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Monday February 28, 2011

Chuck Collins: Pay Up, Corporate Tax Dodgers
Gary Younge: Wisconsin Is Making the Battle Lines Clear in America's Hidden Class War
Chris Hedges: No Other Way Out
Conn Hallinan: Raymond Davis Incident Shows How Tangled U.S.-Pakistan Web Is
Jeff Biggers: Legislators Are Going to Unbelievable Lengths to Gouge Clean Water Laws and Cozy Up to Big Coal
Brendan Fischer: What Else Is in Walker's Bill?
David Michael Green: The Sole Remaining Stupidpower in the World
Andy Kroll: Cairo in Wisconsin: Eating Egyptian Pizza in Downtown Madison

Sunday February 27, 2011

Pat Schneider: Wisconsin: Could a General Strike Happen Here? Experts Say Maybe
John Nichols: Upwards of 125,000 March in Madison, as Activists Rally Nationwide to Back Wisconsin Workers
Kristine Mattis: Day 13 – On the Ground in Madison: “As Long as It Takes”
Robert Freeman: The “Deficit Problem” Isn’t Financial. It’s Political.
Michael Parenti: Profit Pathology and Disposable Planet
Jeff Cohen: Will ABC News’ “Made in America” Series Avoid Their Boss, Disney?
Glenn Greenwald: The Military/Media Attacks on the Hastings Article
Christopher Brauchli: The Gratitude in Baghdad

Saturday February 26, 2011

Michelle Chen: The Recovery That Wasn’t: Bouncing Back to Lower Standards
Ralph Nader: ‘Mad as Hell’ in Madison
John Nichols: Why Did Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Participate in Discussions About Disrupting Peaceful Rallies?
Robert Fisk: The Destiny of This Pageant Lies in the Kingdom of Oil
George Lakoff: The Real Issues: A Wisconsin Update
Michael R. Miller: 83rd Academy Awards: A Clenched Fist on Every Lapel
Robert Weissman: On Wisconsin and America
Donna Smith: Cheshire Cat Grins in Arizona, 1.3M Souls on Board

Friday February 25, 2011

Michael Winship: Attacks on Unions Barking Up the Wrong Money Tree
Sarah van Gelder: Dear Glenn Beck: It’s Not Conspiracy, It’s Courage
John Atcheson: The Plutocrat's Coup d'Etat, Their Republican Allies and Their Democratic Enablers
Paul Krugman: Shock Doctrine, U.S.A.
Allan Lichtman: The Strategy Behind the Budget Battles
Laura Flanders: Crushing Workers in Wisconsin Has National Effects
Ralph Nader: Obama’s Silence on the Achievements of Struggling Nonprofits Is Deafening
Robert Jensen: Consciousness Rising, World Fading
Glen Ford: “We’re Broke,” Say the Rich, and the Poor Must Pay
Beverly Bell: In Haiti, "We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting"
Jerome Hunt: Bullying Should Not Be a Teenage Rite of Passage

Thursday February 24, 2011

Iraq Veterans Against the War: Iraq Veterans Against the War to Troops: “We Are Public Employees Too!”
Mary Bottari: Koch Brothers “Prank” No Laughing Matter
Tom Engelhardt: All-American Decline in a New World: Wars, Vampires, Burned Children, and Indelicate Imbalances
Andy Worthington: The Year of Revolution: The “War on Tyranny” Replaces the “War on Terror”
Tom Andrews: Fire Lt. Gen. Caldwell NOW and End the "Psy-Ops" War Against Congress
Donna Smith: Fighting for Fair Fights and for Aurora
Shiney Varghese: Reflections on Right to Water
Robert C. Koehler: The Tunisia Effect
Anika Rahman: Poor Women Pay the Price in the Right’s War on Women’s Health
Jeff Biggers: Why West Virginia Can't Wait
Sharon Delgado: US Uncut: A Progressive Response to Economic Shock Therapy
Jay Walljasper: From Middle East to Madison, Justice Depends on Public Spaces
Ahmet Dogan: A Father Speaks for His Son Killed on the Humanitarian Flotilla to Gaza

