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Friday December 31, 2010

Judith Stein: Will U.S. Policymakers Repeat Mistakes of the 1970s?
Rose Aguilar: The Media's Failure to Challenge Corporate Spin and Lies
Lucia Green-Weiskel and Tina Gerhardt: Obama Admin Takes Aim at China’s Renewable-Energy Subsidies
Randall Amster: 2011: Time for a New Clear Vision
Michelle Chen: A Bitter Pill: Birth Rates Fall, But It’s No Reproductive-Rights Victory
Bob Burnett: 2010 “Person” of the Year: The US Supreme Court
Lindsay Dahl: It's Time to Protect Consumers from Toxic Chemicals
David Sirota: A Snowy Glimpse of America's Future

Thursday December 30, 2010

Jay Griffiths: Indonesia's 'Slow Motion Genocide'
Simon Johnson: Tax Cuts Move US Closer to Fiscal Crisis
Robert Reich: Economic Prediction for 2011: Profits for Wall St, More Pain for Main St
Dave Lindorff: Serfing USA: Corporate America is Robbing American Workers
Salena Tramel: Gaza, Then and Now
Ted Morgan: 2010: The Big Con Continues
Danny Schechter: Media Hit Job of the Year: Punishing Helen Thomas For Criticizing Israel
Paul Buchheit: Middle Class and Mad in the USA
Les Leopold: Wall Street's Ten Biggest Lies for 2010
Sam Harris: A New Year's Resolution for the Rich

Wednesday December 29, 2010

Mark Levine: Capital's War Against WikiLeaks
Mark Anthony Rolo: Lakota Deserve Apology for Wounded Knee, 120 Years Ago
John Whitbeck: On Palestine, the US is a Rogue State
Kevin Young: Two, Three, Many Colombias
Mehdi Hasan: US Drone Attacks Are No Laughing Matter, Mr. Obama
Ali Abunimah: The Gaza Massacre and the Struggle for Justice
Heather Boushey: Awake Young Workers: OMG Social Security!?
Leah Bolger: Failure to Obey a Lawful Order
Linh Dinh: Photoshopping the American Dream
Randall Amster: Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies (Also, Reason and Justice)
Robert Scheer: In Money-Changers We Trust
Bill Quigley: Eight Homeless Youth Die in New Orleans Fire – What Does It Say About Us?
Amy Goodman: ‘The Comeback Kid’ and the Kids Who Won’t

Tuesday December 28, 2010

Unni Karunakara: Haiti: Where Aid Failed
Stephen Zunes: Israel Represses Israelis and Congress Approves
Grace Lee Boggs: Looking Back at 2010
Ralph Nader: Pharmaceutical Industry Fraud
Medea Benjamin: More Than Ten Good Things to Celebrate in a Bad Year
John Nichols: Dick Cheney's $250-Million 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card
Linda McQuaig: Canada Discovers Trickle-Up Economics
Jody McIntyre: Two Years After Operation Cast Lead, Gaza Remains Imprisoned

Monday December 27, 2010

Bud Courtney: “War Is Over” if We Do More Than Want It
Peter Certo: Repeal of DADT Becomes Zero Sum Game Between Gays and Gitmo Detainees
Beverly Bell: Dennis Brutus: A Small Tribute to a Giant Man
David Michael Green: Learning From Lame Ducks
Chris Hedges: 2011: A Brave New Dystopia
Gazans Seeking Justice: An Open Letter from Gaza: Two Years After the Massacre, a Demand for Justice
Karen Dolan: Not Much to Celebrate with Obama's Tax Deal

Sunday December 26, 2010

Christopher Brauchli: Christmas Cheer the Corporate Way
Matthew Rothschild: So This is Christmas (But War Is Not Over)
George Marshall: Back to the Future: When Less Was More
David Sirota: Faces of Economic Death
Robin McKie: After a Wasted Year, Climate Change Must Once Again Be Our Priority
Harvey Wasserman: Another Astonishing Holiday No New Nukes Victory
Afghan Youth Voices of Peace: 'Dear Afghanistan': A New Year's Call for Peace

Saturday December 25, 2010

John Nichols: A Christmas Carol of Conservatives and Liberals
Jay Walljasper: All That We Share
Vincent Di Stefano: And What Rough Beast Slouches Towards Gaza?
Stephen Cleghorn: Practicing Precaution: On the Farm and in the Marcellus Shale
Tom Turnipseed: Struggling for Peace in the Season of Christmas

