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Saturday December 31, 2011

Sarah van Gelder: The 12 Most Hopeful Trends to Build On in 2012
Ray McGovern and Elizabeth Murray: Urging Obama to Stop Rush to Iran War
Clancy Sigal: My Bad Angel: Vengeance vs Forgiveness, This Eternal Struggle
Phil Tajitsu Nash: Living Peacefully With One's Neighbors
Eric Margolis: Seize the Chance to End the Craziness in North Korea
Linh Dinh: Slouching Towards 2012

Friday December 30, 2011

Conn Hallinan: 2011 "Are You Serious?" Awards
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Has America’s Stolen Election Process Finally Hit Prime Time?
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: Let Your Life Be a Counter-Friction to Stop the Machine
Mark Engler: Iowa: The People's Caucus
Michelle Chen: Ethnic Studies Ruling Escalates Arizona Schools Struggle
Norman Lear: Fighting the Good Fight
FAIR: Occupy the P.U.-litzers!

Thursday December 29, 2011

Matt Hern: Someday I Want to Own a Yacht
Jake Olzen: 2012: The Year of Nonviolence?
The Guardian Editorial: United States as a Global Power: New World Disorder
David Macaray: 10 Reasons Why Labor Unions Are Going to Win
Rebecca Jeschke: Time for Supreme Court to Weigh in on Forced DNA Collection
Robert Pallitto: The Return of Waterboarding?
Bill Bigelow: ‘Repeat After Me: The United States Is Not an Imperialist Country—Oh, and Don’t Get Emotional About War’
Adnan Al-Daini: The Agony of Iraq, the Country of My Birth
Mike Ervin: Why the Payroll Tax Deal Is Bad for People With Disabilities
Danny Schechter: It’s Time to Occupy a New Year

Wednesday December 28, 2011

Michael Thomas: The Big Lie: Wall Street has Destroyed the Wonder That Was America
Ralph Nader: Stop the Public University Tuition Spiral
Amy Goodman: If You Can’t Beat Them, Enjoin Them (From Voting)
Jesse Jackson: Electorate Suffers from a PAC Attack
Jen Schradie: Occupy Everywhere – But Not at the Mall
Rachel Shabi: Equality Must Be the Legacy of the Arab Spring
Thomas Schaller: Ron Paul Disavows…Ron Paul?
Rick Chamberlin: Of Keystones & Cop-outs
César Chelala: Trivializing War: Killing At a Distance with Drones
Robert Naiman: Is a Vote for Romney a Vote for War?

Tuesday December 27, 2011

Yifat Susskind: 2011’s Big Wins – Brought to You by Women
Paul Buchheit: Half of America In Poverty? The Facts Say It's True
Glenn Greenwald: Vote Obama – If You Want a Centrist Republican for US President
John Nichols: Out, Damn Newt: 5 Reasons Why Gingrich is Headed for Footnote Status
H. Patricia Hynes: Women are the Biggest Losers: Reflecting on the War in Iraq
Roberto Rodriguez: Iraq War: Reaffirmation or the End of US Exceptionalism?
Tony Norman: Support Attracted by Ron Paul Sends Chills
Lyric Hughes Hale: The Coming Accidental War with Iran
Medea Benjamin: Ten Good Things About a (Not So) Bad Year
Paul Rogat Loeb: If You Care About Keystone and Climate Change, Occupy Exxon
Kathy Kelly: Assembly Time
Brian Moench: Utah Doctors Join "Occupy" Movement

Monday December 26, 2011

Jackie Smith and Jules Lobel: Evict BNY Mellon, not Occupy Pittsburgh
Wenonah Hauter: Resolve to Keep Science Experiments off Your Dinner Table in 2012
Wendell Potter: When Medicare Isn't Medicare
Fred Grimm: Corporate Education Reform Has Turned Kids into Commodities
Paul Krugman: Springtime for Toxics
Russ Baker: Justifying War with Iran
David Sirota: The Season of Fake Outrage

Sunday December 25, 2011

John Nichols: A Conservative Christmas Carol of Scrooge, Marley, Gingrich and Romney
Shamus Cooke: Uniting Occupy and Labor Over Health Care
Marjorie Cohn: Bradley Manning: A Hero, Not a Traitor

Saturday December 24, 2011

Davin O'Dwyer: In the Year of the Protester, Bradley Manning is the Great Dissenter
Matt Taibbi: A Christmas Message From America's Rich
Michelle Chen: Lowe’s All-American Muslim Fiasco and the Politics of Normalcy
Norman Solomon: Uncle Sam is Making the Wrong Choices
Glenn Greenwald: The Intellectual Cowardice of Bradley Manning’s Critics
John Harris: The Scale of the Challenge is Shocking Us into Action
Christopher Brauchli: The Drone, the Secretary and the Seven Dwarfs
Rev. John Dear: Christmas and the End of the US War in Iraq

