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U.S. Politics
"Health-Care Dialogue Alarms Obama's Allies," Washington Post, Apr. 21, 2009
"Harman on NPR: Train Wreck," by Dana Houle, Daily Kos, Apr. 21, 2009
"Code Red for Single Payer: Obama Cowers Before Insurance Industry," by John V. Walsh, Counterpunch, Apr. 21, 2009
"Obama Stands Nuremberg on Its Head," by Mike Farrell, Truthdig, Apr. 20, 2009
"Spy Story: Harman, Saban, and AIPAC," by Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, Apr. 20, 2009
"Progressivism Goes Mainstream," by John Halpin & Ruy Teixeira, The American Prospect, Apr. 20, 2009
"Major scandal erupts involving Rep. Jane Harman, Alberto Gonzales and AIPAC," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Apr. 20, 2009
"Sources: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC," Congressional Quarterly, Apr. 19, 2009
"The Top 10 Enemies of Single-Payer," by Russell Mokhiber, Counterpunch, Apr. 16, 2009
"Webb's Prison Crusade," by Christopher Hayes, The Nation, Apr. 15, 2009
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Economy
"Crimes suspected in 20 bailout cases -- for starters," Los Angeles Times, Apr. 21, 2009
"Bailout's top cop probes twenty TARP fraud cases," The Hill, Apr. 21, 2009
"Too Big to Fail: Ecological Ignorance and Economic Collapse," by Tom Engelhardt & Chip Ward, TomDispatch, Apr. 20, 2009
"'People Shouldn't Have to Live Like This': The Real Story Behind 'Tent City' -- and How the Media Get It Wrong," by Rose Aguilar, AlterNet, Apr. 20, 2009
"Geithner and Summers Want More Debt Bubbles: The Result Could Be Catastrophic," by Thom Hartmann, Smirking Chimp, Apr. 16, 2009
"The Crisis That Could Bring Down Obama," by Ruth Conniff, The Progressive, Apr. 15, 2009
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Bush Regime
"The Tortured Path," by Hunter, Daily Kos, Apr. 21, 2009
"Obama recognizes: whether to prosecute is not his decision," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Apr. 21, 2009
"Obama Is Wrong, Andrew Sullivan Is Right," by Paul Rosenberg, Open Left, Apr. 21, 2009
"Jay Bybee's Conspiracy to Torture," by Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch, Apr. 21, 2009
"Pressure Grows to Investigate Interrogations," by The New York Times, Apr. 21, 2009
"Bybee Must Go," by Marie Cocco, Truthdig, Apr. 20, 2009
"Personal Torture Laws: Your Tax Dollars at Work," by David Swanson, After Downing Street, Apr. 20, 2009
"Momentum Gains in Movement to Impeach Bush Torture Lawyer Turned Federal Judge," by Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports, Apr. 20, 2009
"The Bush Administration's Stunning Geneva Hypocrisy," by Jason Leopold, Truthout, Apr. 20, 2009
"De-Nazify America--Part 4: Accountability Watch--Impeach Bybee," by Paul Rosenberg, Open Left, Apr. 20, 2009
"Impeach Jay Bybee, and ignore Rahm Emanuel," by Joan Walsh, Salon, Apr. 19, 2009
"Correcting America's Dark Chapter of Torture," by Pierre Tristam, Daytona Beach News-Journal (Florida), Apr. 19, 2009
"Four CIA chiefs said 'don't reveal torture memos,'" Guardian/UK, Apr. 19, 2009
"Pragmatism on Torture Another 'Sorry Kind of Wisdom,'" by meteor blades, Daily Kos, Apr. 19, 2009
"Opposition Grows To Obama's Decision Not To Prosecute CIA Agents," by Marcuis Baram, Huffington Post, Apr. 19, 2009
"More than Nuremberg: Update: Rahm Says 'No Prosecutions,'" by valtin, Daily Kos, Apr. 19, 2009
"Expedience and the Torture Amnesty," by David Bromwich, Huffington Post, Apr. 18, 2009
"The Torture Memos, Obama and the Banality of Evil," by Richard Kim, The Nation, Apr. 17, 2009
"Now that we 'officially' know, what do we do?," by mcjoan, Daily Kos, Apr. 17, 2009
"Depraved Judgment," by by digby, Hullabaloo, Apr. 16, 2009
"Panetta's Defense of CIA Interrogators Undercut by New DoJ Disclosures," by Jason Leopold, Truthout, Apr. 14, 2009
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International Affairs
"Obama's Dinosaur in Trinidad," by Tom Hayden, ZNet, Apr. 21, 2009
"Neocon Fantasies of Empire Crushed: the New Global Reality," by Mark Engler, Foreign Policy in Focus, Apr. 21, 2009
"Latin America Changes: Hungers Strikes in Bolivia, Summits in the Caribbean," by Benjamin Dangl, Counterpunch, Apr. 16, 2009
"Obama's Latin America reality check," by Mark Weisbrot, Guardian/UK, Apr. 13, 2009
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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan
