Viewpoints, December 25, 2009

	The NYT's View of 'Journalistic Objectivity' by Glenn Greenwald
	From Panama to Afghanistan: Selling a 'Just' War by Ron Jacobs

	Emulating Nixon by John Feffer
	Time to End the Neocon Con Game by Bruce P. Cameron

NYTimes Floats the Case for Attacking Iran
Santa's Covert Operations

Discrimination!Nebojsa Malic on Bosnia's Constitution

1914 Christmas Truce

	The Christmas Truce: When the Guns Fell Silent
	1914 and Christmas: What Might Have Been
	In Memory of the Christmas Truce
	The Christmas Truce of 1914
	Stop the War and Love Thy Enemy
	Silent Night, Holy Night
	Short Peace in a Terrible War
	The Most Miraculous Christmas Eve in History
	Veterans Re-Enact Christmas Truce

Viewpoints, December 22, 2009

	What Do the Nazis Have to Do With Afghanistan? by Laurie L. Calhoun
	The Best Argument for the Afghan War – and What's Wrong With It by Jon Wiener

	Making More Terrorists in Yemen by Glenn Greenwald
	GOP Hawks Love Obama's War Talk by Jack Kenny

US News: Supreme Court Guts Due Process Protection

After hearing passionate arguments from the Obama Administration, the Supreme Court acquiesced to the president’s fervent request and, in a one-line ruling, let stand a lower court decision that declared torture an ordinary, expected consequence of military detention, while introducing a shocking new precedent for all future courts to follow: anyone who is arbitrarily declared a “suspected enemy combatant” by the president or his designated minions is no longer a “person.” They will simply cease to exist as a legal entity. They will have no inherent rights, no human rights, no legal standing whatsoever — save whatever modicum of process the government arbitrarily deigns to grant them from time to time, with its ever-shifting tribunals and show trials. read more at Supreme Court Guts Due Process Protection

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Viewpoints, December 21, 2009

	US Turbulence Buffets Pakistan by Eric Margolis
	One Cheer for Tony Blair by Brendan O’Neill
	The Travails of the Young War Criminal by Gwynne Dyer

	Afghanistan: The Never Ending Challenge by H.D.S. Greenway
	Elliott Abrams and 'Neocon-ing' Obama by Robert Parry
	Christmas Wish '09: Repelling the Martian Invasion by Jeff Taylor

Viewpoints, December 19, 2009

Highlights

March Forward!: You Can Quit the ArmyMichael Prysner and James Circello say 50,000 have
Guantanamo Bay, U.S.A.Glenn Greenwald on the bipartisan empire
Guantanamo Prisoner Denied Medicine Candace Gorman says she'd win in a real court

Opinions/Viewpoints

NYT Columnists

Doubts About Certitude

Defense Secretary Robert Gates helped create the mess in Afghanistan decades ago and now has to try to clean it up.MAUREEN DOWD

www.jihad.com

A troop surge won’t work in Afghanistan unless there is a parallel surge against those who promote jihadism online.THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Global Warming's Cold Shoulder

Do advocates of global-warming theory think it helps their cause to ignore questions from skeptics? TOBIN HARSHAW

Protesters offer best hope for our planet

Johann Hari: They have ensured that the corporate lobbyists punching holes in the deal are shamed.

Miraculous Organ: Blair, Obama, and the Narcissist's Defense
by Chris Floyd

	Sanctioning Iran a Dangerous, Illegal Move by Rep. Ron Paul
	Possible Unintended Consequences of Regime Change in Iran by Stephen M. Walt
	Intoxicated by Power, Blair Tricked Us Into War by Ken Macdonald

	Grinding Down the US Army by William Astore and Tom Engelhardt
	Obama's Indecent Interval by Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason
	True Lies: The Tzipi Livni Debacle by Ayman Mohyeldin The War Democrats Justin Raimondo on Sestak's rationale for war Another Questionable Peace Prize Choice Obama has some bad company, says Ivan Eland

Coperhagen Cimate Summit

Guardian, UK

Thousands march on climate summit

Independent, UK

Protest hits climate talks

Johann Hari: It's the protesters who offer the best hope for our planet

New York Times

Climate Talks Near Deal to Save Forests

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAl

The sharp line between a Brazilian forest and a cleared section of land lies at one of the fronts in efforts to save the world’s forests.

Negotiators were closing in on a sweeping deal that would compensate countries for preserving forests and other natural landscapes.

Police Beat Back Climate Protesters

By TOM ZELLER Jr. and JOHN M. BRODER 12:49 PM ET

Reporter’s Notebook

In Copenhagen, ‘To Be Elaborated’ Is a Stalemate

By ANDREW C. REVKIN and JOHN M. BRODER

The top United Nations climate official said the many disputes at the climate conference reflected the challenge of finding common ground among 193 countries.

Viewpoints -- December 15, 2009

	Blair Sold Iraq on WMDs, but Only Regime Change Adds Up by Hans Blix
	Why Did They Go to Pakistan? by Jacob G. Hornberger
	Old US Allies Are Hedging Their Strategic Bets by Leon T. Hadar

	The Slope of Masada by Akiva Eldar
	Parting Thoughts, for Now by William S. Lind
	The Nobel War Prize by Thaddeus Russell

Highlights

Letter from Berlin

Details on Afghanistan Bombing Have Merkel on the Defensive

Has Germany begun targeted killings of Taliban leaders? As details about a German-ordered bombing in Kunduz continue to emerge, the list of questions surrounding the incident is growing longer. Both Chancellor Angela Merkel and Defense Minister Guttenberg face intense criticism. By Charles Hawley more...

