From Common Dreams (Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, US Politics…)

March 13, 2012 by tokyoprogressive Leave a Comment

Christopher Cooper:

I Don’t Want To See Their Faces; I Don’t Want To Hear Them Scream

Jennifer Dalven:

Kansas to Pregnant Women: “A Little Lie from Your Doctor Won’t Hurt You”

George Lakoff:

The Santorum Strategy: Why the Right Wins Even When It Loses

Tom Engelhardt:

The 0% Doctrine: Obama Breaks New Ground When It Comes to War with Iran

Gareth Porter:

Alleged Photos of “Clean-up” at Iran’s Parchin Site Lack Credibility

Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith:

Dirty vs. Green Jobs: Labor’s Keystone Dilemma

Marwan Bishara:

Decisions, Not Excuses in Afghanistan

Mark Ames:

Slovakia Defies the Kochs and Cato

Chris Hedges:

Supreme Court Likely to Endorse Obama’s War on Whistle-Blowers

Medea Benjamin:

Busted for Busting Out at Bank of America

Saul Landau:

Malice Versus Nobility: On Scooter Libby and Bradley Manning

George Zornick:

Americans to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan

John Kinsman:

“Free Trade” is Not Free – Why We All Need to Oppose the TPP

Sunday March 11, 2012

John Nichols:

Tens of Thousands Rally in Wisconsin for Labor Rights and Democracy

Masahiro Matsumura:

After the Earthquake: Changing Japan

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez:

May Day Mutiny: Radical Transformation Rises

Thomas S. Harrington:

“Mistakes Were Made”: One-Time Object of Derision Now a Core Template of Our Social Behaviors

Dr. Megan Evans:

A Doctor Speaks: “Horrific” Arizona Law Would Allow Doctors to Practice Bad Medicine Without Accountability

Glenn Smith:

Why the War on Women?

John Nichols:

A Clarion Call for Renewal of Democracy

Saturday March 10, 2012

Michael Winship:

Politicians Won’t Return Ponzi Payoffs

Glenn Greenwald:

Dennis Kucinich and ‘Wackiness’

Lawrence Davidson:

America Gets Stupid, Again, on Iran

Peter Hart:

Israel in the NYT Corrections Box

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Christopher Cooper: I Don’t Want To See Their Faces; I Don’t Want To Hear Them Scream

Jennifer Dalven: Kansas to Pregnant Women: “A Little Lie from Your Doctor Won’t Hurt You”

George Lakoff: The Santorum Strategy: Why the Right Wins Even When It Loses

Tom Engelhardt: The 0% Doctrine: Obama Breaks New Ground When It Comes to War with Iran

Gareth Porter: Alleged Photos of “Clean-up” at Iran’s Parchin Site Lack Credibility

Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: Dirty vs. Green Jobs: Labor’s Keystone Dilemma

Marwan Bishara: Decisions, Not Excuses in Afghanistan

Mark Ames: Slovakia Defies the Kochs and Cato

Chris Hedges: Supreme Court Likely to Endorse Obama’s War on Whistle-Blowers

Medea Benjamin: Busted for Busting Out at Bank of America

Saul Landau: Malice Versus Nobility: On Scooter Libby and Bradley Manning

George Zornick: Americans to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan

John Kinsman: “Free Trade” is Not Free – Why We All Need to Oppose the TPP

Sunday March 11, 2012

John Nichols: Tens of Thousands Rally in Wisconsin for Labor Rights and Democracy

Masahiro Matsumura: After the Earthquake: Changing Japan

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: May Day Mutiny: Radical Transformation Rises

Thomas S. Harrington: “Mistakes Were Made”: One-Time Object of Derision Now a Core Template of Our Social Behaviors

Dr. Megan Evans: A Doctor Speaks: “Horrific” Arizona Law Would Allow Doctors to Practice Bad Medicine Without Accountability

Glenn Smith: Why the War on Women?

