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.
Noam Chomsky, Z Magazine. June 8, 2009. We should be cautious about the idea that Obama will promote a serious regional peace initiative for the Middle East.
Tonda MacCharles, The Toronto Star. May 26, 2009. More troops, more searches, more surveilance drones. The U.S. is taking Canadians' pictures as they cross the border, and their biometrics.
Leslie Savan, TheNation.com. May 13, 2009. Mexicans have recently been the prime target of the most rancid typecasting in the media -- can more racist violence be far behind?
Hernando Calvo Ospina, Progreso-Weekly. May 4, 2009. An AirFrance flight was forced to divert a plane thousands of miles because a journalist was considered a national security threat.
mcjoan, Daily Kos AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 23, 2009. We need to know. If the release of these memos provides even greater impetus for a torture truth commission, so much the better.
Pratap Chatterjee, Tomdispatch.com. March 23, 2009. Parts of Afghanistan that have neither violent Taliban resistance nor much opium trade are virtually ignored by the U.S.
Dalton Conley, The Nation. March 16, 2009. A new report shows that in terms of aggregate health, education, purchasing power, security and general well-being, the U.S. has been in decline.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. February 24, 2009. In a short period of months, the entire system of global capitalism has screeched to a halt. No one knows what happens next.
Ed Kemp, Reuters. January 24, 2009. Soft measures won't cut it: We need widespread corporate defaults, debt write-downs, and inflation to reduce the burden of what we all owe.
John Ridley, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. December 20, 2008. As innocuous as the U.N. declaration was, it could turn into a sharp-toothed boomerang that might whip around and bite Uncle Sam in the backside.
Jo-Shing Yang, AlterNet. November 11, 2008. Green lawns, swimming pools, and corporate farms in the desert Southwest are taking their toll on our neighbors to the south.
S. Abbas Raza, The Smart Set. February 2, 2008. Tales of a Pakistani immigrant dealing with racial profiling, the Patriot Act and the INS as he tries to make a life in New York City.
Dan Woynillowicz, World Watch. September 17, 2007. The United States has its hopes pinned on Canada's "tar sands" for North American security in the oil market. But their "black gold" is an environmental nightmare.
Elizabeth Bast, Roxanne Lawson, TomPaine.com. December 6, 2006. The African continent is already straining from the effects of global climate change, while some of the world's biggest polluters -- the U.S., Australia, and Canada -- are doing nothing to help clean up their own mess.