"Attacks Commence," by Dahr Jamail, Truthout, Apr. 21, 2009
"A Voice of Hope for Afghanistan's Women," by Frud Bezhan, The Age/Australia, Apr. 20, 2009
"Extremist Tide Rises in Pakistan," Washington Post, Apr. 20, 2009
"Mary McCarthy in Vietnam, Barack Obama in Afghanistan," by Tom Engelhardt & William Astore, Apr. 16, 2009
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Civil Liberties
"Jane Harman: Angry, partisan, civil liberties extremist," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Apr. 21, 2009
"Connecting CIA Torture to Abu Ghraib," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, Apr. 21, 2009
"Judge to Rule on Domestic Spying," by David Kravets, Wired, Apr. 20, 2009
"Torture case lawyers may face jail for letter," San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 20, 2009
"CIA waterboarded al-Qaida suspects 266 times," Guardian/UK, Apr. 20, 2009
"U.S.-Trained Human Rights Abusers," by John Lindsay-Poland, Foreign Policy in Focus, Apr. 20, 2009
"Power, humiliation and torture," by Paul Woodward, War in Context, Apr. 19, 2009
"'A Ton More People Were Wiretapped Than We've Been Led to Believe': FBI Whistleblower Thomas Tamm," by Liliana Segura, AlterNetn, Apr. 18, 2009
"CIA Director Asked to Preserve Secret Prisons," by William Fisher, Inter Press Service, Apr. 18, 2009
"Accounts of Torture, Abstract and Experienced," by Adam Serwer, The American Prospect, Apr. 17, 2009
"Which Congressman Did NSA Try To Wiretap Without A Warrant?," by Ryan Grim, Huffington Post, Apr. 17, 2009
"Officials Say U.S. Wiretaps Exceeded Law," The New York Times, Apr. 13, 2009
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Environment and Sustainability
"Climate Change Shrinks Some of the World's Largest Rivers," Environment News Service, Apr. 21, 2009
"10 Environmental Disasters to Remember on Earth Day," by Jeff Biggers, AlterNet, Apr. 21, 2009
"Climate Concern Unites Natives at UN Conference in Anchorage," Anchorage Daily News(Alaska), Apr. 21, 2009
"Holistic Thinking Key to Sustainable Future," by Calvin DeWitt and Lewis Gilbert, Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin), Apr. 21, 2009
"Gore: 2009 turning point in environment battle," San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 20, 2009
"Michelle Obama's Fresh Food Revolution," by Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation, Apr. 20, 2009
"Greens Hail Obama's OK to Regulate Greenhouse Emissions," Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, Apr. 18, 2009
"Sea Levels Are Rising: It's Time to Decide Which Coastal Cities Are Worth Saving," by Scott Thill, AlterNet, Apr. 17, 2009
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Media Issues
"The Pulitzer-winning investigation that dare not be uttered on TV," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Apr. 21, 2009
"Civil War Raging in Right-Wing Blogosphere," David Weigel, Washington Independent, Apr. 21, 2009
"Revolution Amid Recession" by Paul Starr, The American Prospect, Apr. 20, 2009
"Meet the Press and the media's distortions of the prosecutions debate," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Apr. 20, 2009
"No Such Thing as Free News," by Michael Moran, The Nation, Apr. 20, 2009
"With A Whimper And A Whine," by georgia10, Daily Kos, Apr. 19, 2009
"Pundits Whitewash Torture," by Marcus Baram, Huffington Post, Apr. 19, 2009
"How Can You Trust the Cowardly BBC?," by Robert Fisk, Independent/UK, Apr. 18, 2009
"Politico's understanding of journalistic anonymity," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Apr. 18, 2009
"On the house: Fox aired 107 ads for its coverage of tea party protests over 10 days," Media Matters for America, Apr. 17, 2009
"Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary of Dissent," by Amy Goodman, Truthdig, Apr. 17, 2009
"The future of investigative journalism," by Tracy Van Slyke, Guardian/UK, Apr. 16, 2009
"Right-Wingers Are Desperately Trying to Destroy Obama, and the Cowardly Corporate Media Are Helping," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, Apr. 16, 2009
"A note on going 'off the record,'" by Charles Davis, False Dichotomy, Apr. 12, 2009
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Activism
"A Duty to Resist," by Elsa Rassbach, Apr. 19, 2009
"The Surreal Life of Franklin Rosemont," by Paul Garon, David Roediger & Kate Khatib, Counterpunch, Apr. 16, 2009
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