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May 2008  

China’s All-Seeing Eye 5/17

Want Cheaper Gas and Oil? End the Damned Wars! 5/17

Bush's appeasement malarkey 5/17

All the President's Nazis (real and imagined): An Open Letter to Bush 5/16

Countdown Special Comment to President Bush: “Shut the hell up.” 5/15

Bush's Idea of Sacrifice 5/15

The Bush Administration's Bogus Claims About Iran's Weapons Smuggling 5/15

Radioactive Hypocrisy: American Hubris Threatens Perpetual Nuclear Proliferation 5/15

Correcting Those Sins of Omission 5/14

The Myth of Voter Fraud 5/13

It Isn't Morning in America Anymore -- It's Dusk on Planet Earth 5/12

How Food Riots, Pricey Gas and Home Foreclosures Point to a Better Future 5/10

People Can Handle the Truth About War 5/9

Hillary Clinton As the Good Old Boy 5/9

The Iraq Supplemental: A Three Ring Circus 5/8

Neocons and the Truth: Bitter Enemies to the End 5/8

Hillary Plays the Crazy Card 5/7

Shhhh …This Is a ‘Secretocracy’ 5/6

Countdown: Olbermann Defines Hillary's Goalposts 5/6

Beware The Simplifiers 5/5

The Gospel of Consumption 5/4

The All-White Elephant in the Room 5/4

In the Last Gilded Age, People Stood Up to Greed -- Why Aren’t We? 5/3

Experts: Clinton/McCain Gas Tax 'Holiday' a Joke 5/2

An Energy Incentive Is Drifting in the Wind 5/1

 

Huckabee quips about gun aimed at Obama [Huckabee obviously has assassination on his mind - will the secret service pay him a visit?] 5/17

U.S. Sergeant Refuses to Go to Iraq: "This Occupation is Unconstitutional and Illegal" 5/17

Senate Votes To Revive Ban On Media Cross-Ownership 5/17

CNN's Lou Dobbs Is Clueless When It Comes to the Drug War 5/16

Biden: Bush's comments were 'bullshit' 5/15

Police Are ‘Brainwashed’ by Taser Maker; Psychologist Blames Instructions 5/14

Feith Blames Public For Feeling Misled About Iraq: ‘I Think They Misremember A Lot’ 5/13

Republican Procedural Tactics Throw Mothers Under the Bus 5/12

Hillary Is McCain's Dream Candidate, Not Obama's 5/10

New Study Shows Genetically Modified Crops Produce Less 5/9

It's Bare Knuckles Time at the Bush EPA 5/9

Government in Secret: The Yoo memo is just one example of Bush’s hidden laws 5/9

Exploiting Borrowers Amidst the Foreclosure Crisis 5/8

'Myanmar death toll may hit 100,000' 5/8

Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11 5/6

How Come No One is Talking About the Republicans and Rev. Moon? 5/4

McCain Endorser Pastor Hagee's 'Thrilling' Scenario Includes Nuclear Strike on US Coasts 5/3

 

 
April 2008  

"We Can't have Acquittals" 4/30

Who’s Feeding the Watchdog? 4/29

The Myths and Harsh Effects of Bush's Economic Class War 4/28

Military Propaganda Pushed Me Off TV 4/28

Scam Artists Are Prepped to Fleece Green Industries as Soon as the Money Comes in 4/28

Powering past fossil fuels 4/27

A new hope in fight against malaria 4/27

The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke 4/26

All the President’s Liars 4/25

12 Reasons Why Leaving Iraq Is the Only Sane Thing to Do 4/24

Clinton Threatens to ‘Obliterate’ Iran 4/23

How Many Earth Days Do We Have Left? 4/22

Eight Reasons Our Changing World Will Turn You Into an Environmentalist, Like It or Not 4/22

Major Revelation: US Media Deceitfully Disseminates Government Propaganda 4/21

Our Favorite Planet 4/20

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand 4/20

Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth 4/20

Let’s All Pretend 4/19

An open letter to Charlie Gibson and George Stephanapoulos 4/17

World Facing Huge New Challenge on Food Front: Business-as-Usual Not a Viable Option 4/16

