World Commentary
March 9, 2010
- Mullen Wary of Israeli Attack on Iran by Ray McGovern
- Exit Strategies for Afghanistan and Iraq by Tom Hayden
- America’s Locust Years by Bob Burnett
March 2, 2010
- America, the Fragile Empire by Niall Ferguson
- Cultural, Economic and Workforce Structures Help Reinforce U.S. Militarism by Lauri E. Kallio
- Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack Obama by Chris Hedges
February 23, 2010
- Yoo Called Civilian Slaughter OK by Jason Leopold
- NYT ‘Mystery’ Op-Ed Calls for More Afghan Civilian Deaths by Robert Naiman
- New Grist for Hype on Iran by Ray McGovern
February 18, 2010
- Lessons From Howard Zinn by Anthony Arnove
- America’s Global Weapons Monopoly by Frida Berrigan
- Answer to the People, Not Greedy Elites by Mark Weisbrot
February 9, 2010
- Prejudice and Principle Brew at Tea Party Meet by Ed Pilkington
- Hey Congress – Stand up to Wall Street! by Robert Reich
- The Terror-Industrial Complex by Chris Hedges
February 2, 2010
- Zinn’s Life Was a Testament to Possibility by James Carroll
- Howard Zinn: A Radical Treasure by Bob Herbert
- Why Does the US Turn a Blind Eye to Israeli Bulldozers? by Robert Fisk
January 26, 2010
- The Senator from Exxon-Mobil? by Bob Kerrey
- Time to Rein in Out-of-Control Corporate Influences on Our Democracy by Ralph Nader
- Campaign Finance Ruling Reflects Supreme Court’s Growing Audacity by Michael Waldman
January 20, 2010
- Is al-Qaeda Winning? by Marwan Bishara
- How Corporate Branding has Taken Over America by Naomi Klein
- Israel and Egypt continue to Squeeze the Lifeblood out of the People of Gaza by Ann Wright
- Why they are at war with us by Pat Buchanan
January 13, 2010
- Yemen: Another US Battleground? by Stephen Zunes
- The Fundamental Unreliablity of America’s Media by Glenn Greenwald
- Bring Back Glass-Steagall by Thomas Frank
January 4, 2010
- The Degrading Effects of Terrorism Fears by Glenn Greenwald
- Failed Air Security is But One of Several Fiascos by Haroon Siddiqui
- The Pictures of War You Aren’t Supposed to See by Chris Hedges
December 21, 2009
- Gaza Must Be Rebuilt Now by Jimmy Carter
- Tiger Woods, Person of the Year by Frank Rich
- The Truths Copenhagen Ignored by Johann Hari
December 15, 2009
- Iraq: The Crime of the Century by John Pilger
- Gravel’s Lament: Fighting Another Dumb War by Chris Hedges
- Obama’s Big Sellout by Matt Taibbi
December 3, 2009
- Inclusive Judaism is needed in Israel by Menachem Klein
- J Street and the Jewish tradition by Bernard Avishai
- A need to re-evaluate Jewish-Arab action and dialogue groups in Israel by Amal Abu Zeidan
November 18, 2009
- What can Palestinians learn from the American civil rights movement? Appealing to the Jewish conscience by Aziz Abu Sarah
- Open religious discourse can prevent a future Fort Hood by Asma Uddin
- Enemy-centric approach in Pakistan doesn’t work by Saira Yamin and Lisa Schirch
- Muslims Must Condemn Religious Extremists Sheila Musaji
- False Dictotomies by Lisa Miller
November 12, 2009
- Major Hasan and The Legacy of George W Bush by Thom Hartmann
- What Goldstone says about the US by Mark LeVine
- The Violence Within Is The Veteran Without by Matthis Chiroux
- US Is Doing No Good in Afghanistan by Malalai Joya
- Fort Hood Tragedy: What Muslims Know and what non-Muslims conveniently don’t by Robert Salaam
- Tampa police: Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist
October 26, 2009
- War Is a Hate Crime by Chris Hedges
- Americans Pull Strings in Afghan Election by Eric Margolis
- Beware a Times/Pentagon ‘Virtual Coup’ on Aghanistan by Harvey Wasserman
October 20, 2009
- Who’s Next? Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World by Tom Engelhardt
- Community Organiser-in-Chief: Barack Obama’s foreign policy potential by Daniel Noah Moses
- The Banks Are Not Alright by Paul Krugman
October 5, 2009
- West Needs to Strike a Grand Bargain With Iran by Haroon Siddiqui
- Iran, Israel, and the Muzzled US Press by Faramarz Farbod
- US-Iran: Geneva Talks Seen as Potential Breakthrough by Jim Lobe
September 8, 2009
- Healthcare vs. Warfare: The Future Costs of the Afghanistan War by Jeff Leys
- Caught in the Crossfire: The Forgotten Casualties of War in Afghanistan by Jon Boone in Lashkar Gah
- What Happened to Mohamed al-Hanashi? by Naomi Wolf
- Men with Guns, in Kabul and Washington by Norman Solomon
September 1, 2009
- The Woman Declaring War on Al Qaeda
