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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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