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Wednesday June 30, 2010

OpenSecrets: The Deregistration Dilemma: Are Lobbyists Quitting the Business as Federal Disclosure Rules Tighten?
Bahati Ntama Jacques and Beth Tuckey: Congo's Quest for Liberation Continues
Mark Weisbrot: One Year On, Honduras Rift Persists
Joyce Marcel: FIFA Fever
Medea Benjamin: Senator Carl Levin Fiddling With War While Detroit Burns
Jim Harkness: A Final Bite of Kimchi?
Robert Scheer: The Chinese Aren’t Coming
Tom Andrews: White House Ducks Afghanistan Exit
Jeff Biggers: Where's the Outrage? EPA Betrays Coalfields (Again) With New Mountaintop Removal Permit
Jim Hightower: The GOP's Genetic Link to Big Oil
Eric Holt Gimenez: Food Sovereignty Chronicles
Amy Goodman: We Can’t Afford War

Tuesday June 29, 2010

Laura Flanders: Reading Into Gun Regulations
Ralph Nader: Questions for Supreme Court Nominee Kagan
Maher Arar: In Refusing to Hear My Case, the Supreme Court Has Put the World's Peace and Order in Danger
Sasha Abramsky: Bus Cuts Drive Americans Back to Cars
Matt Taibbi: Lara Logan, You Suck
Stephen Kinzer: BP in the Gulf -- The Persian Gulf
Linda McQuaig: Police, Bankers Exempt From Austerity
Stephen Zunes: Congress Jumps to Israel’s 'Self-Defense'
Kari Lydersen: From the U.S. Social Forum: A Tricky Road to a Healthier Future
Paul Rogat Loeb: Unexpected Environmental Alliances Amidst the Oil Spill: 'Jesus Will Rip Your Head Off'
Michael Winship: In Summer's Heat, Washington Seeks Refuge in the Loophole
Dean Baker: Why Should We Trust the IMF?

Monday June 28, 2010

Joseph Huff-Hannon: Honduras, One Year After the Coup
Oliver Stone, Mark Weisbrot and Tariq Ali: Response to Attack From the New York Times' Larry Rohter
Philip Mattera: Corporate Social Irresponsibility
Madhusree Mukerjee: The Dirty Side of 'Clean' Power
US Senator Robert Byrd: From Our Archives: Arrogance of Power
Tom Engelhardt: Obama Up to His Waist in the Big Muddy: On Appointing Celebrity Generals
James Carroll: A Nation Under Post-Traumatic Stress
Naomi Klein: Sticking the Public With the Bill for the Bankers’ Crisis
Bob Dreyfuss: Afghanistan: The Land Where Theories of Warfare Go to Die
Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond: One Year Later: Honduras Resistance Strong Despite US-Supported Coup

Sunday June 27, 2010

Catherine Porter: When Police Stick to Phony Script
Brattleboro Reformer Editorial: Living in the Petroleum Age
John Hilary: May Toronto's G20 Be the Last
Michelle Chen: Family Leave Politics Move Toward Workplace Fairness and LGBT Equality
Dave Zirin: Putting Tears Aside: Celebrating Ghana's Victory

Saturday June 26, 2010

John de Graaf: Who Is 'Productive'?
Mark Weisbrot: Will the US Ever Get Latin America?
Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez: Ipalnemoani: That For What We Live For
Bob Peterson: A Librarian in Every School, Books in Every Home • A Modest Proposal
David Korten: The Big Picture: 5 Ways to Know if You’re Making a Difference
Christopher Brauchli: Russia and Texas and Evolution
Saul Landau: Remember Vietistan?
Pierre Tristam: Firing McChrystal Isn’t Enough. Fire the War