Friday December 23, 2011

John Kampfner: How Did Obama End Up Appeasing the Neocons?
Ross Caputi: I Am Sorry for the Role I Played in Fallujah
Rick Salutin: The Bible and Ethical Economics
Amy Dean: OWS: A Protest Against a Broken Economic Compact
Kathy Kelly: Amid War, Following Yonder Star Towards Peace
David Morris: Occupy Giving: Why Do the 1% Give Less Than the Rest of Us?
Alexander Main and Daniel McCurdy: The US Double Standard on Elections in Latin America and the Caribbean
David Macaray: Labor Comes Away With a Rare Victory
Alexander Cockburn: Loom of the Jackboot: Obama Gives Military Extreme Powers
Michael Winship: Happy Holidays, Corporate America – I’d Like to File a Complaint

Thursday December 22, 2011

Eric Alterman: Governor Cuomo Is Still Governor One Percent
H. Samy Alim: What If We Occupied Language?
Rebecca Solnit: Compassion Is Our New Currency: Notes on 2011’s Preoccupied Hearts and Minds
Steve Fine: Time Magazine's 'The Protester': The Eyes Have It
Ralph Nader: Recommended Holiday Reading for the Caring, Agitated Mind
Randall Amster: Prism Break: Seeing Beyond the Shadows on the Walls Around Us
Michelle Chen: Oil Workers Rise Up in Kazakhstan, Face Brutal Crackdown
Mark Engler: Why America’s 99% Have Rebelled
Jay Walljasper: How to Boost Biking and Walking Even Further in Your City
Bruce Friedrich: 'Ag Gag': Why Whistleblower Suppression Laws Are A Bad Idea
Robert Scheer: Thomas Friedman: On to the Next ‘Bubble Fantasy’
Japan Times Editorial: Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Far from Resolved

Wednesday December 21, 2011

Robert C. Koehler: The Big Lie Marches On
Mary Bottari: Break Up Bank of America Before it Breaks Us
Jim Hightower: The Poor Rich and the Scrooginess of Congress
Ray McGovern: Pvt. Manning and Imperative of Truth
Amy Goodman: Bradley Manning and the Fog of War
Ajamu Baraka: The US Defeat in Iraq and the Persistence of White Supremacy
Mark Weisbrot: The United Nations Must Face Up to the Disaster It Caused in Haiti
Laura Raymond: Do Private Military Contractors Have Impunity to Torture?
Linh Dinh: Christmas Gifts for a Collapsing America

Tuesday December 20, 2011

David Cay Johnston: The Corporations That Occupy Congress
Robert Naiman: Stop the War on Christmas: Cease Fire in Afghanistan
Mike Lofgren: Propagandizing for Perpetual War
George Monbiot: This Bastardized Libertarianism Makes 'Freedom' an Instrument of Oppression
Nick Turse: What a Busted Robot Airplane Tells Us About the American Empire in 2012 and Beyond
Donna Smith: Un-Happy Holidays for Seniors and the Disabled – Here’s Your Donut
Emily Dwass: BPA: ‘Not in My Kitchen’ Is Easier Said Than Done
David Macaray: The NLRB Under Assault
John Nichols: "Occupy Iowa Caucus" Urges Dems to Back "Uncommitted" Slate
Lauren Unger-Geoffroy: Dispatches From Cairo: The Worst So Far
Michelle Chen: With Anti-Immigrant Law, Alabama is Again Ground Zero for Civil Rights
David Michael Green: A Better World’s In Birth (Maybe)

Monday December 19, 2011

Ahdaf Soueif: Image of Unknown Woman Beaten by Egypt's Military Echoes Around World
Neal Peirce: President Obama's Puzzling Silence on Marijuana Policy
Gary Younge: The US is Blind to the Price of War That is Still Being Borne by the Iraqi People
Jim Rigby: Christmas is No Time to Talk About War and Peace
Gwynne Dyer: The False Equation: Religion Equals Morality
Bill Quigley and Sunita Patel: Migrants’ Rights Are Human Rights! Take Local Police Out of Immigration Enforcement
Thomas Edsall: The Trouble With That Revolving Door

