?

Mark Hertsgaard: Fresh Food Revolution

Brendan Borrell: Blood for No Oil?

Calvin DeWitt and Lewis Gilbert : Holistic Thinking Key to Sustainable Future

Dean Baker: Economics in a Bubble

Philippe Sands: Publish and Be Damned, Mr Cheney

Glenn Greenwald: The Pulitzer-Winning Investigation That Dare Not Be Uttered on TV

Jeremy Scahill: G Gordon Liddy's Sexist Attack on Joan Walsh of Salon

Robert Parry: Connecting CIA Torture to Abu Ghraib

Gregory D. Squires: Scapegoating Blacks. Again.

John Lindsay-Poland: US-Trained Human Rights Abusers

Lawrence Wittner: How Feasible Is Obama's Nuclear Disarmament Agenda?

Mark Weisbrot: More Fiscal Stimulus is Needed to Reverse Economic Decline

Dave Lindorff: Torturing Judge Bybee: Make Him Eat His Own Words

Monday April 20, 2009

Naomi Klein: Why We Should Banish Larry Summers from Public Life

Sarah DeWeerdt: Is Local Food Better? Yes, But There's More

Chip Ward: A Future Too Big to Fail: Ecological Ignorance and Economic Collapse

E.J. Dionne: Who Will Face Down the Gun Lobby?

Deb Price: Obama Puts Out Rainbow-Colored Welcome Mat

Jeremy Scahill: Momentum Gains in Movement to Impeach Bush Torture Lawyer Turned Federal Judge

Richard Gott: Chávez's Perfect Gift to Obama

Bill McKibben: Waste Not, Want Not

Chris Hedges: Where’s Rev. Wright When You Need Him?

Glenn Greenwald: Major Scandal Erupts involving Rep. Jane Harman, Alberto Gonzales and AIPAC

Sunday April 19, 2009

Pierre Tristam: Correcting America's Dark Chapter of Torture

Eric Stoner: The Dawn of Robot Wars

Elsa Rassbach: A Duty to Resist

Alex Carlile: Overlords of US Torture Must Be Punished

Glenn Greenwald: Politico's Understanding of Journalistic Anonymity

Frank Rich: The Bigots' Last Hurrah

Saturday April 18, 2009

Richard Kim: The Torture Memos, Obama and the Banality of Evil

Nora Barrows-Friedman: UN Protects Israel From Racism Charges

Mark Engler: Empire Foreclosed?

Christopher Brauchli: Beauty and the Vegetable

Michael Schwalbe: Denormalizing the Signs of Impending Disaster

Jason Mannino: Homophobia Is Killing Our Youth

Cristina Page: Proudly Part of the Problem

Ramzy Baroud: Non-Violence in Palestine: Timing and Intentions

Ananya Mukherjee-Reed: How is India?

Michael Winship: The Shipping News

Ruth Rosen: Mr. President, War Crimes Must Be Investigated

Mark Weisbrot: Summit Unlikely to Bridge Gap Between Washington and Latin America

Philippe Sands: Nightmares Made Law

Ralph Nader: Bailout Indignation

Friday April 17, 2009

Danny Schechter: New Film Tells Unreported Story of Obama’s Election

Dave Lindorff: Obama, Seeing Darkness, Conjures up the Mists of Time

Glenn Greenwald: The Significance of Obama's Decision to Release the Torture Memos

David Sirota: Columbine Questions We Still Don't Ponder

Jesse Jenkins: Calls for Clean Energy Commitment: Let Them Be Heard

Bruce Fein: How Obama Excused Torture

Mark Benjamin: Is Torture Really Over?

William Astore: Regarding Afghanistan: Seven Lessons and Many Questions for the President

Jim Goodman: In Praise of Peasants

David Michael Green: Home of the Barricaded, Land of the ‘Fraid

Naomi Klein: Hopebroken and Hopesick: A Lexicon of Disappointment

Thursday April 16, 2009

Ziyaad Lunat: The Rhetoric of 'Peace'

Dean Baker: The Need to Tax the Wealthy

Eric Holt-Gimenez: Food Rebellions: 7 Steps to Solving the Food Crisis

Ruth Conniff: The Crisis That Could Bring Down Obama

Fred Pearce: Consumption Dwarfs Population as Main Environmental Threat

Zach Carter: Is Geithner's Hedge-Fund Bailout Illegal?

George Bisharat: A Step Toward Ending Israel's Impunity

Neri Zilber: Is the Crisis Good for Globalisation?

Kevin Gallagher & Timothy Wise : Press the Reset Button on Latin America

Glenn Greenwald: The NYT's Predictable Revelation: New FISA Law Enabled Massive Abuses

Donna Smith: Where’s Our Elizabeth Warren for Healthcare?

Russell Mokhiber: Top Ten Enemies of Single Payer

Robert C. Koehler: War as Entertainment

Wednesday April 15, 2009

Mark Weisbrot: Obama's South American Reality Check

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama's Economic Sermon on the Mount

Mark Cooper: The Future of Journalism Is Not in the Past

Thom Hartmann: The Real Boston Tea Party was an Anti-Corporate Revolt

Robert Scheer: Endgame for Gramm?

Johann Hari: From Now on, Equality Needs to Be Our Organizing Principle

John R. MacArthur: Wall Street Sharks Circle the UAW

Glenn Greenwald: The Ultimate Reaping of What One Sows: Right-Wing Edition

Jim Hightower: Look Out for the Blimp That Doesn't Blink

Matthis Chiroux and Malalai Joya: An Apology for an Occupation

Robin Hahnel: Climate Risks: Lessons from the Financial Crisis

Khadija Sharife: Pirate Bankers, Shadow Economies

Amy Goodman: Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary of Dissent

John Buell: Corporate Offense Against Unions Relies on Myths

Greg Grandin: What Can Obama Do in Latin America?

