Top 20 Articles of 2008

This is my subjective list of the Top 20 Articles of 2008

1. A Shattering Moment in America's Fall From Power, The Guardian/UK, John Gray, 9-28-08
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/28/usforeignpolicy.useconomicgrowth

2. The New Humanitarian Order, The Nation, Mahmood Mamdani, 9-10-08
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080929/mamdani

3. Confronting the Terrorist Within, TruthDig, Chris Hedges, 12-1-08
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081201_confronting_the_terrorist_within/

4. Is Google Making Us Stupid?, The Atlantic Magazine, Nicholas Carr, July/August 2008
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

5. The Gospel of Consumption, Orion Magazine, Jeffery Kaplan, 5-3-08
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/03/8686/

6. Gaza: The Logic of Colonial Power, The Guardian/UK, Nir Rosen, 12-29-08
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/29/gaza-hamas-israel

7. Looking Up: Normalizing Air War From Guernica to Arab Jabour, TomDispatch.com, Tom Engelhardt, 1-30-08
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6724/

8. Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood, Foreign Policy in Focus, Walden Bello, 2-21-08
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4996

9. Going Bankrupt, TomDispatch.com, Chalmers Johnson, 1-23-08
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/23/6553/

10. The Great Silence, TomDispatch.com, Steve Fraser, 4-23-08
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/23/8475/

11. What’s Your Consumption Factor?, The New York Times, Jared Diamond, 1-2-08
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02diamond.html

12. Mission Creep: America's Unwelcome Advance, MotherJones, Chalmers Johnson, 8-22-08
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/09/chalmers-johnson-on-pentagon.html

13. The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff, Truthdig, Chris Hedges, 12-8-08
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081208_hedges_best_brightest/

14. Our Infantile Search for Heroic Leaders, The Independent/UK, Johann Hari, 6-26-08
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-our-infantile-search-for-heroic-leaders-854278.html

15. Empire or Humanity, TomDispatch.com, Howard Zinn, 4-2-08
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/02/8031

16. Why Bananas Are a Parable of Our Times, The Independent/UK, Johann Hari, 5-22-08
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-why-bananas-are-a-parable-for-our-times-832104.html

17. Is the Web helping us evolve?, Salon.com, David Brin, 12-23-08
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2008/12/23/david_brin_google/?source=newsletter

18. Is Water Becoming 'The New Oil'?, The Christian Science Moniter, Marc Clayton, 5-30-08
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/05/29/is-water-becoming-%e2%80%98the-new-oil%e2%80%99/

19. Still No Peace, Foreign Policy in Focus, Stephen Zunes, 1-16-08
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4897

20. The Lessons of Violence, TruthDig.com, Chris Hedges, 1-21-08
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080121_the_lessons_of_violence/