World Commentary

March 9, 2010

  1. Mullen Wary of Israeli Attack on Iran by Ray McGovern
  2. Exit Strategies for Afghanistan and Iraq by Tom Hayden
  3. America’s Locust Years by Bob Burnett

March 2, 2010

  1. America, the Fragile Empire by Niall Ferguson
  2. Cultural, Economic and Workforce Structures Help Reinforce U.S. Militarism by Lauri E. Kallio
  3. Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack Obama by Chris Hedges

February 23, 2010

  1. Yoo Called Civilian Slaughter OK by Jason Leopold
  2. NYT ‘Mystery’ Op-Ed Calls for More Afghan Civilian Deaths by Robert Naiman
  3. New Grist for Hype on Iran by Ray McGovern

February 18, 2010

  1. Lessons From Howard Zinn by Anthony Arnove
  2. America’s Global Weapons Monopoly by Frida Berrigan
  3. Answer to the People, Not Greedy Elites by Mark Weisbrot

February 9, 2010

  1. Prejudice and Principle Brew at Tea Party Meet by Ed Pilkington
  2. Hey Congress – Stand up to Wall Street! by Robert Reich
  3. The Terror-Industrial Complex by Chris Hedges

February 2, 2010

  1. Zinn’s Life Was a Testament to Possibility by James Carroll
  2. Howard Zinn: A Radical Treasure by Bob Herbert
  3. Why Does the US Turn a Blind Eye to Israeli Bulldozers? by Robert Fisk

January 26, 2010

  1. The Senator from Exxon-Mobil? by Bob Kerrey
  2. Time to Rein in Out-of-Control Corporate Influences on Our Democracy by Ralph Nader
  3. Campaign Finance Ruling Reflects Supreme Court’s Growing Audacity by Michael Waldman

January 20, 2010

  1. Is al-Qaeda Winning? by Marwan Bishara
  2. How Corporate Branding has Taken Over America by Naomi Klein
  3. Israel and Egypt continue to Squeeze the Lifeblood out of the People of Gaza by Ann Wright
  4. Why they are at war with us by Pat Buchanan

January 13, 2010

  1. Yemen: Another US Battleground? by Stephen Zunes
  2. The Fundamental Unreliablity of America’s Media by Glenn Greenwald
  3. Bring Back Glass-Steagall by Thomas Frank

January 4, 2010

  1. The Degrading Effects of Terrorism Fears by Glenn Greenwald
  2. Failed Air Security is But One of Several Fiascos by Haroon Siddiqui
  3. The Pictures of War You Aren’t Supposed to See by Chris Hedges

December 21, 2009

  1. Gaza Must Be Rebuilt Now by Jimmy Carter
  2. Tiger Woods, Person of the Year by Frank Rich
  3. The Truths Copenhagen Ignored by Johann Hari

December 15, 2009

  1. Iraq: The Crime of the Century by John Pilger
  2. Gravel’s Lament: Fighting Another Dumb War by Chris Hedges
  3. Obama’s Big Sellout by Matt Taibbi

December 3, 2009

  1. Inclusive Judaism is needed in Israel by Menachem Klein
  2. J Street and the Jewish tradition by Bernard Avishai
  3. A need to re-evaluate Jewish-Arab action and dialogue groups in Israel by Amal Abu Zeidan

November 18, 2009

  1. What can Palestinians learn from the American civil rights movement? Appealing to the Jewish conscience by Aziz Abu Sarah
  2. Open religious discourse can prevent a future Fort Hood by Asma Uddin
  3. Enemy-centric approach in Pakistan doesn’t work by Saira Yamin and Lisa Schirch
  4. Muslims Must Condemn Religious Extremists Sheila Musaji
  5. False Dictotomies by Lisa Miller

November 12, 2009

  1. Major Hasan and The Legacy of George W Bush by Thom Hartmann
  2. What Goldstone says about the US by Mark LeVine
  3. The Violence Within Is The Veteran Without by Matthis Chiroux
  4. US Is Doing No Good in Afghanistan by Malalai Joya
  5. Fort Hood Tragedy: What Muslims Know and what non-Muslims conveniently don’t by Robert Salaam
  6. Tampa police: Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist

October 26, 2009

  1. War Is a Hate Crime by Chris Hedges
  2. Americans Pull Strings in Afghan Election by Eric Margolis
  3. Beware a Times/Pentagon ‘Virtual Coup’ on Aghanistan by Harvey Wasserman

October 20, 2009

  1. Who’s Next? Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World by Tom Engelhardt
  2. Community Organiser-in-Chief: Barack Obama’s foreign policy potential by Daniel Noah Moses
  3. The Banks Are Not Alright by Paul Krugman

October 5, 2009

  1. West Needs to Strike a Grand Bargain With Iran by Haroon Siddiqui
  2. Iran, Israel, and the Muzzled US Press by Faramarz Farbod
  3. US-Iran: Geneva Talks Seen as Potential Breakthrough by Jim Lobe

September 8, 2009

  1. Healthcare vs. Warfare: The Future Costs of the Afghanistan War by Jeff Leys
  2. Caught in the Crossfire: The Forgotten Casualties of War in Afghanistan by Jon Boone in Lashkar Gah
  3. What Happened to Mohamed al-Hanashi? by Naomi Wolf
  4. Men with Guns, in Kabul and Washington by Norman Solomon

