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September 2010 Archive
Thursday, September 30, 2010
- Headlines for September 30, 2010
- Ann Jones on "War Is Not Over When It’s Over: Women and the Unseen Consequences of Conflict"
- Henry Red Cloud of Oglala Lakota Tribe on Native American Anti-Nuclear Activism, Uranium Mining, and the Recession’s Toll on Reservations
- Year of the Conservative Woman? As Republicans Tout Field of Women Candidates, a Debate with Betsy Reed of The Nation and Former GOP Candidate Princella Smith
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
- Headlines for September 29, 2010
- 1st US Soldier of Alleged "Kill Team" Targeting Afghan Civilians Faces Military Tribunal for War Crimes
- Mudslide Buries Scores of Homes in Indigenous Mexican Town, But Massive Toll Said to Be Averted
- "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration": Isabel Wilkerson Tracks Exodus of Blacks from US South
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
- Headlines for September 28, 2010
- Freed American Hiker Sarah Shourd Reflects on 14 Months in Iranian Prison and Calls on Iran to Release Her Two Friends
- Appalachia Rising: 100 Arrested at White House Calling for End to Mountaintop Coal Removal
- As Settlement Construction Begins Again in the West Bank, Israel Blocks Jewish Activists on Aid Boat Headed to Gaza
Monday, September 27, 2010
- Headlines for September 27, 2010
- FBI Raids Homes of Antiwar and Pro-Palestinian Activists in Chicago and Minneapolis
- Ingrid Betancourt: "Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle"
Friday, September 24, 2010
- Headlines for September 24, 2010
- Obama UN Speech on Mideast Talks "Filled with Empty Words"–Palestinian Attorney Diana Buttu
- Paul Mason on Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global
- Fatima Bhutto on the Floods in Pakistan, the Government Response and Her Memoir, Songs of Blood and Sword
Thursday, September 23, 2010
- Headlines for September 23, 2010
- "Explain to Us What You Want from Us"–Juárez Newspaper Publishes Editorial Addressing Cartels After Another Reporter Gunned Down
- Former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda on the Drug War, Legalization, Immigration and Free Trade
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
- Headlines for September 22, 2010
- "A Departure to Be Welcomed": Robert Scheer on Resignation of White House Economic Adviser and Deregulation Proponent Lawrence Summers
- Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef: US Is Becoming an "Underdeveloping Nation"
- As Competing Films Offer Differing Views on Faulkner Killing, New Evidence Suggests Key Witnesses Lied at Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Trial
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
- Headlines for September 21, 2010
- Holbrooke Says World Cannot Foot Entire Bill for Pakistan Flood Recovery as US Spends Billions on Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan & Pakistan
- Tariq Ali on "The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad"
- Tony Benn on Tony Blair: "He Will Have to Live ’Til the Day He Dies with the Knowledge that He Is Guilty of a War Crime"
- Glenn Greenwald on Iran, Tea Party Candidates, Jon Stewart and Obama’s Assassination Policy
Monday, September 20, 2010
- Headlines for September 20, 2010
- Legendary British Author John le Carré on Why He Won’t Be Reading Tony Blair’s Iraq War-Defending Memoir
- John le Carré: "The United States of America Has Gone Mad"
- Iraqi Refugee Describes Torture, Imprisonment of Husband Who Returned to Iraq to Free Jailed Son
- "New Order, Same Abuses": Amnesty Condemns Iraq for Holding 30,000 Prisoners Without Trial
- British Jamaican Rastafarian Writer, Dub Poet Benjamin Zephaniah on Poetry, Politics and Revolution
Friday, September 17, 2010
- Headlines for September 17, 2010
- Percy Schmeiser vs Monsanto: The Story of a Canadian Farmer’s Fight to Defend the Rights of Farmers and the Future of Seeds
- Solar Power in Bangladesh Used to Empower People in Poor, Rural Areas
- Large Anti-Government Protests in Thailand Scheduled on Fourth Anniversary of Coup
Thursday, September 16, 2010
- Headlines for September 16, 2010
- The Nation: Docs Reveals Blackwater-Linked Companies Provided Intel & Security to Multinationals Like Monsanto, Chevron
- Right Livelihood Laureates from Croatia, Thailand and Burundi Discuss Their Battles for Social Justice
- Johan Galtung on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mideast Peace Talks, and Why Obama Is Losing His Base
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
- Headlines for September 15, 2010
- Final Primaries Held Before November Midterms, Tea Party Gains Ground in GOP
- Right Livelihood Award Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Gathering of Laureates in Bonn