Not to Be Trusted 4/15

Will the Constitution Be Altered to Eliminate Key Liberties? 4/15

Obama Gets Honest About Small Town America's Decay, Elitists Lash out 4/14

Semantics Can’t Mask Bush’s Chicanery 4/13

Rachel Maddow: Progressive Media's Next Mainstream Star 4/10

Everything His President Wants to Hear 4/9

Phil Gramm: McCain’s Terrorist In Pinstripes 4/5

Empire or Humanity? 4/3

An Unsustainable Scam 4/1

 

Cheney's Total Impunity 4/29

Talking to ‘Terrorists’  4/28

Party of the Damned 4/28

Pentagon Suspends Briefings for Analysts 4/26

Petraeus Promotion Frees Cheney to Threaten Iran 4/24

As the Count might say, "Oh Shit! Oh Dear!" - Bush Lapdog Gen. Petraeus named as next commander of Mideast command 4/23

CAUGHT: Pentagon Pundits Infiltrate Mainstream News 4/22

Disapproval of Bush breaks record 4/22

Top Bush aides pushed for Guantánamo torture 4/19

Dean: I need a decision 'now' 4/18

Clinton-Obama Debate: ABC Decides Top Issues Facing Americans Are Gaffes, Flag Pins and '60s Radicals 4/17

Obama Talks Bitterness; Elites Vie for the Sucker Vote 4/14

US Troops Suffer Worst Week This Year 4/12

Cheney, Others OK’d Harsh Torture 4/11

Colonel killed in Green Zone 4/9

Sunni/Shiite Mix Up: Did John McCain Just Do It Again? 4/8

U.S. Economy Shed 80,000 Jobs in March 4/5

McCain Gets Iraq Facts Wrong Again: Says Sadr — Not Maliki — ‘Asked’ For Ceasefire 4/1

Bush Admin's Secret Iraq Intel Source "Curveball" Revealed 4/1

 

 
March 2008  

Delusionary, Dancing Bush 3/31

The Dilbert Strategy 3/31

Michael Mukasey's tearful lies 3/30

Is Industrial Civilization a Pyramid Scheme? 3/29

Obama's plan to change the economy: 'Our free market was never meant to be a free license to take whatever you can get, however you can get it' 3/28

Obama's Sweeping Foreign Policy Critique 3/28

Frontline: Too Timid, Too Little, Too Late 3/26

America Defeated: How Terrorists Turned a Superpower's Strengths Against Itself 3/26

Pentagon Holds Thousands of Americans "Prisoners of War" 3/26

The Folly of Turning Water Into Fuel 3/23

Winter Soldiers Move Toward GI Resistance 3/22

Is Bush the worst U.S. president ever? 3/22

Stop the Next My Lai 3/19

How Could So Many People Buy into Bush's "Patriotism Sweepstakes" War? 3/19

Who exposes the exposer? 3/19

The Iraq War Is Killing Our Economy 3/18

Censorship and the Anemic State of Political Discourse in America 3/17

The B Word 3/17

If We Want to Survive the Climate Crisis We Must Change 3/15

The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked 3/14

Clothesline Rule Creates Flap In New England States 3/13

Spitzer's Shame Is Wall Street's Gain 3/12

Admiral Fallon’s “No Iran War” Line Angered White House 3/8

As Goes Vermont, So Goes the Nation? 3/6

The Pentagon Is Financed Like Enron and Run Like General Motors 3/6

Plan Colombia: The Real Destabilizing Force in South America 3/5

Cost of Iraq War Now Beyond Human Comprehension 3/5

Going to Jail for Being a Democrat: How Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman Got Roved 3/3

Human Rights Hypocrisy: Hidden In Plain Sight 3/1

George Bush Is Engaged in an Epic Battle to Cover His Ass 3/1

Texas Prosecutes Little Old Ladies for Voter Fraud 3/31

Iraq death count finally hits 90,000; More likely number surpasses 1,190,000 3/29

