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Saturday April 30, 2011

Saul Landau and Jack Willis: Same Old from the Nuclear Gang after Fukushima
Michelle Chen: Anti-Union Forces Try to Knock Out New York City’s Hard Hats
Christopher Brauchli: Abortions and Fiscal Irresponsibility
Rania Khalek: News Media Too Busy Covering Spectacle to Do Its Job
Jean Athey: The Shura in the Porno Cafe: An American Peace Activist's Observations in Afghanistan

Friday April 29, 2011

Pierre Tristam: Birthers, Royals and Crocks
Hedy Epstein: As a Holocaust Survivor, AIPAC Doesn’t Speak for Me
Robert Weissman: Corporate America's War on Political Transparency
Johann Hari: Donald Trump's Lunacy Reveals Core Truth About the Republicans
Greg Mitchell: At 8th Anniversary of Bush's Landing on the Deck: 'Mission' Still Not 'Accomplished'
Robert Alvarez: Japan's Nuclear Catastrophe Leaves Little to Celebrate on Children's Day
Lorraine Berry: Abstaining From the Anti-Sex Campaigns
Paul Buchheit: We Should Buy From the Companies That Pay Taxes
Zoe Weil: Including Animals in Our Circle of Concern
Wendell Potter: Insurers Getting Rich By Not Paying for Care

Thursday April 28, 2011

Jim Hightower: From Democracy to Plutocracy
Robert C. Koehler: The Sacred and the Dead
Ray McGovern: Petraeus: Can He Tell It Straight?
Laura Flanders: Let’s Admit the Truth About American Royals
Norman Solomon: It’s Time to Close California’s Nuclear Power Plants
Mary Bottari: Fire Fighters Turn off the Spigot
Tom Andrews: Like the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars? You'll LOVE This!
David Benjamin: The Tea Party Dialectic of Alan Ladd and Jack Palance
Glenn Greenwald: A More Militarized CIA for a More Militarized America
César Chelala: Increasing Calls for Iraq War Probe of Bush Administration
Mark Weisbrot: 2016: When China Overtakes the US
Nick Turse: Hueys Over Yemen: Is U.S. Aid Suppressing Another Mideast Freedom Struggle?
Ed Bruske: Big Dairy Puts Big Scare Into Parents Over Chocolate Milk – But for How Long?
Gideon Levy: Arab World Is Deposing Rulers, Israel Is Blowing Leaves
Davida Silverman: What the Attack on Medicaid Means for Reproductive Health Care

Wednesday April 27, 2011

Margaret Flowers: Republican and Democratic Plans for Medicare and Medicaid Misguided: Push for Privatization Will Accelerate Costs and Deaths
Andy Worthington: The Hidden Horrors of WikiLeaks’ Guantánamo Files
Joe Burns: It’s Time to Revive an Old Rallying Cry: Labor Is Not A Commodity!
Glen Ford: Michigan’s “Emergency” Financial Regime: What Fascism Looks Like
Donna Smith: Until Death Us Do Part: Wedded to Wealth We Don’t Have
Laura Flanders: Oil Prices: Gouge Us Baby One More Time
Jim Hightower: Wall Street Tames Washington
Ellen Brown: Cheney Was Right About One Thing: Deficits Don’t Matter
Nawal El Saadawi: New Song of Egypt's Elite
Pepe Escobar: The African 'Star Wars'

Tuesday April 26, 2011

Ralph Nader: Nuclear Disasters Should Be Met with Scientific Inquiry, Not Silence
Danny Schechter: Why Wall Street Is Winning
Rania Khalek: Today Detroit – Tomorrow, Every City in America
Ira Chernus: Double Standard in U.S. Hurts Palestinians Most
Shahin Cole and Juan Cole: An Arab Spring for Women: The Missing Story from the Middle East
Phil Rockstroh: Among Ciphers, Barn Burners and Confidence Artists: A Comb-Over Treatment for Declining Empire
Dean Baker: What We're Not Being Told About Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan
Karl Grossman: Nuclear Power Can Never Be Made Safe
Tom Engelhardt: Imperial Bets That Go Awry
Kay Tillow: America Needs a Single Payer Health Care System
Peter Rothberg: Top Ten Anti-Nuclear Songs
Kymone Freeman: Power Shift 2011: Who Is Listening?

