Archives for OpEdNews Op Eds

May 2009

Sunday, May 31:

Mick Youther: Another Pandemic of Fear (5 comments)

James Raider: Obama's Private Economic Conundrum

Baldwin Park Democrat: Another Nail in the GOP Coffin - La Raza (4 comments)

Linda Milazzo: How I Witnessed Sarah Palin's Fuming Anti-Abortion Fanatics (16 comments)

Prof. John Kozy: Can America be Fixed? (1 comments)

Jay Janson: *A Dream Cabinet of Integrity for a More Progressive Economy

Walter Barton: The Bible and Simple Minds (4 comments)

Rev. Dan Vojir: So How Magnanimous Will The Protect Marriage people Be Now? (3 comments)

Jason Paz: The Leftist Jihadist Alliance and Its Implications for Israel

Anjali Singh - CNS: Penniless Plight (1 comments)

Harold Hellickson: America's Axis of Evil (6 comments)

Jennifer Hathaway: *Single Payer Healthcare (17 comments)

Theresa Paulfranz: Current Evolutionary Leap (7 comments)

Rob Kall: Did Bill O'Reilly's Words Kill the Abortion Doctor? (15 comments)

Sherwood Ross: Is Obama Truly Serious About Ending Failed "War On Drugs"? (13 comments)

Frosty Wooldridge: Part 1: An examination of the Tragedy of the Commons (2 comments)

Hamad S Alomar: With Netanyahu in charge of the Orchestra, it is time for Hezbolla, Hamas and Iran to dance (9 comments)

Allan Wayne: Made in USA. America's Most Enduring Industry. (3 comments)

Charles L. Riccillo: "The Wine Is Bad - Throw OUT the Current Economy!" (1 comments)

Polidoc: *Green Supervisor and Greenpeace Call for People to Lean Hard on Legislators (1 comments)

Vi Ransel: Deja Moo, I Think I've Heard This Bull Before (2 comments)

Mary MacElveen: When disaster strikes, we are all Americans (5 comments)

Barry Kissin: THE LYNCHING OF BRUCE IVINS

OpEd news: Videos of OEN Editor Steve Leser on Fox News' the Bulls and the Bears yesterday (4 comments)

Rafe Pilgrim: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, No It's CYBERCZAR! (3 comments)

Stephen Pizzo: Intervention (4 comments)

Philip Farruggio: Both Heaven & Earth Are Watching (11 comments)

Bill Hare: Are Republicans Going the Way of the Whig Party? (12 comments)

George Washington: "The Sexual Humiliation Of Iraqi Prisoners...Was Not An Invention Of Maverick Guards, But Part Of A SYSTEM" (2 comments)

Saturday, May 30:

George Washington: Demand that Obama Actually Fix the Economy By Taking the Power to Create Money Away from Private Bankers (5 comments)

Jim Quinn: AIN'T NO REST FOR THE WICKED (11 comments)

SR Darapuri, Citizen News Service (CNS): Why Dalits have slammed Mayawati's Sarv-jan Formula?

earl ofari hutchinson: Picketing President Obama Is the Wrong Way to Get Blacks to Back Gay Marriage (1 comments)

Robert Parry: 'Scaredy-Cat Nation' Risks US Security (1 comments)

Jason Miller: So who are the terrorists here? (6 comments)

Mikhail Lyubansky: Multiculturalism is For Sale: A Photo Journal (3 comments)

Jon Faulkner: A Free Republic Morphs Into Feudalism (5 comments)

Patrick Mattimore: Right Move by the College Board Regarding Advanced Placement (1 comments)

Allan Goldstein: Sonia Sotomayor and GOP Self-Immolation

Ed Tubbs: Sonia Sotomayor and Louie-Louie and a truly weighty issue. (2 comments)

shamus cooke: The Deeper Origins of the Economic Crisis (6 comments)

Tenzin Lekshay: New Aristocracy in Tibet: CCP loyalists

David Swanson: #1 Idea on Obama's Site (3 comments)

Freddie Venezia: Empathy (at SCOTUS) (3 comments)

James Raider: Obama's Not So Free Money (6 comments)

Mary Shaw: Why the Torture Photos Should Be Released (9 comments)

phil fredericks: IT IS POSSIBLE (3 comments)

Ibrahim Musaev: *New Yorkers: Let us get on bicycles! (2 comments)

PETA: Cruelty on the midway (1 comments)

David Glenn Cox: The Next Wave (2 comments)

Kyle Griffith: Truly Balancing the Economy (14 comments)

Rebecca Em Campbell: TEN-POINT PROGRAM FOR SYSTEMIC ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION (18 comments)

Friday, May 29:

Chris Floyd: Convergence and Continuity: The American-Backed Terror Campaign in Iran (2 comments)

Ben Jealous: NAACP President Vists Troy Davis on Georgia's Death Row (7 comments)

Tom Degan: Judge Sonia Has Her Day

Ashin Mettacara: *Myanmar : Sri Lanka Is Worthy To Be Condemned

Ed Tubbs: Harvey Milk, the wafer and the wine, and Sotomayor

Muhammad Khurshid: How We Can Save This World From Further Destruction? (4 comments)

G.E. Nordell: The Evil of Dick Cheney (2 comments)

Ellen Brown: But Governor, You CAN Create Money! Just Form Your Own Bank. (5 comments)

John Basel: Give the Middle Class a Much Needed Break

Jill Jackson: California Blues (6 comments)

Linda Milazzo: LT. Dan Choi Takes "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Directly To Obama (3 comments)

George Washington: The Socratic Method of 9/11 Truth (18 comments)

Vi Ransel: PASHTUNISTAN (or Oh Well, at Least They Won't Get the Nukes) (3 comments)

Jefferson Morley: Dead Spy's JFK Files Pose a Test for Obama's FOIA Order

Paul Richards: NREPA – A Homespun Vision for the Northern Rockies (1 comments)

David Glenn Cox: One Hundred Days (1 comments)

dick overfield: Has Obama Stepped into the Abyss? (8 comments)

George Washington: There's a Reason that Jon Stewart is the World's Most Popular Truth-Teller (7 comments)

Philip Greene: And The Sheep Shall Lead (3 comments)

Olga Bonfiglio: Who Wants to Be George W. Bush? (2 comments)

Brock Novak: North Korea: Only One Solution - "Global Ignore" (4 comments)

William Fisher: Mr. Common Law's Next Adventure

David Swanson: Open Govt Extends Hours: What Will You Vote For?

