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December 2007  

2007 a Year of Weather Records in US 12/30

You’re Damn Right I’m Angry. Why Isn’t Everybody? 12/29

Is the Hydrogen Age Just Around the Corner? 12/28

The Mega-Lie Called the "War on Terror": A Masterpiece of Propaganda 12/27

What Darwin Could Tell Us About the "War on Drugs" 12/27

Announcing the 2007 P.U.-litzer Prizes 12/26

A Quechua Christmas Carol 12/24

The Evangelical Rebellion 12/24

Mitt Romney’s Pursuit of Tyrannical Power, Literally 12/23

Former CIA Analyst Says Evidence Abounds for Impeachment 12/21

Cheney Justice? 12/21

Tony Peyser Comes Clean 12/21

Inherent Powers, Ignoble History Make New Idea Anything But Innocuous 12.20

Bush May Be Forced to Explain Destroyed CIA Torture Tapes 12/18

We’ve Been Suckered Again by the US. So Far the Bali Deal Is Worse than Kyoto 12/17

The five myths about torture 12/16

Kyoto: More Harm Than Good. Where next? 12/15

UN Rights Envoy Suspects CIA of Guantanamo Torture 12/14

After the Money’s Gone 12/14

Only One Thing Unites Iraqis: Hatred of the US 12/14

Destruction of CIA Tapes Can't Hide Barbaric U.S. Torture Methods 12/13

Two Critical (But Tentative) Green Victories Hang in the Balance 12/11

Democrats choice: corporate or Kucinich center? 12/11

The Real Answer to Climate Change Is to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground 12/11

Big Oil Lets Sun Set on Renewables 12/11

US Balks at Bali Carbon Targets 12/11

Mitt Romney's theoconservatism 12/10

Neocons Devastated by Iran Intel Bombshell, But Don't Count Them Out Yet 12/9

Calling on Congress to Stop a War 12/8

God commands you to read this: Honestly, I won't mind if you don't. But the Lord visited me personally. Do it! 12/7

Food Prices Climbing, With No End in Sight 12/6

The CIA ‘War’ on Bush: The New Neocon Ploy 12/6

It Turns Out Ahmadinejad Was the Truthful One 12/5

How the Mainstream Corporate Media Echoed the Lies of the Bush Administration About Iran 12/5

Daniel Ellsberg Talks About the Shadow Government and the Need to Let the Sunshine In 12/4

Fact-Based Intelligence Prevails on Nukes and Iran 12/3

Eat, Drink and Be Miserable: The True Cost of Our Addiction to Shopping 12/3

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps 12/2

Iran Didn't Spark a Middle East Nuclear Arms Race, It's Joining the One Israel Started 12/2

US's Colonial Iraq Gov't Slashes Food Rations 12/29

The Torture Tape Cover-up: How High Does It Go? 12/28

2007: Top Ten Tales of War and Empire 12/28

CIA Jet Carrying Four Tons of Cocaine Also Made Trips to Gitmo 12/28

Pakistan’s Bhutto and At Least 20 Others, Killed In Attack 12/20

Benazir Bhutto killed in attack 12/27

Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950 (Bush said to be envious) 11/23

As Primaries Begin, the FEC Will Shut Down 12/22

FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics 12/22

Lakota Sioux Secede From US, Declare Independence 12/21

Bush, Maliki Break Iraqi Law to Renew UN Mandate for Occupation 12/20

Iraq, Afghanistan War Costs Top Vietnam 12/20

NY Times Buries Dodd's Filibuster Threat Victory 12/18

Huckabee Covered Up His Son's Torturing and Murdering of Dog 12/18

Bush Claims ‘We Have Fabulous Health Care’ Compared To ‘Other Systems Around The World’ 12/18

Judge: White House logs are public 12/17

Colorado's Republican Sec. of State Decertifies E-Voting Machines After Failed Testing 12/17

Halliburton and CNN Categorize Gang Rape Allegation as a “Dispute” 12/15

Hoodwinked in Bali on Carbon Credits 12/13

CIA destroyed tapes despite court orders 12/12

Iraq Rejects Permanent US Bases 12/11

Gang Rape Cover-Up by Halliburton/KBR Revealed 12/11

BP Set To Commit ‘The Biggest Environmental Crime in History’ 12/11

Hoodwinked in Bali on Carbon Credits 12/10

CIA photos 'show UK Guantanamo detainee was tortured' 12/10

Download A Song -- Lose Your Loan 12/9

Inquiry Begins Into Destruction of Tapes 12/9

The Senate and the Iran NIE 12/9

Giuliani Tells Manufacturers That What Defines "The Essential Nature" of Americans is "We Want to Sell You Something" 12/8

World Climate Change Protests Kick Off 12/7

House Brushes Aside Veto Threat, Passes Energy Bill 12/6

MoveOn.org Shouldn't Attack Petraeus BUT Bolton Can Smear Entire National Intelligence Establishment? 12/6

White House Reveals Bush Lied: Was Told In August Iran’s Nuclear Program ‘May Be Suspended’ 12/6

Cheney Tried to Stifle Dissent in Iran NIE 12/5

Evidence Of Innocence Rejected at Guantanamo 12/5

Texas Science Curriculum Director Canned for Mentioning Evolution 12/4

U.S. Says Iran Ended Nuclear Weapons Work in 2003 12/3

US says it has right to kidnap British citizens 12/2

GOP will demand 'oath' of February primary voters 12/2

 
November 2007  

Hey Bubba, Where You Going With That Oil? 11/30

Global Warming: The Rich Opt Out 11/29

Kucinich for ‘Realists’ 11/29

Karl Rove’s Shameless, Remorseless, Soulless Attempt to Rewrite History 11/29

Jump on the Peace Train 11/28

Have They No Shame? 11/28

Black Friday Die Die Die 11/28

The Reagan Era Death Squads Surface Again, This Time In Iraq. Which Ones are on "Our Side"? 11/28

