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Sunday October 31, 2010

Ted Sorensen: From Our Archives: A Time to Weep
Harvey Wasserman: Legal Marijuana or Bust!
Danny Schechter: The Business of American Politics and Politics as a Business
Lucinda Marshall: Elect Or Genuflect? The Choices Going Forward
David Smith-Ferri: 'Without Peace, Life is Impossible': What an Afghan Boy Knows that US Forces Don't
Julia Indichova: IVF: The Heavy Cost of the Nobel Prize
Hiroaki Sato: Why Does Distance Ameliorate a War Crime?
Michelle Chen: US May Back Indigenous Rights, Without Accountability for Them
Robert Freeman: If You Want More Debt Vote Republican
Robert Jensen: Elections: The Day After

Saturday October 30, 2010

Robert Parry: Does Sanity Matter?
Andy Worthington: Torture Is Finally Mentioned on the Last Day of Omar Khadr’s Sentencing Hearing at Guantánamo
Glenn Greenwald: The Wretched Mind of the American Authoritarian
Linh Dinh: Prone Pioneers
Kathy Kelly: Planting the Seeds
Jules Boykoff: Jon Stewart’s Civility Fetishism
Paul Rogat Loeb: The Republican War on Reality
Jerry Lanson: News Media Share Blame for Voters' Ignorance
Ralph Nader: Road to Corporate Serfdom

Friday October 29, 2010

Michelle Chen: State Ballot Initiatives Ensure Employee Free Choice Act Stays Dead
Dean Baker: Why Growth Still Feels Like Recession
Ellen Brown: Time for a New Theory of Money
Darwin BondGraham: START: Arms Affirmation Treaty
Robert Reich: Halliburton and the Upcoming Election
John Nichols: The Tea Party Constitution Versus the Thomas Jefferson Constitution
Tom Engelhardt: A Democracy of Bags Stuffed with Cash

Thursday October 28, 2010

Donna Smith: Being SiCKO in a Tea Party Nation
Mark Engler: Argentinean President Dies, Business Rejoices
Robert Naiman: Is the Pentagon Deliberately "Degrading" Afghanistan's Capacity for Peace?
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting: Don't Defund Public Broadcasting--Improve It
Catherine Traywick: Lawless Judges, Immigrant Soldiers, and Deportee Pardons
Ann Jones: Big Men, Big Money, Big Voting Scam
Dave Lindorff: What Are They Hiding? Obama Administration Defending Black Site Prison at Bagram Airbase
Keith Olbermann: If the Tea Party Wins, America Loses
Robert Koehler: Defying a Superpower
Ted Rall: Bank Job: Make Rogue Corporations Pay for Foreclosure Crisis

Wednesday October 27, 2010

Mark Weisbrot: Néstor Kirchner: Argentina's Independence Hero
Michael Winship: All They Ask for Is an Unfair Advantage
Joshua Holland: Conservatives Push Absurd Lie that Wall Street Hustlers Were Innocent Victims ... of Poor People
Medea Benjamin: Dear Jon, Sane People Protest Crazy Wars
Laura Carlsen: Worlds Collide at Cancun Climate Talks
Laura Flanders: Campaign Cash, Corruption, Corporate Power
Steve Chao: Chilling Reality of Globe's Biodiversity
Sarah van Gelder: Real Family Values
Jim Hightower: Flying the Un-Friendly Skies
Iraq Veterans Against the War: IVAW Statement on the Iraq War Logs - A Call for Accountability
Amy Goodman: War Should Be an Election Issue

Tuesday October 26, 2010

Johann Hari: The Real Reason Obama Has Let Us All Down
Zach Carter: Corporations Get More Power, Political Parties Get Less
Alex Main: Obama Administration Continues to Disregard Congressional Concern for Human Rights, Democracy in Honduras
Joseph Huff-Hannon: The Case for California's Prop 19
Arundhati Roy: A Response to the Threat of Arrest for Sedition
John Feffer: What's So Funny About Outsourcing?
Shamus Cooke: French Lessons for U.S. Workers
Felicity Arbuthnot: An Open Letter to Save Tareq Aziz
Holly Sklar: Wall Street Has Already Voted
Jerica Arents: The Women’s Harvest
Tom Engelhardt: Handicapping the Global Midterms: Winners and Losers
Wenonah Hauter: Reaching the Boiling Point
Steve Rendall and Michael Morel: Does NewsHour ‘Help Us See America Whole’?
Phil Rockstroh: Every Day Is Halloween in Empire: The Zombie Apocalypse of Duopoly
Carlos Perez de Alejo: Embrace the Cooperative Movement
Robert Greenwald: Profit-Chasing Guns-for-Hire Are Killing Us in Iraq and Afghanistan