Bob Burnett: The GOP vs. Pelosi: Where's the Outrage? (6 comments)

Kevin Gosztola: Obama Didn't Betray the Left, the Left Betrayed the Left (16 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Manipulation - How Markets Really Work (3 comments)

Eugene Elander: GM really has it coming! (9 comments)

Thursday, May 28:

Danny Schechter: Wall Street's Scams, Lies and Frauds (1 comments)

Mikhail Lyubansky: Accusations of "Racism" In Sotomayor's Speech Off Base, Out of Touch, and Very Telling (21 comments)

John Nichols: Judge Sotomayor's Diabetes: Not a Weakness But a Strength

Ray McGovern: Colin Powell: No Good Samaritan (7 comments)

Cindy Sheehan: The Day of the Dead (5 comments)

Marjorie Cohn: Obama's Guantanamo Appeasement Plan (1 comments)

Bev Harris: BlackBox Blog-O-Lection -- IMPORTANT! -- Thurs. May 28, 2009 (1 comments)

George Washington: Conspiracies and the Martha Mitchell Effect (4 comments)

Mike Malloy: Perros Que Come Estiércol

Kathy Malloy: What is that -- Tobasco Sauce? Pointy-headed Liberal . . . . (2 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Sotomayor's Problem isn't being Too Latina; It's Having Hung with White Suits Too Long (8 comments)

Doug Morrison: The Creative Murder of Select and Notable Newspapers (5 comments)

Herbert Hoffman: We Have More to Fear than Fear (3 comments)

Cindy Sheehan: War is Unsuitable for Children: Another YouTube outrage (1 comments)

Eugene Elander: Cooperatism: What the World Really Needs Now (8 comments)

nation of gandhis: North Korea's Isolation, When Going It Alone Is Not An Answer

Mike Krauss: The Axis of Middle Class Misfortune (1 comments)

Eric Boehlert: Why didn't Washington Post columnists call Cheney a disgrace? (1 comments)

Richard Clark: *Will widespread middle-class affluence ever return to the United States? (4 comments)

James Brett: Holy War (9 comments)

Douglas C. Smyth: *Mountaintop Mining, Politics and Lawsuits (1 comments)

PETA: Meet your meat (1 comments)

F. Vyan Walton: Children Raped at Abu Ghraib, General Calls it a War Crime (15 comments)

The Make it Safe Coalition (MISC): *Tell the Obama Administration to Demand Whistleblower Protection!

Dennis Kaiser: Open Letter to Timothy Geithner (1 comments)

Rudi C. Loehwing: Codex Alimentarius - Part Six: Final Summary

paul roberts: Succumbing to the dark side; Do Americans Have a Moral Conscience? (10 comments)

Bob Koehler: Peace Rising

Michael Hammerschlag: CAIRO CALM

Mary Shaw: Is Sotomayor a threat to Roe v. Wade? Don't ask the NY Times. (2 comments)

Brad Kirsch: John Yoo Warns Against "Results-Oriented" Sotomayor (9 comments)

Kathleen Bushman: Blood - Guts - and Dollars (1 comments)

Robert Arend: Extraordinary Extradition: The Brian and Kerry Ann Howes Story (5 comments)

Wednesday, May 27:

Kenneth Briggs: Republican Health Position (4 comments)

Robert Borosage: Betting on Failure: The Right's Story (1 comments)

Phil Rockstroh: The Audacity of Hopelessness (5 comments)

Joe Bageant: A redneck view of the Obamarama (3 comments)

Tom Hayden: The Long Peace Movement: The Silence of MoveOn (2 comments)

David Sirota: Teabags vs. Douchebags Why this May Not be the Second Coming of the New Deal After All. (2 comments)

Mike Malloy: Nukes and Missiles and Bombs, Oh My! (1 comments)

Robert Parry: Obama Caves to 'Scaredy-Cat Nation' (1 comments)

George Washington: Psychologists Weigh In On 9/11 (18 comments)

Kathy Malloy: Git-R-Dun...

George Washington: Parody Can Wake the Sleepwalker (1 comments)

Jill Jackson: Anti Choice? (3 comments)

David Swanson: "Looting of America" Author Sees Opportunity in Meltdown (2 comments)

Dean A. Banks, MCIWD, DD: An Open Letter to Brian L. Roberts, CEO of Comcast Cable

paul roberts: Who will Stand Up To America and Israel?

Bruce K. Gagnon: WHAT ABOUT NORTH KOREA?

David Weiner: Imperialism Is Not Just Immoral, Either

Theresa Paulfranz: Where is Our U.S. Group IQ ? (6 comments)

Brock Novak: Proposed UN North Korea Strategy: Ignore (aka "Rope a Dope") (3 comments)

Andreas Umland: Fascist Tendencies in Russia's Political Establishment: The Rise of the International Eurasian Movement (4 comments)

Jay Janson: *U.S. Threat to Atom Bomb North Korea Never Forgotten (4 comments)

Kevin Gosztola: So, It's Like Rendition Without Airplanes?

Rudi C. Loehwing: Codex Alimentarius - Part Five - Are All WTO Member Countries Obligated to Follow Codex Standards?

Dennis Kaiser: Bilderberg Plans For Economic "Recovery" (18 comments)

Èzili Dantò: *Rush Limbaugh/Clear Channel must be held accountable for racial, sexual slur and hate tirade on Haitians (2 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Ending Today's Economic Crisis Simply and Easily, in America and Globally (20 comments)

Steven Leser: Sotomayor Nomination - GOP says Latino Values not right for Supreme Court (22 comments)

Tuesday, May 26:

Phil Rockstroh: Against the Tortured Logic of Obama's Placebo Presidency: A Call for the Audacity of Hopelessness (19 comments)

Dean Baker: Blue Cross Millionaires Are Scared to Compete With a Public Plan (2 comments)

Tom Hayden: The Long Peace Movement: The Silence of MoveOn (4 comments)

Mike Malloy: 14 Amendment: R.I.P. (1 comments)

OhioBlues: Netanyahu Throws Down the Gauntlet (2 comments)

Bill Hare: CIA Chronicles: The CIA Veering from the Truth! How Shocking! (2 comments)

Chris Hedges: "Clean" Energy and Poisoned Water (4 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Maybe the US Prison System Should Take Lessons from Guantanamo (2 comments)

John Nichols: Obama Pick Sonia Sotomayor Reflects America (3 comments)

Jon Faulkner: 1886 - When The American Experiment Died (8 comments)

David Swanson: Obama's Open Forum Opens Possibilities (2 comments)

Mickey Z.: Activism 101 (4 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestine

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Letting His Foes Be the Focus of Ugliness (11 comments)

Phillip Bannowsky: Capitalism Produces Rich Bankers, but Socialism Produces Happiness (7 comments)

Dean Powers: The Storm is Always Building at the New York Times (1 comments)

Michael Collins: SHIP OF STATE OR SHIP OF FOOLS (10 comments)

Grant Lawrence: An Open Letter to Jesus: My God Would Torture to Save Lives (22 comments)

Andrew Steele: The "Ultimate Sacrifice" vs. the minimum sacrifice...thoughts after Memorial Day (6 comments)

Monday, May 25:

Marjorie Cohn: Obama's Guantanamo Appeasement Plan (15 comments)

Doc "Old Codger" McCoy: As China Goes... (1 comments)

David Michael Green: Overcoming the Poverty of Ambition: Barack Obama and the Bully Pulpit (1 comments)

Steven Leser: Video of my Appearance today on Fox News vs Stuart Varney and Mike Slater (14 comments)

jerry lanson: The Times Flunks Ethics 101 (2 comments)

Rafe Pilgrim: Seeking Comfort in Torturing the Language (1 comments)

Richard Spisak: Do my Eyes, Deceive me... Or Did I Just See Sen. Graham Nearly Defend Speaker Pelosi?