Friday June 25, 2010

Robert Naiman: Speaker Pelosi, More War Funding Next Week Is No 'Emergency'
Sarah Laskow: As Risks for Oil and Gas Grow, USSF Offers Change
Conn Hallinan: Turkey, America, and Empire's Twilight
Donna Smith: I Can See Healthcare From Here
Wallace J. Nichols, Sarah Kornfeld and Andy Myers: Petrolholics Anonymous
Tom Gallagher: Thank You General McChrystal
Tom Turnipseed: General McChaos Is Canned; Times Square Bomber Blowback
Ray McGovern: Obama Misses the Afghan Exit Ramp
Ted Rall: In Dire Straits, Americans Whimper Instead
Philip Hoare: A Victory for the Whalers, a Defeat for Humanity
Russell Mokhiber: Green Change Wants Delaware to Revoke BP’s Corporate Charter
Mark Morford: BP Welcomes You to the Apocalypse

Thursday June 24, 2010

Ralph Nader: Naked Insecurity
Fabien Cousteau: Our Ocean in Revery and Neglect
Chuck Collins: Finally, a Progressive Estate Tax Introduced
Stephen Zunes: Israel's Dubious Investigation of Flotilla Attack
Tom Engelhardt: America Detached from War: Bush’s Pilotless Dream, Smoking Drones, and Other Strange Tales from the Crypt
Beverly Bell: Jean-Jean's Survival: What's the Worth of a Haitian Child?
Kathy Kelly and Dan Pearson: 'Americans Don’t Flinch' – They Duck!
Andy Worthington: Abu Zubaydah and the Case Against Torture Architect James Mitchell
Robert Naiman: Stone's 'Border' Shows Fall of South America's Berlin Wall
Catherine Porter: I Am a Protester, Not a Terrorist
Laura Flanders: Drone Attacks to Stimulate Economy?
Michelle Chen: No End in Sight for Foreclosures in Communities of Color
Robert C. Koehler: Beyond Petroleum

Wednesday June 23, 2010

Tom Andrews: Three Things You Missed in Rolling Stone's McChrystal Profile
Joy First: Witness Against Torture Trial: Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives
Jim Hightower: Enter, Real Populists
Glen Ford: America Can't Solve Crises Because It's a Company-Owned Town
Pat LaMarche: Too Many Think BP Should Get a Pass
Donna Smith: US Social Forum in Detroit: Activists Converge on Motor City
James Denselow: Hail to the Whistleblowers: Whistleblowers like those at WikiLeaks make huge sacrifices and are a vital last resort to check the powers of government
Norman Solomon: From Great Man to Great Screwup: Behind the McChrystal Uproar
Amy Goodman: Another World Is Possible, Another Detroit Is Happening
Ray McGovern: Obama & Insubordination: Is He Truman or Mr. Milquetoast?

Tuesday June 22, 2010

Medea Benjamin: The Hummer Is Dead. And We Buried It
Michael T. Klare: BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come: Four Scenarios for the Next Energy Mega-Disaster
Tom Andrews: Firing McChrystal Is Not Enough
Paul Buchheit: You Can't See the Boarded-Up Schools From the Mansions
Norman Robbins and Kevin Martin: Preventing Both an Iranian Nuclear Weapon and War
Andrés T. Tapia: World Cup Goal Shakes Core American Belief
Robert Jensen: The Anguish of the Age: Emotional Reactions to Collapse
Tim Karr: The Fate of the Internet. Decided in a Back Room
Laura Carlsen: Lethal Force on the Border
Sarah van Gelder: Detroit’s Renewal: Can It Inspire the Social Forum?
Marian Wright Edelman: School Diversity Under Siege: Separate Still Isn't Equal
Amira Hass: And What of All the Other Deaths?

Monday June 21, 2010

Dean Baker: Soothe Bond Market by Challenging Powerful, Not Gutting Social Security
Susan Galleymore: Israeli Shipping Line Zim Shut Out at Oakland Docks
Robert Fox: Is There an End in Sight in Afghanistan?
Bob Dreyfuss: Gaza: End of the Siege?
Prairie Miller: South of the Border: Oliver Stone Does Chavez
Carrie Whitaker: Socialism? We Wish, Says Local Group
Will Watterson : What’s Wrong with Being the World’s Most Peaceful Country?
Robert Fisk: Fighting Talk: The New Propaganda
James Carroll: On the Verge of Collapse

Sunday June 20, 2010

Naomi Klein: Gulf Oil Spill: A Hole in the World
Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss: Witness: US Agent Aimed at Mexican
Robert Naiman: Obey's Afghanistan: At Long Last, It's Guns vs. Butter
Jane Stoever and Ann Suellentrop: Protesters Arrested at Nuke-Parts Plant in Kansas City
Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg: Obama’s Oily Waterloo
Clancy Sigal: Obama's Liberal Critics Find Their Voice
Joan Smith: What About Compensation for Bhopal?

