All Views Articles for 2008-02-07
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Dave Lindorff To Hell With the Chief! What is all this nonsense about us electing a "commander in chief"? Okay, I mean we all know it's President Bush's favorite title. He thrills to being a "war president," and loves strutting around in... Read more |
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Ron Blackwell and Thomas Palley Winning the Edwards Vote John Edwards' exit from the presidential race puts his supporters up for grabs. Both Senators Clinton and Obama want those votes. Here's how to win them. The central plank of the Edwards' campaign... Read more |
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Tom Hayden After Super Tuesday, Time for Peace Movement to Get Off the Sidelines With Iraq a key issue and the Democratic primaries unresolved, isn't it time for the peace movement to get off the sidelines and become more engaged? Shouldn't we be doing everything possible to make... Read more |
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Michelle Chen New Orleans: Vanishing City Post-Katrina Redevelopment Excludes “poor and working-class black New Orleanians from returning home†Read more |
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Peter Hartcher America's Choice, Our Future United States presidential campaigns are free entertainment that America gives the world. Hundreds of millions of people across dozens of lands watch each improbable step and laugh, cry and cheer... Read more |
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Margaret Krome Bush Budget Designed for Maximum Damage America is at a critical juncture in its political history -- but it's a blind intersection that presidential campaign buses and media caravans ignore. More than the war in Iraq, the mortgage crisis... Read more |
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James Wellman The Civic Gospel of Hope Barack Obama knows how to preach. Obama is at his best in the American political pulpit. This is where he inspires, challenges and lays out a promise of a better America, calling out to the "better... Read more |
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Rosa Brooks A National Mood Swing Change isn't just a political slogan, it's a national yearning that's put the Democrats back on the offensive. Read more |
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Editorial US Needle Policy Hurts AIDS Sufferers Today, the African American community will gather under the banner of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day to bring attention to this modern plague and its disparate impact on the black community... Read more |
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Riane Eisler Opportunity to Protect Our Children We're getting into the thick of the 2008 election campaign, yet conspicuously missing from the debate are some of the most basic issues for our future - issues that powerfully affect our families and... Read more |
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Editorial Forging an Energy Path Congress should dramatically revise President Bush’s backward-looking budget Read more |
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Tom Athanasiou Toward a Defensible Climate Realism It's a tough time to be an American climate realist. After all, which realism will you choose? The Beltway realism that limits U.S. commitments, and even U.S. initiatives, to those that are... Read more |
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Dilip Hiro A Nuclear-Free Mirage The Middle East cannot be freed from weapons of mass destruction unless the US turns the spotlight on Israel Read more |
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Amy Goodman Millions Without a Voice As I raced into our TV studio for our Super Tuesday morning-after show, I was excited. Across the country, initial reports indicated there was unprecedented voter participation, at least in the... Read more |
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Gar Smith Make Sure Your Valentine's Day Roses Are Green It's February 14 and you've just handed your sweetie a gorgeous bouquet of roses. Tears spring to her eyes and her cheeks begin to flush bright red. But wait: is this love or just an allergic... Read more |
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Caroline Arnold The Ticking Time Bomb Thought-Experiment Cassel: If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him? Yoo: No treaty. Cassel: Also no law by... Read more |