Sunday December 18, 2011

Michael Moore: A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
Caroline Arnold: World Poses Growing Challenge to Generosity of Our Hearts
Derrick O'Keefe: After Durban: We Must Pull the Emergency Brake Before the 1 Per Cent Drive Us Off the Cliff
Kathy Kelly: Big Shoulders in Chicago and Kabul
George Monbiot: Why Is It So Easy to Save the Banks – but So Hard to Save the Biosphere?
Nathan Schneider: Why Occupy Calls for “Sanctuary”
Danny Schechter: Occupy Movement Puts on a “Why I Occupy” Show in Times Square

Saturday December 17, 2011

César Chelala: Demolitions Can Doom Israel's Democracy
Russell Mokhiber: Top 100 Corporate Crime Stories of 2011
Michael Winship: How Now, Brown Cloud: What Smog Hath Wrought
Ann Wright: The Trial of Bradley Manning-Rule of Law or Rule of Intimidation, Retaliation and Retribution
Michelle Chen: Immigrants Occupy! Broadening a Movement Culture

Friday December 16, 2011

Paul Buchheit: Don't Any of You Corporations Pay Your Taxes?
Ted Rall: Obama's "Mission Accomplished"
Philip Caper: Do We Need Health Insurance?
William K. Black: Dante’s Divine Comedy: Banksters Edition
Jason Hickel: How to Occupy the World
John Atcheson: The Walmartization of America Redux: How the Relentless Drive for Cheap Stuff Undermines Our Economy, Bankrupts Our Soul, and Pillages the Planet
Maude Barlow: How To Save Our Great Lakes
Bret Weinstein: Occupying Power
Jeff Milchen and Michael Shuman: Shift Your Shopping to Create More Jobs, Stronger Communities
Brian Tierney: Remembering Pittston: 99 Strikers Who Occupied Before Occupy
Josh Levy: The Top 10 Ways Mobile Carriers Tried to Screw Us in 2011

Thursday December 15, 2011

Raed Jarrar: The Iraq War Disaster
Ralph Nader: Congressional Tyranny, White House Surrender
Tom Gallagher: TINA Comes to America
Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich: The Making of the American 99% And the Collapse of the Middle Class
Phil Rockstroh: Recovering from Authoritarian Simpatico Syndrome (ASS): "Because the Cops Don’t Need You and Man They Expect the Same"
Michelle Chen: Food Industry Brings Bitter Harvest to Child Cocoa Laborers
John Cavanagh: Why the 99 Percent Are Protesting at the World Bank Today
Glenn Greenwald: Bradley Manning Deserves a Medal
Robert C. Koehler: The Spiritual Jackpot
Bill McKibben: At Last, A New Story for the Future
Harvey Wasserman: The Timeless Joy of George Whitman’s Shakespeare & Company
Stephen Zunes: Obama Ad Condemns Israel Aid Opponents

Wednesday December 14, 2011

Madeline Ostrander: After Durban: Climate Activists Target Corporate Power
Amy Goodman: Climate Apartheid
David Morris: Occupy Economics Departments
Jim Hightower: America's Leaders Are Small, but Americans Are Not
Robert Reich: Newt’s Tax Plan, and Why His Polls Rise the More Outrageous He Becomes
Katrina vanden Heuvel: 99%er Champions
Juan Gonzalez: Jon Corzine, Ex-Gov and Bad CEO, Proves He's Clueless to Congress
Donna Smith: Occupying Love and Joy for Nataline
Jim Naureckas: A New Lowe in Advertiser Cowardice
Danny Schechter: Markets of Shame Before the Collapse: Crisis, Crisis, Everywhere
John R. MacArthur: President Obama Richly Deserves to Be Dumped

Tuesday December 13, 2011

Center for Constitutional Rights: President Obama, Veto the National Defense Authorization Act
Miriam Pemberton: Military Spending is the Weakest Job Creator
Nick Turse: Making Repression Our Business: The Pentagon’s Secret Training Missions in the Middle East
Gloria Lowe: Turning to Instead of Against Each Other
Jeff Biggers: Arizona Memo to Journalists / Editors on Immigration: Drop the I-Word
Mary Bottari: FOX News, OWS, Banksters, and Bombs
César Chelala: Saudi Arabia's Breach of Human Rights
Jim Hightower: Influence Peddler for President
Karen Greenberg: How Terrorist 'Entrapment' Ensnares Us All

Monday December 12, 2011

Ruth Rosen: Occupy: You Can’t Evict an Idea
Tom Engelhardt: The 1% Election: How to Turn Election Year Into Election Life
Laura Flanders: What a Difference an Occupation Makes
Jim Goodman: Occupy the Food System
Sam Pizzigati: Presenting America’s Ten Greediest of 2011
Ira Chernus: Gingrich on Palestine: Small Truths In A Big Lie
Dean Baker: A Tale of Two Deficit Charts
Robert Naiman: On Complaints over Iran Nuclear Weapon Claims, WaPo Ombud Rules for the Plaintiffs
Rich Bindell: Are Privatized Water Utilities in Cahoots With Shale Gas Companies?

