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Thursday September 30, 2010

Bernie Sanders: Hands Off Social Security
Ray McGovern: Obama-Men: Innocents Abroad; Politicos at Home
Caroline Wickham-Jones: What We Can Learn from Our Hunter-Gatherer Ancestors
Naima Ramos-Chapman: 'The New Racism is the Old Racism'
Tom Engelhardt: The War Addicts: 2016 and Then Some
Michael Moore: Dwight Was Right
Jeff Biggers: Big Coal Lobby Gets Big Taxpayer Payout
Antony Loewenstein: Privatisation - Financial Fundamentalism without Analysis of Real Costs
Elizabeth DiNovella: Charmer in Chief
Jay Walljasper: How to Make Biking Mainstream: Lessons from the Dutch
Tom Gallagher: On Not Drawing the Wrong Conclusions from Racial Disparities
Matt Miller: Where's the Moral Outrage on Wall Street?
Barbara Lee: Time to Repeal Congress' Blank Check on Wars
Robert C. Koehler: Drone Warfare on Trial
Ann Wright: A Big Fool Says to Push On
Paul Buchheit: Where's the Voice of the Young People?
Sadhbh Walshe: The Paradox of Middle-Cass Aspiration

Wednesday September 29, 2010

Roger Bybee: Memo to Labor Movement: Follow UE’s Lead and Fight Corporate Outsourcing
Robert Reich: The President’s Backyard Discussion of the Economy (as It Could Be)
Jim Hightower: Boehner's Perpetual Tan and Other Scary Stories
Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg: Obama Declares Wrong Emergency
Ira Chernus: An Israeli Gandhi Seized at Sea
Michael Winship: The Celtic Tiger, Declawed and Defanged
Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher: The Rise of the New Power Co-Op Movement
Chip Ward: The Big Bad Wolf Makes Good: The Yellowstone Success Story and Those Who Want to Kill It
Jesse Jackson: It's Time for Nation to Stand Together for Jobs, Education
Michael Lerner: Why Have the Democrats Lost Popular Support?
Dean Baker: Foreclosure Funny Business
George Lakey: Why I Went to Jail This Week
Nora Barrows-Friedman: Occupied Palestine Not 'Settling' for Nothing

Tuesday September 28, 2010

Matthew Harwood: The Murky World of 'Top Secret America'
Robert Naiman: For Jobs and Peace, It Matters if the Republicans Retake Congress
Benjamin Todd Jealous and Deepak Bhargava : For Jobs, Justice and Education
Henry Abrons: What if Everyone Had Medicare?
Mark Weisbrot: Venezuelan Elections Show Democracy at Work
Nadia Hijab: What if Peace Talks "Succeed?"
Dave Lindorff: Obama Administration Silent on IDF Murder of 19-Year-Old American
Linh Dinh: Welcome to the Recovery
Dana Goldstein: Grading 'Waiting for Superman'
Tom Engelhardt: Bob Woodward Meet… Bob Woodward
John Atcheson: "Pledge to America": Drinking Sand
Roberto Rodriguez: Todos Somos (We Are All) Raza Studies
George Lakoff: Notes on Environmental Communication

Monday September 27, 2010

Rick Ayers: 'Waiting for Superman': A Missed Opportunity for Education
Cliff Schecter: President Obama: Finding Love in the Wrong Places
Thomas Steinbeck: John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism
Janet Redman: Transitioners: Leading the Way to a Smarter Future
Donna Smith: Firefighter’s Family Gets the Healthcare Boot
Gary Houser: Nonviolent Resistance or Climate Hell
Karyn Strickler: Appalachia is Rising Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Olga Bonfiglio: A Great Future Is in Store for Us (If We Want It)
Michael Nagler: Replace the War System: Why and How
George Lakoff: Why The Democrats’ Response to the Pledge Has Been Inadequate
Gary Younge: Obama Won as Cool and Unflappable. But Presidents Need to Act Angry Too
Andrew Bacevich: Prisoners of War: Bob Woodward and All the President’s Men (2010 Edition)

