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Sunday February 28, 2010

Elaine Brower: Our Hands and Help for Haiti
Ralph Nader: Toyota's Enablers: Deregulation Helped the Automaker Avoid Scrutiny
Niall Ferguson: America, the Fragile Empire
Robert Parry: The NYT Veers Neocon
Pierre Tristam: Ending Private Insurers' Chokehold on Health Care
David Michael Green: Bipartisan Is Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Win
Barnabe Geisweiller: Vestiges of War: How We Choose to Remember
Dave Lindorff: An Accidental Experience with a Health System that Seems to Work

Saturday February 27, 2010

Christopher Brauchli: Pat, the Pope and the Devil
Mark Engler: Hilda Solis: Protecting Workers, Not Corporations
Francis Shor: Calculating Life for a Dying Empire
Lauri E. Kallio: Cultural, Economic and Workforce Structures Help Reinforce U.S. Militarism
Ray McGovern: Iran Captures a 'Good' Terrorist
Michael Winship: Two Legal Foes Unite to Fight -- for Same Sex Marriage
Robert C. Koehler: The Progress of Man

Friday February 26, 2010

David Sirota: It Is Happening Here
Amitabh Pal: We Need to Save the Earth
Beverly Bell: 'Post Disaster Needs Assessment' - Whose Needs? Whose Assessment?
Robert Naiman: Rachel Corrie Gets Her Day in Court
Danny Postel: The Specter Haunting Iran
John Nichols: The Missing Voices at the Healthcare Summit
Sandy LeonVest: Consumers Are Sleeping With the Enemy – and Paying for It
Frida Berrigan: Sunrise or Sunset for Iraq?

Thursday February 25, 2010

Andy Worthington: Four Prisoners Freed From Guantánamo: Three in Albania, One in Spain
Mark Weisbrot: Latin America's Path to Independence
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Look Who Took Money From Toyota
Khadija Sharife: Climate Change's Secret Weapon
Robert Reich: Bust Up the Health Insurance Trusts
Norman Solomon: War Politics: Numb and Number
Bill McKibben: The Attack on Climate-Change Science
Raed Jarrar: The Iraq Withdrawal: Obama vs. the Pentagon
Ru Freeman: The Ignorant Righteous v. The Lower Merion School District: The Rush to Judgment

Wednesday February 24, 2010

Tom Andrews: Iraq Withdrawal in Danger
Aaron Glantz: A New Jobs Bill Is Needed
Jim Hightower: Fighting the Subversion of Our People's Sovereignty
Michael Schwalbe: Making a Place for Labor History
John Halle: Other Priorities: Three Lessons and a Prayer
Harvey Wasserman: $645 MILLION in Lipstick for a Dead Radioactive Pig
Jim Goodman: The Happy Story of GM Crops
Jeff Biggers: What's the Matter With Midwestern Democrats and Coal?
Robert Scheer: No Banker Left Behind
Jesselyn Radack: Let’s Rein in Tax Cheats
Michael T. Klare: Avatar ,The Prequel: Will 'Earth’s Last Stand' Sweep the 2013 Oscars?
Amy Goodman: Cracking Down on Fracking

Tuesday February 23, 2010

Medea Benjamin: With 1000 US Soldiers Dead in Afghanistan, Time to Revive the Anti-War Agenda
La Via Campesina: Say ‘No!’ to Corporate Control of Agriculture and Food!
Beverly Bell: Raising Up Another Haiti
Andy Coates: Do Not Resuscitate the ‘Public Option’
George Lakoff: Health Means Life; Health Means Freedom
Linda McQuaig: Restraint for Everything but Sports
John Heritage: Recalibrating Our Goals on 40th Earth Day
Donna Smith: Don’t It Make Your Wide Eyes Cry, Iowa? Another Cancer Patient Grovels
Altaf Rahamatilla: Beyond Tea Party Politics

