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Current Thinking @ Tikkun Magazine

Memos to Obama

Chris Hedges: Stop Begging Obama

Israeli Peace Activist's Disappointment with Obama

Letter to Obama from a Palestinian Doctor in Galilee

Obama's first Hundred Days

Uri Avnery On How To Create Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Joseph Schwartz on How a President Creates Change

Catherine Keller on the Green Shift

Mel Duncan on Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping

Fritjof Capra on Global Civil Society

Robert Hardies on Dancing in the Streets

Ulrich Duchrow on Listening to the Victims

Fred Dobb on Curbing Carbon as a �Faith-Based Initiative�

Neale Donald Walsch on Changing The Story

Mitchell Plitnick on Human Rights and Mideast Progress

Jerome Kagan on Maintaining the Public�s Trust

An open letter from Italian organizations for nonviolence

William Schulz on Expanding the Meaning of Rights

David Loy: Don�t Waste the Crisis!

Joan Borysenko on Creating a Civilization with a Heart

Carol Lee Flinders on Ending the Death Penalty

Gary Dorrien on Taking Social Investment Seriously

Bill Moyer on Progressives for the Obama Administration

The Obama Administration

Can Obama Lead?

The Tikkun/NSP Conferences in SF Feb 15 and DC June 11-13

42 Arrested in Capitol Protest Against Torture

Support Obama to BE the Obama Americans Thought They Were Voting For

The Meaning of the Massachusetts Senate Election

Why Obama is Failing by Robert Parry

Obama's "Just Peace" Approach

Reactions to Obama's Nobel Peace Prize from the Middle East

Van Jones' Resignation: Bad for the Country and Bad for Obama

Money Talks--So Talk Back

Chris Hedges: Liberals are Going Nowhere

What Obama Must Do to Save Universal Health Care: Robert Reich's Open Letter to Obama

Michelle Dillon on Obama's Catholic sensibility: a positive evaluation

NSP/Tikkun Core Vision--and why you should read or re-read it now!

From MoveOn.org: Don't Let Them Derail Health Care Reform

The G-20 Summit: An Early Test for Obama

Obama's Address: Smooth? Yes. Transformative? No. By David Lindorff

Full Employment is Possible

Rabbi Lerner's Report on the Inauguration Experience in D.C.

James Petras on "The Election of the Greatest Con Man in Recent History," a rant against Obama

Is Obama's Foreign Policy "the change we really want?"

Exit Poll: A Progressive's Doubts About Obama

Health Care

Peter Drier Argues for why we should support the health care bill that will emerge from the House-Senate conference committee

Ten Reasons To Defeat the Senate Health Care Bill

The Health Care Reform: Worse than Nothing!--Dr. John Geyman

Is the House Health Care "Reform" Better Than Nothing?

Kucinich Denounces Health Care Sell-Out by Pelosi and the House Dems

Health Care Reform -- and Our Image of God

Dr. Arnold S. Relman: Eliminate the Profit Motive from Health Care Or Face Fiscal Disaster

Building on the Hopeful Aspects of Obama's Health Care Speech and Helping Him Get Beyond His Internal Condtradictions and the In

Assessing a "Public Option" from a Faith-Inspired Perspective

George Lakoff on Obama's Problem on Health Care

Dennis Kucinich on The Health Care Fiasco

The Public Option is Not What You Think It Is--it has been watered down to almost be meaningless

Why Can't Obama Convince the Dems?

47 Religious Leaders Issue Call for Health Care Reform--and Why I Signed a Statement that Seems Very Weak

Religion

Anyone Care About the Murder of a Jew in a Jewish Office?

Rabbis Who Preach Hatred and Murder

Towards Reconnecting with the Eastern European Jewish Legacy to Humanity and Going Beyond Memorializing the Holocaust......

The Evolution of God: An Interview with Robert Wright

Contemporary Culture

The Bear Missed the Train--Humor from Lee Israel

Aging As a Woman

"The Reader": A Learning Disabilities Specialist's Perspective

Social Transformation

The Medium is the Message: Out of Africa, The Gods Must Be Crazy

Animal-based Diets are Madness and Insanity, writes Richard Schwartz

Israel/Palestine

The Fear of Peace Will Be the Death of Israel

Human Rights Watch: Hamas Report Whitewashes Its War Crimes

Stephen Walt Says George Mitchell Should Resign and End the Pretense of Middle East Negotiations

Henry Siegman on IMPOSING MIDDLE EAST PEACE

Israel Debate Shaping Ca. Congressional Race for 2010

Is Israel Engaged in Apartheid? by Ha'arezt correspondent Akiva Eldar

Israel Should Release All Palestinian Prisoners Needed to Obtain Release of Gilad Shalit

Palestinian Christian Leaders say "Israel Occupation is a sin against God."