Former Surgeon General: Mainstream Medicine Has Endorsed Medical Marijuana 3/27

The Clinton Campaign Embraces the Right Wing Conspiracy to Launch Attacks on Obama 3/27

Giant Antarctic Ice Shelf Breaks Into The Sea 3/26

McCain’s Brain: Unfit For Command, or Merely Incontinent? 3/26

McCain on War in Iraq: "We're Succeeding, I Don't Care What Anybody Says" 3/26

Grim milestone reached when IED kills 4 U.S. soldiers in Baghdad 3/24

McCain’s Gaffes Reflect Bush’s Iran-Qaeda Myth 3/22

Cheney Impeachment Not Off the Table 3/21

Politics Unusual: Obama Abandons Blame Game in Sophisticated Discussion of Race 3/19

A McCain Gaffe in Jordan Demonstrates that he is Nearly Clueless about Iran 3/18

Cheney delusional: Iraq invasion was "successful endeavor" 3/18

Many Voting For Clinton to Boost GOP 3/17

Bush Diplomacy: Predator Planes Are Conducting Assassinations by Air 3/17

British Teachers Told to Rewrite History of Iraq War 3/14

Keith Olbermann's Special Comment: Hillary Clinton 3/13

Obama Wins Big in Mississippi Despite 'Limbaugh Effect' 3/13

Iran Dissent Cost Fallon His Job 3/12

16,000 Republicans in Cuyahoga crossed over and voted Democratic in primary 3/10

Local Obama supporter shocked to see herself in Hillary ad 3/9

Bush Vetoes Bill Outlawing CIA Waterboarding 3/8

Hillary Clinton's 'silly' Irish peace claims 3/8

Clinton Cribs from the Bush Florida Stolen Election in 2000 3/7

The Clinton-Lieberman Connection 3/6

The ‘Great Satan’ Strike Out 3/5

Vermont Town Votes to Arrest and Indict Bush, Cheney 3/5

Bush Says Americans Should "Thank" the Telecoms for Illegally Spying on Them 3/5

Hypocrisy Alert: Bush Condemns Leaders Who Pose for Photos With "Tyrants" 3/1

 
February 2008  

Why I Called Fox News "Propaganda" While Live on Fox News 2/29

America Loves Peace? Odd, Since We're Always at War 2/28

The $3 Trillion War 2/28

'Noam Chomsky: International Terror Most-Wanted List 2/27

John McSame': Meet Bush's Anti-Choice Clone 2/27

The Audacity of Hopelessness 2/24

Thorazine time for Hillary 2/24

Wikileaks Exposes Corporate and Government Secrecy, So It Has Been Shut Down in the U.S. 2/23

The Myth of the Surge 2/23

When Change Is Not Enough: The Seven Steps to Revolution 2/22

Snake Oil Sellers of the Christian Right? 2/22

The Million Year War: How Never to Withdraw From Iraq 2/20

Bush Dismisses Iraq Recession, Claims War Has Nothing to Do With Economy 2/19

What FBI Whistle-Blower Sibel Edmonds Found in Translation 2/18

Top Scientists Want Research Free From Politics 2/15

Bush Won't Let Facts Stand in the Way of Regime Change in Iran 2/15

Gas That Need Not Pass Unused 2/14

Time to Vote Contempt 2/14

Is There a Plan for Life After Peak Oil? 2/13

Xenophobe: Warrior Princess 2/13

Agent Orange Deforming a Third Generation in Vietnam 2/13

Waterboarding for God, With Decency and Compassion 2/10

Our Terrorist in Miami 2/9

Latest Anti-Pot Quack Science: 'Marijuana Makes Your Teeth Fall Out' 2/9

FBI Deputizes Private Contractors With Extraordinary Powers, Including 'Shoot to Kill' 2/8

The New Crime of Thinking 2/8

GWOT or Global Warming: The Right Fight? 2/7

Dead soldiers, peak oil and mind-boggling profits; praise Jesus, the machine’s still working 2/7

