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All Views Articles for 2009-04-03

Friday, April 3, 2009
	Johann Hari Why We Should Listen to the Protesters The way out of the credit and the climate crunch is the same - a Green New Deal Read more
	John Nichols House Members to Obama: Rethink Afghanistan Surge Congressional Democrats and Republicans are signing on to a letter urging President Obama to reconsider his plan to surge tens of thousands of additional U.S. troops into Afghanistan. Read more
	Sue Sturgis Startling Revelations About Three Mile Island (Nuclear) Disaster Raise doubts over nuclear plant safety Read more
	Robert C. Koehler Saving Obama "Now, I'd like to speak clearly and candidly to the American people . . ." Read more
	Russell Mokhiber Something is Rotten at PBS Last year, former Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid made a great documentary for the PBS show Frontline titled Sick Around the World. Reid traveled to five countries that deliver health care for all... Read more
	Karyn Strickler Obama Must Heed Alarm Bells on Global Warming Last weekend, thousands of volunteers from surrounding states braved freezing temperatures to help people of North Dakota and Minnesota stuff sand bags for levee enhancements in a mostly successful... Read more
	Jim Goodman Promises, Promises, That's All They Ever Give Us Why is it that whenever the G20, the G8, or the World Economic Forum gather, I get a sinking feeling that these "world leaders" will accomplish nothing, change nothing? There are, according to... Read more
	Dean Baker G20: Why support the IMF? The IMF failed to warn of the dangers posed by the US housing bubble. The G20 is wrong to give it more money and power Read more
	Andy Kroll Shut Out: How the Cost of Higher Education Is Dividing Our Country A few months ago, Bobby Stapleton, a 21-year-old student at the University of Michigan, received a phone call from his younger brother. The good news came first: a senior in high school, he, too, had... Read more
	Steve Rendall Listening to Limbaugh In his op-ed "Take the Limbaugh Challenge," (L.A. Times, 3/29/09 ), conservative writer Andrew Klavan states as a "certainty" that L.A. Times readers don't listen to Rush Limbaugh's show: If you are... Read more
	Donna Smith An Open Letter to Congress: Help Me or I Will Die WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Representative Eric Massa of New York said this week that in the 86 days since he took office, he has received many letters from his constituents. Some are general letters... Read more
	Kathy Kelly, Brian Terrell The Drone War: A Closer Look It’s one thing to study online articles describing the MQ-9 Reapers and MQ-1 Predators. It’s quite another to identify these drones as they take off from runways at Nevada’s Creech Air Force base,... Read more
	Jesse Hagopian The Global Teachers' Anthem "Raise the threat level to a code red," they cry out. From Baghdad to D.C., a growing chorus of a-tonal anti-union executives around the world (the only choir that may be left after all the public... Read more