Friday December 24, 2010

Michelle Chen: Global Recession Turns Top-Tier Economies Upside Down
John Fugelsang: Happy Holidays to the War on Christmas
Glenn Greenwald: What WikiLeaks Revealed to the World in 2010
Johann Hari: The Under-Appreciated Heroes of 2010
Tom Engelhardt: WikiLeaked Upon by the State Department
Donna Smith: ‘Twas the Night Before 2010 Christmas in America

Thursday December 23, 2010

Bill Quigley and Vince Warren: Obama’s Liberty Problem: Why Indefinite Detention by Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
Joy Gordon: US Responsible for Human Toll of Iraq Sanctions
Sarah van Gelder: 10 Most Hopeful Stories of 2010
Tim Karr: Not Neutrality
Michael Moore: Another WikiLeaks Cable from the Bush Administration About My Movies
Robert C. Koehler: Believe in Violence and Be Saved
Ronnie Cummins: “Coexistence” with Monsanto: Hell No!

Wednesday December 22, 2010

Jessica Ritter: DREAM's on the Rise Now, and Nothing Can Kill It
Karen Greenberg: Obama Walks Back on Guantánamo
Adam Parsons: The Rise of ‘British’ People Power
Harvard Ayers and Chie Sakakibara: Iñupiaq People Ask: “Will We Be the Victims of the Next Oil Spill Disaster?”
Jim Hightower: Color-Coded Terrorism Alerts Fade to Black
Pablo Solon: Why Bolivia Stood Alone in Opposing the Cancún Climate Agreement
John Feffer: The Baby Trade
Robert Scheer: Speaking Ill of ‘the Best and the Brightest’
Amy Goodman: President Obama’s Christmas Gift to AT&T (and Comcast and Verizon)
Rebecca Solnit: Iceberg Economies and Shadow Selves: Further Adventures in the Territories of Hope

Tuesday December 21, 2010

Laura Flanders: Ask, Tell, Don't Kill
Alice Slater: Beyond START
Sen. Al Franken: The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time
Michael B. Keegan: Stop Secret Election Spending: A Nonpartisan Goal
Medea Benjamin: To the Gay Community: Now That You Can Join the Military, Please Don’t!
Randall Amster and Michael Nagler: War and Planet Earth: Toward a Sustainable Peace
Dean Baker: Obama's Tax Deal: Read the Small Print
Caroline Hamilton: The Spirit of Scrooge
Ray McGovern: Witness at the White House Fence

Monday December 20, 2010

Ralph Nader: Wikimania and the First Amendment
Carole Joffe: For "Pro-Life" Republicans, Human Life Is Cheap
Marie Brill: The Ethanol Industry's $6 Billion Christmas Gift
Chris Hedges: Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail
Margaret Flowers: End Corporate Domination: More Than Advocacy We Must Resist
Andy Worthington: Is Bradley Manning Being Held as Some Sort of “Enemy Combatant”?
Christopher Brauchli: Wikileaks and Congress - A Comparison
Grace Lee Boggs: Thinking Dialectically About Solidarity
Max Blumenthal: The Great Islamophobic Crusade

Sunday December 19, 2010

Stephen Zunes: Democrats Push through Yet Another Anti-Palestinian Resolution
Bill Quigley: Cover-ups, Coups, and Drones – A Holiday Sampler of What Wikileaks Reveals about the US
Danny Schechter: Battle Over Austerity Measures Has Moved from the Suites to the Streets
Robert Fisk: Stay Out of Trouble by Not Speaking to Western Spies
Laurence Lewis: The Political Fights the President Chooses
Dave Lindorff: Black-Out in DC: Pay No Attention to Those Veterans Chained to the White House Fence
Tom Engelhardt: Negotiating with Glaciers
Farah Marie Mokhtareizadeh: Over Wo(my)n’s Dead Bodies: On Surviving ‘Liberation’

Saturday December 18, 2010

Linh Dinh: Bloody Trophies
Harvey Wasserman: Our Gay Commander-in-Chief
Glenn Greenwald: Joe Biden v. Joe Biden on WikiLeaks
Michelle Chen: Georgia Prison Strike: A Hidden Labor Force Resists
Gwynne Dyer: Afghanistan: Wheels Within Wheels?
Bob Allen and Marcy Rein: Bus Riders Fight for Their Right to Service, 55 Years After Montgomery
Michael Moore: ¡Viva WikiLeaks! SiCKO Was Not Banned in Cuba