John Nichols: A Clarion Call for Renewal of Democracy

Saturday March 10, 2012

Michael Winship: Politicians Won’t Return Ponzi Payoffs

Glenn Greenwald: Dennis Kucinich and ‘Wackiness’

Lawrence Davidson: America Gets Stupid, Again, on Iran

Peter Hart: Israel in the NYT Corrections Box

Rosie Wong: Carbon Blood Money in Honduras

Jim Hightower: The Tale of J.R. Simplot’s Two-Headed Trout

Robert Alvarez: No Nuclear Nirvana on the Horizon

Christopher Brauchli: The Mormons and the Dead

Friday March 9, 2012

Jeff Biggers: Dear Tucson Students, It Gets Better

Robert Reich: The Precarious Jobs Recovery

John Pilger: The Dirty War on WikiLeaks

Tim Karr: The Misinformation Machine

Greg Kaufmann: Welfare Reform—From Bad to Worse

Tom Engelhardt: Building a “Mature” Democracy in Afghanistan

Renee Parsons: The Politics of Women’s Health Care

David Macaray: Rush Limbaugh Is No Joke

Robert Jensen: Holding onto the Joy in Teaching

Amitabh Pal: Fukushima Should Compel All Countries to Discard Nuclear Energy

Mark Weisbrot: Why Jeffrey Sachs Would Make a Better World Bank President

Dave Zweifel: Usual Suspects Are Beating Drum for Ill-Advised Attack on Iran

Thursday March 8, 2012

Bill McKibben: Women Lead Charge for Another Keystone XL Victory

Laurie Penny: That’s Enough Politeness – Women Need to Rise Up in Anger

Diane Ravitch: Flunking Arne Duncan

Ruth Rosen: Contraception: The New American Soap Opera

Amy Goodman: Big Nuclear’s Cosy Relationship with the Obama Administration

Marge Baker: The War on Women in the Courts

Robert Scheer: Dennis Kucinich: Conscience of the Congress

Ann Jones: Green on Blue: Dead Americans, Dead Goats, and Half a Million Gunmen on the Loose

Amy Gluckman: How to Cover Everyone: Vermont’s Single-Payer Success

Robert C. Koehler: PTSD: A Cancer of the Spirit

Gar Smith: Flare-up: How the Sun Could Put an End to Nuclear Power

Joseph de la Torre Dwyer: The CFPB vs. Student Loan Sharks

Robert Naiman: Conyers Urges Obama to Nominate Jeff Sachs to Lead the World Bank

Gwynne Dyer: Reasons to Attack Iran

Mark Engler: Joe Nocera Is Wrong About Environmental Activism

Wednesday March 7, 2012

Aquene Freechild: A Super Tuesday as Vermont Pushed to Overturn Citizens United

Frances Beinecke: Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Won’t Ease Gas Prices; Senate Must Reject It

John Nichols: What America Lost When Dennis Kucinich Lost

Phyllis Bennis: Obama Goes to AIPAC: A Scorecard

Heather Mallick: We Need a Women’s Rights Reawakening

Brendan Fischer: WI Judge Halts ‘Extremely Broad and Largely Needless’ Voter ID Law

Jim Hightower: Woody Guthrie at 100

Peter Van Buren: The Day ‘Due Process’ Died: Obama, Holder and the End of Rights

Mike Elk: Worker ‘Occupations’ in 3 States Yield Successes, but Counterattack Begins

Sue Sturgis: Controversy Rages Over Arrests of Virginia Reproductive Rights Protesters

Glen Ford: New Data Show Black Students Have Been New Jim Crowed

Jamilah King: Activists Worry That Mobile Phones Could Do More Harm Than Good

Gary Younge: Mitt Romney Still Can’t Seal the Deal on Super Tuesday

Dave Zweifel: Tea Party Paranoia Shouldn’t Be Ignored

Tuesday March 6, 2012

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Super Tuesday’s Big Winner Is Already Settled

Michael Winship: Banks and Congress Grapple with Stubborn, Stupid Facts

Ralph Nader: Obama Can Do More on Oil Prices

Jillian C. York and Trevor Timm: Surveillance Inc: How Western Tech Firms Are Helping Arab Dictators

Danny Schechter: Sweet Home Chicago: G8 Summit Moved but Protests Will Continue

John Nichols: Battling Big Money: Vermont Town Meetings Will Move to Amend

Michelle Chen: Student Labor Scandal Illuminates the Gray Market for Guestworkers

Jonathan Turley: So, Eric Holder, We Should Just Trust that the President Won’t Assassinate Us?

Brentin Mock: Five Million Voters May Lose Rights in the 2012 Elections

Eyal Press: Corporate Whistleblowers Get the Silent Treatment From Washington

Peter Dreier: Can Rush Keep It Up?

