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December 2009  

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

 

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

 

 
November 2009  

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

Why I Voted NO, by Dennis Kucinich 11/8

The cost of not enacting health care reform 11/7

How Does a Religious Cult Have the Clout to Delay Health Care Vote? 11/7

On the Lookout for Attempts to Indoctrinate Our Schoolchildren? Try the American Coal Industry! 11/7

If You Say the Taliban = 9/11 Often Enough, Maybe Someone Will Believe It? 11/6

We Only Have Months, Not Years, to Save Civilization from Climate Change 11/3

Noam Chomsky: No Change in US 'Mafia Principle' 11/3

Climate Change Deniers Are Not Skeptics - They're Suckers 11/3

Kipling Haunts Obama's Afghan War 11/1

 

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

From the I Shit You Not File: Business Aims to Relax Bans on Products Made with Child & Slave Labor 11/10

GOP Gone Wild: Unruly Republicans Silence Women Lawmakers With Screams, Shouts, And Delay Tactics 11/7

Flu Shots Going to Wall Street While Kids Go Without? 11/7

 
October 2009  

McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama? 10/31

Lieberman Twists the Knife 10/28

Conservatives Are Rewriting the Bible to Free It From "Liberal Bias" 10/27

Beware a Times/Pentagon 'Virtual Coup' on Aghanistan 10/25

Paranoia for Breakfast 10/24

US Workers Starved Into Service 10/23

Media Enabled Bush 1's Savage Attacks on Maddow and Olbermann, Yet Continue to Ignore Bush Family's Sordid Past 10/22

Coal’s Huge Hidden Costs 10/19

Goldman Can Spare You a Dime 10/18

Graphic Novel Tells Story of Honduras Coup and Unrest 10/17

The Gang Rape and the Republicans 10/16

General Mcmoreland in Vietistan 10/14

Are Women Getting Sadder? 10/14

They Oughta Give Me The Wurlitzer Prize 10/12

Two Wrongs Make Another Fiasco  10/11

War and Peace Prizes 10/9

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize: OK, He’s A Nice Guy, But … 10/8

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Middle Eastern-Style 10/7

A War of Absurdity 10/7

Follow the Money; Cure Millions of Leprosy -- or Just Give Hank Paulson a Tax Break? 10/5

Top Things You Think You Know About Iran That Are Not True 10/1

Gorbachev: Bush once told me that ‘blockheads and dummies’ were supporting the ‘extreme’ Reagan 10/31

Coal River Mountain Emergency: Sit-Ins-Funeral March Erupt at EPA/JP Morgan Chase Offices Across Nation 10/30

After the Billionaires Plundered Alabama Town, Troops Were Called in ... Illegally 10/25

Congressman Grayson Wins Another Round in Healthcare Debate 10/23

T. Boone Pickens says US Firms 'Entitled' to Iraqi Oil 10/22

Fed Plans to Vet Banker Pay to Discourage Risky Practices 10/22

British High Court rejects U.S./British cover-up of torture evidence 10/20

The Yes Men Punk the Chamber 10/19

The Secret About Jobs Military Contractors Don't Want You to Know 10/14

U.S. Army Corps meeting turns into pro-coal rally 10/13

Blair faces critics from pulpit and public as Britain remembers Iraq 10/9

In Surprise Decision Nobel committee awards peace prize to man running most wars and military bases on the planet 10/8

Kingsnorth Power Station Plans Shelved by E.ON 10/7

Watch What You Tweet 10/7

Neocon Insanity: Abrams Says Iranians Would Be Fine with an Attack on Their Country 10/2

Senator’s Aid After Affair Raises Flags Over Ethics 10/1

 

 
September 2009  

Mad as Hell Doctors Signal New Era of Healthcare Activism 9/30

Alan Grayson on the GOP Health Care Plan: "Don't Get Sick! And if You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly!"'  9/30

Congress Mired In Sunbeam 9/30

It's Not Sex, It's Money 9/29

The G20 Fantasy 9/27

U.S. Launches War Against ... the Brits! 9/26

Naomi Klein interviews Michael Moore 9/25

Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis 9/24

Thomas Freidman finally notices how economic policies he championed supress renewable energy development in the US 9/23

5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis 9/23

Weapons of Mass Democracy 9/22

Time to Change Bernanke'S Medication? Secret White House letter to G-20 9/23

Who’s the Pimp? 9/22

The Rights of Corporations 9/22

Once Again The Animals Were Conscious of A Vague Uneasiness 9/17

Walking on Lava: Apocalypse and Uncivilization 9/14

In Praise of Joe Wilson: What's Wrong with Calling Out Liars in Congress? 9/12

Who's the number one weapons broker in the world, again? Take a guess 9/9

Think Vietnam Vets Were Screwed? Wait Until You See How Many Veterans of Bush's Wars End up in Jail 9/9

