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April 2009

Thursday, April 30:

wd herrin: Specter Switch a True Disservice: But what's new? (1 comments)

amicus curiae: More Corn by GM Researchers (1 comments)

Dustin Ensinger: Chorus of Critics Rightly Questioning Obama

Rafe Pilgrim: Our Choice: The Shroud or the Open Covenant (2 comments)

Robert Arend: Arlen Pens An Oped (1 comments)

Lance Ciepiela: The Mixed Economic Report Card on Obama's First One Hundred Days (2 comments)

Roland Michel Tremblay: Peace and Love: Time to Recycle the Flower Power Era (2 comments)

Kevin Anthony Stoda: REVOLUTIONS OF 1989-Part 3: UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF UNCERTAINTY By Kevin Stoda, Germany NOTE: This is the second par (1 comments)

Ed Martin: The Specter of Opportunism and Expediency

Mark Harris: As Long As We're Talking About Socialism (2 comments)

Jon Faulkner: It's The Ruination Of America! Says Mitch.

David Weiner: Are We Creating a Global Death Culture? (1 comments)

Michael Adkins: Has Your Former Employer Gotten You Blacklisted? (2 comments)

Cenk Uygur: Condi Rice Pulls A Nixon: When the President Does It, That Means It is Not Illegal (1 comments)

Ed Tubbs: A Republican (inadvertently) spills the beans on the GOP

Ethan Indi: Swine Flu May Be Renamed; How about Fecal Flu? (9 comments)

amicus curiae: CDC Revises Pandemic Alert to Level 5

Thomas Blakeslee: Clean Coal: Here Now!

Mike Malloy: As a Man Soweth... (2 comments)

Grant Lawrence: The Global Pandemic Coincidence (4 comments)

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity: Veteran Intelligence Officers on Torture (1 comments)

James Jaeger: We Were Warned: NAFTA, the Environment and Swine Flu (3 comments)

Michael Fox: Economic Treason

Jim Quinn: Keep on Rockin' in the Free World

David Glenn Cox: A Death in the Family (3 comments)

TheRealNews Network: Agri-biz at root of swine flu? (1 comments)

winston: Big Bro 43's "meaning of is" perjury or obstruction of justice (1 comments)

Barbara Metzler: Searle, Monsanto and Ajinomoto: Three Corporate Miscreants in the Toxic Junk Food Additive and Aspartame Business (92 comments)

Kenneth T. Tellis: Such a Pity that the USA has Not Yet Achieved Lincoln's Noble Ambition (1 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Obama is Cutting Sen. Specter Too Much Slack (1 comments)

Colleen De Koning: Pandemic or Factory Farm Fiasco? (8 comments)

Stephen Pizzo: Whose "Day of Reckoning?" (3 comments)

George Washington: The Swine Flu Might Turn Out To Be Less Deadly Than the Average Winter Flu (1 comments)

Bob Koehler: Torture and Treason (4 comments)

Michael Shaw: My Take on the Specter Defection (3 comments)

David Smith: More Universal Wisdom to Chew on. (8 comments)

Jay Janson: *How Many More Lives Will Obama Take to 'Protect' Us From What Jimmy Crater Began? (18 comments)

PETA: How the 'Obama puppy' can help end animal homelessness (1 comments)

Stephen Lendman: FDR's New Deal v. Obamanomics (3 comments)

Wednesday, April 29:

Gustav Wynn: Arlen Specter's NSA Probe Gone Lame (2 comments)

Jason Miller: Getting away with Murder: Whatever happened to 'above all, do no harm'? (2 comments)

William Rivers Pitt: It Just Doesn't Matter

Mike Malloy: How Many Fingers Am I Holding Up, Winston? (1 comments)

Freddie Venezia: Arlen Specter: Tip of the Iceberg for Many Problems (2 comments)

David Spangenburg: Arlen's Specter

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Crawling Out from Under the Rocks (6 comments)

Kevin Gosztola: The Obama 100th Day Extravaganza (2 comments)

Rory OConnor: Torture and the Media (3 comments)

George Washington: Larry Summers is a Big Fat Idiot (1 comments)

Dean Baker: The Obama Administration and the Bankers: 100 Days of Solicitude (2 comments)

Doug Thompson: The GOP's 'Specter' of failure (3 comments)

Mark Biskeborn: In the Case of Iraq, a War Story Might Best Take Place on U.S. Soil (2 comments)

Rady Ananda: Scahill: Spain Launches Wide-Ranging Criminal Investigation into US Torture, When Will Obama? (15 comments)

Alfred McGuire: The 100 Days: Will Real Change Be On The Back-Burner During The Obama Years?

Bob Portune: Still focused on the trees... (2 comments)

Scott Horton: The Stomach-Turning Truth About Bush's Torture Programs

Muhammad Nasir Khan Khattak: Trade on Dead bodies of Pashtoons (4 comments)

Monish Chatterjee: Arlen Specter, Party Switching and Political Chameleons

Chris Hedges: Obama Has Missed His Moment (23 comments)

William Fisher: Rights Groups Assess Obama's First 100 Days (1 comments)

Stephen Pizzo: Who You Callin' a Minority? (2 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Pollution and lack of health care for all is the true epidemic and pandemic (4 comments)

Tom Degan: Senator Bye

William Fisher: Court Rebukes Bush, Obama Administrations (6 comments)

Stephen Lendman: The Global Research News Hour - Media As It Should Be (1 comments)

Jay Diamond: How Talk Radio Plays the GOP for Chumps (9 comments)

Michael Collins: Thank You Arlen Specter! Now We're Sure to Get the Following (15 comments)

Betsy L. Angert: Geithner; Gold on the Hill (4 comments)

Tuesday, April 28:

Mary MacElveen: Swine Flu: The words of Gavin DeBecker ring true (2 comments)

David Swanson: *The Wrong Torture Question (7 comments)

Dean Baker: Can Health Insurers Whine Louder Than Bankers? (4 comments)

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): Enough already with Obama's "lesser of the evils" Presidency! (13 comments)

Douglas Drenkow: The Specter of Hope, as the GOP Implodes

Ed Tubbs: Arlen Specter: Elegy for the Republican Party

Fred Cederholm: Hyping a potential pandemic seems to be 'just what the doctor ordered!'

Mike Malloy: Goodbye! And thanks for all the fish! (5 comments)

Stephen Crockett: Specter Deserves A Democratic Primary Opponent (2 comments)

the web: *Action Alert: Prevent a rush to insecure voting in Illinois

Ivan Hentschel: The Specter of Things

FAITHCARR: Specter, Is He Worried for his Soul, or what?

Grant Lawrence: Specter's Move to Democrats: So What?

G J Lau: Specter Makes his Move

dick overfield: Arlen Specter: A Mixed Bag

Matoska: Arlen Moves On

Nicholas Smith: Breaking: Arlen Specter Gives Democrats Crucial 60th Vote In Senate

Kevin Anthony Stoda: Arlen Specter and the Miracle Bullet Theory comes to Obama's Democratic Party (4 comments)

David Basora: An Open Letter To Senator Specter (3 comments)

M. Davis: Specter Gives Up the Ghost on the Republican Party

Debby Bodkin: Doing the Right Thing -- Thank you Senator Specter!

Steve Consilvio: Specter: Spectacle or Spectacular? (1 comments)

Alfred Krass: Don't Get Too Excited about Specter

Margie Burns: Arlen Specter Switches Parties, Still Calls GOP 'Us' (5 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Sen. Specter Joins Dems, Puts Party on the Spot (3 comments)

George Washington: Industrial Hog Farming Is Just Like Wall Street (1 comments)

Mary Lyon: The Meaning of the Spector Switch (2 comments)

Kevin Gosztola: Nearly 100 Days into Obama Presidency, Specter Switches Parties (1 comments)

Kevin Zeese: Specter Switch to Dems Follows Voters

John Nichols: A Liberal Democrat Returns to the Fold (3 comments)

Rob Richie: Death of a swing state? Pennsylvania and Sen. Arlen Specter's party switch

Rev. Obed Juan Vizcaino Najera: Chavez' Administration Infested with Political "Chameleons" Who've Colored Themselves Precisely to Match "Red-Red"!