- Another 9/11 Anniversary: September 11, 1973, When US-Backed Pinochet Forces Took Power in Chile
- From "Little Tibet" to Kenya, Right Livelihood Laureates Fight for Peace and Social Justice
- France Comes Under Mounting Pressure over Mass Deportation of Roma
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
- Headlines for September 14, 2010
- As Regulators Weigh Drilling in Marcellus Shale, EPA Opens Public Hearings on Health and Environmental Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing
- Street Sweeper Social Club: "Revolutionary Party Music" from Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Boots Riley of the Coup
- In Monumental Union Vote, California Healthcare Workers to Choose Between SEIU and Breakaway NUHW
Monday, September 13, 2010
- Headlines for September 13, 2010
- Tariq Ramadan Debates Moustafa Bayoumi on Proposed Islamic Center Near Ground Zero
- Activists Go on Trial in Nevada for Protesting Obama Admin Drone Program
- "This Is the Worst Catastrophe to Hit Any State Since Biblical Times"–Just Back from Pakistan, Feryal Ali Gauhar Describes the Suffering from the Flood
- While Gingrich Says Obama Acts "Kenyan, Anti-Colonial," What Does a Real Kenyan Anti-Colonialist Think? A Conversation with Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o
- Kenyan Father, White American Mother, from Illinois & Went to Harvard: President Obama? No, It’s Guitarist Tom Morello
Friday, September 10, 2010
- Headlines for September 10, 2010
- Why Is Oil Giant BP Helping Develop California Schools’ Environmental Curriculum?
- Arianna Huffington on Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
- In Landmark Ruling, Judge Rules "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" Policy Is Unconstitutional
- Pakistan Flood Victims Tell of Suffering, Unfolding Disaster in Southern Sindh Province
Thursday, September 09, 2010
- Headlines for September 09, 2010
- Obama Fights to End Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, GOP Pushes Back
- Federal Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Boeing in CIA "Torture Flight" Program
- Concerns Raised over Use of Computer RFID Chips to Track Preschool Children
- No Charges Brought Against Pennsylvania School that Monitored Students by Remotely Activating Webcams
- Unity College Students & Bill McKibben Launch Road Trip to Reinstall Jimmy Carter Solar Panel Back on White House Roof
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
- Headlines for September 08, 2010
- Raj Patel: Mozambique’s Food Riots Are the True Face of Global Warming
- Jailed for Facebook Friending: Animal Rights Activist Rod Coronado Ordered Back to Prison After Accepting Friend Request from Fellow Activist
- Gainesville Muslim Community Organizes Vigils, Teach-Ins to Counter Planned Quran Burning
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
- Headlines for September 07, 2010
- Facing Poor Unemployment, Foreclosure & Bankruptcy Rates, Obama Campaigns on Economy in Lead-Up to Nov. Midterms
- Robert Scheer on The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
- Elizabeth Warren Says Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, That She Might Head, Is Obama’s "Strongest Financial Reform"
Monday, September 06, 2010
Friday, September 03, 2010
- Headlines for September 03, 2010
- Another Oil and Gas Rig Explosion in Gulf of Mexico Renews Calls for Offshore Drilling Ban
- Educators Push Back Against Obama’s "Business Model" for School Reforms
- Study: CEOs Who Fired Most Workers Earned Highest Pay
- Flood Refugees in Karachi Relief Camp Complain of Government Corruption and Inefficiency
Thursday, September 02, 2010
- Headlines for September 02, 2010
- As Pakistan Floods Continue Moving South, Calls for Debt Cancellation Grow
- After Years of Organizing, Domestic Workers Win Bill of Rights Law in New York
- Appeals Court Ruling Allows Government to Use GPS to Track People’s Moves
- Alexander Zaitchik on "Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance"
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
- Headlines for September 01, 2010
- "Iraq Is a Shattered Country"–Nir Rosen on Obama Declaring an End to US Combat Mission in Iraq
- Withdrawal or Enduring Presence? US Military Continues to Invest Hundreds of Millions in Iraq Bases
- Invisible War: How Thirteen Years of US-Imposed Economic Sanctions Devastated Iraq Before the 2003 Invasion
- "Security for Everyone, Not Just Settlers and Occupiers"–Ali Abunimah on Opening of US-Brokered Mideast Peace Talks
Job Openings
Columns
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
Web Exclusives
In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out. [includes rush transcript]
Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. He also discusses Syria and the conditions in Israeli jails and courts that prompted 1,550 Palestinian prisoners to go on a hunger strike. [includes rush transcript]
