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U.S. Politics
"Joe Wilson, Neoconfederate," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Sept. 15, 2009
"Most US Doctors Want Public-Private Mix: Poll," Reuters, Sept. 14, 2009
"Lawrence O'Donnell: Nancy Pelosi Telling Her Troops They're Going To Have To Go Forward Without A Public Option," by Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake, Sept. 14, 2009
"The Supreme Court and Corporate Money," by Harvey Wasserman, Counterpunch, Sept. 14, 2009
"912 Teabaggers in their own words," by Jed Lewison, Daily Kos, Sept. 14, 2009
"The cloud of war," by James Carroll, Boston Globe, Sept. 14, 2009
"Why the public option matters," by Jed Lewison, Daily Kos, Sept. 13, 2009
"The 'Trigger Mechanism,'" by David Sirota, Truthout, Sept. 13, 2009
"Obama's Squandered Summer," by Frank Rich, The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2009
"Is the Right's attack on Obama's legitimacy new or unprecedented?," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Sept. 12, 2009
"14 Things You Need to Know About Obama Heckler, Rep. Joe Wilson," by Adele M. Stan, AlterNet, Sept. 11, 2009
"Joe Wilson's Strange [White Supremacist] Friends," by Max Bluementhal, The Daily Beast, Sept. 11, 2009
"UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As She Begins Backing Off Pub Option," by David Sirota, Open Left, Sept. 11, 2009
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Economy
"The Real Lesson of Lehman's Fall: Lehman Died So TARP and AIG Might Live," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, Sept. 15, 2009
"Family health costs outpace inflation and wage growth," McClatchy Newspapers, Sept. 15, 2009
"Unemployment Leading to a World of Hurt," by Bob Herbert, The New York Times, Sept. 15, 2009
"Judge Rejects Settlement Over Merrill Bonuses," The New York Times, Sept. 14, 2009
"Obama to Defend Bailouts, a Year After Lehman Collapse," Agence France Presse, Sept. 14, 2009
"The Continuing Disaster of Wall Street, One Year Later," by Robert Reich, Hiffington Post, Sept. 14, 2009
"Rise in commercial real estate vacancy rates leads to meltdown concerns," McClatchy Newspapers, Sept. 14, 2009
"Stiglitz Says Banking Problems Are Now Bigger Than Pre-Lehman," Bloomberg News, Sept. 13, 2009
"Economic Donkeys," by Peter Boone and Simon Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Sept. 13, 2009
"This Corporate Life," by Devilstower, Daily Kos, Sept. 13, 2009
"In Shift, Wall Street Goes to Washington: District Rises as New Financial Center," Washington Post, Sept. 13, 2009
"Resisting Foreclosures," by Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation, Sept. 12, 2009
"The Recession's Racial Divide," by Barbara Ehrenreich & Dedrick Muhammad, The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2009
"CEO Pay Still Outrageous," by Sarah Anderson, Insitute for Policy Studies, Sept. 10, 2009
"Americans are getting poorer, and it's going to get worse," McClatchy Newspapers, Sept. 10, 2009
"Who's Leading the Fight Against Consumer Financial Regulation?," by Tim Fernholz, The American Prospect, Sept. 9, 2009
"Foreclosure Crisis Built on Racial Injustice," by Seth Wessler, In These Times, Sept. 7, 2009
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Bush Accountability
"CIA Inspector General: Zubaydah's Torture Preceded John Yoo's Torture Memo," by Jason Leopold, Truthout, Sept. 14, 2009
"Schlozman Walks," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Sept. 14, 2009
"Bush's Economic Performance: A Final Tally," by Robert Freeman, Common Dreams, Sept. 13, 2009
"Spanish Investigators Push Justice Department On Torture Role; How Will Holder Answer?," by Scott Horton, Huffington Post, Sept. 11, 2009
"Closing The Book On The Bush Legacy," by Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic, Sept. 11, 2009
"Prosecute Detainee Abuse After 9/11," by Elizabeth DiNovella, The Progressive, Sept. 11, 2009
"Court Rejects Suit Against CACI Over Abu Ghraib Torture," Washington Post, Sept. 11, 2009
"Two Marine Generals Take Cheney to the Woodshed," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Sept. 11, 2009
"Spain to proceed with torture prosecution of Bush lawyers: Report," Raw Story, Sept. 8, 2009
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International Affairs
"IAEA Conceals Evidence Iran Documents Were Forged," by Gareth Porter, Antiwar.com, Sept. 15, 2009
"US troops raid Somali town controlled by fighters," Associated Press, Sept. 14, 2009
"Official: U.S. revokes visas of Honduran president, 15 others," CNN, Sept. 13, 2009
"Rethinking our Iran strategy," by Robin Wright and Robert Litwak, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 13, 2009
"American Planning for a Hundred Holocausts: An Insider's Window Into US Nuclear Policy," by Daniel Ellsberg, TruthDig, Sept. 13, 2009
"U.S. Accepts Offer From Tehran for Broad Talks," Washington Post, Sept. 12, 2009
"Iran War Drums Begin Beating in Washington," by Daniel Luban and Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, Sept. 12, 2009
"US Plans for New Bases in Colombia: Throwing Bullets at Failed Polices," by Benjamin Dangl, Counterpunch, Sept. 11-13, 2009
"No Slowdown for Weapons Industry," Inter Press Service, Sept. 11, 2009
"' They're baaaaack....,'" by Stephen M. walt, Foreign Policy, Sept. 11, 2009