George Washington: Indonesian Health Minister Says Swine Flu Might Have Been Man-Made | Epidemiologists and Virologists Need to Weigh In (8 comments)

Mac McKinney: Stopping a Flu Pandemic: Is King Xerxes Thrashing the Waves? (15 comments)

John R Moffett: Senator Arlen Specter to Switch to Democratic Party (14 comments)

Rob Richie: John Gideon, R.I.P. - and the "Gideon Initiative" for citizenship ownership of our elections (2 comments)

Melvin A. Goodman: CIA and the Washington Post: Joined at the Hip (7 comments)

Jim Miles: Terror and Torture - Commentary (3 comments)

Karla Hansen: My Encounter with Iran (2 comments)

Allan Goldstein: The Great Obama Rebranding: Part two (7 comments)

Zin Linn: *Burma's Orwellian Regime Deserves Tougher Sanctions

Muhammad Khurshid: Bravo Obama, Now Pakistan Hitting Right Targets (14 comments)

Elayne Clift: Birth of Octoplets Raises Questions About Fertility Industry (1 comments)

Jason Paz: What Goes Around Comes Around Like Torture (6 comments)

John Pagoda: Obama's Pot Politics (5 comments)

Rev. Obed Juan Vizcaino Najera: YES, Mrs Clinton, there is indeed a dictatorship in Venezuela. That's true! (8 comments)

Monday, April 27:

Jason Leopold: Reagan's DOJ Prosecuted Texas Sheriff for Waterboarding Prisoners (3 comments)

Alex Lantier: Torture and Washington's Policy of Aggressive War (1 comments)

Jerry West: There Is No Cornucopia

Greg Nick: Swine Flu - Connecting the Dots (22 comments)

Alma Beltran y Puga: Brave Mothers Seek Justice for Disappeared Daughters in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (2 comments)

Chris Herz: There are Sticks, Big Unes, to Beat Those who Might be Tempted by the Angels

Richard Girard: The Cult of the Individual (7 comments)

Donald de Fano: It Doesn't Matter, Dick

Elayne Clift: First Ladies and Forgotten Women

Ed Tubbs: 'Stand by me' - the Abu Ghraib bad apples (1 comments)

Jason Paz: Must We Lose Both Our Parents, Liberty and Justice? (2 comments)

James Jaeger: Psychopaths in Government (2 comments)

winston: Obama faltered by interfering with criminal proceedings against war criminals

Perry Stein: *Are Republican Right Wingers as Dangerous as the Swine Flu? (5 comments)

mnmike44: *The Hilarious Aspects Of Torture (2 comments)

Ann Garrison: Drilling California's Outer Continental Shelf

Ed Tubbs: Time for the Dems to Get Some 'Chicago Way' in Their Spines

Shobha Shukla - Citizen News Service (CNS): Chernobyl Day: Do Not Break The Nucleus (1 comments)

Anjali Singh - CNS: Its Raining Miracles in Apna Uttar Pradesh!

Bobby Ramakant: 1/3rd preventable deaths can be averted by healthy environment

Bobby Ramakant: Pictorial health warnings on tobacco products from 30th May 2009 (1 comments)

John Nichols: GOP Know-Nothings Fought Pandemic Preparedness (1 comments)

Mike Malloy: Republicans = Death (1 comments)

Adam Bessie: Where are the Teachers? (2 comments)

Hamad S Alomar: Swat, Pakistan: US and Moderate Muslim Countries, Both at Fault

Jason Paz: Middle Eastern Bloggers React to Durban II (2 comments)

Richard Wise: Bob Fenn: An Appreciation (2 comments)

George Washington: Not Only Did The Bush Administration Adopt Communist Torture Techniques, It Also Adopted Communist Intimidation Tactics (6 comments)

Robert Parry: Democrats' 'Battered Wife Syndrome' (4 comments)

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Why Do Conservatives Like Colbert? Article Plus Critique (5 comments)

Rafe Pilgrim: Protectus Extremus (3 comments)

David Swanson: The International Criminal Court and A Rogue Empire (3 comments)

Melvin A. Goodman: 'Action Memo' For Obama: Recommendations For Dealing With Torture (1 comments)

Steven Leser: Republican Party and its upcoming Civil War (5 comments)

earl ofari hutchinson: 100 Day Silliness (2 comments)

Stephen Soldz: Bioethicist Steven Miles joins call for investigation of American Psychological Association ties to military (3 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Foolish Employment, Health Policies Leave US Wide Open for Pandemic

Rob Kall: Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant? (268 comments)

David Swanson: Torture Is Foreplay for War (2 comments)

steve young: O'Reilly vs Olbermann: A Punchless Brawl (7 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Israeli Use of Palestinians As Human Shields (1 comments)

Sunday, April 26:

Kenneth Theisen: Remembering the past to change the future – We must hold the torture state accountable

Freddie Venezia: Change the words of the "Star Spangled Banner"

Ethan Indi: Influenza and the Commodi-tea Party (5 comments)

Ralph Lopez: *Tortured Wrong Guys, Didn't Prevent Attacks, and Oh Yes, Helped Al Qaeda (4 comments)

Joe Parko: Paying Our Dues for Club America

mnmike44: *The Chilling Effect Of Torture On The Constitution (4 comments)

Bill Fangio: I Won't Say It Again (12 comments)

Mary Bell Lockhart: Concerning Tea Parties (5 comments)

William Fisher: Happy Anniversary, Abu Ghraib! (1 comments)

Kevin Anthony Stoda: Revolutions of 1989-Part 1: Tiananmen Square & After Effects in Europe (2 comments)

Mark Sashine: Shitty Little Brats And The Fate Of The Nation (10 comments)

Betsy L. Angert: Tortured (5 comments)

Doug Wallace: TRUTH TODAY IS THE HIGHEST NATIONAL PRIORITY FOR DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA (3 comments)

William Cormier: Are We Witnessing The Birth Of A Pandemic? (9 comments)

Jason Paz: Holocaust Memorial Day Under Threat (4 comments)

James Brett: The Cojones Frame (1 comments)

Ed Cowan: *The Great Myths, Evasions, and Lies of the 21st Century (16 comments)

Allen McQuarrie: Remembering When OUR Soldiers Were Tortured and How We Treated the Torturers (2 comments)

Dr. B. Cayenne Bird: Torture Ignored in California's Prisons (13 comments)

Patrick Lafferty: *Ron Paul's HR1207 - Audit the FED (13 comments)

Mark Karlin: Murder He Wrote: Why Aren't Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Being Prosecuted? (6 comments)

Rowan Wolf: Torture is Not a Matter of Opinion (10 comments)

F. Vyan Walton: *The Top 10 Torturoous Lies of Liz Cheney (2 comments)

Mary Shaw: 23 Years After Chernobyl, Nuclear Power is Still a Threat (6 comments)

Saturday, April 25:

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): Is revolution ultimate common sense? (19 comments)

Steve Weissman: How Torture Worked to Sell the Iraq War (2 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Free John Walker Lindh!

Stephen Soldz: Two former top CIA officals on the efficacy of torture (3 comments)

shamus cooke: Obama's Real Plan in Latin America (4 comments)

Thomas Riggins: Maoism Without Maoism (2 comments)

Dr. Odeen Ishmael: After the Euphoria: Putting the 5th Summit of the Americas in Perspective

Tom Degan: Coddlin' Them Dictators (1 comments)

Marti Oakley: Wisconsin's war against agriculture: Fines, imprisonment and property seizure (7 comments)

R-CALF USA: Group Applauds FDA Decision to Immediately Implement Enhanced U.S. Feed Ban (1 comments)

amicus curiae: Benn No Buddy to Bees

Stephen Pizzo: What's In a Name? Just Everything (10 comments)

Kenneth Briggs: Obstructing Progress (2 comments)

Mary Shaw: Multitask, Mr. President

Lori Price: 'New' Flu Kills over 60 [sic], sickens 900 in Mexico (39 comments)

E. T. SIMON: "Obama has started an S... Storm" said the woman speaking at the top of her lungs (5 comments)

Bob Patterson: Requiem for Freedom of the Press (6 comments)

Vijar Kohli: Focusing on Asset Prices (1 comments)

Doug Wallace: A Duplicitous Deliverer? A Look at "Change" and Torture (2 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: Engaging healthcare providers in tobacco control on 'Safe Saturday' (4 comments)

Mike Kuykendall: Make NO Mistake, Obama Wants Justice Too (41 comments)

Joseph Russo: Economic Recovery and Housing Recovery in 2012 (6 comments)

John McDonald: Prop 1 d & 1E: Shared Sacrifice or Business as Usual

Friday, April 24:

Jamison Foser: Gaps in the Right's "banana republic" rhetoric

Angela Zayak: The New American Slaves

Monish Chatterjee: Israel and the Chosen Mindset (3 comments)

Melody Clark: The New Frontier: another brief rhetorical experiment (1 comments)

mikel weisser: Current Comedy, 4/20/09: A New Hussein

George Washington: Torture REDUCED U.S. National Security (1 comments)

Coleen Rowley: Torture is Wrong, Illegal and It Doesn't Work,

Robert Parry: How Bush's Torture Helped al-Qaeda (2 comments)

William Fisher: The "Disappeared" (2 comments)

Press Release: A Quarter Million Americans Demand Torture Prosecutions (1 comments)

William Fisher: The Third Branch: Alive and Well!

John Nichols: Feingold on Torture Judge: "Grounds for Impeachment" (2 comments)

James Brett: The Lone Star of the Third World (4 comments)

Arhur Shaw: Five reasons why readers should disregard the Global Property Guide...

