The World at 350: A Last Chance for Civilization by Guest Blogger

11 May 2008 - The importance of the number 350 in a post-Kyoto world.
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Obama’s Clarifying Win: The Fly on the Wall Is the Wall by Guest Blogger

7 May 2008 - Norman Solomon on Tuesday's results.
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The Last War and the Next One: Descending into Madness in Iraq -- and Beyond by Guest Blogger

4 May 2008 - The last war won't end, but in the Pentagon they're already arguing about the next one.
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La Fille by Guest Blogger

3 May 2008 - The Metropolitan Opera completes its second season of simulcast operas.
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Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Levy issue joint demands on their governments at a Guernica lunch by JW

2 May 2008 - Over fillet of sole at the Carlyle Hotel, Guernica's Crisis Darfur participants decide to make demands on Presidents Bush and Sarkozy to facilitate the protection force that Sudan's government has avoided facing
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Happy Birthday, Justice Stevens by Guest Blogger

1 May 2008 - Do the Democratic presidential candidates put enough emphasis on the make-up of the Supreme Court?
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What to Do About the Oil Crisis by Guest Blogger

30 April 2008 - The answer to the oil crisis is not in the Alaskan tundra or a tax holiday on gas. The answer is in a strong dollar and alternative sources of energy.
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The Hidden Curse of Thomas Paine by Guest Blogger

29 April 2008 - Wikileaks investigative editor on the fourth estate.
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Guernica to host two events at PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature by The Editors

28 April 2008 - Events to focus on the crisis in Darfur, with Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Levy (Tuesday, April 29), and writing across borders (Friday, May 2).
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Selling the President's General: The Petraeus Story by Guest Blogger

28 April 2008 - As the Bush Administration waged a war of propaganda on the U.S. media and U.S. citizens, General David Petraeus became the "face" of the administration, with adoring media members fawning over him during his ascension.
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Party Like It’s 1932: The Obama Option by Guest Blogger

21 April 2008 - The similarities between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Barack Obama: History could repeat itself.
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Charlton Heston and the Separation of Church and State by Guest Blogger

19 April 2008 - How the Religious Right's decades-long efforts to reshape the federal judiciary may finally begin to bear fruit.
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Leaving Cheyenne Mountain: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Loathe the Bomb by Guest Blogger

17 April 2008 - Though the U.S. won the Cold War, we never stopped looking at the rest of the world suspiciously.
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Wading Through the Mainstream by DD

15 April 2008 - Mainstream media likes its buzz words and catch phrases. Luckily there are those out there pointing out the absurdity of only relying on these limited words and phrases.
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Obama, Bitterness, Meet the Press, and the Old Politics by Guest Blogger

14 April 2008 - As the U.S. heads into the worst economic crisis in a half century or more doesn't it make sense that some people might be bitter?
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Catch 2,200: 9 Propositions on the U.S. Air War for Terror by Guest Blogger

10 April 2008 - In its Global War on Terror the Bush administration increasingly relies on air power to "take out" the enemy, with little attention given to the civilians taken out as well, or to the consequences this type of strike has on the U.S.
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The Economic Costs of the Endless War by Guest Blogger

8 April 2008 - The war in Iraq is affecting the U.S. economy, just maybe not in the way you think.
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Single Women and the US Women’s Movement: Insights from India by Guest Blogger

7 April 2008 - Why the Women's Movements of India and the U.S. are so different when it comes to single women.
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Wikileaks releases U.S. intelligence summary on Iranian infiltration, Al-Sadr, Mahdi army, et al by Guest Blogger

5 April 2008 - While the U.S. obsessed about Iran a top Iraqi police general provided Al Sadr's Mahdi Army with U.S. weapons and intelligence.
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'Desperate Conditions' by Guest Blogger

4 April 2008 - A new report on Burma Refugees in Malaysia.
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On Being Numerous: National Poetry Month 2008 by EW

2 April 2008 - Converting poetry skeptics, one month at a time.
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Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me About the American Empire by Guest Blogger

1 April 2008 - Howard Zinn on U.S. imperialism past and present.
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Weaponizing the Pentagon's Cyborg Insects: A Futuristic Nightmare That Just Might Come True by Guest Blogger