Monday April 25, 2011

Pratap Chatterjee: How Guantánamo Bay Became Kafkas's Trial
Ted Rall: Thrifty Families and Other Lies
Lucinda Marshall: A Cup of Rancid Tea
Mitch Anderson: Sewage Sludge, Celebrities and School Gardens
Chris Hedges: The Corporate State Wins Again
Allison Kilkenny: The Warped US Tax System: Taxpayers Subsidize Their Own Destruction
Michael True: War Hawk or Deficit Hawk? You Cannot Be Both
Alfred W. McCoy and Brett Reilly: Washington on the Rocks: An Empire of Autocrats, Aristocrats, and Uniformed Thugs Begins to Totter
David Michael Green: Trump Beats All
Amanda Marcotte: The Authoritarian Agenda Behind Attacks on Contraception
Gary Younge: For Israelis and Palestinians, the Status Quo Is Neither Sustainable Nor Desirable
Wenonah Hauter: Squandering Our Tax Dollars and Ocean Resources
Dave Lindorff: Talking Revolution: The New Elderly Generation Can Provide the Spark for an American Rising

Sunday April 24, 2011

Thomas S. Harrington: Language, "Promontory Views" and American Perceptions of the World
Will Hutton: The United States Faces a Crisis Not Seen Since the Depression
John Nichols: Wisconsin: Numbers Show Walker Recall a Real Prospect
Peter Custers: Still No Escape from Killer Chernobyl
Lester Brown: This Will Be the Arab World's Next Battle
Linda Wagner Schmoldt: A Time to Weep, A Time To…

Saturday April 23, 2011

Glenn Greenwald: President Obama Speaks on Manning and the Rule of Law
Ray McGovern: Surprise, Surprise! Iraq War Was About Oil
Michelle Chen: The Growing Food Crisis, and What World Leaders Aren’t Doing About It
Kenneth Saltman: More Failed Corporate School Reform for Chicago: Rahm Emanuel’s Selection of Jean-Claude Brizard
César Chelala: Bahrain Government's Attacks on Doctors
Michele Naar-Obed: Nonviolent Demonstrations End and Military Occupation Begins in Suleimaniya Iraq
Michael Winship: Congress: Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks

Friday April 22, 2011

Maude Barlow and Shannon Biggs: On Earth Day, Recognize the Rights of Mother Earth
Gareth Porter: The Obama-Gates Maneuver on Military Spending
Tom Engelhardt: Shunning the Word “Permanent”
Ralph Nader: Stripmining America - Unpatriotically
Yifat Susskind: On Earth Day and Every Day, Women Protect the Planet
Robert Reich: Beware the “Middle Ground” of the Great Budget Debate
Robert Naiman: Barbara Boxer: Champion in the Senate Against the Afghanistan War
Glenn Greenwald: Nobel Peace Drones
Michelle Chen: Consensus Builds on Free Trade Deals, Alongside Proof of Their Toll
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: Citing Jobs and the Environment, More Unions Backing EPA
Rainey Reitman: "Who Has Your Back?" In Depth: Corporate Transparency About Government Demands for User Information
Glen Ford: Black Caucus Overwhelmingly Supports “People’s Budget”
Wendell Potter: GOP's Medicare Plan Would Be a Windfall for Insurers
Madeleine Bunting: The US Swallowed These Cups of Tea to Justify Its Imperial Aims

Thursday April 21, 2011

Noam Chomsky: Is the World Too Big to Fail?
Donna Smith: Quarter-Million Dead and Not Counting
Robert C. Koehler: Duck and Cover
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: One Year After BP Oil Spill: Communities Lead While Congress Fails
Jayati Ghosh: To Make the IMF Relevant Will Take More Than a New Leader
Sarah Byrnes: Don’t Get Fooled Again: Writing Our Own Economic Future
Catherine Traywick: How Bad U.S.-Latin American Policy Fuels Unauthorized Immigration