Bob Ryley: Blaming The Poor For Wall Street's Mess: The Game Continues (1 comments)

Robert Parry: Colin Powell Skates Free on Torture (4 comments)

waldopaper: Our Empire of Dirt (redux)

Andrew Hughes: The Obama Dystopia

Anjali Singh - CNS: Taking the Law in Their Hands (1 comments)

Èzili Dantò: Haiti's Great White Hope? (4 comments)

ncvoter: New Yorkers Sold Down the River, Pilot Will Put Uncertified Voting Machines in 45 of 60 Counties

Rahul Pandey: What is to be done in the next five years?

William Helbig: The War Drums Beat Again (3 comments)

Jay Janson: *Mourn! Not Honor!, Our Dying in Dishonorable, Murderous Wars (17 comments)

Joan Brunwasser: Part Two, Chipping Away at the Siegelman Case with Paul Benton Weeks (10 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestine (3 comments)

Sunday, May 24:

Kevin Gosztola: Healthy Skepticism Toward Memorial Day (22 comments)

Muhammad Khurshid: No More Politics On War Please

elliot cohen: President Obama's Orwellian New Category of "Prolonged Detention"

Dave Lindorff: Land of the Weak and Home of the Wussy (2 comments)

Freddie Venezia: Personal Thoughts on Memorial Day

Wagonhorse: A Clue to the Clueless (4 comments)

Rev. Dan Vojir: The New Repulsive Republicans: Featuring Cheney's Chamber of Horrors! (1 comments)

John Sanchez Jr.: General Tso's Motors (2 comments)

Mumia Abu-Jamal: The Politics of Office (1 comments)

Kyla Glaser, ESQ.: An Open Letter to Sean Hannity (3 comments)

Allan Goldstein: Much ado about everything (3 comments)

Stephen Soldz: Spain copies US practice of universal jurisdiction (3 comments)

Rady Ananda: Tech-Gate: What Is This Device? (35 comments)

David Swanson: The 45th President (3 comments)

William Fisher: Shhhhhh...It's Still a (State) Secret (2 comments)

Cindy Sheehan: Day of the Dead (11 comments)

Rowan Wolf: Our Rights On the Line - Still (3 comments)

Kevin Anthony Stoda: Close Guantanamo, Move It to School of the Americas, Prosecute Both (3 comments)

Deepak Tripathi: India's General Election

Ed Tubbs: Don't be juked!

Rudi C. Loehwing: Codex Alimentarius - Part Three: European Influence on Codex

Mark Biskeborn: *Religious Morality Is Problematic-A Failure in American Government (2 comments)

Bob Patterson: A Shiny, Brand New Conspiracy Theory (4 comments)

Karyn Strickler: *A Failure of Leadership: Rapid and Massive Action Needed to Avert Climate Change (10 comments)

Tolu Olorunda: Our Schools Suck: A Book Review (3 comments)

Rudi C. Loehwing: Mandated HPV Vaccine at Question in UK (4 comments)

Saturday, May 23:

Jason Paz: Mark Twain, Bibi and Barack (2 comments)

mac Sperry: "detoV I " - A 110 Word Short Story On "Vote Secrecy" - The Enabling Characteristic of Vote Fraud.

Joan Brunwasser: Chipping Away at the Siegelman Case with Paul Benton Weeks (4 comments)

David Sirota: Just When You Thought the Corporate Rip-Off Schemes Couldn't Get Any Worse... (1 comments)

jenny dorgan: Southern Lawmakers Say "No We Can't" (1 comments)

Elayne Clift: Why Not a National Friendship Day? (1 comments)

David Glenn Cox: Where Do We Go When All Hope Is Gone? (13 comments)

Benadrit: President Cheney - A question

R. A. Louis: Twitphilia & Twitanoia: Controlling Technology (15 comments)

Monish Chatterjee: The Death of Prabhakaran and the Fate of Populist Movements (2 comments)

Rev. Dan Vojir: No Wall Between Church and State: Ireland and The Largest Child Abuse Scandal in History (4 comments)

William Cormier: An Open Letter to President Obama; Why Is Corporate America Destroying Our Economy? (12 comments)

earl ofari hutchinson: Painful Truth in Cheney's Spat with Obama (2 comments)

Melvin A. Goodman: The CIA's Long History of Bamboozling Congress (6 comments)

jill mclaughlin: Breaking News: U.S. Citizens Hate Torture and Are Acting to Stop It (2 comments)

Paul Karsh: Obama Needs My Voice. Here it is (3 comments)

Jay Janson: *Most War Dead Are Civilians: On Memorial Day, Mourn Them First

Friday, May 22:

Marilyn Noyes: Don Siegelman Isn't Giving up and Neither am I (1 comments)

Ed Martin: The NYT Presents the Living Definition of Republican Obtuseness (3 comments)

mikel weisser: Current Comedy, 5/18/09: Tortured Pros (1 comments)

sibel edmonds: Two Sides of the Same Coin: Heads-Heads (44 comments)

Stephen Crockett: Delaware State Worker Coalition and Allies Fight Massive Pay Cuts: Part 1 (1 comments)

Richard Girard: No Crisis of Conscience (3 comments)

Zaw Nay Aung: The Junta is Going for 'Utter Devastation'

Zin Linn: ASEAN must support Aung San Suu Kyi

Vi Ransel: Intelligence Is a Piano (1 comments)

John Little: Strawman - Guns in Self-defense (21 comments)

Jeff Cohen: Forget 'Centrists,' We Need Progressives in the Supreme Court -- Right-Wingers Will Fight Whomever Obama Picks (3 comments)

Lawrence Velvel: Letter to Douglas Shulman

Ray McGovern: Cheney: Support for Israel Feeds Terrorism (2 comments)

NancyT: Secret vote counting and the lost art of democratic elections (1 comments)

David Sirota: Facing Progressive Pressure, Obama Backs off Panama Free Trade Agreement (4 comments)

George Washington: Cheney Defending Torture is Like Charles Manson Defending Murder (1 comments)

Frosty Wooldridge: Each year 46 million abortions worldwide: Catholic Church

Mathew Maavak: A Roulette of Terror, Nukes and Jihad (3 comments)

David Swanson: Fantasy Finance and Real Fixes

Maryrose Asher: Citizen Politics

John S. Hatch: Torture & 9/11 (2 comments)

Bob Burnett: The Republican Dilemma (2 comments)

Michael Corcoran: Shared Complicity: The Tragedy of the Pelosi/CIA Affair (9 comments)

Enver Masud: Zalmay Khalilzad: Neocon to Serve as De Facto Leader of Afghanistan? (2 comments)

Carter Calhoun: Oil Companies Complicit in War Crimes

Rick Rozoff: Scramble for World Resources: Battle for Antarctica (2 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: Call for International Action to Combat Epidemic of Non-communicable Diseases