Oil Scandal, Larry Flynt Investigation Led to Trent Lott's Early Exit 11/28

Consumer-Driven Culture Is Killing Our Democracy 11/28

This Revolution Will Not Be Televised 11/27

Iraq Has Only Militants, No Civilians 11/27

Why do ‘Liberal Media’ Go So Easy on Bush? 11/27

Dr. Strangelove for president? 11/26

The Bush Family Gets Away with Crimes That Would Land Anyone Else in Jail 11/26

We Face Worldwide Drought with No Contingency Plan 11/25

Carbon Capture: Miracle Cure for Global Warming, or Deadly Liability? 11/24

I’ll Take Unasked Obvious Follow-Ups For $2000, Alex… 11/22

Dana Perino gets caught up in Scotty McClellan's Groundhog Day 11/22

Saudi Rights Lawyer Sidelined by Bush's Buddies 11/22

Scott McClellan says Bush, Cheney, Rove et al lied about outing Plame  11/21

Iraq's Laboratory of Repression 11/20

Here Come the Thought Police 11/20

Nuclear Two-Step 11/20

Fox News's status as a politically impartial channel is at last being exposed as a fiction  11/19

Bad Intelligence: America's History of Bungled Spying 11/19

Is Reason Magazine Afraid of Naomi Klein's Book? 11/19

‘Safe’ Uranium That Left a Town Contaminated 11/18

Bush-Cheney Really Are Planning to Attack Iran! 11/17

A Question No One Wants to Raise About Drought 11/16

Grannies Urge Closing the US Bases on Foreign Soil 11/16

It’s Treason: Dems Stay Silent on Bush White House Crimes 11/16

Obama: Played for a Sucker 11/16

The Man Who Bombed Hiroshima 11/16

Researchers Name the World’s Dirtiest Power Plants, Introduce Website 11/15

US Economy–Recession, Depression, or Collapse? 11/14

Latin America's Shock Resistance 11/14

Dick Cheney's Sadistic Passion for Shooting Tame Animals 11/14

Pakistan’s Con Continues 11/14

Behind the Drums of War with Iran: Nuclear Weapons or Compound Interest? 11/13

Pakistan’s Dictatorships and the United States 11/13

The Courage of Kucinich in Pelosi’s House of Wacks 11/12

The Coup at Home 11/12

Dianne Feinstein -- Bush's key ally in the Senate -- to support telecom amnesty 11/12

Iraqi fighters 'grilled for evidence on Iran' as Cheney searches for another Curveball 11/11

This Is Your Brain on Politics 11/11

Biofuels Could Kill More People Than the Iraq War 11/10

The Unsung Solution; What Rhymes With Waste-Heat Recovery? 11/10

Suitcase nukes said unlikely to exist 11/10

Bush's Favorite Lie 11/9

Bush Derangement Syndrome 11/9

Gangster Giuliani: The GOP's Worst 11/8

Zinn Renews Call To End ‘Sham’ War 11/7

A Vote for Mukasey Is a Vote for Torture 11/7

This is one dangerous man: it's George Bush with brains 11/5

A ‘Paper Coup,’ and Blackwater Eyes Midtown Manhattan 11/5

Déjà Vu All Over Again 11/5

Bush Is Right to Worry If Waterboarding Is Defined as Torture 11/5

Seven Bad Assumptions We Make About Iran 11/5

What kind of nut wants war with Iran? 11/4

Noun + Verb + 9/11 + Iran = Democrats’ Defeat? 11/4

Bring on the Recession 11/3

What It Will Take to Build a Sustainable U.S. 11/3

Calling the Question — In the House — on Impeaching Cheney 11/2

Prostates and Prejudices 11/2

UN Spurns Cuba Embargo for 17th Year 11/1

Kasparov Warns of ‘Chaos’ in Russia 11/30

The White House 'After Party' 11/29

WaPo Edit Page Says White House Outreach To Syria Might Work -- After Blasting Pelosi For Same Thing 11/29

Global Warming Is Reversible 11/28

Skepticism greets Mideast talks 11/28

Olbermann and Huffington: Rove Launches Attacks on History, the Truth 11/28

Bush commits troops to Iraq for the long term 11/27

Will CNN Censor Questions About Homophobia for the GOP YouTube Debate? 11/27

120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week on Average 11/26

Iraqis Detail Shooting by Guard Firm 11/26

Howard is History: Labor Party wins big in Australia 11/24

Combat brain injuries: 20,000 not listed in Pentagon tally 11/23

Bush 'involved' in CIA leak case 11/22

American commanders in Iraq are urging Pentagon chiefs to authorize the deployment of heat wave guns to disperse crowds via indiscriminate mass torture 11/22

Scott McClellan blames Bush for leak deceit 11/21

The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments 11/21

Bush in Wonderland: Bush Says Leader 'Believes in Democracy' 11/21

Powell: Iran Far From Nuclear Weapon 11/20

Fox News Host Endorses Tasering Defenseless Female Protesters 11/20

Why Would Wolf Blitzer Want Hillary to Win? 11/29

Bush Lets Enablers of Terrorism Go Free, As Long as They are GOP Corporations. The Case of Chiquita. 11/18

