Stories by Arianna Huffington
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This week, Tinsel Town has turned the spotlight on the importance of banning landmines, a move that would win foreign friends and save countless lives.
Posted on Mar 27, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Bush plans to significantly increase U.S. aid to poor nations over the next three years -- boosting the total foreign aid package 50 percent from $10 billion to $15 billion a year by 2006.
Posted on Mar 25, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Since political candidates long ago went Hollywood, and since Hollywood has now gone political, it's a perfect time for my annual political Oscars.
Posted on Mar 22, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Without real authority and a real department, Tom Ridge is destined to spend another six months choosing new "terror colors" for 2003 instead of making America safer.
Posted on Mar 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
It recently came to light that military contractor TRW faked the results of their "Star Wars" system tests. How many more failed tests will it take to prove that NMD won't work?
Posted on Mar 14, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Letterman and Koppel should do what all other industries are doing and merge. They could combine their award-winning programs and their complementary talents and take the new hybrid to another network.
Posted on Mar 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
With the Senate debating Bush's energy bill this week -- including the plans to drill in Alaska -- the old adage seems true: Oil is fair in love and ANWR.
Posted on Mar 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The war has moved into a new phase: Walker vs. Cheney. No, it's not John Walker and the War on Terrorism. It's David Walker and the War on the Public's Right to Know.
Posted on Feb 27, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Welcome to "W's Book Club," where once a month the 43rd president of the United States would invite four or five average Americans to join him in the White House dining room for a bite and a televised discussion with the author of some new book the First Lady or Karl Rove has taken a shine to.
Posted on Feb 25, 2002, Source: AlterNet
With Enron's stench growing more acrid each day, you'd think President Bush would avoid toadying to another deep-pocketed energy giant. Well, you'd be wrong.
Posted on Feb 21, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The flat-earth anti-condom chorus was in full cry last week after Secretary of State Colin Powell advised a worldwide audience to use condoms to protect yourself.
Posted on Feb 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Since the 1950s, American farmers have been fattening their cattle with growth hormones. Bush claims that this helps national security. Talk about chewing the fat...
Posted on Feb 14, 2002, Source: AlterNet
I've come to realize what a vital role programs like AmeriCorps can play in supporting the charitable efforts of those working in the trenches.
Posted on Feb 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
If the WEF meeting was supposed to be a venue for the "rich and powerful elite," why did I meet so many activists, social entrepreneurs and consumer advocates there?
Posted on Feb 4, 2002, Source: AlterNet
While Enron's collapse has renewed the call for campaign finance reform, it hasn't sent pols rushing to hand back checks from Enron.
Posted on Jan 28, 2002, Source: AlterNet
There must be a special Circle of Hell reserved for the perpetrators of the deliberate deception we now know Ken Lay and his cronies foisted on those who trusted them.
Posted on Jan 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Now that Enron has bombed Tora Bora off the front pages, Bush's language has gone all mushy, suddenly working from the Bill Clinton playbook on equivocation.
Posted on Jan 17, 2002, Source: AlterNet
A day after getting 14 Black Hawk combat choppers from the U.S. -- supposedly to fight the Drug War -- Colombia's president broke off peace talks with FARC rebels, pushing his country to the brink of war.
Posted on Jan 14, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Bush fought to convince us he was a new breed of conservative -- a Compassionate Conservative. But he is actually the standard bearer of a far more coldhearted breed. Call them the Enron Conservatives.
Posted on Jan 10, 2002, Source: AlterNet
To hear the pundits tell it, not since Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton and Franklin crossed quills at the Constitutional Convention have we seen such a confluence of greatness.
Posted on Jan 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
John Ashcroft: "I will start every day by reading the Bill of Rights." Osama bin Laden: "I will spend 2002 burning in hell." Tom Ridge: "I will stop scaring the bejeezus out of everyone."
Posted on Dec 31, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Where were all these guardians of the public interest when Enron's executives were playing fast and loose with the books while bilking employees and investors out of their life savings?
Posted on Dec 19, 2001, Source: AlterNet
From shark attacks to Al Gore's beard, 2001 has been a very weird year in American politics.
Posted on Dec 17, 2001, Source: OverthrowTheGov.com
In the great Capitol Hill tradition of giving bills grandiloquent names, the new education bill been christened the No Child Left Behind Act.
Posted on Dec 14, 2001, Source: OverthrowTheGov.com
Television ads feature excerpts from a rousing speech the president gave in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, intercut with shots of travel industry employees speaking the impassioned words along with him.
Posted on Dec 10, 2001, Source: OverthrowTheGov.com
What are we to make of John Walker, the 20-year-old All-American kid who turned Taliban warrior? Maybe that Bush's "us vs. them, evil vs. good" talk is only hollow rhetoric.
Posted on Dec 6, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The Enron debacle has exposed the dark side of capitalism -- and the unseemly link between money and political influence. Let's hope it also sheds a light on the desperate need for fundamental campaign finance reform.
Posted on Dec 3, 2001, Source: OverthrowTheGov.com
It will rather foolhardy to wage a war against terrorism if women, more than half of the population of Afghanistan, are not allowed to join the battle.
Posted on Nov 26, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Arianna Huffington, former owner of a Lincoln Navigator, argues that conserving energy resources now trumps owning a comfy Sherman tank.
Posted on Nov 14, 2001, Source: OverthrowTheGov.com
The so-called economic stimulus package that passed the House last week would have been scurrilous in times of prosperity. But in this time of national crisis it is, quite simply, grotesque.
Posted on Oct 31, 2001, Source: AlterNet
At a time when the public is hungering for greater perspective and deeper understanding, news coverage has grown narrow and repetitive.
Posted on Oct 26, 2001, Source: OverthrowTheGov.com
As polls are proving to be less reliable, our political leaders' continued reliance on them as their primary means of making policy decisions seems more and more ludicrous.
Posted on Oct 18, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Fears about biological warfare are breaking along gender lines.
Posted on Oct 10, 2001, Source: OverthrowTheGov.com
The Gospel of Normalcy is being preached from the bully pulpit as our leaders try to convince patriotic Americans to return as quickly as possible to their normal lives.
Posted on Oct 2, 2001, Source: OverthrowTheGov.com
Negative reaction to Bill Maher's recent statements proves that there is one front where it appears our enemies might be winning: the First Amendment.
Posted on Sep 24, 2001, Source: OverthrowTheGov.com
If counterterrorism had been an industry doling out large contributions to politicians on both sides of the aisle and hiring powerful Washington lobbyists to plead its case, our political leaders would have leapt into action.
Posted on Sep 20, 2001, Source: OverthrowTheGov.com
The First Amendment isn't a license to make billions, it's there to guarantee that the people are informed. In this, the media have failed and we all suffer.
Posted on Sep 13, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The White House has started a new arms race using old, Cold War logic.
Posted on Sep 6, 2001, Source: OverthrowTheGov.com
Last week's Political Hubris Trophy goes to the Bush White House for its high-handed -- and hamfisted -- actions on behalf of its paymasters in the Big Energy lobby.
Posted on Sep 4, 2001, Source: OverthrowTheGov.com
Count on Bush to read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" at every school visit. This unchanging routine confirms that he's the "The Very Uncurious President."
Posted on Aug 27, 2001, Source: OverthrowTheGov.com
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