Wednesday April 20, 2011

Robert Scheer: The New Corporate World Order
Rania Khalek: Corporate Coup d’état Coming Soon to a City Near You
Stephen Bradberry: A Developing Health Crisis Across the Gulf Coast
Elizabeth Rosenthal: Canada’s Health Care: An Alternate Universe
John Clark: Life in Louisiana, and on Earth, Struggles to Survive
Laura Carlsen: Obama's Mexicogate?
Matthew Rothschild: Obama, War President
John R. MacArthur: Blindness Toward War Easy for Americans
Howard Gale: "Three Cups of Tea” Spilled: Learning to Save Afghans From US Before Trying to Save Them From Themselves
Paul Buchheit: Common Sense, American Style
Amy Goodman: Power Shift vs. The Powers That Be
Mark Morford: Please Step Away From the Fear
Jim Hightower: Gubernatorial Goofiness in Maine

Tuesday April 19, 2011

Ralph Nader: Waiting for the Spark
Tom Engelhardt: Sleepwalking into the Imperial Dark
Daphne Wysham: Obama's Dirty Energy Fixation
Tyson Slocum: BP Oil Spill: It Could Happen Again
Laura Flanders: Demonizing Taxes, Heightening Inequality
David Korten: The World of Our Dreams
John Feffer: Worshiping the Sacred Pig
Kate Gould: In Congress’s Attack on Goldstone Report, Fourth Geneva Conventions Takes a Hit
Robert Reich: Extortion Politics: Why Won’t American Business Stop the GOP From Threatening to Blow Up the Economy?
Tim Karr: Astroturfing Net Neutrality
Adam Federman: Pressure Mounts on Khimki Developers
Dave Lindorff: An 'Oh Please!' Moment: Is S&P Running Interference for the Right to Help Crush Social Security and Medicare?
Ed Bruske: NY Times’ Sugar Bombshell
Donna Smith: Why Is a Trump Bankruptcy (or Two) OK?
Mark Weisbrot: Emerging Out of the IMF's Shadow
Jessica Stewart and Daniel Burns: Why We Are Walking to Hancock Air Force Base
Ted Rall: Stamped Out: The Statue of Liberty Stamp Error and the End of America

Monday April 18, 2011

Antonia Juhasz: Learning from the BP Oil Disaster
Brian Tierney: US Uncut: The New Movement against Austerity and Corporate Tax Cheats
Chris Hedges: Throw Out the Money Changers
Jeff Biggers: Big Coal’s Dirty Secret: Breakthrough New Study on Longwall Mining Regulatory Failure and Ruin in Pennsylvania
Mary Bottari: Sarah Palin: The Koch Brother’s Union Maid
Ira Chernus: Three Myths of Israel's Insecurity
Rania Khalek: In Beltway Land Progressives Do Not Exist
Food Sovereignty Organizations: It's Time to Outlaw Land Grabbing, Not to Make It "Responsible"!
David Swanson: If Cairo Came to Kabul

Sunday April 17, 2011

Allison Kilkenny: GOP Spreads Corporate Tax Disinformation, America Fights Back
Jon Walker: Our Left-Wing Country and Our Center-Right Government
Donna Smith: I'll Show You My Taxes, If You Show Me Yours
Gary Houser: The Climate Youth Will Lead
John Nichols: Palin's Madison Rally is Overwhelmed by Protest Crowd
Robert Parry: How I View the American Crisis
Joel Hirschhorn: Growing Inflation of Absurd Discourse

Saturday April 16, 2011

John Nichols: How Socialists Built America
Glenn Greenwald: Mission Transformation in Libya
Sally Kohn: Liberals Are Suckers
Michael Winship: Harry Potter and the Network of Neutrality
Pennie Quinton: Vale Vittorio Arrigoni, 'Hero of Palestine'
Christopher Brauchli: The Tax Collector and the Republican
Yves Engler: We Need a Cure for Our Ethanol Addiction
Michelle Chen: A Year On, BP Oil Still Mars Gulf Communities, Public Scrutiny Dries Up