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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan
"Military Chief Says More Troops Needed for Afghan War," The New York Times, Sept. 15, 2009
"Iraqi shoe thrower says he was tortured in custody," Associated Press, Sept. 15, 2009
"In Iraq, freedom is marching backward," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Sept. 15, 2009
"U.S. Embassy Under Fire During Biden's Iraq Visit," The New York Times, Sept. 15, 2009
"A Somber Warning on Afghanistan from Zbigniew Brzezinski," The New York Times, Sept. 13, 2009
"Prosecutors in Iraq Case See Pattern by Blackwater," The New York Times, Sept. 13, 2009
"More in Congress question Afghanistan policy," Associated Press, Sept. 13, 2009
"'I told the US to talk to the Taliban. They jailed me,'" Independent/UK, Sept. 12, 2009
"Health Care vs. Warfare: The Future Costs of the Afghanistan War," by Jeff Leys, Truthout, Sept. 12, 2009
"Victims' families tell their stories following Nato airstrike in Afghanistan," Guardian/UK, Sept. 11, 2009
"Democrats in Congress growing antsy over Afghanistan," McClatchy Newspapers, Sept. 11, 2009
"Afghanistan Looking More and More Like Vietnam," by Robert Scheer, Truthout, Sept. 11, 2009
"Afghanistan: What Are These People Thinking?," by Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus, Sept. 10, 2009
"Afghanistan Election Fraud and the High Price of Empire," by John Nichols, The Nation, Sept. 10, 2009
"Al-Qaida faces recruitment crisis, anti-terrorism experts say," Guardian/UK, Sept. 10, 2009
"Federal Prosecutors Say Blackwater 'Specifically Intended to Kill' Civilians," by Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports, Sept. 8, 2009
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Civil Liberties
"Bagram: The sham of closing Guantanamo," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Sept. 15, 2009
"Obama supports extending Patriot Act provisions," Associated Press, Sept. 15, 2009
"Obama admin fights Bagram detainee court access," Associated Press, Sept. 14, 2009
"Obama Brings Guantanamo to Bagram," by Andy Worthington, Future of Freedom Foundation, Sept. 14, 2009
"US grants legal rights to 600 Bagram prisoners," Independent/UK, Sept. 14, 2009
"Ex-Gitmo Official: U.S. Should Kill 100,000 Muslim 'Zealots,'" by Valtin, Daily Kos, Sept. 13, 2009
"CIA Experiments on US Soldiers Linked to Torture Program," by Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout, Sept. 12, 2009
"ACLU sues Pittsburgh, Secret Service over G20 protest permits," Agence France Presse, Sept. 12, 2009
"U.S. to Expand Review of Detainees in Afghan Prison," The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2009
"Sonic weapons used in Iraq positioned at Congressional townhall meetings in San Diego County," East County Magazine (California), Sept. 11, 2009
"High Court Urged to Reject White House Appeal to Keep Abuse Photos Secret," by Jason Leopold, Truthout, Sept. 11, 2009
" Obama appointee previews the imminent preventive detention debate," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Sept. 10, 2009
"The Latest Habeas Corpus Rulings: No Escape From Guantánamo," by Andy Worthington, Counterpunch, Sept. 10, 2009
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Environment and Sustainability
"US planning to weaken Copenhagen climate deal, Europe warns," Guardian/UK, Sept. 15, 2009
"Environmentally minded restrained by covenants," Baltimore Sun, Sept. 14, 2009
"This professor of denial can't even answer his own questions on climate change," by George Monbiot, Guardian/UK, Sept. 14, 2009
"Our heat is turning the Arctic into an alien landscape," by Johann Hari, Independent/UK, Sept. 12, 2009
"Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering," The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2009
"Inside Hanford's B Reactor: A Tour of the World's Most Toxic Nuclear Site," by Joshua Frank, Counterpunch, Sept. 11-13, 2009
"EPA Turns the Lights on Mountaintop Removal," by Jeff Biggers, The Nation, Sept. 11, 2009
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Media Issues
"For major papers, 9-12 march -- but not Iraq war protest -- warranted front-page coverage," Media Matters, Sept. 15, 2009
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Activism
"Justice Follows Direct Action: Former Boss of Occupied Chicago Factory Jailed," by Benjamin Dangl, Truthout, Sept. 15, 2009
"Real 'Norma Rae' dies of cancer after insurer delayed treatment," by Sue Sturgis, Institute for Southern Studies, Sept. 14, 2009
"Hundreds protest US Army arcade," The Intelligencer (Pennsylvania), Sept. 13, 2009
"Conservatives march on Washington," by Alex Koppelman, Salon, Sept. 13, 2009
"Police Arrest Seven Protesters at Foreclosed Home," Minnesota Public Rasio, Sept. 12, 2009
"Trumka Takes Over AFL-CIO: Labor in a Time of Diminished Expectations," by Joann Wypijewski, Counterpunch, Sept. 11-13, 2009
"Listening to the Radicals: US History's Lessons on Compromise and the 'Politically Impossible,'" by Kevin Young, ZNet, Sept. 11, 2009
"Communications Workers T-shirts Too Much for AT&T; Hundreds Suspended in Connecticut," by Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes, Sept. 11, 2009
"The New Domestic Order," by Lizzy Ratner, The Nation, Sept. 9, 2009
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