Robert Borosage: Arm the COP on the Bank Beat

Bernie Horn: Torture, Values, and Political Considerations

Jill Jackson: TARP Wife Whines, Part Deux (2 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Free John Walker Lindh, Bush's and Cheney's First Torture Victim! (2 comments)

Bob Koehler: Wall of Fear

Bob Burnett: Dubya's Ghosts (2 comments)

Bill Hare: Hannity Agrees to be Waterboarded: Let the Procedures Begin (10 comments)

Richard Hirschhorn: God, and the death of Atheism (102 comments)

Zak Maymin: Nine Best Arguments Against Obama on Torture and Why I Support Him (7 comments)

Brock Novak: The "Pakistani Power Pendulum" (The Real "3P's") - Military to Civilian....and Back - Again (3 comments)

Thursday, April 23:

DerLange: Torture Investigations Vital to National Security (2 comments)

James Raider: A Nuclear Weapons-Free World? Really? (5 comments)

David Michael Green: Of Tea Parties and Teleprompters (3 comments)

Bruce K. Gagnon: REPORT ON KOREA PEACE ORGANIZING TRIP

David Swanson: *Holder Just Made Me a Promise (2 comments)

Mike Malloy: Cheney Agonistes (8 comments)

George Washington: Top Interrogation Experts Agree: Torture Doesn't Work

Betsy L. Angert: Counter Terrorism in the White House (3 comments)

Mark Karlin: Murder, Sadism and Torture: The Bush Administration Was the Combo Deal (2 comments)

Gustav Wynn: Shalt Thou Waterboard? America's Morality Check (2 comments)

Kenneth Briggs: Health Care Costs (2 comments)

Lawrence Velvel: The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, And The Obama Administration. Part I (2 comments)

Dean Baker: Goldman Sachs Shook Tens of Billions Out of Tax-Payers (1 comments)

Robert Parry: Connecting CIA Torture to Abu Ghraib

steve young: Watch O'Reilly Get The Bleep Beat Out Of Him (Video Linked)

steve young: Watch O'Reilly Get The Bleep Beat Out Of Him (Video Linked)

steve young: Watch O'Reilly Get The Bleep Beat Out Of Him (Video Linked)

Anjali Singh - CNS: Scarred and Shunned, the Girl Still Struggling for Survival

Chris Hedges: Where's Rev. Wright When You Need Him? (6 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: Time to rethink the development paradigm on Earth Day (2 comments)

Robert Arend: The Obama Administration: March 21 Thru April 10, 2009

Ray McGovern: Obama Plays Hamlet; Shredders Hum (17 comments)

Mary Shaw: Yes, Senator, It IS Like a Banana Republic (8 comments)

Wednesday, April 22:

Kevin Anthony Stoda: REVOLUTIONS OF 1989-Part 2: CONTEXTUALIZATION of CHURCH'S ROLE (1 comments)

Raymond Budelman: Rediscovering Human Rights in an Age of Torture(rs): Hayden and Mukasey, the point of law is principle

Axin Arbili: What Has Changed? (1 comments)

Ralph Lopez: *General Petraeus, Will You Talk to Me Now? (1 comments)

James (Cem) Ryan: Dreams from My President: Obama Sails to Byzantium (1 comments)

Eric Walberg: Afghanistan: NATO, SCO or PATO?

Kenneth Theisen: Will Obama hold Bush regime officials accountable for their torture crimes? Don't count on it! (2 comments)

Frank Barat: The death of Bassem Abu Rahme

Sandy Williams: Susan Boyle, the Newest Voice of Generation Jones

Joel S. Hirschhorn: Rule of Law Vetoed by President Obama (7 comments)

Ed Tubbs: Pac-Man and American standards of economic morality

michael payne: Obama's moral dilemma: torture and deadly drones

Jeffrey M. Smith: Earth Day: No GMO Challenge Launches Today (1 comments)

Jason Paz: Freedom from Fear: Being a Stand-up Human Being.

Jim Quinn: Know Your Enemy (4 comments)

Patrick Lafferty: The Dunne Briefs - US Government 'NOC' List (1 comments)

James Jaeger: Overthrowing the Corporate Government (6 comments)

Roy S. Carson: Maybe it's time for Venezuela's Foreign Ministry (MRE) to get themselves a Jeffrey Davidow and cut the crap! (1 comments)

Vi Ransel: IDF - Israeli Defense Fantasy (5 comments)

Richard Clark: *How to generate an additional $450 billion in annual tax revenue? -- tax the rich at the rates they were paying in 1955 (7 comments)

Roland Michel Tremblay: Genocides are no surprise in a world built on hate (3 comments)

John Little: The IlleGitmo Legacy

Rady Ananda: US Cities Increasing Use of Armed Mercenaries to Replace Police (11 comments)

David Griscom: Is the Real "Stress Test" the One Being Applied to We the People? (7 comments)

Bob Portune: A Shameful Debate (5 comments)

PETA: Animals don't make war--and shouldn't be treated as the enemy (4 comments)

George Washington: Torture, Iraq and 9/11 (8 comments)

Tolu Olorunda: Resurrection Now, Crucifixion Later (3 comments)

Patrick Leahy: Fight Fraud (2 comments)

Mark Karlin: The Legal Case Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Et Al., Is Murder One, Not Just War Crimes (1 comments)

Russ Feingold: Feingold Calls on Obama to Wait Before Making Decisions Related to Prosecutions (6 comments)

amicus curiae: Monsanto Sues Germany to Force GMO Food (17 comments)

Bill Fangio: Rebel Yell: Something Is Wrong (18 comments)

Eugene Elander: Never Again!

Matt Renner: Democratic Disunity Jeopardizes Foreclosure Relief

Muhammad Khurshid: Money Is Not The Matter, Mr Holbrooke (3 comments)

Chris Herz: Obama Represents a Badly-Fragmented Opposition, Temporarily in Power Due to Bush's Militaristic Excesses... (1 comments)

Bernie Sanders: Socialist Successes (255 comments)

shamus cooke: Anti-Tax Protests: Not Just For the Right Wing (6 comments)

Ethan Indi: The Ignoble Tea Party (5 comments)

Anjali Singh - CNS: Damsels no longer in distress

Ed Tubbs: A fate far worse than death (9 comments)

Robert Arend: Then Pardon The Abu Ghraib 11, Too, Mr. President (10 comments)

Emily Spence: Lies And Torture - When Policies And Words Diverge (7 comments)

Sandy Shanks: It Is Not Looking Good (10 comments)

amicus curiae: Misleading Headlines on Allergies to Fruit & Veggies (2 comments)

Raphael Sidelman: A Plan to Safeguard our Dwindling Constitutional Rights (14 comments)

Bob Patterson: A Blogger's Desperate Call for Backup (5 comments)

John Sodrel: Obama's Complicity in Bush/Cheney Lawbreaking (7 comments)

Greg Nick: Verichip, RFID, Biochips and ID Sniper Rifles- When Is Progress a Danger? (16 comments)

Mary Shaw: On Earth Day and Beyond: Say No to Plastic Bags (5 comments)

Stephen Lendman: "Hizzhonor:" Chicago Politics Under Richard M. Daley (2 comments)

Tuesday, April 21:

David Kendall: Good Luck With That (1 comments)

Charlotte Laws: Banks Get a Bailing Grade (2 comments)

Ludwik Kowalski: Will Cold Fusion Solve Our Energy Problems? (9 comments)

Tex Pitfield: The Pres Wants a $100 Million, I Can Give Him Billion$ (2 comments)

Mike Malloy: What?! Prosecution?! For War Crimes?! (4 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Are Members of Congress (and Maybe Even the President) Being Blackmailed? (21 comments)

Andrew Steele: Olbermann and Garafalo Accuse Tea Party Protesters of Being Racist (18 comments)

Walter Barton: *Gays in the Military: A Good Fit (15 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Media Coverage of Haiti's Sham Elections (1 comments)

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Rising Craziness in America: I. Obama Has to Address It (2 comments)

Betsy L. Angert: Tea Parties, Taxes and Torture Served (2 comments)

mnmike44: Obama Sends a Terrible Signal (3 comments)

David Swanson: Take Heart and Have Courage (1 comments)

Stephen Pizzo: They Are Too Big to WHAT? (5 comments)

James Brett: On Being Bad (2 comments)

Kevin Gosztola: Waterboarding to Complete My College Papers (2 comments)

FAITHCARR: Who and What We Are Now (7 comments)

Stella Adams: Is Scrip the Answer for the African American Community? (8 comments)

Bill Fangio: Money - What is it? (1 comments)

Kenneth T. Tellis: If Just Saying Sorry will Suffice, the Nazis Could have Gotten away with Murder (3 comments)

David Glenn Cox: Another Earth Day (2 comments)

Brasch: The Americans Are Revolting (31 comments)

Elizabeth de la Vega: Of Black Holes and Radio Silence (2 comments)

Marcy Winograd: Harman's Wiretap Woes and the AIPAC Clique (10 comments)

Jason Leopold: CIA Watchdog Report Says Detainees Died During Interrogations (14 comments)

Kent Welton: The MAT Doctrine – Mutually Assured Torture (1 comments)

Monday, April 20:

Kindra Muntz: *THIS IS WHAT WE ARE DEALING WITH IN OUR FLORIDA LEGISLATURE

Marti Oakley: Open Letter to Chairman, House Committee on Agriculture (3 comments)

David Sirota: D.C. Reporters Just Make Sh*t Up, Part 1,489,890,992,384 (6 comments)

Nicole Johnson: The 2009 Food 'Safety' Bills Harmonize Agribusiness Practices in Service of Corporate Global Governance (10 comments)

amicus curiae: Enough to make you Sick!