Dems Deny Bush Recess Appointments by Canceling Thanksgiving Break 11/17

Senate blocks Iraq war money 11/16

The Evangelical Christian Takeover of the Military 11/16

Biofuels Bonanza Facing ‘Crash’ 11/16

China Powers Ahead on Renewable Energy 11/16

Bridge Ladies Slammed for Anti-Bush Sign 11/15

Blackwater’s Loopholes 11/15

Army Reiterates That Waterboarding Is Torture Since Mukasey Won't 11/14

Bush Stands by His Dictator 11/14

Are Antimicrobial Soaps Breeding Tougher Bugs? 11/14

18 Veterans Arrested in Antiwar Protest 11/13

El Salvador’s Patriot Act 11/13

Corruption Scandals Involve Alaska's Biggest Political Names 11/12

Abdicate and Capitulate 11/11

Pakistan Nuclear Security Questioned 11/11

Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth 11/10

Rice's Management at Issue 11/10

Cheney Tried to Stifle Dissent in Iran NIE 11/9

US debt tops $9 trillion for first time 11/8

Judge Allows Abu Ghraib Lawsuit Against Contractor 11/7

The deadly message from Pakistan 11/5

Experts: No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program 11/5

New Media, New Value, Old Troubles 11/5

Musharraf Tightens His Grip on Pakistan After ‘Coup’ 11/5

Legal Loopholes in Iraq 11/5

Pervez Musharraf says screw democracy; Cheney considers similar plan in US 11/4

Martial law declared in Pakistan 11/3

White House to Congress: Quit Asking Us About Torture 11/2

 
October 2007  

They May Be Right: We May Be Crazy 10/31

The Climate Change Censor 10/31

Banned from Canada for War Protest 10/30

Bush: 'That's How I Work': Rice adds 'I certainly regret that we did not have the kind of oversight that I would have insisted upon' if only, you know, she had a position of authority at the State Department or the president's ear. 10/30

Say Yes to National Health Care 10/29

Straitjacket Bush 10/29

Stephen Colbert Launches Campaign in South Carolina -- Edwards' Campaign Gets Hot About It 10/29

Greg Palast: Profiteering Mission Accomplished 10/28

Rudy, the Values Slayer 10/28

The Bush Era's Dark Legacy of Torture 10/27

Undiagnosed brain injury - the hidden legacy of Iraq 10/28

SCHIP and the Rigged Health Insurance Game 10/26

Where Does the Right-Wing End and the Media Begin? 10/26

Are the Wildfires in California Related to Global Warming? 10/25

A Great Nation, Poisoned by War 10/24

Huckabee: Immigrants are Taking Jobs Away from Aborted Fetuses 10/24

Lawbreaker in Chief 10/23

The spy comes in from the cold 10/23

Todd Gitlin on the Torrent of Media Images and Sound Bites Makes Us Less Informed and More Prey to Demagoguery 10/23

It’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week! 10/23

On the Eve of Destruction 10/22

Howie Kurtz, Shailagh Murray, and the vapid, petty Beltway media mind 10/22

Stalin, Mao And … Ahmadinejad? 10/22

The Bush Doctrine -- Not Intended For Others' Home Use 10/22

Outsourcing Government 10/21

With Democrats Like These ... 10/21

Biofuels - Great Green Hope or Swindle 10/20

Bad legal advice about torture could one day lead to prosecutions of the Bush administration in Europe 10/20

How the Christian right could defeat Rudy 10/19

The Secret History of the Impending War with Iran That the White House Doesn't Want You to Know 10/18

Washington Post chats with Dennis Kucinich 10/18

Eva Knapp: Only the American people can quell the tide of war 10/17

The Pro-War Undertow of the Blackwater Scandal 10/17

Spies, Lies and FISA 10/15

Inside Bush's Bunker 10/15

Gore Derangement Syndrome 10/15

The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us 10/14

The Trivial Pursuit 10/14

Maureen Dowd Turns Her Column Over to Stephen Colbert 10/14

American Tears 10/13

Democrats: Slack-Jawed Yokels at a Three Card Monty Festival 10/12

Blackwater: Are you scared yet? 10/11

Too Much Cloak and Swagger 10/11

No Legitimate Justification for War with Iran 10/10

Oil, Israel, and America: The Root Cause of the Crisis 10/10

A Tortured Stance on Torture 10/9

The Government Sanctioned Bombing of Appalachia 10/9

Don't forget to carry a butterfly net when you protest the war 10/9

A Nation of Christians Is Not a Christian Nation 10/9

Dana Perino as Nurse Ratched 10/9

The Big Lie: ‘Iran Is a Threat’ 10/8

Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners? 10/8

The People vs. the Profiteers 10/8

Same Old Party 10/8

Why make the stupid choice? 10/7

Bush’s torturers follow where the Nazis led 10/7

Why Not Impeachment? 10/6

The Democrats who enable Bush 10/6

Jon Stewart Does Bush Veto of S-CHIP 10/5

Our Most Important Mission: Prevent War with Iran 10/5

Only a U.S. Withdrawal Will Stop Al Qaeda in Iraq 10/5

The Coming 'Stab in the Back' Campaign 10/5

The Real Reason (the military industrial media corporatacracy tells) People (to) Fear Evo Morales  10/3

Bush's Agenda in Iran 10/3

My Thermonuclear Coloring Book 10/2

Bush's Global 'Dirty War' 10/2

Four Myths Government and Media Use to Scare Us About 'Dictators' 10/2

Israel’s Toy Soldiers 10/1

Enron’s Second Coming? 10/1

Shifting Targets 10/1

'The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing' 10/1

 

To Implement Policy, Bush to Rule by Dictatorial Executive Fiat 10/31

Kucinich questions Bush's mental health 10/30

Immunity deal hampers Blackwater inquiry (hmm, by what authority can level State Dept. lackeys the ability to grant immunity for crimes?)10/30

