On AlterNet: 2007

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "2007"

Attack Iran? Cheney's Already Tried

Gareth Porter, IPS News. June 10, 2008.

How Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Dick Cheney last summer for airstrikes against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.

20 Annoying Things About 2007

Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. January 1, 2008.

Whew, has this been an irritating year, or what!

Ten Worst Telecom Moments of 2007

Timothy Karr, Huffington Post. December 21, 2007.

It was a year of billion dollar greed for the largest telecommunications companies.

Democrats in 2007: Majorities in Congress, Still Caving to Bush

Robert Parry, Consortium News. October 12, 2007.

Twelve months after being swept into Congress, the Democrats have caved in again and again to a weak and unpopular president.

The Most Important Conference You Never Heard About

Frank Joyce, AlterNet. February 16, 2007.

The recently concluded 7th World Social Forum in Kenya included 66,000 participants and was the most globally representative so far.

Bush's SOTU: Nixon Would Have Been Proud

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. January 24, 2007.

Bush's seventh State of the Union speech was loaded with proposals that will go nowhere and had little relationship with reality. So much for hoping that a 28 percent approval rating would teach him anything.

A 10-Step Program For Democrats in 2007

Jonathan Tasini, TomPaine.com. January 3, 2007.

Let's start off the new year with some real resolutions like universal health care and a nationwide free wireless network.