Sunday September 26, 2010

Glenn Greenwald: Obama Argues His Assassination Program is a "State Secret"
Dave Lindorff: The American Way: Spreading Democracy to Afghanistan, One Journalist’s Arrest at a Time
Jerry Lanson: Pick Your Poison: America's Election-Year Politics
Lawrence Wittner: Public Mobilization for a Nuclear-Free World
John LaForge: The End of Combat My Eye
Christopher Brauchli: Sex and Wisconsin DAs
Gwynne Dyer: The Son Also Rises
Derrick Z. Jackson: Keep Frankenfish Fiction

Saturday September 25, 2010

Ray McGovern: Petraeus Cons Obama on Afghan War
Michelle Chen: One Step Forward, Two Steps Apart on UN’s Development Goals
David Michael Green: The Dismantling of Civilized Society
Jeff Cohen: Colbert Annoys Press Corps . . . Again

Friday September 24, 2010

Robert Reich: The Super Rich Get Richer, Everyone Else Gets Poorer, and the Democrats Punt
Phyllis Bennis: We Need Millennium Development Rights, Not Just Goals
Ralph Nader: Why Say Yes to the Party of No?
John Nichols: "The Republican Pledge to Privatize Social Security"
Sue Sturgis: The New Political Money Game
Jesse Strauss: Lessons from Arizona: Direct Action Organizing from 1999 to Now
Amie Newman: Why the Women's Wage Gap Persists
David Sirota: What the Pot Legalization Campaign Really Threatens
Mason Inman: Skill Up, Party Down: Transition Towns in a Changing World
David Dayen: One Nation Working Together: The Fight to Build a Mass Movement for Jobs
Lawrence Wittner: Public Mobilization for a Nuclear-Free World
Ruth Conniff: School Food Wars
Harvey Wasserman: Another Feeble-Headed Nuke Drops Dead
Ramzy Baroud: Why Mitchell Said ‘No’ to Hamas

Thursday September 23, 2010

John Nichols: Russ Feingold, the Senate's True Maverick
Chris Kromm: Houston, We Have a (Voting) Problem
Barbara Ehrenreich and Diana Pearce: Making Sense of Poverty Numbers
Maria Gunnoe: Coal Speaks for Itself
Dilip Hiro: America Is Suffering a Power Outage (and the Rest of the World Knows It)
David Goodner: More Questions Than Answers in FBI Spy Case
Ed Bruske: You Can Change Your School’s Food
Norman Solomon: No, Higher Consciousness Won’t Save Us
Ananya Mukherjee-Reed: US Poverty Data Tells Only Half the Story...
Danny Schechter: It's Election Season, Time To Talk About Nothing Important
Jim Hightower: Bleeding-Heart Republicans
Robert C. Koehler: Stoned on Righteousness
Matthew Rothschild: Good Riddance, Larry Summers!
Ben Dandelion: Howard Zinn's Last Testament to the Immorality of War

Wednesday September 22, 2010

Zach Carter: Replacing Summers: Think Policy, Not Politico
Mark Weisbrot: The 'Rightwing Backlash' That Never Was
Christopher Connell: Paying Teachers for Student Performance Didn’t Raise Scores in Study
Laura Flanders: Echoing at the Extremes
Bangor Daily News Editorial: Our Endless War
Omar Rahman: Israel's Unreasonable Demand
Jon Walker: Surprise! Private Insurers Skirt New Health Care Law
Van Jones: Happy Birthday Clean(er) Air: We Still Have a Long Way to Go
Jeff Biggers: No Enthusiasm Gap in Coalfields
Amy Goodman: Torture in Iraq Continues, Unabated
John Feffer: 'They' Are Not Taking 'Our' Jobs
Matthew Sherman: Coming Home: A Native View of Mountain Top Removal
Mary Bottari: Tell Larry Summers, Don’t Delay!
Michael Winship: Where’s Ed Newman When You Need Him?

