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An Old Prayer for Clean Coal: Strip-Mining Jesus 2/8

Just Gimme Some Truth 2/7

Smoke the Bigots Out of the Closet  2/7

On the Claimed 'War Exception' to the Constitution 2/4

Whatever Happened to the Neocons’ Grand Schemes to Control Iraq’s Oil? 2/4

Don’t Call It a 'Defense' Budget 2/2

Seven Days in January; How the Pentagon Counts Coups in Washington  2/1

President Put Politics First on Afghanistan 1/28

ACORN Is Back in the News, but the News Still Gets it Wrong 1/27

The Sanctity of Military Spending 1/26

The "Creation Museum": A National Joke 1/24

How to Squander the Presidency in One Year 1/22

The Great Tea Party Rip-Off  1/18

US Waves White Flag in Disastrous 'War on Drugs' 1/17

What You're Not Hearing about Haiti (But Should Be) 1/14

The People vs. Cap-and-Trade 1/13

The Implosion of the American Political Consciousness 1/10

The Other Plot to Wreck America 1/10

Hard Lessons from Decades Past 1/9

Factory Farmed Meat Can Trigger a Global Pandemic That Wipes Out 60% of Those Infected 1/9

US scientists demand government ban on mountaintop mining 1/7

The 14 Most Heinous Climate Villains 1/6

Colbert's The Word: Ideal or No Deal? 1/6

Counterterrorism in Shambles; Why? 1/6

Sick with Terror 1/6

Civilian Trials and the So-Called Rule of Law 1/6

Welcome to Orwell’s World 1/5

The War on Terror Has Been about Scaring People, Not Protecting Them 1/4

Are Presidents Afraid of the CIA? 12/30

Jesus Hated War -- Why Do Christians Love It So Much? 12/29

Copenhagen Has Given Us the Chance to Face Climate Change With Honesty 12/28

One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists 12/28

The Joys of Airstrikes and Anonymity 12/27

Yasuni Park Trust Fund Will Keep Ecuador's Oil Underground: Obama Mulls Invasion Date (just kidding about the second part, I hope...) 12/22

Flares in the Political Dark 12/22

Matt Taibbi, Bill Moyers and Robert Kuttner: Why Can't Democrats Do Anything Right? 12/21

Meet the FBI Operative Who Threatened My Life, and the Gov.-Elect Who May Have Helped Him 12/16

It Seems Like Washington Wants Another Financial Disaster 12/14

Cap & Dividend: A Clear Winner 12/12

'Just War' Is Just Words 12/12

Tony Blair Admits: I Would Have Invaded Iraq Anyway 12/12

The Strange Consensus on Obama's Nobel Address 12/11

Dear Barack, Spare Me Your E-Mails 12/11

To the Hope and Change Crowd -- How's It Working Out for You? 12/10

Obama's Big Sellout 12/9

The Audacity of Hype 12/9

Afghanistan’s 'Bravest Woman' Pins Hopes on USA, Not Obama 12/9

Rep Rohrabacher Removes Tin-Foil from Hat, Exposes Globalist Cabal Behind Copenhagen Talks 12/9

ClimateGate Is Watergate Redux 12/9

The 6 Weirdest, Scariest Processed Foods 12/8

Why Copenhagen May Be a Disaster 12/7

Google Earth tours Coal River Mountain at COP15 12/7

7 Ways the Battle of Seattle Changed the World 12/4

Afghanistan: The Betrayal 12/4

World's leading climate change expert says summit talks so flawed that deal would be a disaster 12/2

War Profiteers Calculate Windfall,
Activists Plan Mass Protests
12/1

An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore 11/30

Barack Obama: Manchurian Candidate Version 2.0 11/30

How the War Hawks Caged Obama 11/30

The Feds Are Addicted to Pot -- Even If You Aren't 11/30

The Truth of UK's Guilt Over Iraq 11/28

Constant Information - and Nothing Remembered 11/26

Refuse Allegiance to Coal 11/23

Why Afghans Dig Empire Graveyards 11/23

Obama needs to feel the heat 11/22

The New (Green) Arms Race 11/19

Nuclear Power’s Megafraud 11/19

Modern Life Is Probably Screwed by Peak Oil, But It's Not Too Late to Avoid Mass Starvation 11/19

Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer We Elected President? 11/18

Where's the Love? Will Lisa Jackson and Nancy Sutley Ever Visit a Mountaintop Removal Site? 11/18

Let's Not Lecture Chinese About Censorship 11/17

The Top One Reason Religion Is Harmful 11/15

Twenty Years From Now, You Will Lie To Your Children 11/15

Politico Trivializes Rape by Gov Contractors, Spins Franken Amendment as Partisan Attack (Obsenity-Laden Rant Alert) 11/14

