Stories by Joshua Holland
Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet. He is the author of The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy: And Everything else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know About Taxes, Jobs and Corporate America. Drop him an email or follow him on Twitter.
Posted on Jan 29, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Police once again ratcheted up the tension by using force against an entire crowd of protesters.
Posted on Jan 26, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Just because some of its wheels have come flying off, that doesn't mean the GOP clown car isn't still moving down the road toward Election Day.
Posted on Jan 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet
If Gingrich does manage to pull off an unlikely victory, it will be the result of running a picture-perfect right-populist campaign.
Posted on Jan 18, 2012, Source: AlterNet
At Bain Capital, Romney used the tax code to redistribute wealth from taxpayers to his investors and partners.
Posted on Jan 13, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Many believe the 20th century represents the pinnacle of human violence, but psychologist Steven Pinker argues that the opposite is true.
Posted on Dec 25, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Tea Partiers, freaking out about "Agenda 21" and convinced global warming isn't real, are gumming up the works for those trying to save the planet.
Posted on Dec 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet
PolitiFact clearly chose the claim to avoid charges that it holds a liberal or Democratic bias.
Posted on Dec 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The right seems to offer up a new trumped-up pseudo-scandal every week. Here are ten of our favorites from the year past.
Posted on Dec 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Will a recent attack on progressive journalists help spark a sea-change in the debate over Middle East policy?
Posted on Dec 12, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Around the country, Occupy activists moved to block ports, halting shipping and making their power felt among the 1%.
Posted on Dec 7, 2011, Source: AlterNet
In a textbook example of psychological projection, John Carney calls me a liar.
Posted on Dec 7, 2011, Source: AlterNet
They're highly educated, skew Republican, and look up at the top tenth of the top 1 percent with envy.
Posted on Dec 4, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Home loans didn't bring on the recession; gimmicky financial instruments bloated to 100 times their value are what caused all this pain.
Posted on Dec 2, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Wolf wants to have a wide-ranging discussion of everything but her many logical leaps and factual errors.
Posted on Dec 1, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Activists are standing up and fighting to keep foreclosed families in their homes.
Posted on Nov 29, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Cities are cutting back on vitally needed social services, while at the same time, buying expensive military gear for their police departments.
Posted on Nov 26, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Naomi Wolf's latest theory veers wildly from the known facts.
Posted on Nov 23, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Occupiers could direct their energy not only at Wall Street, but also at its enablers, in Congress, and ultimately, at the high court.
Posted on Nov 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Probably 97 percent of police act professionally toward protesters. But the other 3 percent are armed and dangerous, and know that they're unlikely to be held accountable.
Posted on Nov 17, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Americans have a long tradition of holding protesters in disdain, even when they are later proven to be on the right side of history.
Posted on Nov 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet
There's a lot of speculation, but very little substance to the tale of the "nationwide" crackdown on the Occupy movement.
Posted on Nov 15, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The suit is an attempt to compel Oakland police to follow their own crowd control guidelines.
Posted on Nov 14, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Unlike previous nights, city officials managed to clear out Occupy Oakland's encampment without any brutality--and the protesters are already headed back.
Posted on Nov 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Oakland officials are gearing up for another crackdown on the Occupy Oakland camp, justified in part by recent acts of vandalism by people who may not even be part of the movement.
Posted on Nov 9, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Oakland police appear to have violated their own guidelines, and now they're refusing to release documents to civil rights attorneys as required by law.
Posted on Nov 7, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Those gunning for Social Security are already using the study to divide the "other 99 percent."
Posted on Nov 2, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Calling the protests a "general strike" resulted in an unbelievable amount of media coverage -- a victory for the Occupy movement.
Posted on Nov 1, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Today, Occupy Oakland may just pull off a feat that appeared all but impossible a few days ago. If they do, it will represent a dramatic escalation of the movement's tactics.
Posted on Oct 27, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Despite the police's inept, violent crowd control tactics, a number of protesters said they were steadfast in their goal of reclaiming the space.
Posted on Oct 26, 2011, Source: AlterNet
In just one month, the protesters have shifted the national dialogue from a relentless focus on the deficit to a discussion of the real issues facing Main Street.
Posted on Oct 24, 2011, Source: AlterNet
From the Middle East to midtown Manhattan, the humble cellphone camera is changing the way we view dissent.
Posted on Oct 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet
If you've wondered what Occupy Wall Street was all about, these powerful messages should help clarify what's driving the movement.
Posted on Oct 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet
We've ranked the banks based on how shamelessly they game the political process through lobbying, revolving door politics and campaign donations.
Posted on Oct 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Many of those detained won't face charges, but the arrests take them off the streets.
Posted on Oct 15, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The Right's response offers us a microcosmic view of everything that's wrong with conservative discourse these days.
Posted on Oct 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The right has been working for years to rig the market to the disadvantage of most of the population. Why can't we rig it in the other direction?
Posted on Oct 5, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The Occupy Wall Street movement is out to focus the nation's attention on decades of increasing inequality.
Posted on Oct 4, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Their style may not have been as mainstream as the retirees attending a Glenn Beck rally, but they knew precisely what they were there for.
Posted on Sep 29, 2011, Source: AlterNet
It's important to remember that we are talking about people opposing core civil rights for American citizens.
Posted on Sep 26, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The theology embraced by American religious conservatives may render them immune to evidence and reason when it comes to economic management.
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