Opinion

  • The Obama administration put bankers' bailouts and more spending on the Pentagon before coming to grips with unemployment. November 18, 2009

  • We live in a society where there are more regulations for euthanizing animals than there are for executing human beings. November 18, 2009

  • Those in Britain who talk the most about honoring the war dead are keenest when it comes to keeping a flow of dead coming in from new wars. November 16, 2009

  • At a fancy gala thrown by the Harlem Success Academy, I heard charter school supporters use the legacy of civil rights struggles to sell privatization. November 13, 2009

  • There are two wrong interpretations of the November 3 election results circulating in the political establishment and among its chatterers. November 6, 2009

  • Thirty years after he visited Pol Pot's Cambodia, John Pilger describes the holocaust he witnessed there. November 5, 2009

  • The Democrats' proposal for a "public option" is so scaled back that it's barely public--and it can hardly be called much of an option. November 3, 2009

  • There must be millions who managed to forget about Tony Blair for the last two years, and now this dreadful man might be ruling us again? November 2, 2009

  • A study on female 'happiness' is being used to fuel claims--once again--that the women's movement of the 1960s and '70s made life worse for women. October 28, 2009

  • The struggle of postal workers in Britain is as vital for democracy as any event to take place in the country in recent years. October 27, 2009

  • The insurance companies are attacking health care legislation, but their recently issued report shows how they will try to profit off reform. October 22, 2009

  • The National Equality March was a powerful call for LGBT equality--and an inspiring glimpse of what futures struggles against injustice can be. October 21, 2009

  • For some reason, it seems like the idea of "shared sacrifice" only applies to one side in society's divide between rich and poor. October 21, 2009

  • Eight years into the war seems like a peculiar time for some activists to claim that the U.S. needs to stay longer for the good of the Afghan people. October 20, 2009

  • Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his already impressive record. October 20, 2009

  • The National Equality March in Washington represents a renewal of the kind of activism that's needed on many other issues. October 9, 2009

  • Like the 19th century railroad barons who built their fortunes from the public trough, the health care lobbies can spot a bonanza in the making. October 8, 2009

  • Britain's Gordon Brown could learn from the Iranian government that there's a simple way to ensure the U.S. will never ignore him again. October 7, 2009

  • The manufactured crisis over Iran's supposed "nuclear capabilities" has echoes of the U.S. case for invading Iraq in 2003. October 5, 2009

  • The leaders of the Group of 20 are meeting in Pittsburgh for an economic summit that will be an exercise in cheap political theater. September 25, 2009

  • More than the fake expenses of MPs, the trivializing of life and death when it comes to Afghanistan marks the fitting end to the "modernized" Labour Party. September 22, 2009

  • The best opposition to racism comes when communities refuse to be intimidated--like when 2,000 people turned out to block the far right from marching on a mosque. September 21, 2009

  • Barack Obama's speech to Congress seemed to help him regain momentum on health care legislation. The question is whether that is a good thing. September 16, 2009

  • The number of Polish immigrants in Britain is falling, but that hasn't made a dent in prejudice against Poles. September 11, 2009

  • Barack Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan has parallels with a previous U.S. war that raise the question: Is this Obama's Vietnam? September 9, 2009