Tuesday April 14, 2009

Ray McGovern: Anatomy of Bush's Torture 'Paradigm'

Glenn Greenwald: The Differing Views of the 'Rule of Law' in Spain and the US

Olivia Snaije: Iraqi Women Frame the Human Reality of Conflict

Karen Archer Perry: Global Communication, Local Control

James Ridgeway: The Bailout We Owe the Developing World

Nakhone Keodara : Unexploded Bombs in the Land of a Million Elephants

Kate Clinton: State Fairness: Whac-a-Mole and Marriage Equality

Marcus Raskin & Joshua Frens-String: Reach Out to Cuba to Heal Guantanamo's Wounds

Jane Hamsher: The Corporate Lobbyists Behind the Tea Parties

James Randerson: Climate Change: We Must Believe We Can Make a Difference

Dean Baker: Economy Bottomed Out? No End in Sight

Sarah Anderson: Why Not Send My Tax Check Directly to Wall Street Execs?

George Monbiot: Cross Your Fingers and Carry On

Robert Parry: US News Media Fails America, Again

Monday April 13, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: An Emerging Progressive Consensus on Obama's Executive Power and Secrecy Abuses

Robert Weissman: No Blank Check for the IMF

Kevin Danaher: A Better Way to Use That IMF Money: Debt for Democratic Development

Megan Tady: Wired Less: Disconnected in Urban America

Johann Hari: You Are Being Lied to About Pirates

Rev. John Dear: My Night in the Las Vegas Jail

Robert Kuttner: Obama's Loyal Opposition

Jody Williams: Ban Land Mines and Cluster Bombs

Juan Cole: The Great Right-Wing Freak-Out

Roane Carey: Will Israel Attack Iran?

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Racist in Chief

Thom Hartmann: Debt is Not Money

Sunday April 12, 2009

John Nichols: Michael Steele's Nutty ACORN Obsession

James McEnteer: Peru’s Shining Example

Ron Smith: A Fraud That Makes Madoff Look Small Time

Dan Rodricks: Cynicism has Killed the Gun-Control Debate

Benjamin Day: Why Has the Press Failed Us In Reporting on Health Care Reform?

Paul Cantor: Torturer-In-Chief

Tom Goldsmith: DeChristopher's Act Provides Impetus for Change

Frank Rich: Awake and Sing!

Saturday April 11, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Obama and Habeas Corpus -- Then and Now

Peter Dreier: A New Wave of Community Organizers for the Obama Era

Kristin Schall: Rasmussen Poll Indicates American Shift Toward Socialism

Tamara Dietrich: Pledge of Allegiance: Virginia School Superintendent Needs to Get Schooled

Dave Lindorff: America’s Imperial Wars: We Need to See the Horrors

Mike Gravel: Cold War Déjà-Vu

Danny Schechter: The Battle with the Banks is On: Protests and Pitchforks

Christopher Brauchli: Cigarettes and Reporters and a U.S. Senator

Ralph Nader: CPAs MIA

Friday April 10, 2009

Mark Danner: The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means

Richard Dillihunt: Move to Single-Payer System is Crucial

Sheri Fink: What We Do And Don't Know About US Medical Personnel and Interrogations

Zephyr Teachout: Nationalize, Reorganize, Decentralize

David Cole: Exporting Torture, Importing Justice

Ted Rall: Barack Obama, Torture Enabler

Harold Meyerson: Which Union Do I Belong to Now?

Kevin Martin: Taking the Right Road on Nukes

Sarah van Gelder: A Plea To President Obama: Don't Bankrupt America

Robert Parry: America, Torture and Hypocrisy

Jeremy Scahill: Rahm Emanuel's Think Tankers Enforce 'Message Discipline' Among 'Liberals'

David Sirota: The Best Investment Money Can Buy!

Kate Michelman: A System From Hell: My Personal Health Care Nightmare

Thursday April 9, 2009

Marie Cocco: Bagram: The Father of Guantanamo

Laura Flanders: Lesson From Vermont: Don't Cower, Push

Anne Bartlett: On 'Saving' Darfur… and Africa in General

Ira Chernus: Requiem for the War on Terror

Danny Glover: Race and the Obama Administration

Mark Weisbrot: There is No Global Economy

David Goodman: Vermont's 'Happily Ever After'

Ellen Brown: Revive Lincoln’s Monetary Policy: an Open Letter to President Obama

Jeremy Scahill: How Many Democrats Will Stand Up to Obama's Bloated Military Budget and $75 Billion More in War Spending?

Rosa Brooks: Bail Out Journalism

David Bacon: Why Workers Need the Employee Free Choice Act

Ray McGovern: After Torture, Resurrection

Joyce Marcel: Drawn-Out Death

Robert C. Koehler: Geo-Insanity's Latest Mutation

Norman Solomon: Getting a Death Grip on Memory

Wednesday April 8, 2009

Adri Nieuwhof: Civil Society Shows Its Moral Strength

Glenn Greenwald: Keith Olbermann's Scathing Criticism of Obama's Secrecy/Immunity Claims

Travis Sharp & Miriam Pemberton: The Cold War Takes a Hit

John Nichols: Secular Country? Obama Sides With Jefferson, Madison, Paine

David Krieger: President Obama Calls for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

Jeff Biggers: Where's the National Outrage on Blair Mountain?