Rumsfeld Charged with Torture in French Court 10/29

Explosive charge blows up in US's face 10/29

Bush’s “permission to fly” proposals: Preaching liberty, promoting tyranny 10/29

Rumsfeld On the Run From French Torture Charges 10/29

Airstrikes in Afghanistan: US Knowingly Kills Civilians 10/29

Rumsfeld Said to Have Fled France to Avoid Torture Arrest 10/28

Kremlin Seeks To Extend FOX-Like in Cyberspace 10/28

Rudy Lies and the Press Takes It Lying Down 10/28

Guantanamo military lawyer breaks ranks to condemn 'unconscionable' detention  10/27

New U.S. sanctions likely to weaken international unity on Iran 10/27

US to order diplomats to serve in Iraq 10/27

'I Don't Think This Place Is Worth Another Soldier's Life' 10/27

From CIA Jails, Inmates Fade Into Obscurity 10/27

One Down: Obscenely Decadent War Profiteer Hauled Off in Handcuffs 10/27

FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be . . . FEMA 10/26

FEMA sorry for fake news briefing 10/26

Putin: US Plan Evokes '62 Cuban Crisis 10/26

Iran Sanctions Are Meant to Prevent War, Bush Aides Say (can you say "bullshit"? Sure, I knew you could...) 10/26

Were Those Cruise Missiles Targeted? Did Anybody Check? 10/26

White House Leak: Cheney's Plan for Iran Attack Starts With Israeli Missile Strike 10/26

UN issues 'final wake-up call' on population and environment 10/25

Is It Game Over for U.S. Control of Iraqi Oil? 10/25

Turkey Bombs PKK in Iraq, Sends Soldiers Over Border 10/24

McCain says he Wants to Shoot Osama with a Firearm from a New Hampshire Gunmaker 10/24

Ecuador wants military base in Miami (not really, but the Reuter's headline writer misses the rhetorical point) 10/23

Mass Evacuations Ordered As Wildfires Spread in Calif. 10/23

Reports Assail State Dept. on Iraq Security  10/23

Iraqi leaders may ask U.N. to restrict U.S. military 10/23

Destruction of Evidence – Whose Dog Ate Ohio’s 2004 Ballots? 10/22

Democratic Lawmaker Pushing Immunity Is Newly Flush With Telco Cash 10/22

Times censors Dodd's defense of Constitution 10/21

In Pakistan Quandary, U.S. Reviews Stance 10/21

Suicide Is Not Painless 10/21

Banking on a Bailout 10/20

Fox Brings on Country Singer Charlie Daniels as an Expert on FISA 10/21

Economic Costs of Climate Change ‘Will Affect Every American’ 10/19

Social Security Scaremongering 10/19

Parliament in Turkey follows Bush Junta Example and Votes to Invade Iraq 10/18

Iraq to Cheney: ‘Big fat no’ on bases in Iraq. 10/18

The Triumph Of "Trickle Up" Economics 10/18

Republican Sex Scandals Dwarf Those of Democrats 10/18

Days After Claiming U.S. Less Safe Due To Iraq War, Counterterrorism Chief Suddenly Needs to have Both Knees Replaced 10/17

Blackwater declares itself above the law 10/17

Bush Family Planning Appointee Called Contraceptives Part Of The ‘Culture Of Death’ 10/17

Report Confirms 'E&P' Charges of Upsurge in 'Noncombat' Deaths Among U.S. Troops 10/17

U.S. invasion of Iraq drives al-Qaida recruiting 10/17

Voters unhappy with Bush and Congress 10/17

Iraqi Adviser: Blackwater Guards Must Go 10/16

Outsourcing Torture 10/15

NSA Spying: What Did Pelosi Know? 10/15

Namibia shuts down mercenary firm, deports 2 US citizens 10/14

Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Case of German Allegedly Abducted by CIA 10/10

Torture Endorsed, Torture Denied 10/9

Senate Bill Aims to Define Who Is a Journalist; That doesn't sound good at all 10/9

The War on Pot: America's $42 Billion Annual Boondoggle 10/9

Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers 10/9

As Mideast realigns, US leans Sunni [again] 10/9

Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets 10/9

Military sees big decline in black enlistees 10/9

So Who’s Afraid of the Israel Lobby? 10/8

US/Indo Nuclear Agreement: Derailing a Deal 10/8

Glacial Acceleration - A Sea of Troubles 10/8

Chevron’s Pipeline Is Regime’s Lifeline 10/8

State Dept. ignored Blackwater warnings 10/8

On Torture and American Values 10/7

Scandal brewing at Oral Roberts  10/6

CIA detention program remains active: U.S. official 10/6

Blackwater faulted by U.S. military: report 10/5

Democrats want to see interrogation memo 10/5

Did White House Lie About Solution Provider's Role in Loss of 5 Million E-mails? (Does the Pope shit?) 10/5

Minnesota College Bans Nobel Laureate Tutu From Talk On Peace and Justice 10/4

Guards in Iraq Cite Frequent Shootings 10/4

Bush veto for child health bill 10/3

Iraqi official: Blackwater involved in second shooting September 16  10/3

Blackwater contractor wrote government report on incident 10/2

John McCain has Seen the Light 10/2

Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle 10/1

US Is Top Arms Seller to Developing World 10/1

The White House vs. mother's milk 10/1

I hate all Iranians, US aide tells MPs 10/1

 