Full Text of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's Speech to the General Assemby of Jewish Federations

Remember the Suffering of Sri Lanka

Israeli Peace Activists React to the Resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas, and notes on Israeli West Bank settlers

Transcript of talks on House floor before passing resolution condemning the Goldstone Report

AIPAC Dominated Congress seeks to pass resolution condemning the Goldstone Report, Goldstone's response, and his interview , wit

A Lose/Lose Approach to Middle East Peace

Uri Avnery: Israeli Soldier Gilad Shalit Was NOT Kidnapped

Tikkun Interview with Judge Richard Goldstone on his UN Report on the Gaza War

Obama Wimps Out on Demand for a Settlement Freeze

Right of Reply: Time for a Moral Reckoning, by Brian Walt and Brant Rosen

Uri Avnery plus others on the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict

The latest struggle between Israeli Arabs and Jews--in Acre

Israelis Living on Stolen Palestinian Property

Hamas Shelling of Israeli Towns a Human Rights Violation says Human Rights Watch

Veteran of IDF 1948 War of Independence Renounces Zionism

Hamas Says Yes to Peace; Netanyahu Says No

Netanyahu's Lies About Jerusalem

The Economic Meltdown

The International Monetary Fund Hurts the Countries it is Supposed to Help

Details of how the Bank "Bailout" Costs Taxpayers Billions

Lighten Up--a note from the Future on How the Economic Crisis Got Solved

It's Obama's Depression Now, according to some progressive critics of his policies

Spiritual Progressivism And The Current Moral-Economic Crisis

Economic Democracy - Which Economic System Is Most Consistent With Judaism?

Reforming the Global Economy

Geithner's Bank Bail Out Worse Than You Know

Out of the Box Thinking about our Financial Crisis

Africa: Fragile Development Gains in Danger

What's Obama Up To Economically?

The Economic Stimulus We Need

The US Has Been Its Own Worst Enemy

It's NOT Going to Be OK

Mad about Madoff: the Lessons to Learn

Economics Obama Needs to Know

The Environmental Crisis

A collective awakening? Buddhist reflections on Copenhagen

Cap & Trade Proposal Useless and Copenhagen Strategy Misguided says top Environmental Scientist James Hansen

Support Efforts to Lower Carbon Emissions--both Oct. 24 and beyond

Obama's Climate Bill May Make Things Worse

Geroge Lakoff on How to Talk About the Environment

The Wild Inadequacy of Environmental Measures in the Obama Era

You Cannot Save the Environment Through Cap and Trade

Swine Flu is a Product of Industrialized Farming of Animals

Birkat HaChamah: A Time to Increase Efforts to Start Healing the Planet

Lost From This Good Earth

Purim and Vegetarianism by Richard Schwartz

Two Takes on The Green Collar Economy

Going Too Slow on the Environmental Crisis

U.S. Wars/Global Imperialism

Torture Continues And Comes Home To Roost

The Yes Men reveal the truth of Davos' World Economic Forum

No "Hope for Haiti" Without Justice

U.S. Venezuelan Relations: Imperialism and Revolution

Afghan War is not only immoral and self-defeating, it's also illegal

Oybama (reflections by Israeli Peace Movement Leader Uri Avnery)

Just Peace, Just War: New Paradigms in Strategic Peacebuilding

How to Get OUT of Afghanistan

Expanding the War to Pakistan is NOT a Solution!

The Folly of the Afghan War...and of War Memorials by Chris Hedges

Was Kosovo the Good War? Gibbs responds to Lippman

Response to David Gibbs' "Was Kosovo the Good War?"

Robert Scheer: Afghanistan Looking More Like Vietnam

Immanuel Wallerstein on the Coming Middle East Firestorm

John Perkins: Honduras Coup Orchestrated by two US Corporations?

Unfairly blaming Zionists for the Destruction of Iraq

Obama Escalates, but Poll Shows American Majority Turning Against Afghanistan War

Blackwater Assassins: Some Day They May Murder YOU

Needed: a Left Opposition to Obama

School for Coups

Slavoj Zizek on Iran

"Well at Least Obama's Ending the War in Iraq!" NOT SO FAST, says Michael Schwartz

The Coup in Honduras

Noam Chomsky interview with Amy Goodman

SF voters keep enabling Pelosi to be the War Enabler