31 March 2008 - The Pentagon-sponsored project that sounds like a nightmare scenario straight out of the wilder realms of science fiction.
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NPR News: National Pentagon Radio? by Guest Blogger

27 March 2008 - NPR is supposed to be willing to go where commercial networks fear to tread, but is the public actually getting this from its public radio?
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Wikileaks Press Release: Secret military memo exposes unbelievable prison conditions in Fallujah by Guest Blogger

27 March 2008 - Wikileaks releases a classified military memo written last month by the commander of U.S forces in western Iraq, Maj. Gen. John Kelly, exposing horrific conditions in Iraq's Fallujah jail.
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The Battle of Baghdad: Iraq's Most Fearsome Militia, the U.S. military, on the Offensive by Guest Blogger

24 March 2008 - In early April, General David Petraeus will report to President Bush and the Democratic Congress on the state of post-surge Iraq. The version he gives in Washington, however, will exclude many details about the reality in Baghdad.
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Moral Hazard Redux by Guest Blogger

21 March 2008 - There's a double standard in America when it comes to economic risk-taking: When the risk fails the little guys get tough love, while the big guys get forgiveness.
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Whistleblower Site Releases Censored Videos About Protests in Tibet by Guest Blogger

19 March 2008 - Wikileaks has released 35 censored videos relating to the protests in Tibet and has called on bloggers around the world to help drive the footage through the so called 'Great Firewall of China.'
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Unsung Heroes and Alternate Voices: Some of The Best of Five Years of Iraq War Coverage by Guest Blogger

18 March 2008 - Among the often inadequate and sometimes embarrassing coverage of the war in Iraq, there have been shining moments of journalistic excellence. The following is a modest list of those who have accomplished such excellence.
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Legal Insider Trading in Three Easy Steps, Brought to You by JP Morgan and the SEC by Guest Blogger

17 March 2008 - Wikileaks exposes JP Morgan's confidential insider trading program.
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The Psychological Trauma of War by Guest Blogger

14 March 2008 - National Public Radio correspondent Margot Adler examines soldiers returning to the U.S. from Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD and how the rest of us can connect with them when they do.
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Warfare and Healthcare by Guest Blogger

13 March 2008 - Drastic cuts in the Pentagon budget would provide more than sufficient funds for universal health care.
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The Bad News at the Pump: The $100-plus Barrel of Oil and What It Means by Guest Blogger

12 March 2008 - Will the recent spike in the price of crude oil prove distinctive in the annals of world history or will it be forgotten as energy prices drop, as they did in April 1980 after a record set during another moment of chaos in the Middle East?
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The American Recession and the World's Emerging Economies by Guest Blogger

11 March 2008 - The world's developing nations are no longer nearly as dependent as they used to be on consumers in the United States and other rich nations to keep them going by buying their exports. What will this de-coupling mean for the United States?
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A Winning Argument: Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp's 'War Made Easy' by Guest Blogger

10 March 2008 - The documentary adaptation of Guernica contributor Norman Solomon's War Made Easy opens its New York City theatrical premiere on March 14.
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War is Hell, But What the Hell Does it Cost?: One Week at War in Iraq and Afghanistan for $3.5 Billion by Guest Blogger

7 March 2008 - Just how much do the Bush wars--Iraq, Afghanistan, GWOT--cost and where exactly is that money going?
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Will HRC Spoil the Party? by Guest Blogger

5 March 2008 - Will Hillary Clinton's fight for the Democratic presidential nomination reduce the possibility of the eventual nominee entering the White House in January of 2009?
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Hillary's Stockholm Syndrome by JW

4 March 2008 - Clinton may still favor some Democratic policies, but her tactics are veering further and further into Rove-Republican territory.
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The War Election by Guest Blogger

4 March 2008 - By condemning the Iraq war as merely unwinnable instead of inherently wrong, the more restrained foes of the war helped to prolong the occupation that has inflicted so much carnage.
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The Most Wanted List: International Terrorism by Guest Blogger

27 February 2008 - In light of the recent assassination of Imad Moughniyeh, a senior commander of Hizbollah, Noam Chomsky examines the definition of "the world" as used by the political class in Washington versus the rest of the world.
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2008 and 1968 by Guest Blogger