Friday December 17, 2010

Tim Karr: House Reps Take Stand for Real Net Neutrality
Robert Reich: The New Tax Deal: Reaganomics Redux
Leisa Faulkner and Redginald Alvarez: Haiti’s Burning
Johann Hari: Your Right to Protest Is Under Threat
John Pilger: WikiLeaks: The Emperor Wears No Clothes
Jim Hightower: The Hammer Gets Nailed
Ted Rall: The Death of Moderates: Extreme Problems Require Extreme Solutions
Catherine Traywick: Why We Need a Deportation Moratorium Now
Mark Weisbrot: Wikileaks Cables Show Why Washington Won't Allow Democracy in Haiti
Walden Bello: The Celtic Tiger Follows the Asian Tigers to Extinction
Stacy Mitchell: Seeding Small Business: 5 Ideas from Detroit
Eric Stoner: Record Levels of Violence in Afghanistan Do Not Equal Progress

Thursday December 16, 2010

Mary Bottari: Trapped in Bank of America Hell
Laura Flanders: Harry Potter and the Bailed-Out Banks
Anna Brown: Disarm Now Activists Demonstrate What It Means to “Pay the Price” for Peace
Glenn Greenwald: Getting to Assange through Manning
Joseph Nevins: A Man of Heart? Coming to Terms with Richard Holbrooke
Tom Andrews: What the President Won't Say About Afghanistan
Michelle Chen: Choosing Fear Over Dreams: Legal Path for Immigrant Students in Limbo
Bill McKibben: Everything Is Negotiable, Except with Nature
Tom Engelhardt: Skimming the (S)cream Off the WikiLeaks Terror Accusations
Glen Ford: Who Is the FBI Really Trying to Entrap?
Andrew Kennis: WikiLeaks and the Public Interest?
Robert Koehler: Transcending Progressive Discord

Wednesday December 15, 2010

Medea Benjamin: WikiLeaks vs Facebook? No Match
Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers and Afghans for Peace: We Want You Out
Cesar Chelala: Palestinian Children Vs. the IDF
Randall Amster: Support the Dominant Paradigm
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: Oil or Terrorism: Which Motivates U.S. Policy More?
Doug Pibel: Don’t Compromise Social Security
Jim Hightower: Food for Thought
Pat LaMarche: In Afghanistan or W. Virginia, Outrageous Is Outrageous
Robert Scheer: Return of the Great Triangulator
Laura Flanders: Remembering Why WikiLeaks Matters
Stephan Salisbury: Terrorama: The Next Congress Will See Terror in Everything
Frida Berrigan: Why I'll Stand with Veterans for Peace on December 16
Amy Goodman: ‘Assangination’: From Character Assassination to the Real Thing

Tuesday December 14, 2010

Robert Weissman: Corporate and Congressional Disasters
Billy Bragg: Student Protesters: Teaching the Left's old Guard a Thing or Two
Andy Worthington: Ten Thoughts About Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
Amy Dean: Tax Cuts Create Jobs? Prove It
Tom Engelhardt: Read All About It: Axed General Morphs into Self-Made Celeb
Ralph Nader: Majority of One
Ray McGovern: 'Giant' Holbrooke Failed on Afghan War
Linda McQuaig: Vindication for G20 Protesters
Robert Shetterly: Why I Choose to Risk Arrest December 16, 2010
Robert Reich: Why America’s Two Economies Continue to Drift Apart, and What Washington Isn’t Doing About It
Donna Smith: Silent Night, Lonely Night 2010
Michael Moore: Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Danny Muller: Gaining Perspective on the Crisis in Haiti

Monday December 13, 2010

Chris Hedges: No Act of Rebellion Is Wasted
Sarah Anderson: Toxic CEO Pay Story
Peter Kirwan: The US Government's Pursuit of WikiLeaks Could Be Its Undoing
Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It
Robert Naiman: Daniel Ellsberg: "I Am WikiLeaks!"
John Nichols: Ten Years After Bush v. Gore, Five Unfinished Election Reforms
Beverly Bell: The Poor Always Pay: The Electoral Crisis in Haiti
Madeleine Bunting: The True Cost of Your New Christmas Laptop? Ask the Eastern Congolese

Sunday December 12, 2010

Caroline Arnold: Losing Our Moral Compass in Pursuit of Profit, Efficiency
David Smith-Ferri: Afghanistan Improving? Rubbish
Shannon Biggs: We Need 1,000 Cochabambas
Linda Milazzo: In The Cold Climate of Politics, We'll Miss Elizabeth Edwards' Warmth
Adam Parsons: The Seven Myths of ‘Slums’
Shefali Sharma: The Climate Deal That Failed Us

