Views - November 2009
Monday November 9, 2009
- John Nichols: Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill
- Holly Sklar: Change Wall Street Can Believe In
- Megan Tady: Consolidation Station: News ‘Sharing’ Erodes Journalism
- Bill McKibben: Congress, Climate Cheapskate
- William Pfaff : America Owned by Its Army
- Marcia Angell: Is the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?
- Jeff Leys: Admiral Mullen Announces Afghanistan Strategy: Prepare to Nonviolently Resist
- Frances Kissling: The Answer to the Stupak? Overturn Hyde Now
- Paul Krugman: Paranoia Strikes Deep
- Steve Almond: Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Fairness Doctrine?
- Dahr Jamail & Sarah Lazare: Where Will They Get the Troops?
- Chris Hedges: Afghanistan’s Sham Army
Sunday November 8, 2009
- Falguni A. Sheth: Reckoning With Ourselves: Malik Nadal Hasan
- Lucinda Marshall: Dems Sell Women’s Rights Down River Of Health Care Denial
- Lee Stranahan: Kucinich's Brave Health Vote Vs. Obama's Failed Promise
- Nicholas D. Kristof: Chemicals in Our Food, and Bodies
- Haroon Siddiqui: Same Rights Standards Must Apply to All Nations
- Pierre Tristam: Prejudice Guides Speculation Over Fort Hood Killings
- Dennis Kucinich: Why I Voted NO
- Patrick Cockburn: Afghanistan: Time to Leave
Saturday November 7, 2009
- Max Cleland: The Forever War of the Mind
- Jane Hamsher: And the Catholic Bishops Endorse! A Special Thank-You To Planned Parenthood and NARAL
- Amitabh Pal: Crunch Time for Planet Earth
- Robert Fisk: America is Performing Its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator
- Christopher Brauchli: The Bible-New and Improved
- Dave Lindorff: Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh?
- Noam Chomsky: War, Peace and Obama’s Nobel
- Chris Edelson: The Republican Party Has Failed–And That’s Not Good For Anyone
- Donna Smith: I’ll Bet the 10.2 Percent Can’t Keep What They’ve Got
Friday November 6, 2009
- Ruth Conniff: President Obama Comes to School (And It Is Not Good News)
- Juan Cole: Israeli Settlements Could Cause One-State Solution
- Dennis Kucinich & John Conyers: Co-Authors Question Stand Alone Vote on National Single Payer
- Sandy LeonVest: Public Option is Just Another Private Party – and We’re Not Invited
- Paul Krugman: Obama Faces His Anzio
- John Nichols: Horror at Fort Hood Inspires Horribly Predictable Islamophobia
- Aaron Glantz: After Fort Hood: Count All the Dead
- Derrick Jensen: Would We Listen to Nature if Our Lives Depended on It?
- David Michael Green: Can You Hear Us Now?
- Jim Goodman: Corporate Agribusiness Divides Farmers
- Paul Rogat Loeb: Eight Reasons the Democrats Lost Virginia & New Jersey—and How to Recover
- Tom Gallagher: Time for Hardball on the Health Care Bill
Thursday November 5, 2009
- Mike Lapham: Three Steps to Save Wall Street
- Nick Turse: 2014 or Bust: In Afghanistan, The Pentagon Digs In
- Tim Jackson: Economic Growth Has Failed Us. What's the Alternative?