25 February 2008 - Looking back at the events of 1968 that splintered the Democratic Party and marked the beginning of the ascension of a new Republican majority, Robert Reich argues that, with the pendulum now swinging back to the left, the democrats will need someone who, like John F. and Robert Kennedy, is a realist who understands the importance of idealism in the service of realism.
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Visiting the Torture Museum: Barbarism Then and Now by Guest Blogger

22 February 2008 - A war meant to be on terror has adopted the worst traditions of terror from pre-Enlightenment days, and its staunchest supporters have redefined the word "torture" in such a way that its perpetrators can, by their definition, honestly say America does not torture.
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The Relevance of Nooses and Lynching in the Age of Obama by Guest Blogger

20 February 2008 - As Barack Obama's presidential campaign blurs the line of race in politics and places in the American psyche the very real possibility of the U.S. electing its first black president, it may be tempting to think that issues of race are behind us. Here, Sherrilyn A. Ifill reminds us that the economic, educational and political divide between whites and blacks is still alive and well, and cannot be overlooked even among the most positive of developments.
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'Wikileaks.org' taken off line in many areas after fire, court injunction by Guest Blogger

18 February 2008 - Wikileaks.org, a website dedicated to leaking documents that are "anonymous, untraceable, uncensorable," recently came up against some obstacles: a United States censorship injunction, hacker-attacks, and fire. In the face of it all, though, the website says it will keep on publishing.
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The Lost Kristol Tapes: What the New York Times Bought by Guest Blogger

15 February 2008 - Just how close to an administration can someone be and not know what is going on, or rather, claim to not know what is going on and not be held accountable for it? Jonathan Schwarz examines the "horrifying ignorance and bold-faced deceit" of William Kristol to answer the question.
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David Brooks is Wrong: America Can Afford What Needs to be Done by Guest Blogger

14 February 2008 - On the heels of George W. Bush's fiscal-political strategy of irresponsible supply-side tax cuts and military buildups, some question the ability of a Democratic president to follow through on campaign promises without breaking the bank. Here, Robert Reich offers three places a Democratic president could find the money.
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Why I'm Voting for Obama by JW

4 February 2008 - It is a contest not between a man of mixed heritage and a woman, but of a liberal-contextualist versus a part-time absolutist.
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'Reality Is Totally Different': Iraqis on 'Success' and 'Progress' in Their Country by Guest Blogger

28 January 2008 - Independent journalist and author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq Dahr Jamail gives accounts of life in Iraq from Iraqis that are, to say the least, inconsistent with claims from the Bush Administration.
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The Politics of an Economic Nightmare by Guest Blogger

26 January 2008 - Robert Reich on what needs to be done about the worsening economy, and why none of the presidential candidates will admit it.
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In Honor of My Mother and the Power of Love by Guest Blogger

25 January 2008 - One of Guernica's most important contributors, Norman Solomon, on the life and important work of his mother, Mariam A. Solomon, who died on January 20.
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Going Bankrupt: Why the Debt Crisis Is Now the Greatest Threat to the American Republic by Guest Blogger

23 January 2008 - As global stock markets threaten to tank and the U.S. economy seems increasingly balanced on a dime (and a ton of debt), renowned author of The Blowback Trilogy, Chalmers Johnson, offers a magisterial piece on the potential for American imperial bankruptcy -- why it might happen and what it would mean.
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Big, bad and busted: Wikileaks vs. Northern Rock by Guest Blogger

21 January 2008 - The transparency group Wikileaks bravely resists a gag order pertaining to the financial collapse of the UK's Northern Rock bank, a victim of the US subprime scandal which sent stocks into a tailspin this week.
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Leak: Blackwater, tear gas and other 'non-lethal' chemical weapons in Iraq by Guest Blogger

20 January 2008 - The New York Times is reporting on chemical weapons use in Iraq. But Wikileaks reported far graver accusations last year. A recap...
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An Open Letter to Senator John Edwards: The Constitution Prohibits Secret Vote Counting! by Guest Blogger