Saturday June 19, 2010

Ronnie Cummins: Generation Monsanto (GM)--Why We Need Labels on GM Foods
Christopher Brauchli: The Maligning of BP
Michelle Chen: Driven by Globalization, Today’s Slave Trade Thrives at Home and Abroad
Tom Turnipseed: Ragheads, Rednecks and Greene Machines; Peculiar Politics in South Carolina
Michael Winship: Miley, We Hardly Knew Ye
Ralph Nader: Washington: Theater of the Absurd
Joshua Brollier and Kathy Kelly: Unrest in Pakistan: Moving Beyond U.S. National Interest

Friday June 18, 2010

Joyce Zonana: On Not Going Home Again
John Nichols: Top Republicans Offer BP Apologies, Tips to Avoid Accountability
Paul Rogat Loeb: Want To Help? 10 Ways To Start Making Change
Ritt Goldstein: Problems with Nuclear Power Highlighted by Gulf Disaster?
Stephen Phelps: Imagine What Father's Day Is Like for All the Dads and Sons in Prison
David Michael Green: President Obama Doesn’t Strike Again
Nick Turse: Kick Ass or Buy Gas? How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP’s Disaster Through the Pentagon
Harvey Wasserman: Corporate Gusher, Public Sun

Thursday June 17, 2010

David Krieger: Tale of Two Nuclear Whistleblowers
Adil E. Shamoo: Are Foreign Lives of Equal Worth to Ours?
Mark LeVine: Senator Chuck Schumer and the "Economic Strangulation" of Gaza
Ruth Rosen: Gender Apartheid Online
Michelle Chen: Mailorder Wombs: Outsourcing Birth to India
Robert C. Koehler: Ancient Oceans: The Planet's Plunder Will Continue in the Name of Progress
Joan Vennochi: Live Video Feed of Endless Gush of Oil: A Damning Fountain of Truth
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Where's Dick Cheney on the BP Oil Gusher?
Joshua Green: The Military Money Pit
Robert Weissman: Five Questions for BP's Tony Hayward

Wednesday June 16, 2010

Kent Paterson: Manufacturing a Border Crisis
Joyce Marcel: Day 59
Ronnie Cummins: The Oil Spill in Bathroom
Danny Schechter: Memories and Misery in CNN Land While Homeowers Seek Mortgage Justice and Foreclosures Mount
Robert Scheer: Rape and Spillage
Donna Smith: Humiliation and Shame: Part of Being Insured in America
Ted Rall: Ethnic Cleansing in Kyrgyzstan: More American Chickens Come Home to Roost
Frances Moore Lappé: The Lesson of BP: Too Much Greed? Too Little Guts?
Jim Hightower: BP Is a Corporate Criminal
Ira Chernus: Obama's Conservative Call to War Against Oil
Amy Goodman: Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives
Greg Kaufmann: Human Trafficking: Not Someone Else's Problem

Tuesday June 15, 2010

Tom Engelhardt: Entering the Soviet Era in America : Call the Politburo, We’re in Trouble
John Perkins: Battle the Corporatocracy by Demanding Sustainability
Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss: Witnesses of Border Killing Dispersed
Robert Weissman: Closing BP's Escape Routes
Ralph Nader: Cashiering Helen Thomas
Megan Tady: Internet Stars for Internet Freedom
Jeremy Scahill: Is Blackwater's Erik Prince Moving to the United Arab Emirates?
Robert Jensen: No Nukes/No Empire: The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Requires the End of the U.S. Empire
Robert Reich: BP: It’s Not a Contest Between the US and Britain; It’s a Contest Between Citizenship Interests and Shareholder Interests
Dean Baker: Surprises in Store for Economists
Linda McQuaig: Partner in Flotilla ‘Farce’
Avril Moore: War Is No Game, So Why Is It Marketed to Children as One?