Obama seeks to block record mountaintop removal permit 9/9

The Speech the President Should Give to Congress 9/8

5 Reasons Why Van Jones and Progressives are Better Off With Jones Out of the White House 9/7

Obama Has Fed His Green Jones to King CONG 9/7

Mr. President, We Need a Fighter to Take on the Deranged Right-Wing 9/7

President Obama: Healthcare; you promised 9/5

California's Real Death Panels: Insurers Deny 21% of Claims 9/5

Republicans Scream "Stay Away From Our Kids, Obama! If Anyone's Gonna Fill Their Heads With Partisan Crap It's Gonna Be Us!" 9/3

Afghanistan for Dummies 9/2

Logic's debauchery 9/2

Why Is Universal Health Care ‘Un-American’? 9/2

Verizon Wireless is Wrong 9/1

Tell Verizon Wireless: Get out of bed with anti-environment extremists 9/1

National Review’s John Derbyshire: Women Should Not Have The Right To Vote 9/30

Why the Current Bills Don't Solve Our Health Care Crisis 9/29

Congress Went After ACORN. Big Business Must Be Next!9/26

Insane Economist: We Can Procreate Our Way Out of Climate Catastrophe 9/25

US Spec Ops operates psywar websites targeted at UK 9/24

Could ACORN defunding bill strike military-industrial complex? 9/23

Zelaya's Midnight Ride 9/22

"Special Edition" of NY Post Warns of Climate Change Threat 9/21

WATCH: CNN's Sanchez Slams Fox 'News': 'You Lie!'

"Tea party" photo shows huge crowd — from a different event 9/14

A Dangerous Kind of Hate 9/11

Baucus Plan Would Gut State-Level Insurance Industry Regulation 9/9

Overspending on Debit Cards Is a Boon as Banks Manipulate Transactions to Increase Fees 9/9

Death Bonds: Wall Street Teams Up With Insurance Companies to Kill People, Reap Profits 9/8

US is by far number one supplier of terrorist weapons worldwide 9/7

Van Jones Resigns 9/6

Sole Informant Guided Decision On Afghan Strike 9/6

Cash-strapped states revise laws to get inmates out 9/6

California's Real Death Panels: Insurers Deny 21% of Claims 9/5

Court Says 9/11 Witnesses Can Sue Ashcroft 9/5

Bachmann: Democrats are trying to ‘sabotage’ me because they’re afraid I’ll be the first woman president 9/4

Diebold finds election division buyer; ES&S to control most U.S. Elections 9/3

Pfizer Pays $2.3 Billion to Settle Marketing Case 9/2

 

August 2009  

Secret camps and guillotines? Groups make birthers look sane 8/30

It's Not a 'Free Market' System When Taxpayers Are Financing the Profits 8/28

Closing In on the Torturers 8/27

The Fast Food Industry's 7 Most Heinous Concoctions 8/27

Who Is Obama Playing Ball With? 8/26

My Country, Misery 8/24

Unwritten Death Contract Awarded to Blackwater 8/21

Republicans, religion and the triumph of unreason 8/20

Take This Mine and Shove It: India Fights Coal, as Tribe Fights Mountaintop Removal 8/19

Believers Invest in the Gospel of Getting Rich 8/18

The Swiss Menace 8/18

Is There Any Point in Fighting to Stave off Industrial Apocalypse? 8/18

This Is Reform? 8/18

WP: It's Time to Legalize Drugs 8/17

Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal 8/17

In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition 8/16

The Gorilla Dust of Health Care 8/15

Dick Cheney Rolls in His Grave 8/14

Republican Death Trip 8/14

Biking Out of Iraq 8/13

My 1933 Nightmare 8/11

Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor? 8/9

Our Suicide Bombers 8/8

10 Amazing Truths You Already Suspected 8/7

Why a Doctor in Congress Has No Health Insurance 8/6

MSNBC and Fox: Posing Divided, United They Stand  8/5

The Incredible Shrinking Healthcare Reform 8/5

Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder 8/5

Could the great recession lead to a great revolution? 8/4

Rewarding Bad Actors 8/4

A Canadian doctor diagnoses U.S. healthcare 8/3

The Creeping Signs of GE Intervention in MSNBC's Progressive Programming 8/3

Small Beer, Big Hangover 8/2

Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings 8/1

Cowardice Among 'Christian' Leaders: Why the Churches Are Largely Mum on Torture 8/1

 

Blackwater Tapped (i.e., assasinated) Foreigners on Secret CIA Program 8/31

Latin Americans Ditch US 'War on Drugs' 8/31

Iraqi Who Threw Shoes at Bush to Be Released Early 8/30

Lockerbie Part of a Bigger Story 8/30

Smoking Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer 8/28

Files prove Pentagon is profiling reporters 8/27

Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies 8/26

China Racing Ahead of America in the Drive to Go Solar 8/24

The Whitewash Begins:
CIA Special Prosecutor Appointed
8/23

Obama plan to be windfall for insurance companies 8/18

Liberals Revolt Over Public Option 8/18

WH Apparently Preparing Its Core Supporter for Its Abandoning of Government Ins. Option 8/17

Pundits Trying to Help Cheney Avoid Jail 8/17

At free clinic, scenes from the Third World 8/16

Sign of the Apocalypse: Mike "Heckuva Job Brownie" Now Hosting Radio As a Political/Gov't Expert 8/12