Monica Youn: News Flash: Greed and Stupidity Can Coexist!

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Ten Principles for a Black Swan-Proof World

Peter Rothberg: A New Way Forward: Protesting Against the Wall Street Bailouts

Tom Engelhardt: Terminator Planet: Launching the Drone Wars

Amy Goodman: US Muslims Still Under Siege

Robert Scheer: Living Large and in Charge

Jonathan Steele: Obama Should Listen to Iraqis, Not Lecture Them

Russell Mokhiber: PBS Lashes Back over Single Payer Dustup

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Changing the Rules of the Blame Game

Tuesday April 7, 2009

Andy Worthington: Justice Extends to Bagram, Guantánamo’s Dark Mirror

James Denselow: Iraq: Still Too Many Unknown Unknowns

Göran Therborn: The Killing Fields of Inequality

Robert Parry: Another Bush Intelligence Failure

H.D.S. Greenway: A Different Europe Greets Obama

Donna Smith: Suffering and Dying for Healthcare in Las Vegas

Jeffrey D. Sachs: The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than We Thought

Stephen Zunes: The War on Yugoslavia, 10 Years Later

Gordon Clark: The Greatest Generation and the Auto Industry

Glenn Greenwald: Obama, the ICRC Report and Ongoing Suppression

Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Soldier’s Soul Screams ‘Get Out’

Pierre Tristam: Ghosts of Tom Joad: Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath' at 70

Monday April 6, 2009

Dean Baker: A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion?

James Ridgeway: Big Pharma Psychs Out the Shrinks

Robert Fisk: Will Obama Honour Pledge on Genocide of Armenians?

John Nichols: Obama: "America (Seeks) a World Without Nuclear Weapons" But...

Robert Reich: Will Geithner Fire Corporate America?

Jeremy Scahill: US Hypocrisy on North Korea: Let's Talk About Israel's Nukes

Laura S. Boylan: Are We Safer than Natasha Richardson?

Marcia Angell: Charting a New Course at the FDA

Marjorie Cohn: Spain Investigates What America Should

Norman Solomon: Democrats and War Escalation

Julie Greene: Stimulus from the Bottom Up

Paul Buchheit: What Ails America? Giving 20% of Our Money to the Rich

Ru Freeman: Sri Lanka: Bring on the White People

Michael T. Klare: Global Crime Wave?

Chris Hedges: Resist or Become Serfs

Sonali Kolhatkar: Trading Afghan Women's Rights for Political Power

Sunday April 5, 2009

Ray McGovern: Cowardice in the Time of Torture

Robert Parry: WPost Sees Neocon Hope in Obama

Eric Margolis: Wall St. Ticks Off the World

Leonard Pitts Jr.: We Betrayed the Rule of Law for 'Fool's Gold'

John Feffer: What's Up With North Korea?

Kevin Martin and Leslie Cagan: Bring an End to 'Triple Evils’ by Abandoning War

Robyn E. Blumner: Right to a Decent Job Is a Principal Civil Right

Saturday April 4, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Wall Street's Ownership of Government

George Bisharat: Israel on Trial

Jeremy Scahill: Obama's Neoliberals: Selling His Afghan War One Report at a Time

Michael Winship: Miss Universe’s Excellent Adventure

Danny Schechter: After the Summit: What Was Accomplished and for How Long?

Michael Schwalbe: No Armies Are Moral

David Michael Green: Regressive Hypocrisy (Yawn…) Again

Christopher Brauchli: Witches, Condoms and the Pope

MADRE: MADRE Talking Points: Seven Reasons to Oppose a Troop Surge in Afghanistan

Ralph Nader: The Ones Who Got It Right

Rita Lasar: Dear President Obama: Get Us out of Afghanistan

Friday April 3, 2009

Johann Hari: Why We Should Listen to the Protesters

John Nichols: House Members to Obama: Rethink Afghanistan Surge

Sue Sturgis: Startling Revelations About Three Mile Island (Nuclear) Disaster

Robert C. Koehler: Saving Obama

Russell Mokhiber: Something is Rotten at PBS

Karyn Strickler: Obama Must Heed Alarm Bells on Global Warming

Jim Goodman: Promises, Promises, That's All They Ever Give Us

Dean Baker: G20: Why support the IMF?

Andy Kroll: Shut Out: How the Cost of Higher Education Is Dividing Our Country

Steve Rendall: Listening to Limbaugh

Donna Smith: An Open Letter to Congress: Help Me or I Will Die

Kathy Kelly and Brian Terrell: The Drone War: A Closer Look

Jesse Hagopian: The Global Teachers' Anthem

Thursday April 2, 2009

Saskia Sassen: Too Big to Save: The End of Financial Capitalism

War Resisters League : Beyond Afghanistan: Choosing Nonviolence

Thomas Frank: Lock 'em Up: Jailing Kids is a Proud American Tradition

Tara Lohan: Blue Gold: Have the Next Resource Wars Begun?

Charlotte Dennett: Leahy Bails on 'Truth Commission' Plan

Bill Delahunt & Sabin Willett: Innocent Detainees Need a Home

Jesse Jenkins: New Climate Bill Proof of Misplaced Priorities

Mark Morford: The Last Muscle Car

Sharif Abdullah: Report from the Field: Conflict Resolution in the Worst of Conflicts

Laura Flanders: Silence on Afghanistan: If Only It Were a Joke

Robert Dreyfuss: Afghanistan: No Benchmarks Yet

Andrew Bacevich: How Do We Save NATO? We Quit

Glenn Greenwald: Endless Right-Wing Self-Pity

John Prados: The AfPak Paradox

Christopher Cooper: The Changes And Chances Of This Mortal Life

Maria Margaronis: London Calling

Wednesday April 1, 2009

Jeremy Stone: Resembling I.F. Stone

George Monbiot: G20 Protests: Riot Police, or Rioting Police?