Dave Lindorff: Torturing Judge Bybee: Make Him Eat His Own Words (1 comments)

Michael Green: Pardon Our Dust, or, Why the World Trade Center Dust Matters (46 comments)

Stephen Pizzo: America High, 90210 (2 comments)

Jon Faulkner: The Founders Tried To Warn Us (6 comments)

James Murtagh: "State of Play"- Time for Spy Thrillers to Come in from the Cold.

Stephen Pizzo: America High, 90210 (1 comments)

Stephen Pizzo: America High, 90210

TheRealNews Network: Past is present in Latin America

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Understanding Systems vs. How the Human Mind Seems Wired to Think (8 comments)

Lee Stranahan: VIDEO: The Conservative Case for Medical Marijuana

James Jaeger: The Real Political Spectrum (19 comments)

Rob Kall: Are Progressives Being Duped by a Megacorporation's Disinformation Attacks? (21 comments)

Stephen Soldz: Obama, Blair, and Panetta praise the moral cowards, ignore the true heroes (2 comments)

steve young: Newspaper That Carries O'Reilly's Column Says No Spinster Way Off Base

Stephen Lendman: Haitians Overwhelmingly Reject Electoral Sham (1 comments)

Scott Atran: The Moral Measure of a Civilization Is in Its Treatment of Enemies (1 comments)

Rafe Pilgrim: Torture: Who Could Care? (17 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Putting Finance Capitalism "Back in Its Box" (4 comments)

Sunday, April 19:

Naomi Klein: Vote Out Larry Summers (4 comments)

Betsy L. Angert: Rethinking Afghanistan; The Terror Tax (1 comments)

Robert McElvaine: Keep the Bank Pirates on the Run (2 comments)

Pat Smith: A Welcome To Our New VA Leadership (3 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Credit Where Credit is Due, But What's This "Enemies" BS? (4 comments)

winston: As of Now Obama Isn't Change We Can Believe in. (2 comments)

Mick Youther: *No More Dumb Wars! (2 comments)

Hans Bennett: BOOK REVIEWS: Abolishing The Prison Industrial Complex and Freeing All Political Prisoners

FrenchieCat: Howard Kurtz of CNN "Reliable Sources" is a Biased News Critic! So why Bother? (2 comments)

Ellen Brown: The Tower of Basel: Secretive Plans for the Issuing of a Global Currency (7 comments)

Dustin Ensinger: American Businesses Waging War Against America (2 comments)

Kevin Anthony Stoda: BOTH CHAPLIN AND HITLER WOULD BE 120 YEARS-OLD THIS APRIL (4 comments)

mikel weisser: Current Comedy Notes, 4/15/09: Bamboozled (1 comments)

Jason Paz: Do Unto Others as They Do Unto You (2 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: Four Month-old Girl-Child fFghts for Life after Brutal Acid Attack

Michael Bonanno: And Then There Was This Two Year Old (7 comments)

Bill Fangio: What's the Difference? (11 comments)

Deena Stryker: Latin American Summit: Riding the Tiger Together (4 comments)

James Raider: EBay, Skype, Goldman, Morals And Principles

Ed Martin: Hayden and Mukasey Admit to Conspiracy to Torture (9 comments)

Ralph Lopez: *Beware the Abu Ghraib Trap on Torture, Start With Hayden (2 comments)

Kenneth Briggs: It's Time for Mental Health

robert dodge: An Age of Possibility

Bob Patterson: "War Crimes" Memos Questioned (1 comments)

William Fisher: Clinton, Agnew, Nixon Redux (1 comments)

Mary Shaw: They Are All Accountable For Torture (10 comments)

Brent Budowsky: Let's Have a Real Tea Party (10 comments)

Rady Ananda: A Progressive View on Gun Rights: 2A All the Way (103 comments)

Saturday, April 18:

Ralph Lopez: *Time Says No Win in Afghanistan without Jobs (2 comments)

Mark Crispin Miller: *"The Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove" (4 comments)

Phillip Barron: Time Warner Cable Getting Greedy (2 comments)

Steve Best: Banned in the UK! How the Home Office "Protects the Public Good"

Ed Martin: Some straight talk to Mike Allen and the Republicans (3 comments)

Nicholas Smith: New York Governor Paterson Introduces Gay Marriage Bill (6 comments)

Rafe Pilgrim: 'Following Orders' Doesn't Cut It (2 comments)

amicus curiae: CDC has a serious credibilty issue!

jerry kroth: How to save GM with the stroke of a pen (1 comments)

Chuck Simpson: John McCain's Agent Orange Issue (11 comments)

amicus curiae: Bee-wise or Greed-driven (2 comments)

R-CALF USA: FDA Plans to Break Food Safety Promise to America (2 comments)

Rady Ananda: Food Freedom (2 comments)

amicus curiae: Now they want to ban Non VET Choices for your Pet

R-CALF USA: To USDA: NAIS an Invasive, Unlawful Encumbrance on Commerce

Muhammad Khurshid: Rulers Handing Over Pakistan to Terrorists (4 comments)

Andrew Bard Schmookler: From "Bad Experiences" to an "Ecology of the Soul" (4 comments)

Jason Leopold: What Did Democrats Really Know About Bush's Torture Program? (5 comments)

Mark Sashine: Red Beaver's Rant: Funny And Not (2 comments)

Kenneth Briggs: Mental Health Notes Etc., April 18, 2009

Robert Arend: Who Is Elizabeth Warren, and Why Doesn't Corporate Government Care? (8 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Barack Obama: Crime Boss (10 comments)

Friday, April 17:

Chris Hedges: Israel's Racist in Chief (18 comments)

Kindra Muntz: *Speak Out Against FL Senate Bill 956

Rick Rozoff: Canada: In Service to the Pentagon and NATO at Home and Abroad (3 comments)

Robert Parry: How Bush's Tortured Legal Logic Won (1 comments)

Robert Borosage: Taxing Matters (1 comments)

Chris Bowers: Surprise! Higher Taxes on the Rich Wildly Popular (2 comments)

David Sirota: "Either In the Pocket of the Banks or Incompetent" (2 comments)

Tom Degan: The Great Republican Implosion of '09

Allan Goldstein: The Great Obama Rebranding: Part one

Jay Janson: *On the Need for Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in America

Donald de Fano: Republicans Adrift

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): The face of The Beast: The United Banks of America. (3 comments)

Joseph Russo: The Economy has "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" (5 comments)

Bill Hare: No Prosecution for "Waterboarding" Legally and Morally Reprehensible (5 comments)

Lawrence Velvel: Was The IRS As Culpable As The SEC In The Madoff Scam?

Steve Elliott: Mr. President, It's Time To Talk About Marijuana (5 comments)

David Swanson: *Jerrold Nadler Requests Special Prosecutor for Torture (9 comments)

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: Venezuela's government must take bull by the horns in Capital District strife

Monika Mitchell: Post Paulson Depression: Bad Assets, Bad Plan

William Fisher: C.S.I. Next Episode: C.I.A. Black Sites

Melody Clark: A Conspiracy of Deadbeats (42 comments)

David Sirota: Columbine questions we still don't ponder (12 comments)

Jason Leopold: Bush's Hypocrisy on War Crimes (29 comments)

Naomi Klein: HopeOver, HopeLash, HopeBreak: A Lexicon of Disappointment (72 comments)

Jose Herrera: Fox -friendly 24/7 Globovision TV's Parallel Reality is a Necessity for Venezuela's Progress!

Kathi: Tea Party Comments - Pretty Alarming (21 comments)

Ron D. Maxwell: Been Foreclosed Upon, Facing Eviction? There Might Still be Hope! (3 comments)

Kitty Antonik Wakfer: Tax/Regulation Protests are Not Enough (16 comments)

Bob Burnett: Dividing America with Hate (18 comments)

Kevin Gosztola: The American Inquisition Was Willing to Use Insects on Detainees (9 comments)

Ernest Partridge: On Behalf of the Tea Bag Brigades: A Proposal (8 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Ground Zero site to be completed in decades? Such stupidity. (3 comments)

TimA: The crisis and the dollar

Richard Volaar: Astroturf and Islam, Fourth and One: Punt or Go For It? (11 comments)

David Michael Green: Home of the Barricaded, Land of the 'Fraid (6 comments)

Thursday, April 16:

David Swanson: *Personal Torture Laws: Your Tax Dollars at Work (1 comments)

Linn Cohen-Cole: *Seek justice for those now in prison, not only justice to put Cheney there. (2 comments)

Thaddeus Kaczor Jr: Take Back Our Future From The Bureaucrats and Banksters

seanscott: Survival Preparation for Mr. and Mrs. Smith (3 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Obama, Seeing Darkness, Conjures Up the Mists of Time (3 comments)

Mike Malloy: Dump. Flush. Repeat. (5 comments)