Tuesday September 21, 2010

Bob Dreyfuss: Despite Failing War, White House Says December Review Won't 'Change Channel'
Peter Rothberg: One Nation Working Together
Tim Karr: Net Neutrality: We're Still Waiting
Emily Schwartz Greco: No Happy Ending in Honduras
Tom Engelhardt: One and a Half Cheers for American Decline
Donna Smith: A Divide So Wide, A Healthcare Disconnection So Deep
Matthew Rothschild: Republicans Cry “Class Warfare” When They’re Winning the War
Pratap Chatterjee: Cowboy Contractors: Armed and Dangerous
Dean Baker: Wall Street's Greatest Heist: The TARP
George Monbiot: The Short, Happy Life of Climate Change Enlightenment
Paula Crossfield: Genetically Engineered Salmon: Coming to a Plate Near You?
Derrick Z. Jackson: Apartheid in Our Schools
Robert Naiman: Linda Polman on "Afghaniscam": Is US "Aid" Making Things Worse?

Monday September 20, 2010

David Sirota: Who Is Responsible for the Progressive "Enthusiasm Gap?"
Danny Schechter: Elizabeth Warren In Office - But Not In Power
Ralph Nader: Since Unsafe At Any Speed
Jim Horn: Pledge to See a Movie During This National Emergency
Tom Turnipseed: War Steals From the Poor and Unemployed
Marjorie Cohn: Bradley Manning: An American Hero
Ted Rall: Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline Still a Dream
Michael T. Klare: China, Energy, and Global Power: Twenty-First Century Energy Superpower

Sunday September 19, 2010

Jerica Arents: Drones on Trial: Narrowing the Gap Between Law and Justice
GRAIN: World Bank Report on Land Grabbing: Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors
Joseph G. Peschek: American Politics Today: An Interview with Frances Fox Piven
Olga Bonfiglio: Passenger Trains: Our Hope for a More Sustainable Future
Michelle Chen: By the Numbers, Public Workers Defy Anti-Government Stereotypes
Dave Lindorff: Israeli Company Hired by State Government to Spy on Pennsylvanians and Other Americans
Grace Lee Boggs: Economics as if People Mattered

Saturday September 18, 2010

Nick Magel: 10,000 May Die in Ecuador Due to Chevron's Pollution
Gwynne Dyer: The Millennium Goals
David Michael Green: Tea With Frankenstein: Please, No Masturbation
Sanjay Khanna: Stories That Light Up The Dark
Rev. John Dear: A Peace Movement Victory in Court
Randall Amster: Web of Dependency: The Thin New Line

Friday September 17, 2010

Matthew Rothschild: Feingold Slams Supreme Court over "Citizens United," Implies Roberts and Alito Lied Under Oath
John Nichols: There Will Be "Hell to Pay" If Elizabeth Warren Does Not Have Real Power
Robert Naiman: Can the US Negotiate Peace in Afghanistan?
Johann Hari: Suffocating the Poor: A Modern Parable
David Sirota: Synthetic Novelty vs. the Occupation of Two Islamic Countries
Julianne Hing: Rhee-Style School Reform In Question After DC Mayor's Loss
Jon Walker: Where Have All the "Deficit Hawks" Gone?
Jennifer O'Mahony: Food Not Bombs in Hungry, War-Torn World
Nick Turse: Digging Deeper into Wikileaks Afghan Files
Les Leopold: Poverty Rises as Wall Street Billionaires Whine
William Minter: Global Solidarity Levy Urgently Needed
Robert Parry: America's Decoupling from Reality
Paula Crossfield: Ezra Klein on Industrial Ag: Asking the Wrong Questions
Jim Goodman: The Food Crisis is Not About a Shortage of Food
Karl Frisch: Twitter and the Cowardice of Sarah Palin
Riki Ott: Bio-Remediation or Bio-Hazard? Dispersants, Bacteria & Illness in the Gulf

Thursday September 16, 2010

Mark Weisbrot: Net Neutrality Absolutely Vital to Assuring Progressive Free Speech
Mary Bottari: Bailed-Out Banks Finance Predatory Payday Lenders
Laila El-Haddad: What Peace Talks? Gaza Left Out in the Cold
John Nichols: Obama Prepares to Sort of Appoint Elizabeth Warren to Something
Norman Solomon: Why Elections Are Not a Waste of Progressives' Time
Robert C. Koehler: Holy War
Kelly Hearn: Deep in Ecuador’s Rainforest, A Plan to Forego an Oil Bonanza
Bill McKibben: My Road Trip With a Solar Rock Star
Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater's Black Ops
Margaret Kimberley: Hedge Fund-Funded Charter School Lobby Buys Elections, Destroys Education
Chuck Collins: Five Reasons to Let the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich Expire
Michael Moore: Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren't Possible Unless Good People Back Them
Jeff Cohen: Christine O’Donnell and Me