 
September 2007  

Guess Who Else Likes to Attack The Honor and Integrity of War Generals 9/30

America Used To Be Really Goddamn Awesome 9/30

9/11 Is Over 9/30

Europeans angry after Bush climate speech 'charade' 9/29

Democrats Were Charged To End A War, Not Start One 9/29

Arctic Thaw May Be at ‘Tipping Point’ 9/29

Hired Gun Fetish 9/29

Who owned drug plane that crashed in Mexico? 9/28

Protecting the Wiretappers  9/28

Trump: Bush is the Worst President in History 9/27

In the Fever Swamp of the Radical Wingnuts 9/26

'A Coup Has Occurred' 9/26

Bush to World: Up Is Down 9/26

Call Your Senators Right Now And Demand They Vote Down The Lieberman-Kyl Amendment 9/25

Naomi Wolf's Call to Patriots -- Today's Echoes of Goebbels, and the Fragility of Liberty 9/25

A Plea From the Iranian People 9/25

Ahmadinejad Does New York 9/25

Petty and Cruel Dictator 9/25

Listen to the General(s) 9/25

The Attack on MoveOn.org and Other Dangerous 'Fingerprints' 9/25

Town Hall Crowd Calls for Bush Impeachment 9/25

Bush-Cheney Threaten U.S. Security; Where's the Accountability? 9/24

Politics in Black and White 9/24

Why Does Everyone Bow Down to the Health Insurance Industry? 9/24

Checkbook Imperialism: The Blackwater Fiasco 9/24

The Republicans Will Try to Steal Another Election Through Apportioning the California Electoral Votes 9/24

Ads Don't Kill People, Wars Do 9/23

How Bush has created a moral vacuum in Iraq in which Americans can kill for free 9/23

Outflanked in Iraq 9/23

In Search of a Congress 9/22

Craven Fools 9/22

The real story of Baghdad's Bloody Sunday 9/22

Death of the American Senate 9/22

What Does Post-Presidency Look Like for George Bush? Will Anyone Actually Pay this Nitwit to Speak? 9/22

How George Bush became the new Saddam 9/21

'Jena Is America' 9/21

What I Hate About Political Coverage 9/21

The American Audience in the Theater of War 9/21

Groups Urge New Drive to Fight Oil-Climate Crisis 9/21

Olbermann to Bush: ‘Your hypocrisy is so vast’ 9/21

Bush setting America up for war with Iran 9/20

A Surge, and Then a Stab 9/20

The Eerie Familiarity of These Preparations For War 9/20

Oil and Betrayal in Iraq 9/20

Bush's stairway to paradise: Hoping that history will somehow vindicate him, the president has entered a phase of decadent perversity 9/20

AARP To Kucinich: Drop Dead 9/20

Pentagon, State Department Debunk Bush Fabrications on Iran 9/19

U.S. Government's Plan to Protect You From Terrorist Livestock 9/19

George Bush Feigning Success in Iraq 9/19

Greg Palast: Bush's Fake Sheik Whacked: The Surge and the Al Qaeda Bunny 9/18

U.S. Is Paying Off Iraq's Worst War Criminals in Attempt to Ward Off Attacks (Blackwater and Halliburton expect huge cash awards) 9/18

Rachel Maddow, Another Progressive Talk Show Host Well Worth Listening To 9/18

Dept. of Misdirection: With Iraq a Disaster, GOP Goes Crazy Over a Newspaper Ad 9/18

Greenspan Admits Iraq was About Oil, As Deaths Put at 1.2 Million 9/17

How Canada Went from 21st to 2nd in World's Oil Reserves 9/17

Whose Betrayal? 9/17

Kissinger no friend of soldiers 9/17

Oh! What a Lovely War on Terror - it's the number the arms dealers love: The biggest threat to our freedoms comes not from al-Qaida but from the security bureaucrats and their cronies 9/16

Iraq, Deep In Your Bones 9/15

I Was Thinking About Becoming A Republican... 9/15

The Endless, Meaningless Blather From The Washington Establishment 9/15

The Nightmare Is Here 9/15

America's Deadly Shock Doctrine in Iraq 9/14

Bush Won't Let Go of His Failed Iraq Project 9/14

Treading Water in Iraq 9/14

Petraeus out of step with US top brass 9/14

The General Lies 9/13

Don’t Let The Dogs Out! Don’t Bomb Iran! 9/13

Global Warming Impact Like ‘Nuclear War’ 9/13

The ‘Feel Good’ Approach to Climate Distortion 9/13

Denying the Truth: Petraeus, Iraq, and Our Pontius Pilate Press 9/12

It Only Takes 51 Senators to End This War 9/12

Voter Purging: A Legal Way for Republicans to Swing Elections? 9/12

Does Our Planet Have Too Many People? 9/12

Petraeus: The Paris Hilton of Generals 9/12

The Problem With a “War” Strategy 9/12

The Secret Messages NASA Sent to Aliens 9/12

Greg Palast: September 11: What You "Ought Not to Know" 9/11

Hiding Behind the General 9/11

Move Over Houdini, George W. Bush is in Town 9/11

'Swear Him In' Provokes Expulsion 9/10

The Battle for Iraq is About Oil and Democracy, Not Religion! 9/10

The world left the US behind 9/9

Conspiracy Theories, Myths, Skepticism, and 9/11: their Impact on Democracy 9/9

Brain study finds political divide 9/9

Science in the Bush: When Politics Displaces Physics 9/9

Frank Rich: As the Iraqis Stand Down, We’ll Stand Up 9/9

The Assman Cometh, Again 9/9

Are Petraeus and Westmoreland Birds of a Feather? 9/9

Bush-Bin Laden Symbiosis Reborn 9/8

Dems Hold All the Cards on Iraq, So Why Are They Folding? 9/8

David Petraeus: General Surge 9/8

Rove apparently hired new actor to produce traditional fall Bin Laden tape.  Remember that actual expert analysts say Al Qaeda's 9/11 goal was to draw the US into a protracted war, and that support for Al Qaeda would collapse if the US left Iraq.  9/8