George Lakey: The More Violence, the Less Revolution

Monday March 5, 2012

Subhankar Banerjee: Shell Wants To Sail With A Record That Is Totally Stale

George Monbiot: How Ayn Rand Became the New Right’s Version of Marx

Chris Hedges: AIPAC Works for the 1 Percent

Jodi Jacobson: Your Body Under Arrest: Police in Riot Gear Remove Peaceful Women’s Rights Protestors in Virginia

Paul Buchheit: The Best Reason for the Very Rich to be Paying a Lot More in Taxes

Maria Tomchick: A Meltdown in Communication: Nuclear Disaster and Corporate Accountability

Tom Gallagher: War Crimes Hypocrisy

Karl Grossman: The Big Lie: One Year After Fukushima, Nuclear Cover Up Revealed

Ann Wright: Obama, the ‘Denier’ of Israel’s Crimes

Salena Tramel: Afghan Elders Describe Cruelest Winter in Charahi Qambar Camp

Stephan Salisbury: How to Fund an American Police State

Alda Sigmundsdóttir: The Trial of Iceland’s Prime Minister is About Democracy, Not Money

Jonathan Latham: Way Beyond Greenwashing: Have Corporations Captured “Big Conservation”?

Linh Dinh: Triage on Uncle Sam

Sunday March 4, 2012

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: Looking Catastrophe in the Eye

Jeff Goodell: Why Obama Is Wrong About Natural Gas

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Challenging the Self-Made Myth

Amanda Marcotte: Who, Me? Limbaugh Regrets Not Slurring American Women With a Better Euphemism for Slut

Gar Alperovitz: Our Co-Owned Future

Glenn Greenwald: Iran, Threats and the UN Charter

Saturday March 3, 2012

Amanda Marcotte: A Sex Ed 101 Curriculum for Conservatives

Richard Heinberg: $5 Gas, Iranian Poker, and the Peak of ‘Peak Oil’ Denial

Vanessa Baird: A World Declares: Put Equality First

Joel S. Hirschhorn: The Declining Influence of the US Constitution

Kai Wright: How a Racist Email Reveals the Grand Old Party Has Become a Petty Affair

César Chelala: What Greece Can Learn from Argentina

Roane Carey: Why Occupy AIPAC?

Winslow Myers: Syria and the UN

Mark Weisbrot: Do Environmentalists Have an Interest in Who Controls Oil Resources?

Noam Chomsky: What Are Iran’s Intentions?

Christopher Brauchli: The Death Penalty’s Effect on Decedent’s Reputation

Friday March 2, 2012

Matt Taibbi: Bank of America In Trouble?

Renee Parsons: AIPAC and the Senate’s Reckless Resolution

Subhankar Banerjee: How “Drill, Baby, Drill” and “Yes We Can” Got Married

Sarah Anderson: Crikey! Australia Shocks Corporate America on Trade

Mark Engler: Obama’s Broken Resolutions

Danny Schechter: Olympia Snowe and Andrew Breitbart: Is It The End of An Era?

Robert Reich: Bye Bye American Pie: The Challenge of the Productivity Revolution

Laura Flanders: Republic Windows Workers Consider Employee-Owned Co-Op

David Moberg: Hotel Workers Challenge Morality of Hyatt Owners: The Billionaire Pritzkers

Greg Kaufmann: Hunger—Where We Are, Where We Need to Be

Gary Younge: Affirmative Action and the Real Enemy of Education Equality

Jeffrey D. Sachs: A World Bank for a New World

Thursday March 1, 2012

Josh Golin and Susan Linn: Save the Lorax: Shun the Stuff

Peter Hart: Upping the Ante in Iran Propaganda

Robert C. Koehler: A Green Tree in Your Heart

Amy Goodman: Wikileaks vs. Stratfor: Pursue The Truth, Not Its Messenger

Michelle Chen: In All-India General Strike, Workers Go All Out Against Neoliberalism

John Buell: The Science and Ethics of Austerity: Lessons from the US and Europe

Naomi Wolf: The NDAA: A Clear and Present Danger to American Liberty

Immanuel Wallerstein: Higher Education Under Attack

Robert Naiman: On Iran Strike, Israelis Trust Obama Over Bibi

James Gustave Speth: America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part I

Deepa Panchang and Beverly Bell: Business as Government: Capitalizing on Disaster in Post-Earthquake Haiti

Laura Melendez-Pallitto and Robert Pallitto: Psychologists and Torture, Then and Now

Mark Weisbrot: Brazil Takes the Lead In Trying to Prevent Another Senseless War

Tom Engelhardt: US Media Loves War ‘Experts’ Who Always Get It Wrong

Sara Jerving and Harriet Rowan: Occupy Wall Street Outs ALEC Corporations

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