Monday February 22, 2010

Dean Baker: We Need a Scheme for Full Employment
Laura Flanders: Looking Closer at Joseph Stack
Sean Gonsalves: Gimme That Ole Time Religion
Andy Worthington: As Police Launch New Torture Inquiry, It’s Time for Shaker Aamer to Come Home from Guantánamo
Kathleen Schuler: Warning: Consumer Products May Be Harmful to Your Health
Glenn Greenwald: The Flailing Falsehoods of America's War Criminals
Robyn Blumner: Student Censorship
Chris Hedges: Boycott FedEx
Ray McGovern: New Grist for Hype on Iran
Paul Krugman: The Bankruptcy Boys
Tom Engelhardt: Explain Something to Me: Fixing What's Wrong in Washington... in Afghanistan

Sunday February 21, 2010

Jeffrey D. Sachs: Climate Skeptics Are Recycled Critics of Controls on Tobacco and Acid Rain
Jeff Cohen: I Support Terry Nichols’ Hunger Strike
Tom Andrews: CPAC -- The Right Wing Olympics
Jason Leopold: Yoo Called Civilian Slaughter OK
Matt Taibbi: Wall Street's Bailout Hustle
Dallas Darling: Domestic Terrorism or Tax Revolts?
George Lakoff: A Good Week For Science — and Insight into Politics

Saturday February 20, 2010

Geoffrey Lean: Green Activists Are Losing Their Fire
Robert Naiman: NYT 'Mystery' Op-Ed Calls for More Afghan Civilian Deaths
Bob Herbert: Falling Further Behind
Jeff Biggers: Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Mike Roselle
Barnabe F. Geisweiller: Hate 2.0
Christopher Brauchli: Republicans - Good Government's Friends
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: What Are We Bid for American Justice?

Friday February 19, 2010

Erich Pica: President Obama's Nuclear Reversal
John Prados: CIA Accountability Hits New Lows
Sarah Laskow: Nuclear Plants Will Go Up in Georgia
Jim White: Obama Quietly Continues Bush’s Disdain for UN
Paul Krugman: California Death Spiral
Susan Jacoby: Obama's Faith-Based Initiative Still on Shaky First Amendment Ground
John Cassidy: Tea Party U.S.A.: It’s Still the Economy, Stupid!
Dave Lindorff: Wake Up America: The Looming Threat of Terrorists in Small Aircraft... and Cars
Mark Weisbrot: How Wars Are Made
Jess Hunter-Bowman: Some Sanity Creeps Into the Drug War
Amie Newman: ACLU Sues USAID: Are We Exporting US Taxpayer Funded Religion?
Glenn Greenwald: Terrorism: The Most Meaningless and Manipulated Word
Bill Quigley: Three in a Million - Voices from the Haitian Camps

Thursday February 18, 2010

Andrew Simms: The Price of Environmental Destruction? There Is None
Lucinda Marshall: Chase CHASE Away From Our Mountains
Dave Lindorff: Battle for Marjah: The US Has Already Lost
William J. Astore: American Blitzkrieg
Randy Shaw: Defying Progressives, Obama Revives Nuclear Power
Scott Ritter: The End of Obama’s Vision of a Nuke-Free World
John Nichols: Senator Mellencamp?
Robert Naiman: We've Caught the Taliban Chief! Can We Go Home Now?
Linh Dinh: Casino Time
Susan Nemitz: On the Front Lines of the Digital Divide ...
Michael B. Keegan: Fighting Back Against a Corporate Court
Anthony Arnove: Lessons From Howard Zinn
Amy Goodman: Obama’s Nuclear Option

Wednesday February 17, 2010

Beverly Bell: Magalie Marcelin
Ralph Nader: King Obesity's Realm
Harvey Wasserman: Obama's Atomic Blunder
John R. MacArthur: Rattle Obama With Primary Challenger
Jim Hightower: Greed Trophy up for Grabs
Laura Flanders: Human Interest in Bank Practices
Rod Leonard: The Volcker Rule in Food Safety
Frida Berrigan: America’s Global Weapons Monopoly
Mark Morford: Hi! Everything Wants to Kill You

