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On Mosque Madness, The Onion’s Satire Is Indistinguishable from Reality 9/2

Nike to alter uniform ad that upset mine activists 9/2

The Persecution of Rod Coronado 9/1

Fumble: NIKE Runs "Pro Combat" Mountaintop Removal Football Ad 9/1

Two Wars Don’t Make a Right 9/1

"Is a Dream a Lie If It Don't Come True, Or Is It Something Worse?" 8/31

Why Do Deficit Hawks Hate Social Security?  8/31

Lawsuit challenges Obama's power to kill citizens without due process 8/30

What Obama Won't Say Tonight 8/30

In New Orleans, Kindness Trumped Chaos 8/29

Our Bloody Valentine 8/29

The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party 8/28

Assange: The Amazing Adventures of Captain Neo in Blonde Land... 8/27

I Have a Scheme 8/27

Apply the FICA Tax to All Income Including Investment Income and Lower the Retirement Age 8/26

Saudi Royal Backs Imam and Fox News 8/26

Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America's Military Strategy in the Muslim World 8/24

There Are No Heroes in Illegal and Immoral Wars 8/23

Now That’s Rich 8/22

Fallout of Hate Is Spreading Across America from "Ground Zero" 8/22

How Fox Betrayed Petraeus 8/22

Fears, Feelings and Reason 8/22

Is Your Favorite Ice Cream Made With Monsanto's Artificial Hormones? 8/21

Understanding America's Class System 8/20

Spinning the US Failure in Iraq 8/20

Iraq: Torture. Corruption. Civil war. America has Certainly Left Its Mark 8/20

Republican Attacks on Muslims Threaten the Security of the United States 8/20

Former FBI Agent on Park51 Opposition: Bin Laden’s “Next Video Script has Just Written Itself” 8/19

Climate Ostriches: Why Russia's and Pakistan's Extreme Weather Is About To Become the Norm 8/19

A Neocon Preps US for War with Iran 8/19

Iceland Set to Become a Press Freedom Haven 8/19

Calhoun's Berea Gardens Is About “Saving The Seeds” 8/18

President Obama Says Gulf Beaches Are Safe—But Are They? The Gulf is Dying, Environmentally and Economically 8/18

Tipping Points, Are We Headed Toward Theocratic Fascism? 8/17

Letting the Banksters 'Settle' 8/17

Living in a ‘Post-Racist’ Society 8/17

Uncovering the Lies That Are Sinking the Oil 8/16

Plugged Stupid 8/16

Attacking Social Security 8/16

How Truth Can Save Lives 8/15

'What Happens if We Stay in Afghanistan': A Response to TIME Magazine 8/15

Afghan Women Have Already Been Abandoned 8/14

Dismembering Afghanistan 8/13

Sanctify This  8/13

BP Links Compensation With Continued Oil Production In The Gulf 8/12

Should the U.S. Enter into a Collateral Agreement with BP? 8/12

New Outrages Keep Gushing From BP 8/11

Their Backs Against Legal Wall, Foes of Same-Gender Marriage Plunge Into Paranoid Hysteria 8/11

End of the Internet? Google-Verizon Pact: It Gets Worse 8/10 

Open Source Tools Turn WikiLeaks Into Illustrated Afghan Meltdown 8/10

Pfc. Manning and the Value of Truth 8/9

Truthfulness in advertising? Who knows – it could just catch on 8/8

Meet Breitbart's Sherrod writer: Racist sexual "expert" and inventor (who cured cancer) 8/7

West Virginia Democrats Deserve A Real Primary-- Meet Ken Hechler, The Progressive In The Race 8/6

Clinton Refuses to Answer My Questions About Gaza Flotilla 8/6

The Flimflam Man 8/6

The Temperature Is Getting Hot as Hell and We're Not Going to Take It Any More 8/5

Whose Hands? Whose Blood?: Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq  8/5

GOP Politician Confirms What Was Long Suspected: Republicans Intentionally Feed the Racism, Anger, and Paranoia of the Far Right 8/4

Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn 8/2

Embarrassica the Mutilated 8/2

"Ground zero mosque": Sensible people fearing Islam 8/2

Here Be Dragons 8/2

Why Do the Rich Get to Go Through Airport Security Faster Than You? 8/1


Journal of 9/11 Studies

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

Republican Standard Time - 9/11
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Will Glenn Beck's Creepy "Black Robe Regiment" Use Churches to Sway Voters? 9/2