- Dismissal over TV Show
- Winds of change in Turkish-Kurdish relations by Yigal Schleifer
August 17, 2009
- “Now Make Me Do It” by Ralph Nader
- Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal by Thom Hartmann
- If Obama Discards Public Option, What’s Left of Reform? by John Nichols
August 10, 2009
- Our Suicide Bombers: Thoughts on Western Jihad by John Feffer
- Inept at Both Killing and Coddling Terrorists by Haroon Siddiqui
- Declaring Victory, Going Home by Rory O’Connor
August 3, 2009
- Rewarding Bad Actors by Paul Krugman
- How Many Civilian Deaths are Acceptable? by Tom Hayden
- ‘Christians’ Wink at Torture by Ray McGovern
July 27, 2009
- The Big Lie of Afghanistan by Malalai Joya
- Iraq: Nightmare or New Democracy? by Adil E. Shamoo & Bonnie Bricker
- Marking When Bush Poodle Wagged UK Tail for War by Ray McGovern
July 20, 2009
- War Without Purpose by Chris Hedges
- Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise by Ira Chernus
- Back in the USA by Ralph Nader
July 13, 2009
- Obama’s “Secret” Record at Harvard Law School by Dr. Robert D. Crane
- Stop Bombing Us: Osama Isn’t Here, Says Pakistan by Christina Lamb
- Defending the Indefensible Settlements by Richard Silverstein
July 6, 2009
- What if the Uighurs were Christian Rather than Muslim? by Glenn Greenwald
- Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib… Bagram? by Ian Pannell
- Untold Truths About the American Revolution by Howard Zinn
June 30, 2009
- Between Pop Culture and Jihad: Muslim Youths in Germany
- How Do Women Influence Political Islam in Indonesia? by Susan Blackburn
- Iran and Leftist Confusion by Reese Erlich
June 22, 2009
- A Disgusting Fraud
- Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away by Chris Hedges
- Netanyahu’s ‘Brilliant’ Peace Plan: Maximum Land with Minimum Palestinians by Hasan Abu Nimah & Ali Abunimah
June 15, 2009
- A Divided Country United by the Spirit of Democracy by Robert Fisk
- Charisma and the Imperial Presidency by Tom Engelhardt
- Stay the Course by Paul Krugman
June 8, 2009
- Obama and Iran: New Hopes, Old Dangers by Faramarz Farbod
- We Wanted a World Leader. We Saw Only a US President by Ahdaf Soueif
- A Glimpse of Obama in a Cairo Emptied of Its People and Its Poor by Robert Fisk
June 1, 2009
- During His Trip to Egypt, Obama Should Visit Gaza by Medea Benjamin
- Israelis are shown a glimpse of the Nakba by Omar Karmi
- Some publics are open to a new approach in the Middle East by Clay Ramsay
May 26, 2009
- European Muslim women: against the odds by Amel Boubekeur
- “Eco-Islam” by Eren Güvercin
May 11, 2009
- Green Shoots? Don’t Speak Too Soon by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Becoming What We Seek to Destroy by Chris Hedges
- Israel Knows That Peace Just Doesn’t Pay by Amira Hass
May 4, 2009
- US Soldiers in Afghanistan Told to “Hunt People for Jesus…” by Jeremy Scahill
- Right to the Very End in Iraq, Our Masters Denied Us the Truth by Robert Fisk
- Causes of the Crisis by James K. Galbraith
April 28, 2009
- Empire Foreclosed? by Mark Engler
- Waste Not, Want Not by Bill McKibben
April 13, 2009
- America’s Imperial Wars: We Need to See the Horrors by Dave Lindorff
- Still Waiting Obama and American Muslims By Nadia Hijab
- What It Would Take to Mend Fences with Islam By Patrick Cockburn
April 8, 2009
- Will Geithner Fire Corporate America? by Robert Reich
- A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion? by Dean Baker
- The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than We Thought by Jeffrey Sachs
March 31, 2009
- Obama’s Domino Theory by by Juan Cole
- Obstruction of Justice by Chris Hedges
- Debunking the Rationale for War in Afghanistan by Gareth Porter
March 16, 2009
- Red Cross Described ‘Torture’ at CIA Jails by Joby Warrick, Peter Finn and Julie Tate
- Is the Israel Lobby Running Scared? by Robert Dreyfuss
- US Could Use Crisis to Wage ‘Financial Warfare’ by Noah Shachtman
March 9, 2009
- Hillary in the Holy Land by Seth Freedman
- The Pakistani Monster by Wajahat Ali
- Challenging Economic Dogma by Mark Weisbrot
February 23, 2009
- A Choice Between Peace and Peril by Chris Hedges
- The Military’s Expanding Waistline by Pratap Chatterjee
- Which Capitalism Will It Be? by Benjamin R. Barber
February 17, 2009
- Driving Over the Cliff by Paul Craig Roberts
- The War on Terror is a Hoax by Paul Craig Roberts
- The Death of American Leadership by Paul Craig Roberts