A Greek Tragedy

Should the EU Save Athens from Bankruptcy?

In Berlin and Brussels there is growing doubt over whether Greece can solve its debt problems without external help. If nothing is done, the country risks falling into bankruptcy -- with unforeseeable consequences for the European currency. By Wolfgang Reuter more...

Interview with Greek Finance Minister: 'Punitive Measures Are Not Appropriate'

Washington Post Editorial: 'The coming debt panic'

Monday, December 14, 2009
IT'S TIME to stop worrying about the deficit -- and start panicking about the debt. To put it another way, short-term deficits aren't the real problem. The punishing hangover of borrowed money is. The ballooning national debt once looked like a long-term problem. Now, the long-term has become the middle-term, fast-forwarded by the cratering economy and the unavoidable and immense spending in the service of saving it. go to article

Coperhagen Cimate Summit, Dec. 14, 2009

Hopes of global emissions deal at Copenhagen begin to fade

200 more arrests as police take zero-tolerance approach to protesters

Protesters Mostly Quiet After Day of Action

By TOM ZELLER Jr.

Scattered protests continued on Sunday, but climate activists in Copenhagen were largely quiet after a day of mass demonstrations resulted in nearly 1,000 arrests.

Australia’s Rudd Looks for Success in Copenhagen

By MERAIAH FOLEY 6:55 AM ET

The Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is expected to play a key, behind-the-scenes role at the climate talks.

On Green Technology, Germany Is the Envy of the World

Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg argued in SPIEGEL last week that efforts to halt global warming should be postponed. Fritz Vahrenholt, head of the renewable energy operations at German energy company RWE, disagrees. Never before has there been a better chance for a global climate deal, he says. more...

SPIEGEL ONLINE's Climate Countdown: Developing Nations Stage Copenhagen Walkout

New York Times, Editorials, December 14, 2009

Europe and Afghanistan

European countries must join America, which has made disproportionate sacrifices, in what is, emphatically, a common fight in Afghanistan.

Select Editorials on Afghanistan

Can We Afford It?

The argument that the nation cannot afford health care reform is at best disingenuous; the pending bills would actually reduce deficits.

Select Editorials on Health Care

To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East

By SCOTT ATRAN

The key in the Afghan-Pakistani area, as in Southeast Asia, is to use local customs and networks to our advantage.

Japan's Year in Words

By KUMIKO MAKIHARA

This year's selection of most popular Japanese phrases reflects a country battling hard times and fighting the flu.

Dubai Grows Up

By CLAUDIA PUGH-THOMAS

Dubai, the brashest of the seven emirates, is facing something of a midlife crisis. Lost is the blind optimism of its youth. But can the dream be reinvented?

Gone With the Windfall

By PAUL WILMOTT

Will Britain’s bonus tax make banking boring — as it should be?

Columns

Japanese Obsessions

By ROGER COHEN

This comfortable, perfectionist society of narrowed ambition leads humanity's rush into isolating forms of electronic fixation.

Disaster and Denial

By PAUL KRUGMAN

The Republican Party won’t face up to the reality of what happened to the U.S. economy. So it’s up to the Democrats.

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Prisons of Our Own Making

By ROSS DOUTHAT

Conservatives need to take ownership of prison reform, and correct the system they helped build.

Viewpoints, December 14, 2009

The Taxi Driver Who Drove Us to War
Justin Raimondo on how we were lied into Iraq

	The Strange Consensus on Obama's Nobel Address by Glenn Greenwald
	The Dust Bowl of Babylon by Martin Chulov
	Rearranging the Letters in Obama's 'Just War' Theory by Thomas L. Knapp

	The Af-Pak Train Wreck by Conn Hallinan
	Prussia in Palestine by Uri Avnery
	The Land Mines Obama Won't Touch by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

Obama's War Speech

Obama's War Speech: The Questions It Raises… And The Answer That Must Be Given

By Larry Everestpee

On Tuesday, December 1, at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, President Barack Obama announced that he would send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. He also called for 10,000 more NATO troops, which pushes the total U.S.-led forces to nearly 150,000, and he announced plans to step up the war on a number of fronts including (without being specific) in Pakistan. Obama has now tripled the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan since he took office.
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Editorials from the New York Times

This Week in Copenhagen

There is no chance of even an interim agreement from the global warming conference without the enthusiastic participation of China

Lifting the Silence

Military rules about soldiers in therapy should be redrawn so that every painful discussion does not open the patient’s file to the eyes of a commanding officer.

Columnists

GAIL COLLINS

Going Naked in Kabul

When did we decide that letting private contractors stand in for our military in sensitive and dangerous situations was a good plan?

Op-Ed Contributors

Obama’s Condolence Problem

By PAUL STEINBERG

The increase in suicides in the military suggests that we need to find a balance between concern for families left behind and efforts to prevent copycat suicides.