Matt Bivens, Tomdispatch.com. October 5, 2009. For all the public money we give rich people, we can cure millions around the world of horrifying diseases.
tristero, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. August 27, 2009. It's all terribly familiar -- even many of the same liars making up the same shit, and the same strategies.
Roberto Lovato, AlterNet. July 29, 2009. While Obama's racial diplomacy with Skip Gates is making the headlines, rights groups say that he has expanded Bush's racist immigration policies.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. July 27, 2009. How the Obama White House has been trying, perhaps a little too hard, to avoid the mistakes of the last serious campaign to reform health care.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. July 20, 2009. Republicans don't want Obama to be the president who finally delivers the overhaul Americans have been waiting for over the last several decades.
Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. June 30, 2009. Third Way is drenched in corporate money, tangled in ties to big business and bent on Clintonian triangulation. How dare it call itself progressive?
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. June 15, 2009. Can the United States speed the process for greater freedom in Iran? Yes. By staying out of the way as much as possible.
Thom Hartmann, Smirking Chimp. April 16, 2009. The Geithner/Summers plan seems to hinge on reinflating the debt bubble. The outcome will be inflation, a more serious crash, or both.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. April 7, 2009. If we don't stop the rapacious looting of the public treasury, we'll be left with trillions in debts and a robust police state.
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. April 4, 2009. Some politicians are starting to acknowledge the tragic absurdity of the war on drugs. But we have a long way to go.
Maggie Mahar, AlterNet. March 7, 2009. Health care reform is going to test everything President Obama believes about reasonable people's ability to come to reasonable compromises.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. March 3, 2009. Republicans seem incapable of coming up with any other strategy than to seek Obama's destruction, much as they torpedoed Clinton.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 25, 2009. Reagan told us that government "is the problem." Clinton told us the "era of big government is over." Obama is singing a different tune.
Dean Baker, PoliPoint Press. February 7, 2009. Anyone with common sense, a grasp of simple arithmetic and a desire to go against the consensus should have seen the financial crisis coming.
Rob Larson, AlterNet. January 30, 2009. The Clinton Foundation is funded by the people, governments and companies that help create the problems the charity seeks to address.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. January 14, 2009. We learned a fair amount today about Hillary Clinton's thinking on the peace process in the Middle East.
