Tag: democracy

Ear to the Ground: Kudos for Kosovo Elections

Reports: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in ‘The Wizard of Oz’

Reports: What Option for Afghan Women?

Reports: Keeping Afghanistan Safe From Democracy

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Reports: Opium, Rape and the American Way

Reports: TARP on Steroids

Reports: Trick or Treat for Climate Change

Cartoons: Purple Finger

Reports: Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country

Ear to the Ground: Top Judge Gives Golden State the ‘D’ Word

A/V Booth: Nobel Committee Secretary Explains Why Obama Won

Reports: Watch What You Tweet

Reports: Celebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia

Ear to the Ground: Ex-U.N. Official Slams Afghan Elections

Reports: Who’s in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military?

Arts and Culture: Capitalism Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

Reports: What Have We Done to Democracy?

Reports: Reflections on the ‘Godfather’ of Neoconservatism

Reports: Let Blue Dogs Face the Music

Reports: President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action

Ear to the Ground: Newspaper Bailout? Maybe, but Don’t Hold Your Breath

Ear to the Ground: Twelve More Years?

Reports: Full Text of the President’s Speech to Congress

Reports: Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Closes In, but U.N. Orders Recounts

Reports: It Could Be the End of Our Democracy as We Know It

Reports: Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party With a Movement

Reports: Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire

Reports: Who Is Obama Playing Ball With?

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Election Dogged by Fraud Claims

Reports: Freedom From Fear—and the Second Amendment

Reports: Reality Is Its Own Caricature for U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Reports: Troy Davis and the Meaning of ‘Actual Innocence’

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Issues Threat Before Afghan Election

Reports: Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

Reports: Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Reports: A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House

A/V Booth: Obama’s Pen Pals

Arts and Culture: Frederic Raphael on Socrates

Reports: Health Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists

Reports: Let’s End the Score-Settling

Reports: Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups

Reports: The 21st Century Color Line

Reports: When Trust and Media Were One

Reports: Support Iran Protesters Without Meddling

Cartoons: The Nightmare

Reports: War Without Purpose

Reports: Opinions Walter Cronkite Never Aired

Ear to the Ground: Confirmation Remarks Worth Revisiting

Reports: The Man in the Mirror

Ear to the Ground: Obama to Seek to End Africa’s Conflicts

Reports: Two Standards of Detention

Reports: So This Is What Victory Looks Like?

Reports: The Age of Paine

Reports: Undo the Coup

Reports: Iraq Has Another One of Its Famous Turning Points

Reports: The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free

Reports: Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age

Reports: Iran’s Regime Reveals Its Brutality

Reports: Symbols Are Not Enough to Win This Battle

Reports: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

Ear to the Ground: Iran Arrests Hundreds, Admits Vote Errors

Reports: Obama’s Iran Dilemma

Cartoons: Iranian Democracy

Cartoons: Without an Ass

Cartoons: Twitter and Iran

Reports: The Islamic Republic Is Not in Danger

Cartoons: Iran Election [Revised]

Ear to the Ground: Ahmadinejad Wins Dubious Election

Cartoons: The Lesser of Two Spuds

Reports: All Politics, and Change, Is Still Local

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown

Reports: Two Men Who Stood Under the Plunderers’ Knives

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Reports: Harry and Louise Need Health Reform

Arts and Culture: Susie Linfield on How to Think About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Reports: Prop. 8 and the Misery of the Law

Reports: Whither the Sacred Campaign Promise?

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

Reports: Fessing Up Has Lost Its Shock Value

Reports: Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil

Cartoons: Democracy

A/V Booth: Bill Maher’s California Elegy

Reports: Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the ’70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation

Arts and Culture: Eve Pell on America’s Culture of Punishment

Reports: News Flash: Populism Is Popular

Reports: Reagan and Nixon Greeted Despots, Too

Reports: Torturers Should Be Punished

Reports: Columbine Questions We Still Don’t Ponder

A/V Booth: The World’s Largest Democracy in Action

Reports: The Obama Doctrine

Ear to the Ground: They Don’t Build Democracies Like They Used To

Reports: Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary of Dissent

Ear to the Ground: Shoe-Thrower Catches a Break

Reports: U.S. Muslims Still Under Siege

Reports: Resist or Become Serfs

Reports: Seattle’s Lessons for London

Reports: Amy Goodman on ‘Standing Up to the Madness’

Truthdig Podcast: Amy Goodman on ‘Standing Up to the Madness’

Reports: Lessons of the Exxon Valdez

Reports: Our Justified Populist Rage

Reports: Those Hit Hardest Get No Bailout

Reports: Put Single-Payer on the Table

Ear to the Ground: Friends In High-Tech Places

Reports: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling

Reports: It’s Obama’s War Now

Reports: Toxins ’R’ Us

Arts and Culture: Zachary Karabell on ‘The Case for Big Government’