Sunday December 11, 2011

Robert Fisk: Bankers are the Dictators of the West
Diane Ravitch: A Nation's Education Left Behind
Juan Cole: Washington Actions on Palestine Don’t Differ from Gingrich’s Words
Jackie Smith: How Elite Media Strategies Marginalize the Occupy Movement
Patrick Cockburn: Wars Without Victory Equal an America Without Influence
Tina Gerhardt: Get it Done! Youth to UN on Internationally Binding Climate Treaty
Seema Jilani: Must We Permit the US Military to Detain Americans without Trial?
Glenn Greenwald: The Real Definition of Terrorism
Fran Quigley: Haitian Cholera Victims to UN: Practice What You Preach
Damian Carrington: Climate Deal: A Guarantee Our Children Will Be Worse Off Than Us
Eric Margolis: Time to Apologize for the West's Shameful Support of Dictatorship in Egypt
Rebekah Wilce: We Are Farmer Brown

Saturday December 10, 2011

Anjali Appadurai: Don't Betray Our Generation. Get It Done.
Robert Reich: The Remarkable Political Stupidity of the Street
David Uhlmann: For 29 Dead Miners, No Justice
Jim Naureckas: Why Is PBS Telling Us That Profit Is Journalism's Friend?
Josh Fox: Shale Gas Drilling's Dirty Secret Is Out
Michelle Chen: Embarrassment of Riches: Conflict Diamond Regulation Breaks Down
Christopher Brauchli: The Politician and the Mistress
Michael Nigro: Occupied Media: Foreclose on the Corporate Fourth Estate
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: On Human Rights Day, Calling the Next ‘Greatest Generation’
Paul Rogat Loeb: Burying Your Victories: What if Obama Taxed the Rich But Never Told Anyone?

Friday December 9, 2011

Gary Younge: Land of the Free, Home of the Hungry
Betty Yu: Media Justice and the 99 Percent Movement
Sam Pizzigati: Tis the Season to Be Jolly on Wall Street, Still
Frida Berrigan: A Peaceful Warrior Lives On in Us
David Solnit: Seattle WTO Shutdown ’99 to Occupy: Organizing to Win 12 Years Later
Benjamin Dangl: Out of the Backyard: New Latin American and Caribbean Bloc Defies Washington
Karen Hansen-Kuhn: The Sound of Food Sovereignty in Durban
Jake Johnston: MINUSTAH by the Numbers

Thursday December 8, 2011

Robert C. Koehler: Used-Up Heroes
Brooke Jarvis: L.A. and Occupy L.A. Agree: It's Time to End Corporate Personhood
Kumi Naidoo: U.S. Obstructionism Is Hurting Climate Talks
Laura Carlsen: Fiddling on Climate
Patrick Meighan: My Occupy LA Arrest
Tim Karr: Verizon CEO's Broadband Bunk
Robert Scheer: Government-Sponsored Sinner
William Astore: Fighting 1% Wars: Why Our Wars of Choice May Prove Fatal
Gerald Friedman: Public-Sector Workers Under Attack
Rudo Sanyanga: Africa Needs Green Energy, Not Grand Inga

Wednesday December 7, 2011

Phil Rockstroh: "By Imbeciles Who Really Mean It": Lost Verities and Dirty Hippies
Ronnie Cummins: Put the Fat Cats on a Diet: Stop Buying Tainted Food From Billion Dollar Corporations
Amy Goodman: Listen to the People, Not the Polluters
Ralph Nader: Time to Save the Post Office
Michael Winship: Merry Christmas: No More Insider Trading on Capitol Hill?
Maria Hadden and Josh Lerner: How to Start Participatory Budgeting in Your City
Michael Moore: The Winter of Our Occupation
Mary Pittman and Kavita Ramdas: Why the International Climate Negotiations in Durban Matter for Women
Margaret Kimberley: Black America at the Bottom
Paul Buchheit: The Conservative Plan To End Inequality: Deny It
Alex Main: CELAC: Speaking for Latin America and the Caribbean
George Lakoff: Words That Don’t Work

