Lee Fang, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. November 5, 2009. Americans for Prosperity (AFP) worked closely with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to orchestrate the anti-health reform rally today.
Laura Flanders, GRITtv. September 30, 2009. Underrepresented booming countries may get a bigger voice in global finance. Nice. But under-represented people? They got arrested.
Eric Stoner, AlterNet. September 29, 2009. Does the president not know that these things are tied to "concrete, local, immediate issues that have an impact on people's lives"?
Mike Ferner, After Downing Street. September 28, 2009. An arsenal of "crowd control munitions," was deployed with a massive, overpowering police presence in Pittsburgh during last week's G-20 protests.
Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant. September 28, 2009. This technology has been deployed in Iraq as an "anti-insurgent weapon" -- it could easily be used as a torture tool.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. September 22, 2009. Delegates from the world's wealthiest nations gather this week for G-20, walled off from protesters by a National Guard combat battalion recently returned from Iraq.
Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future. August 13, 2009. Why the right-wing extremism must be stopped in its tracks or else we face the threat of outright violence and goon rule.
Emily Spence, Consortium News. June 30, 2009. One needn't return in time to the McCarthy Era to find many individuals who have been investigated and persecuted for holding vilified opinions.
Linda Milazzo, AlterNet. June 25, 2009. Why is corporate media so eager to cover the people's movement in Iran, but unwilling to cover the anti-war movement here?
Barbara Crossette, The Nation. June 24, 2009. The pervasive presence of women in the Iran uprising have been cast into sharp focus by the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan during a street protest.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 23, 2009. Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. It is we who need to be taught.
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. June 22, 2009. Pelosi has a history of voting for pro-war measures and supporting pro-war candidates. Her current behaviors should come as no surprise.
Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. June 18, 2009. The complex nature of the relationship between religion and politics in Iran makes this hard to assess.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. June 18, 2009. Things are ugly now. But they could rapidly get a lot uglier, more violent, and more civil war-like. Will opposition maintain its momentum?
Hilzoy, Washington Monthly AlterNet: World. June 17, 2009. Conservatives are drawing parallels between Eastern Europe under Soviet occupation, and current events in Iran. The comparison is absurd.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. June 17, 2009. Iran's soccer team players wore green wristbands in support of the anti-government protesters, during a game broadcast on Iranian state TV yesterday.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. June 15, 2009. Britain's Channel 4 captured exclusive video of militia shootings at the Iran protests that left at least one person dead.