Tuesday February 16, 2010

Charlie Cray: Corporate Death Squads Come Back to Haunt U.S. Companies
Dean Baker: Obama and the 'Savvy' Bankers
Jeff Biggers: Does the President's 'Clean Coal' Glibness Turn American Citizens Into Acceptable Collateral Damage?
Mark Weisbrot: Answer to the People, Not Greedy Elites
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Dear Sarah: Say It Is So, Run for President
Derrick Z. Jackson: We Still Have a Lot to Learn from Nelson Mandela
Margaret Krome: Give Higher Priority to Farm to School Programs
Donna Smith: A Mother’s Personal Mission: Healthcare Not Warfare
John Buell: Car Culture and Global Energy Conflict

Monday February 15, 2010

Ann Wright: Congress Told That DOD Data on Sexual Assault and Rape in Military Is 'Lacking in Accuracy, Reliability and Validity'
Bill McKibben: Washington's Snowstorms, Brought to You by Global Warming
Joan Baxter: Africa's Land and Family Farms - Up for Grabs?
Robert Naiman: Team America Kills Five Kids in Marja
Dan Brook: Natural and Unnatural Disasters: Tsunamis, Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Global Warming, and Poverty
Glenn Greenwald: Our Human Rights vs. The Others
Robert Alvarez: Nukes Aren’t the Answer
Chris Hedges: The Information Super-Sewer
Tom Engelhardt: Hold Onto Your Underwear: This Is NOT a National Emergency
Norman Solomon: Dollars for Death, Pennies for Life

Sunday February 14, 2010

Ronnie Cummins and Will Allen: Climate Catastrophe: Surviving the 21st Century
Adrienne Fitch-Frankel: Bitter Chocolate
Bill Quigley: US Brags Haiti Response is a 'Model' While More Than a Million Remain Homeless in Haiti
Beverly Bell: Beyond Disaster Aid to Solidarity
Eric Margolis: Ahmadinejad Provokes Western Anger
Joshua Brollier: 'The Coming Revolt of the Guards': Thoughts from Dane County Jail
David Michael Green: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way

Saturday February 13, 2010

Glenn Greenwald: Religious Faith in Government Accusations
Matthew Rothschild: Reid and Obama Abandon the Jobs Front
Jules Boykoff: A Tale of Two Vancouvers
Scott McLarty: Democracy for Humans!
Christopher Brauchli: Cremation Solicitation
Michael Winship: From the Annals of Sno-Cone Science
Harvey Wasserman: Our Founders were NOT Fundamentalists
Russell Mokhiber: The Monopolization of America
Michael Parenti: What Do Empires Do?
Ralph Nader: No Nukes

Friday February 12, 2010

Robert Weissman: A Disadvantaged Class? The Corporate Speech Index
Sandy LeonVest: Defeating ‘Corporate Personhood’ Means Defying Corporate Power – From the Ground Up
Robert Naiman: U.S. Poised to Commit War Crimes in Marjah
Andy Fisher: Hunger and Obesity: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Diane Farsetta: Take Nuclear Provisions Out of Clean Energy Jobs Act
Jennifer Doak: The Kids Are All Right
Nancy Talanian: If Military Commissions Are So Great, Why Only 3 in 8 Years?
Naomi Klein: Haiti: A Creditor, Not a Debtor
Ervin Laszlo: The Crises Are Over — Now Back to Business-As-Usual?
Randall Amster: Empire of the Sunset

Thursday February 11, 2010

Josh Sugarmann: Coming Soon to a National Park Near You: Guns, Guns, Guns!
Sally Kohn: The Mirror of Our Discontent
Beverly Bell: Fighting Like Hell
Steve Fraser: The New Deal in Reverse: How the Obama Administration Ended Up Where Franklin Roosevelt Began
Michelle Chen: Moving On Up and Hitting a Wall: Social Mobility in the U.S. and Europe
Sarah Anderson: Time to Tax Financial Speculation
Harvey Wasserman: Vermont's Radioactive Nightmare
Tom Engelhardt: An American Way of War for the Record Books
Daphne Wysham: Is Our Democracy Becoming a Joke?
Catherine Crump: Cellular User Privacy at Risk
Christine Ahn and Gwyn Kirk: Democracy Thwarts U.S. Base Plans