Reports: Jailing Kids for Cash

Reports: Avoiding Another Cold War

Ear to the Ground: No More Term Limits for Venezuela’s Chavez

Ear to the Ground: Tsvangirai to World: ‘Get Over’ Mugabe

Ear to the Ground: A New Day in Zimbabwe

Reports: Obama’s Afghan Trap

Reports: Slam the Door on Compromise

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Propaganda Is Booming

Reports: Produce the Note

Reports: It’s Not Going to Be OK

Ear to the Ground: Mugabe Learns How to Share ... Maybe

Arts and Culture: Mark Fischer on Copyright in the Digital Age

Ear to the Ground: Gates Changes Afghanistan Tune

Reports: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail

Arts and Culture: Brenda Wineapple on Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

Reports: Faith Amid the Ruins of Faith

Reports: To Each His Own Obama

Reports: A Long Train Ride

Reports: It’s Over—and Not a Moment Too Soon

Reports: Still Dreaming After All These Years

A/V Booth: President Bush Signs Off

Reports: Nothing to Fear but No Health Care

Reports: Israeli Voices for Peace

Reports: Our Cuba Policy: A Failure at 50

Reports: Voices of Resistance Sing On

Reports: One Man’s Bid to Aid the Environment

Reports: Man Is a Cruel Animal

Ear to the Ground: Judge: Iraqi Shoeman Beaten

Reports: Blundering U.S. Should Spare the World Any More Nation Building

Reports: Workers Laid Off, Executives Paid Off, Bernard Madoff

Reports: West’s Role in Afghanistan Needs Re-Examining

Reports: A Tale of Two Nobel Nations

Reports: Those Other Elections

Reports: Bush the Infallible

Reports: Chevron in the White House

Ear to the Ground: Poles Take Another Look at Jaruzelski

Ear to the Ground: Bush Speaks of Legacy

Reports: Obama the Realist

Reports: Tutu, Obama and the Middle East

Reports: Should Obama’s Army Lay Down Its Arms?

Reports: A View From the South

Reports: With Iran, Obama Needs More Carrot, Less Stick

Reports: President Obama Can Redeem the White House

Cartoons: A Part of the Election

Reports: Organizer in Chief

Reports: A New Era of Hope

Reports: To This Minister, Prop. 8 Is Repugnant

Truthdig Podcast: Election Shenanigans Preview

Ear to the Ground: How Much Voting Clout Do You Have?

Ear to the Ground: Troops Have to Fight for Their Right to Vote

Reports: Hell to Pay

Reports: Obama Is the Superior Decider

A/V Booth: Murder, Spies & Voting Lies

Ear to the Ground: Obama Is Ready to Be Tested

Reports: Change Big Donors Can Believe In

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Court Resentences Activist

Reports: Russia’s Resentment of the West Began With a Broken Promise

Reports: The Idiots Who Rule America

Reports: Stuck in the Primary

Reports: Who Gets to Vote?

Reports: Bush Doctrine Becomes DoD Dogma

Reports: America’s Political Cannibalism

Reports: Palin vs. Palin

Reports: Open the Debates

Arts and Culture: John Holmes on ‘The Lost Spy’

Reports: Saying ‘No Deal’ to This New Deal

Reports: Invasion of the Sea-Smurfs

Truthdig Podcast: Robert Scheer on the Bailout Bomb

Ear to the Ground: Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote

Reports: The Debate Camera’s Deep Vision

Reports: Reality Catches Up to the Free Market

Reports: Wall Street Socialists

Reports: Remembering 9/11 and Moving Forward

Reports: The Party Police

Reports: Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention

Ear to the Ground: Bhutto’s Husband Wins Pakistan Presidency

Arts and Culture: Robert Christgau on America’s Secret Fundamentalists

Reports: Why We Were Falsely Arrested

Reports: The Conquest by Presidentialism

Ear to the Ground: Was Musharraf Helped Out the Door?

Ear to the Ground: Pakistani President Musharraf Resigns

Arts and Culture: Warren I. Cohen on China’s Charm Offensive

Reports: Cold War Spin Only Compounds Georgian Crisis

Reports: Don’t Cage Dissent

Reports: What’s Sex Got to Do With It?

Reports: A War of Self-Destruction

Reports: Who’s Paying for the Conventions?

Ear to the Ground: China to Allow ‘Protest Lite’

Reports: Bad Days for Newsrooms—and Democracy

Reports: Anywhere Becomes Everywhere

Reports: Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not the Regime

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