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.
Nick Baumann, Mother Jones Online. November 9, 2009. Igor Panarin warns that the U.S. will splinter into separate states controlled by foreign powers in 2010. Conservative activists think he may be on to something.
Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times. September 28, 2009. It will be difficult and dangerous to take on the Taliban and al-Qaeda inside Pakistan in a struggle in which there are no guarantees of success.
Ann Jones, Tomdispatch.com. September 21, 2009. In Washington, calls are growing for Obama to training more Afghan troops and police rather than sending in more American troops. But this is pure fantasy.
Valeria Fernandez, IPS News. July 1, 2009. Volunteers who leave water jugs for migrants at the border are getting slapped with absurd littering charges.
Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. May 28, 2009. In Syria, Sudan and elsewhere there have been violent attacks that no country has claimed responsibility for. A dark new trend in warfare.
John Tirman, AlterNet. April 28, 2009. Obama has taken a step toward freeing the U.S. from 30 years of coercion, sanctions, covert action and relentless insults against Iran.
Roane Carey, Tomdispatch.com. April 13, 2009. Anything short of a categorical, even vociferous U.S. refusal of an Israeli attack could have horrific consequences.
Bruce Mirken, AlterNet. March 23, 2009. The horrifying drug-war violence south of our border with Mexico continues to worsen, and we're the ones subsidizing it.
Ryan Grim, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. March 17, 2009. "There is an issue as to which countries they decided to do this for and which ones they didn't. That is a political decision."
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 19, 2009. As the first African American leading the DOJ, Holder called for a national dialogue on race -- something the U.S. has generally avoided.
Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Foreign Policy in Focus. February 11, 2009. Among the many booby traps left by the Bush administration for the Obama team, Somalia could be one of the most complicated and bizarre.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. February 3, 2009. Last week, a Labor Party "white paper" offered a surprisingly novel -- and rather remarkable -- proposal.
Deanna Zandt, DeannaZandt.com AlterNet: PEEK. January 28, 2009. The USA, your quality supplier of the ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for its 2001-2008 service outage.
Omid Memarian, IPS News. January 28, 2009. The U.S. government's calls for civil society to work for "regime change" in Iran has increased pressure on activists on the ground.
Ian Williams, Foreign Policy in Focus. January 15, 2009. If Obama wants to be a real friend to Israel, he has to let the Israeli government know its actions are not consequence-free.