Robin Hahnel: Change How the World Works? Yes, We Can

Noreena Hertz: Let's Shake Off the Shackles of Free Trade

Jonathan Stein: Climate Bill Kick Off

Eyal Press: Obama's Democrat Problem

Matthew Rothschild: The Spanish’s Judge vs. Bush’s Architects of Torture

Joseph Stiglitz: Obama’s Ersatz Capitalism

Mark Weisbrot: G20: Welcome to the Multi-Polar World

George Bisharat: Israel: Transforming International Law by Violating It

Robert Parry: To Bush's GWOT, RIP

Amy Goodman: Seattle’s Lessons for London

Robert Scheer: In for a Penny, In for $2.98 Trillion

Ann Jones: Death on the Home Front

Eric Holt-Giménez & Annie Shattuck: Inflation and Speculation: Ingredients for the Next Food Crisis?

Olga Bonfiglio: It's Human Security, Stupid, Not National Security

Michael Moore: 'We the People' to 'King of the World': You're Fired!

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 and Bill Bigelow: 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 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 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

Rev. 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

Rev. 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: Microfinance and Women's Empowerment in South Asia

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

Chris 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 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 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 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

Tim 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: Alice Waters Goes to Washington

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

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: How to Build Resilient Communities in a Chaotic World

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

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

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: What Will Obama Do With KBR?

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: And Carpe Diem for What Comes Next

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: How Popular Anger Grew, 1929 and 2009

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: Can a Hedge-Fund Island Lose Its Shirt and Gain Its Soul?

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 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

Saturday January 31, 2009

John Rockefeller: Final Piece in Our Economic Collapse

David Sirota: Will Obama Keep His 'Buy America' Promise?

Harvey Wasserman: A $50 Billion Nuke Power Bomb Is Dropping Toward Obama's Stimulus Package

Tom Gallagher: Sanity Reigns in Washington? Not Just Yet

Ray McGovern: From Prison to Award for Iraq War Whistleblower

Michael Winship: Dr. Gregorian's 3 R's: Reading, Writing and Recession

Christopher Brauchli: Local Pride and Supermax

Ralph Nader: Wither Wall Street

Friday January 30, 2009

John Nichols: Vote for White House Farmer

Jordan Flaherty: What About Closing Angola, Mr. Obama?

Erica Gies: Rebuilding Green: The Next Revolution

Robert Pollin: Doing the Recovery Right

Katha Pollitt: Stalling Over Birth Control

Laura Flanders: It’s Not the Lobbying, It’s the Agreeing!

David Sirota: Moving the Political Center

Donna Smith: Cognitive Dissonance: The Healthcare Reform Battle's State of Mind

Pat LaMarche: In Support of Protest, Free Speech

Stephen Zunes: Holbrooke: Insensitive Choice for a Sensitive Region

Christopher Cooper: More Black Than Ashbuds In The Front Of March

David Michael Green: George Bush’s Gift To The World: The End of American Imperialism

Jay Bookman: A Couple of Political Morsels to Chew On

Betsy Moon: What Would Molly Think?

Thursday January 29, 2009

Robert Dreyfuss: Iraq's Election: What to Watch For

Ali Gharib: Dennis Ross as Iran Envoy?

Nick Turse: Meltdown Madness: The Human Costs of the Economic Crisis

Seumas Milne: The Seeds of Latin America's Rebirth Were Sown in Cuba

Helen Thomas: Obama Pledges Open Government (But We've Heard That Before)

Al Gore: We've Arrived at a Moment of Decision

James Ridgeway: Will the FDA Finally Get Out of Bed With Big Pharma?

Conn Hallinan: Purple Hearts: A Cold-Blooded Decision

Robert Parry: GOP Schools Obama on Partisanship

Brent Harold: Keeping Hope Out of The Closet

Ramzy Baroud: For Palestinians, Obama's Message is Crystal Clear

Kathleen Rogers: Better Nutrition Equals Better Education

Glenn Greenwald: Dick Armey and Post-Partisan Harmony

Ruth Rosen: Women Are Not “Pork”

Bruce Friedrich: Solving the Global Food Crisis: The Case for a "Poverty Czar"

Geoffrey Pleyers: World Social Forum 2009: A Generation’s Challenge

Wednesday January 28, 2009

Joyce Marcel: News We Can't Use

Tom Andrews: Out of Iraq in 16 Months: Yes We Can - Yes We Must

Peter Rothberg: Coalition of Immokalee Workers to Crist: End Slavery

Johann Hari: Why Should I Respect These Oppressive Religions?

John Feffer: War on Terrorism Over?

Glenn Greenwald: The Definition of A "Two-Tiered Justice System"

Matt Leonard: Taking Action: Do Our Tactics Unite or Divide Us?

Amy Goodman: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail

Dave Zirin: Tiger's Tepid 'Coming Out Party'

Danny Schechter: In the Week of the Economic Circus: Which Way Recovery?

Robert Scheer: Economic Policy Could Scuttle Obama’s Good Start

Mark Weisbrot: Obama Has Opportunity to Reverse Mistake on Offshore Drilling

Paul Rogat Loeb: Stiffed: Why Are Bailed-Out Banks Helping Pfizer Buy Wyeth?

