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August 19 - 21, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
Rick Perry: One Lucky Son-of-a-Bitch

Michael Hudson
The Case Against Ratings Agencies

Vicente Navarro
Crisis and Class Struggle in the Eurozone

Uri Avnery
The Return of the Generals

Franklin Lamb
Waiting for the Endgame in Libya

Saul Landau
The Bush Legacy

Winslow T. Wheeler
Pentagon Chit-Chat With Leon and Hillary

David Rosen
The World According to Pastor Perry

Sally Eberhardt
The US Government Won't be Charged With Perjury Even When It's Caught in a Lie

Marshall Auerback
Deathwatch for the Euro?

Ramzy Baroud
US / Arab Disconnect

Dave Lindorff
Punishments Don't Fit the Crime

V. Noah Gimbel
Sketches of Spain in Revolt

Christopher Brauchli
Perry and the Politics of Evolution

Walter Brasch
Tea and Snake Oil

Missy Beattie
Dances With Vultures

David Ker Thomson
The Muckraker's Holiday

Rev. William E. Alberts
Lost in the Darkness of Their Own Light

Robert Bryce
Obama's Biofuels Insanity

Wayne Clark
Fightbacks at Home and Abroad

John Sinclair
Some Idiotic Shit: Scenes From the War on Marijuana

Dan Bacher
Wal-Marting the Oceans

Bruce E. Levine
The MIC at 50

Charles R. Larson
The Horrors of People Trafficking

Jeffrey St. Clair
Slipped Discs: Turner, Atzmon & Rich

David Yearsley
Music on the Campaign Trail

Poets' Basement
Three by David Moser

Website of the Weekend
Ray McGovern, Online

August 18, 2011

Conn Hallinan
Shadow Warriors

David Bromwich
The Saved and the Sacked

Mark Weisbrot
How the Economy Will Die

Franklin Lamb
Tripoli on the Cusp

Kenneth E. Hartman
Facebook Caves to the Prison-Industrial-Complex

Stewart J. Lawrence
The Caesar of Paint Creek, Texas: Perry and the Military

Dean Baker
Shorter Weeks, Longer Vacations

Thomas L. Knapp
The War on Free Speech

Website of the Day
Perry and the Environment

August 17, 2011

Gareth Porter
Veto Over the Drones

Benjamin Dangl
The Andean Connection

Ray McGovern
Tenet and 9/11: a Real Cover-Up?

Jeb Sprague
Wikileaks and Haiti: Ex-Paramilitaries Integrated Into Police Force

Alan Farago
Florida's Lethal Waters

Linh Dinh
Looting Frenzies

Binoy Kampmark
Is Britain Broken?

Thomas C. Mountain
Egypt's Secret Minister

Website of the Day
Another Serial Killer From Texas

August 16, 2011

Jean Bricmont /
Diana Johnstone
Who Will Save Libya From Its Western Saviours?

Andrew Levine
The Tax Question: What's Fair?

Christopher Hellman
The Pentagon's Wild Spending Spree

Michael Dickinson
From Brixton to Tottenham

Graham Usher
The UN's Dry Run on Palestinian Statehood

Thomas H. Naylor
Sisyphus on Wall Street

Binoy Kampmark
Turf Wars: Google, Motorola and Apple

Anthony Papa
Life Without Parole in Oklahoma: the Case of Larry Yarbrough

Kevin Carson
Corporations Are People? So Was Hitler

Daniel Weisman
Marijuana Down Under

Website of the Day
When Kathy Griffin Met Michelle Bachmann

August 15, 2011

Heather Gray
Michelle Bachmann's Crazy Ideas About Black Farmers

Tariq Ali
Pakistan at 64

Dean Baker
Obama's Political Economy

Michael Winship
Big Business Has Been Very Very Good to Mitt

Clancy Sigal
Cry Havoc and Let Slip: My Riotous Life

Gilad Atzmon
Mutiny in the Temples of Mammon

Tolu Olorunda
President Perry?

John Grant
The New Face of War

Roger Burbach
Chile at the Crossroads

David Michael Green
The Grubby Species

Ishmael Reed
A Fly on the Wall: Two Tea Baggers

Website of the Day
Jimmy Cliff: "Guns of Brixton"

August 12 - 14, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
Riots and the Underclass

Peter Linebaugh
A Nation of Shopkeepers

David McNeill /
Jake Adelstein
TEPCO's Darkest Secret

David Harvey
Feral Capitalism Hits the Streets

Franklin Lamb
NATO'S Massacre at Majer, Libya

Malini Johar Schueller
The Terror of Campus Security

Diana Gomez
Colombia's Disappeared: Five Years Demanding Justice for My Father

George Ciccariello-Maher
Planet of Slums, Age of Riots

Ed Emery
Empire vs. Multitude: Talking with Antonio Negri

Rónán MacDubhghaill
Japan's Silent Anger

Ramzy Baroud
From Gaza to Somalia

Jeff Sparrow
Fighting Back in London

Uri Avnery
The Poet of the Secret Police

Mark T. Harris
The Nostrum of "Shared Sacrifice"

