U.S. Politics
"Chief of Staff Draws Fire From Left as Obama Falters," Wall Street Journal, Jan. 26, 2010
"The sanctity of military spending," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 26, 2010
"Geithner to defend bank bailout - and maybe his job, too," McClatchy Newspapers, Jan. 26, 2010
"What's the Matter With the Democrats? Post-Massachusetts Reflections on Popular Resentment, the Liberal-Left Vacuum, and Right Comeback," by Paul Street, ZNet, Jan. 25, 2010
"Tea Party Disputes Take Toll on Convention," The New York Times, Jan. 25, 2010
"Obama wants to freeze discretionary spending for 3 years," CNN, Jan. 25, 2010
"The Supreme Court Just Handed Anyone, Including bin Laden or the Chinese Govt., Control of Our Democracy," by Greg Palast, ZNet, Jan. 25, 2010
"Labor's Big Election Loss," by Dick Meister, Truthout, Jan. 25, 2010
"Will Obama Put Muscle Into the White House's New Populist Play?," by Michael Hudson, Counterpunch, Jan. 25, 2010
"The woman Democrats need," by Ethan Porter, Boston Globe, Jan. 24, 2010
"Geithner Must Go--and the Future of the Fed," by William Greider, The Nation, Jan. 23, 2010
"24 States' Laws Open to Attack After Campaign Finance Ruling," The New York Times, Jan. 22, 2010
"Whose Rights?," by Thomas Linzey & Mari Margil, Yes! Magazine, Jan. 21, 2010
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Economy
"Myths of Recovery: Which Economy is Obama Talking About?," by Michael Hudson, Counterpunch, Jan. 26, 2010
"US Households Struggle to Afford Food: Survey," Reuters, Jan. 26, 2010
"Wall Street Bonuses Can Create One Million Green Jobs," by Les Leopold, Huffington Post, Jan. 25, 2010
"It only gets worse this year for commercial real estate," McClatchy Newspapers, Jan. 25, 2010
"Obama's Tiny Jobs Ideas for Main Street, a Big Spending Freeze for Wall Street," by Robert Reich, RobertReich.org, Jan. 25, 2010
"Fed E-Mails On AIG Show Disdain For Transparency," by Ryan Grim Huffington Post, Jan. 25, 2010
"December Home Sales Take Largest Monthly Drop In More Than 40 Years," Associated Press, Jan. 25, 2010
"The Revelations of Sheila Bair: Wall Street's Power Grab," by Michael Hudson, Counterpunch, Jan. 19, 2010
"Record Bank Profits - American Dream Foreclosed," by Mike Prokosch, Common Dreams, Jan. 23, 2010
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Bush Accountability
"Rapp for the Defense," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Jan. 26, 2010
"Is the White House Pressuring DOJ to Delay Torture Report Until Health Care Bill Passes?," by Jason Leopold, Truthout, Jan. 26, 2010
"A New Scandal for OLC?," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Jan. 25, 2010
"Charge a President with Murder," by MinistryofTruth, Daily Kos, Jan. 24, 2010
"Judge Tosses NSA Spy Cases," by Ryan Singel, Wired, Jan. 22, 2010
"Murder and Cover-Up; The Guantánamo Suicides," by Stephen Soldz, Counterpunch, Jan. 19, 2010
"The crime of not 'Looking Backward,'" by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 19, 2010
"Murder and Cover-Up; The Guantánamo Suicides," by Stephen Soldz, Counterpunch, Jan. 19, 2010
"ICC Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Gonzales, Rice," by David Swanson, Daily Kos, Jan. 19, 2010
"Murders at Guantánamo: Harper's Scott Horton Exposes Truth about 2006 'Suicides,'" by Andy Worthington, Common Dreams, Jan. 19, 2010
"CIA Cable "Granting Permission" to Destroy Torture Videotapes Surfaces [Updated]," by Jeff Kaye, Firedoglake, Jan. 15, 2010
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International Affairs
"Obama administration's record on human rights has been a major disappointment," by Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus, Jan. 25, 2010
"Something About Yemen: Terrorist Haven or Chess Piece?," by Conn Hallinan, common Dreams, Jan. 22-24, 2010
"Time for George Mitchell to resign," by Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy, Jan. 22, 2010
"Muscling Latin America," by Greg Grandin, The Nation, Jan. 21, 2010
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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan
"The Meaning of the Eikenberry Cables," by David Bromwich, Huffington Post, Jan. 26, 2010
"When Scholars Join the Slaughter," by Dahr Jamail, Truthout, Jan. 26, 2010
"U.S. Envoy's Cables Show Worries on Afghan Plans," The New York Times, Jan. 25, 2010
"Baghdad suicide bombers kill dozens in hotel attacks," Guardian/UK, Jan. 25, 2010
"Obama Administration's Use of Drones Responsible for Increase in Civilian Deaths," by William Fisher, Truthout, Jan. 25, 2010
"Afghanistan: This War Won't Work," by Phyllis Bennis, Common Dreams, Jan. 25, 2010
"The Drone Surge: Today, Tomorrow, and 2047," by Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse, TomDispatch, Jan. 24, 2010
"Petraeus Gets It Wrong," by Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, Jan. 22, 2010
"Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study finds," Guardian/UK, Jan. 22, 2010
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Civil Liberties/ Human Rights
"Bagram: The Annotated Prisoner List (A Cooperative Project)," by Andy Worthington, Common Dreams, Jan. 26, 2010
"AT&T Always Wins," by mcjoan, Daily Kos, Jan. 23, 2010
"Indefinite Guantanamo detention plans condemned," BBC News/UK, Jan. 23, 2010
"Obama to indefinitely imprison detainees without charges," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 22, 2010
"The truth about Guantánamo," by Moazzam Begg, Guardian/UK, Jan. 22, 2010
"Obama quietly continues to defend Bush's terror policies," McClatchy Newspapers, Jan. 22, 2010
"Judges Urge Congress to Act on Indefinite Terrorism Detentions," ProPublica, Jan. 22, 2010
"FBI, Telecoms Teamed to Breach Wiretap Laws," by Ryan Singel, Wired, Jan. 21, 2010
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Environment and Sustainability
"Shrimp's Dirty Secrets: Why America's Favorite Seafood Is a Health and Environmental Nightmare," by Jill Richardson, AlterNet, Jan. 25, 2010
"2009 Second Warmest Year of Warmest Decade on Record," Environment News Service, Jan. 25, 2010
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Media Issues
"Great Television Makes Bad Journalism: Media Failures in Haiti Coverage," by Robert Jensen, Counterpunch, Jan. 25, 2010
"The (In)dispensable Public: Public opinion mainly a prop for corporate press," by Janine Jackson, Extra!, Jan. 23, 2010
"When the Media Is the Disaster: Covering Haiti," by Tom Engelhardt & Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch, Jan. 21, 2010
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Activism
"Remembering 'Suicides' in the Rotunda," by Jerica Arents, Antiwar.com, Jan. 26, 2010
"Anti-ACORN James O'Keefe Arrested In Mary Landrieu Phone Scheme, 3 Others Also Charged," Associated Press, Jan. 26, 2010
"Where's the Movement?," by George Lakoff, Common Dreams, Jan. 25, 2010
"World Social Forum: Back Seat Driver of Social Change," by Mario Osava, Inter Press Service, Jan. 24, 2010
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