Stories by Joshua Holland
Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.
Newly elected politicians, swept into power power by insurgent Democratic voters, include a heavy contingent of economic populists. These new officials will stand up to bad trade policies and push legislation for America's working class. They'll face a tough fight.
Posted on Nov 1, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Bush's White House is going down in flames, and the Republican machine is doing everything it can to keep "conservatism" from burning along with it.
Posted on Oct 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet
As Iraq falls apart, rumors are flying that there will be a Bush-backed coup, an open three-sided civil war and a host of other nightmarish outcomes.
Posted on Oct 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The Bush administration has co-opted the compassionate language of debt relief to ensure that Big Oil gets its way in Iraq.
Posted on Oct 17, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Even as Iraq verges on splintering into a sectarian civil war, four big oil companies are on the verge of locking up its massive, profitable reserves, known to everyone in the petroleum industry as "the prize."
Posted on Oct 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet
At this point, the only people left who think that the U.S. must 'stay the course' in Iraq are Bush's neocons and al Qaeda.
Posted on Oct 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet
MoveOn.org's moneymaking prowess is scaring both the GOP and Vichy Democrats alike, and it's become a favorite target for the Right.
Posted on Oct 2, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Historian Greg Grandin explains how 'militant anti-Communists' in the Reagan administration developed the model for the Bush doctrine.
Posted on Sep 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet
If you paid close attention to the president's rambling discourse on the "War on Terror" on Monday evening, it was clear that he was promising even more "constructive" destruction to come.
Posted on Sep 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The threat posed by terrorists -- like that of the Soviet menace during the Cold War -- has been massively exaggerated, and the public is understandably terrified. It's time for Americans to get a grip.
Posted on Sep 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Bush administration hawks are getting profit-hungry companies like CACI to do their dirty work in the war zones of the New American Empire. And we're footing the bill.
Plus: links to related articles, including AlterNet's recent war profiteering coverage.
Posted on Sep 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The neocons who are pushing a Clash of Civilizations are mirror-images of the terrorists that inspire their hyperbolic fear -- they are just as irrational and just as great a threat to our security.
Posted on Sep 1, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Believe it or not, Hugo Chávez isn't the only politician in Venezuela, just the most popular. And as he runs for reelection this year, it's time to take a look at what's he done, not just what he's said.
Posted on Aug 10, 2006, Source: AlterNet
As the U.S. media distorts the aftermath of the July 2 election, evidence suggests there may be an attempted theft in progress.
Posted on Aug 2, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The president's plans to subject Iraq to the most radical forms of capitalism are as responsible as the war itself for the destruction of Iraq.
Posted on Jul 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet
If we don't challenge the 'war' narrative, the hawks may just get the existential Clash of Civilizations they've spent decades working for.
Posted on Jul 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Iraq's reconstruction has been a crude taxpayer rip-off -- and while $30 billion has been spent, only 30 percent of Iraqis are even aware of the rebuilding effort.
Posted on Jul 17, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Despite what you've been hearing in the mainstream media, nobody has won Mexico's presidential election yet.
Posted on Jul 10, 2006, Source: AlterNet
As we celebrate the Fourth, isn't it time to think about spreading some democracy here at home? Here's a not-so-modest proposal to start: abolish the concept of corporate 'personhood.'
Posted on Jul 3, 2006, Source: AlterNet
No electronic voting machines! Limits on negative campaigning! Best of all, George W. Bush hates the leading candidate.
Posted on Jun 28, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Economist Dean Baker lays waste to one of the most cherished myths of conservative philosophy.
Posted on Jun 8, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Even when you cut through the conspiracy theories about 9/11 and head straight for the facts, the government's version still seems fuzzy.
Posted on Jun 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A group of enraged Marines entered homes in the Iraqi town of Haditha and murdered their occupants, including children, in cold blood. And it's not an isolated incident.
Posted on May 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet
David Sirota discusses how Big Business is feeding the American public a pack of lies -- and why you should be good and angry about it.
Posted on May 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The official reasons the U.S. invaded Iraq don't hold water. So, as the man said, follow the money ... straight to the oil fields.
Posted on May 22, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Placing National Guard troops on the border could be a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. And that's just fine with the Bush administration.
Posted on May 18, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The Darfur peace deal signed with great fanfare on May 5 is likely to join the wreckage of dozens of other failed agreements that litter sub-Saharan Africa.
Posted on May 17, 2006, Source: AlterNet
America's foreign policy elite seems incapable of understanding the limited uses of hard power. Until they do, we'll continue to get into wars like Iraq -- over and over again.
Posted on May 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A vendor who voiced criticisms of Bush lost a lucrative government contract. And that's just the latest procurement scandal to surface on Bush's watch.
Posted on May 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The U.S. has pumped billions of dollars into beefing up security at the Mexican border -- resulting in more arrests and big profits for private contractors.
Posted on May 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Antonia Juhasz, author of 'The Bush Agenda,' explains what Bush really means when he says he wants to spread freedom around the world.
Posted on May 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet
If George Bush gets his way, the USA is going nuclear -- and he won't let a little thing like radioactive waste stand in his way.
Posted on May 2, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Bush's mangos for nukes deal with India is another step in the president's plan to save us from nuclear weapons by ditching the nonproliferation framework.
Posted on Apr 17, 2006, Source: AlterNet
On the right, the immigration debate is between fat-cat corporatists and slack-jawed nativists. Progressives can do better.
Posted on Apr 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet
How a seemingly noncontroversial academic paper set off a political firestorm within the foreign policy establishment.
Posted on Apr 4, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Three years after the U.S. invasion, a snapshot of Iraq reveals a country that is miles from anything resembling a 'road to progress.'
Posted on Mar 20, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Life for women in the American workplace is far from paradise -- they face economic punishment for almost every aspect of their biology.
Posted on Mar 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A new report nails down what we knew all along: If you're a guest on a TV talk show, you're probably a conservative.
Posted on Feb 24, 2006, Source: AlterNet
There's a much bigger truth we're missing, behind the (clearly true) cries of racism in the UAE ports controversy.
Posted on Feb 22, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Stalwart progressive and former NAACP chair Kweisi Mfume faces a tough challenge in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland, but don't count him out.
Posted on Feb 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet
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