Brian Cloughley
Targeting Pakistan and Its Army

Caroline Rooney
From Cairo to Tottenham: Riots, Revolutions and Big Societies

Ron Jacobs
London's Melted Furnace

Linn Washington, Jr.
Roots of the Riots

Saul Landau
Democratic Chutzpah

Paul Street
The Economics of Barack O'Hoover

Elizabeth Gould /
Paul Fitzgerald
9/11 and the American Mind

Jeff Klein
"Malefactors of Great Wealth"

Dean Baker
A Viable Jobs Policy

Steve Breyman
The Key to My Raise: Corporate U Marches On

David Rosen
Praying for Votes

David Macaray
Behind the Political Curtain: Labor, Obama and Philip Levine

Kevin Maciel
Whither British Journalism?

Missy Beattie
The Toll of Our Revenge

Brian Tierney
Verizon Workers Strike

David Swanson
The Divided Left

Joe Allen
Lucy the Red: the Leftist Roots of Lucille Ball

Phil Rockstroh
Life in an Age of Looting

Stephen Martin
Big Society Burning in Little Britain

Hugh Iglarsh
In Defense of Shyness

L.H. O'Connor
A Christian Looks at Christianity

Charles R. Larson
The Tensions of Not Knowing

Kim Nicolini
Mad Love in "A Streetcar Named Desire"

David Yearsley
Alchemy and Counterpoint

Poets' Basement
Sameer Bhat

Website of the Weekend
Then, Now, Tomorrow

August 11, 2011

Kathy Kelly
More Lost by the Second

Ashley Dawson
Policing the Crisis: the London Riots in Historical Perspective

Patrick Cockburn
Libya's Ragtag Rebels

Jeanne Mirer /
Marjorie Cohn
The Legal Duty to Create Jobs

Tom Engelhardt
The Pentagon's Fake Jihadists

Susan Galleymore
The Deep Cost of War Trauma

Alison Weir
The Israel Lobby's Return to Congress

Dan Bacher
Arnold's Environmental Legacy

Website of the Day
Where Have Libya's Children Gone?

August 10, 2011

Winslow T. Wheeler
Defense Budget Hysteria

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Burning Britain: Economic Conditions Driving Riot Fever

Carl Finamore
When is a Riot a Revolt?

Jeff Halper
The Tent Protests in Israel

Marjorie Cohn
50 Years of Agent Orange

Lawrence S. Wittner
How to Save a Quarter Trillion Dollars: Scrap Nuclear Weapons "Modernization"

Dean Baker
The Failed Dogma of the ECB

Brian J. Trautman
Wall Street, Main Street and the Debt Deal

Website of the Day
Darcus Howe on the London Riots

August 9, 2011

Franklin Spinney
Americans Have the Clock, But the Taliban Have the Time

Paul Craig Roberts
The S&P Downgrade: What It Really Means

Hal Austin
London's Burning: Inside the Tottenham Uprising

Mike Whitney
Swan Song for the Euro

Barbara Ehrenreich
Turning Poverty Into an American Crime

Brian L. Horejsi
Obama and the Tar Sands Pipeline

Vijay Prashad
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Goes to Israel

Ralph Nader
Throwing America Overboard

Mats Svensson
Muhammad's Story: "Recently I Was Someone, Now I'm Nobody"

Thomas C. Mountain
An Island in the Famine

Charles R. Larson
Robbing the Poor to Pay the Rich

Website of the Day
Bibi, Shake-Shake

August 8, 2011

Pam Martens
The Real Strauss-Kahn Story Back at the New York Times: Unreliable Sources, Faulty Facts

Patrick Cockburn
Bahrain: the Divided Kingdom

Marshall Auerback
The S&P's Coup

Mark Weisbrot
The Economy Wreckers

Ray McGovern
They Died in Vain (Deal With It)

Michael Winship
The Bullies and the Accomodator: a New Era of Hostage Politics

Franklin Lamb
Where Have Libya's Children Gone?

Mitu Sengupta
India's "World Class" Heist

Steve Early
Obama's Gift to Verizon

Martha Rosenberg
Pimping Alcoholics

Joe Giambrone
Go Apes!

Website of the Day
Worst Professor Ever

August 5 - 7, 2011

Alexander Cockburn
Ready to Vote for Mitt Romney?

John R. MacArthur
The Deindustrial-ization of America

Gar Alperovitz
The Decision to Bomb Hiroshima

Uri Avnery
"How Goodly Are Thy Tents?"

