Views - August 2009

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
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
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 & 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 & 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?
Marjorie Cohn: In Memoriam: Lawyer, Activist Doris Brin Walker
Thom Hartmann: Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal

Sunday August 16, 2009

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
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
Paula Crossfield: 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
Timothy 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