Hypocrisy Watch: RNC Insurance Plan Has Covered Abortions for 18 Years 11/13


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The End of Reason 5/31/05

Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit - And Power 12/7/2004

Mountaintop removal coal mining and the "clean coal" oxymoron

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Harry Reid ready to play at recess 2/8

First "Corporate Person" Runs for Political Office  2/7

Coal lobby study touts industry’s benefits to W.Va. 2/5

There's Real Hope From Haiti and It's Not What You Expect 2/5

Dennis Blair: US Can Kill Suspected American Terrorists Abroad 2/4

Family Research Council Calls for Criminalization of Gay Sex 2/3

Why Has the FDA Allowed a Drug Marked 'Not Safe for Use in Humans' to Be Fed to Livestock Right Before Slaughter? 2/3

'Peace Prize' President Submits Largest War Budget Ever 2/2

Howard Zinn, Historian, Dies at 87  1/28

FBI Arrests James O'Keefe At Landrieu's Office 1/27

RFK, Jr., Coal Baron Spar Over Mountaintop Removal, Climate Change 1/22

Guantánamo 'Suicides' Were at Secret 'Black' Site 1/20

Marine Corps Concerned About 'Jesus Guns,' Will Meet With Trijicon 1/20

Aid plane turned away from Haiti airport by US controllers, says medical charity - Was it bcause they were French? 1/18

World Pledges Quake Aid, Haitians Still Waiting 1/17

Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions 1/10

Why Is the Whistleblower Who Exposed the Massive UBS Tax Evasion Scheme the Only One Heading to Prison? 1/8

Giuliani: ‘We Had No Domestic Attacks Under Bush’ 1/7

Danish Prime Minister Announces Invasion of Somalia (satire-esque) 1/7

Did U.S. Forces Execute Kids in Afghanistan? 1/6

CIA Agents in Afghanistan Are 'Menace to Themselves,' Former Operatives Claim 1/6

Anti-Terrorism Officials Are Regulating Us, Not Terrorists 1/6

The Airport Scanner Scam 1/5

Wall Street ready to claim billions in tax breaks on bonus payments 1/3

Yummy! Ammonia-Treated Pink Slime Now in Most U.S. Ground Beef 1/2

US Judge Dismisses All Charges in Blackwater Iraq Killings 1/1

Canada Successfully Destroys Parody Websites 12/20

Top 1 Percent Control 42 Percent of Financial Wealth in the U.S. 12/27

Bachmann farm gets big federal payouts but not much MSM attention 12/25

San Francisco Launches Pioneering GlobalTap 'Refilling Stations' That Are Strangely Similar to, um, Water Fountains 12/18

Former Police Chief Norm Stamper: 'Let's Not Stop at Marijuana Legalization' 12/14

War Propaganda Continues Unabated with Retired General 12/11

Supreme Court's Ruling Would Allow Bin Laden to Donate to Sarah Palin's Presidential Campaign 12/11

Not Satire: Obama to Invoke Aghanistan in His Nobel Speech 12/9

Copenhagen Climate Summit in Disarray after 'Danish Text' Leak 12/9

45-minute WMD claim 'may have come from an Iraqi taxi driver' 12/8

Former Guantánamo Prosecutor Loses Job for Criticizing Military Commissions 12/8

Business Fumes Over Carbon Dioxide Rule 12/7

McCain says Afghanistan withdrawal has to be tied to ‘success,’ forgets he declared victory years ago 12/2

Canada’s Olympic Crackdown 12/2

Dana Perino and Forgetful FOX News: Neglect 9/11, Claim No Terrorist Attacks with Bush 11/30

Anti-War Protesters Startle Seattle's Holiday Shoppers 11/30

US Journalist , Amy Goodman, Grilled at Canada Border Crossing 11/29

UK Envoy: US Was 'Hell Bent' on Iraq War 11/28

Have West Virginia Officials Lost Their Minds When It Comes to Water Safety Standards? 11/25

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan Revealed 11/24

Zombie Nuke Plants 11/22

FOX rolls wrong video (again), heads may roll 11/20

FOX Fraught with Fraud Again: Covering Palin, They Claim Current Footage, Air Some from Last Year 11/19

How Limousine Liberals, Water Oligarchs and Even Sean Hannity Are Hijacking Our Water Supply 11/19

Ambassador's Cable Prompts Afghan Strategy Shift 11/12

Hightower: Obscenely Rich Bankers Claim to Do God's Work -- They Can Go to Hell 11/18

Sorry Monsanto, You're Wrong: More GE Crops Mean More Pesticides 11/17

Ambassador's Cable Prompts Afghan Strategy Shift 11/12

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Kurt Vonnegut 2005

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