Wednesday February 23, 2011

Ray McGovern: The Push of Conscience & Secretary Clinton
Adam Parsons and Rajesh Makwana: A Global Call for Sharing and Justice
Vandana Shiva: Climate Change and Agriculture: Biodiverse Ecological Farming Is the Answer, Not Genetic Engineering
John Feffer: The OPEC of Outrage
Lisa Graves: A CMD Special Report: Scott Walker Runs on Koch Money
James McGovern and Walter Jones: Out of Afghanistan, Now
Will Allen and Ronnie Cummins: Local and Organic Food and Farming: The Gold Standard
David Benjamin: An Open Letter to Public Employees and Their Unions, From Formerly Unionized Private-Sector Workers
Bouthaina Shaaban: As Wave of Liberation Revolutions Sweep the Arab World: No Room for Western Hypocrisy
Jim Hightower: Corporate Lawsuit Abuse
Glen Ford: Torturing Detroit's Kids for Racist Fun and Profit
Amy Goodman: Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest

Tuesday February 22, 2011

Rose Ann DeMoro: Just Say No – No More Cuts for Workers
Ted Rall: Hope and Change? Not for Americans
Chuck Collins: Wisconsin 2.0: Stop the Corporate Tax Dodgers
Van Jones: Introducing The 'American Dream' Movement
Andy Worthington: Revolution in Libya: Protesters Face Gaddafi’s Murderous Backlash as US, UK Ooze Hypocrisy
Mary Bottari: Who Knew Cairo Was This Chilly?
Bill McKibben: Money Pollution: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Darkens the Skies
Jay Walljasper: On Wisconsin!
Allison Cook and Annie Leonard: 5 Ways You Can Fight Citizens United
Jim Goodman: This is What Autocracy Looks Like
Amanda Marcotte: Does the Media Finally Get That Anti-Choice Is About Far More Than Abortion?
Dean Baker: Further Fiscal Folly
Jamal Elshayyal: What Next for the 'Mad Dog' of Libya?
Bill Quigley: Blind Human Rights Lawyer Beaten and Isolated in Chinese Crackdown
Benjamin Dangl: Governing by Obeying the People: Bolivia's Politics of the Street

Monday February 21, 2011

Robert Freeman: When a Country Goes Insane
Medea Benjamin: From Cairo to Madison: Hope and Solidarity are Alive
Stanley Kutler: What Gov. Walker Won’t Tell You
Miriam Pemberton: A Military Budget on the Wrong Side of History
Sarah Lazare: Workers Fight Back: The Midwest Unites to Defend the Commons
William Astore: The Cost of Our Wars
Howard Friel: The U.N. Voting Record of Susan Rice on Palestinian Rights, 2009–2010
Subhankar Banerjee: Earth Activism: What We Don’t Want
Paul Krugman: Wisconsin Power Play
David Michael Green: Waking Up in Wisconsin
Antonia Zerbisias: Drought, Depleted Food, a Recipe for Revolution
Leslie Samuelrich: Tap Water's Budget Bottleneck
Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis: Fighting the 5 Fascisms in Wisconsin and Ohio
Roberto Rodriguez: What's at Stake in the O'odham Trial

Sunday February 20, 2011

Susan Galleymore: That Moment People say “No!”
John Nichols: Wisconsin Still Laboratory of Democracy
George Lakoff: What Conservatives Really Want
Jim Horn: The Education Reform Fig Leaf Is Finally Stripped Away
Kristine Mattis: From the Front Lines in Madison, WI
Robert Fisk: These Are Secular Popular Revolts – Yet Everyone is Blaming Religion
Richard Wolff: The Real Reason for Public Finance Crisis
Immanuel Wallerstein: The World Social Forum, Egypt, and Transformation
Silas House: My Polluted Kentucky Home
Bill Reck: False Dichotomies in Wisconsin and Beyond

