The Obama Administration
- Memos to Obama #3: by Mitchell Plitnick, Robert Hardies, Neale Donald Walsch, Fred Dobb, Ulrich Duchrow, Joseph Schwartz and Joh
More web exclusives! - Memos to Obama # 2: from Joan Borysenko, David Loy, Jerome Kagan, William Schulz, and Italian Peace Organizations.
Web exclusives! - James Petras on "The Election of the Greatest Con Man in Recent History," a rant against Obama
James Petras smashes Obama. We don't agree--but we often publish views with which we do not agree. See out editorial note before Petras' rant against Obama, which he entitled; "A Historic Moment: The Election of the Greatest Con Man in Recent History"
Environmental Crisis
- Going Too Slow on the Environmental Crisis
Bill McKibben asks us to overcome our illusions that things are getting better or that we are on a rational path finally. - The World's Food Crisis: 2008
Why is it happening? A careful analysis of the food crisis. - To Our Next President
Make saving the global environment your first priority: a manifesto from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Economic Meltdown
- Mad about Madoff: the Lessons to Learn
One criminal? Many asleep? Or a system so ethically lacking it generates Madoffs and Meltdowns? - Economics Obama Needs to Know
David Korten's vision of some of what Obama needs to know. And Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has his own framework of info for Obama on economics. The rest of us need to know all this too! - Time for Global Economic Change
Jayati Ghos, professor of Economics at Nehru University in New Delhi, explains why she favors a fundamental transformation in the world's economic structure.
Current Issue
Israel / Palestine
- CEASE FIRE NOW--sign & support a full page ad in the NY Times and Washington Post
End the violence in Gaza now, and use this moment to call for an international peace conference to resolve all the issues between Israel, Palestine, and the surrounding states. Help us put this ad into the NY Times and Washington Post. See the column on left side of our home page to click to where to sign and donate. - Rabbi Lerner on Israel in Gaza
Rabbi Lerner refines previous statements on the current situation in Gaza - Gaza Update, Jan. 2, , 2009. A range of views from Beni Morris and Jonathan Mark to Uri Avneri, Cris Hedges, Gideon Levy and Yos
Gaza, Jan. 1 The debate continues about the war between Israel and Gaza. We present a wide variety of views that you might not have heard or read elsewhere, from Right to Left. Writers go from Beni Morris, who justifies the perspective of the Israeli government, Jonathan Marc who as associate editor of the NY Jewish Week represents a standard perspective inside the organized Jewish community, to a range of views including that of Uri Avneri, Yossi Sarid, Nir Rosen, Robert Fisk, Gideon Levy, Mustafa Barghothi, Ewa Jasiewicz, Norman Solomon, Chris Hedges, Marc Gopin--many of the important voices you won't find in the op-eds of major US newspapers (with the exception of Beni Morris whose worldview meshes neatly with that of the US State Dept). - From Left to Right on Israel Makes War on Gaza
David Grossman, Tom Segev, Ami Isseroff, Dore Gold, Gideon Levy, Bradley Burston on the attack on Gaza. And then: The Israel Committee Against House Demolitions called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for genuine negotiations to end the occupation.
U.S. Wars and Global Imperialism
- Both McCain and Obama Wrong About Afghanistan
Stephen Kinzer argues against escalation of the war in Afghanistan. - The Left Should Not Be Allied with Islamic Extremists
Left Progressive Social Theorist Fred Halliday criticizes the tendency of some on the Left to become apologists for forms of Islamic extremism that are quite regressive. - Iran: the Right's Argument Against Negotiations
We've warned of the danger of attacks and war with Iran in the past. Here we present, as we often do in Tikkun and on our website, a position with which we strongly disagree: MichaelB. Oren and Seth Robinson on "Talk Isn't Cheap with Iran." - Know Your Enemy
Like many demagogues before him, Iran's President Ahmadinejad combines legitimate critique of the Western countries' history of aggression and domination with a hateful rhetoric, particularly against Jews. Plus we print a response from Ha'aretz.
Judaism
- Towards Reconnecting with the Eastern European Jewish Legacy
A new project to preserve a unique heritage. - Some Criticism of Israel is Genuinely Anti-Semitic
Just because the Jewish establishment and its followers call legitimate criticism of Israel "anti-Semitic" does not mean there isn't anti-Semitic criticism of Israel. - The Ghosts of Chanukah Future
Rabbi Jill Jacobs on how Chanukah represents the triumph of memory over history.
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