Monday October 25, 2010

George Monbiot: The Tea Party Movement: Deluded and Inspired by Billionaires
Ellen Knickmeyer: WikiLeaks Exposes Rumsfeld's Lies
Pierre Tristam: How Republicans Became America’s Arabs
Chris Hedges: The World Liberal Opportunists Made
Sam Pizzigati: Mapping Global Wealth
Sara K. Gould and Susan Wefald: Out Cry: Ending Violence Against LGBTQ Youth
David Smith-Ferri: Bamiyan Diaries, Day Four: “Tell Them to Come to Afghanistan and Make Friends”
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: A Worse Record Than Saddam's
Norman Solomon: Top “Tossup” House Race for Progressives: Raul Grijalva
Anna White: Rebuilding Local Economies: A Shift in Priorities
Bill Quigley: Socialism? The Rich Are Winning the US Class War: Facts Show Rich Getting Richer, Everyone Else Poorer
Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earth

Sunday October 24, 2010

Glenn Greenwald: The Nixonian Henchmen of Today: at the NYT
Kathy Kelly: Bamiyan Diaries Day 3 “You’re Not Alone”
Ray McGovern: Julian Assange Honored at London Press Conference
Editorial/Sunday Observer: 'A Moral Catastrophe': The Final Reasons for Going to War are Being Swept Away
Ananya Mukherjee-Reed: Food Security as If Women Mattered: A Story from Kerala
Chris Edelson: Republicans Passionate Defenders of The Constitution—As They Imagine It
Roger K. Smith: I Am Become Death
Michelle Chen: Getting Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Confess
César Chelala: President Obama Should Investigate Human Rights Abuses in Iraq
Frank Rich: What Happened to Change We Can Believe In?
John Palmer: Biodiversity, Dollars and Social Sense
Robert Fisk: The Shaming of America

Saturday October 23, 2010

Christopher Brauchli: Arms and the World
Pratap Chatterjee: Iraq War Logs: Military Privatization Run Amok
Robert Fisk: They're Trying To Sell the Brooklyn Bridge Again
Patrick Cockburn: Echoes of El Salvador in Tales of US-Approved Death Squads
Robert Naiman: Restore Sanity? Jon Stewart Gave Senator Coburn a Bum Rap on Haiti Aid
Jerica Arents: Afghan Youth: Creating a New Courage
David Michael Green: The Bush Lie

Friday October 22, 2010

Ralph Nader: Ten Questions for Tea Partiers
Glenn Greenwald: The Real Danger from NPR's Firing of Juan Williams
Josh Stieber: An Open Letter on the Needed Response to the Upcoming Wikileaks Report
Chuck Kelly: Estate Taxes Aren't a Levy on the Dead
Sherine Tadros: Justice, Israeli Style
Bob Burnett: Election 2010: Choosing the Abuser
Charlie Cray: Citizens United v. America's Citizens: A Voter's Guide
Laura Flanders: Who Profits from Silly Campaign Season?
Andrew Korfhage: Big Chocolate's Child Slavery Addiction
David Sirota: The Tea Party Test Case
Tom Engelhardt: No Learning Curve in Washington

Thursday October 21, 2010

Kathy Kelly: “War Does This to Your Mind”
Robert Naiman: Britain's Budget Cuts - Will the Bell Toll for Us?
Beverly Bell: Surviving in Haiti
Catherine Traywick: Why Detention Reform Is Desperately Needed
Christopher Calabrese: Defend Free Speech on the Internet
Nick Turse: How Permanent Are America’s Afghan Bases? Digging in for the Long Haul in Afghanistan
Mark Weisbrot: Sarkozy Should Retire, Says France
Cindy Cohn: Eight Epic Failures of Regulating Cryptography
Deena Guzder: Why the U.S. Is Not Winning “Hearts and Minds” in Pakistan
Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond: Honduras: Crisis and Progress
]: Too Pig to Jail? Ban Foreclosures Now

Wednesday October 20, 2010

Michael Winship: The Pulpit of Bullies
Joe Brewer: Where Do Anti-Government Ideas Come From?
Malalai Joya: Joya Rejects the NATO Coalition, Harper and the Excuses for War
Robert Scheer: Obama Hires a Hustler
Taj James and Marianne Manilov: Movement Building and Deep Change: A Call to Mobilize Strong and Weak Ties
Stephen Zunes: A “Progressive Hero?” Time to Think Outside of the Boxer
Jim Hightower: Corporate Corruptistan
Paul Buchheit: 10 Reasons Not to Tax the Rich. And Why They're All Bad
David Smith-Ferri: Bamiyan Diaries – Day One
Amy Goodman: When Banks Are the Robbers