Saturday February 19, 2011

Sarah van Gelder: Wisconsin: The First Stop in An American Uprising?
Zoe Weil: The World Becomes What We Teach
Thomas S. Harrington: Dignity: An Idea Gone Missing in the Land
Robert Greenwald: Bringing Home 150 Troops From Afghanistan Would Fix Wisconsin's Budget "Crisis"
Michelle Chen: From Wisconsin to Washington, Budget Cuts Draw Battle Lines Against Public
Christopher Brauchli: Bash the Bank
Ramzy Baroud: ‘From the Gulf to the Ocean’: The Middle East is Changing

Friday February 18, 2011

John Nichols: Wisconsin People Employ 'First Amendment Remedies'
Yifat Susskind: Pressing Reset on the Afghanistan Debate: Toward Ending the War and Upholding Women’s Rights
Michael Winship: Across the US, GOP Lawmakers Build States of Denial
David Sirota: The Submerged State
Brooke Jarvis: “Localization is the Economics of Happiness”
Dahr Jamail: Climate: Putting People Over Money
Thomas S. Harrington: America the Baroque
Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Time for Resistance
Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Justice v. the World
Michael McCarthy: It's Time Man Stopped to Consider Earth's Health
Gwynne Dyer: Arab Revolutions: Why Now?
Carmen Llanes: Austin’s Landscape: Searching for Equality in an Emerging Green Economy

Thursday February 17, 2011

Roger Bybee: Walker's Wisconsin Approach: Forsaking the Economy by Forsaking Workers
Tom Engelhardt: Cutting $100 Billion?... Easy: If Only Washington Had a Brain
Stephen Zunes: Mubarak's Ouster: Good for Egypt, Good for Israel
Robin Aura Kanegis: This Budget Cutting Math Doesn’t Add Up
Harvey Wasserman: Big Nuke Billions Lurk in Obama's Budget
Matthew Rothschild: Glorious Rallies in Madison, Ground Zero of the Fight Back
Tim Karr: Does Secretary Clinton Have a Double Standard on Internet Freedom?
Dave Lindorff: Diplomatic and Consular Immunity: One Rule for Foreign Consulates in US, Another for US Consulates Abroad
Glen Ford: Obamaland, Where Right Meets Center-Right
Wayne Au: Neither Fair Nor Accurate: Research-Based Reasons Why High-Stakes Tests Should Not Be Used to Evaluate Teachers
Beverly Bell: “Haiti Needs a Social Policy for Housing”

Wednesday February 16, 2011

Joseph Huff-Hannon and Andy Bichlbaum: How Big Business Subverts Democracy
Sam Husseini: Already Forgetting the Martyrs of Egypt
Amy Goodman: Obama’s Budget: Freezing the Poor
Tom Engelhardt: How Intelligence Gets in the Way of Common Sense
Norman Solomon: When “Good” Dictators Go Bad
Donna Smith: Cold Day in Hell Arrives for Patients
John R. MacArthur: ElBaradei’s Mendacious Foes
Brad Thomson: From Cairo to Chicago and Beyond: Resisting Oppression, Building Resistance
Danielle Nierenberg and Elena Davert: Calling All Farmers
Jim Horn: Number 1 in the World, Mr. Duncan? Really? You Have Got to Be Kidding Me
Robert Scheer: Home Sweet Wall Street

