Opinion 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 : Elizabeth Schulte 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 The supposed bomber of Pan Am Flight 103 was blackmailed by Scottish and British authorities so the case against him wouldn't be revealed as a fraud.
September 9, 2009 If there's any idea worth rethinking, it's Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's claim that our needs are best met through the unfettered free market.
September 3, 2009 Ted Kennedy is being remembered as a liberal stalwart--but also as a bipartisan dealmaker ready to set ideals aside. Those were always two sides of the same coin.
August 28, 2009 Something is missing from the new film Balibo about the 1975 genocide in East Timor--the scandalous role of the Australian government.
August 28, 2009
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