Kevin Gosztola: Should Americans Allow 9/11 and the Perceived Threat from al Qaeda to Dictate Our Future? (7 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Internet Threatened by Censorship, Secret Surveillance, and Cybersecurity Laws

Mary MacElveen: Supermax prisons: Budget cuts were made during the Bush years

Thursday, May 21:

shamus cooke: GM's Turn on Obama's Chopping Block (1 comments)

Joan Wile: J'Accuse! CNN Distorts and Twists the News (1 comments)

James Raider: Detroit Icons - Ending More Than An Era (4 comments)

Dr. Lenore Jean Daniels: Malcolm, the MOVE Family, and the Movement You Can Believe In

will richard oconnor: Why Unions Have Failed, and Obama Should Let Them (2 comments)

Chris Floyd: The American Way: In Defense of George W. Bush (4 comments)

Robert Arend: The Obama Administration: May 1-15, 2009 (1 comments)

Don Don: Why Abortion Isn't Murder (6 comments)

mnmike44: Nancy Pelosi: the Human Shield In The Torture Debate

Mike Malloy: Dominus Vobiscum (1 comments)

Lynn Buske: Corporations Undermine Organic Reputation: Chinese Soy Imports and Toxic Petrochemicals

amicus curiae: A Solution to Salmonella Contaminated Foods? (2 comments)

John Tait: Blacklisting Mr. Black

George Washington: Columbia Space Shuttle Investigation $175 Million. Challenger Investigation $100 Million. 9/11 Investigation $15 Million (5 comments)

Lorna Salzman: Four More Years: The Obamavore's Dilemma (2 comments)

George Washington: Obama Is Considering Doing Something Even Bush Didn't Try: "Preventive Detention" of People Who Will Never Get a Trial (10 comments)

Ellen Brown: The Weimar Hyperinflation: Time to get out the wheelbarrows? (10 comments)

waldopaper: Torches, Forks and a Single Banner (4 comments)

David Swanson: Does Cheney Make Obama Look Good Enough? (2 comments)

Kevin Zeese: Baucus Flees Single Payer Questions, Conducts Business of Health Care in Secret (3 comments)

Jason Paz: Howard Zinn's Three 'Just' Wars (5 comments)

Doreen Carlson: Aventis Vaccine Factory in Mexico

Danny Schechter: The Crimes of Wall Street: Investigate 'Control Frauds' (1 comments)

Muhammad Khurshid: US Is Still Betting on the Wrong Horse In Pakistan (1 comments)

Charlotte Laws: Adam Lambert: Don't Worry, Elvis Would Have Lost American Idol, Too

R-CALF USA: USDA's Lax Import Rules Expose US Cattle to Mad Cow Disease (3 comments)

Sherwood Ross: Obama Expands the American Warfare State (13 comments)

Rory OConnor: Prairie Home Torture Companion (3 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Still a turnip-truck government when it comes to Guantanamo Bay (4 comments)

Matt Kjeldsen: The Bill of Rights for Awakening Patriots (13 comments)

OhioBlues: Long Before Rummy's Bible Thumping, We Knew . . (5 comments)

Carol Cleveland: The Joy of Conspiracy Denial (32 comments)

Mumia Abu-Jamal: Government for Whom? (1 comments)

Pete LaTona: Are Baseball Players Paid Too Much? (8 comments)

Michael Morrissey: Was the Air Force One Flyover a Warning to Obama? (12 comments)

Joe Quinn: Dick Cheney - Tortured Evidence (1 comments)

Wednesday, May 20:

Lord Rudi C. Loehwing: Codex Alimentarius – A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

shamus cooke: The Economy's Search for a New Normal

Lord Rudi C. Loehwing: The US Safe Haven for Dietary, Nutritional Supplements - Under attack... from within (1 comments)

Suzana Megles: Let Your Legislators Know How You Feel about Animal Legislation (5 comments)

Robert Borosage: The Health Care Lobby: Watch What They Do (1 comments)

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Senate Democrats, the Closing of Guantanamo, and the Obama Strategy: A Tentative Hypothesis (1 comments)

paul roberts: Watching Obama Morph Into Dick Cheney (65 comments)

David Sirota: When An Intern Can Form a Shell Corporation, It's Time For Trade Reform

Eric Walberg: Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib: Action, Cut! (1 comments)

George Washington: U.S. Officials Admitted that Boys Were Sodomized In Iraq Prison (10 comments)

Camillo "Mac" Bica: Fratricide at Camp Liberty

Barry De Jasu: Our Transparent President. (4 comments)

Allan Wayne: Raise a White Flag, End a Dark War. (2 comments)

Stephen H. Cassidy: Magnetix Toy Injuries: A Failure To Inform Safety Regulators

Doug Wallace: All Attorneys Working in the Congress During and for the Bush Administration Should be Disbarred (4 comments)

George Washington: The One Case of Torture Obama Doesn't Want You to Learn About (6 comments)

Bunnatine H. Greenhouse: *Halliburton Whistleblower Gagged by US Army Corps of Engineers after Testifying in Congress (1 comments)

Bob Patterson: A Question about exceptions to the exceptions for Charlie Krauthammer

Mary MacElveen: Are we prepared when it comes to earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes and tornadoes?

auroraaustraliis: GFC Solutions?

J. Edward Tremlett: Doom and Gloom for the Dumb and the Glum (132 comments)

David Swanson: *Priorities (2 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Where's the Outrage? When it Comes to National Labor Law We Have a Corporate Crime Wave (5 comments)

David Basora: Michael Steele: "The Era Of Apologizing Is Over" When Did It Start? (1 comments)

steve young: Now The Hard Work Begins

Ralph Lopez: *George Bush's Village People Moment

Jeff Cohen: Will Obama Move Supreme Court Rightward? (2 comments)

Laura Roslin: Effort to Disbar Bush Torture Lawyers Earns Kevin Zeese BuzzFlash's Wings of Justice Award

KatieSF: Testimony Overlooked? Former Head of Siegelman's Transition Team clears Siegelman: "There was no bribe" (4 comments)

Stephen Lendman: "Over the Rainbow" (11 comments)

Tuesday, May 19:

Jon Faulkner: Reinforcing The Two Party Myth (7 comments)

Grant Lawrence: Bush Fought the Iraq War by the Bible and Look What Happened (14 comments)

George Washington: Here's a Detailed Plan For Closing Guantanamo, So Congress Can Fund Closure (1 comments)

background n015e: Dr. Bruce Jessen and Dr. James Mitchell deserve a special medal.