Saturday December 11, 2010

Randall Amster: The Blog of War: WikiLeaks Exposes Business-as-Usual, and a New Battle Ensues
Medea Benjamin: Reading the Coca Leaves: Climate Change, Cancun and Bolivia
Greg Guma: What Makes Bernie Speak?
Jeff Cohen: President NAFTA Backs President Shafta
Bill Quigley: Jury for Tacoma Trident Peace Activists Still Out
Christopher Brauchli: Executions Should be Painless

Friday December 10, 2010

George Lakoff: Untellable Truths
Kathy Kelly: Hunger and Anger in Afghanistan
Tom Engelhardt: A Club Med for Recreational Bombing
Mark Engler: Obama's Tax Cut Debacle: When Compromise is the Enemy of the Good
Megan Tady: More than 80 Groups Demand Real Net Neutrality
Laura Flanders: Attacks on Government Workers in Tax Deal
Craig Aaron: The FCC's Guide to Losing Net Neutrality Without Really Trying
Saeb Erekat: The Returning Issue of Palestine's Refugees
DarRen Morris: Prison Is No Place for Persons With Mental Illness
Janet Redman: Cancun: Can We Avert Climate Chaos?
Laura Carlsen: Cloistered Climate Talks

Thursday December 9, 2010

Beverly Bell and Tory Field: “Miami Rice”: The Business of Disaster in Haiti
Ronnie Cummins: The Long March: Steps Toward a Global Uprising
James K. Galbraith: Whose Side Is the White House On?
Fatima Bhutto: A Flood of Drone Strikes: What the Wikileaks Revelations Tell Us About How Washington Runs Pakistan
Danny Schechter: A Time to Gift, or a Time to Grift? It’$ Christmas Bonus Time for the Swells on Wall Street
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Treasury Blocks Legal Aid for Homeowners Facing Foreclosure
Robert Reich: Why the Tax Deal Confirms the Republican Worldview
Chuck Collins: Obama Tax Deal Further Concentrates Wealth and Power: Stop the Death Spiral to Plutocracy
Michael Parenti: Money Is Still the Name of the Game
Robert C. Koehler: Reigniting the Spirit of ’08
Mary Bottari: Quietly Ticking Time Bomb in Fed Data

Wednesday December 8, 2010

Robert Naiman: Haiti Election: Chickens Come Home to Roost
Michael Winship: The Heartbreak of Premature Capitulation
John Nichols: What Elizabeth Edwards Did for the Antiwar Movement
Amie Newman: Separate and Unequal: How Abortion Bans Exacerbate Discrimination
Marcus Stephen: Countries Least Responsible for Climate Change Are the Ones Most Threatened by It
Glen Ford: Obama: The Republican’s Reliable Interlocutor
Ted Rall: Cables Reveal Background of Pro-Dictator U.S. Policy
Laura Flanders: When Interpol Cares about Sexual Assault
Muhammad Sahimi: Using WikiLeaks to Advance the Narrative of War on Iran
Robert Scheer: From Jefferson to Assange
Jim Hightower: Meet Your New Neighborhood Food Market
Johann Hari: This Case Must Not Obscure What WikiLeaks Has Told Us
Amy Goodman: Cancun, Climate Change and WikiLeaks

Tuesday December 7, 2010

William Astore: The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Poorer
Brian Terrell: Participate in a Real “December Review” of the War in Afghanistan
Jeff Biggers: With Jailed Minister, DREAM Act Hunger Strike Nears Critical 30-Day Stage, Spreads Across Nation
Derrick Z. Jackson: Still Needed: A Responsible Path to Energy Independence
Tom Engelhardt: One November’s Dead: The American War Dead Disappear into the Darkness
Stephen Zunes: Fraudulent Egyptian Election
Nancy Lord: This Isn't Sarah Palin's Alaska
Grace Lee Boggs: Reflections on Thanksgiving
Julian Assange: The Truth Will Always Win
Tom Gallagher: Why Are We in Afghanistan – Still?
Victor Grossman: All Quiet on the Western Front - Once Not So Quiet

