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Tuesday August 31, 2010

Simon Jenkins: A Trillion-Dollar Catastrophe. Yes, Iraq Was a Headline War
Zach Carter: Why Do Deficit Hawks Hate Social Security?
Dale Wiehoff: Floods, Droughts and Famines
Ray McGovern: What Obama Won't Say Tonight
Linh Dinh: Spengler for Dummies
Juan Cole: The Speech President Obama Should Give About the Iraq War (But Won’t)
Christopher Cooper: "Is a Dream a Lie If It Don't Come True, Or Is It Something Worse?"
Laura Flanders: Boats for All Next Time
Chuck Collins and Sam Pizzigati: The August Day Plutocracy Would Love Us to Forget
Mark Weisbrot: The Fallacy of Taking German Lessons
Mark Kastel and Will Fantle: The Food Safety Shell Game
John Buell: Spirituality, Economics and Nature

Monday August 30, 2010

Robert Jensen: Glenn Beck’s Redemption Song
Barry Bennett: The Cost of War: What Is It That Defines Our Values?
Melody Kemp: The Casualties of Cluster Bombs Must Not Be Forgotten
Jerry Lanson: When Will We All Need to Carry Identity Papers?
John Nichols: Populist Passion Is Antidote to Bankster Greed
Janet Redman: Climate Currency
Robert Naiman: 'Palestinian Gandhi' Convicted for Protesting; U.S. Silent
Jordan Flaherty: On the Fifth Anniversary of Katrina, Displacement Continues

Sunday August 29, 2010

Michelle Chen: 90 Years After Suffrage, Impoverished Mothers Need Another Kind of Equality
Olga Bonfiglio: The Spirit of New Orleans
Rebecca Solnit: In New Orleans, Kindness Trumped Chaos: Lessons of Dedication, Solidarity, Love, and Recovery, Five Years After Katrina
Bill Nemitz: Activist’s Personal Journey Stretches From Battlefield to Protest March
Pierre Tristam: Neo-Supremacy Chic: Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin’s Tea-Scalding of MLK

Saturday August 28, 2010

Juan Cole: Glenn Beck’s ‘I Have a Dream Speech’
Alan Kelchner: Repairers of the Breach
Andy Worthington: Would Al-Qaeda Terrorists Really Be Reading Harry Potter at Guantánamo?
Ted Rall: Nine Years Later, Afghanistan Looks Much the Same: A Mess
Christopher Brauchli: The Prince and the Punishment
Ralph Nader: Katsuko Nomura: Consumer Champion
David Michael Green: Our Bloody Valentine
Linh Dinh: Kill Them

Friday August 27, 2010

John Cox: Chronicle of a Hate Crime Foretold: Muslim-Bashing Has Consequences
Donna Smith: Two-Faced Corporate Personhood: Elected and Convicted
Russell Mokhiber: Factory Farms Make You Sick. Let Us Count the Ways
Sarah Laskow: Fighting the Joe Millers of the World
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Glenn Beck Needs a History Lesson on the Civil-Rights Movement
Richard Esguerra: Facebook Should Stop Censoring Marijuana Legalization Campaign Ads
David Benjamin: From Pearl Harbor, an Answer to 'Hallowed Ground' Crowd
Michelle Chen: The Other Side of the Anchor: Where Else Do American-Born Kids Belong?
Eric Holt Gimenez: Monsanto in Gates' Clothing? The Emperor's New GMOs
Robert Naiman: Should the Senate Fund 'Enduring' U.S. Military Bases in Afghanistan?
Ray McGovern: Obama Boxed In by Generals on Afghanistan

Thursday August 26, 2010

James Hansen: Am I an Activist for Caring About My Grandchildren's Future? I Guess I Am
Catherine Traywick: Immigrants Abused, Denied Social Services in Broken Immigration System
Dave Lindorff: Fighting Words on Social Security: Apply the FICA Tax to All Income Including Investment Income and Lower the Retirement Age
Andrew Bacevich: The Unmaking of a Company Man
Johann Hari: Violence Breeds Violence. The Only Thing Drug Gangs Fear Is Legalisation
Amy Goodman: Rotten Eggs and Our Broken Democracy
Lorraine Berry: Ken Mehlman Asks for Something He Wasn't Able to Give Himself
Marwan Bishara: US Wars: People vs Generals
Lucinda Marshall: Women's Inequality Day
Ted Rall: Chase Bank and Obama's "Make Home Affordable" Scam
Robert C. Koehler: The Next 500 Years