Chisun Lee: Bush’s Secret Counterterrorism Law Book—and the Demands to Release It

Mariah Blake: Bad Reactors: Sub-prime Nuclear Loans

Yifat Susskind: 'Organizing for America' Means Fighting for Human Rights Worldwide

Guy Reel: The United Haters of America

Tuesday January 27, 2009

Bob Herbert: The Same Old Song

ZP Heller: Let's Rethink Military Escalation in Afghanistan Before It's Too Late

Russell Mokhiber: What if Israel Were in Your Neighborhood?

Neve Gordon and Yigal Bronner: Fueling the Cycle of Hate

Nick Metel: Time Has Come for Single-Payer Universal Health Care System

Dean Baker: The Anti-Stimulus Crowd Blows a Gasket

Cesar Chelala: Recalling the One Who Mixed Politics, Poetry

Linda McQuaig: Financial Elite Have No Shame

Sandy Tolan: Mitchell's Challenge: After Gaza, Five Questions about Palestinian and Israeli Realities

Monday January 26, 2009

Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith, and Tim Costello: 'Globalization From Below' Tackles the 'Great Recession'

Robert B. Reich: The Union Way Up

Chris Hedges: With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again

Barbara Crossette: 'Global Gag Rule' Lifted

Gerald E. Scorse: The Annual Bailout of 'Investors'

Glenn Greenwald: To Favor Due Process Is to Favor Terrorists' Rights

Joseph L. Galloway: It's Time to Choose Right Over Wrong

Stephen Zunes: Is Mitchell Up to the Task?

Thom Hartmann: Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years

Norman Solomon: 44 Years Later, LBJ's Ghost Hovers Over the 44th President

Sunday January 25, 2009

Eric Margolis: Closing Gitmo Just the Beginning

Benjamin R. Barber: A Revolution in Spirit

Ralph Nader: Open Letter to President Obama on Consumer Protection

Frank Rich: No Time for Poetry

Mitch Albom: The Worst Lies of All? The Ones You Expect

Toronto Star Editorial: Resisters of a 'Dumb' War

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Far-Right Obama Critics Get a Reply

Muriel Gray: America, You’ve Much to be Proud of... but Drop the World-Leader Idea

Saturday January 24, 2009

Robert Reich: How America Embraced Lemon Socialism

César Chelala: Jewish Voices of Dissent on Gaza

Bob Herbert: More Than Charisma

Derrick Z. Jackson: Outside, Things Are Looking Brighter

Christopher Brauchli: Bank of America Meets Due Diligence

George Hunsinger: Ending US Torture: A Time for Hope and Healthy Skepticism

Dr. Mona El-Farra: Gaza Needs Many Years to Heal

Ralph Nader: Open Letter to President Obama on Consumer Protection

Scott Ritter: The Wrong Man for the Job

Friday January 23, 2009

Michael T. Klare: Repudiate the Carter Doctrine

Medea Benjamin: Iraq: End the Occupation

Chris Hayes: 'I Saw My People'

Glenn Greenwald: The Newest Fear-Mongering Campaign From the Right and the Media

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial : Alternatives to Prison Protect the Community

Jim Hightower: Obama Must Be Even Bolder Than FDR

Johann Hari: Is the US About to Treat the Rest of the World Better? Maybe...

David Michael Green: What Was Said, and What Was Not

David Sirota: The Gulf Between Hope and Change

Thursday January 22, 2009

Victor Navasky: Seeking Obama's Center

George McGovern: Calling a Time Out

Alisa Gravitz : 7 Fixes from the Green Economy

Amy Goodman: Push Obama to Follow Through on Peace Vows

Glenn Greenwald: New Poll on Torture and Investigations Negates Beltway Conventional Wisdom

Catharine Cooper: Proud to be an American

Maude Barlow: Water is a Human Right

Danny Schechter: How Long Will The Honeymoon Last?

Joyce Marcel: We Have Overcome

Jules Boykoff: Obama Must Rein in 'Terrorist' Databases

Kathy Kelly: Gaza: Worse Than an Earthquake

Robert C. Koehler: Childish Things

Robert Fisk: So Far, Obama's Missed The Point on Gaza...

Tom Engelhardt: The Day the Earth Still Stood

Wednesday January 21, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Mohammed Jawad and Obama's Efforts to Suspend Military Commissions

Robert Scheer: Time To Get To Work

Katrina vanden Heuvel: How Audacious Will Obama Choose to Be?

Naomi Wolf: Obama Inauguration: A New Tone. No More Fake Optimism for The People

Capital Times Editorial: Urge Congress to Enact Single-Payer Health Care

George Monbiot: A Better Way to Make Money

Helen Thomas: 44 Takes Office with Blunt Rejection of 43

David Corn: A Bad-Weather Speech for Bad-Weather Times

Kathy Kelly: The Strongest Weapon of All

Michael Parenti: Capitalism's Self-Inflicted Apocalypse

Tuesday January 20, 2009

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Tone and Challenge in the Obama Era

Ben White: Israel Wanted a Humanitarian Crisis

Mary Beth James: A Triumph of Hope over Despair

Robert Parry: Historical Mystery of Bush's Presidency

Michael Honey: What Would King Tell Obama?