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour: The U.S. War on Terror is Constantly Being Used by Other Countries as Justification for Torture and Other Violations of International Human Rights Laws 9/8

Melting ice cap triggering earthquakes 9/8

Bush confuses Austria and Australia, APEC and OPEC in latest gaffes 9/7

Paul Krugman: Time to Take a Stand 9/7

Rachel Maddow on Fred Thompson's Sex Appeal [VIDEO] 9/7

Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction 9/6

On Iraq, What's More Disgusting: Being Lied To, Or Hearing the Truth? 9/7

WWIII or Jail 9/6

Beware the Wounded Beast: Bush Has Lost the Iraq War 9/5

Lobbying Electeds In Constitutional Interventions 9/5

True or False: Can Bush Tell Difference? 9/5

Robert Parry Reporting on the Disastrous Bush Presidency, and the News Media's Helping Hand 9/5

Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal 9/4

Iran: The Next Quagmire 9/4

Going After Gore 89/4

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bombing Iran 9/4

Before It’s Too Late, British Brass Should Tell Us More 9/4

More ‘Megafires’ To Come, Say Scientists 9/4

How Gonzales Destroyed the American Dream 9/4

The Most Feared Man on the Hill? 9/4

Sleight-of-Hand Math for the Budget Deficit 9/4

When Is a Non-Bailout Really A Bailout, and Why It’s A Joke 9/3

Snow Job in the Desert 9/3

It's Not Easy Being Ultra-Rich 9/3

 

Iran labels CIA 'terrorist organization' 9/30

Now Petraeus admits to rise in Iraq violence 9/30

Stop Saying Iraq Is Another Vietnam; It's Another Enron 9/30

Dem Rep To Introduce House Resolution Condemning Rush Limbaugh On Monday 9/30

Giuliani Campaign Connections to Attempt to Hijack California Electoral Votes Revealed 9/29

5 Witnesses Insist Iraqis Didn't Fire On Guards 9/29

Blackwater guards killed 16 as U.S. touted progress 9/28

Iraq PM: Senate Proposal A "Catastrophe" 9/28

Report Says Hussein Was Open To Exile Before 2003 Invasion 9/27

A small-town lawyer is tied to funding for electoral-vote change 9/27

Voices from cyberspace: how Burma's bloggers are bearing witness to the unfolding revolution 9/27

Shootings by Blackwater Exceed Other Firms in Iraq 9/27

Multinationals Fuel Graft In Poor States: Watchdog 9/27

Senators Kyle and Lieberman and their Stealth War Authorization 9/26

Scoop for Spanish Daily: Transcript of Private 2003 Bush Talk Promising Iraq Invasion 9/26

Ahmadinejad Causes Stir in New York: Media Fails to Notice He Doesn't Deny The Holocaust 9/25

U.S. Focus on Ahmadinejad Puzzles Iranians 9/25

War-Monger vs. The Porn King: Is Bill Kristol Respectable? 9/25

Dr. J.'s Commentary: Pres. Ahmedinejad: Why all the Fuss, from the Right? 9/25

U.S. Aims To Lure "Insurgents" Into Shooting Gallery With 'Bait' 9/24

War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says 9/24

What Is Iraq Costing You? 9/24

U.S. Repeatedly Ignored Iraq on Blackwater Murders, Continues Doing So 9/23

The secret lobbying campaign your phone company doesn't want you to know about 9/23

Collecting of Details on Travelers Documented 9/23

Tracking Political Prosecutions 9/23

Iraq war budget jumps for 2008 9/22

Rather Decries Corporate Control Of News 9/22

Refugees in Their Own Land: 2m Iraqis Forced to Flee Their Homes 9/21

Senate Condemns MoveOn Ad -- Group Hits Back 9/20

"Joint Commission" is First Step in Bushevik Effort to Keep Blackwater in Iraq 9/20

When Asked Whether Iraq War Was Right Thing to Do, Defense Secretary Said, 'I Don't Know' 9/20

Leahy's detainee rights bill rejected 9/20

Alan Greenspan: The Fraud 9/20

Taxpayers on the hook for $59 trillion 9/20

Considering Mr. Mukasey 9/19

Iraqi PM disputes Blackwater version 9/19

Climate change 'devastating Africa' 9/19

U.S. Begins "Religious Enlightenment" Programs For Iraqi Detainees To "Bend Them Back To Our Will" 9/19

Drift into war with Iran out of control, says UN 9/18

Iraq would revoke Blackwater's license to operate if it had one 9/18

Waxman: State Dept. Official Thwarted Probes 9/18

Rice apologises for shootings by US favored Blackwater psyochopaths 9/18

Blackwater security firm banned from Iraq 9/17

Security Guards Kill 9 Civilians, Iraqis Say 9/17

Gates: I Would Recommend That The President Veto Giving Troops More Time At Home 9/17

Fox censors Sally Field’s anti-war speech at Emmy’s 9/17

Greenspan Spills the Beans on Oil 9/17

Proxy War Could Soon Turn to Direct Conflict, Analysts Warn 9/16

Lies Americans believe about the war in Iraq 9/15

Annotate This… President Bush’s Sept 13 Speech to the Nation on Iraq 9/15

Press Responds to Bush's Narcissistic, Delusional, Fictional "Speech" 9/14

White House Report Shows Little Progress 9/14

AP Fact-Checks Bush Iraq Speech 9/14

U.S. in secret talks with al-Sadr aides 9/13

The president is now taking credit for turning Sunni tribes against al-Qaida in Iraq. But two years ago he rejected a Sunni offer to negotiate an end to the violence 9/13

Fallon Derided Petraeus, Opposed the Surge 9/13

President Petraeus? Iraqi official recalls the day US general revealed ambition 9/13