Wednesday August 25, 2010

Robert Weissman and Tyson Slocum: Here's What's Wrong With BP's Trust Fund
Robert Naiman: NYT Exploits Own Iraq Death Toll Denial to Trash Venezuela
Glen Ford: We Are Cornered: There's No Way Out Without a Fight
Richard Eskow: "310 Million Tits" -- If Simpson Doesn't Resign, the President Must Fire Him
April Dávila: A Month Without Monsanto
Elizabeth Galewski: Women — Still a Menace?
Tom Engelhardt: Should the US Be Bombed? The Nonexistent Debate Over American Weapons Proliferation Policies
Robert Scheer: They Go or Obama Goes
Jim Hightower: Wall Street's Connected Lobbyists

Tuesday August 24, 2010

Michael Winship: Labor Says Mott's Apples Are Rotten to the Core
Laura Flanders: Fight Tea Party Voters With Fresh Voters
Zach Carter: Save Affordable Housing, Help Revive America’s Middle Class
Tony Karon: Two Minutes to Midnight?: Cutting Through the Media's Bogus Bomb-Iran Debate
David Sirota: Let Us Now Return to Those Thrilling Mistakes of Yesteryear
Jim Hightower: Shut Up and Eat Your Sugar
Julie Samuels: Steve Jobs Is Watching You: Apple Seeking to Patent Spyware
Dean Baker: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's Future

Monday August 23, 2010

James Ridgeway: The Latest Bi-Partisan Attack on Social Security: Let Them Eat Cat Food
Medea Benjamin: Blackwater vs. Pinkwater: The Wife of Erik Prince Picks a Fight With CODEPINK
Ted Rall: Islamo-Gangsterism: In a Deteriorating Afghanistan, a New Breed of Terror
Grace Lee Boggs: Living for Change: If Not Now, When?
Andrew Simms: We've Gone Into the Ecological Red
Janine Jackson: ‘Spotlight’ on Police Violence Fails to Illuminate
Robert Jensen: There Are No Heroes in Illegal and Immoral Wars

Sunday August 22, 2010

Alex Hannaford: The Cruel and Unusual Punishment of Teresa Lewis
Neal Peirce: Public Libraries: Enablers of Americans' Dreams
Ann Wright: Israeli Soldiers Sell Gaza Flotilla Passengers’ Computers and Steal Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Cash
Patricia Williams: It's No Wonder the Haitians Wanted Wyclef Jean
Christopher Brauchli: Juvenile Justice Military Style
John Cox : The First Amendment Applies to Muslims As Well
Arshad Khan: Democracy or “Lobbyocracy”?
Stan Cox: Waking Up from the Air-Conditioned Dream
Phyllis Bennis: Waging Peace from Afar: Divestment and Israeli Occupation

Saturday August 21, 2010

Ladd Everitt: Help Reclaim Dr. King’s Dream!
Bo Webb: Appalachia Rising: On September 27th, A Resounding “No!” to Mountaintop Removal
Gwynne Dyer: Pakistan: A Question of Water
David Michael Green: The Tiger Woods of Nations
Ralph Nader: For Whom The Bell Tolls

Friday August 20, 2010

Medea Benjamin: The Iraq Legacy: Tell It Like It Is
Tim Karr: Chairman Genachowski. Can You Hear Us Now?
Lorraine Berry: What Will Become of Us, of Americans, If We Continue on This Path?
Syl Jones: In Today’s World, It’s Play or Be Played
Robert Fisk: Iraq: Torture. Corruption. Civil war. America has Certainly Left Its Mark
David Sirota: Insanity Is Deja Vu All Over Again
Matthew Rothschild: The Problems with Podesta’s Take on Obama’s Poll Numbers

Thursday August 19, 2010

Richard Kim: The Center Cannot Hold: Why the Mainstream Media Can't Stop the 'Ground Zero Mosque' Hysteria
Iraq Debacle Coalition: The Iraq Debacle: The Legacy of Seven Years of War
Robert Naiman: Is David Petraeus a 'Lying Liar' About the Drawdown?
Pratap Chatterjee: The Secret Killers: Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373
Mark Weisbrot: Does the US Really Want Better Relations with Hugo Chávez?
Arianna Huffington: Memo to America's Middle Class: Obama Is Just Not That Into You
Michelle Chen: Youth Unemployment Line Circles the Globe
Brian Moench: Criminal Neglect of Future Generations
Les Leopold: Five Washington Excuses for Ignoring the Jobs Crisis
Phil Rockstroh: Part Tinker Bell, Part Predator Drone: The Fantasy of the Presidency as Deus ex Machina
John Pilger: Why WikiLeaks Must Be Protected
Seumas Milne: The Transformation of Latin America is a Global Advance
Linh Dinh: Dissing T-Shirts