Wednesday September 15, 2010

Charlotte Taft: The Anti-Choice Hoax of the Century
Michelle Chen: Roma, Latinos and Muslims: In France and America, Bigotry Knows No Borders
Marcy Wheeler: When Political Activism Gets Treated as Potential Terrorism
Ivan Eland: Has US Empire Benefited the World?
Amy Goodman: A Little Missed Sunshine
Rex Wingerter: Israel-Iran War: Not Inevitable
Pedro Noguera: Schools vs. Slogans: Listen to Educators Not "Reformers"
Jeff Biggers: Big Coal Tea Party Extremists Circle Wagons
Jim Hightower: Exporting Jobs, Importing Workers
David Krieger: New START Is a Needed Re-START
Rebecca Burns: "Feed The Future" Plan Repeats Mistakes of the Past
Juliana Williams: Utah Approves First Tar Sands Mine in US
Andy Worthington: By One Vote, US Court OKs Torture and “Extraordinary Rendition”

Tuesday September 14, 2010

Cindy Cohn: 9th Circuit's Troubling New State Secrets Decision Demonstrates Need for Reform
Michael Winship: Escaping Tolerance
Bill McKibben, Phil Radford, & Becky Tarbotton: We Need Your Ideas: A Call for Direct Action in the Climate Movement
Peter Singer: If Fish Could Scream
Michelle Chen: Liberty Trumped Institution in Both DADT and Prop 8 Rulings
Ted Rall: Afghan War Myths
John Buell: The Personal Automobile Makes for a Bad Romance
Derrick Z. Jackson: Even for Middle Class, Tax Cuts Dig Deficit Deeper
Peter Barnes: Clear Act: A Climate Bill That Can Pass
John Nichols: A Winning Message: Bring the Troops Home, Bust the Banksters, Democratize the Economy
Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse: The American Way of War Quiz
Justin Frewen: Industrial Accidents and Global Inequity: Bhopal and BP
Thomas Geoghegan: Do Something for the Progressive Base... and Win
Sarah van Gelder: Resilient Citizens Building Their Own Economic Security

Monday September 13, 2010

Jeannette Wicks-Lim: We Need a (Green) Jobs Program
Dave Lindorff: Job Growth, Not GDP Growth
Eric Allen Bell: One Mosque Too Many?
Kathy Kelly: Banning Slaughter
Benjamin Dangl: Chile’s Ghosts: The Tyranny of Forgetting
Gary Younge: As Recession Bites Deeper, Obama Has Discovered People Can't Eat Hope
Laura Carlsen: A Plan Colombia for Mexico
Harvey Wasserman: Is the "Nuclear Renaissance" Dead Yet?
Mohammad Talaat: Divestment: From the Campus to the Streets
Grace Lee Boggs: The Good Food Evolution
Marjorie Cohn: Business as Usual in Iraq

Sunday September 12, 2010

Caroline Arnold: A World Ruled by Fear and Self-Interest Offers Little Hope
Ron Smith: Whatever the Problem, Human Ingenuity is No Match for Entropy
Mark Weisbrot: Misreporting Venezuela's Economy
Pratap Chatterjee: Who Made Kabul Corrupt?
John Nichols: Bring the Troops Home, Bust the Banksters, Democratize the Economy
Christopher Brauchli: Theological Nonsense
Nick Turse: The American War and Afghanistan’s Civilians: How Much “Success” Can Afghans Stand?
David Michael Green: I Have A Dream, 2010 Version

Saturday September 11, 2010

Robert Parry: NYT Pushes Confrontation with Iran
Stephen Zunes: Iraq: The Democrats War
Felicity Arbuthnot: 11th September - Hope or Hate?
Michael Moore: If That 'Mosque' ISN'T Built, This Is No Longer America
Victoria Clark: Pastor Terry Jones is a Product of America's Free Market in Religion
Andy Worthington: The Bleaker Truth of Anti-Americanism: Torture, Rendition, and Guantánamo
Ralph Nader: Democrats' Corporate Cocoon