18 January 2008 - Mark Adams looked into South Carolina’s use of its electronic voting machines, and discovered that it’s PROHIBITED by South Carolina’s Constitution.
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Revolution of the Snails: Encounters with the Zapatistas by Guest Blogger

15 January 2008 - The Zapatista revolution turns 14.
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Democrats Should Stop Squabbling Over Healthcare Mandates by Guest Blogger

13 January 2008 - Robert Reich on why Democrats need to focus on the similarities of their universal health care plans.
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Perfecting the Death Penalty by Guest Blogger

11 January 2008 - In 2007 more than 60 percent of the executions carried out in the U.S. occurred in Texas, and officials there have claimed that no innocent person has ever been put to death in the Lone Star State. As the rest of the country changes its views on this issue, what keeps Texas so steadfast in its own?
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The $100 Barrel of Oil vs. the Global War on Terror: The Bush Legacy (Take Two) by Guest Blogger

9 January 2008 - Last week, Tom Engelhardt offered his initial take, a year early, on the Bush legacy, "Journey to the Dark Side." Here he gives us take two in which he reflects on the lasting effects of the Global War on Terror.
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Thanks for 2007, onto 2008 by The Editors

8 January 2008 - Guernica looks back on a year of awards, growth, and acclaim, with thanks to our readers.
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Edwards Reconsidered by Guest Blogger

4 January 2008 - Norman Solomon reevaluates John Edwards in light of comments made by Dennis Kucinich about Barack Obama.
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Journey to the Dark Side: The Bush Legacy (Take One) by Guest Blogger

2 January 2008 - When it came to news of Bush administration torture, kidnapping, and offshore imprisonment practices, 2007 ended in a deluge, not a trickle. Here, Tom Engelhardt offers a recap of the startling number of stories (many hardly noticed) on those subjects that appeared in December alone, as well as an initial attempt to get to the heart of the Bush legacy, one year early.
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2007 News for Guernica Poets by Guest Blogger

31 December 2007 - An incomplete but still impressive list of 2007 publications and awards received by Guernica poetry advisers, contributors, guest editors, and interviewees.
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Channeling Suze Orman by Guest Blogger

27 December 2007 - Norman Solomon distills CNBC's Suze Orman's message: If you're rich you're a winner; if you're not you're a loser.
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'Mission Accomplished': O'Reilly Declares Victory in the War on Christmas by Guest Blogger

24 December 2007 - If Bill O'Reilly has, as he's claimed, won the "war on Christmas," it's time for him to call his troops home.
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Drowning in Mortgage Debt: The Way Out? by Guest Blogger

22 December 2007 - Where should aid be directed to save homeowners at risk of drowning in mortgage debt?
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Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2007 by Guest Blogger

21 December 2007 - And the winner is...
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The Mad Corporate World of Glenn Beck by Guest Blogger

20 December 2007 - Norman Solomon goes on Glenn Beck's TV show and talks corporate ownership of and advertising in media. He brings the discussion close to Mr. Beck's home, much to the chagrin of the host.
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Gitmo Propaganda 2: A Wikileaks News Release by Guest Blogger

18 December 2007 - People stationed at Guantanamo Bay may be changing information on the web to shine a more positive light on the U.S. detention facility.
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TomDispatch: The Secret Library of Hope: 12 Books to Stiffen Your Resolve by Guest Blogger

18 December 2007 - It is easy to feel discouraged these days. But that statement can be made of any "these days" in history. Still, throughout history, people have retained hope, making remarkable changes as a result. Here, Rebecca Solnit, offers some of those stories in her "secret library of hope."
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Paying For It by Guest Blogger

15 December 2007 - Trickle-down economics don't work, and still, Democratic presidential candidates are wedded to them. Robert Reich offers what he says should be the Democratic version of tough love.
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The USA's Human Rights Daze by Guest Blogger

14 December 2007 - As Human Rights Day (December 10) came and went with little coverage in the U.S. media, Norman Solomon points out that while "human rights" issues, when covered, are done so as faraway injustice and cruelty, the U.S. fails on many of those issues domestically.
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Piano Wire Pupeteers: The Constitution, Media & Dennis Kucinich by Guest Blogger