Wednesday August 18, 2010

Shashank Bengali: Other Countries Probing Bush-era Torture — Why Aren't We?
John Nichols: To Address Climate Change: 'We Need a Movement'
Tom Engelhardt: Meeting Chalmers Johnson
Juan Cole: Bolton was Contradicted by Bush on Iran’s Bushehr Reactor
Sandy LeonVest: Green Activists Need Allies in Anti-War Movement
Ted Rall: Nine Years Later, Afghan City is Buzzing But Still Menacing
John Feffer: So, Robert Gibbs: Where's Our Money?
Michael Winship: You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
Mark Morford: Thank God Global Warming is a Hoax
Dave Zweifel: Corporate Cash Quickly Flows
Amy Goodman: Mosque-Issippi Burning
Robert Scheer: Ground Zero for Tolerance
Jim Hightower: Corporate America Speaking Out

Tuesday August 17, 2010

David Michael Green: Our Professional Failure
Tom Andrews: Gen. Petraeus's Nation-Building Media Tour
Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party: Dear Mr. President...
Laura Vanderkam: Out of Fashion: Green Lawns
Derrick Z. Jackson: Obama’s Two-Step on NY Mosque
Matthew Rothschild: Petraeus’s New Offensive: Preparing the Way for Obama to Retract the Withdrawal Pledge
Dave Zirin: 'Today We Did Some Good': The Diamondbacks Demonstration in DC
John Nichols: Mosque Debate: Keith Ellison"Gets It," While Harry Reid Gets In the Way
Chalmers Johnson: The Guns of August: Lowering the Flag on the American Century
Cindy Sheehan: Racketeers for Capitalism
John Buell: Are We Bidding Farewell to Advocacy Journalism?
Rory O'Connor: The Tillman Story — Just Gimme Some Truth!

Monday August 16, 2010

Michelle Chen: Single Women Fend for Themselves in Recession
Sally Kohn: Where Was The “Professional Left” A Year Ago?
Dave Lindorff: There’s Nothing Wrong with Social Security that Taxing the Rich Fairly Wouldn’t Fix
Ray McGovern: Can WikiLeaks Help Save Lives?
Robert Naiman: By US Deaths, As of Today, Afghanistan is Obama's War
Linh Dinh: Plugged Stupid
Craig Barnes: The Myth of the Free Market
Chris Hedges: Formalizing Israel’s Land Grab
Isabel Macdonald: France's Debt of Dishonour to Haiti
Norman Solomon: Gen. Petraeus Goes to Media War

Sunday August 15, 2010

Tom Engelhardt: Five Absurd Things That Simply Can’t Happen in Wartime Washington
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Happy 75th Birthday, Social Security
Frida Berrigan: START Now
Peter Dreier and Donald Cohen: Ignore the Fear-Mongering on Social Security
Jill Schneiderman: Breathing with Dolphins
Juan Cole: Neocons in Waiting: Iran, Obama, and the Next Asian Land War
Eric Margolis: Punishing the WikiLeaker Misses the Point
David Korten: 10 Common Sense Principles for a New Economy
Pierre Tristam: Krauthammer’s Sacrilege: When Reactionaries Fire Up their Sunday Missals–and Miss
Donna Smith: What Mid-terms? It’s All About Paying the Bills

Saturday August 14, 2010

Maura Stephens: The Fight Against Fracking
Ann Jones: Afghan Women Have Already Been Abandoned
Christopher Brauchli: The Computer-Man's Best Friend
Juliet Schor: Rethinking Scale and Growth for a More Sustainable World
South Asia Solidarity Initiative: 'What Happens if We Stay in Afghanistan': A Response to TIME Magazine
Randall Amster: Noncooperation with Evil in the Streets of Arizona
Mark Weisbrot: Washington and International Donors Have Failed Haiti
Paul Rogat Loeb: The Seductions Of Clicking: How The Internet Can Make It Harder To Act
Ralph Nader: Of Big Banks and ShoreBank
Tom Turnipseed: A Tea Partier, A Green Partier, and the Action Figure

Friday August 13, 2010

Mehan Jayasuriya: What the Google/Verizon Deal Means for Net Neutrality – and You
David Sirota: Elites’ Democratic Days Are Numbered
Juan Cole: Kurdish General Again Insubordinate, Angles for US to Remain in Iraq
Bob Burnett: The Jobs Crisis: What Hit Us?
Editorial/The Independent UK: Guantánamo: A Prison That Stains US Moral Authority
Robert Kuttner: Gibbs' Attack on Progressives Misses the Point Entirely
Matthew Rothschild: Global Warming and the Pakistani Flood
César Chelala: Missing the Boat on Cuba
David Benjamin: Fox News, Making the "Dull Paragraph" Extinct
Danny Schechter: Countdown to Collapse: The Recovery is Not Recovering
Jeremy Scahill: Wikileaks and War Crimes