Friday April 15, 2011

Bill McKibben: What if Your President's Just Not That Into You?
Michael Moore: This Tax Day, Make THEM Pay
Chuck Collins: On Tax Day, Remember the Tax Dodgers
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR): Hey, Media! Stop Blacking Out Progressive Protests
Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick: Don’t Betray Us, Barack — End the Empire
Glenn Greenwald: The Two-Tiered Justice System: An Illustration
Mary Bottari: Koch-Fueled Controversy Lands in Washington
Peter Rothberg: A Primer on Tax Day Activism
Tom Engelhardt: Fukushima on a Punch-Drunk Planet
Rania Khalek: Dana Milibank’s False Equivalency
Angi Becker Stevens: The Hypocrisy of "Informed Consent" Abortion Laws
Paul McGeough: Hospitals Show Ugly Truth about Bahrain, as US Looks the Other Way
Karen Hansen-Kuhn: The US-Colombia Trade Agreement: A Volatile Agenda on Agriculture
David Benjamin: Whenever I Hear the Word 'Crisis,’ I Reach for My Roosevelt

Thursday April 14, 2011

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fighting for a People's Budget
Robert C. Koehler: Autocratic Deafness
Michael T. Klare: The Planet Strikes Back
Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis: Endless War and Empire: Your Tax Dollars at Work
Phil Rockstroh and Angela Tyler-Rockstroh: Interstates and States of Grief
Ronnie Cummins: Frankenfoods in Your “Natural” Foods Store: Whole Foods or Whole Hypocrisy?
Ali Abunimah: Recognizing Palestine?
Danielle Nierenberg and Mara Schecter: Feeding the World: It’s Not About Quantity
Glenn Greenwald: Obama's "Bad Negotiating" is Actually Shrewd Negotiating

Wednesday April 13, 2011

Jodi Jacobson: The Anti-Choice Movement: "Not Intended to Be Factual"
Robert Scheer: The False Debate on the Debt
Robert Reich: Mr. President: Why Medicare Isn’t the Problem, It’s the Solution
Laura Flanders: When Will It Be Time to Cut Military Spending?
John Feffer: Libya War Is No Pentagon Lifeline
Tom Engelhardt: A Must-Do Foreign Policy
Amy Goodman: U.S.-Backed Bloodshed Stains Bahrain’s Arab Spring

Tuesday April 12, 2011

Betsy Hartmann: Why Anti-Nuclear Belongs in All of Our Movements
Paul Buchheit: Who's #2 in Tax Avoidance? How About Exxon?
Dean Baker: Some Market Discipline for Economists
Laura Flanders: Shareholders Fight Back as Democrats Compromise
Andrew Bacevich: Not Why, But How: To the Shores of (and Skies Above) Tripoli
H. Patricia Hynes: 25 Years After Chernobyl: Lessons Learned
Ralph Nader: NY Governor Andrew Cuomo: Taking Progressives for Granted
Ira Chernus: Why Not a No-Fly Zone for Gaza?
Susan Feiner: GOP's Attack on Child Labor Threatens Our Daughters
Robert Naiman: Can Jeff Sachs Get Us Out of Afghanistan?
Yifat Susskind: Don’t Let NATO Chill the Arab Spring
Jim Hightower: Mickey Mouse Wage Hike
Greg Kaufmann: Poverty in John Boehner's District
David Macaray: The United States Has Mexico….and Sweden Has Us
Ted Rall: Zero Salary for Congress