John Nichols: A Commander-in-Chief Elected to End a War

Eugene Jarecki: An Ode to Tomorrow

Peter Dreier: Pete Seeger Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

Bernie Sanders: An Inauguration for The American People

Harvey Wasserman: A Ten-Point Solartopian Starter Agenda for the Age of Obama

Monday January 19, 2009

Leigh Donaldson: Is Our Army Glamorizing War and Violence to an Audience of Children?

Chris Hedges: Peace Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Judith Laitman and Tsela Barr: We Must Demand a Just Peace for Palestinians

Dean Baker: The Role of Government: Keeping the Wealthy Rich

Andy Kroll: The Duncan Doctrine: The Military-Corporate Legacy of the New Secretary of Education

David Korten: The Speech President Obama Should Deliver… But Won't

Martin Luther King, Jr: Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence

John Nichols: Most Valuable Progressives: Code Pink's Transition

Robert Kuttner: Fiscal Follies

Philip Warburg: The New Deal Wasn't Built in a Day

Cristina Page: Bush, Our Ex-Boyfriend

Bill Gallagher: Good Riddance, Vile Prince

Robert Jensen: A "Citizens' Oath of Office" for Inauguration Day 2009

Deron Lovaas & Paul Loeb: Missing the Train on the Recovery Package

Norman Solomon: The Return of Triangulation

Sunday January 18, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Binding US Law Requires Prosecutions for Those Who Authorize Torture

Kate Smith/Rob Edwards: 2008: Year of the Global Food Crisis

Frank Rich: White Like Me

John Brown: Rest Easy, Kansas City: Israel to the Rescue

Christopher Cooper: Many Days You Have Lingered Around My Cabin Door

Dennis Bernstein: Is Israel's Gaza War a New War Crime?

Donna Smith: The Horror of Healthcare in America

Saturday January 17, 2009

Philip S. Wenz: Go Green: Our Earth's Future Depends on It

Ahdaf Soueif: The Palestinians Say: 'This Is a War of Extermination'

James F. Vesely: President Obama Should Dispense with 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

Christopher Brauchli: CitiGroup and the Credit Card

Dan Hamburg: We Need a Hero

Ralph Nader: Punishing the Palestinians

Audrey Stewart / Kathy Kelly: Suddenly Bombs Started Falling

Robert E. Griffin: King’s Message of Nonviolence Should Not Be Overlooked

Friday January 16, 2009

Randall Kuhn: When Israel Expelled Palestinians: What if it was San Diego and Tijuana Instead?

Tim Costello, Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: Social Movements 2.0

Glenn Greenwald: FISA Ruling: A Case Study in 8 Years of Lying and Ignorance

Mary Frances Berry: Gay but Equal?

Daniel Solomon: We Need a Unity of Purpose to Rebuild America

Matthew Rothschild: Bush Tarnishes Medal of Freedom by Bestowing It on Uribe

Jonathan Steele: Beware the JFK Analogy

Ray McGovern: What's CIA Director Hayden Hidin'?

Erika Stutzman : Your Right To Be Informed

Paul Krugman: Forgive and Forget?

John Nichols: Holder: Waterboarding Is Torture

Elizabeth Holtzman: Holding Bush Accountable

Caoimhe Butterly : Still Breathing, A Report from Gaza

David Michael Green: So, How'd You Like Your Beer?

Thad Williamson: What Peace Activists Can Achieve in the Age of Obama

Anne Brown: Witness Against Torture Fast for Justice: Day Five

Thursday January 15, 2009

Nick Turse: Future Shock at the Army Science Conference

Dave Lindorff: Only Rats Get Fat as Misdirected Bailout and Stimulus Funds go Down the Rat Hole

Robert Naiman: Kucinich to Introduce Gaza Ceasefire Resolution - Who Will Co-sponsor?

Michael Boyle: In The Shadow of Nixon

Peter Rothberg: Justice for Oscar Grant

Glenn Greenwald: Establishment Washington Unifies Against Prosecutions

Valeria Fernández : Communities Foreclosed

Bruce Robbins: It's Time for US to Cut Israel Off

David Miliband: 'War on Terror' Was Wrong

David Corn: Why Eric Holder Represents What's Wrong with Washington

Amy Goodman: Nothing to Fear Except No Health Care

Michael Lerner: Why the Obama/Clinton Path to Mideast Peace Will Fail

Frida Berrigan: Israel and The United States: Up In Arms

Donna Smith: 2.6 Million New American Jobs and a Working Healthcare System…Who Knew?

Danny Schechter: What Is The King-Obama Lineage?

Robert C. Koehler: The Moral Dead Zone

Wednesday January 14, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Tom Friedman Offers a Perfect Definition of 'Terrorism'

Howard Friel: Chronology: Which Side Violated the Israel-Gaza Ceasefire?

Sally Kohn: Stimulus for All?

Eve Ensler, Kavita Ramdas and Zainab Salbi: Women's Voice and Leadership Crucial for Change: Open Letter to President-Elect Obama

Dave Zweifel: GOP Clings to Reagan Myth

Anastasia Moloney: The Challenge of South America's Populist Left

Bill McKibben, Joseph Romm and John Whitehead: Greening The Stimulus

Michelle Goldberg: Israel's Free Ride Ends

Mary Kane: Scapegoating Minorities for Failures of Banking

Tom Engelhardt: The Apology: How to Turn Over a New Inaugural Leaf

Matthew Rothschild: Don’t Give the Banks Another $350 Billion

David Cook: We Need Your Help Here in Eastern Tennessee

Robert Naiman: Could Dennis Ross Set the Stage for Future War with Iran?