Marilyn Noyes: Don Siegelman Has Fans Everywhere (3 comments)

Mike Malloy: Teacher (2 comments)

Jeffrey M. Smith: American Academy of Environmental Medicine Calls for Immediate Moratorium on All Genetically Modified Foods (35 comments)

Bev Harris: Connecticut Election Audit: 'Ridiculous, Unacceptable, Unconscionable' (1 comments)

Dennis Kaiser: Is It too Late to Save Our Nation? (22 comments)

Cindy Sheehan: For Cripes' Sake, Make Him Already! (26 comments)

Kyle Griffith: Internet Censorship and the Third Inalienable Right (4 comments)

Pete LaTona: American Politics: Over Promise Then Under Deliver (3 comments)

Kathy Malloy: Onward, Christian Soldiers! (3 comments)

George Washington: Guantanamo Prisoners STILL Being Tortured Under Obama (3 comments)

John Jonik: Current U.S. Health System a Success (2 comments)

William Fisher: Pelosi's Loss; Our Gain (7 comments)

David Swanson: *Too Slow Zelikow: UVA Backs Torture (6 comments)

William Fisher: Obama Considering National Security Courts (1 comments)

Bernard Weiner: "Shallow Throat": Is Obama Turning Into Bush Lite? (3 comments)

Tim Fleming: The Hypocrisy of Right-Wing Radical Catholics (1 comments)

Muhammad Khurshid: Report from The Pakistani Drone War Front Lines (23 comments)

Rob Kall: Nancy Pelosi; Courageous Hero (54 comments)

Pulladigm: I Prefer There Not Be Abortion. However... (12 comments)

Rafe Pilgrim: Understanding Torture (7 comments)

mac Sperry: SuperCapitalism: The Sperry Plan To Rescue The U.S. Economy (15 comments)

Ray McGovern: Note to Nancy Pelosi: Colin Powell Got Snookered at CIA, too (32 comments)

Monday, May 18:

Joan Brunwasser: Vets Speak Out! Interview with Devon Read (4 comments)

George Washington: Like Iraq, the 'Facts' on 9/11 Were 'Fixed around the Policy' (9 comments)

Robert Parry: Knowing 'What's Good for the Country' (3 comments)

Stephen Soldz: Mental Health professionals' letter asks Michelle Obama to investigate diagnostic abuse of veterans

Robert Parry: Giving Some Love to the Inquisition (2 comments)

Mike McCray: *America Must Support the Acorn 8! (1 comments)

Chris Hedges: The Disease of Permanent War (16 comments)

Lawrence Velvel: The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann and the Obama Administration, Part III (6 comments)

John Nichols: Auto Bailout Blues: Spin, Lies and Layoffs (3 comments)

Olga Bonfiglio: Back to the 'Old Normal' of Domesticity (3 comments)

steve young: Why Is 'Far Right' Newsmax Advertising On 'Far Left' MSNBC? (2 comments)

Will Allen: We Need Food and Farming Regulation NOW! (5 comments)

Ed Tubbs: President Obama Speaks at Notre Dame - Video (1 comments)

Kevin Zeese: Using a Law License to Facilitate Torture Should Result in Disbarment (18 comments)

G.E. Nordell: "The Party of No" (7 comments)

Dean Baker: The Health Care Industry: Protectionism the Free Traders Love (2 comments)

James Brett: Sack Rahm (21 comments)

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Correlation of Forces (2 comments)

Kevin Gosztola: How a Bunch of Ragtag Militant Protesters Turned the Gates of Notre Dame into the Gates of Hell (6 comments)

David Swanson: *Disbarring 12 Torture Lawyers (9 comments)

Jerry Policoff: Barack Obama Spins the Facts, Takes Single-Payer Health Care Off the Table (57 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Restoring National Sovereignty with A Truly National Banking System ; Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part VI (5 comments)

Sunday, May 17:

Mike Adams: H1N1 Swine Flu Likely Already Infecting 100,000 Americans, Admits CDC (4 comments)

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): Look, none of us wanted this, but we must fight fire with fire (7 comments)

Joan Brunwasser: Vets Speak Out! Interview with Christopher Gallagher (3 comments)

Lord Rudi C. Loehwing: *The 'Business' of Drugs: The Money behind Falsified Drug Research (4 comments)

winston: This isn't what I voted for (21 comments)

Press Release: American Rights at Work Applauds Appointment of Mary Beth Maxwell to Labor Department Post (1 comments)

Stephen Soldz: APA ethics policy-maker clarifies defense of torture; reveals American Psychological Association - Pentagon collusion (8 comments)

Bob Fitrakis: The Lethal Media Silence on Kent State's Smoking Guns (15 comments)

Sam Bahour: Endgame Diplomacy for the Mideast (2 comments)

Keith Pope: A Plain Man's Guide to Tax, Taxation and Other Fictions (2 comments)

Elaine Brower: A Legend in Her Own Time

Jim Neusom: Blacks Sue Banks over Home Loans

Michael Gillespie: Sen. Tom Harkin Calls for Release of Torture Photos (1 comments)

lila york: Dear Mr. President: We will fight you (7 comments)

Eileen Dannemann: Judge Forces Chemotherapy on Minnesota Child: Emerging Totalitarianism via the Medical Model (4 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Torture: Bush, Cheney, et al should be the target and not Speaker Nancy Pelosi (6 comments)

Rowan Wolf: Yes We Can Say No to Torture (2 comments)

Ron Fullwood: Obama's Hardest Thing (4 comments)

Tim Buchholz: The Battle of Blair Mountain

Grant Lawrence: Senate Allows Credit Card Banksters to Continue 'Loan Sharking' (3 comments)

Grant Lawrence: Obama Says Too Much Change Is Bad When Asked about Healthcare for All (2 comments)

Jay Janson: *National Day of Mourning for Afghan Dead in US Bombing (4 comments)

William Cormier: As the Economy Worsens, A New America Is Emerging, Part 1 (4 comments)

Pete Latona: Bernie Madoff...Come On Down! (1 comments)

Bob Patterson: Bush-Obama: 'A rose by any other name'

michael payne: The transformation of our unsustainable American lifestyle is underway (12 comments)

Steven Leser: Obama and Notre Dame - Catholics and Others Misled by GOP on Abortion (4 comments)

August Adams: Single Payer: We Draw a Line in the Sand (3 comments)

jeff rock: Obama Doesn't Trust US Justice System (5 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: Baby victim of acid attack in India gets support

Ronnie Sue Ambrosino: *Who Decides What Madoff Victims Get? Picard or the Law? (1 comments)

Carl Bernofsky: How the Supreme Court Chooses

Mary Shaw: GOP Misleads on Health Care Bureaucracy (4 comments)

Kevin Gosztola: At the Middle of this Struggle over Catholic Identity, Notre Dame Students Will Graduate (1 comments)

Saturday, May 16:

Joan Brunwasser: Vets Speak Out! Interview with Rick Reyes (1 comments)

Steven Best: Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism

David Sirota: First Amendment Rights Watch: Criminalizing the Internet (10 comments)

Jason Leopold: Ex-CIA Official: Agency Brass Lied to Congress About Interrogations (1 comments)

Jay Janson: American Values? Obama: 'Americans don't resent the rich, they wanna be rich' (2 comments)

Jason Leopold: EXCLUSIVE: Documents Describe Prisoner Abuse Photos Obama is Withholding (2 comments)

Jason Leopold: Obama Pressured Into Withholding Prisoner Abuse Photos (2 comments)

Rady Ananda: Earth's Enemies: GE, Monsanto and Obama's AG pick, Ignacia Moreno (14 comments)

Brasch: The Dick Cheney Magical Mystery Media Tour (1 comments)

James Raider: Continental Flight 3407 – Casting Blame on Pilots?