William Fisher: DOJ Releases Torture Memos; Will Not Prosecute Torturers (6 comments)

Debby Bodkin: Remembering Columbine's Children (3 comments)

DerLange: History Reveals Piracy Poison Pill: Send in the Navy (2 comments)

James Brett: Torture and Tortured Reasoning (4 comments)

David Glenn Cox: Dispatches From the Front

Lois Clark: The Perfect Storm: Violence (Almost) Hits Home (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Let Us Have Some Fun! Take a Guess at the Identity of the 'Congressman' NSA Attempted to Wiretap (22 comments)

Glenda Moore: Texas Tea (2 comments)

David Basora: We Haven't Done Enough (3 comments)

Kenneth Briggs: Mental Health Notes Etc. April 14, 2009

Bob Koehler: War as Entertainment (1 comments)

Sen. Russ Feingold: Feingold Calls For Review of Patriot, Protect America, and FISA Acts Due To NSA Abuses (2 comments)

Rady Ananda: Afghan Women Protest Marital Rape Law; Men Spit and Stone Them (13 comments)

David Swanson: Obama Protecting Bush from Spain? (5 comments)

David Sirota: Mainstreaming the Militia (9 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Anti-war protesters treated like traitors...Teabag protesters treated with deference (4 comments)

Jon Faulkner: Obama's One Term Presidency (10 comments)

Bob Patterson: Kerouac, Dean & Brando, Elvis, and George W. Bush (4 comments)

James Raider: Politically Incorrect Reaction To Somali Pirates (5 comments)

William Fisher: Abu Ghraib Victims Can Sue Interrogators

Muhammad Khurshid: Obama Admin Facing First Failure (1 comments)

Rev. Dan Vojir: Dobson, Warren, Parsley, Hagee, Perkins go back to their cages ... for now (4 comments)

Ed Martin: Atticus Finch lost to George Bush but defeated the Republicans (5 comments)

Dustin Ensinger: American Government Facilitating in U.S. Titans' Downfall (1 comments)

Yuriy Polyakov: *INNOVATION AS A REMEDY FOR THE CRISIS (4 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: Demand for CBI enquiry into the death of Dalit leader

Joan Wile: 'The Granny 7' Score One for the First Amendment (2 comments)

Allan Wayne: The Last Afghan: Dark Dog of Death (9 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Electoral Sham in Haiti (8 comments)

Steven Leser: Tea Parties Fail to Draw Anywhere Near Predicted Attendance (44 comments)

Wednesday, April 15:

Liz Reitzig: *Statement to Vilsack against NAIS by the National Independent Consumer and Farmers Association (1 comments)

Mike Malloy: Dispatches From The Asylum: They're Loose!!!! (1 comments)

Thomas L. Walsh: Conservative attempts to embarrass The University of Notre Dame will fail

Glen Ford: Avoiding World Conference on Racism Shows Obama's Disrespect For Blacks (3 comments)

George Washington: Don't Fall for the Old Divide and Conquer Trick (14 comments)

Betsy L. Angert: Capitalism; Dead, Alive, and Broken (4 comments)

Dave Lindorff: It's April 15: Time to Pay for War, Killing and Oppression Once Again (10 comments)

E. T. SIMON: With cool poise Obama delivers dagger to American people (38 comments)

Vi Ransel: Piracy, Not in Somalia, But Right Here in the Good Old U.S. of A. (2 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Teabag protesters should ask if Rupert Murdoch has paid his fair share of taxes (6 comments)

Don Williams: Suddenly Public Debates Turn Toward Sanity (2 comments)

Barbara Peterson: You might be a terrorist if... (33 comments)

Andrew Bard Schmookler: The Bushite Policies of Obama's Department of Justice: III-Justified? (1 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Investigating Israeli War Crimes (6 comments)

Diane M. Grassi: MLB Ramps Up Casino Sponsorships (1 comments)

Tuesday, April 14:

amicus curiae: Germany Bans GM Corn (9 comments)

David Swanson: Obama's Press Secretary Explains Rights, Laws, and Lack Thereof (4 comments)

Muhammad Khurshid: Obama Admin Relying On Same Characters Used By Bush (6 comments)

David Sirota: Right-Wing Authoritarianism: Gay Marriage & the Selective Indictment of Democratic Institutions (1 comments)

Dean Baker: If the Bank Bailout Fails, Will Anyone Get the Boot? (3 comments)

Mark Crispin Miller: Say NO to FOX News, and Glenn Beck! (14 comments)

Mike Malloy: Incoming!! (9 comments)

Michael Collins: Enabling Acts for an Era of Greed: The Money Party at Work (9 comments)

Gustav Wynn: Want to Show Your Tea Bag on TV? (4 comments)

amicus curiae: Made by Monsanto (2 comments)

Eric Walberg: US-Georgia: A rocky beachhead (1 comments)

James Brett: Granularity

paul roberts: 94 Years of Serfdom (7 comments)

earl ofari hutchinson: Navy Seal Sharpshooters Can't End the Somali Crisis (5 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Teabag protesters should ask: Am I being duped by Fox News? (10 comments)

Ray McGovern: Anatomy of Bush's Torture 'Paradigm' (14 comments)

Andrew Bard Schmookler: The Bushite Policies of Obama's Department of Justice: II. Protest! (3 comments)

Michael Angelides: Time to Ban Asbestos is Long Overdue (2 comments)

Ari Merretazon: The gun and ship of enslavement (1 comments)

Ralph Lopez: *The Difficulty of New Thinking on Afghanistan (7 comments)

Steven Leser: Tea Parties are a Sham and a Fraud – Part 3 (39 comments)

Ida Hakim: *Shameful U.S. Boycott Must Be Opposed (2 comments)

David Smith: Translating Universal Wisdom into the political debate. (2 comments)

Shobha Shukla - Citizen News Service (CNS): Whispers of sanity in the frenzy of madness (1 comments)

Brasch: Resurrection of Intolerance (14 comments)

John Graham: Pirates and Poverty (4 comments)

George Washington: The Real Meaning of "Not Politically Feasible" (2 comments)

George Washington: Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission: "At Some Level of the Government, at Some Point in Time...There Was an Agreement (35 comments)

Monday, April 13:

E. T. SIMON: Obama's Unlimited Travel to Cuba for Cuban-Americans (7 comments)

Jeremy Ben-Ami: Tel Aviv, Then and Now (7 comments)

John Kusumi: Skepticism as China Promises 'Human Rights Improvement' (1 comments)

Raymond Budelman: Prosecution and Pharisaism: From Pinochet to Bush (6 comments)

Sandy Frost: *Shriners To Close Galveston Hospital, Sued by UTMB

Muhammad Khurshid: Pakistan Does Not Need American Aid, Good News (4 comments)

Alisa Mullins: Oh, Canada: Stop the shameful seal slaughter

Melvin A. Goodman: Obama's Search For A Moral Compass (5 comments)

Vi Ransel: MUMBO JUMBO

Danser Brandy: Morgellons Attacks Teenagers Too

Bruce Dixon: Black Democrats Evolve Backward in the Age of Obama (1 comments)

Grant Lawrence: How Chrisitan Fundamentalism and Social Darwinism Brought about the Collapse of the American Economy (10 comments)

Frosty Wooldridge: How can you kill a planet and still live on it? (3 comments)

Rafe Pilgrim: Hope and Trust in Obama, or Renewed Vigilance? (1 comments)

Jason Leopold: CIA Videos Predated Bush Legal Memo

David Sirota: Feeling Sorry for Yourself? (1 comments)

David Sirota: The Reward Method of Corruption (1 comments)

Steven Leser: Tea Parties - Video of my Appearance on Fox News' Neil Cavuto show (14 comments)

Robert Parry: US News Media Fails America, Again (1 comments)

Theresa "Darklady" Reed: Amazon.com anti-GLBT "Glitch" Infuriates Web 2.0 Denizens

Maryrose: AIR TRAVEL AND ITS IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE (1 comments)

John Basel: THE ECONOMICS OF GREED

Roy S. Carson: It's clearly a constitutional coup d'etat on the Metropolitan Mayor of Caracas

David Kendall: Dr. King Spanks Obama: Part 1 (2 comments)

Cenk Uygur: How the Toxic Asset Plan Will Magically Make Your Money Disappear

Ed Martin: Broder's call for bipartisanship is the best evidence for partinship

Tom Burghardt: Obama Administration Endorses Continued Spying on Americans

Stephen Pizzo: One Wrong Move and the Bank Gets It ! (1 comments)

Stephen Pizzo: One Wrong Move and the Bank Gets It !

Stephen Pizzo: One Wrong Move and the Bank Gets It !

Stephen Pizzo: One Wrong Move and the Bank Gets It !

Stephen Pizzo: One Wrong Move and the Bank Gets It !

William Fisher: GITMO Lawyers: America's Last Growth Industry?

Andrew Bard Schmookler: The Bushite Policies of Obama's Department of Justice: I. Illustrated

Ed Tubbs: Calling all 'Christians': It's Easter, so where's the love? (3 comments)

Stephen Pizzo: One Wrong Move and the Bank Gets It !