Adham Khalil: Every Second There is a Bomb

Kathy Kelly: Cease Fire, Cease Siege

Rev. William G. Sinkford: Hope and Change for Low-Wage Workers

Tuesday January 13, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Criticisms, Political Pressure and Barack Obama

Robert Dreyfuss: Obama: Declare an End To 'The War on Terror'

Jeff Madrick, Dean Baker and James Hamilton: Teach America: Government Can Work

Barbara Ehrenreich: The Growing Clout of the Nouveau Poor

David Corn: No Soul, No Regret: George W. Bush's Non-Mea-Culpa Tour 2009

Ira Chernus: Does Israeli Intelligence Lie?

Morgan Strong: Gaza and the End of Days

Esther Kaplan: Can Labor Revive the American Dream?

Jamal Dajani: Gaza: The War on Children

Janet L. Parker, Ph.D.: Faith-Based and Secular Groups Join Forces to Fight Big Coal in Virginia

Randall Amster: Peace is the New War

Ivan Eland: We Can No Longer Afford The Empire

Danny Schechter: Hope for Swearing In, Not Swearing At

Paul Rogat Loeb: Saving the Economy, One Furnace at a Time

David Sirota: Four Reasons to Oppose the Bush-Obama Request for Another $350 Billion Bailout

Lindsay Hagerman: Fasting for Justice

Monday January 12, 2009

Larry Beinhart: Time For Tax Hikes

John Nichols: How to Push Obama

Ru Freeman: The First Mistake: Barack Obama’s Silence on Gaza

Mohammed Fares Al Majdalawi : Gaza is Sinking in a River of Blood: A Message from a Gazan to the World

Jeffrey E. Surma: Finding A Sustainable Future at The Dump

William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh : Reach Out To Cuba

Uri Avnery: Israel Is Losing This War

Paul Krugman: Ideas for Obama

Dean Baker: Right to Rent: Helping Homeowners Without Throwing Money at Banks

Angela Blackwell: Make The Stimulus Big, Smart and Fair

Chris Hedges: The Language of Death

Ann Jones: The Afghan Scam

Sunday January 11, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Allegedly "New" Centrism and His ABC Interview Today

Kathy Kelly: Tunnel Vision

Andy Worthington: Seven Years of Guantanamo, Seven Years of Torture and Lies

Haroon Siddiqui: Jewish Dissenters Speak Out Over Gaza

Helen Thomas: History Cannot Save Him

Frank Rich: Eights Years of Madoffs

John Nichols: House Refuses (Overwhelmingly) To Encourage Gaza Peace

Anne Butterfield: Coal Pollution: Hiding in Plain Sight

Deepak Chopra: Memo to Obama: How to Convert to A Peace Economy

Matthew Rothschild: The Great Recession

Julia Irwin: Getting Away with Murder

Bill Quigley: Report from Rafah: Doctors Stopped At Borders

David Cay Johnston: Fiscal Therapy

Saturday January 10, 2009

Robert Fisk: Wherever I Go, I Hear The Same Tired Middle East Comparisons

John Nichols: Impeachment Made Easy: The Illinois Model

Laura Carlsen: Obama and NAFTA

Glenn Greenwald: Bill Moyers on Israel/Gaza

Christopher Brauchli: The Critics and The Credit Card

John W. Dean: The Damaged Institution of the Presidency, How the Obama

Gideon Levy: The Time of The Righteous

Suzanne Baroud: Children of Gaza, Run to the Angels

David Michael Green: Is There A Pill For Regressive-Induced, Hypocrisy-Produced, Chronic Nausea?

Michael Winship: Making A Bid for the American Wild?

Harvey Wasserman: Obama's Stimulus Money Must NOT Be Wasted on Nuke Reactors

Aaron Glantz: Obama and Shinseki Should Let Vets Get Their Benefits

Friday January 9, 2009

Russ Baker: Shock and. . . Oil?

Ari Melber: Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov

Janelle Weiner: Online Giving Replaces Bakesales: 'Citizen Philanthropists' Contribute to US Classrooms

Paul Krugman: The Obama Gap

Ralph Nader: Open Letter to President-Elect Obama

Arianna Huffington: Why Are the Media More Interested in Blago Than in Unraveling the Bailout Mystery?

Matthew Rothschild: Obama Hits Many High Notes in Speech on the Economy

Jonathan Freedland: Talking to Hamas Is a Step Toward Peace

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama Must Get Afghanistan Right

Dave Zirin: No Justice, No Play? Gaza Anger Overwhelms Hoops Contest

Ray McGovern: Obama Picks a Conscience for The CIA

Ben Burkett: Family Farmers Demand Real Change

Jayati Ghosh: The Outcry Is Muted, But The Food Crisis Is Getting Worse

Naomi Klein: Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction

Danny Schechter: Inaugurate This: Waiting for Barack Obama

Thursday January 8, 2009

Craig Aaron: Keep the Sock Puppets Out of Your Stimulus

David Sirota: Prioritizing the Movement Over the Party

Jimmy Carter: Israel's War on Gaza: An Unnecessary War

Glenn Greenwald: The DOJ Pursues The "Real Criminal" in The NSA Spying Scandal

Roberto Rodriguez: Our Nation's Soul Sickness - Part II

Cora Weiss: Vision for A New Foreign Policy

Tom Hayden: Obama's Silence

Helen Thomas: War Is Hell

Juan Cole: Neoconservatism Dies in Gaza

Steve Niva: War of Choice: How Israel Manufactured the Gaza Escalation

Jim Goodman: Centrist Cabinet, Progressive President?