Tuesday February 15, 2011

John Nichols: House GOP Rejects Requirement That PATRIOT Act Surveillances Be Conducted in Compliance With Constitution
Bill Moyers: Bill Moyers: Is This a Private Fight or Can Anyone Get In It?
Glenn Greenwald: More Facts Emerge About the Leaked Smear Campaigns Aimed at WikiLeaks Supporters and Chamber of Commerce Critics
Michael Schwartz: Why Mubarak Fell: The (Sometimes) Incredible Power of Nonviolent Protest
Laura Flanders: Outsourcing Potential, Forgetting Workers
Ralph Nader: Civic Institutions Essential for Egypt’s Revolution
Dean Baker: Alan Greenspan: Feted for Failure
Margaret Flowers: A Better Approach to Health Care
Christine Ahn and Albie Miles: Free Trade Kills Korean Farmers
Peter Hart: Al-Jazeera English: TV You Can't Watch on TV
Jodi Jacobson: South Dakota Bill Could Legitimize Murder of Abortion Providers
Nathanael Greene: In Face of Hunger, Corn Ethanol Industry Says Blame Anyone But Us
Margaret Krome: Egypt Can Learn From Pitfalls in U.S. Process

Monday February 14, 2011

Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward: 1966's: The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty
Ray McGovern: Mourning Iraqi Wives, Children on Valentine’s Day
Naomi Klein: Democracy Born in Chains: South Africa's Constricted Freedom
Jackie Smith: Many Protests, One Revolution
Paul Buchheit: How Wall Street Greed Fueled Egypt's Turmoil
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Valentine's Message: Home Is Where the Heart Is
Danny Schechter: Can the Egyptian People Sustain Their Momentum to Continue to Push for Deeper Change?
Frances Fox Piven: Crazy Talk and American Politics: or, My Glenn Beck Story
David Michael Green: Egypt, USA
Mary Bottari: The Day Egypt Disappeared
Gustavo Esteva: Mexico Goes Back to the Land
Jeff Biggers: One Love: The Nation Should Watch the Kentucky Rising Sit-in on Valentine's Day
Jim Hightower: Our Corporate Courts
Reese Erlich: “One Man, One Vote, One Time?”
Tom Engelhardt: Egyptian Math
Chris Hedges: Fight for a World Without Coal
Katitza Rodriguez: Privacy in the Wake of Olympic Security: Wikileaks Sheds Light on How the U.S. Pressured Brazil
Carl Finamore: Cairo, One Day After Mubarak

Sunday February 13, 2011

Gary Younge: The West Can No Longer Claim to Be an Honest Broker in the Search for Peace
Glenn Greenwald: The Leaked Campaign to Attack WikiLeaks and Its Supporters
Andrew Kennis and Jason McGahan: Mubarak’s Men to Reform Egypt? U.S. Diplomatic Cables Tell Another Story
Jen Marlowe: From An Israeli Prison to Tahrir Square
Will Wilkinson: The Invisible, Growing Leaderless Revolution in America
Peter Singer: Tiger Mothers or Elephant Mothers?

Saturday February 12, 2011

Chris Floyd: Kairos in Cairo: Seizing the Moment of Moral Courage
Ken Butigan: Another Step Toward Mainstreaming Nonviolence
Robert Fisk: A Tyrant's Exit. A Nation's Joy
Roni Krouzman: A Triumph of Hope
Pierre Tristam: Eid Mubarak: Two Down. Twenty To Go.
David Sirota: The Super Bowl of Socialism
Randall Amster: To Protect and Serve? Despite Harassment, Peace Activists Vow to Continue Work
Brian Moench: We're All Mad Here

Friday February 11, 2011

David Porter: On “Leaderless Revolutions” and the Fall of Mubarak
Michael Winship: An Egyptian Voice of Democracy Says, Tell Old Pharaoh, Go
Tariq Ali: Egypt's Joy as Mubarak Quits
Dave Lindorff: The People of Egypt Have Done It! They Have Driven Mubarak Out!
Michelle Chen: Bread and Butter Revolution: Egypt’s Workers Mobilize for a New Future
Phyllis Bennis: Mubarak's Defiance
Davidson Loehr: Egyptian Irony
Stephen Zunes: Why Egypt Will Not Be Another Iran
Greg Grandin: Building a Perfect Machine of Perpetual War: The Mexico to Colombia Security Corridor Advances
Paul Buchheit: A Diogenic Quest for an Honest Conservative
John Stubley: The New Pharaohs of Egypt and the World
Mark Weisbrot: This Time, the People of Haiti May Win
Tom Gallagher: An Obama Primary Challenge?