Feds Warn Residents Near Wyoming Gas Drilling Sites Not To Drink Their (Exploding) Water 9/1

The Iraq war? Fuggedaboudit 9/1

Obama Once Again Shows his Allegiance to War Profiteers: William Kristol Praises Obama's Speech 8/31

As U.S. Troops Move Out Of Iraq, Oil Companies Move In 8/31

Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change 8/30

Rights Groups File Challenge to Targeted Killing by US 8/30

"Palestinian Gandhi" Convicted for Protesting; US Silent 8/30

Coburn Says Gingrich Is The ‘Last Person’ He’d Vote For, Citing His Lack Of ‘Commitment’ To Marriage  8/30

One-in-Five U.S. Prisoners Raped on First Day of Incarceration 8/27

Wikileaked CIA Memo Warns of American Jewish Extremists Exporting Terror Abroad 8/26

Facing Prison for Filming US Police 8/26

Karzai Aide in Corruption Inquiry Is Tied to C.I.A. 8/25

Medley of European Climate Actions Include High Seas Drama 8/23

Blackwater vs. Pinkwater: The Wife of Erik Prince Picks a Fight With CODEPINK 8/23

Portions of the Gulf are So Toxic that Dolphins, Fish, Crabs, Stingrays and Other Animals are "Trying to Crawl Out of the Water" 8/22

"Pakistani officials say they set out to capture Abdul Ghani Baradar because they wanted to shut down secret peace talks he had been conducting with the Afghan government." 8/22

The Idiocy of the Pew Poll on Obama's Religion 8/21

Arrest Warrant for Assange Dropped 8/21

Dirty Tricks? WikiLeaks Founder 'Wanted for Rape' 8/21

US exit from Iraq is a phoney withdrawal 8/20

Could a Legal Technicality Prevent Banks from the Right to Foreclose on 62 Million Homes? 8/20

Scientists Find Giant Plume of Droplets 'Missed' by Official Account 8/19

Why the Mainstream Media Can't Stop the 'Ground Zero Mosque' Hysteria 8/19

The GMO Catastrophe in the USA. A Lesson for the World 8/17

CIA Interrogation Tapes That 'Didn't Exist' Found Under Desk 8/17

Old-Style Coal Plants Expanding 8/17

Russia launches inquiry into Pavlovsk seed bank after Twitter campaign 8/16

Mankind Is Using Up Global Resources Faster Than Ever 8/16

Wikileaks Chief to Write Monthly Column in Top Swedish Online Tabloid 8/15

Dead fish all over the east coast, lack of oxygen from gulf disaster 8/14

Gitmo Judge Admits Confession Extracted By Rape Threat 8/12

Dennis Kucinich Makes a Serious Push to Ban Govt. Assassinations of US Citizens 8/12

Alan Grayson: Obama's 'Bozo the Spokesman' Robert Gibbs Should Be Fired for Comments About Liberals 8/12

Michael Moore suggests White House spokesman smoking ‘really heavy stuff’ 8/11

The Rubin Con Goes On 8/11

Coal Barons At Industry Retreat Plot To Indoctrinate Children About Wonders Of Coal 8/10

Robert Gibbs attacks the fringe losers of the left 8/10

Gingrich Reconciles Cheating On His Wife While Harping On Family Values: ‘It Doesn’t Matter What I Do’  8/10

Google-Verizon Pact Worse than Feared: Democracy on the Internet Faces Foreclosure 8/10

Chavez Rejects Obama's New US Ambassador 8/10

How the Truth Was Hidden About Nagasaki 65 Years Ago  8/10

New York Ends Prison Gerrymandering 8/9

Deficit Frauds Boehner And Pence Can’t Answer How Tax Cuts For Wealthy Will Be Paid For 8/8

Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered 8/6

Shocking Negligence: Gas Companies Drilling in Pennsylvania Have Committed Nearly 1,500 Environmental Violations in Just Two Years 8/5

'Insurance': WikiLeaks Posts Huge Encrypted File to Web 8/5

Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food  8/5

Colbert Calls Out Laura Ingraham For 'Hideous, Hackneyed Racial Stereotypes' In Her Obama Book  8/5

California Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional 8/4

Oilgate! BP and All the President's Men (Except One) Seek to Contain Truth of Leak in the Gulf  8/3

Thanks to WikiLeaker, Afghan War Will End Soon 8/3

Right-Wing Crazies Who Fight Witchcraft and Demons Are Taking Over a State Near You 8/2

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Kurt Vonnegut 2005

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