GOP is paying trolls to "blog attack" 8/9

The Sinning Senator HEARTS the Angry Mobs 8/8

In a wing-nut world, Granny is toast 8/7

The Town Hall Mob 8/7

Rachel Maddow exposes the right-wing noise machine 8/6

A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House 8/5

Founder of Blackwater-Xe Accused Of Murder, Gun Running To Iraq 8/4

A Sibel Edmonds 'Bombshell' - Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Until 9/11 8/4

Wingnuts Receive Marching Orders On How to Disrupt Upcoming Town Halls With Phony Outrage 8/4

Corporations Buying up Farm Land Around World Will Endanger Control and Pricing of Food Supply 8/3

Glenn Beck Fan, Highly Armed, Busted For Casing National Guard Base, Thinking It Was A "FEMA Camp" 8/2

Suicide's Rising Toll: After Combat, Victims of an Inner War 8/1

 

 
July 2009  

Practicalities v. Principles: The Prime Beltway Affliction 7/31

The 'Bipartisan Compromise' Scam 7/29

Profiling CEOs and Their Sociopathic Paychecks 7/28

Is the Obama Health Care Plan Really Better Than Nothing? 7/27

And That’s Not the Way It Is 7/26

The Censored Health-Care Option 7/24

US Continues Down Perilous Biofuels Path 7/23

The Great Tax Con Job 7/21

Socialist Health Plan? In Norway, Obama's Plan Not Even Close 7/21

Assassinations Anyone? CIA Claims of Cancelled Campaign are Hogwash 7/19

Scare-Ya Palin Outdoes Herself 7/18

Liz Cheney Inherits the Family Business 7/17

‘Government Sachs’ Strikes Gold ... Again 7/16

WTF? NBC Goes "Terrorist" Hunting 7/15

The Man Who Knew Cheney's Secret? 7/14

The Man in the Mirror 7/13

Boiling the Frog 7/13

Some Choice Words for the 'Select Few' 7/12

Washington's Secretive Religious Power Cult 7/11

The Creepy "Family" on "C Street" where Senator Ensign and Senator Coburn Hang Out 7/11

Why Can’t a Better Health Care Plan Be the Next Stimulus? 7/9

$1.4 Million a Day Will Keep the Doctor Away 7/8

Britain's National Health Service: Simple, Sensible and Civilized 7/5

Offshore Wind: Europe Surges, US Dawdles 7/5

Sarah’s Straight Talk 7/4

A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia 7/3

The Film Big Coal Does Not Want You to See 7/3

The Great American Bubble Machine 7/3

Why I Was Arrested in Coal River, West Virginia 7/2

The Health Care Industry vs. Health Reform 7/1

Kucinich: Troop Movements Are not a 'Withdrawal' 7/1

Minuteman Leader Schris Simcox's Potential Twitter Followers Replaced by Mexicans! 7/1

 

Lobby firm forges anti-climate-bill letters from Hispanic group and NAACP 7/31

Isle of Wight police prepare for activists after cancellation of green festival 7/31

Conservative Genius: No Need to Fight Global Warming, Cause an Asteroid Might Hit Earth 7/30

Pentagon Propaganda Gets a Pass 7/29

Denialogues and Politically Transmitted Diseases 7/28

World Will Warm Faster Than Predicted in Next Five Years, Study Warns 7/28

Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide 7/26

School of Coups 7/24

Tributes Censor Cronkite's Anti-Iraq War Stance 7/24

The NSA Is Still Listening to You 7/23

Did US Forces Watch Afghan Massacre? 7/22

George Bush's Sex Education Failure 7/22

Gun Crazy in the Senate 7/20

Exxon faces $1 billion fine for sabotaging Texas oil wells 7/19

Celebrating Cronkite While Ignoring What He Did 7/18

Texas May Bar Students from Learning About Cesar Chavez, Thurgood Marshall 7/16

Illegal, and Pointless 7/17

Obama calls Kyl's bluff on stimulus, McCain freaks out 7/15

John Ensign Tied To "Do-it-Yourself Exorcism" Movement 7/15

The Rich Can Relax. We Just Need the Poor World to Cut Emissions. By 125% 7/14

Bottled water ban makes a big splash 7/12

Attorney General Eric Holder may probe Bush-era torture 7/12

Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project 7/11

Hemingway revealed as failed KGB spy 7/10

Panetta Admits CIA Misled Congress on “Significant Actions” 7/9

Michael Moore Calls New Film Capitalism: A Love Story 7/9

Former Monsanto VP May Be Named To Head FDA Safety Working Group 7/8

Senate Finance Committee may deny access to abortion 7/6

Untold Truths About the American Revolution 7/6

The Other 9/11 Returns to Haunt Latin America 7/3

The Problem With The Public Option Is That It Lowers The Cost Of Health Insurance 7/1

Franken’s Victory Bolsters Democratic Grip in Senate 7/1

 