Monday April 11, 2011

Helen Caldicott: How Nuclear Apologists Mislead the World Over Radiation
Gary Younge: The Tea Party Tail Wags the Republican Dog, but It's Obama Who's Dragged Off Course
Karl Grossman: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster at One Month: The Explosion of Nukespeak
Chris Hedges: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System
Glenn Greenwald: Manning, Obama and U.S. Moral Leadership
Phil Rockstroh: Hiding From Shame, Addicted to Optimism: The Tyranny of Our Collective Comfort Zones
Witness Against Torture: An Appeal to Justice
David Michael Green: And Now, for the Kill
Amanda Marcotte: What Is and Isn't Abortion: A Primer
Peter Hart: News Flash: Americans Aren't Anti-Worker
Mike Farrell: Believe It or Not
Jake Olzen: Undocumented and Unafraid: The Immigrant Rights Movement

Sunday April 10, 2011

Sheila K. Johnson: The Blowback World of Chalmers Johnson
Johann Hari: We're Not Being Told the Truth on Libya
Rania Khalek: How the Media Promotes Ignorance and Stifles Debate
Danny Schechter: U.S. Government Survives Shutdown Threat But Last Minute Deal Only Postpones More Serious Economic Warfare
Mary Bottari: Wisconsin Common Cause: Count Every Vote
Bob Franken: Thrill is Gone; So is the Alternative
Tony Norman: Dylan Hardly Needs to Justify Himself
Rodolfo Pastor Campos: An Inconvenient Truth in Honduras

Saturday April 9, 2011

John Nichols: No Shutdown, But a Lot of Sellouts
Robert Reich: Why the Right-Wing Bullies Will Hold The Nation Hostage Again and Again
Roger Bybee: Life in ‘Fitzwalkerstan’: Sudden, Suspicious Vote Shift Strengthens Backlash in Wis.
Christopher Brauchli: The Budgets and the Unemployed
Angi Becker Stevens: Workers' Rights, Women's Rights, and the Social Roots of Economic Inequality
Mark Weisbrot: Latin America Shakes Off the US Yoke
Caitlin Shetterly: American Eagles and American Dreams

Friday April 8, 2011

John Nichols: The Strange Politics of Fitzwalkerstan: GOP Clerk "Finds" Votes to Reverse Defeat of Conservative Wisconsin Justice
Paul Buchheit: The Mindless Mantra of Wall Street: The Corporate Tax Rate Is Too High
Michelle Chen: States’ Shameful Trade-Off: Putting Prisons over Public Schools
Jodi Jacobson: Averting a Government Shutdown? GOP Says Over Your Dead Body. And They Mean It
Donald Cohen: Back to the Future: The Cost of Delay
Robert Naiman: Protect Your Manhood: End the War in Afghanistan
Paul Harris: The Koch Brothers: All the Influence Money Can Buy
Thom Hartmann: With or Without a Government Shutdown - Republicans have Already Won the Debate
Emelie Peine: U.S. Subsidizes Brazilian Cotton to Protect Monsanto's Profits
David Sirota: The Real Madness of March

Thursday April 7, 2011

Naomi Klein: Joining 350.Org: The Next Phase
Robert C. Koehler: A Vortex of Death and Wealth
Bill Quigley: Robin Hood in Reverse in US: Seven Examples
Robert Parry: Rep. Ryan's Free-Market 'Death Panels'
Margaret Flowers: Ryan Turns Knife on Medicare, Medicaid
Robert Kuttner: Losing a Party's Soul in Budget Fight
Joseph Stiglitz: Gambling With the Planet
Ellen Cantarow: Energy Is Ugly: Tar Sands Make Their Mark
Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, and Philip Weiss: The Goldstone Report Now Belongs to the World
Ann J. Simonton: Are Video Game Makers Becoming Responsible?
Kevin Zeese: Wall Street and War
Rocky Kistner: Residents Say Sea Turtles Rot on Beaches of the Gulf

Wednesday April 6, 2011

Mary Bottari: Court Race Throws a Spanner in the Works of Wisconsin Wingnuts
Josh Stieber: Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Robert Scheer: The Peasants Need Pitchforks
Amanda Marcotte: How The "U-Word" Exposes the Anti-Choice Movement
Glenn Greenwald: The Impotence of the Loyal Partisan Voter
David Korten: Greed is Not a Virtue
Ray McGovern: Military Tribunal May Keep 9/11 Motives Hidden
Amy Goodman: One Guantanamo Trial That Will Be Held in New York
Peter Hart: Is There Really a Goldstone 'Retraction'?
Jim Hightower: Japan's Earthquake Jolts Shreveport