September 1, 2009

  1. The Woman Declaring War on Al Qaeda
  2. Dismissal over TV Show
  3. Winds of change in Turkish-Kurdish relations by Yigal Schleifer

August 17, 2009

  1. “Now Make Me Do It” by Ralph Nader
  2. Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal by Thom Hartmann
  3. If Obama Discards Public Option, What’s Left of Reform? by John Nichols

August 10, 2009

  1. Our Suicide Bombers: Thoughts on Western Jihad by John Feffer
  2. Inept at Both Killing and Coddling Terrorists by Haroon Siddiqui
  3. Declaring Victory, Going Home by Rory O’Connor

August 3, 2009

  1. Rewarding Bad Actors by Paul Krugman
  2. How Many Civilian Deaths are Acceptable? by Tom Hayden
  3. ‘Christians’ Wink at Torture by Ray McGovern

July 27, 2009

  1. The Big Lie of Afghanistan by Malalai Joya
  2. Iraq: Nightmare or New Democracy? by Adil E. Shamoo & Bonnie Bricker
  3. Marking When Bush Poodle Wagged UK Tail for War by Ray McGovern

July 20, 2009

  1. War Without Purpose by Chris Hedges
  2. Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise by Ira Chernus
  3. Back in the USA by Ralph Nader

July 13, 2009

  1. Obama’s “Secret” Record at Harvard Law School by Dr. Robert D. Crane
  2. Stop Bombing Us: Osama Isn’t Here, Says Pakistan by Christina Lamb
  3. Defending the Indefensible Settlements by Richard Silverstein

July 6, 2009

  1. What if the Uighurs were Christian Rather than Muslim? by Glenn Greenwald
  2. Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib… Bagram? by Ian Pannell
  3. Untold Truths About the American Revolution by Howard Zinn

June 30, 2009

  1. Between Pop Culture and Jihad: Muslim Youths in Germany
  2. How Do Women Influence Political Islam in Indonesia? by Susan Blackburn
  3. Iran and Leftist Confusion by Reese Erlich

June 22, 2009

  1. A Disgusting Fraud
  2. Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away by Chris Hedges
  3. Netanyahu’s ‘Brilliant’ Peace Plan: Maximum Land with Minimum Palestinians by Hasan Abu Nimah & Ali Abunimah

June 15, 2009

  1. A Divided Country United by the Spirit of Democracy by Robert Fisk
  2. Charisma and the Imperial Presidency by Tom Engelhardt
  3. Stay the Course by Paul Krugman

June 8, 2009

  1. Obama and Iran: New Hopes, Old Dangers by Faramarz Farbod
  2. We Wanted a World Leader. We Saw Only a US President by Ahdaf Soueif
  3. A Glimpse of Obama in a Cairo Emptied of Its People and Its Poor by Robert Fisk

June 1, 2009

  1. During His Trip to Egypt, Obama Should Visit Gaza by Medea Benjamin
  2. Israelis are shown a glimpse of the Nakba by Omar Karmi
  3. Some publics are open to a new approach in the Middle East by Clay Ramsay

May 26, 2009

  1. European Muslim women: against the odds by Amel Boubekeur
  2. “Eco-Islam” by Eren Güvercin

May 11, 2009

  1. Green Shoots? Don’t Speak Too Soon by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  2. Becoming What We Seek to Destroy by Chris Hedges
  3. Israel Knows That Peace Just Doesn’t Pay by Amira Hass

May 4, 2009

  1. US Soldiers in Afghanistan Told to “Hunt People for Jesus…” by Jeremy Scahill
  2. Right to the Very End in Iraq, Our Masters Denied Us the Truth by Robert Fisk
  3. Causes of the Crisis by James K. Galbraith

April 28, 2009

  1. Empire Foreclosed? by Mark Engler
  2. Waste Not, Want Not by Bill McKibben

April 13, 2009

  1. America’s Imperial Wars: We Need to See the Horrors by Dave Lindorff
  2. Still Waiting Obama and American Muslims By Nadia Hijab
  3. What It Would Take to Mend Fences with Islam By Patrick Cockburn

April 8, 2009

  1. Will Geithner Fire Corporate America? by Robert Reich
  2. A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion? by Dean Baker
  3. The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than We Thought by Jeffrey Sachs

March 31, 2009

  1. Obama’s Domino Theory by by Juan Cole
  2. Obstruction of Justice by Chris Hedges
  3. Debunking the Rationale for War in Afghanistan by Gareth Porter

March 16, 2009

  1. Red Cross Described ‘Torture’ at CIA Jails by Joby Warrick, Peter Finn and Julie Tate
  2. Is the Israel Lobby Running Scared? by Robert Dreyfuss
  3. US Could Use Crisis to Wage ‘Financial Warfare’ by Noah Shachtman

March 9, 2009

  1. Hillary in the Holy Land by Seth Freedman
  2. The Pakistani Monster by Wajahat Ali
  3. Challenging Economic Dogma by Mark Weisbrot

February 23, 2009

  1. A Choice Between Peace and Peril by Chris Hedges
  2. The Military’s Expanding Waistline by Pratap Chatterjee
  3. Which Capitalism Will It Be? by Benjamin R. Barber

February 17, 2009

  1. Driving Over the Cliff by Paul Craig Roberts
  2. The War on Terror is a Hoax by Paul Craig Roberts
  3. The Death of American Leadership by Paul Craig Roberts
Modified: March 9, 2010