 
June 2009  

With Honduras Coup, the School of the Americas' War on the Left Continues 6/30

Can Gardening Make Your Sex Life Better? 6/30

Betraying the Planet 6/29

Top Ten List on Why President Obama Must Visit Appalachia and Launch War for Green Jobs 6/29

We've Been Trapped Inside a Bad Health Care System So Long, We Don't Even Know How Much We're Missing 6/28

Western Aid Declines, Financial Bailouts Mount 6/27

Health Insurance Insider: 'They Dump the Sick' 6/25

Obama Running Scared 6/23

Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away 6/22

In Stark Legal Turnaround, Obama Now Resembles Bush 6/21

BJN Vacation 6-13 - 6/21

Sign up: USDA June 29th deadline to halt GE, drug and industrial chemicals in food crops 6/10

Break the Banks, for the Good of the People 6/9

Hold Your Applause 6/8

Debunking Canadian Health Care Myths 6/7

What the New Jim Comey Torture Emails Actually Reveal 6/7

'Single-Payer' Supporters Challenge Democrats 6/6

119 Million Americans Must Be Wrong 6-5

Conservatives Warn Quick Sex Change Only Barrier Between Gays, Marriage 6-5

Gag Me with Clean Coal 6/5

Obama in Cairo: A Bush in Sheep's Clothing? 6/4

He Kept Us Safe (Except When He Didn’t) 6/2

No Reason for Secrecy of Ash Sites 6/29

Clarence Thomas Scoots Right -- Again 6/28

White House Visitors - A Secret 6/27

Limbaugh Blames President Obama for Sanford's Sex Melodrama 6/25

Reckoning at Coal River 6/22

Confidential memo reveals US plan to provoke an invasion of Iraq 6/21

Why Did The Washington Post Axe Dan Froomkin and Give Paul Wolfowitz a Column? 6/19

Healthcare CEOs Shoot Themselves in the Foot 6/17

Health Professionals Tell Congress They Want Single-Payer 6/10

West Va. Supreme Court Affirms Toxic Coal Silo as Wonderful Playground 6/10

‘Police Are Throwing Bodies in the River,’ Say Native Protesters 6/10

Wells Fargo: Too Big to Jail? 6/9

Canadian, U.S., U.K. life, health insurers investing heavily in tobacco companies 6/6

Clinton Rejects Israeli Claims of Accord on Settlements 6/6

Rep. Hechler to President Obama: Time for a Harry S. Truman Moment in the Coalfields 6/5

How Obama's 'Car Czar' Steve Rattner Is Bankrupting GM and Planning to Steal Pensions 6/4

The Amazon vs. Big Oil: Chevron Faces Possible $27 Billion Dollar Damages Claim 6/3

Navy Vet Honored, Foiled Israeli Attack 6/2

 
May 2009  

First We Got The Bomb And That Was Good 5/29

An Early Call for Obama's Resignation 5/28

Radical Vision and Elbow Grease 5/27

A Redneck View of Obama's Presidency 5/27

Capitalism Produces Rich Bankers, but Socialism Produces Happiness 5/25

Bush's Shocking Biblical Prophecy Emerges: God Wants to "Erase" Mid-East Enemies "Before a New Age Begins" 5/25

Two Sides of the Same Coin: Heads-Heads 5/24

President Obama’s Orwellian New Category of “Prolonged Detention” 5/24

FBI Blows It: Supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues Is Bogus 5/23

Cheney: Support for Israel Feeds Terrorism  5/22

Blue Double Cross 5/22

The Great Dick Cheney Psyche Out 5/22

Cheney's Speech Ignored Some Inconvenient Truths 5/22

How do the Republicans do it? 5/20

Our Loss Is BlackRock’s Gain 5/20

Terrorists in Prison: Is There Anything the Right Doesn't Fear? 5/20

Does the CIA Ever Lie? Parsing the Pelosi Torture Controversy 5/20

Noam Chomsky, Unexceptional Americans 5/19

The Disease of Permanent War 5/18

Climate Crisis Update: Seven Vital Talking Points in the Outreach to Win Hearts & Minds 5/17

Obama Can’t Turn the Page on Bush 5/17

We tortured to justify war 5/16

Howard Zinn: Changing Obama's Military Mindset 5/16

We Wouldn't Want to Inflame Anti-American Sentiment 5/15

"Don't Buy Any Food You've Ever Seen Advertised" 5/15

Retired Justice O'Connor cites Benjamin ethics case 5/15

'Ugly' Questions for Gen. Myers 5/12

Did Obama merely have another photo-finish in mind? 5/14

Use Jobless Time to Build Better World 5/13

Who Are the Real Psychopaths in Afghanistan? 5/12

North Korea Smack-Talks America: 'We Are Not Guantanamo'  5/11

The conservative Dick Cheney: Just doing what comes unnaturally 5/11

CNN Warns Swine Flu Could Continue Through Sweeps 5/9

If the US Does It, It's Not Torture 5/9

David Broder: Eyes Wide Shut 5/8

Everyday is Doomsday in Washington 5/7

Rudman: Deus ex Machina on Torture 5/7

Who Will Stop the AIPAC Jews Before it is Too Late? 5/7

How Is it that the Wall Street Journal Editors Have Absolutely No Memory of the Last 8 Years? 5/7