Monday June 14, 2010

Jane Hamsher: Sierra Club and Gang Green: Oil Spill Cleanup 'Just Fine'
Chris Hedges: A ‘Prophecy’ Worth Watching
Mark Weisbrot: Recovery Takes Political Courage
Lisa Griffith: Banks Profit While Our Farmers Fail
Neil deMause: Who Ate the Dessert?: Deficit Mania Ignores Growth of Income Gap
Dave Zirin: Glenn Beck's Blues: Why the Far Right Hates Soccer
Joseph Nevins: Greenwashing the Pentagon
Antonia Zerbisias: ‘Alternative Summits’ Embody a Grass-Roots Strategy for Change
John Feffer: Stealth Superpower: How Turkey Is Chasing China to Become the Next Big Thing

Sunday June 13, 2010

Matthew Rothschild: Judge Sides with Guantanamo Detainee
Les Leopold: Is there a Global War Between Financial Theocracy and Democracy?
Ryan Anderson: Keeping An Eye On The Surge At Home and Abroad
Bob Dreyfuss: Kandahar? Kandahar? What's Kandahar?
Johann Hari: How Can America's 'War on Drugs' Succeed When Prohibition Laws Failed?
Tim Bending: The Alternative to Austerity
Ingrid Newkirk: The BP oil Spill's Cruel Toll of Wildlife
Christopher Brauchli: Money vs. Judicial Merit Selection
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway: Global Warming Deniers and Their Proven Strategy of Doubt
Sharon Lerner: Born in the USA. Then Back to Work.
Michelle Chen: As Teachers Struggle with Obama’s Reform Agenda, ‘Merit Pay’ Gets a Demerit
Tom Engelhardt: The Gift Exchange, Washington-Style

Saturday June 12, 2010

Madeline Ostrander: Time for Action: After BP Disaster, Americans are Ready for Clean Energy
Eve Ensler: My Cancer is Arbitrary. Congo's Atrocities are Very Deliberate
Sasha Abramsky: Where the Tea Party Runs Out of Juice
Derrick Z. Jackson: Public Education’s Dire Straits
Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss: El Paso 'Cat and Mouse' Turns Fatal
Kerry Kennedy: Gulf Needs Concrete Actions That Respect Residents' Rights
David Michael Green: The Do-Nothing 44th President
Deena Guzder: Witness Against Torture: Peace Activists Face Trial
Michael Winship: The Supreme Court Says NO to the People - Again
Michelle Chen: South Africa’s World Cup Brims with Broken Promises
David Krieger: British Petroluem, Imagination, and Nuclear Catastrophe

Friday June 11, 2010

David Sirota: Putting the ‘I’ in Environment
Riki Ott: From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence
Jean-Michel Cousteau: Remembering Jacques Cousteau: Carrying on the Legacy on His 100th Birthday
Malik Alayube: Prison Education Cuts Hurt More Than Just Inmates
Jayati Ghosh: Racism and Recession in Europe
James Denselow: Scholar Soldiers in Afghanistan Are on Dangerous Terrain
Roger Bybee: An Ugly Jobs Report, and a Complacent Congress
Mark Morford: Sex Death Apocalypse iPhone 4
Joseph Nevins: Sitting-in for Human Rights, from Jim Crow to Juan Crow
Stephen Zunes: Democratic Party Defends Israeli Attack
Paul Rogat Loeb: Why the Arkansas Primary Challenge Was Worth It

Thursday June 10, 2010

John de Graaf: The Progressive Politics of Happiness
Katitza Rodriguez: European Privacy Officials: Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Are Still Breaking European Privacy Law
Gregor MacLennan: Bagua Anniversary: One Year After Violent Clashes in Peru, Situation for Indigenous Rights Little Improved
Beverly Bell: 'So That Everyone Can Eat, Produce It Here': Food Sovereignty and Land Reform in Haiti
Erin Rosa: Border Patrol Gone Wild
Juan Cole: Iran’s Green Movement: One Year Later
César Chelala: Drones: Backfiring on U.S. Strategy
Glen Ford: Could International Criminal Court Deploy U.S. as World Law Enforcer?
Robert C. Koehler: First, Do No Harm
John Steel: The Danger of Invisible Corporate Power
Randeep Ramesh: Obama Hasn't Learned Lessons of Bhopal
Grant Calder: Giving Disaster a Name
Bill Quigley and Audrey Stewart : African American Mississippi Man Starts Record Sixth Murder Trial