Wednesday February 10, 2010

Paul Krugman: Oh. My. God. Obama Clueless
Clive Stafford Smith: Binyam Mohamed: A Shameful Cover-Up
Glen Ford: U.S. Attempts to Erase Haitian Nationhood
Simon Johnson: Obama Still Doesn't Get It
Rachel Smolker: Burn Up the Biosphere and Call It Renewable Energy: The New Taxpayer Bailout That Will Make You Sick AND Poor
Jim Hightower: Corporate Welfare Roulette
Rev. John Dear: Obama and the Works of Death
David C. Hall: Mr President, Building Up the Nuclear Weapons Complex Is NOT Nuclear Disarmament
Ralph Nader and Robert Weissman: The Case Against Corporate Speech
Glenn Greenwald: The Mythical Potency of Terrorism Fear-Mongering
John Feffer: Rugged Collectivism
Zack Exley: Rahm, His Critics, and the American People
Tim Dickinson: No We Can't: Obama Muzzled His Supporters
Nick Turse: The 700 Military Bases of Afghanistan: Black Sites in the Empire of Bases
Amy Goodman: Haiti, Forgive Us

Tuesday February 9, 2010

Dave Zirin: When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown
Sarah Lazare: Soldier Faces Iraq Court Martial for Writing Angry Hip Hop Song About Stop-Loss
Frances Moore Lappé: Justice Thomas' Reasoning -- Dangerous for Democracy
Mark Weisbrot: Haiti Needs Sunlight and Accountability on Relief and Reconstruction Effort
Derrick Z. Jackson: Taking a Bullet on Wall St.
Robert Jensen: NY Times: No Conflict of Interest - With the Conventional Wisdom
Robert Naiman: If Michael Moore Would Run for President
Laura Flanders: Lifting the Veil on US Troops in Pakistan
Sithembile Ndema: Fighting for Africa's Food Security
Tom Engelhardt: Washington’s Greatest Afghan War Danger: Self-Deception
Bill Quigley: Haiti Numbers – 27 Days After Quake

Monday February 8, 2010

Helen Thomas: Obama, The War President
Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben: Join the Climate Trial
Sean Gonsalves: They Think We’re Stupid
Laura Carlsen: Murder Capital of the World
Paul Hochfeld: What to Say to Those Who Think Single Payer Advocates Are Wacko
Thom Hartmann: Globalization Is Killing the Globe: Return to Local Economies
Amanda Marcotte: The Sex Ed Bait and Switch
James Carroll: Political Prayer Breakfasts Are Bad Religion
Paul Krugman: America Is Not Yet Lost
Laura Rubin: A Worthy Goal: Feeding All Our Children
Pratap Chatterjee: Operation Breakfast Redux: Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969?
Chris Hedges: The Terror-Industrial Complex

Sunday February 7, 2010

Margaret Cook: I'm So Proud of You, Robin Cook
Jim Naureckas: Journalists Examine Teapot Tempests as Real Glaciers Melt
Robert Reich: Hey Congress - Stand up to Wall Street!
Charles Clover: Why Food Inc. Should Make Us All Retch
Eric Margolis: Wars Sending US into Ruin
David Michael Green: Just Gimme Some Truth

Saturday February 6, 2010

Humaira Shahid and Ritu Sharma: Violence Against Women Is a Global Struggle
Derrick Z. Jackson: The Double Standard at CBS
Jeff Biggers: An Old Prayer for Clean Coal: Strip-Mining Jesus
Donna Smith: Repubs, Dems, Blue Dogs and Tea Partiers: Everybody Loves Medicare
Christopher Brauchli: Heeere's Johnny.
Ralph Nader: The Best Way to Honor Howard Zinn
Michael Winship: Lobbyists Retreat but Never Surrender

