James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. November 16, 2009. We continue to be childishly delusional about our dark economic and environmental prospects. Unfortunately, reality isn't amenable to lies and spin.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. October 6, 2009. Seventy-three percent of those polled said their opinion was directly affected by the election of Barack Obama.
Elisabeth Rosenthal, Yale Environment 360. October 1, 2009. In Europe it is far easier to channel your good intentions into action. And you feel far worse if you don’t.
Ira Chernus, Tomdispatch.com. June 26, 2009. The old narrative of Israel as the innocent victim is losing its grip on Americans. This is necessary if we are to be even-handed brokers.
Ira Chernus, AlterNet. June 11, 2009. Israel would rather go down fighting than survive with a damaged sense of national pride. What would happen if concessions weren't so symbolic?
Staff, Demos.org AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. May 19, 2009. "Today, for the first time in 20 years, the Senate has taken a stand on behalf of American households who are in dire need of relief..."
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. May 10, 2009. American foreign policy is weakened in dozens of different ways until it is made very clear that America has repudiated what was done.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. April 28, 2009. 51% of Americans favor a government investigation of the use of "harsh interrogation techniques" according to a new Gallup poll.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Media and Technology. April 23, 2009. Widespread pessimism about the country's direction has been the norm for the last six years.
Mark Engler, Foreign Policy in Focus. April 21, 2009. Two disastrous wars and the economic meltdown have shaken America's superpower status. What can Obama do to help shape a sustainable global order?
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. March 21, 2009. Anyone who looks at the American landscape and sees "threats to religious liberty" is f*cking delusional.
Mustang Bobby, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. March 11, 2009. The number one reason for dwindling numbers is because evangelicals aligned themselves with politics rather than faith.
Clay Risen, AlterNet. February 27, 2009. 40 years of benign (and not so benign) neglect have done inordinate damage to the socioeconomic structures of our inner cities.
Danny Schechter, AlterNet. February 24, 2009. Why haven't we seen punishment for those corporations that "recklessly sliced and diced all this debt into worthless gambling chips."
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: War on Iraq. February 17, 2009. "I don't think the Iraq war is over, and I worry that there is more to come than any of us suspect."
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 15, 2009. The American public looked at DC, they saw the Democrats trying to do something, and they liked what they saw.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 12, 2009. A quarter say they do not believe in the theory, and 36 percent don’t have an opinion either way.