Bad Boys, Nasty Boys: Out of the GOP’s Closet 2/7

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There 2/7

Powell’s UN Fiasco: Fresh and Festering 2/6

Super Tuesday: Where's the Candidate That Represents Me? 2/5

Tom Friedman's Folly: The Lies Behind 'Free Trade' 2/5

Bombs Away over Iraq 2/4

Is Michael Mukasey Prioritizing the Harassment and Imprisonment of Journalists? 2/3

The "Great Mystery" of Iraq's WMDs?; CBS ignores evidence from its own show 2/1

The Fear Factory  2/1

Western Civilization: An Idea Whose Time Has Come 2/1

 

New High In U.S. Prison Numbers 2/29

Halliburton/State Department Rape Stories Get Worse and Worse 2/29

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results of '08 Election 2/28

McCain Rated As America’s Worst Senator For Children 2/28

Oil giants are poised to move into Basra 2/24

Nader enters in boon to GOP 2/24

Belgrade Riots at U.S. Embassy Prove Our Empire Is a Bipartisan Project 2/22

McCain contradicts McCain 2/22

Is Washington Undermining Democracy in Bolivia? 2/16

Bush's Protect America Bill Bull 2/15

Iraq: Bombing Creates New Enemies (Duh!) 2/14

Aboard the Condoleezza Rice 2/13

Why the Media and Independent Voters Need to Break Up with McCain 2/13

AP Poll: to Fix Economy, Get Out of Iraq 2/9

Biofuel Crops Increase Carbon Emissions 2/9

U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Data 2/8

Justice Dept. 'Cannot' Probe Waterboarding, Mukasey Says 2/8

Waterboarding Is Legal, White House Says 2/8

Delegate count so close, even media tallies disagree 2/7

McCain '08 vs. McCain '94: He's for Troop Withdrawal, As Long As Bill Clinton Is President [VIDEO] 2/6

Judge rejects Navy request for sonar training exemption 2/5

CIA admits waterboarding inmates 2/5

Iraq’s Tragic Future 2/5

Tragicomic Tale of the 9/11 Report 2/4

Buzzflash issues HOTWA for Philip Zellikow (Hypocrite of the Week Award) 2/1

 

 
January 2008  

With President Bush, you always have to read the footnotes 1/31

Pioneering Blackwater Protesters Given Secret Trial and Criminal Conviction 1/31

Bush Parody: "The State of Our Union Is Not Something I'm Worried About" [VIDEO] 1/31

CBS Falsifies Iraq War History 1/28

Our One-Way Trip to Disaster 1/28

"Jackasses with Guns": Mercenaries Terrorize Iraq 1/28

Stimulus Gone Bad 1/26

What’s the fastest growing corporate crime in America? 1/26

Harry Reid To Senate: Give Bush His Amnesty Or I'll Shoot This Dog 1/25

With Kucinich's Exit, Democratic Discourse is Diminished 1/24

Study: Bushies Lied 935 Times to Sell Iraq Invasion 1/24

Democracy Now! Re-Hosts NBC Las Vegas Debate with Dennis Kucinich [VIDEO] 1/22

A New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories 1/20

The Power of Nightmares  Three part BBC series showing how the engineers of the War on Terror were the same architects who kept the cold war going 1/20

Guess Which Drug Is Illegal? 1/20

Dennis Kucinich's Fight to Bring Credibility to the Democratic Party 1/19

The Coal Truth on Candidates 1/19

Good Jobs Are Where the Money Is 1/19

Holy Constitution!1/18

Who's more terrifying to red states, smart Hillary or savvy Barack? 1/18

Don’t Cry for Me, America 1/18

White House Exempts Navy From Sonar Ban, Angering Environmental Groups 1/17

Legal Mist Stokes US-Iran Tensions in Strait; There Are No International Waters in the Strait of Hormuz 1/16

NBC Battles To Keep Kucinich Out of Las Vegas Debate 1/15

Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11 1/14

Sensationalist Media Did Pentagon's Bidding in Fake Naval 'Provocation' with Iran 1/14