12 December 2007 - In a speech given last week at San Francisco State University Sean Penn addressed the issue of electability among the Democratic presidential candidates, and what should make a them electable.
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The Perfect Storm of Campaign 2008: War, Depression, and Turning-Point Elections by Guest Blogger

10 December 2007 - In February of this year, writing about the history of turning-point elections at Tomdispatch.com, Steve Fraser, author of an acclaimed history of Wall Street, Every Man a Speculator, asked a question, but didn't answer it: In the wake of the 2006 Democratic take-over of House and Senate, would campaign 2008 turn out to be a rare presidential election of historic proportions? Now, he offers that answer loud and clear.
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Jewish Book Month recommended reading: Adrienne Rich by Guest Blogger

30 November 2007 - As Jewish Book Month comes to a close, poet-critic Stephen Burt recommends reading one of our nation's most celebrated poets.
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The Proliferation Game: How the World Helped Pakistan Build Its Bomb by Guest Blogger

28 November 2007 - Having followed the trail of A. Q. Khan, the "father" of the "Pakistani" bomb, for the last four years, Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins use rare early letters Khan wrote to a friend and associate to make a simple but extremely powerful and original point, which they put this way: "Pakistan's nuclear arsenal -- as many as 120 weapons -- is no more Pakistani than your television set is Japanese. Or is that American? It was a concept developed in one country and, for the most part, built in another. Its creation was an example of globalization before the term was even coined." From TomDispatch.
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The Media and Labor by Guest Blogger

22 November 2007 - Norman Solomon offers two essays on the media's coverage of the workforce, and just how often that coverage misses the mark.
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TomDispatch: Who's the Enemy? In Iraq, It's Getting Harder to Find Any Bad Guys by Guest Blogger

12 November 2007 - The last three months have brought a dramatic decline in violence in Iraq with both U.S. and Iraqi death totals falling drastically. Under this improved situation, argues Robert Dreyfuss, an opportunity finally exists for a deal to be struck between the Sunni and Shia communities. However, having lost all its credibility over the past years, the U.S. is not in a position to broker the deal.
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Advice to a Young Builder in Tough Times: Imperial Opportunities Abound by Guest Blogger

5 November 2007 - Couched as "advice" to a young builder in tough times domestically, Tom Engelhardt offers a tour of the facts-on-the-ground when it comes to the American garrisoning of the planet -- from the seldom described billion-dollar mega-bases the Bush administration has built in Iraq to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan (about to be enlarged by a third) to bases ranging from Italy and Qatar to the horn of Africa.
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Looking again at Aung San Suu Kyi by JW

31 October 2007 - What a picture can tell us about the world's most stubborn democracy advocate
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Chevron's David O'Reilly and the Power of Human Energy by JW

29 October 2007 - The CEO of Chevron defends his company's right to profit off Burma's bloodbaths
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The generals' shareholders by JW

28 October 2007 - A new film on Burma demolishes the triangulations, rationalizations and hypocrisies of governments, corporate crooks and liars around the globe. It's also a fine love story.
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Sharks Have Everything to Do with Poetry by Guest Blogger

27 October 2007 - What poetry can tell us about really living.
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The Pro-War Undertow of the Blackwater Scandal by Guest Blogger

23 October 2007 - The recent media coverage given to Blackwater misses the mark by calling for a "better war" in Iraq when there should be no war in Iraq. Guest blogger Norman Solomon argues that "Finding better poster boys who can be touted as humanitarians rather than mercenaries won't change the basic roles of gun-toting Americans in a country that they have no right to occupy."
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TomDispatch: The Coming Collision in Sudan, 'With the Lost Boys in Southern Sudan' (Part 2) by Guest Blogger

17 October 2007 - The second part of Independent journalist David Morse's report on his journey into Sudan.
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TomDispatch: With the Lost Boys in Southern Sudan, 'Starting from Zero' (Part 1) by Guest Blogger

15 October 2007 - Independent journalist David Morse takes a dramatic journey into the southern reaches of Sudan, which, in the not too distant future, may be the point of origin for the next disastrous oil war on this planet.
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Asian Artists, Authors Sign Open Letter Supporting People of Burma by The Editors

