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U.S. Politics
"Hilda Solis Confirmed As Labor Secretary, 80-17," by Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake, Feb. 24, 2009
"Obama's War," by Tom Gallagher, Common Dreams, Feb. 24, 2009
"End Culture of Corporate Entitlement," by Jim Hightower, Niagara Falls Reporter (New York), Feb. 23, 2009
"The Politics of Bank Nationalization," by Jay Mandle, Huffington Post, Feb. 22, 2009
"A Closer Look at the Employee Free Choice Act," by David Macaray, Counterpunch, Feb. 20/22, 2009
"Obama's 'Seven Days in May' Moment," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, Feb. 20, 2009
"Who Will Be There for Obusha When the Floor Drops Out?," by David Michael Green, Common Dreams, Feb. 20, 2009
"The GOP's Filibuster Hypocrisy," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, Feb. 19, 2009
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Economy
"U.S. Clears Path to Bank Takeovers," Washington Post, Feb. 24, 2009
"A Planet at the Brink: Will Economic Brushfires Prove Too Virulent to Contain?," by Tom Engelhardt& Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch, Feb. 24, 2009
"The Spectacular, Sudden Crash of the Global Economy," by Joshua Holland, AlterNet, Feb. 24, 2009
"Wall Street Sharks Have Lost Everything, and Now They're Coming After Us," by Robert Kuttner, Washington Post, Feb. 24, 2009
"Health Spending Takes Rising Share of US Economy," Reuters, Feb. 24, 2009
"How Credit Unions Survived the Crash: The Cooperative Model," by Ralph Nader, Counterpunch, Feb. 23, 2009
"The Language of Looting: What 'Nationalize the Banks' and the 'Free Market' Really Mean in Today's Looking-Glass World," by Michael Hudson, Counterpunch, Feb. 23, 2009
"Banking on the Brink," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2009
"Tough Times in Troubled Towns: America's Municipal Meltdowns," by Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse, TomDispatch, Feb. 22, 2009
"The Global Collapse: a Non-orthodox View," by Walden Bello, ZNet, Feb. 22, 2009
"Watch Out for Stimulus Profiteers," by Anthony Shorris, The Nation, Feb. 21, 2009
"Nationalize Failing Banks? Think Twice," by Thomas Ferguson & Robert Johnson, The Nation, Feb. 21, 2009
"Who Will Stop the Economic Pain?," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, Feb. 21, 2009
"Rescuing America's Homeowners," by Eileen Appelbaum, The American Prospect, Feb. 20, 2009
"Time for a Global Stimulus," by Matthew Yglesias, The American Prospect, Feb. 19, 2009
"Laissez-Faire Capitalism Has Failed," by Nouriel Roubini, Forbes, Feb. 19, 2009
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Bush Regime
"Obama administration tries to kill e-mail case," Associated Press, Feb. 21, 2009
"War Criminals, Including Their Lawyers, Must Be Prosecuted," by Marjorie Cohn, common Dreams, Feb. 17, 2009
"Will Obama back 'truth commission' to probe Bush practices?," McClatchy Newspapers, Feb. 20, 2009
"Investigating Bush's Crimes," by Scott Horton, The Nation, Feb. 18, 2009
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International Affairs
"Lugar Report Calls for New Cuba Policy," by Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, Feb. 24, 2009
"Amnesty calls on US to suspend arms sales to Israel," Guardian/UK, Feb. 23, 2009
"Iran's Détente Gesture to Obama?," by Muhammad Sahimi, Antiwar.com, Feb. 21, 2009
"Once You See What Truly Happened in Gaza, It Will Change You Forever," by Medea Benjamin, AlterNet, Feb. 19, 2009
"Could a Sudden Collapse of Mexico Be Obama's Surprise Foreign Policy Challenge?," by Bill Weinberg, AlterNet, Feb. 19, 2009
"A New Attitude at the White House?: State Department Calls Bolivian and Venezuelan Referendums 'Democratic,'" by Laura Carlsen, Counterpunch, Feb. 19, 2009
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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan
"A War Fought In Ignorance," by William Pfaff, TruthDig, Feb. 24, 2009
"Mosul Police Attack US Soldiers, Killing One," Antiwar.com News, Feb. 24, 2009
"The New War in Iraq : Tensions Flare Between Kurds and Arabs," by Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Feb. 23, 2009
"A New Afghanistan Nightmare," by Ramzy Baroud, ZNet, Feb. 22, 2009, 2009
"Image Problem in Afghanistan," Wahington Post, Feb. 22, 2009, 2009
