All Views Articles for 2008-12-02
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Concerned Citizens of India and Pakistan Mumbai Bloodbath: A Statement by Concerned Citizens of India and Pakistan This Joint Statement was released to the press simultaneously in Pakistan and India on November 30 2008. We are deeply shocked and horrified at the bloody mayhem in Mumbai, which has claimed more... Read more |
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Amitabh Pal A Shadow Falls on Mumbai I first came to know of the Mumbai terrorist attacks on Wednesday afternoon through an e-mail from the folks at the South Asian Journalists Association. Initial reports that some people had been... Read more |
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Tom Hayden Iraq Pact Challenges Antiwar Movement What does the US-Iraq Security Pact mean for the antiwar movement? It certainly may cement an American perception that the war is finally over, stranding the peace movement as public opinion turns... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Robert Gates: Wrong Man for the Job Barack Obama not only had the good judgment to oppose the war in Iraq but , as he told us earlier this year, "I want to end the mindset that got us into war." So it is troubling that a man of such... Read more |
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Stanley Kutner Bush's 11th-Hour Bid for Secrecy The times are unprecedented. Not since 1861 have we watched the last gasps of an outgoing administration with such anxiety. Then the nation was concerned with drift and inertia; now we watch for... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald NBC and McCaffrey's coordinated responses to the NYT story Following up on yesterday's post regarding NBC News' suppression of the "military analyst" scandal and its ongoing reliance on the deeply conflicted Barry McCaffrey: I have obtained, from a very... Read more |
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Nir Rosen Songs for the Mahdi Army One day in Iraq , a friend picked me up from the house in Baghdad's Mansur district and took me to the Shaab district of east Baghdad. We drove past checkpoints manned by "Awakening" militias created... Read more |
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Annie Shattuck A Message for Climate Change Negotiators: Small Farmers Key to Combating Climate Change As world leaders meet in Poznan, Poland this week to work out a foundation for a new international climate change treaty, they would do well to seek the council of some unconventional advisors:... Read more |
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Laura Flanders DC to Delhi: Only Our Missiles, not Yours. Condoleezza Rice is off to India this week, to "stand in solidarity with the Indian people " in the wake of the Mumbai attacks. The Bush administration says it shares the horror and pain of the... Read more |
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Dean Baker Paulson and Bernanke Spread the Wealth Around During the campaign, then-Senator Obama provoked a media flurry and right-wing outrage over his comment to Joe the Plumber about "spreading the wealth around." They told us that this view was... Read more |
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Robert Parry Bush Still Lies about Iraqi Inspections In what's been called George W. Bush's first exit interview, the outgoing President continues a lie that he first unveiled several months after launching the Iraq War, justifying the invasion by... Read more |
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Teresa DeCrescenzo Where's The Bailout for Nonprofits? I am a social worker, not an economist, and what I know is this: The stock market is in free fall, financial organizations are being bailed out and the Detroit automakers might yet get financial help... Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson Obama Needs to Bail Out Workers Having rolled out Warren Buffett and the economic wizards and Hillary Clinton and the security squad, President-elect Obama needs a press conference to roll out Joe the Plumber. No, not that Joe!... Read more |
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Lynn Bradach Ban The Cluster Bomb The U.S. should join a global treaty to curb the deadly devices. says the mother of one victim. Read more |
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Jeremy Scahill Barack Obama's Kettle of Hawks Barack Obama has assembled a team of rivals to implement his foreign policy. But while pundits and journalists speculate endlessly on the potential for drama with Hillary Clinton at the state... Read more |
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Marc Fisher Maryland Police Play Spies--And Look Like Fools For years, the Maryland State Police, eager to play anti-terrorist surveillance agents just like the big boys on TV, spied on suburban peace activists who may have been loud, but never posed the... Read more |
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Michael Parenti Afghanistan, Another Untold Story Barack Obama is on record as advocating a military escalation in Afghanistan. Before sinking any deeper into that quagmire, we might do well to learn something about recent Afghani history and the... Read more |