3 October 2007 - We support the ongoing struggle of the people of Burma for basic human rights, and we admire their expressions of compassion for all humanity. As fellow humans, we stand with them.
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U.N. Actions on Burma Must Be Scrutinized by Guest Blogger

3 October 2007 - We are very saddened and disappointed that the U.N. continues to stay silent on the corruption that exists between its officials and Burma's ruling regime.
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Political 'Science' Truth and Consequences by Guest Blogger

2 October 2007 - Disdain for "science" is cause for political concern. Yet few Americans and no major political forces are "antiscience" across the board. The ongoing prerogative is to pick and choose.
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Freedom as Theft: Honoring American Liberators by Guest Blogger

26 September 2007 - "Order 17": How a single document catches the essence of the sort of "freedom" the Bush administration brings to the planet, a freedom not seen since the heyday of European and Japanese colonialism.
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I never thought I'd say it, but George Bush speaks for me by JW

25 September 2007 - When he spoke about Burma today at the UN, for the first time I can remember (and if only very briefly) I felt proud of this administration.
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The Ballad of Chris McCandless, 15 Years On by Guest Blogger

21 September 2007 - It was fifteen years ago this month when the body of Christopher Johnson McCandless, a 24-year-old honors student from a well-to-do Virginia family, was discovered by moose hunters in an abandoned bus deep in the Alaskan wilderness. In the years...
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When Rasmussen Was King by SM

14 September 2007 - Individual and group. Man and machine. Body and spirit. Strategy and instinct. Effort and luck. Etiquette and pluck. And pain. Exquisite pain. Sure, this year’s Tour de France was marred by shame and sanctimony. But really, so what? It’s still the best, most dramatic competition there is and dammit, I was missing it before it was even over.
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TomDispatch: Is a Jewish Glasnost Coming to America? Despite a Backlash, Many Jews Are Questioning Israel by Guest Blogger

13 September 2007 - Tony Karon, senior editor at TIME Magazine, discusses how he first arrived at the comparison of Israeli behavior on the occupied West Bank to apartheid South Africa and then plunges into the changing attitudes of American Jews and the critical opening of the present moment.
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Thomas Friedman: Hooked on War by Guest Blogger

7 September 2007 - Though Thomas Friedman's patience with the war in Iraq may be running out, he can't seem to bring himself to renounce the war that he helped to launch and then blessed as the incarnation of virtue, which falls in line with his history of enthusiasm for war.
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Seven Years in Hell: On Body Counts, Dead Zones, and an Empire of Stupidity by Guest Blogger

6 September 2007 - On August 22nd the President addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention, giving what is already known as his "Vietnam speech." That day, George W. Bush took the full-frontal plunge into the still-flowing current of the Big Muddy, fervently embracing Vietnam analogy-land and offering the first official presidential body count of the Iraq War.
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Bourne to run (and run and run, and swim a little, and then run some more) by MH

28 August 2007 - In 2004, "Bloody Sunday" director Paul Greengrass seemed an unlikely choice to helm the second and third films in the Bourne series. Three years and two sequels later, I take a look at his impact on the genre.
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An Anecdote about Liam Rector (1949-2007) by EW

21 August 2007 - Liam Rector's efforts to revitalize poetry were two-fold: both writing and encouraging great verse. Not every artist wants to work on the apparatus of his art—the less glamorous side of sitting on committees, founding programs, judging contests—but Liam seemed comfortable...
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Backspin for War: The Convenience of Denial by Guest Blogger

17 August 2007 - The man who ran CNN news during the invasion of Iraq is now doing damage control in response to a new documentary’s evidence that he kowtowed to the Pentagon on behalf of the cable network. His denial says a lot about how “liberal media” outlets remain deeply embedded in the mindsets of pro-military conformity.
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Escalation by the Numbers: What "Progress" in Iraq Really Means by Guest Blogger

15 August 2007 - Someday, we will undoubtedly discover that, in the term "surge" -- as in the President's "surge" plan (or "new way forward") announced to the nation in January -- was the urge to avoid the language (and experience) of the Vietnam era.
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8888 in Burma by JW

8 August 2007 - If you're cynical about politics, you need look no further than Aung San Suu Kyi for inspiration.
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