Allan Goldstein: Dijon mustard, Elizabeth Edwards, steroids, and other non-opinions

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): The 6,000 year old 'Have' and 'Have Not' War is now in our face (49 comments)

Scott Baker: *The Myth of Personal Frugality (2 comments)

Rob Kall: Obama Picks a Clarence Thomas for the EPA (122 comments)

Kenneth Briggs: Don't Ask Don't Tell

Laurel Vale: How to RUIN an Industry: GM WHEAT! (21 comments)

Lord Rudi C. Loehwing: *Codex Alimentarius - Part Two: The current U.S. consensus (2 comments)

Ron Fullwood: Hiding Torture Photos is Just Another Tactic in the 'Information War' (1 comments)

Lord Rudi C. Loehwing: Codex Alimentarius and Non-European Countries - Part One (4 comments)

Bill Hare: Cheney's Multiple Layers of Deceit (9 comments)

Gwen DArcangelis: "Swine Flu": Is the Scare Over? (9 comments)

PETA: No sure bet for thoroughbred horses (1 comments)

sameh abdelaziz: Electronic health records are wrong prescription for automation (2 comments)

Jim Quinn: Jesus of Suburbia (18 comments)

John Pagoda: A Catholic Education (10 comments)

Stephen Lendman: The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (1 comments)

Jon Faulkner: Paying To Subjugate Yourself (10 comments)

Friday, May 15:

background n015e: Why isn't THIS memo front and center in the torture debate? (3 comments)

Press Release: American Perceptions of Peace, Arab Attitudes America: A New Perspective

Eric Walberg: NATO in Georgia: Fun and Games

Robert Wexler: AG Holder Repudiates Torture (6 comments)

Chuck Simpson: The Government's Shameful War on Marijuana Users (1 comments)

alan17b0: Letter to Congressman Van Hollen for Single Payer Health Care (3 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: Justice, where art thou? Two years of Dr Binayak Sen's imprisonment

Donald de Fano: Who Cares What Nancy Pelosi Knew or When She Knew It? (6 comments)

earl ofari hutchinson: The Other Farrah Story (2 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Caught in a Lie: US Uses Phosphorus Weapons in Afghanistan (2 comments)

Don Siegelman: Tell Obama to clean out the DoJ! (3 comments)

Bev Harris: BlackBox Blog-O-Lection May 15, 2009

Naomi Klein: The Cure for Layoffs: Fire the Boss! (5 comments)

George Washington: Executive Summary: What do the Experts Say About Torture?

Jason Leopold: Cheney Intervened in CIA Inspector General's Torture Probe (1 comments)

George Washington: Expert: Prosecuting Those Who Created Torture Program Will Reduce Attacks Against U.S. and American Troops

John Nichols: The Case for Kenosha (1 comments)

Michael Fox: Miracles Whipped (1 comments)

Stella Adams: Demand Change from Bank of America Comment Period Extended til 5/23/09 (2 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Greed is the true demon and cancer (2 comments)

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: A Missed Opportunity? (13 comments)

Richard Volaar: The Beauty of Torture (5 comments)

Claras: European Union: A Progressive Agenda Is Needed

Rick Rozoff: Adriatic Charter and the Balkans: Smaller Nations, Larger NATO

Gary Dorrien: A Case for Economic Democracy

Lawrence Velvel: The Concept of Net Equity Being Used by the Trustee and SIPC

Bruce K. Gagnon: Whose War Now? (2 comments)

Ralph Lopez: *Torture, Joe Six-Pack, and the Iraq Thing

Grant Lawrence: No Future Money For Social Security--Gave it All to the Bankers (4 comments)

Philip Greene: Can We Look Back to Go Forward?

Kevin Anthony Stoda: Marriage, Integration, and Immigration Policy -Modern Bureaucracy Reflecting the Worst (1 comments)

Bob Patterson: Salvaging Obama's Legacy

Jason Paz: It Takes Generations to Get That Dumb (2 comments)

Ed Tubbs: Beware the Bogeyman! (1 comments)

Allan Pierson: Tea Party's Potential Wasted Playing Politics

Human Rights Watch: China: Tiananmen's Unhealed Wounds

Rev. Dan Vojir: An Open Letter To Hillary Clinton: Don't Let Michael Savage Out Of The Country! (3 comments)

Paul Karsh: Torture, Phil Hendrie, and political expediency (1 comments)

Joel S. Hirschhorn: Constitutional Rubbish (12 comments)

mikel weisser: Current Comedy 5/11/09: Your Miss Teen California, Joe the Plumber (1 comments)

Mark Harris: Swine Flu Threat Highlights Need for Single-Payer

Debby Bodkin: Letter to University of Notre Dame In Support of President Barack Obama's Invitation to Speak--2009 Commencement

Walter Barton: Church and State – Two Sides of Marriage (4 comments)

shamus cooke: Obama's Middle East Imperialism (5 comments)

Scott McLarty: Fire Departments and Health Care (11 comments)

Pete Latona: Shameless Hedge Funds Force Chrysler into Bankruptcy (7 comments)

Editor LNAV: India Is Transforming into Endemic E-Surveillance Society

John Kusumi: Scolding Beijing and Washington

the web: *DOJ opposes national security whistleblower protections (4 comments)

Bob Burnett: Global Warming: Through a Glass Darkly (6 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part V (11 comments)

Steven Leser: Pelosi and Torture - Bombshell Evidence that the CIA Invented Evidence of Informing Democrats (87 comments)

Thursday, May 14:

David Swanson: *76 Members of Congress Oppose Staying in Afghanistan Forever (1 comments)

David Swanson: *Holder's Plans as Clear as Gonzales' Memory

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): Dire Desiderata for the 21st Century (6 comments)

John Bruhns: Torture Debate May Not Go in Our Favor

R-CALF USA: *NAIS will Reduce Competition in U.S. Cattle Industry

Èzili Dantò: Haiti's Riches: Interview with Ezili Dantò on Mining in Haiti

Sister Begonia: Introducing the Gaza Human Rights Campaign (7 comments)

DAnne Burley: *March to Clean up the Courts Say No to Corruption (3 comments)

Kathy Malloy: Who, Me?

mike ferner: Veterans for Peace to President Obama: 'You will find us in the streets' (7 comments)

Mike Malloy: There's a Word For This: It's 'Evil' (3 comments)

Howard Zinn: Changing Obama's Mindset (6 comments)

George Washington: One of the Main Sources for the 9/11 Commission Report was Tortured Until He Agreed to Sign a Confession that He Was NOT (5 comments)

Dean Baker: Why We Can't Wait To Move On Bank Reform

Tom Hayden: McChrystal's Rise: More Secrets, Less Daylight

Marilyn Noyes: *Plea for calls to the White House on behalf of Don Siegelman (1 comments)

William John Cox: Fear of Crime and Things to Come (1 comments)

George Washington: Most of Those Tortured Were Innocent (1 comments)

Bob Koehler: Goliath's Vulnerability Is the Truth

Stephen Pizzo: Capitalism's Greatest Hits (6 comments)

Dave Lindorff: On Torture and War, Obama Sounds Increasingly, and Disturbingly, Like Bush (33 comments)

Ed Tubbs: Outing a Healthcare Reform Subterfuge.