Wednesday June 9, 2010

Lindsay Beyerstein: Rhythm Method Madness
Bill McKibben: Missing the Real Drama of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout
Lawrence Wittner: What's Next for the Nuclear Disarmament Movement?
Amira Hass: Not by Cement Alone
Jim Hightower: Airlines Battle Workplace Democracy
Robert Naiman: Reset: Stephen Kinzer's Vision of a New U.S. Relationship with Turkey and Iran
Michelle Chen: Helen Thomas Pays for Crossing a Line Others Trample
Michael Perillo: Nonviolence Takes Hold in 'Mexico’s Gaza'
Amy Goodman: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Framing the Narrative

Tuesday June 8, 2010

Stephen Zunes: Will the Flotilla Attack Be Our 'Kent State' Moment?
Shirin Ebadi: The Brutal Crackdowns Only Make Iran's Women Stronger
Wallace J Nichols: What Would Jacques Do? One Hundred Years of Oil
Katie Kane: Haiti: A Country ‘Forgotten'
John Buell: Corporate, Religious Terrorism
Corie Wright: Comcast-NBC Merger Is a Bad Deal
Robert Alvarez: The Legacy of Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands
Harvey Wasserman: Apocalypse in the Gulf Now (Oil) & Next (Nukes)
Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA & Me & Other Adventures in American Sports
Margaret Krome: Gulf Dripping in Oil Is a Call for Action on Energy
Michael Winship: A Guide Through Israel’s No-One Land
Rachel Smolker: Charcoal Ain't Gonna Cool the Planet (Duh)!
Derrick Z. Jackson: The Price of the Pelican
George Monbiot: The Oil Firms' Profits Ignore the Real Costs

Monday June 7, 2010

Eric Holt-Giménez and Annie Shattuck: Revitalize Rural America? First Grow Some Backbone
Dean Baker: Robbed of Jobs by the Deficit Cultists
Greenpeace International: Our Plan to Stop the Oil: 95% Renewables by 2050
Paul Jay: In Defense of Helen Thomas - On Apologizing to Apologists
Bridget Hanna: 8 Are Guilty After 25 Years: Legal Failure in Bhopal Bodes Poorly for Corporate Accountability in BP Oil Disaster
Chris Hedges: The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger
James Carroll: A Time for Self-Surpassing
Nick Spicer: Obama's Albatross and the Pelicans of Louisiana
Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez: Arizona: Rushing Toward the Wrong Side of History
Phyllis Bennis: Israel's Flotilla Massacre: Made in the USA
Mary Bottari: Bank Reform Bait and Switch

Sunday June 6, 2010

Caroline Arnold: Reducing World to Good and Bad Leads to Trouble
Jasmin Ramsey: It's Storming in Istanbul
Michelle Chen: In the Wake of Health Reform, Abortion Under Attack
Linh Dinh: Eyes, with Legs
Bill McKibben: If There Was Ever a Moment to Seize
Eric Margolis: Fury Over Raid Isolates Israel

Saturday June 5, 2010

Robert Fisk: The Truth Behind the Israeli Propaganda
Derrick Z. Jackson: Obama Needs to Come Clean on Conservation
Christopher Brauchli: Words and the Politician
Randall Amster: Erasing Arizona: Dark-skinned Mural Faces Ordered “Lightened” to Appease Bigotry
Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss: Gaza Boat Activists Deny Israeli Story
Ralph Nader: Planning for Disaster

