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February 23, 2009 Issue

Marc Perelman on demonstrations in France, Nicholas von Hoffman on letters from the unemployed, Alexander Cockburn on Barack Obama.

Cover art by: Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

Tiny Tim Sings Off-Key

Geithner was condescending, vague and infuriating as he lectured us on the troubled financial system, feeding a suspicion that he's still working for the other side.

William Greider

Steadfast Before Goliath

A leading Palestinian politician defends his people and their nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation.

Mustafa Barghouti

Jim Harney, 1940-2008

Guided by the principles of liberation theology, he devoted his life to the pursuit of peace and social justice.

Laura Foner and David Weinstein

Reflections of a Troubled Israeli

The Israeli left has emerged from the Gaza offensive weakened, dispirited, but not irrelevant. The bedrock of a change-oriented and open civil society exists.

Naomi Chazan

France in the Streets

In cities and towns across France, people are calling for an in-depth economic revamping that favors the working class.

Marc Perelman

Noted.

The fall of Tom Daschle and the RNC's choice of Michael Steele.

The Editors

Biden v. Summers

As Larry Summers takes a dominant role in crafting economic policy, it's up to Joe Biden to protect the interests of the middle class.

Chris Hayes

Don’t Escalate in Afghanistan

For the sake of the country, his presidency and peace in South Asia, Obama should take the US-led military escalation in Afghanistan off the table.

The Editors

‘Retire Bush’ Contest Winner

The prize, an original drawing by Edward Sorel, is awarded to Kristen Wack. Here is what she thinks Bush should do in retirement, along with some other ideas.

The Editors

Column

Foreclosed Americans Fight Back

As a horrified nation sees millions evicted, community organizations--and at least one lawmaker--advise them to hold their ground.

Nicholas von Hoffman

No Tough Love for Bankers

If you still get those chatty e-mails from the Obama campaign, remind them that we voted for a community organizer from Chicago, not some hack carrying water for Wall Street.

Robert Scheer

A-Rod, Anabolic Agonist

When it comes to steroids, no one, as A-Rod's alleged paramour Madonna might say, is like a virgin.

Dave Zirin

Settling Scores With Wall Street

A lot of angry people in America are lusting to bring Wall Street geniuses who engineered the financial collapse to justice. And they just might succeed.

Nicholas von Hoffman

All of Them Must Go

As cities around the world are rocked with protests, it's clear governments that respond to economic crisis with the discredited free-market agenda will not survive.

Naomi Klein

The Kindness of Strangers

The global economic crisis is showing how wishful was the notion that philanthropy could save the world.

Katha Pollitt

Auguries in the Dawn of Obama-Time

At almost every level, his choices of people and policy have been calibrated to appease the establishment.

Alexander Cockburn

Incentives

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Obama's First 100 Days?--Shut Up!
Carlisle, Pa.

Our Readers

Feature

Few Peacemakers in Israel’s Knesset

Israeli voters have elected a majority of lawmakers who are against the two-state solution. Now it's up to the world--and the Obama administration--to respond.

Neve Gordon

Screwed by the Fine Print

Hidden in the fine print of credit card agreements, patient consent forms and job contracts is an arbitration clause that deprives you of your rights. Congress needs to fix that.

Kia Franklin

The New Gold Standard: Jobs

Keeping labor costs down used to be the standard to measure productivity. Now, it's all about creating jobs--and we can't afford to wait for the private sector to provide them.

Ken Miller

Angry America and the Bailout

As the bailout state goes into overdrive, popular anger at the lords of Wall Street is raging. In 1929, that anger was harnessed to result in huge change. Is the same change possib...

Steve Fraser

How Will Obama Engage on Human Rights?

Bipartisanship promises to be even harder to achieve on human rights than it is on a stimulus package. Two pending decisions at the United Nations will reveal the depth of the admi...

Barbara Crossette

Save the Solis Nomination

Labor secretary-designee Hilda Solis is not a toxic asset in the Obama personnel portfolio. The GOP is wrong to equate her husband's tax dispute with the infractions of high roller...

John Nichols

Will Sri Lanka Drive the Tigers to Extinction?

The Liberation Tigers may be on the verge of final defeat. But will a government military victory really solve the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict?

Sumana Raychaudhuri

Say No to Nukes in the Stimulus Package

The nuclear power industry has dropped a $50 billion bomb into the Senate version of Obama's stimulus package for projects Wall Street wouldn't finance when it was flush.

Harvey Wasserman