Nick van Nes: Open Letter To My Representative, William Delahunt, D-MA (8 comments)

Ed Martin: An Article as Proctoscope for Dick Cheney and Richard Cohen (13 comments)

Daniel Pourkesali: Iran's Missiles Not an Existential Threat (7 comments)

Don Williams: *Shout it from the rooftops--Al-Libi--keep his torture story alive (4 comments)

Ray McGovern: Rumsfeld Redux: 'Ugly' Questions for Gen. Myers (11 comments)

Dean Powers: GOP's Frank Luntz' Memo on Health Care; How to Fight Luntz (5 comments)

Mary Shaw: Why I Oppose the Inquirer Boycott (8 comments)

Kevin Gosztola: Obama Employs Bush Administration Tactic to Halt Release of Detainee Photos (11 comments)

Wednesday, May 13:

CasaZaza: Splitting the Sky vs Bush: Civil Resistance in the 21st Century (1 comments)

DerLange: "Cash for Clunkers" - Well, Maybe NOT "Clunkers," but CASH, Yeah!

Darren Wolfe: Oaths, War, And Liberty (1 comments)

John Stanton: USA v Don Ayala: HTS Management, Army Leadership on Trial Too

Jason Paz: Defusing Citizen Outrage (2 comments)

Kevin Anthony Stoda: Is Now the Time When Spin Is No Longer Enough? (4 comments)

Jason Leopold: Army's Prescription to Combat Solider Suicides: Christianity (3 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: The Asthma Drug Facility brings down cost of drugs

Jason Paz: Surviving in the Post Nuclear Proliferation Age

Mike Malloy: "Sadistic . . . Violent . . . Inhuman" (4 comments)

Kathy Malloy: Doubleplus Ungood Doublethink

Vi Ransel: Class War in America, the Ongoing Assault (8 comments)

Robert Parry: WPost Columnist Winks at Torture

Greg Nick: The IBM/Lockheed Martin Census: GPSing Your Home (1 comments)

Dean Baker: Social Security: Downturn Does NOT Affect Long-Run Picture (2 comments)

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Obama, The Torture Pictures, and this Dick Cheney Moment: A Speculation (11 comments)

Dean Baker: The Bankrupt Debate Over Bankrupting Our Children

E. Nelson: Mike Connell, Paul Wellstone, and Beverly Eckert Buffalo Plane Crashes and Futuristic Directed Energy Weapons Systems (7 comments)

Chris Hedges: Becoming What We Seek to Destroy

Robert Borosage: What's Good for General Motors Is... Never Mind (2 comments)

Brent Budowsky: Credit-Card Law Has Painful Impact (13 comments)

Siv O'Neall: Will Democracy Forever Remain an Illusion? (13 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Social Security and Medicare: Our golden years have turned to lead (6 comments)

George Washington: 'Happy Talk' Can NOT Fix the Economy (5 comments)

Pam Miles: Replace the Bush U.S. Attorneys

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Premise (7 comments)

Glen Ford: Obama Shows His True Katrina Colors (1 comments)

Rob Kall: Get Out In the Streets And FIGHT for Universal, Single Payer Health Care (42 comments)

John Jonik: FDA To Promote Increased Smoking (3 comments)

David Glenn Cox: The Future Without A Future (2 comments)

Jennifer Hathaway: Single Payer or CSM? (10 comments)

Ed Komarek: MJ 12 and the Aviary

Walter Barton: *Don't Ask, Don't Tell Must Go Now (6 comments)

OhioBlues: The Circular Dangers of John Hagee, AIPAC and Netanyahu

Steven G. Erickson: The New Car Sales Scam (2 comments)

Mary Shaw: The Trouble With Health "Insurance" (5 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part IV (6 comments)

Tuesday, May 12:

Rady Ananda: Naomi Klein: Left Economist Says Take Action NOW (18 comments)

Kevin Zeese: The Single Payer Fire Has Been Lit (3 comments)

Max Gladwell: 10 Ways to Change the World through Social Media

John Little: Cuba Has Bypassed the US in Health Care (11 comments)

Norman Solomon: A Progressive Challenge to Jane Harman

Muhammad Nasir Khan Khattak: *Appeal: Help displaced northern Pakistanis

Abu Ahmad: *CODEX is in HR 875: Learn why your health depends on stopping it (5 comments)

Yup Farming: *40 'Progressives' Support Industrial Destruction of Sustainable Farming (2 comments)

Tim Carpenter: *Fight for Single Payer Health Care (4 comments)

James Brett: Afghanistan's McGenerals (8 comments)

John Nichols: David Simon, Arianna Huffington and the Future of Journalism (2 comments)

Debra Sweet: Protesting Torture Across the US May 2009

Mike Malloy: Indict Them; Prosecute Them (4 comments)

Rory OConnor: Media Torture (2 comments)

Rady Ananda: Obama's Higher Education Budget a Mixed Bag for African Americans

Dave Lindorff: Captains of Industry Don't Go Down with the Ship (3 comments)

Rady Ananda: Obama Increases Number of Prisons, Cops (20 comments)

Roger Shuler: Federal Prosecutors Want Longer Sentence for Siegelman (2 comments)

Kate Stayman: Don't Let Dick Cheney Get Away with Torture (1 comments)

Mickey Z.: Obama and the denial of genocide (5 comments)

Sherwood Ross: Will Nation that Housed 425,000 Nazis in WWII Reject Gitmo Detainees? (4 comments)

David Swanson: *Baucus Arrests Five More Doctors, Nurses, Activists (12 comments)

Sandy Shanks: Travesty in Iraq (7 comments)

Suzana Megles: Disappointing Giveaway from Oprah (11 comments)

David Swanson: *200 Orgs Ask for Special Prosecutor for Cheney and Bush (9 comments)

Bob Patterson: Pasadena = Car-spotting Capital of the World! ! !