Thursday August 12, 2010

Ray McGovern: A Neocon Preps US for War with Iran
Erich Pica: Climate Ostriches: Why Russia's and Pakistan's Extreme Weather Is About To Become the Norm
Naseer Aruri: Netanyahu’s Obstruction of Peace
Mark Engler: The Gulf at the Gas Station: Can We Calculate the True Cost of Our Dependence on Oil?
Alan Fisher: Ignoring the Obvious: The Floods and Fires, the Droughts and Disasters Will Continue
Micah White: Clicktivism is Ruining Leftist Activism
Joshua Green: The Raid on Food Stamps
Mark Morford: The World's Most Perfect Product
Amy Goodman: News at 11: How Climate Change Affects You
Ron Forthofer: Groundhog Day: The Neocon Version
Dave Zirin: On Sunday the Arizona Diamondbacks Come to DC… and They're Not Alone

Wednesday August 11, 2010

Robert Naiman: Obama's Pakistan Katrina? Helicopters for War, But Not Flood Relief
Clare Bayard: Army Weak: Soldiers Expose Deployment of Unprepared Troops
Mark Weisbrot: Hungary's Defiance of IMF and European Authorities Scares the Guardians of Austerity in Europe
Laura Flanders: Charity or Philanthro-Feudalism?
Jonathan Steele: With Arab Opinion Like This, Obama Needs Media Advice
Carol Goar: Mega-Donations Pose Deep Questions
Jonathan Power: Legalizing Drugs the Only Answer
Jim Hightower: New Outrages Keep Gushing From BP
Robert Scheer: The Rubin Con Goes On
Michelle Chen: Is Environmental Injustice Morphing Little Girls’ Bodies?
John Nichols: Left Owes a Very Big Thank You to Robert Gibbs
Gareth Porter: Serial Denial and the Permanent War System

Tuesday August 10, 2010

Gwynne Dyer: The Rule of Law: A Few Victories
Dean Baker: Borat Economics: Why do the Debt Hawks Want to Copy Kazakhstan?
Michael Winship: The Wall and the Mosque: Divide and Unite
Brita Rose: A ‘Mosque’ Should be Built at Ground Zero
Stephan Salisbury: Mosque Mania: Anti-Muslim Fears and the Far Right
Linh Dinh: Wordless Masses
Paul Rogat Loeb: What if Verizon Could Censor Your Telephone Conversations: Why Net Neutrality Matters

Monday August 9, 2010

Tad Daley: The Greatest Nuclear Danger Today Is Not Countdown to Zero's Nuclear "Accident" or "Miscalculation" or "Madness." The Greatest Nuclear Danger Today, Still, Like 65 Years Ago, Is Nuclear War
Danny Schechter: As the Obama Economic Team Bails, the System Fails to Generate Jobs. Are the Causes, Um, 'Structural'?
Ray McGovern: Lancing the Boil: Remarks given August 8 at the rally for Bradley Manning in Quantico, Virginia
Olga Bonfiglio: How Music Helped Save New Orleans After Katrina
Susan Galleymore: Calls to End the False Security of Nuclear Weapons
Greg Mitchell: Press Censorship: How the Truth Was Hidden About Nagasaki 65 Years Ago
Dedrick Muhammad: Dishonoring MLK's Legacy
Chris Hedges: The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears

Sunday August 8, 2010

Marjorie Cohn: Landmark Ruling Declares Prop 8 Unconstitutional
Jeff Biggers: 'Clean Coal' Bottom Feeders: Chu Hands Out $1 Billion in Big Coal Welfare, Durbin Hands Out Cigars
Christopher Brauchli: Republicans and Political Madness
Matt Taibbi: Are We In a Recession or Not?
William Greider: The AIG Bailout Scandal
Michelle Chen: Hate-Crime Sentence and Ruling on Marriage Cross a Spectrum of Justice
David Michael Green: What Is To Be Done(?)
Eric Margolis: Iraq: It All Boils Down to Oil

Saturday August 7, 2010

Larry Beinhart: Afghaninam, Vietnamistan
Glenn Greenwald: What Collapsing Empire Looks Like
David Benjamin: An Opportunity for Honesty in Politics… Squandered! What Scott Brown Should Have Said...
Robert Naiman: How Many Iraqis Did We "Liberate" from Life on Earth?
Ralph Nader: New York's Rebatable Bailout