Tuesday April 5, 2011

Robert Reich: Paul Ryan’s Plan, the Coming Shutdown, and What’s Really at Stake
Ted Rall: Fool Us Twice? Can Obama Get Reelected?
Laura Flanders: Bonuses for Bosses at Killer Corporations?
John Feffer: The Geopolitics of Stupid
Dean Baker: The Real Story Behind Job Creation
Karl Grossman: NRC's Pro-Nuke Spin on Evacuation Zones
Kristen Breitweiser: The Sad Defeat of Our Constitution
Karen Dolan: Who's Buyin' Ryan? Only the Rich Can Afford To...
Karen Greenberg: Why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Will Be Tried in Guantánamo
Jim Goodman: The Korea-US Free Trade Agreement--Another Cash Cow for Corporations
Mazher Ali: Fair Taxation Requires More Brackets at the Top
Danielle Zielinski: The Global Gag Rule: Life Sentence for the World's Poorest Women

Monday April 4, 2011

Robert Reich: Why We Must Raise Taxes on the Rich
Lewis Lapham: The Servant Problem: In Search of the Lost Battalion of America’s Unemployed
Robert Shetterly: Return Our Mural, Restore the Names
Chuck Collins: Hey Congress, Want $400 Billion in New Annual Revenue?
Chris Hedges: This Is What Resistance Looks Like
Jeremy Scahill: The Changing US Tune on Yemen
Robert Naiman: Conyers: Congress Should Bar U.S. Ground Troops From Libya
Randall Amster: Looking for Mr. Goodwar? Consider a 'Truth Surge' Instead
Nancy Aykanian: CVS Makes War on Easter
Danny Schechter: The Martin Luther King Legacy and the Global Economic Crisis: Can One Influence the Other?
David Michael Green: When Pigs Rule

Sunday April 3, 2011

Erich Pica: Don't Jump to Conclusions About Nuclear Reactors: Look at the Facts and Say No
Michelle Chen: Do Western Strikes in Libya Betray Peaceful Revolt Everywhere?
César Chelala: Yemen on the Brink
Conn Hallinan: Killing Libya in Order to Save It: Gulf War Syndrome

Saturday April 2, 2011

Russell Mokhiber: How Milton Friedman and Chicago Economics Undermined America
Bill McKibben: Natural Disasters?
Michael Winship: Labor Pains and the GOP
Ralph Nader: Open Letter to President Obama on the Nomination of Elizabeth Warren
Robert Alvarez: The FDA and Fukushima Fallout
Rethinking Schools Editorial: Our Climate Crisis Is an Education Crisis
Christopher Brauchli: In God (and Congress) We Trust

Friday April 1, 2011

Caroline Arnold: Some Crazy Proposals for April Fools
John Vidal: Nuclear's Green Cheerleaders Forget Chernobyl at Our Peril
David Sirota: Lessons of Libya
Christine Ahn and Sukjong Hong: Bring War Dollars Home by Closing Down Bases
Michelle Chen: Egypt’s Tahrir Square, Revisited: Labor’s Revolution Betrayed?
Robert Naiman: How Many Should Die to Send Qaddafi to the Hague?
Joseph Gerson: Tax Day in America: A People Without a Vision Will Perish
Pierre Tristam: Florida Legislators’ Creepy Uterus Obsession
Jim Hightower: Perry's 'Texanity' Explained
Andy Worthington: Mocking the Law, Judges Rule that Evidence Is Not Necessary to Hold Insignificant Guantánamo Prisoners for the Rest of Their Lives
Antoinette Bonsignore: The Military's Rape and Sexual Assault Epidemic
Glen Ford: Not a Word About Gentrification as Black Urban Population Declines
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