Urgent Letter to EPA and Interior Secretary 5/6

On Torture: Win One for the Gipper! 5/6

The Far Right's First 100 Days: Getting More Extreme by the Day 5/6

Buying Brand Obama 5/5

Why the Faithful Approve of Torture 5/4

Much Ado About the Flu: Is the Media Frenzy Justified? 5/4

Sen. Arlen Specter, the New Worst Democrat 5/4

Charles Krauthammer's Tortured Defense of Torture 5/2

Rice Channels Nixon: Since the President Authorized Torture, That Makes It Legal 5/1

Super Prude Prosecutors Charge Teenagers with Pornography and Worse For Sexy Text Messages 5/1

Obama Caves to 'Scaredy-Cat Nation' 5/28

Deadly Salmonella: Frozen Food's Newest Ingredient 5/28

Cheney and Rumsfeld pressured CIA to mislead Congress in the 1970s, too 5/27

Is the Water Supply for 8 Million People in New York City at Risk? 5/26

Raising the Dead: Memorial Day Activists Jailed in Protest to Stop 998 Coal Sludge Deaths 5/25

Intel experts: Dick Cheney was wrong about Bush administration moves 5/24

Right-Wing Radio Host Gets Waterboarded, and Lasts Six Seconds Before Saying It's Torture 5/23

Drinking from Plastic Bottles 'Increases Exposure to Gender-Bending Chemical' 5/22

Baucus Flees From Single Payer Advocates 5/21

Caught in a Lie, U.S. is Using White Phosphorus in Afghanistan as a Weapon 5/20

Senate votes 90-6 to block transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to U.S. 5/21

Will Obama Move Supreme Court Rightward? 5/20

Good News, There's a Climate Bill -- Bad News, It Stinks 5/19

Ex-CIA Official: Agency Brass Lied to Congress About Interrogations 5/16

Obama reverses course on prison abuse photos 5/14

Baucus's Raucous Caucus: Doctors, Nurses and Activists Arrested Again for Protesting Exclusion of Single-Payer Advocates at Senate Hearing on Health Care 5/13

Is Dick Cheney Running for President in 2012? 5/13

Prosecutors ask for longer sentence for Siegelman 5/12

60 Minutes Bombs on Drone Story 5/11

Israel knows that peace just doesn't pay 5/11

Obama's Weird Idea of Auto Industry Rescue: Use Our Money to Build Car Factories Abroad 5/11

After the Latest U.S. Airstrike, Can Anyone Wonder Why Do 'They' Hate Us? 5/8

A Cheney Cover-Up? 5/7

Revealed: U.S. Interrogators May Have Killed Dozens of Detainees 5/7

Doctors, Single Payer Activists Arrested 5/5

Rice may have admitted to conspiracy, former Nixon counsel says 5/3

US families rely on handouts in world's richest country 5/2

Churchgoers more likely to back torture, survey finds 5/1

Major scandal erupts involving Rep. Jane Harman, Alberto Gonzales and AIPAC 5/30

 
April 2009  

'60 Minutes' Blows it on Coal Segment 4/27

Money for Nothing 4/27

Gaps in the Right's "banana republic" rhetoric 4/27

CIA Official: No Proof Harsh Techniques Stopped Terror Attacks 4/26

Of Tea Parties and Teleprompters 4/25

The GOP Is Acting Like a Guy Who Got Dumped 4/25

Why Is Texas So Psycho? 4/25

Reclaiming America’s Soul 4/24

Three Key Rules of Media Behavior Shape Their Discussions of "the 'Torture' Debate" 4/24

Obama Plays Hamlet; Shredders Hum 4/24

Free the Torturers – and the Rapists Too! 4/23

Religious Revolt: New Christian Sect Battles Demons, Raises the Dead, Campaigns for Sarah Palin 4/23

Pot vs. Booze: A Former Police Chief's Take 4/22

The Piracy Problem: Monsters vs. Aliens 4/22

Crazy Peggy Noonan's Latest Talking Point Isn't Just Wrong, It's Dangerous 4/22

Torturing Judge Bybee: Make Him Eat His Own Words 4/21

Goldman Sachs Shook Tens of Billions Out of Tax-Payers -- Now They're Whining All the Way to the Bank 4/21

Why We Should Banish Larry Summers From Public Life 4/20

The Bigots' Last Hurrah 4/19

The Torturers’ Manifesto 4/18

Sarah Palin Claims to Understand Women's Difficult "Choices" -- She Doesn't 4/18

Home of the Barricaded, Land of the ‘Fraid 4/16

Endgame for Gramm? 4/15

How The Nation Magazine Saved the American Empire 4/15

Anatomy of Bush's Torture 'Paradigm' 4/14

Debt is Not Money 4/13

We're Being Lied to About Pirates 4/13

America is Simply Losing It, Folks 4-13

Obama and Habeas Corpus -- Then and Now 4/12

CPAs MIA 4/12

America’s Imperial Wars: We Need to See the Horrors 4/12

An Open Letter To National Organization For Marriage 4/11

'These People Fear Prosecution': Why Bush's CIA Team Should Worry About Its Dark Embrace of Torture 4/11