Friday September 10, 2010

Robert Naiman: Why Peaceniks Should Care About the Afghanistan Study Group Report
Jeff Biggers: Is Secretary Chu on a Mission to Save Big Coal?
Peter Hart: First, Bash the Teachers
Naomi Sobel: Raise My Taxes, Please
Rinku Sen and Fekkak Mamdouh: This 9/11, Let’s All Take Responsibility for Ending a Summer of Hate
Glenn Greenwald: The Pastor and Cheap, Selective Concern for "Blood-Spilling
Ingrid Newkirk: Will Obama Allow 60-Year-Old Space Program Veterans to Retire?
Danny Schechter: Engineers of Empire
Ramzy Baroud: The Photo Before the Storm: Peace Talks Already Failed
Jerry Lanson: When Sensationalism Rules the News
Winslow Myers: The Power of One, The Power of Oneness
Norman Solomon: Right-Wing Republicans vs. Corporate Democrats vs. Progressive Populists
Gwynne Dyer: Arctic Oil: The Good News and the Bad News
Sarah van Gelder: Eight Ways to Confront Extremism on 9/11
Subhankar Banerjee: Letter to Young Americans

Thursday September 9, 2010

Bill C. Davis: Fingers in a Bag
Julie Hollar: When Coverage Matters: Tea Party vs. US Social Forum
Barbara Koeppel: Petraeus Spins the Afghan War Mess
Marisol Baez & Beverly Bell: Hope and Dignity for Haitian Women
Michael Winship: 9/11: The Rest Should Be Silence
Juan Cole: The Media as a Security Threat to America
Amitabh Pal: French Strike Shows Resistance to Austerity
Dean Baker: The Wholly Fallible Ben Bernanke
Joseph Stiglitz: A Better Way to Fix the US Housing Crisis
Robert C. Koehler: Implications of a Pointless War
Stephen Zunes: The Other Oil Spill
Mary Anne Muller & Anna Brown: The Plowshares 8: Thirty Years On
Kathy Kelly: The Indefensible Drones: A Ground Zero Reflection

Wednesday September 8, 2010

Nir Rosen: What US Left Behind in Iraq is Even Uglier Than You Think
Steve Clemons: Rethinking US War in Afghanistan
Theodore Bikel: Performing in the Occupied Territories: Legitimizing an Obstacle to Peace
Jim Hightower: Two Multibillionaire Brothers Are Remaking America for Their Own Benefit
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Finding A Way Out of Afghanistan
Randall Amster: Orwell That Ends Well
Amy Goodman: Sept. 11: A Day Without War
Ruth Conniff: Back to School During Budget Cuts
Dan Kennedy: Who Dares Question the Industrial Food System over GM Salmon?
Saif Shahin: War Talk, Peace Talk
Van Jones: The Gulf Will Be Beautiful Again

Tuesday September 7, 2010

Robert Reich: Why Obama Is Proposing Whopping Corporate Tax Cuts, and Why He’s Wrong
Bill Quigley: The United States of Fear
Russell Mokhiber: The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility
Tom Engelhardt: Will Our Generals Ever Shut Up?
Kari Lydersen: Labor Day in Old Milwaukee: Obama and the Urgency of ‘Our Cause’
Bill McKibben: A Symbolic Solar Road Trip To Reignite a Climate Movement
Derrick Z. Jackson: A Penguin Species Faces Extinction
David Sirota: What a Second Stimulus Should - and Shouldn't - Look Like
Rev. John Dear: Georgetown University Welcomes Colombia’s Ex-Pres. Uribe
George Monbiot: Let Them Eat Meat – But Farm It Properly

Monday September 6, 2010

Chris Hedges: ‘They Kill Alex’
Sarita Gupta: Jobs Emergency
Robert Reich: The Real Lesson of Labor Day
Christopher Brauchli: Poverty's Penalty
Randall Amster: As Goes Arizona, Whither Goes the Nation?
Donna Smith: Labor Day News Flash
Gareth Porter: Biden and the False Iraq War Narrative