Tuesday October 19, 2010

Laura Flanders: Fight for Your Right to Vote for CEO Pay
Dean Baker: Timothy Geithner Forecloses on the Moratorium Debate
Lindsay Beyerstein: Foreclosuregate Hits Home
Robert Naiman: A Robin Hood Tax to Pay for the Wars
Paul Morozzo: From Crude Awakening to Climate Camp, Direct Action Needs a New Story
Matt Taibbi: More Tea Party Hilarity
Marc Morial: Sheriff Joe Arpaio: A Modern-Day Bull Connor
Robert Reich: The Perfect Storm
Julie Hollar: What PBS Thinks You Need to Know: Replacement for Now & Moyers fails to fill their shoes
Greg Kaufmann: The Wall Comes Tumbling Down

Monday October 18, 2010

Ralph Nader: Mainstreaming the Extreme Rightwing
Danny Schechter: Report from the Epicenter of Fraudclosures: It's Dark as a Dungeon Deep Down in the Mine
Falguni Sheth: Julia and Hinduism. Or, ‘We Are a Private, Christian Adoption Agency’
Cliff Schecter: Tickets to the Gun Show
Leslie Samuelrich: Big Food's Blame Game
Isabel Macdonald: The Dobbs & Pony Show: Snapshots of America's Immigration Hypocrisy
Chris Hedges: Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned Masses
Tom Engelhardt: A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down?

Sunday October 17, 2010

John Nichols: Obama Is Wrong, the Republicans Are Right
Rupert Cornwell: Crumbling America Has a $2.2 Trillion Repair Bill
Glenn Greenwald: How Propaganda Is Disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition
Kumi Naidoo: Climate Justice Can Help End Poverty
Matthew R. Auer: The Lessons of Hungary’s Sludge Disaster

Saturday October 16, 2010

Bob Katz: Can the Right Spin the Chilean Miners Story?
Donna Smith: Sleeping Free of Healthcare Fear
David Michael Green: The Ricky Ray Rector President
Sarah Laskow: When Will Our Water Be Clean?
Michelle Chen: Climate Talks Tank, Global South Sinks Further
Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith and Lisa Hoyos: Coming Now to a Job Near You! Why Climate Change Matters for California Workers

Friday October 15, 2010

Drummond Pike: Stop Supporting Fox News or You'll Have Blood on Your Hands
Robert Parry: The 'Teach-the-Dems-a-Lesson' Myth
Jim Naureckas: ‘Saving’ Social Security From Its Previous Rescue
Johann Hari: Obama's Escalating Robot War in Pakistan Is Making a Terror Attack More Likely
Nora Barrows-Friedman: Water Crisis in Palestine Is Worsening
Eric Holt-Giménez: King of the Food Deserts
David Sirota: The Imperial Defense of Pentagon Bloat
Chuck Collins: The Small Business Case for Ending Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
Catherine Traywick: The Burden of Record-Breaking Deportations
Bitta Mostofi: Admiring Ahmadinejad and Overlooking Activists: We’re Better Than This

Thursday October 14, 2010

Amanda Marcotte: America's Dish Detergent Wars
Zack de la Rocha and Salvador Reza: Why the Boycott of Arizona Continues
Robert Naiman: For a DREAMy, Wartime, National Service Draft
Nick Turse: Publish or Perish: Getting a Read on American War
Michelle Chen: Foxconn’s Global Empire Reflects a New Breed of Sweatshop
Robert C. Koehler: Then They Came for Me
Michael Parenti: Death and Profits: The Utility Protection Racket
Ruth Conniff: The Great Climate Sell-Out
Norman Solomon: Progressive Canaries in a Political Mine
Sara Joseph: Rattling Democracy in Latin America
Marjorie Cohn: Israel Raid on Gaza Flotilla: US Failure to Condemn Despite UN Findings
Robert Scheer: Invasion of the Robot Home Snatchers

Wednesday October 13, 2010

Dean Baker: Why Printing Money Makes Sense
Michael Winship: Washington and Change: Cash You Can Believe In
Maude Barlow: Our Commons Future Is Already Here
Glen Ford: Obama and the “Superman” School Predators
Tom Turnipseed: Money Talks: Corporations Become Humans and Curse Their Creator
John Feffer: The White Noise of War
Kelly Rigg: Climate Change: Local Action Speaks Louder Than Global Words
John Buell: The Faces of Government
Amy Dean: The Roots of the Enthusiasm Gap Go Back to 1992