How the Toxic Asset Plan Will Magically Make Your Money Disappear 4/11

America, Torture and Hypocrisy 4/10

The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means 4/10

The Only Way Forward Is Back to Gaia's Garden 4/10

Getting a Death Grip on Memory 4/9

Putting Today's 'Pirate' Attack in Context 4/8

News Flash: Greed and Stupidity Can Coexist! 4/8

Filling the Skies with Robot Assassins: The Drone Wars Have Begun 4/8

OSHA: It's Still Bush's Bureaucracy 4/7

How Cooking the Books on Inflation Helped Destroy the Global Economy 4/7

Resist or Become Serfs 4/6

Madoff Was A Piker -- America's Big Banks Are a Far Larger Fraudulent Ponzi Scheme 4/6

Bageant: We've Let Corporations and Media Rob Our Souls -- It's Time to Do Something Meaningful 4/6

Cowardice in the Time of Torture 4/5

The Quiet Coup 4/4

Regressive Hypocrisy (Yawn…) Again 4/4

No Armies Are Moral 4/4

Something is Rotten at PBS 4/3

Secret U.S. Forces Carried Out Assassinations in 'a Lot of' Countries, Including in Latin America 4/1

WHO notches up swine flu pandemic alert (who indeed) 4/30

Texas, Run by Secessionist Guv, Has Received More Federal Disaster Relief Than Any State 4/30

Outbreak of Swine Flu in Us Traced to Rush Limbaugh 4/29

The swine flu crisis lays bare the meat industry's monstrous power 4/28

Scientists Find Explosives in World Trade Center Dust 4/26

Torture? It Probably Killed More Americans than 9/11 4/26

FBI Weren't the Only Ones Objecting to Torture in 2002 - So Did the Army, Marines & Air Force 4/26

WHO's Chan says swine flu has pandemic potential 4/25

CIA Official: No Proof Harsh Techniques Stopped Terror Attacks 4/25

Who's A Terrorist Now? 4/25

Cheney, Rice signed off on interrogation techniques 4/23

Obama Caves to Right-wing in Boycotting UN Anti-Racism Conference 4/23

Fans of Sarah Palin Now See Her as a 'Clownish, Vindictive Amateur' 4/23

European Nations May Investigate Bush Officials Over Prisoner Treatment 4/22

In Adopting Harsh Tactics, No Inquiry Into Their Past Use 4/22

The Pulitzer-Winning Investigation That Dare Not Be Uttered on TV 4/21

Dick Cheney wants classified material released to show that torture 'worked'. Let's see it all – waterboarding videos included 4/20

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Waterboarded 183 Times in One Month 4/19

The Bush Six to Be Indicted 4/14

Will Obama Prosecute the Captured Somali 'Pirate' in a US Court?  4/13

Citizens held as illegal immigrants 4/13

The Vatican's Perverted Sense of Justice: Pedophiles Stay in the Church, While Priests Who Ordain Women Are Excommunicated 4/13

Supremes to Hear Case of 13 Year-Old Girl Strip-Searched on Suspicion of Carrying Ibuprofen 4/12

Barack Obama, Torture Enabler 4/11

How the Toxic Asset Plan Will Magically Make Your Money Disappear 4/11

Obama's Top Economic Adviser Is Greedy and Highly Compromised 4/10

Red Cross 'gravely concerned' about detainees who 'disappeared' 4/9

Oil Giants Loath to Follow Obama’s Green Lead 4/8

In Warrantless Wiretapping Case, Obama DOJ's New Arguments Are Worse Than Bush's 4/7

Was Frontline Documentary Edited to Reflect Health Insurance Industry Interests? 4/7

Judge in Stevens Case Starts Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against DOJ Officials 4/7

Thousands Flee Bomb Attacks by US Drones 4/6

World’s Fastest Broadband at $20 Per Home 4/3

"Socialized" medicine: Next front in the right's "-isms" arms race 4/2

 
March 2009  

Shimkus' Bupkis on Global Warming Begs the Question: What is Religion's Role in the Climate Change Debate? 3/31

G20: Nature Doesn't Do Bailouts 3/30

President Obama: Small Change and the Mendacity of Hope 3/30

Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President 3/29

The Market Wizards Were Exposed as Frauds -- Too Bad Obama's Team Still Believes in Their Magic 3/28

Skinny Dipping in Reality: The Great Hippy LSD Enlightenment Search Party 3/25

Insurance Industry is Simply a Parasite on the U.S. Health System 3/25

The Real Criminals are Neither Lynndie England nor the AIG Traders 3/23

South Africa Bars Dalai Lama From Peace Conference 3/23

Will Congress Pass Ponzi Healthcare? Let’s Say 'No' in Des Moines 3/21

Barack Obama and the Altar of Greed 3/20

Muntadar al-Zaidi Should Be Pardoned 3/20

If You’re a ‘Little Guy,’ a Contract Means Nothing 3/19

The belief that the wealthy are worthy is waning 3/19

Hitchhiker's Guide to a More Open Society -- Bring Back the Thumb! 3/16

Is the Israel Lobby Running Scared? Or Killing a Chicken to Scare the Monkeys 3/16