Thursday February 10, 2011

Robert C. Koehler: A Truth More Powerful Than an Army
Slavoj Žižek: For Egypt, This Is the Miracle of Tahrir Square
Bernie Sanders: Organizing Help Wanted
Beenish Ahmed: Egyptian Riot Grrls
Chase Madar: Why Bradley Manning Is a Patriot, Not a Criminal
S. Derek Turner: Barack Obama's Broadband Disconnect
Rebecca Ray: What Wikileaks Teaches Us About Obama and Latin America
Subhankar Banerjee: From Toilet to Planet: A Brief Journey of Survival
Bruce Dixon: 2011 Is the Year to Grab the Mic
David Elliot: Put a Human Face on Spending Priorities

Wednesday February 9, 2011

Amy Goodman: Egypt’s Youth Will Not Be Silenced
Stephen Zunes: The Egyptian Struggle May Be Protracted, But Will Emerge Victorious
Robert Shetterly: The Stink in the Super Bowl
Laura Flanders: Corruption and Inequality Begin at Home
Peter Hart: Huffington, Olbermann and Corporate Media
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: New Study Reveals the Benefits of EPA Regulation for Labor
Ira Chernus: The Myth of “Stability vs. Democracy”
Ray McGovern: America's Stay-at-Home Ex-President
Robert Scheer: Hey Obama, Read WikiLeaks
Steve Rendall: Pundits Fuel the Right’s Latest Rage
Chris Toensing: No More Mr. Nice Autocracy
Pat LaMarche: Political Payments Explained

Tuesday February 8, 2011

Jim Hightower: Obama, Inc.
Frances Fox Piven: The Real Threat of Glenn Beck's Fantasies
Dennis Hans: Reagan’s Third-World Reign of Terror
Rob Prince: U.S. Middle-East Policy: "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil -- Just Practice It, Then Act Surprised"
Katherine Gallagher: George Bush: No Escaping Torture Charges
Joshua Holland: It Ain't Just Mubarak -- 7 of the Worst Dictators the U.S. Is Backing to the Hilt
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Obama's Scary Budget: Why the Neediest People Should Be the Most Afraid
Ralph Nader: Time for Democracy in Egypt
Laura Flanders: Media Miss the Al Jazeera Story
Helen Caldicott and Dale Dewar: Nuclear Radiation Is Forever
Carole Joffe: The "Protect Life Act:" Will There Be a Price to Be Paid?

Monday February 7, 2011

Dean Baker: The Real Effect of 'Reaganomics'
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Banking for the People
Sarah Clark: Public Health Cost of Global (Corn) Trade
Dennis Bernstein: Egyptian Blogger Describes Clashes
Bill Quigley: Swiss Miss Bush – GWB Ducks Geneva Criminal Torture Charges
John Clark: What Can We Do to Support Egypt?
Tom Engelhardt: Pox Americana: Driving Through the Gates of Hell and Other American Pastimes in the Greater Middle East
Mary Bottari: Banksters Back in the Black: JPMorgan Chase
Dave Lindorff: America's Happy Talk Media: No Jobs Is Good News!
Allen D. Kanner: Corporate Control? Not in These Communities
Chris Hedges: Recognizing the Language of Tyranny
Wenonah Hauter: Key Hand Sanitizer Ingredient May Cause More Harm than Good

Sunday February 6, 2011

Rethinking Schools Editorial: Every School a Sanctuary
Robert Fisk: The Wrong Mubarak Quits. Soon the Right One Will Go
Laurence Lewis: Egypt Is the Future
Philip Kraske: The Stasis of the Union --One Last Take
Robert Lipsyte: You Must Watch the Empire Bowl
Peter Dreier: Reagan's Real Legacy
Medea Benjamin: The Egyptian General and the Gladiola