Tuesday October 12, 2010

Amitai Etzioni: Withdraw U.S. Troops from Afghanistan
Andy Worthington: Former Guantánamo Prisoner, Tortured by Al-Qaeda and the US, Launches Futile Attempt to Hold America Accountable
Jamal Elshayyal: The Persistence of Resistance
Ann Wright: “Why Is the U.S. Government Deaf to What Has Been Done to My Son?” Asks Father of an American Murdered on the Gaza Flotilla
Jeff Biggers: Oct. 12th: Mother Jones Is Still Calling Out Deadbeat Coal Barons (on Coal Miner's Day)
John Fugelsang: Stop Calling it Bullying
Ralph Nader: Seeking Fair Contracts
Peter H. Gleick: Has the U.S. Passed the Point of Peak Water?
Amie Newman: KFC's Pink Buckets for Breast Cancer: More Harm than Good?
Pepe Escobar: China’s Pipelineistan “War”
Robert Jensen: Soils and Souls: The Promise of the Land
George Monbiot: It Goes Against Our Nature, but the Left Has to Start Asserting Its Own Values
Walden Bello: Lessons of the Obama Debacle
Sam Pizzigati: Washington at Work--for the Wealthy

Monday October 11, 2010

Melody Moezzi: A Muslim's Defense of Geert Wilders
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner
Josh Rushing: Afghanistan: Does Anyone in the US Still Care?
Andrew Kennis: Wikileaks' Afghan/Iraq Logs: Searching for Accountability
Bill Quigley: Nine Months After the Quake – A Million Haitians Slowly Dying

Sunday October 10, 2010

Ted Rall: How to Save American Capitalism, in 809 Words
David Michael Green: How Do You Take Your Tea? With Heaping Spoonfuls of Irony, Of Course
Robert Freeman: When Did Teachers Become Bums?
Michelle Chen: American Science’s Racist History Still Haunts the World
Joseph Nevins: Meg Whitman Reaps What Pete Wilson Sowed

Saturday October 9, 2010

Laurel Dykstra: What If It Doesn’t Get Better? Queer and Aboriginal Youth Suicide
Christopher Brauchli: A New Newt?
Felice Cohen-Joppa: Upholding International Law in a Muddy Kansas City Soybean Field
Chyng Sun: Gang Rape and Gang Bang
Dennis Henigan: Right Wing Militias and the NRA: Second Amendment Soulmates
Jon Wiener: Bob Dylan's Defense of John Lennon
Bob Herbert: Policy at Its Worst
Gwynne Dyer: Green Brazil

Friday October 8, 2010

John Lindsay-Poland and Susana Pimiento: U.S. Base Deal for Colombia: Back to the Status Quo
Stephen Zunes: Senate Again Undermines Obama's Middle-East Peace Efforts
David Sirota: Follow Wyoming on 'Fracking' Regulation
Julie R Butler: The Mirror of History
Michael Moore: A Senseless War Begins Its 10th Year
Yifat Susskind: Buying Local Halfway Across the Globe
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: Is Social Networking Useless for Social Change?
Jeff Biggers: Rahm, Carol, Tom, Luis and Rev. Meeks: Chicago's Next Green Mayor Will Join Sunday's Clean Air Race
Robert Reich: The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America
Laura Flanders: Losing the War’s Beginning
Peter Rothberg: 10/10/10

Thursday October 7, 2010

Tim Karr: Net Neutrality Is Ready for Action. Is the FCC?
Ronnie Cummins: Industrial Agriculture and Human Survival: The Road Beyond 10/10/10
Beverly Bell: Haitian Farmers: Growing Strength to Grow Food
Phil Rockstroh: The Bigot-Whisperers of the Right
Andrew J. Bacevich: The Long War: Year Ten
Karl Frisch: About the Foreign Cash in the Chamber's Campaign Stash
Harvey Wasserman: A Solar Victory and Military Defeat at the White House
Mary Bottari: Is Geithner Planning a Stealth Attack on the Wall Street Reform Bill?
Steve Rendall and Alex Kane: The Media's Construction of the 'Ground Zero Mosque'
Jim Hightower: Dead Miners and Ethically Dead Senators
Dean Baker: Economics 101 for Deficit Hawks