Iraqi Civilian Casualties: 2007 More Deadly Than 2006 9/12

Two of Seven Soldiers Who Wrote 'NYT' Op-Ed Die in Iraq 9/12

The view from Baghdad: Mounting death toll which makes a mockery of US optimism 9/12

The 'proxy war': UK troops are sent to Iranian border 9/12

Putin Dissolves Russian Government  9/12

Petraeus Spent At Least 17 Days In August Flacking For Bush’s Escalation 9/11

[Dept. of Now he tells us] Colin Powell: "Terrorists are not greatest threat to nation" 9/11

Hit and Myth: Poll Shows 1 in 3 Americans Still Believe Saddam Involved in 9/11

Petraeus proposes an INCREASED combat role for GIs in Iraq! 9/11

Iraqis Also Testify, In Poll -- Still Back Attacks on U.S. Forces, contrary to Patraeus/Bush fantasy report 9/11

al-Qaida Says 2nd Bin Laden Video Coming [after Rove's final approval] 9/10

The Innocent Bystander Fable Goes Into Overdrive 9/10

Persistence of Myths Could Alter Public Policy Approach 9/9

F.B.I. Data Mining Reached Beyond Initial Targets 9/9

Why We Should Exit Iraq Now 9/8

Bush: Bin Laden’s video underscores threats - Islamic websites upset that Rove leaked the tape to US media before distributing it to them 9/8

Why Is Bush Smiling in Iraq Photo Ops? 9/8

Police break up anti-war meeting in Washington by charging the media on horses 9/7

Bush's secret wiretaps give him hidden leverage, just like in the days of Hoover: Democrats Newly Willing to Compromise on Iraq 9/7

Australian police warn of riot over Bush visit to Australian Democracy Exclusion Zone 9/6

How I Didn’t Dismantle Iraq’s Army - Bremer's delusional non mea culpa 9/6

U.S. Efforts May Work Against Iraqi Self-Sufficiency 9/5

Bush can't recall why Iraqi army disbanded - claims he didn't even know Iraq had an army 9/4

Drug War’s Latest Achievement: Boosting Global Terrorism 9/4

Pentagon ‘three-day blitz’ plan for Iran 9/4

Envoy’s Letters Show Bush Lying Again on Plan for Iraq 9/4

Ignominious end to futile exercise that cost the UK 168 lives  9/4

N. Korea says U.S. decides to remove it from terror list 9/3

Bush Gets Mounting Reports of Iraq Woes (which he will ignore as he takes orders from Cheney to start new war with Iran) 9/1

 

 
August 2007  

Do We Have The Courage To Stop War With Iran? 8/31

Have you no sense of decency, Mr. President, at long last? 8/31

Windfall: How Conservatives, Contractors, and Developers Cashed In on Katrina 8/31

Let's hear from someone besides the neoconservatives about Iran 8/30

The Rip-off in Iraq: You Will Not Believe How Low the War Profiteers Have Gone 8/30

The Legacy of Oppression and The Legitimacy of Resistance 8/30

Israel Warned US Not to Invade Iraq after 9/11 8/29

Leaked Red Cross report sets up Bush team for international war-crimes trial 8/29

Active-duty US troops become outspoken critics of Iraq war 8/29

Pentagon Denies Increase in Troops' Suicides a Result of War 8/28

Greg Palast: American Nightmare: Gonzales 'wrong and illegal and unethical' 8/28

Olbermann: "Does Bush Have Any Friends Left?" - the last minute of this video offers a Larry Craig update that cracked me up - LC is so full of it he favors a "wide stance" 8/28

Threat as Tactic? Why Hillary's Warning is Right 8/28

9/11, the Sequel  8/28

Outsourcing intelligence 8/27

America's 'Left' is Almost Always Right and the 'Right' is Always Wrong 8/27

Bin Laden wanted US to invade Iraq, author says 8/26

Spare Me The ‘Ravers’, But Even I Question The ‘Truth’ About 9/11 8/25

Big Brother Democracy: The Security State As Infotainment 8/25

Turning Iraq Into Vietnam 8/25

The Problem Isn’t Mr. Maliki 8/24

Don’t Know Much About History 8/24

Bush Rewrites History of Vietnam War 8/24

Dick Cheney Really Is That Bad 8/24

The Iraqis Don't Deserve Us, So We Betray Them 8/24

Bush's Bogus Vietnam History Kills 8/23

Behind Giuliani's Tough Talk 8/23

Ray McGovern: Bush League War Drums Beating Louder on Iran 8/22

Not so fast, Christian soldiers 8/22

By All Means, Prioritize 8/22

Prelude to an Attack on Iran 8/22

Today's B.S. On Parade, Courtesy Our B.S.er In Chief 8/22

My Life With Jenna Bush: What's it like to be married to the booze-friendly, party-ready Bush twin? A vision 8/22

Sic 'em With the Rally Squad 8/21

Smashing Capitalism 8/21

Throwing Congressional Tantrums Won't Keep the Bush Administration from Its Domestic Spying for Political Purposes 8/21

Why Dick changed his mind  8/21

A Simple Fact: Republicans Can't Manage the Economy 8/21

"Nature has no sympathy..."  8/21

The Sole Superpower in Decline 8/20

What the Rise of Democratic Movements in Latin America Means for the Rest of the World 8/20

Jailing Nation: How Did Our Prison System Become Such a Nightmare? 8/20

Of Soft-headed Messiahs and Hard Knocks 8/20

The Founders Had an Idea for Handling Alberto Gonzales 8/20

The Iraq War As We See It 8/20

Leo DiCaprio Takes Up Where Al Gore Left off in New '11th Hour' Environmental Documentary 8/19