Saturday February 5, 2011

Leonard Pitts Jr.: The Dumbing Down of America
Michelle Chen: New Labor Vision Emerges in Egypt’s Uprising
Michael Winship: For the US in Egypt, Blowback Is a Bitch
Laura Flanders: Army's Mental Health Care Failed Bradley Manning
Beverly Bell: The Right to Housing for Internally Displaced Haitians
Donna Smith: Super Bowl Commercial for the Dead Patients
Christopher Brauchli: Representative Smith Redefines Rape

Friday February 4, 2011

Jeff Biggers: Arizona Gone Wild: Does New Bill Give State the Right to Overthrow Federal Government?
Medea Benjamin: Mubarak Mobs and Street Vendors: Welcome to Egypt
Matthew Rothschild: Mubarak’s Thuggery Was OK Off Camera
Jodi Jacobson: Protecting Life? New Bill Says Its OK to Let Women Die
Manuel Pérez Rocha and Stuart Trew: We Need to Rethink, Not Rearm NAFTA
Jeff Milchen: 5 Ways to Help Your Community Go Local
Nathan Schneider: Egypt’s Rhyming Revolution
Robert Alvarez: Food, Egypt and Wall Street
Wallace Shawn: Why I Call Myself a Socialist: Is the World Really a Stage?
David Sirota: With Democracy or Against It -- There's No In Between
Ronnie Cummins: Monsanto Nation: Exposing Monsanto's Minions
Subhankar Banerjee: Extreme Weather Report From Home: The Thong Will Drop
Johann Hari: We All Helped Suppress the Egyptians. So How Do We Change?

Thursday February 3, 2011

Megan Tady: Will Congress Give Obama the ‘Mubarak Option’?
Catherine Traywick: Why Sexual Violence Against Latina Farmworkers Is a Hate Crime
Greg Grandin: White House to Push for Colombia Free Trade Treaty: Expect Body Count to Rise
Jeff Biggers: Yes, Virginia, This Dirty Coal Bill Is a Bad Bar Room Romance
Raffi Cavoukian: Cairo Sunshine All Around
Katitza Rodriguez: As International Privacy Day Is Celebrated, Governments Continue to Chip Away at Privacy Rights
Ashley Sayeau: A New Battle on Abortion Rights
Ruth Conniff: Obama, Mubarak: We Love Pro-Democracy Protesters!
Ted Rall: The New Face of Revolution: After Tunisia and Egypt, the World
Erik Hoffner: The ‘Greenest Olympics’ Actually an Environmental Catastrophe
Mark Weisbrot: Haiti's Growing Momentum Towards Democracy
Bill McKibben: Inspired by a Revolution in Our Midst, Worried About a Revolution in Our Atmosphere

Wednesday February 2, 2011

U.S. Military Veterans and Allies: In Solidarity With the Egyptian People and the Soldiers Refusing to Repress Them
Mary Bottari: Fraudclosure: Will State AGs Step Up to Their Moment in History?
Robert Naiman: Democracy in Egypt: The U.S. and Israel Can Adapt and They Will
Stephen Zunes: Egypt: Lessons in Democracy
Amira Hass: When Israel's Protective Net of Tyranny Tears
Marjorie Cohn: U.S. Chickens Come Home to Roost in Egypt
Dean Baker: The Great British Austerity Experiment
Amy Goodman: When Corporations Choose Despots Over Democracy

Tuesday February 1, 2011

Jim Hightower: Finally, Washington Frowns on Mountaintop Removal Mining
Ahdaf Soueif: Mubarak's Regime Cannot Satisfy the Demands of Egyptians
Phyllis Bennis: Tunisia's Spark & Egypt's Flame: The Middle East Is Rising
Walden Bello: Sexual Prey in the Saudi Jungle
Slavoj Žižek: Why Fear the Arab Revolutionary Spirit?
Jeremy Scahill: Washington's Sudden Embrace of Al Jazeera Won't Erase Past US Crimes Against the Network
Laura Flanders: Inequality Drives Egyptians to Streets, But Ours Worse
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