David Swanson: Bag the Tea Bagging (6 comments)

Paul Evans: Rove, Cheney and Limbaugh: The Gift that Keeps on Giving (1 comments)

amicus curiae: Test animals rendered into pet food (10 comments)

Melody Clark: Not Just Any Dick and Harry: an indignant op ed for a lost friend (3 comments)

Linn Cohen-Cole: *PA Church Ladies Raided by 'Food Safety' Cops (43 comments)

Dave Lindorff: America Is Simply Losing It, Folks (3 comments)

Stephen Fox: Please sign petition for Michelle Obama's Organic White House Garden vs Pesticide Companies' Objections (3 comments)

codyco: On Bullying, Suicide and The Golden Rule (1 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: People to draft the election manifesto of SR Darapuri

Raymond Budelman: Why the Right Should Support Gay Marriage-the Arrival of an Equal Rights Wave Four Decades after Loving v. Virginia (4 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: Will pictorial warnings on tobacco products get postponed again?

Chris Herz: It is a real question as to who's under greater threat from Washington...

Raymond Budelman: How the Supreme Court Got Boumediene Wrong: Rethinking Habeas & Other Fundamental 'Constitutional Rights' (5 comments)

Fred Cederholm: Financial, economic and business status quo far from any rosy scenario

Sister Begonia: New town may be death blow to hopes for Israel peace (6 comments)

Stephen Lendman: ICRC's Damning Exposé of US Torture (5 comments)

Sunday, April 12:

Mamoon Alabbasi: It was Never about Democracy

Stuart Chisholm: ABC News Gets It Wrong on Firearms Segment (8 comments)

Kathryn Smith: Concrete Steps You Can Take Right Now To Change America (13 comments)

dan bruno: *Cuba at a Crossroads (1 comments)

Simon Childs: Little blood on the streets but plenty of urine - a response to the policing of the G20 demostraions in London

Jason Paz: How Goes the Revolution in Iran? (1 comments)

Hicham Ghizlane: France's Distinctive President, Nicholas Sarkozy (10 comments)

Mike Colpitts: 10 Signs to the Bottom of Real Estate Markets

John S. Hatch: Thermite (16 comments)

jeff rock: Take off the Rose Colored Glasses (11 comments)

Jiesheng Li: Where US Foreign Assistance has Gone Wrong

Ethan Indi: Subtleties of Depression: Fast Food (3 comments)

Matoska: President Obama Misses Fundamental Kurdish Issues in Turkey (1 comments)

Rick Rozoff: Eurasian Crossroads: The Caucasus in US-NATO War Plans

the web: Defend Michelle Obama's organic garden from pesticide lobbyists (4 comments)

Tolu Olorunda: The Power of Suggestion: Where Do WE Go From Here? (1 comments)

Jim Quinn: $200 OIL (2 comments)

Grant Lawrence: All War is a Crime and There are No "Good Wars" (13 comments)

Mark Sashine: Welcome To Paranoia! (9 comments)

Kenneth Briggs: Public Healthcare Plan

Dustin Ensinger: Obama's Most Difficult Task

Paul Kruger: Congressman Connie Mack Wants Obama to Ask Auto Union Leader to Step Down.

Rob Kall: Draft The Bankers; Contain the rats (20 comments)

Saturday, April 11:

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): Friends help me out here. Can we "wake up" in time to save ourselves from satanic national/international banker elites? (31 comments)

James Nimmo: Denial, Denial, Denial--This is the Great Given Guarantee of America (1 comments)

Harold Hellickson: Where is the Light at the End of the Tunnel? (2 comments)

Linda Milazzo: My Lesson in 'ACTION' from the Murder of Kitty Genovese (5 comments)

Charles Wallace Collins: The Corporations and the Twilight Zone (5 comments)

earl ofari hutchinson: An Arizona State University Honorary Degree for Erma Bombeck but Not President Obama (2 comments)

Tom Eley: The Obama administration and torture (4 comments)

Stephen Soldz: Obama and human rights: Shame on me (24 comments)

John Bessa: Lies of the Times: Obama needs to fufill his promise (2 comments)

Rady Ananda: Thai Farmers & Youth Shut Down Southeast Asia Summit (4 comments)

Kenneth Theisen: Obama's Trip to Iraq - Continuing War and Occupation (5 comments)

Dan Lieberman: Palestinian Nationalism (7 comments)

John S. Hatch: Gravity (4 comments)

mnmike44: *Is America A Terrorist Nation? (43 comments)

Muhammad Khurshid: More Investment In War Will Ruin US, Mr Obama (1 comments)

Editor LNAV: Data Protection Law In India

David Smith: And Now for a Perspective Other than the One You Will Get from the Mainstream. (1 comments)

Ed Martin: Paranoid Republicans are projecting their own evil ways onto liberals (31 comments)

Jason Paz: Worldwide Depression is a Matter of Attitudes

Jim Miles: "Let me be clear...." - Commentary on Nuclear Weapons (2 comments)

G.E. Nordell: The 2012 Hoax (16 comments)

Arthur Shaw: Venezuela: To Represent one's Constituency is not a Concentration of Power (2 comments)

Ari Merretazon: The Holocaust of Enslavement Was Not That Long Ago (9 comments)

Darren Wolfe: How Dare You Want To Know What "Your" Government Is Doing! (19 comments)

Ron Shinkman: Trigger Mad (19 comments)

Rob Kall: Grey and Drizzling in America (61 comments)

Brasch: Pennsylvania's Signs of Spring (1 comments)

David Swanson: Inventing the Terrorist Threat (12 comments)

Jason Miller: Prayer for the Dying: The Thing Worse than Rebellion (4 comments)

Friday, April 10:

Greg Nick: The Time Is Now (2 comments)

Zak Maymin: Passover, Tea Parties, Slavery, and Redistribution (6 comments)

Jason Paz: How Goes the Revolution in Moldova? (2 comments)

Ludwik Kowalski: Iron Fist Versus Socialism (8 comments)

Ralph Nader: Where were the giant accounting firms? (8 comments)

R.H. Smith: Panetta Watch 8: James Bond & the Pirates, a CIA Dilemma

dick overfield: Military Imperialism and War Crimes (6 comments)

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): Is humanity finally outgrowing religion? (22 comments)

Muhammad Khurshid: Mr Obama, Talk To Me If You Really Want Peace (10 comments)

Rowan Wolf: Of Pirates and Predators: Oh what a tangled web (5 comments)

Paul Kruger: *To Republicans: Blackmail is ugly and immoral (9 comments)

Gustav Wynn: Follow Up: MSNBC Muzzling Maddow, Olbermann on Election Integrity? (2 comments)

Bill Hare: Should the World Bring Bush and Cheney to Trial? (6 comments)

Brendan DeMelle: Paul Minor Denied Release by 5th Circuit and Justice Department (1 comments)

David Swanson: Perfect Politicians: Grading Congress on a Curve

Siv O'Neall: Is It the Dawn We Are Seeing on the Horizon? (8 comments)

Ginger McClemons: The Dumbing Down of America (34 comments)

George Washington: Internet Rankings are Massively Gamed (1 comments)

John Steinsvold: What Is Happening To Us?

James Brett: G.O.P. in Exile? (3 comments)

Yup Farming: *Eye on Wisconsin: The Amish and the Bailout?

Scott Baker: *The Top Ten Reasons for Energy Independence (15 comments)

Danny Schechter: The Battle with the Banks Is ON: Time To Speak Out (5 comments)

Yup Farming: *Michael Pollan has it right about 'food safety' (3 comments)

Dave Lindorff: America's Imperial Wars: We Need to See the Sickening Reality (35 comments)

Kevin Zeese: *Can Senator Webb Lead America Out of the Drug War Quagmire (6 comments)

Mary MacElveen: To the National Organization for Marriage: Quit your bitching! (5 comments)

Michael Richardson: *Dear President Obama, 3 federal judges say you must act to end 'political purgatory' for 23 million

earl ofari hutchinson: An Honorary Degree for Kermit The Frog But Not President Obama (3 comments)

Steven Leser: Tea Parties - Crackbrained right wing protests to occur on April 15th (30 comments)

Bob Burnett: Is the Recession a Teachable Moment? (1 comments)

Dean Powers: NY Times Climate Change Article: Careless or Deceptive? (11 comments)

amicus curiae: Monsanto has a Massive Corn Failure in South Africa (10 comments)

E. T. SIMON: When Milk Sits Sour in our Stomachs (5 comments)

Èzili Dantò: Obama's offered HOPE is sweatshop slavery (3 comments)

Mark Sashine: Not Funny (17 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Obama's New World Order (18 comments)

Dave Berman: My Present Path Toward Advocacy Journalism (aka Reflections On Independence, Volume 6)

Rafe Pilgrim: We, too, Can "Cut and Run" (6 comments)

Thursday, April 9:

Mary MacElveen: The opening scenes of NBC's "Southland", I faded it to black (2 comments)

David Michael Green: When The Hour Is Late, And Things Aren't Going So Great ... Just Fabricate (1 comments)

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): Why is Obama giving a green light to bailed-out-banks to credit card gouge "lower class" Americans? (7 comments)

Kevin Anthony Stoda: Is Your Kid's Summer Camp an Ideological Training Camp?