He Got Out While the Getting Was Good 8/19

Attacking Iran: An Act of Economic Madness 8/18

Tax-Financed Health Care Offers More Value 8/18

Corporate Capitalists: Government Comes to the Rescue 8/18

TVA reactor shut down; cooling water from river too hot 8/18

War Profiteering Corruption from Lexington County to the White House 8/18

The Dodo Never Had a Chance 8/18

Legalized Loan Sharking: The Sleeper Issue of 2008 8/18

The Old Iran-Contra Death Squad Gang Is Desperate to Discredit Chavez 8/17

Entering the Tough Oil Era 8/17

Terrorist Nation? It Takes One to Know One 8/16

CNN's Dan Rivers inadvertently voices a taboo truth 8/16

RNC Now Seeks Shelter of Executive Privilege 8/15

Forced Sex and Labor Trafficking in the U.S. 8/15

Open Doors To Medical Care To All; Adopt Single-Payer System 8/14

The Jaundiced Rove of Texas 8/14

Rove Exits With His Usual M.O.: Delusional and Deceptive 8/14

Welfare as We Know It Now 8/14

Stupid and Evil 8/14

The Myths of World War II 8/13

Rove's off White House Payroll -- Will That Free Him to Play Even Dirtier Tricks? 8/13

It’s All About Them 8/13

Arctic sea ice 'lowest in recorded history': scientists 8/12

Survey of public attitudes makes Kucinich the frontrunner 8/12

Video Surfaces of Cheney, in 1994, Warning That An Invasion of Iraq Would Lead to 'Quagmire' 8/12

Shuffling Off to Crawford, 2007 Edition 8/12

Guns for hire: Secrecy, torture, religious zeal distinguish mercenaries 8/12

Health-care system: Single payer is the way to go 8/12

Irresponsible Journalists of the Week: Tucker Carlson and his Whitewashed Panel Discussing “Blackness” 8/12

The Tax Collector Cometh 8/11

With FISA Law, Democrats Give Bush a Blank Check for Domestic Spying 8/11

With FISA Law, Democrats Give Bush a Blank Check for Domestic Spying 8/11

Analysts See ‘Simply Incredible’ Shrinking of Floating Ice in the Arctic 8/10

Subprime or Subcrime? Time To Investigate and Prosecute 8/10

Give It Back, Dick: A Modest Proposal Concerning Money, War and Politics 8/10

Bush More “Disastrous” Than Nixon 8/9

Will The Real Colin Powell Stand Up? 8/9

Democrats Aren't Wafflers, They're Wifflers 8/9

The Terror America Wrought 8/8

Recipe for avoiding those risky bridges 8/8

Roll Back the Reagan Tax Cuts 8/8

Kill Or Convert, Brought To You By the Pentagon 8/8

Myths of Mideast Arms Sales 8/8

A Christian Nation? 8/8

Keith Olbermann: Ask Hillary About. . . 8/7

Wordplay props up racket in America's health system 8/7

The Bloody Failure of ‘The Surge’: A Special Report 8/7

End American Exceptionalism! Bring On American Compassion! 8/7

The Fear of Fear Itself 8/7

Baseball and bombs get the cash - bridges are just dull 8/7

Say No To New Nuclear Weapons 8/6

War is Collective Insanity 8/6

Beyond Disaster 8/6

It's official, US is police state... 8/6

Environmentalism for Billionaires 8/6

Sixth anniversary of “All right, you’ve covered your ass now” 8/6

Even in Minnesota: When Domes Attack 8/6

The Republican Plot to Stall Congress, Starring Jason Alexander 8/6

Sex, Rock 'n' Roll and Global Warming 8/5

The Abu Ghraib whistleblower's ordeal 8/5

Two Faces of America 8/4

Patriots Who Love the Troops to Death 8/4

A Big Win Against Corporate Control of Water 8/4

Bush's Secret Spying on Americans 8/4

Stampeding Congress, Again 8/4

The three stooges 8/3

The audacity of insisting Rove has absolute immunity 8/3

Reflexive Fear of Wimpification 8/3

Why Bush Won't Ax Gonzales 8/2

Can We Pursue Terrorists Without Becoming Like Them? 8/1

NSA Spying Part of Broader Illegal Secret Effort to Spy on Americans (especially political rivals) 8/1

Close Guantanamo now 8/1
 

IAEA: Iran Cooperating In Nuclear Investigation - Bush to consider bombing IAEA for consorting with Iranians 8/31

Secret Report: Corruption is "Norm" Within Iraqi Government (i.e., same as in the US) 8/31

Iran Says IAEA Atom Report Shows US Charges Wrong 8/30

U.S. Weapons, Given to Iraqis, Move to Turkey 8/30

Pot Growers Are New Target in "War on Terror" 8/30

Bush escalates propaganda campaign in run-up to his next unnecessary and disastrous war 8/29

Bush threatens to confront Iran over alleged support for Iraqi insurgents 8/29

Bush Wants $50 Billion More for Iraq War 8/29

US Most Armed Country with 90 Guns per 100 People 8/28

Iraq Weapons Are a Focus of Criminal Investigations 8/28

CNN: Bush Plans To Install Inexperienced, Bush Loyalist Clay Johnson At Homeland Security 8/28

Even some Republicans happy about Gonzales resignation 8/28

Facing a draft, Nugent bravely crapped his pants 8/28

Gonzales Resigns (Even though resignation is not effective till Sept. 17 Bush is likely to make a pre-emptive recess appointment to avoid any semblance of oversight) 8/27

Harvey Wasserman: Astonishing tower collapse screams "No New Nukes!!" 8/27

Kucinich among speakers at Kennebunkport rally 8/27