Friday February 5, 2010

Robert Reich: Who's Killing Financial Reform?
Christopher Dreisbach: Constitutionally Illiterate
Bonnie Bricker and Adil E. Shamoo: Iraq Policy: D
Glenn Greenwald: The Lynch Mob Mentality
Sarah Laskow: What’s Missing from the New Clean Energy Agenda?
Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Lennox Yearwood: Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham...Earth
Julie Hollar: ‘Climategate’ Overshadows Copenhagen: Media regress to the bad old days of false balance
Harvey Wasserman: Remembering Mahatma Zinn
Johann Hari: There's Real Hope From Haiti and It's Not What You Expect
Paula Crossfield: Message to President Obama: Why Trade Will Not Save Rural America
Bill Quigley: Haiti - Still Starving 23 Days Later

Thursday February 4, 2010

Andy Worthington: Swiss Take Two Guantánamo Uighurs, Save Obama from Having to Do the Right Thing
Benjamin Dangl: Beer Battles: Workers in Belgium Take on Brewing Giant
Paul Buchheit: A Progressive Tax: It's Not Socialism, It's Correctionism
Robert C. Koehler: A Festival of Peace
Robert Lipsyte: 30-Second Warnings
Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez: We Wanted a Nelson Mandela; We Got a Clarence Thomas
Glenn Greenwald: On the Claimed 'War Exception' to the Constitution
Ted Rall: The Contrarian Manifesto
Neil deMause: Sidelining Cap and Trade’s Green Critics
Robert Scheer: Volcker Rules
Jill Richardson: Shrimp's Dirty Secrets: Why America's Favorite Seafood Is a Health and Environmental Nightmare

Wednesday February 3, 2010

Jeff Biggers: Bring Back Van Jones! Blindsiding Clean Energy With Dirty Coal
Stephen Zunes: Obama's State of the Union
Helen Caldicott: How Did an Idealistic President Become a Champion of Nuclear Power and By Default, Weapons Proliferation?
Jim Hightower: Republicans Out of Touch as Middle Class Sinks
Sam Daly : Stop the Green Tech Coup, Military Industry on the Offensive
Robert Naiman: Eat Your Spinach: Time for Peace Talks in Afghanistan
Amie Newman: Focus on the Family: Funding Extremism Millions of Dollars at a Time
Amy Goodman: Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian
Megan Tady: Obama Wants You to Create the Next YouTube
Michael Schwartz: The Iraqi Oil Conundrum
Kathy Kelly: Decency and Strength
Mark Weisbrot: Why Washington Cares About Countries Like Haiti and Honduras

Tuesday February 2, 2010

Donna Smith: If Terror Is the Measure, It’s Healthcare War
Zach Carter: Don’t Let Citizens United Wreck Our Economy
Laura Flanders: Hijinks or Undercover Ops?
Glenn Greenwald: What Exactly Did Bush and Cheney Do Wrong?
Matthew Rothschild: Barack Obama and the Fading of Hope
Monika Kalra Varma and Kerry Kennedy: Guiding Haiti's Roadmap to Recovery With Human Rights
MN Senator John Marty: Single Payer Solution for Obama
David Kristjanson-Gural: It’s the Economists Stupid
George Monbiot: Mock This Campaign If You Like, But How Else Can Blair Be Held to Account?
Sue Sturgis: Obama's Nuclear Generation Gap?
Norman Solomon: Don’t Call It a 'Defense' Budget

Monday February 1, 2010

Glenn Greenwald: Susan Collins Spreads Central Myth About the Constitution
Michael Day: We Need More, and Bigger, Gardens, Not McMansions
Dean Baker: Walking Away From Negative Equity
Chris Hedges: The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News
Paul Krugman: Good and Boring
Dave Lindorff: Talk Now With the Taliban (We’re Going to End Up Having to Talk With Them Anyhow)
David Potorti: Howard Zinn’s Mirror
Carol Paris: What I Have Learned Doing Civil Disobedience for Single Payer
Ira Chernus: Israeli Women Soldiers Break the Silence
William H. Chafe: Roots of a Protest That Altered History
James Carroll: Zinn’s Life Was a Testament to Possibility
Gary Younge: The West Owes Haiti a Bailout. And It Would Be a Hand-Back, Not a Handout
Tom Engelhardt: Seven Days in January
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