- Jodie Evans: Stop US Meddling; Support Afghan Women at the Table
- Michael Shuman: Localization is Way to Redefine Globalization
- Thomas Frank: Glenn Beck's Hotline to Nowhere
- Dialogues Against Militarism: War Resisters Reach Out in Dialogue
- Sarah Anderson: Clash on Investment: Global Trade and an Opportunity for Civil Society
- Melissa McEwan: Mourning Gay Marriage in Maine
- Danny Schechter: Time to Rally for Financial Reform
- Salena Tramel: Congress, Accountability, and the Goldstone Report
- Stephen Zunes: Bipartisan Attack on International Humanitarian Law
- Robert C. Koehler: A Hole in the Night
- Mark Weisbrot: President Obama's Credibility on the Line in Honduras
- Norman Solomon: The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid
Wednesday November 4, 2009
- Matthew Rothschild: House Shames Itself on Goldstone Report
- John Nichols: A Year Later, Obama Needs to Start Campaigning Again
- Janet Redman: Happy Anniversary, Obama. Now Sign a Climate Deal
- Barbara Ehrenreich: The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-up
- Amy Goodman: The Tortured Logic Continues
- Robert Scheer: Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy
- Jim Hightower: Who Deserves Wall Street Bonuses?
- Lucinda Marshall: No More Women’s Unhealthy Healthcare
- Stan Cox: Unnatural Gas: The Inflated Promise of a Not-So-Clean Fuel
- Ray McGovern: Afghanistan as Vietnam: Heeding George Kennan's Wise Advice
- Guy Reel: The Gullible Dittoheads
- Bitta Mostofi: Death to No One: 30 Years after the Iran Hostage Crisis
- Glenn Greenwald: A Court Decision That Reflects What Type of Country the US Is
- Frida Berrigan: Arms Trade: A 'Booming' Business
- Ralph Nader: Why and To What End in Afghanistan
Tuesday November 3, 2009
- Lester Brown: We Only Have Months, Not Years, to Save Civilization from Climate Change
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Can We Get Some Small-d Democracy?
- Robert Weissman: The Medicare-for-All Moment
- Paul Rogers: AfPak-Iraq: Wrong War, Wrong Thinking
- Naomi Starkman: Tests Find Wide Range of Bisphenol A in Canned Soups, Juice, and More
- Paula Crossfield: The Obama Administration and Food, Year One
- Bill Maher: Is This as Good as It Gets From Obama?
- Mamoon Alabbasi : Noam Chomsky: No Change in US 'Mafia Principle'
- George Monbiot: Climate Change Deniers Are Not Skeptics - They're Suckers
- Sonali Kolhatkar: A Call for Clarity on the Afghanistan War
- Brian Baird: Israel and Gaza Deserve Better Than HR 867
Monday November 2, 2009
- Matthew Rothschild: Afghanistan Just Got Messier
- Dean Baker: Breaking Up the Banks is Hard to Do
- Jeff Biggers: Cowed Interior to Consider Mountaintop Removal Rule Once Plundering Is Over in 2011
- John Nichols: 'Tea Party Activists Are the New GOP'
- Adam Federman: Trading the Watershed to Trash the Catskills
- Naomi Wolf: Renewing the News
- Kim Sengupta: Karzai Did the Deals That Made Him a Winner Anyway
- Greg Kaufmann: The Heart of Wall Street
- James Carroll: Our Sense of Troubled Normalcy Returns
- Robert Parry: Cheney and the Plame-Gate Cover-up
- Tom Engelhardt: Too Big to Fail? Why All the President's Afghan Options Are Bad Ones
- Ira Chernus: US Words Thwart Middle East Peace
- Michael Ratner: Congress Should Not Reject the Goldstone Report
- Tom Gallagher: Where Were the Anti-War Demonstrators?
- Chris Hedges: Opium, Rape and the American Way
Sunday November 1, 2009
- Andy Worthington: Six Uighurs Go to Palau; Seven Remain in Guantánamo
- Pierre Tristam: Loose With Numbers: Medicare Fraud Report a Fiction
- Caroline Arnold: Are We Willing to Start Living for Others?
- Karyn Strickler: Carbon Cuts: 350 Is Not Adequate
- Isabel Macdonald: Was CNN Host Lou Dobbs Really Shot At?
- Frank Rich: The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
- Gideon Levy: America, Stop Sucking up to Israel
- Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Latest Use of 'Secrecy' to Shield Presidential Lawbreaking
- Donna Smith: Nataline Keeps Bending the Arc of Healthcare Justice