Sunday September 5, 2010

David Sirota: Despite Celebration, the Iraq War Continues
John Nichols: Right Response to Unemployment Is Smart Stimulus Spending
Dean Baker: Dana Milbank Pays Homage to Alan Simpson's Sexism and Ignorance
Danny Schechter: A Lament for Labor Day
John Robbins: Beyond GDP: How Do We Measure Real Wealth and Happiness?
Katrina vanden Heuvel: No Holiday for Labor Unions
David Michael Green: Our Long National Nightmare Isn't Over, It's Just Beginning
Michelle Chen: Insured or Not, Women and Children’s Health Shortchanged

Saturday September 4, 2010

Matthew Rothschild: Glenn Beck and the Yearning for Fascism
Justin Frewen: Trade Not Aid?
Jim Hightower: A Labor Day Commitment to the Common Good
Robert Parry: CIA's 'Red Cell' Hypocrisy on Terror
Sandy LeonVest: A Nuclear 'Renaissance' Will Burn Us All
Sarah Lazare: Another School Year, Another War Year
David Korten: Bankers, Bookies, and Gamblers
Steven Hill: Don’t Cut Social Security, Double It

Friday September 3, 2010

Les Leopold: Why the Big Lie About the Job Crisis? And the $10 Trillion Answer
Ralph Nader: Honoring Those Who Toil
Brett Dakin: Laos and the Legacy of Vietnam
John Nichols: Carly Fiorina's Campaign Against a Free and Open Internet
Jerry Lanson: Journalism by Poll Simply Reflects Conventional Wisdom
Hannah Gurman: "Tolerating" the Ground Zero Muslim Center Is Damning It With Faint Praise
Laura Flanders: Accepting Defeat in Iraq
Mohammed Khatib: Why Israel Imprisoned My Best Friend
Fran Korten: 10 Ways to Solve the Jobs Problem
Ann Wright: Toxic Beaches Remain in Shadow of Latest Rig Explosion
Mark Weisbrot: More Stimulus Badly Needed to Create Jobs
Hussein Agha and Robert Malley : The Skewed Middle East Peace Talks
Ira Chernus: Skeptics Could Doom Mideast Peace Talks to Fail
Sarah Anderson: FDR’s Labor Day Plea Resonates Today

Thursday September 2, 2010

George Lakoff: Moral Leadership and the Myth of 'Centrist' Thinking
Ann Wright: Unseizing Gaza
John Pilger: Flying the Flag, Faking the News
Paul Buchheit: Top 10 Reasons for Higher Taxes on the Top 1%
Jo Confino: Buddhism, Peace, and Ecology
Walden Bello: Can You Say, Fascism? The Political Consequences of Stagnation
Sarah van Gelder: Five Ways You Can Help Pakistan (and the Rest of Us)
Amy Goodman: Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful
Karl Grossman: Hurricane Earl... and Floating Nuclear Power Plants
Laura Flanders: Fight Tea Partiers with Fresh Voters
Tom Andrews: The (Anti-War) Surge Did Work
Jeff Biggers: Just Don't Do It: NIKE Digs Coal, Disrespects Coal Miners

Wednesday September 1, 2010

John Sauven: Weaning the World Off Oil
Robert Naiman: Iraq/Afghanistan: A Promise Kept, A Promise Deferred
Jamal Juma': What Israel's "Separation Wall" Has Done
Ghada Karmi: A Middle East Peace That Wreaks Havoc
Sandy LeonVest: Billions for Acquisitions, Nothing for US Workers
Norman Solomon: A Speech for Endless War
Howard Friel: The Lomborg Deception: About Yesterday’s Front-Page Story in the Guardian
Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less than We Know
César Chelala: The Iraq War's Tragic Legacy
Firmin DeBrabander: Dying on Our Doorstep: Mexico's War and the US Drug Problem
Robert Scheer: Two Wars Don’t Make a Right
Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond: Another False Ending: Contracting out the Iraq Occupation
Andrew Bacevich: Obama Wants Us To Forget the Lessons of Iraq
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