Robert C. Koehler: Be The Peace

Michael T. Klare: The Problem of Cheap Oil

Charles Knight, Carl Conetta, James P. McGovern: It's Time To Scrutinize The Pentagon Budget

Ben Brabson, Ph.D. & Lisa Ramsden: 'Clean Coal' Doesn't Exist, Despite Industry Marketing Campaign

Wednesday January 7, 2009

Teryn Norris and Jesse Jenkins: The Danger of Green Stimulus

John Geyman, MD: Memo to Obama: National Health Insurance The Only Solution

Darin Gilley: Did the Four Horsemen Destroy the Auto Industry?

Robert Naiman: Can Congress Speak Out Against Gaza Violence? Yes, They Can!

Mark Steel: What Creationists Hate Is That We Emerged by Accident

Robert Fisk: Why Do They Hate The West So Much, We Will Ask

Margaret Krome: Innovations in Mexico Lift Up Country's Poor

Ted Rall: New Year's Revolutions

Dean Baker: Free Market Myth

John Feffer: Israel: Mini-Me?

Robin Wright Penn & John Prendergast: Cell Phones and Congo's War Against Women

Amy Goodman: Israeli Voices for Peace

John Friedrich: Killing Children is Never Legitimate

Marjorie Cohn: Israel’s Collective Punishment of Gaza

Tuesday January 6, 2009

Ira Chernus: To Help Palestine, Be Pro-Israel Too

Ru Freeman: Allowing the Destruction of Palestine, We Die Hungry Too

Jerry Lanson: When The Press Corps Packs It In

Esra Özyürek : A Turkish 'I Apologize' Campaign to Armenians

Moazzam Begg: Why Guantanamo Detainees Deserve Asylum in Europe

George Monbiot: Shell Game: It Will Take More Than Goodwill and Greenwash to Save The Biosphere

Ghassan Michel Rubeiz: International Community Must Stop Gaza War

Eric Stoner: Obama: Listen to Iraqi Opinion

Gary Kamiya: The Israel Rules

Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Impressive New OLC Chief

Tom Engelhardt: The Ponzi Scheme Presidency

Steve Macek and Mitchell Szczepanczyk: America's DTV Transition Beset with Problems

Dean Baker: The Anti-Stimulus Crowd: The Fear of Success

Mark Weisbrot: Stimulus Time: The Fierce Urgency of Now

Lewis Milford: States Should Lead Green Recovery Investment

Monday January 5, 2009

Neve Gordon: Israel's New War Ethic

Bill McKibben: Think Again: Climate Change

Pierre Tristam: Compelling Journalism Persists Despite Media's Business Struggle

Robert Parry: Israel's Looming Catastrophe

Pamela L. Finmark and William D. Chalmers: 'Patriot Dollars' to Reform Politics

Chris Hedges: Lost in the Rubble

Robert Fisk: Keeping Out The Cameras and Reporters Simply Doesn't Work

Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry: A 50-Year Farm Bill

Jessica Mosby: Flow: Who Owns the World’s Water?

Robert Dreyfuss: Bush's Last War Crime?

Bruce Fein & Ralph Nader: Bush-Cheney Deserve Censure for Declaring War Against The Constitution

Robert Naiman: Calling Out Bush's War in Gaza

Cliff Schecter: George W. Bush's Legacy of Failure

Donna Smith: The PT Barnum Factor in American Healthcare: One Prescription at a Time

Sunday January 4, 2009

Rupert Cornwell: Bush Burns the 'Midnight Rules' Oil

Gideon Levy: And There Lie the Bodies

Simon Tisdall: Obama Is Losing a Battle He Doesn't Know He's In

Glenn Greenwald: Orwell, Blinding Tribalism, Selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza

Saturday January 3, 2009

Laila Al-Arian: To Live and Die in Gaza

Robert Fisk : What's in a Name? Quite a Lot, Where the Military Is Concerned

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Making 'Duck Soup' Out of 2009

Frida Berrigan: We Arm the World

Friday January 2, 2009

Glenn Greenwald: More Oddities in The US "Debate" Over Israel/Gaza

Johann Hari: My New Year Resolution is to Lose My Bottle – and Quit Coke

Ali Abunimah: Inheriting Bush's Blinkers

Amy Goodman: Remembering Voices of Resistance

David Sirota: FDR prolonged the Great Depression? Really?

Sarah van Gelder: 10 Reasons to be Hopeful about 2009, and 3 Reasons to be Terrified

Wenonah Hauter: Murky Waters: Why Privatization Is Not the Solution to Fixing America’s Aging Water Infrastructure Systems

Peter Dyer: Torture & the Crime of Aggressive War

Ramzy Baroud: Gaza and the World: Will Things Ever Change?

David Michael Green: More Jefferson, Less Rove

Danny Schechter: As The New Year Begins, The Old Year Refuses To Die

Thursday January 1, 2009

Rosa Brooks: Israel Can't Bomb Its Way to Peace

Timothy Garton Ash: 2009 Brings Hard Choices Over the Future of Capitalism

Michael Tomasky in Washington: Welcome to America's Hall of Shame

Roberto Rodriguez: America's Soul Sickness & Permanent War: Obama's Rude Awakening

Christopher Cooper: Go Upright And Vital And Speak The Rude Truth In All Ways

Ralph Nader: Letter to Bush on Gaza Crisis

Robert C. Koehler: The Future of Civilization

Jen Marlowe: Abeer’s Baby

Neve Gordon and Jeff Halper: Where's the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?

Glenn Greenwald: Another Brutal Year for Liberty

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