Commentary
Christians United for Israel and Attacking Iran
August 18 - We can't ignore Christian Zionists' influence on U.S. policy toward the Middle East By Farrah Hassen and Dedrick Muhammad, published in Common Dreams and Foreign Policy In Focus.

Commentary
Baseball – Big and Little: Its Role in U.S.-Cuba Relations
August 8 - Let's face it, sports fans, baseball, like most of the great cultural institutions of our country, is a major multi-billion dollar business. By Saul Landau, published in Foreign Policy In Focus.

Talking Points
U.S. Middle East Strategy Under New Pressure
July 24 - UFPJ Talking Points #60: Talks, at least about talking, take hold. By Phyllis Bennis.

Essay
The End of History: With a Period, Not a Question Mark
July 22 - A letter from Abu Dis, Occupied West Bank. By Phyllis Bennis, published in The Nation.

Essay
North Korea, Japan and the Abduction Narrative of Charles Robert Jenkins
July 2 - How will strange abductions from Korea figure in the transformation of Japanese foreign policy? By John Feffer, published in Japan Focus.

Commentary
Postcard from... Dhaka
August 11 - A new mega-mall in Dhaka is symbolic of the flawed approach to solving Bangladesh's problems. By Saif Rahman, published in Foreign Policy In Focus.

Op-Ed
Billions for War, Peanuts for Disaster
July 21 - Unfortunately, the U.S. government has not yet learned the lessons of Katrina. By Saul Landau, published in The Asheville Citizen-Times, The Bemidji Pioneer, The Middletown Press, The Reporter (Palos Heights, IL).

Op-Ed
Private Jet Passengers Still Go Their Own Way
July 8 - Private jets strain the air transport system, and they impose costs on taxpayers and other travelers because they don't pay their fair share. By Chuck Collins, published in The Corvalis Gazette-Times, The Daily Item, The Duluth News Tribune, The Greenwich Time, The Hartford Courant, The Huntsville Times, The Missoulian, The Monitor, The New Haven Register, The Scranton (Sunday) Times, The Spokesman-Review, The Stamford Advocate, The Tri-Valley Herald.

Magazine Article
Remembering Stewart
July 7 - A tribute to the great philanthropist Stewart Mott. By John Cavanagh, published in The Nation.

Op-Ed
Seeking a Sign of CEO Excess? Look Up in the Sky
June 27 - The private-jet perk is - literally and figuratively - a high-profile sign of an executive reward system out of control. By Sarah Anderson and Chuck Collins, published in AlterNet and The Baltimore Sun.

Op-Ed
Gore’s Challenge Puts the Heat On
August 16 - Gore's call for the United States to source all its electricity from clean, renewable energy within a decade is truly revolutionary. By Janet Redman, published in The Asheville Citizen-Times.

Magazine Article
The Waste-Pickers of Delhi
August 4 - The original Delhi recyclers have turned garbage into cash for decades. Now, a carbon-credit-generating incinerator may put them out of business. By Daphne Wysham, published in Mother Jones.

Magazine Article
Why Carbon Offsets Backfire
August 3 - With a city motto of "Exclusively Industrial," the town of Vernon was already a pollution magnet. Then offsets made it worse. By Daphne Wysham, published in Mother Jones.

Op-Ed
Will Illicit Crop Cultivation Decline Amid Rising Food Prices?
July 23 - Probably not. By Sanho Tree, published in Latin America Advisory.

Op-Ed
Missed Opportunity in Hokkaido
July 13 - G8 leaders' seclusion at the Lake Toyako resort was symbolic of their larger isolation from global public opinion on fighting global warming. By Janet Redman, published in Celsias.