Linh Dinh
Shop and Shoot America

Ed Kinane
A City of Sandbags and Armed Men

Mark Weisbrot
The Crisis That Wasn't

Conn Hallinan
Peddling Foolishness on Afghanistan

Saul Landau
The Good, the Bad and the Crazy

John Sinclair
Drug War: the Asset Seizure Scam

Curtis Doebbler
Horror of Horrors

Ramzy Baroud
Competing Storylines in Syria

Paul Street
Empire and Inequality Win Again

Mark Schuller /
Mark Snyder
In Haiti, Inaction Speaks Louder Than Words

Ron Jacobs
Empire of the Mind

Jim Rigby
Five Scriptures You Won't Hear About at Rick Perry's Prayer Fest

Robert Hunziker
Capitalism at the Guillotine

Christopher Brauchli
Women and the Papacy

Michael Dickinson
The Hunger Strike in Westminster Square

Steve Breyman
SPINning the Syrian Protests

Jeff Armstrong
Why is Leonard Peltier in Solitary?

Binoy Kampmark
Mubarak on Trial

Missy Beattie
In the Ground

Phil Rockstroh
"We Would Rather Die in Our Dread"

Thomas L. Knapp
The State vs. Anarchists

Dan Bacher
Pumping the Delta Dry: How Water Exports Kill Fish

Walter Brasch
Personalizing the Debt Limit

Ronnie Cummins
Your Whole Paycheck for Organic Foods?

Harvey Wasserman
Green Music Confronts Nuclear Power, Again

John Eskow
We Should Not Eat the Poor!

Brian J. Foley
Why We Hate Illegal Immigrants

Chuck Larson
Bangladesh's Troubled Birth

David Yearsley
The Debt Cantata

Poets' Basement
LaMorticella & Lee

Website of the Weekend
How Safe is Your Soil?

August 4, 2011

James Kilgore
The New Operation Wetback: Immigration and Mass Incarceration in the Obama Era

Nick Turse
The Pentagon's New Power Elite: a Secret War in 120 Countries

Felice Pace
Disaster Politics: Why Obama Played the Tea Party Game

Pierre Piccinin
The Hama Affair: a Report From Syria

Charles M. Young
Locking Up the Innocent

Ralph Nader
Casting Aside Elizabeth Warren

Ray McGovern
A Judas Kiss to the Poor

Eric Toussaint /
Daniel Munevar
The Change That Didn't Happen

Jordan Flaherty
Danziger Bridge: the Jury's Turn

Website of the Day
Rogue Classicism

August 3, 2011

Michael Hudson
War and Debt

Ralph Nader
When Fanatics Don't Blink

Patrick Cockburn
Pogroms and Purges in Bahrain

Medea Benjamin /
Charles Davis
Enormous Defense Cuts?

Israel Shamir
The Mass Murderer's Manifesto" Breivik's "2083"

Michael Uhl
Agent Orange Relief for Vietnam?

Russell Mokhiber
The Wealthiest Prisoner in America?

David Macaray
Age Discrimination and Nashville

Karl Grossman
NASA's Solar Probe

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Samovar Wins the Summer War

Website of the Day
"Every Sperm is Sacred"

August 2, 2011

Vijay Prashad
Primary Lessons

Andrew Levine
Obama Surrendered (But Got What He Wanted Too)

Winslow T. Wheeler
Defense Spending and the Debt Deal

Patrick Bond
Leaving Oil in the Soil: From Durban to the Amazon

Franklin Lamb
End Game for Benghazi Rebels as Libyan Tribes Prepare to Weigh In?

Thomas Mountain
World Food Program in Somalia: Angel of Mercy or Angel of Death?

Alexandra Robinson
Gaza's Tunnels: an Inside Perspective

Tom Engelhardt
What About the War Ceiling?

James Gundun
Evicting Yemen's Drone Base

George H. Strauss
Beyond the Debt and Deficit Fixation

Website of the Day
Careless George (Monbiot)

 

August 1, 2011

Mike Whitney
The Worst Deal in American History?

Paul Craig Roberts
The Road to Armageddon

Patrick Cockburn
Why the West is Committed to the Murderous Rebels in Libya

Dave Lindorff
Manufacturing a Double-Dip

Steve Breyman
Unplug Your TV: Help End Nuclear Power

Deepak Tripathi
The Libyan Fiasco

Richard Pithouse
No Easy Path Through the Embers

Michael Brenner
The Sabre-Rattlers: Petraeus and Clinton

J.E. Hamilton
Spain: "Listen Up, Europe ... This is Our Fight"

Kollibri terre Sonnenblume
Who Will Feed the People? Obstacles to Small-Scale Farming in the US

Binoy Kampmark
Rome According to Hughes

Website of the Day
Water and the West Bank