Wednesday October 6, 2010

Robert Jensen: Economics: Doing Business As If People Mattered
Bill Quigley and Rachel Meeropol: Attention Left, Liberal and Radical Groups – Pennsylvania Has Been Monitoring You
Michelle Chen: Hard Times After Hard Time for the Formerly Incarcerated
Amira Hass: Israel Is Now Punishing Palestinians Shamelessly
Jim Hightower: Executive Excess
Lydia Howell: Is Progressive Dissent Public Enemy #1?
Mark Cohen: Really 'Making It Right' on the Gulf Coast

Tuesday October 5, 2010

Bill McKibben: Not Bad Timing: Obama Annouces White House Solar Right Before Giant Global Day of Climate Solutions (10/10/10)
Cindy Sheehan: Dissent in the Age of Obama
John Feffer: Take This Job and...
Ted Rall: The Case for Liberal Apathy: An Overview of the Enthusiasm Gap
Paul Rogat Loeb: Don’t Let the Russ Feingolds Go Down for the Sins of the Blanche Lincolns
Michael Winship: Making Ends Meet in Coin-Operated Washington
Robert Naiman: Why Can't Haitians Get a Fair Election?
Sarah Seltzer: Banned Books Week: It’s (Almost) Always About Sex
Joseph A. Palermo: Why Liberals Don't Stand a Chance in the Corporate Media
Andy Kroll: Unemployed: Stranded on the Sidelines of a Jobs Crisis
Vien Truong: No on Prop 23: Big Polluters Bankroll Initiative to Kill Clean Air Laws
Jake Olzen: Prosecuting Border Activists for Leaving Water for Migrants Is Unjust
Derrick Z. Jackson: The Web as a Weapon
Subhankar Banerjee: Youth Across North America Are Fighting for Their Future Climate

Monday October 4, 2010

George Monbiot: Worse Than Pollution: Crazy Ants, Bird-Eating Mice and Murdering Mink
Amy Traub: Keeping It Public (If the Libraries Don't Sway You, the Blazing House Might)
Barbara Hill and Matthew Pawa: Looking at the Real Cost of Fossil Fuel
Koustubh Parulekar: The 2010 Commonwealth Games – A Systemic Indicator of India’s Democracy
Sarah Laskow: Why Building a Bike-Safe City Is Key to a Clean Energy Future
Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher: Proposition 23: The Real Job Killer
Dave Lindorff: Getting Some Rays: Forget Radar, Now the Government Is X-Raying You as You Drive
JoAnne Berkenkamp: Farm-to-School's Teachable Moment
Stephan Salisbury: Surveillance, America’s Pastime

Sunday October 3, 2010

Andy Worthington: US Court Denies Justice to Dead Men at Guantánamo
Kwame Anthony Appiah: How the Future Will Judge Our Moral Failings
Todd Gitlin: Henry Kissinger "Regrets"
Matt Taibbi: Tea & Crackers: How Corporate Interests and Republican Insiders Built the Tea Party Monster
Felicity Lawrence: We've Got to Stamp Out Modern Slavery

Saturday October 2, 2010

Glenn Greenwald: The US Searches for War Criminals
Rethinking Schools Editors: Teacher Layoffs and War
John Feffer and Miriam Pemberton: The Green Dividend
MJ Rosenberg: Netanyahu Humiliates Obama Again
Ingrid Newkirk: A Fate Worse Than Death
Harvey Wasserman: Hey Tea Party-Republicans: The Founders Are Not Your Guys
David Michael Green: Bucking Up for Barry
Stephen Zunes: Arming the Saudis
Michelle Chen: Cracks in the American Way, as Labor Stands Strong in Europe

Friday October 1, 2010

Mark Weisbrot: Ecuador's Correa Haunted by Honduras
Ken Gude: Obama's Cloak and Dagger Work
Michael Moore: Five Ways the Democrats Can Avoid a Catastrophe and Pull Off the Mother of All Upsets
Dean Baker and Sarita Gupta: Tax Breaks Are Not Sufficient to Restore Employment
Christine Ahn and Martin Hart-Landsberg: Forget the FTA Fix, Just Say No
Catherine Traywick: Schools a Minefield for Undocumented Students After DREAM Defeat
Michelle Chen: Will the U.S. Help Reproductive Justice Go Global?
David Sirota: The Real Democratic Whiners
Danny Schechter: When the Taliban Calls, Should You Take It?
Jon Faulkner: Sophistry and the Right
Ted Rall: Will Americans Act to Prevent Economic and Environmental Collapse?
Laura Flanders: It’s the Economy, Not the Bloggers
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