Monday December 6, 2010

John Naughton: Live With the WikiLeakable World or Shut Down the Net. It's Your Choice
Ralph Nader: Institutional Insanity
Rebecca Ray: Venezuela, Iran and Russia: Can We Stop Being Afraid Now?
Norman Solomon: A Hollow Bomber Jacket
Gary Younge: Students' Power Is Limited. But Their Anger and Revolt Can Prove Contagious
Laura Carlsen: In Mexico City, a Message for Cancún
Jessica Arons and Madina Agénor: Separate and Unequal: The Hyde Amendment and Women of Color
Marc Morial: Public School Funding: Separate and Skewed
Alfred W. McCoy: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Chris Hedges: Happy as a Hangman
Subhankar Banerjee: After The Arctic Spill—Shell, Palin and Obama

Sunday December 5, 2010

Thom Hartmann: Tax Cut Lies: The Day The News Died
Randall Amster: It Goes Without Saying...
Cindy Sheehan: Surrendering Our Civil Liberties
Linh Dinh: Helpless
David Samuels: The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange
David Michael Green: What WikiLeaks Really Reveals
Frank Rich: All the President's Captors
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe: Blowing Billions on War While American Workers Go Under
Alice Cherbonnier: Why We Can't Trust the WSJ's "Opinion" Section

Saturday December 4, 2010

Robert Reich: The Big Economic Story, and Why Obama Isn’t Telling It
Michael Lerner: Save Obama's Presidency by Challenging Him on the Left
Michelle Chen: South Africa Wakes Up to Wal-Mart

Friday December 3, 2010

Tom Engelhardt: A Financial Neutron Bomb in the Hood
John Nichols: After Deficit Panel Deadlock, Progressives Must Promote the Alternative to Austerity
Rainey Reitman and Marcia Hofmann: Amazon and WikiLeaks - Online Speech Is Only as Strong as the Weakest Intermediary
Francis Njubi Nesbitt : Homegrown Fear Mongering
David Krieger: Changing the Climate of Complaceny
Ray McGovern: NYT Still Stalking Bête Noire Iran
Sen. Bernie Sanders: A Real Jaw Dropper at the Federal Reserve
Ronnie Cummins: The Road to Cancún: Good News on the Climate Crisis
Jane Goodall: Cancún Climate Change Summit: Protect Our Forests to Protect People Too
Danny Schechter: Good Holiday Reads in a Dark and Depressing Time
Sarah Laskow: If Cancun Climate Talks Falter, Blame the U.S.
Jeff Biggers: Minefields, Not Coalfields: Should Big Coal Change For Mountaintop Removal/Strip Mining?

Thursday December 2, 2010

Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers: Open Letter to Our World Leaders
Glenn Greenwald: The Moral Standards of WikiLeaks Critics
Laura Flanders: WikiLeaks’ Economic Warfare
Glen Ford: The Non-Election for the Non-Government of the Non-Sovereign State of Haiti
Jim Campen: Mortgage Lending Discrimination: After a Disastrous Detour, We’re Back Where We Started
Andy Kroll: The New American Oligarchy: Creating a Country of the Rich, by the Rich, and for the Rich
CLOC-Vía Campesina: Statement on the Climate Summit in Cancun
Tomas Moniz: Did I Ever Tell You the Story?
Mark Weisbrot: Haiti's Sham Election Shames US
Phil Rockstroh: Amnesia as a Way of Life: WikiLeaks Amid the "Careless People"
Robert C. Koehler: The Invisible Government
Donna Smith: News Flash: 123 Americans Dead, No WikiLeaks Connection

Wednesday December 1, 2010

Mary Bottari: Here Come the High Rollers!
Josh Silver: FCC Chairman Announces Fake Net Neutrality Proposal
Robert Scheer: Hillary Gets Wiki-Served
Robert E. Prasch: ‘Disaster Capitalism’ Comes to Ireland
Bruce Luske: America's Hitler?
Eve Ensler: The Vagina Dialogues
Libbey Goldberg: May We All Thrive
Jim Hightower: "The Hammer" Gets Nailed With a New Nickname
Lauri Lebo: Beck's Distortions of 'It's A Wonderful Life' Mirror His Distortions of Current Events
Christine Shearer: My Journey Into Kivalina v. ExxonMobil et al
César Chelala: U.S. Still Delinquent on Landmine Treaty
David Solnit: 11 Years After the WTO Uprising: Seattle, Detroit, Cancun, Immokalee
Amy Goodman: WikiLeaks and the End of U.S. ‘Diplomacy’
Diana Bronson: Geoengineering Is a Recipe for Disaster
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