"Afghanistan: Think South Vietnam in 1965," by Joseph L. Galloway, Miami Herald, Feb. 22, 2009
"Why is Obama Poised to Escalate a Bad War?," by Daniel Smith, Foreign Policy in Focus, Feb. 21, 2009
"Obama Nixed Full Afghan Surge After Quizzing Brass," by Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service, Feb. 21, 2009
"Iraqis Have Voted: Will the U.S. Be Kicked Out the Door Soon?," by Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, Feb. 21, 2009
"Obama Widens Missile Strikes Inside Pakistan," The New York Times, Feb. 21, 2009
"Obama's War?," by Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation, Feb. 18, 2009
"The U.S. and Afghan Tragedy," by Khushal Arsala and Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus, Feb. 18, 2009
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Civil Liberties
"Worse Than My Darkest Nightmare: Binyam Mohamed's Statment Upon Being Released From Gitmo," by Binyam Mohamed, Guardian/UK, Feb. 24, 2009
"Who Is Binyam Mohamed?," by Andy Worthington, Antiwar.com, Feb. 24, 2009
"Administration Draws Fire for Report on Guantánamo," The New York Times, Feb. 24, 2009
"Security Experts Skeptical on Guantanamo Detainee Report," CNN, Feb. 24, 2009
"Was Binyam Mohamed brutalized at Guantanamo in the last month?," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Feb. 22, 2009
"Hillary Clinton China Visit Blamed for the Detention of Activists," Sunday Telegraph/UK, Feb. 22, 2009
"Alleged torture victim to be freed from Guantanamo," by Paul Woodward, The National/Abu Dhabi, Feb. 22, 2009
"Very Bad News: Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base Will Be Obama's Guantanamo," by Stephen Foley, Independent UK, Feb. 22, 2009
"Despite rhetoric, Obama continues Bush policy on detainees: Indefinite detention, no legal rights," Raw Story, Feb. 21, 2009
"Obama's Policy on Civil Liberties: Bush Lite?," by Ivan Eland, Antiwar.com, Feb. 21, 2009
"From One Assault on the Constitution to Another: Bill of Rights Under Fire," by Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch, Feb. 20/22, 2009
"I Was Illegally Detained by the U.S. Government and Held in CIA-Run 'Black Sites,'" by Mohamed Farag Bashmilah, Huffington Post, Feb. 20, 2009
"Obama Sides With Bush: No Rights for Bagram Prisoners," Associated Press, Feb. 20, 2009
"Good and Bad News for Gitmo Detainees: Obama's Uighur Problem," by Andy Worthington, Counterpunch, Feb. 19, 2009
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Environment and Sustainability
"EPA to review Bush rule on warming emissions," Agence France Presse, Feb. 24, 2009
"Climate change lays waste to Spain's glaciers," Guardian/UK, Feb. 23, 2009
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Media Issues
"The 'Americans want bipartisanship' myth," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Feb. 24, 2009
"The New Breed of New Media Researchers," by Rory O'Connor, Smirking Chimp, Feb. 24, 2009
"CNN's Wolf Blitzer Lapdogs While Senator Hatch Lies," by Josh Silver, Huffington Post, Feb. 24, 2009
"Fox News 'war games' the coming civil war," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Feb. 22, 2009
"What Journalists Get Wrong About Gaza," by Katia Bachko, Columbia Journalism ReviewFeb. 21, 2009
"PBS Screws Up Report on Financial Crisis," by Danny Schechter, AlterNet, Feb. 21, 2009
"The US Media & Democracy in Crisis," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, Feb. 19, 2009
"Protest Rocks Rupert Murdoch's NY Post for Racist Cartoon," by Liliana Segura, AlterNet, Feb. 19, 2009
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Activism
"New Orleans Intifada," by Jordan Flaherty, ZNet, Feb. 24, 2009
"Wis. reservist refuses to return to Iraq," Associated Press, Feb. 23, 2009
"GI Resistance Alive and Well in Chicago," by Patrick Dunn, Common Dreams, Feb. 23, 2009
"Anti-billboard activists recall rebel tradition," Los Angeles Times, Feb. 22, 2009
"Hundreds Protest NY Post Cartoon Seen as Racist Depiction of Obama," Democracy Now!, Feb. 20, 2009
"Unions, Disunited," by David Moberg, The Nation, Feb. 18, 2009
"Resistance to Housing Foreclosures Spreads Across the Land," by Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation, Jan. 23, 2009
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