Stories by Joshua Holland
Joshua Holland is an AlterNet staff writer.
You don't need a crystal ball -- history is repeating itself.
Posted on Oct 7, 2008
Experts discuss the politics of the bailout's defeat in the House, the fundamentals of the plan and where we might go from here.
Posted on Oct 1, 2008
Their revolt was anything but an act of courage to protect American families.
Posted on Sep 30, 2008
It would keep families in their homes and loosen credit markets without rewarding Wall Street's wheeler-dealers for their recklessness.
Posted on Sep 28, 2008
It's 'empire spending,' not 'defense spending.'
Posted on Sep 26, 2008
Bush wants to fleece us for hundreds of billions in the financial crisis, but that's just the first layer of a more fundamental economic problem.
Posted on Sep 22, 2008
If you've been on an emotional roller coaster, you might want to disembark.
Posted on Sep 20, 2008
McCain's plan makes little sense until one grasps that it's designed to improve Corporate America's bottom line rather than Americans' health.
Posted on Sep 17, 2008
Americans are ready for deep and substantive change -- will Obama deliver what they seek?
Posted on Sep 13, 2008
A poll of 16,000 people in 17 countries reveals the damage done to the credibility of the United States by the Bush administration.
Posted on Sep 11, 2008
Even though Obama says he'll cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans, Gallup records 53 percent thinking he'll raise them.
Posted on Aug 26, 2008
But his overall record is a mixed-bag for progressives.
Posted on Aug 23, 2008
Big business has prepared a war chest of at least $150 million to stop progressive economic legislation that would seriously tax the rich.
Posted on Aug 8, 2008
Officially, "stagflation" is a thing of the past, but a deeper look reveals a different, very painful reality for most Americans.
Posted on Jul 31, 2008
Cusack's anti-war polemic,
War, Inc., continues to defy expectations, despite the traditional media's dismissive reception.
Posted on Jul 12, 2008
Progressive immigration reformers need to do a better job framing their proposals.
Posted on Jul 7, 2008
Redefining the word "immigrant" is an attempt to differentiate between those they hate and their own grandparents.
Posted on Jun 2, 2008
The idea that the government isn't trying to enforce its immigration laws is hogwash -- the problem is that it's all it's doing.
Posted on May 22, 2008
Forced drugging. Abuse. Death. That's what workplace-based immigration enforcement without deeper reform looks like.
Posted on May 21, 2008
An interview with Cusack about his latest film,
War Inc., which takes the outsourcing of military operations to the absurd.
Posted on May 19, 2008
Tough-minded immigration policies keep backfiring, and the debate over them obscures the question of what really works and what doesn't.
Posted on May 13, 2008
A perfect example of short-sighted public policy.
Posted on May 6, 2008
We must focus on the unregulated and substandard jobs that migrant workers fill, rather than on the individuals who work them.
Posted on May 1, 2008
What separates Carter from the neocons is his genuine desire to negotiate a Middle East peace settlement, and that means talking to everyone.
Posted on Apr 21, 2008
Using a mixture of cultural ignorance, incompetence and a touch of cronyism, the U.S has turned a patriotic nation against itself.
Posted on Apr 15, 2008
The two Dems lie every time they discuss Iraq on the campaign trail, but the media refuse to call them on it.
Posted on Apr 5, 2008
The traditional media is incapable of reporting what's going on in Southern Iraq.
Posted on Mar 27, 2008
The death of the 4,000th U.S. soldier in an IED attack on Sunday is big news, but what does it tell us?
Posted on Mar 24, 2008
A reluctant Guantanamo Bay jailer, who found himself working in that "legal black hole" at age 19, tells his shocking story.
Posted on Mar 18, 2008
Vets from Iraq and Afghanistan tell their stories. (With a guide to AlterNet's comprehensive Winter Soldier coverage.)
Posted on Mar 17, 2008
Apparently, they're a couple of decades behind the "liberal" West, and not so stuck after all.
Posted on Mar 8, 2008
It's easy to forget that the road to Guantánamo began in places like Kandahar and Jalalabad.
Posted on Feb 26, 2008
Ralph's no spoiler, but this is not the time for third-party runs.
Posted on Feb 25, 2008
Clinton offers centrist fixes for our economic problems, but they go a long way toward helping the middle class.
Posted on Feb 19, 2008
Once you crack the media myths surrounding him, it's unlikely voters are going to go for an angry, unstable, hypocritical warmonger.
Posted on Feb 4, 2008
Little evidence Clinton's tears changed voters' minds.
Posted on Jan 9, 2008
Flowery talk of hope and reconciliation has enormous appeal, but what we need is a fighter.
Posted on Jan 7, 2008
The rhetoric sounds much the same, but there are real differences in policy.
Posted on Jan 3, 2008
A majority of Iraqi lawmakers say renewal requests not ratified by the parliament are illegal.
Posted on Dec 20, 2007
Forty years after the Civil Rights Era, African-Americans are falling further behind whites economically.
Posted on Dec 17, 2007
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