Stories by Joshua Holland
Joshua Holland is an AlterNet staff writer.
Cusack's anti-war polemic,
War, Inc., continues to defy expectations, despite the traditional media's dismissive reception.
Posted on Jul 12, 2008
Progressive immigration reformers need to do a better job framing their proposals.
Posted on Jul 7, 2008
Redefining the word "immigrant" is an attempt to differentiate between those they hate and their own grandparents.
Posted on Jun 2, 2008
The idea that the government isn't trying to enforce its immigration laws is hogwash -- the problem is that it's all it's doing.
Posted on May 22, 2008
Forced drugging. Abuse. Death. That's what workplace-based immigration enforcement without deeper reform looks like.
Posted on May 21, 2008
An interview with Cusack about his latest film,
War Inc., which takes the outsourcing of military operations to the absurd.
Posted on May 19, 2008
Tough-minded immigration policies keep backfiring, and the debate over them obscures the question of what really works and what doesn't.
Posted on May 13, 2008
A perfect example of short-sighted public policy.
Posted on May 6, 2008
We must focus on the unregulated and substandard jobs that migrant workers fill, rather than on the individuals who work them.
Posted on May 1, 2008
What separates Carter from the neocons is his genuine desire to negotiate a Middle East peace settlement, and that means talking to everyone.
Posted on Apr 21, 2008
Using a mixture of cultural ignorance, incompetence and a touch of cronyism, the U.S has turned a patriotic nation against itself.
Posted on Apr 15, 2008
The two Dems lie every time they discuss Iraq on the campaign trail, but the media refuse to call them on it.
Posted on Apr 5, 2008
The traditional media is incapable of reporting what's going on in Southern Iraq.
Posted on Mar 27, 2008
The death of the 4,000th U.S. soldier in an IED attack on Sunday is big news, but what does it tell us?
Posted on Mar 24, 2008
A reluctant Guantanamo Bay jailer, who found himself working in that "legal black hole" at age 19, tells his shocking story.
Posted on Mar 18, 2008
Vets from Iraq and Afghanistan tell their stories. (With a guide to AlterNet's comprehensive Winter Soldier coverage.)
Posted on Mar 17, 2008
Apparently, they're a couple of decades behind the "liberal" West, and not so stuck after all.
Posted on Mar 8, 2008
It's easy to forget that the road to Guantánamo began in places like Kandahar and Jalalabad.
Posted on Feb 26, 2008
Ralph's no spoiler, but this is not the time for third-party runs.
Posted on Feb 25, 2008
Clinton offers centrist fixes for our economic problems, but they go a long way toward helping the middle class.
Posted on Feb 19, 2008
Once you crack the media myths surrounding him, it's unlikely voters are going to go for an angry, unstable, hypocritical warmonger.
Posted on Feb 4, 2008
Little evidence Clinton's tears changed voters' minds.
Posted on Jan 9, 2008
Flowery talk of hope and reconciliation has enormous appeal, but what we need is a fighter.
Posted on Jan 7, 2008
The rhetoric sounds much the same, but there are real differences in policy.
Posted on Jan 3, 2008
A majority of Iraqi lawmakers say renewal requests not ratified by the parliament are illegal.
Posted on Dec 20, 2007
Forty years after the Civil Rights Era, African-Americans are falling further behind whites economically.
Posted on Dec 17, 2007
The conventional wisdom has it all backwards.
Posted on Dec 16, 2007
It's harder to move up the economic ladder in the United States than in other wealthy countries. What happened to the American dream?
Posted on Dec 11, 2007
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear the next major challenge to Bush's imperial power grab, AlterNet talks with Michael Ratner, who has been at the center of the battle over the administration's human rights assault.
Posted on Dec 3, 2007
*Ron Paul's a wingnut, yes, but he's an anti-empire, anti-war wingnut who doesn't believe the president should be king.
Posted on Nov 29, 2007
His campaign insists that it's not just symbolic.
Posted on Nov 15, 2007
It's a perfect blend of bad policy and losing politics.
Posted on Nov 13, 2007
American conservatives embrace Dutch firebrand's calls for destruction of Islam.
Posted on Nov 12, 2007
Bush needs the U.N.'s cover to justify the occupation, but the only way he can renew the expiring U.N. mandate is to cut Iraq's frail democracy out of the process.
Posted on Nov 9, 2007
A interview with the author of a new book on the Iraqi defector code-named "Curveball," whose made-up intelligence on Saddam's WMD programs was central to the Bush Administration's case for invasion.
Posted on Oct 22, 2007
Let's call Joe Biden's Senate plan to split Iraq in three pieces for what it is: a blueprint for ethnic cleansing and possibly a full-blown civil war.
Posted on Oct 15, 2007
More and more working Americans are realizing that the game is rigged against them.
Posted on Oct 12, 2007
The conventional wisdom has it all wrong.
Posted on Oct 5, 2007
This fall, Americans are going to witness Bush's brutal "crackdown" on illegal immigration designed to appease right-wing hardliners.
Posted on Sep 21, 2007
Another manufactured outrage by the right and another cowering Democratic performance in Congress.
Posted on Sep 20, 2007
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