Ellen Brown: Revive Lincoln's Monetary Policy: An open letter to President Obama (11 comments)

J. Sri Raman: The Scream and the Drone (2 comments)

Stephen Soldz: Diagnostic abuse of veterans and the dilemmas of health professional ethics (8 comments)

Maria Magaldi: Tracked: The NAIS Controversy (7 comments)

winston: The US has to prosecute W for war crimes. (8 comments)

Geoff Thomas: *Single Payer healthcare--efficient, and overdue (8 comments)

W. B. Thibodeaux: Reforming The Asylum: Can We Recover From Thirty Years Of American Insanity? (8 comments)

Douglas C. Smyth: Muscle-bound America (3 comments)

Betsy L. Angert: Spying at Home: Obama embraces Bush's Shame (28 comments)

Rory OConnor: Times to Globe: It's hard out here for a pimp!

Georgianne Nienaber: DRC: Nkunda Languishes While Rwandan Rebels and Regular Congolese Army Rape and Maim (2 comments)

jeff rock: Do the Math (1 comments)

Melvin A. Goodman: The Gates Doctrine: Caveat Emptor

Dan Lieberman: The Economic Crisis: Part 1- Does Correct Thinking Drive the Recovery?

Don Williams: 'It could've been all different, Jack... You got to believe that' (1 comments)

Bob Koehler: Geo-insanity's Latest Mutation (1 comments)

Josh Mitteldorf: More Real than Realpolitik: A Conversation Opener (1 comments)

Brock Novak: End the Somali Pirate Problem Once and For All - Mr. Obama, Implement the "B.O.S.S. Plan" - Now (49 comments)

Jason Leopold: Doug Feith: "I Was a Major Player" in Bush's Torture Policies (2 comments)

Robert Borosage: Chris Dodd: Scourge or Casualty of Wall Street?

Geoff Thomas: *Let's Have Medicare For All! (1 comments)

Stanimal: Just Who Are the Pirates? (8 comments)

Muhammad Khurshid: Are Osama, Other Dreaded Terrorists Hiding In Tribal Areas? (10 comments)

Matoska: Greens urge amendment to food safety bills (1 comments)

Wednesday, April 8:

Ray McGovern: After Torture, Resurrection (5 comments)

Melvin A. Goodman: The Colossal Failure of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (4 comments)

R-CALF USA: NAIS Will Hamper Cattle Disease Traceback Efforts (3 comments)

Marti Oakley: NAIS: The latest attempt to steal your land (11 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Ward Churchill Victory Update (2 comments)

Mike Malloy: We Are Pirates and We Ate Way Too Much Iboga (1 comments)

Dean Baker: A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion? (4 comments)

Human Rights Campaign HRC: HRC Exposes National Organization for Marriage's Fake Ad for Fake Problems (7 comments)

Mumia Abu-Jamal: John Hope Franklin: The Passing of a Griot (1 comments)

Sandy Shanks: The Search for Common Sense (8 comments)

Barbara Peterson: GMO Clones, the FDA, HR 875, and Congress (12 comments)

James Raider: A Political Lesson From Italy's Disastrous Quake (1 comments)

David Griscom: The Folks Who Brought You this Financial Meltdown Are Still at the Helm (36 comments)

Jim Goodman: Promises, Promises: That's All They Ever Give Us

Bruce K. Gagnon: Peace Activists Brought on the Reservation (6 comments)

verb: Television the New Colosseum?

Allan Goldstein: Good Things in Bad Times

Andrew Lahde: Hedge Fund Manager Bows Out in Style (2 comments)

George Washington: LET ... INSOLVENT ... BANKS ... FAIL (7 comments)

verb: How Organic Is Organic? Codex Alimentarius cohorts wage war against food (8 comments)

David Swanson: *Up Is Down: The Military Budget (6 comments)

William Fisher: Obama's Big Gamble (7 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Daniel McGowan - Another "War on Terrorism" Victim (1 comments)

Michael Collins: Murder Trumps Torture Says Bugliosi - An Interview (26 comments)

Tuesday, April 7:

Cynthia McKinney: *Buyer's Remorse, Economic Collapse, Oligarchs, and War (16 comments)

Jon Faulkner: Snake Bit - Bring Down a Nation (6 comments)

Arthur Shaw: China Launches VENESAT-1 - Debut Bird for Venezuela

PeterJ: *If It's Necessary To Give Handouts, Such As Obama Is Doing, Why Not Give It To The Victims To Balance Out Their Mortgage (7 comments)

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): It's finally obvious the banks of America ARE America (14 comments)

Marti Oakley: Codex and corporate lobbyists lunch with our elected officials (6 comments)

William Dunkerley: American Attitudes toward Russia (3 comments)

Rady Ananda: Vermont 1st state to legislate marriage equality; plus this day in Q History (3 comments)

Devin Waugh: Putting Local Power in Purchasing Policy

Rev. Dan Vojir: Warren, Spin, Iowa and Vermont (1 comments)

Theresa Reed: Vermont Becomes Fourth State to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage (2 comments)

Cenk Uygur: Have We Reached the Tipping Point on Guns? (7 comments)

Doug Wallace: Global Injustice to Homosexuals

Doug Wallace: Depraved Heart/Mind Murder: Justice for Gay Mormon Suicides? (1 comments)

Mike Malloy: Sarah Smile (9 comments)

Rev. Dan Vojir: A Purpose Driven Genocide: Rick Warren and Gays in Africa

Pam Miles: A Message from Governor Don Siegelman (2 comments)

Stephen Fox: No to Ajinomoto Asking FDA Approval of New Sweetener Advantame! (12 comments)

Ari Merretazon: Open Letter to First Lady Mrs. Michelle Obama (18 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: Health of Women is Indeed Our Precious Wealth

David Swanson: Listen to Francis Boyle (2 comments)

Muhammad Khurshid: Obama Doing Well On The Foreign Front (19 comments)

R. A. Louis: You Don't Have to be a Chomsky to Know Something is Wrong... (17 comments)

Bev Harris: BREAKING: Front lines report from AZ election fraud investigation (2 comments)

Barbara Peterson: The Food Police - Coming to a Home Near You! (14 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Politicized Accounting: No End to the Scams (3 comments)

The Make it Safe Coalition (MISC): *Coalitions Challenge Obama to Protect Truth Tellers

Bob Cesca: Insane Republicans Reveal an Insane Budget Plan (3 comments)

Anjali Singh: Cause with a 'Wild' Twist

Teri Stoddard: Grieving Parents Lose Thousands To Con Artist (2 comments)

J. Patrick O'Connor: Speaking Truth To Power (3 comments)

Lee Stranahan: GOP Calls for National Day of Food Stamping and Lip Pursing (1 comments)

Jeffrey M. Smith: Governor Sebelius Must Veto Kansas Bill That Endangers Milk Safety (3 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Massive earthquake rocks the Kuril Islands in the wake of Italy's quake

Monday, April 6:

paul roberts: How Freedom Was Lost (13 comments)

Robert Parry: Another Bush Intelligence Failure (5 comments)

David Sirota: Hands-Off Attitude Towards Financial Regulation - Cause & Effect? (2 comments)

Chris Hedges: Resist or Become Serfs (12 comments)

Mickey Z.: A starling taught to speak (2 comments)

Mike Malloy: We Are The Dead...

Eugene Elander: *A Bad Precedent at GM

Rev. Dan Vojir: Holy Hannity! Notre Dame Doesn't Know What It Means To Be Catholic Today!! (3 comments)

Roger Shuler: Don Siegelman and the Little Banner that Could

Melvin A. Goodman: Obama is Talking the Talk on Arms Control, But It's Time to Walk the Walk (4 comments)

Jill Jackson: The Appeal of Selfishness, the Naiveté of Hubris (4 comments)

Deena Stryker: There Should be No Buts from Obama in Europe (1 comments)

David Swanson: What's the Real Reason? (2 comments)

George Washington: Law School Professor: Republicans Are Blackmailing Obama on Torture (6 comments)

Dr. Angelo Collins: Supporting Teachers Early in Careers Best Practice for Education Stimulus (1 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Today Italy suffered an earthquake where 91 died...What say you, Gov. Bobby Jindal? (4 comments)

Kevin Zeese: *End Nixon's Drug War Quagmire: Will Obama Have the Courage? (4 comments)

Jaff Sassani: President Obama's ill advised trip to Turkey (1 comments)

David Swanson: *Afghanistan: Two Lonely Acts of Courage (2 comments)

Jay Janson: *Obama Calls on U.N. to Punish North Korea Over Rocket, but WHO PUNISHES THE U.S.? (4 comments)

amicus curiae: Will Australia be the country that PROVES CCD in bees is due to pesticides and GM crops? (28 comments)

Ray McGovern: Holder and Powell Ain't Misbehavin' (12 comments)

Freddie Venezia: AIG Explained (3 comments)