Friday August 6, 2010

Fouad Pervez: Blackwater: Can't Stop, Won't Stop
Robert Dodge: Ending the Nuclear Threat
Bill Quigley and Davida Finger: Katrina Pain Index 2010 New Orleans – Five Years Later
Jane Braxton Little: Coming of Age in Hiroshima
Gwynne Dyer: Today Russia, Tomorrow the World
Ralph Nader: New York's Rebatable Bailout
Erik Hoffner: Moscow Forest Battle Boils Over
Duncan Green: Poor Countries Suffer a Hangover for a Party They Didn't Attend
Bruce Friedrich: Resolved: Eating Animals Is Indefensible
John Stauber: Gavin Newsom Hopes to Leave His Sludge in San Francisco
Norman Solomon: Nuke U: How the University of California Is Helping to Blow Up the World
Linh Dinh: House Slave Syndrome
Johann Hari: And Now for Some Good News
Isabel Macdonald: Haiti's Ransom

Thursday August 5, 2010

Josh Silver : Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It
Ann Wright: Secretary of State Clinton: Now That the Wedding Is Over, Could You Respond to Requests From American Citizens on the Gaza Flotilla?
Tom Engelhardt: Whose Hands? Whose Blood?: Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq
Jeff Cohen: Colbert 1, U.S. State Department 0
Marwan Bishara: Wars, Lies and Lyrics
Catherine Traywick: Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Crusade Continues
Corporate Crime Reporter: Ridgeway on America’s Solitary Confinement Nightmare
Seumas Milne: The US Isn't Leaving Iraq, It's Rebranding the Occupation
Robert Koehler: The Next War

Wednesday August 4, 2010

Priyamvada Gopal: Burkas and Bikinis
Laura Flanders: What Are Teachers Worth?
Michelle Chen: Time Pictures Afghan Women, Obscures Realities of Endless War
Robert Naiman: Bacevich: Vietnam vs. Munich, and Creating an 'Iraq/Afghanistan Syndrome'
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity: Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran
Jim Hightower: Fighting Back Against the Banksters
Bill McKibben: We’re Hot as Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Any More
Jeff Conant: What the Zapatistas Can Teach Us About the Climate Crisis
Amy Goodman: Why Did Obama Fire Dan Choi?

Tuesday August 3, 2010

Jeff Biggers: SOS: Day 12,065 of Mountaintop Removal Disaster: Appalachia Is Rising (Again)
Amanda Marcotte: "Freedom:" The Right of Religious Fundamentalists to Discriminate Against Everyone Else
Riki Ott: Oilgate! BP and All the President's Men (Except One) Seek to Contain Truth of Leak in the Gulf
Ted Rall: Thanks to WikiLeaker, Afghan War Will End Soon
Anne Lutz Fernandez and Catherine Lutz : Why Do We Worship at the Altar of Technology?
Bill Quigley: Why We Sued to Represent Muslim Cleric Aulaqi
Pierre Tristam: Opposition to the Mosque “At” Ground Zero Desecrates American Values
Phyllis Bennis: WikiLeaks' Afghan War Diary: Evidence of a Failed Mission
John Buell: Afternoon Spent Listening to Talk Radio
Tina Dupuy: U.S. Is Not a Center-Right Nation
Danny Schechter: On the Third Anniversary of the Crash of the Economy: 'Those Were the Days, My Friend. I Thought They'd Never End.' They Haven't

Monday August 2, 2010

Bob Franken: Let's Get to the Truth About Afghanistan
Dean Baker: Double-Dip Recessions and the Strange Tale of Final Demand
Debra Ruh: Multinational Shell Game Hurts Local Business
David Michael Green: Embarrassica the Mutilated
John Atcheson: Republicans in the Land of Oz
Susana Adame: The Oil Spill on My Michigan Doorstep
Jeff Biggers: Bloody Monday: Glenn Beck, FOX News, Gov. Jan Brewer and the Louisville Massacre Anniversary
Harvey Wasserman: Pete Seeger Speaks and Sings for Solartopia!
Chris Hedges: Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn
Ann Jones: Here Be Dragons

Sunday August 1, 2010

César Chelala: The Afghan Dilemma
Antonia Juhasz: BP's "Missing Oil" Washes up in St. Mary's Parish, LA
Sarah Lazare and Ryan Harvey: WikiLeaks in Baghdad
Haroon Siddiqui: Afghanistan: It’s Even Worse Than You Thought
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