Stories by Joshua Holland
Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.
State of the Union -- Bush's address laid it all out in the open: His presidency is finished.
Posted on Feb 1, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The presidency of Evo Morales marks the end of five centuries of a Bolivian-style apartheid.
Posted on Jan 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A card-carrying lefty reviews former Clinton advisor Gene Sperling's new book on what makes for 'progressive' economic policy.
Posted on Jan 17, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The Abramoff scandal gives the grassroots a chance to push for changing the way government works.
Posted on Jan 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Why are folks so pessimistic about our boom-boom American economy? Because for most of us, it's painful to live in.
Posted on Jan 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Responses to the comments and emails from coverage of the WTO ministerial meetings in Hong Kong.
Posted on Dec 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
We've got to face the fact that the neoliberal economic model has been underwriting conflicts all over the planet.
Posted on Dec 20, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Live reports from the World Trade Organization Ministerial meetings in Hong Kong.
Posted on Dec 15, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The focus of the Hong Kong round for rich western nations is to squeeze every drop of money they can by privatizing public services. When it comes to water systems, that can be deadly.
Posted on Dec 15, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The latest: Ending on the wrong note -- From Deborah James ... The police unleash tear gas -- for what? ... What's the strategy?
Posted on Dec 13, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In a wide-ranging interview, 'Wag the Dog' author Larry Beinhart describes how members of the news media censor stories -- even as they publish them.
Posted on Dec 13, 2005, Source: AlterNet
What to expect from the WTO's 6th Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong: inside, outside and all around town.
Posted on Dec 13, 2005, Source: AlterNet
'Self-governance vs. corporate rule' should be the terms of the global trade debate -- talk of outsourcing won't win any battles.
Posted on Dec 12, 2005, Source: AlterNet
One of the many rarely spoken reasons why conservatives in Washington won't let us leave Iraq is the old notion of civilizing a primitive nation.
Posted on Dec 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Contrary to recent wisdom, public support for the Iraq war hasn't dropped -- that is, the version that the neocons shilled is still popular.
Posted on Nov 24, 2005, Source: AlterNet
A couple of staffers for People for the American Way went undercover to a conference of the ultra-conservative American Legislative Exchange Council. Here's what they discovered.
Posted on Nov 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Robert Greenwald's documentary shines a light on who pays for Wal-Mart's cheap products from China: the workers who make them.
Posted on Nov 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
We aren't going to hear much about the corporations that paid bribes in the Oil-for-Food scandal because Bush's family, friends and closest advisors are in it knee-deep, along with some Democrats.
Posted on Nov 4, 2005, Source: AlterNet
By nominating a cut-and-dried conservative to the Supreme Court, Bush has not only appeased his radical base, but ensured he gets a messy fight to distract the public's attention.
Posted on Oct 31, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Roe v. Wade isn't going anywhere if Harriet Miers becomes justice, but bickering about it makes for a distraction for the corporate interests that will flourish in a Roberts-Miers Court.
Posted on Oct 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Don't believe what you hear from the White House and the Pentagon. We can leave Iraq anytime we please.
Posted on Oct 13, 2005, Source: AlterNet
You won't learn what the biggest humanitarian relief effort in human history was about by reading the Wall Street Journal.
Posted on Oct 5, 2005, Source: AlterNet
What could you buy with the proceeds of what the right calls 'the biggest corruption scandal in recorded history'? (Hint: not a Ferrari.)
Posted on Oct 4, 2005, Source: AlterNet
More 'us versus them' from the Wall Street Journal.
Posted on Sep 26, 2005
Katrina may well put an end to the culture wars in Washington and move the political debate back to the issue of governance.
Posted on Sep 21, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Conservatives take a hit as Hurricane Katrina proves that the disaster's biggest problem was not too much government, but too little, too late.
Posted on Sep 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Yes, corruption entails shady midnight deals at the statehouse, but it just might be
your fault.
Posted on Aug 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The Dems' 2004 loss in Ohio had more to do with trade than stolen ballots -- Rep. Sherrod Brown's probable 2006 Senate campaign in the Buckeye State could be a showcase for how to win there.
Posted on Aug 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The campus Left, which is still organized for the most part by students and community activists, increasingly finds itself up against conservative strategists who put as much as $20 million dollars a year into building a conservative student base.
Posted on Aug 7, 2005, Source: Gadflyer
Due to the push for 'free' trade, more than 17 million Americans have traded skilled labor jobs for low-paying service positions or the unemployment line. Are we ever going to talk about this?
Posted on Aug 1, 2005, Source: AlterNet
If Democrats can link our spiraling personal and public debt to Republican economic policies, they might be able to head off a looming economic disaster -- and make some gains at the polls.
Posted on Jun 28, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Last week, a federal court ruled Virginia's ban on late-term abortion unconstitutional -- a decision that is sure to outrage and energize abortion opponents. Is that what these laws are intended to do?
Posted on Jun 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In order to win the economic battle over America's future, progressives need to first challenge the very terms of the national debate: It's about quality of life.
Posted on Apr 25, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Long before Republicans talked about an “ownership society,” and private accounts, the Democrats did. What happened?
Posted on Feb 28, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Instead of rejecting the privatization of Social Security, Democrats should co-opt it.
Posted on Feb 28, 2005, Source: AlterNet
George Bush’s “Ownership Society” represents a new form of economic populism — a populism born in the Hobbesian belief that we all struggle alone in a world where life is nasty, brutish and short.
Posted on Jan 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The latest flap over Vietnamese seafood highlights the hypocrisy and corporate protectionism America exhibits in its trade relationships.
Posted on Dec 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Should liberals pay attention to Washington squabbles over the next DNC chair, or instead focus on the real battles ahead?
Posted on Nov 30, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The states' rights and localism movements offer a brightly lit exit from the culture wars.
Posted on Nov 12, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The conservatives don't play politics with real grassroots activism. Their top-down style and "buy the movement" approach is better suited for Astroturf – and this week, they're on the march.
Posted on Oct 26, 2004, Source: AlterNet
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