Colleen De Koning: Americans should pay for re-election expenses (2 comments)

Muhammad Khurshid: Now Terrorism Is A Serious Threat To Pakistan, World (1 comments)

Kenneth Briggs: Mental Health Ameica $750,000 grant (3 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Obama's War on Labor (14 comments)

Sunday, April 5:

Barbara Peterson: GMO Pushers and the Junkies They Create (20 comments)

Jane Stillwater: Taliban for Dummies: Learning from American & Soviet mistakes in Afghanistan (2 comments)

George Washington: Bush and Obama Administrations Both Violated Law By Refusing to Close Insolvent Banks (3 comments)

James Brett: The Oldest Profession (4 comments)

John Little: Surgified Iraq: How the US has guaranteed a state of chaos for years to come (3 comments)

Sister Begonia: Obama's Song (9 comments)

Robert Parry: WPost Sees Neocon Hope in Obama (1 comments)

Bruce K. Gagnon: REFLECTIONS ON THE OBAMA TRIP TO EUROPE

Jason Paz: We Elected Obama but Failed to Remove Deadwood (24 comments)

Ron Fullwood: 5000 troops from NATO for 'Afghan elections' is a signal Obama is on his own

Jiesheng Li: Obama's Nuclear Free World: All but Israel (14 comments)

Doug Wallace: REALITY CHECK: Percent of Mormons Born Homosexual (1 comments)

Ralph Lopez: *Leahy: Truth Commission Dead; Law School Dean Rocks Radio on Torture (2 comments)

Donald de Fano: Church, State, Marriage (1 comments)

Saturday, April 4:

Devinder Sharma: If pesticide effects can be passed on for generations, what about GM crops? (8 comments)

Frank Vyan Walton: Conyers calls for Special Prosecutor for Bush Crimes (19 comments)

earl ofari hutchinson: Playa Hatin' on Madonna (9 comments)

Glenn Lord: What Party Are You? (9 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Tripping Down Memory Lane Through Presidential Campaigns (4 comments)

George Washington: Senior S&L Regulator on Massive Government Cover-Up: "The Entire Strategy Is to Keep People from Getting The Facts" (3 comments)

James Nimmo: What's so difficult to understand about the Iowa Supreme Court Decision? (12 comments)

JOHN LORENZ: The GOP's Coleman-Franken Obstructionism Needs Democratic Hardball Response (8 comments)

Stanimal: Revised Obama "Hope" Poster (17 comments)

Allan Wayne: Quoth the Pig Nevermore. Part 2. Porkers of the World Unite! Mail Chauvinist Pig (4 comments)

kay solomon: What have you got to lose once they have it all? (3 comments)

James Brett: Fraud ... Rampant, Pervasive Fraud! (7 comments)

Karyn Strickler: *President Obama Must Heed Alarm Bells on Global Warming (5 comments)

Devinder Sharma: *GM battle 'hotting up' (3 comments)

Deena Stryker: The World in Our Living Rooms, at Last

Patrick Henningsen: Police Aggravate Peaceful G20 Climate Camp in the City of London (21 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: Will IMF deliver G-20's booster for world economy? (3 comments)

Hans Bennett: Media, Revolution, and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party --An interview with Kiilu Nyasha (3 comments)

John Miller: *East Timorese Deserve Justice!

PETA: Zoos: Boredom behind bars (3 comments)

Jim Miles: State of the nations III - Environment/Solutions (1 comments)

H. Lewis Smith: Michelle Obama: The true Image of an African American Woman (14 comments)

David Swanson: Feith Dares Obama to Enforce the Law (100 comments)

Friday, April 3:

George Washington: Toxic Asset Plan Will Leave The Same Amount Of Toxic Assets In The System, But With the Taxpayers Now Liable (2 comments)

David Michael Green: Regressive Hypocrisy (Yawn...) Again (6 comments)

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): Look, our planet is on fire, our country is on fire, and we have an Obama/Clinton/AIPAC Presidency! (20 comments)

Mark Sashine: Human Coprophagia Redux- 2009. Six Turds and Counting (3 comments)

Susie Day: Bernie Breakout Shocker! Madoff almost Made Off (2 comments)

Doug Wallace: US Constitution Requires that State Constitutions Are Subordinate (17 comments)

Mumia Abu-Jamal: The Constitution (And Other Illusions) (5 comments)

Pete Latona: The American Dream Turns into a Nightmare (3 comments)

Jim Miles: State of the Nations II: War on terror (1 comments)

tabonsell: Proposals to Save America, Part III (1 comments)

Andrew Alexander: My Plea to Extremists of the World (4 comments)

mnmike44: America: The ADHD Nation And How It Will Survive With A Terminally Short Attention Span (3 comments)

Iftekhar Sayeed: THE QUEENSBERRY RULES OF DISCOURSE (1 comments)

Shelly Roche (ByteStyle TV): *The End of Small Farms? HR 875, HR 759, NAIS & Monsanto (3 comments)

Gustav Wynn: TownHall: Economic Holocaust, Panic and Racial Pogroms Impending (5 comments)

Claudia Chaufan: *Why "chocolate or vanilla"? Put Single Payer on the table! (2 comments)

Stephen Pizzo: Call Me Crazy, But... (11 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Hooray for Juries: Ordinary Folks Once Again Defeat the System (1 comments)

James Raider: The War On Drugs – Time For A Change (2 comments)

Bob Koehler: Saving Obama (4 comments)

Bob Burnett: Nationalizing Citi (1 comments)

Stephen Lendman: GMO Proliferation Bills (25 comments)

Jeremy Stone: I.F. Stone's Son on the Izzy Awards, Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald (2 comments)

Gustav Wynn: Has MSNBC muzzled Maddow, Olbermann? (18 comments)

Thursday, April 2:

John Bardi: What Might America's Fathers Say Now? (5 comments)

Patrick St James: The UK Minority Report: Has 'Precrime' Finally Arrived? (15 comments)

Jim Miles: State of the nations - Part I - The Economy

Jason Paz: How to Beat Swords into Plowshares (19 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: If G-20 agrees, health financing might come from Currency transaction levy

Camillo "Mac" Bica: *Deconstructing President Obama's New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (6 comments)

Robert Arend: The Cheney Cabal vs Seymour Hersh (4 comments)

Eric Walberg: G20 shows EU in tatters (1 comments)

Ed Tubbs: Playing 'Let's Make a Deal,' or understanding just how "toxic" Geithner's scheme is (2 comments)

Bia Winter: The Republicans' Boehnheaded Budget "Alternative" (8 comments)

Kent Welton: The Protectionists Were Right - On the Idiocy of Interdependency and Export-Driven Economies (3 comments)

Russell Mokhiber: Getting Sick of Them, Something is Rotten at PBS (7 comments)

Mary MacElveen: SCHIP: Two other ideas on how to fund it...One the politicos will not like, "I'm lovin it!" (11 comments)

James Brett: The End of the Marshall Plan (4 comments)

David Swanson: *Truth, Crimes, Commissions, and Hope (8 comments)

Doug Wallace: 9-11 and the Mormon-Mossad-CIA Connection (27 comments)

Jim Quinn: WAR PIGS - COST OF A GLOBAL EMPIRE (3 comments)

Lawrence Velvel: Madoff And The Mafia: A Mere Speculation Or Almost A Sure Thing? (2 comments)

Olga Bonfiglio: It's Human Security, Stupid, Not National Security (2 comments)

Lawrence Velvel: Letter To Judge Chin Regarding Madoff's Guilty Plea, And A Response To A Madoff Victim Regarding The Clear, Simple, Cura (1 comments)

Kevin Gosztola: Give Obama a Chance to Do What? (196 comments)

Wednesday, April 1:

Rady Ananda: Vandana Shiva, Organicology & the Seed Wars (9 comments)

Mike Malloy: Avoidance and Denial (6 comments)

Stephen Soldz: John Brennan and the administration stalling on Bush torture memos (7 comments)

Tom Hayden: Don't Go There Mr. President! (14 comments)

steve young: O'Reilly Announces Plan To Boycott Minnesota (Not an April Fool's Joke!) (11 comments)

Dean Baker: Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off (2 comments)

Mary MacElveen: President Barack Obama, you lied to me and broke a promise not to raise my taxes (21 comments)

Don Williams: You say the New Deal didn't work? Prove it (29 comments)

E. Nelson: Republicans Cross Party Lines to Vote for Democrat Scott Murphy (3 comments)

Kent Welton: GENDER RECONSTITUTION AMENDMENT - Equal Representation In The Senate (9 comments)

Betsy L. Angert: Tim Geithner: Retention, Rewards, and Krugman Realizations (5 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Democrat, Mark Lesko wins the Brookhaven Town Supervisor's seat (1 comments)

Michael Moore: "We the People" to "King of the World": "YOU'RE FIRED!" (84 comments)

Bruce K. Gagnon: INT'L SPACE ORGANIZING CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN SOUTH KOREA

Stephen Lendman: Israel's Illegal Annexation of East Jerusalem (11 comments)

Ernest Partridge: "The Left" (7 comments)

 

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