Kristina Borjesson: Does The Hormuz Videotape Literally Produced by the Pentagon Mean Cue Up the War with Iran? 1/14

Intelligence Chief Says Waterboarding would be Torture if Used on Him. Except, of Course, if Ordered by Cheney/Bush 1/13

Six Years of Guantanamo: Enough is Enough! 1/11

Kucinich Requests Recount of New Hampshire Ballots 1/11

Report Reveals Vietnam War Hoaxes, Faked Attacks 1/9

America's Love-Hate Relationship with Drugs 1/9

What Is This ‘Iranian Provocation’ BS? 1/8

Morphing Osama 1/8

On First Trip to Israel, Bush Hopes to Inject Vigor Into Peace Talks (by scaling back goal from "Peace" to "definition" of Palestinian State 1/8

Climate 2007- Trying to Make Sense of the Year of Records 1/8

Imperialist Propaganda 1/7

From Hype to Fear 1/7

Jane Smiley: Bill Kristol in the NY Times Means I'm Done with the Paper 1/5

Democrats Need to Take a Stand 1/4

Dealing With the Dragon 1/4

No more Nice Guy 1/3

Journey to the Dark Side 1/2

Stonewalled by the C.I.A. 1/2

Legal FictionsThe Bush administration's dumbest legal arguments of the year 1/2

Looking at America 1/1

 

Key 9/11 Commission Staffer Held Secret Meetings With Rove, Scaled Back Criticisms of White House 1/31

Iraq conflict has killed a million, says survey 1/31

24 Hours After Touting Clean Coal In SOTU, White House Drops Ambitious Clean Coal Project 1/30

Another Neocon Attempt to Frame Iran Falls Apart 1/26

Disgraced Warmonger Wolfowitz to Chair US Panel on Arms Control 1/25

U.S. recession fueled by low wages and consumer debt 1/25

72,000 American Casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan Wars 1/23

Study: False statements preceded war 1/23

Asian, European Markets Plunge As Investors Doubt Bush Plan To Curb Recession Will Work 1/21

Canada pressured to removes U.S., Israel from torture watchlist 1/19

White House Study Found 473 Days of Email Gone 1/18

Fed Chief’s Reassurance Fails to Halt Stock Plunge 1/18

How the Pentagon Planted a False Hormuz Story 1/16

Huckabee Says Amend Constitution to Meet ‘God’s Standards’ - Outlaw Adultery, Leftovers, Women’s Pants Too? 1/15

Bush Disowns U.S. Intel, Tells Israelis Iran NIE ‘Doesn’t Reflect My Own Views’ 1/14

Joint Chiefs chairman: close Guantanamo 1/14

‘Filipino Monkey’ may be behind radio threats, ship drivers say 1/13

Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel 1/11

Huckabee too liberal for Thompson - Also says Torquemada and Cotton Mather were too progressive 1/11

Wiretaps Are Cut Over Unpaid Bills 1/11

Pentagon, Big Pharma Plan to Drug Troops to Numb Them to Horrors of War 1/10

Iraqi soldier defending a pregnant woman against U.S. troops is front page news in Iraq 1/8

Bush Spokesman Incorrectly Claims "No One Is Predicting a Recession" 1/8

Pentagon Says Ships Harassed by Iran 1/7

EPA Spews Auto Industry Propaganda 1/7

Shocking Allegations From London: Corrupt U.S. Officials Sold Nuclear Weapons Secrets 1/7

A Screaming O'Reilly Shoves Obama Staffer, Is Restrained by Secret Service 1/6

Can You Count on Voting Machines? 1/6

Trees absorbing less CO2 as world warms, study finds 1/4

Clinton Campaign Stung By Third-Place Finish 1/4

Criminal probe opened over CIA tapes 1/2

Justice Dept. Launches Criminal Probe of CIA Tapes 1/2

Spaghetti Monster Featured At Religious Conference 1/2

Welcome to Third World, USA 1/2

Who Do We Vote For This Time Around? 1/2

Christian Warriors in the U.S. Military? 1/1

 

 

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