The False Idol of Unfettered Capitalism 3/16

Bolivia Passes Land From Rich to Poor 3/15

The U.S. Is Facing a Weimar Moment 3/15

The Competitive Disadvantage of GOP Healthcare Rhetoric 3/14

The Perils of Being Right and Wrong 3/13

There is such a plethora of alleged criminality in the G.W. Bush Administration that the mind boggles 3/13

Howard Zinn: Obama "Is Going to Need Demonstrations and Protest and Letters and Petitions" to Do the Right Things 3/12

Put Single-Payer on the Table 3/11

Are We Breeding Ourselves to Extinction? 3/11

Krugman Message to Obama: Nationalize the Financial Institutions (They Really are Not Traditional Banks Anymore -- They are Gambling Companies) or Face a Failed Economy 3/6

The Wall Street Criminals Are Still Running Free, Stealing Billions 3/8

It’s the Pot Economy, Stupid 3/5

Yoo and The Subversion of Liberty Narrowly Averted 3/4

Memos Provide Blueprint for Police State 3/4

Our Worst Enemies Aren't Terrorists: Rethinking National Security on a Sinking Planet 3/3

Dirty Coal Has Left the Building 3/2

The Imperial Unconscious 3/2

Facts Are Stubborn Things: George Will and Climate Change 3/2

‘Fair and Balanced’ Fox News allows only Republicans to debate Obama’s budget 3/2

Santelli's CNBC Stunt May Have Been Part of a Right Wing PR Plan 3/1

Willful Deception 3/1

Sanders Puts Single-Payer On the Agenda 3/30

Big Coal Defeat! Rednecks and Greens Announce Victory at Blair Mountain 3/30

Spanish Court Weighs Inquiry on Torture for 6 Bush-Era Officials 3/29

Spanish Judge Accuses Six Top Bush Officials of Torture; Legal moves may force Obama's government into starting a new inquiry into abuses at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib 3/29

Spanish official says arrest warrants 'highly probable' 3/27

Neo-Con Ideologues Launch New Foreign Policy Group 3/26

The Top 10 Aphrodisiac Foods 3/23

Ex-Bush Admin Official: Many at Gitmo Are Innocent 3/20

Limbaugh defends AIG from "lynch mob" 3/19

Rep. Dennis Kucinich Seeks Investigation of Cheney "Assassination Ring"3/18

Should Canada detain him and arrest George W. Bush for war crimes? 3/16

Red Cross Described 'Torture' at CIA Jails 3/16

Chilean Town Withers in Free Market for Water 3/15

Charles Barkley and Sheriff Joe's Special Treatment 3/13

Charles Freeman's authentic high-tech lynching 3/12

Seymour Hersh Says Assassination Squad Reported Directly to Dick Cheney 3/11

Rove Agrees to Testify Under Oath 3/4

Bush administration memos on presidential powers stun legal experts 3/4

 
February 2009  

 

The Ecstasy and the Agony 2/28

How a Man Was Thrown into Gitmo and Tortured for Clicking on My Article 2/26

Worse than my darkest nightmare 2/23

Banking on the Brink 2/23

Cambodia's Empty Dock 2/21

Prince of Darkness Denies Own Existence 2/20

War Criminals, Including Their Lawyers, Must Be Prosecuted 2/20

5 Great Progressive Moves by Obama That You Might Have Missed 2/20

(and some regressive stupidity too) Venezuela, An Imaginary Threat 2/20

Stimulate Peace, Not War 2/19

US Lawmakers Make Rare Visit to Hamas-Ruled Gaza: Kerry still blind to Israeli insistence on massive use of "instruments of terror" supplied by US  2/19

Amy Goodman: How Two Former PA Judges Got Millions in Kickbacks to Send Juveniles to Private Prisons 2/18

America's Law-Free Zone 2/17

Obama and the Media Dilemma 2/17

Coming to NBC: "To Catch a Cheney" 2/17

Do We Still Pretend That We Abide by Treaties? 2/16

The Case for Nationalizing the Entire Economy 2/16

Addicted to fake outrage 2/13

Cut the Military Budget 2/13

Obama’s Afghan Trap 2/12

Obama on nationalization 2/12

Nationalize Insolvent Banks 2/12

Climate of Fear Pervades Many Newsrooms 2/11

Leahy Seeks Bush-Era 'Truth Commission' 2/9

The Destructive Center 2/8

The Republican Drag 2/8

Naomi Klein: Public Revolt Builds Against Rip-off Rescue Plans for the Economy 2/7

On the Edge 2/6

Why Obama's Plan to Help Renewable Energy May Backfire and Aid Big Coal 2/6

Rationalize The Banks!2/4

From Rhetoric to Reality: Is Obama's Clean Energy Goal Really That Ambitious? 2/4