Friday June 4, 2010

Sarah Laskow: Oil Spill Could Bring Mass Extinction to the Gulf Coast
Donald Carr: Greenwashing Corn: Industrial Ag Tries to Bolster Its Tarnished Image
Johann Hari: When Hands Across the Sea are Tied
Norman Solomon: California's Prop. 14: A Bad Deal for Democracy
Jennie Joseph: American's Health-Care System Endangers Mothers' Lives
Mark Morford: Behold Our Dark, Magnificent Horror
Paul Gunter and Linda Gunter: A Nuclear Gamble on the Not-So-Distant Horizon
Jill Schneiderman: Slow Violence in the Gulf of Mexico: A Buddhist Response
David Michael Green: What Lethal Arrogance Looks Like
Alejandro Nadal: Gulf Oil Spill: America's Chernobyl
Jeff Biggers: The Next Great Coal Spill? Massey's Billion Gallon Disaster in Waiting
Nicole Johnston: The Week the World Remembered Gaza
Alex Main: Latin America Mostly at Odds With US on Israeli Raid
Tom Engelhardt: Bitten by History: From the Gulf to Gaza and Afghanistan, the Familiar Way Proves the Wrong Way
Robert C. Koehler: David's Slingshot

Thursday June 3, 2010

Erin Rosa: Thousands Protest SB1070; Arizona Gov. Braces for Lawsuits
William J. Astore: Doubling Down in Afghanistan
Jodie Evans: Israel: The Truth Is Coming
Ira Chernus: Israel Raises Nuke Threat to Iran
Glen Ford: Yes, Obama Is 'Engaged' – in a Colossal Crime
Michelle Chen: American Occupation Casts Long Shadows Over Okinawa
MJ Rosenberg: Lying About the Gaza Flotilla Disaster
Robert Naiman: Halliday Urges Irish-Americans to Defend the Rachel Corrie
Tom Gallagher: Pelosi Ignores Constituents on Afghanistan – But Quietly This Time
Gordon Clark: Gulf Madness
Russell Mokhiber: Coal Intimidation
Kathy Kelly and Joshua Brollier: Unarmed and Courageous: Emergency Workers in Afghanistan
Jules Boykoff: After the Oil Spill, We Need a Sea Change
George Lakoff: Privatization of Public Housing Shelved — For Now
Ali Abunimah: The Day the World Became Gaza

Wednesday June 2, 2010

Mazin Qumsiyeh: Of Cowardice, Dignity, and Solidarity
Julie Hollar: Wealth Gap Yawns--and So Do Media
Center for American Progress Editorial: Futbol’s Footprint
Stephen Zunes: Israel's Latest Violation
Amanda Hitt: Safe Food, From Soil to Plate
Rajesh Makwana: The Follies of Growth and Climate Denial
Andy Birnbaum: I Have Found the Next Gandhi
Walden Bello: The Battle for Thailand
Jim Hightower: Government Impotence and Corporate Rule
Amy Goodman: In Memory of All That Is Lost
Sarah van Gelder: Six Things to Do About the BP Gulf Disaster
Joshua Brollier and Kathy Kelly: The World Cup of Economic and Military Warfare

Tuesday June 1, 2010

Beverly Bell: United Nations Attacks Refugee Camp, Protests Mount
Tom Engelhardt: American Denial: Living in a Can’t-Do Nation
Sean Gonsalves: ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’
Medea Benjamin: Obama Must Join Global Condemnation of Israeli Flotilla Assault
Corynne McSherry: 'YouTube Is UsTube': Creators Step in to Defend YouTube
Tom Gallagher: The Remarkable Resilience of This Socialism Thing
Nathan Schneider: Nonviolence and the Gaza Freedom Movement
Ray McGovern: Obama's Timidity and Deaths at Sea
Robert Reich: Why Obama Should Put BP Under Temporary Receivership
Dean Baker: Why Should We Listen to Deficit Hawks?
Kristi Ceccarossi: Community Gardens Don't Excuse What Kraft Did to American Food
Ahdaf Soueif: Israel Reveals Its True Face
Linda McQuaig: Smear Tactics Tar Protesters
Norman Solomon: Israel and Harman in Tandem: From High Seas to Airwaves
Glenn Greenwald: Israel and US Turn the Humanitarians into the "Aggressors"
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