Tuesday December 6, 2011

Jules Lobel: The Future of the Occupy Movement
Henk Hobbelink: Time to Recall the Land Grabbers
Deborah James: WTO Turnaround: Food, Jobs and Sustainable Development First!
Dean Baker: Will an Incompetent European Central Bank Be Allowed to Wreck the World Economy?
Robert Alvarez: The Human Face of the Nuclear Arms Race
Duncan Cameron: The Harper Government and Republican Economics
Michael T. Klare: Playing With Fire: Obama’s Risky Oil Threat to China
Randall Amster: Occupy Ourselves: With Peace in Our Hearts and Power in Our Hands
Zoe Weil: Localization v. Globalization: A False Dichotomy

Monday December 5, 2011

Bill McKibben: The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium
Shiney Varghese: The Water, Energy and Food Nexus
William deBuys: Coming to a Theater Near You: The Greatest Water Crisis in the History of Civilization
Thomas S. Harrington: Technocrats
Vanessa Ortiz: Hidden in Egypt’s Closet: Virginity Testing’ as a Tactic of Repression
Salvatore Babones: The Other 99 Percent: How the US Compares
Rev. C.J. Hawking: Taking Back the Capitol: Why I'm Going to Washington
Linh Dinh: Endless Needless Deaths
Jeff Bachman: If International Law Existed for US Officials…
Chris Hedges: Where Were You When They Crucified My Movement?
Yifat Susskind: US No Help to Afghan Rape Survivors
Naomi Colvin and Bryn Phillips: Occupy London Is 50 Days Old – Now It's Time to Occupy Everywhere

Sunday December 4, 2011

Joss Garman: Obama Could Save the Durban Climate Talks with a Single Call
Bret Weinstein: A Horizontal World? Occupy Can't Win with Utopian Impossibilities
Laurie Penny: A New York Spider Gave Me an Insight into US Private Healthcare
Elizabeth Flock: Why Occupy Protesters Marched from Wall Street to DC
Ray McGovern: Are Americans in Line for Gitmo?
Stephen Zunes: Arab Revolutions and the Power of Nonviolent Action
John Bonifaz: Restore Democracy to the People with 28th Amendment

Saturday December 3, 2011

Matthew Cassel: Even Bahrain's Use of 'Miami Model' Policing Will Not Stop the Uprising
Eric Margolis: Dateline: Tahrir Square
Michelle Chen: Wal-Mart Circles Indian Markets, and Indians Push Back
Coleen Rowley: Obama Should Veto Empire Over Republic
Pratap Chatterjee: The New Cyber-Industrial Complex Spying on Us
Christopher Brauchli: The Newest Newt
Susan Galleymore: The People versus San Francisco's Wall Street Bull

Friday December 2, 2011

Helen Caldicott: After Fukushima: Enough Is Enough
Janet Redman: Durban Diary: #Occupy the COP
Frida Berrigan: Ten Years of Guantanamo Demands Our Action and Our Outrage
Dan Froomkin: Suskind's 'Confidence Men' Raises Questions About Obama's Credibility
Andy Worthington: Deranged Senate Votes for Military Detention of All Terror Suspects and a Permanent Guantánamo
Stefan Simanowitz: From Tahrir Square: The Leaderless Revolution Meets the Ballot Box
Eric Garland: We Are Not Occupying America -- They Are
Indiana Hoover: A Letter of Appeal to the NYPD, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the Occupiers of New York City
William I. Robinson: Global Rebellion: The Coming Chaos?
Robert Naiman: War-Weary Republicans Rebuke Romney on Afghanistan
Bob Burnett: Occupy Wall Street: The Enthusiasm Gap
Robert Fisk: Back to Tahrir Square
David Sirota: Celebrating the End of Kids' Wall Street Dreams

Thursday December 1, 2011

Arun Gupta: Arundhati Roy: 'The People Who Created the Crisis Will Not Be the Ones That Come Up With a Solution'
Phil Rockstroh: Amid The Architecture Of Declining Capitalism: Memes, Death Genes And Real Estate Schemes
Ted Rall: 7-7-7: Jobless? Face It. Obama's Not That Into You
Michelle Chen: Is China’s Economic Miracle Hitting the Fan?
Thomas S. Harrington: Orthodoxies and Adolescents
Bill Quigley: Twenty Examples of the Obama Administration Assault on Domestic Civil Liberties
Tom Engelhardt: He was 22...She was 12...: Lessons From the Dead in a No-Learning-Curve World
Rev. Dr. Neal R. Jones: Undeclared War: Get Mad, Get Organized, and Get Busy
Robert Scheer: You Can Arrest an Idea
Paul Buchheit: A Very Good Reason to Tax the Very Rich
Joseph Nevins: Who Killed Joaquin Luna?
John LaForge: Fukushima Backlash: Radiation Lobby Sees Upside to Reactor Disasters
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