Blacklisting Progressives: The Untold Story Beneath the Daschle Headlines 2/4

Facing Foreclosure? Don't Leave. Squat 2/4

America Is Completely Broke, And Here We Are Funding Fantasy Wars at the Pentagon 2/1

 

Coal-sponsored CNN rejects anti-coal ad 2/28

In a blunder reminiscent of Janet Cooke scandal, the Washington Post lets George Will reassert all his climate falsehoods plus some new ones 2/27

CNN's Wolf Blitzer Lapdogs While Senator Hatch Lies 2/25

Sanford Offers Unemployed South Carolina Resident ‘Prayers’ Instead Of Stimulus Funds 2/24

Suspend Military Aid to Israel, Amnesty Urges Obama after Detailing US Weapons Used in Gaza 2/23

Kucinich: Who Told SEC to "Stand Down" on Stanford Probe? 2/21

Obama Beats Down Another Big Bush Lie 2/21

Is the U.S. Paying Off the Italian Government for Forging the Niger Documents? 2/20

Danish Cartoonists Riot Over NY Post ‘Chimp Cartoon’ 2/19

Finally, the Law Goes After Joe Arpaio -- the Most Abusive Sheriff In America 2/19

Greenspan backs bank nationalisation 2/18

Is Michele Bachmann the Most Idiotic Member of Congress? 2/17

Gregg Withdraws as Commerce Secretary Nominee 2/12

Congress Takes First Step to Impose Limits on Obama's Executive Power 2/12

Binyam Mohamed Torture Evidence 'Hidden From Obama' 2/12

Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash 2/12

Under Siege Again, But Gaza Will Not Die 2/11

Iraq shakes off the U.S. 2/10

Joint warhead research breaches nuclear treaty, campaigners warn 2/8

Obama Endorses Bush Secrecy On Torture And Rendition 2/5

US Threats Mean Evidence of Brit's Guantánamo Torture Must Stay Secret, Judges Rule 2/4

Bipartisanship=Shifting Right? 2/4

 

 
January 2009  

From Prison to Award for Iraq War Whistleblower 1/31

Cognitive Dissonance: The Healthcare Reform Battle's State of Mind 1/30

Republicans' Bizarre Collective Response to Obama's Economic Recovery Plan: We're Out to Lunch 1/30

Why Should I Respect These Oppressive Religions? 1/28

The Definition of A "Two-Tiered Justice System" 1/28

To Favor Due Process Is to Favor Terrorists' Rights 1/26

Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years 1/26

The Newest Fear-Mongering Campaign From the Right and the Media 1/24

Why An Asshole Is Always In Charge 1/23

Obama Should Worry About the Bush Family Tentacles Undermining His Plans 1/21

David Bornstein Details the Power of Social Entrepreneurship 1/19

That Bastion of American Socialism 1/18

Pelosi Open to Prosecution of Bush Administration Officials 1/18

The Horror of Healthcare in America 1/18

What's CIA Director Hayden Hidin'? 1/16

Top Censored Press Stories of 2008 1/15

How Israeli Intelligence Fabricated a Frequently-Repeated Myth to Justify Tel Aviv's Aggression 1/14

Eight Years of Madoffs 1/11

Obama Picks a Conscience for The CIA 1/9

International Energy Agency 'Blocking Global Switch to Renewables' 1/9

Free Market Myth 1/6

Think Again: Climate Change 1/5

Orwell, Blinding Tribalism, Selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza 1/4

A President Forgotten but Not Gone 1/4

We Arm the World 1/3

 

Bill O’Reilly: ‘The Only Person In The Galaxy Who Is Able To Imagine A Raceless Human Being 1/30

Iraq to Deny New License To Blackwater Security Firm 1/29

Holder Approved by Judiciary Panel 1/28

Bailout Recipients Hosted Call To Defeat Key Labor Bill 1/27

Obama Plans Fast Action to Tighten Financial Rules 1/24

Guantanamo case files in disarray... as is what's left of Bush's mind 1/24

Republican Senators resort to extortion on Holder nomination 1/24

U.N. special rapporteur on torture calls on U.S. to prosecute Bush and Rumsfeld 1/21

Obama to Shut Guantánamo Site and C.I.A. Prisons 1/21

Obama Is Sworn In as the 44th President 1/20

Is Israel's Gaza War a New War Crime? 1/18

Bush Drops Fake Cowboy Shtick 1/18

Blackwell: GOP Must Defeat Job-Creating Stimulus Because It Will Ruin GOP’s Election Chances 1/17

Olmert Says He Made Rice Change Vote (Bush interrupts speech to take call from his boss)  1/14

How perfect: Bush WH distorts transcript of final news conference 1/13

Clinton Sympathizes With Palestinians In Confirmation Hearing 1/13

Gazans Warned of Escalation While Israel Faces War Crime Accusations 1/11

Bush laments pushing for Social Security reform two days after citing it as his biggest accomplishment 1/7

Obama's impressive new OLC chief 1/5

 

 

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