David Weiner: Imperialism Is Not Merely Irritating (4 comments)

Anjali Singh - CNS: Press Does a Reality Check On Swine Flu

Ed Tubbs: Health Insurers' Bottom Line Defines 'Medical Necessity' (8 comments)

Paul A. Moore: Today, the dreams of Grant Park were tested in the real world (5 comments)

Monday, May 11:

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): The Belly of the Beast: Unregulated, national/international economics (6 comments)

Theresa Reed: Kenyan Man Sues over Sex Boycott 'Suffering' (8 comments)

George Washington: 9/11 Mastermind: "During ... My Interrogation I Gave A Lot Of False Information In Order To Satisfy What I Believed The (3 comments)

Mike Malloy: 'Soldiers work for corporations, not for the people' (12 comments)

Ann Garrison: Newsom for a Nuclear California (3 comments)

Bruce Toien: Democrats Complicit? No Wonder No Torture Investigations (7 comments)

Sandy Shanks: Travesty in Iraq (4 comments)

George Washington: Americans Supported Torture Because They Were Deceived into Thinking that it was a Necessary Evil (3 comments)

Dwight Black: SSRIs (Prozac): The Unidentified Marriage Killer (11 comments)

Roy Eidelson: How Americans Think About Torture--and Why (14 comments)

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Overview (11 comments)

Kenneth Briggs: Same Old Party

Mary MacElveen: As an Internet writer: I am thankful I grew up in the age of newspapers (4 comments)

earl ofari hutchinson: Hatin' on Miss California is not about a Contract (4 comments)

Uri Avnery: Does Iran Resemble Nazi Germany? (19 comments)

David Sirota: Three Questions About Obama's 'Major' Health Care Announcement Today (12 comments)

Marni Levin: World Hypocrisy (7 comments)

Dave Lindorff: 1-2-3 What Are We Fighting For? The War Crimes Song-and-Dance Routine

David Swanson: *Three Worst Reasons to Delay Putting Cheney in Prison

Robert Arend: Wanda Sykes Takes Aim and Pierces Limbaugh's Treasonous Heart (22 comments)

Gary Price: The More things change, The more they remain the same [Oligarchs = Facism] (1 comments)

winston: Specter is an opportunist--he holds inconsistent political stances, but then so has Obama. (2 comments)

Muhammad Nasir Khan Khattak: *Bombs for Pashtoons and Dollars for Punjab (4 comments)

Michael Shaw: Torture...OK Pelosi Knew in 2002! But what could this all really mean? (30 comments)

Rick Rozoff: NATO War Games In Georgia: Threat Of New Caucasus War (1 comments)

Grant McIntire: We will be in Afghanistan for years to come. (8 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Global Debt Enslavement - From Gold Reserves to Petrodollars; Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part III (1 comments)

Richard Neville: The AfPak Blues (6 comments)

Sunday, May 10:

thepen: Except That We WON'T Shut Up About Single Payer Health Care, No Matter What Senator 'More Police' Baucus Says (6 comments)

Stephen Soldz: 'Sleep deprivation': Euphemism and CIA torture of choice (1 comments)

Cindy Sheehan: The More Things Change... (1 comments)

earl ofari hutchinson: Put Donald T. Sterling's NAACP Award on Hold

Kevin Zeese: Max Baucus Should Not Be Deciding Health Care for America (10 comments)

Carolyn Baker: When Facing Reality Is Not 'Negative Thinking' (9 comments)

Kyle Griffith: Could the "Pig Plague" Turn BLACK? (15 comments)

Ethan Indi: Oil-garchical Collectivism (1 comments)

Jim Miles: Food shortages and science (4 comments)

gail combs: Food Safety Bills: More Dangerous than the Patriot Act (7 comments)

Jim Goodman: Think Before You Eat, Agriculture and the Environment (2 comments)

Coleen Rowley: What's FISHY?---PawLENTY! (1 comments)

Rafe Pilgrim: Prosecutions for Torture Unlikely (5 comments)

James Raider: Obama's Squandering More Than Capital

Dean Baker: Rate of Job Loss Slows Moderately, Unemployment Rate Rises to 8.9 % (3 comments)

John Nichols: A Democrat Calls for Executive Accountability

Rae Abileah: Where was Tikkun Olam at the AIPAC Conference in DC? (1 comments)

Linda Milazzo: Joe Wright's The Soloist Exploits the Skid Row Community (7 comments)

Jason Miller: He no longer heard the cries of the animals or saw the flowing blood.... (2 comments)

Michael Collins: The Big "Con": Taliban take Pakistan and its "Another 9/11" (12 comments)

Allan Wayne: Quoth the Pig Part 3. Fat as Hell and Not Taking It Anymore (2 comments)

John Nichols: The Year of Same-Sex Marriage! (7 comments)

Saturday, May 9:

Tom Engelhardt: Washington's Imperial Attitude: We Talk About Countries Like We Own Them (4 comments)

Jim Hightower: Memo to Media: Populism Is a Rebellion Against Corporate Power -- It's Not Just Stupid, Raw Anger (7 comments)

Jason Leopold: CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Documents to ACLU (1 comments)

thepen: The Senate LAUGHS About How Many Police It Takes To Silence The American People On Single Payer Health Care (15 comments)

Pete Latona: A Simple Analogy of the Housing Collapse (2 comments)

Grant McIntire: The Event that Caused the Economic Crisis in Zimbabwe (1 comments)

Paul Kruger: *What Have We Become? (4 comments)

Dwayne Hunn: *Open Letter to General Contractor Barack Obama (1 comments)

David Michael Green: Get Obama (12 comments)

Jason Leopold: Ex-Sen. Domenici Under Increased Scrutiny in US Attorney Firings Probe

Robert Borosage: Wrong Way Steny

Ron Fullwood: Bombing Afghans in Defense of Afghanistan? (1 comments)

Donna Smith: Happy Mother's Day from America's Health Insurance Plans and Mr. Baucus (2 comments)

Ralph Nader: The Single Payer Taboo (6 comments)

F. Vyan Walton: For the Last Time - ALL OF IT - was Torture! (1 comments)

George Washington: Why the Government's Attempt to Instill False Confidence Will Backfire

Rowan Wolf: StressTest? Would you feel healthy? (1 comments)

Mary Shaw: I'm Not Against Religion, I'm Against Religious Hypocrisy (14 comments)

Kevin Anthony Stoda: CULTURE, DEMOGRAPHICS, CHURCH-MOSQUE STRESSES (5 comments)

Bill Hare: Nagging Similarities Between JFK Assassination and 9/11 (7 comments)

Friday, May 8:

Mark Lange: *Forget Tea Parties. Bring a Pitchfork to a Shareholder Meeting. (1 comments)

Kathy Malloy: Dear God, Why Are My Parents Homophobic? (11 comments)

paul roberts: Criminalizing Criticism of Israel (25 comments)

George Washington: Time Calls Geithner a "Con Man" and the Stress Tests a "Confidence Game" (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: Seeds of Truth (24 comments)

Dean Hartwell: Fix Our Policies to Fix the Budget (1 comments)

William Lewis: The Nail In Our Economic Coffin

mikel weisser: Current Comedy, 5/04/09: This is Only a Test

E. Nelson: Max Baucus, Listen to Ed Schultz and Give Doctor Marcia Angell a Seat at the Table (2 comments)

Matt Kjeldsen: The Myths That Control Us (13 comments)

Thomas Riggins: Richard Haass, Torture, and the Rule of Law (6 comments)

George Washington: Some Experts Think This Could Be WORSE than the Great Depression (5 comments)

Bob Koehler: The Hounds of Heaven (5 comments)

Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Call Her secretary Rice (4 comments)

Kenneth T. Tellis: The United States has been in denial of its own illegal actions for years (9 comments)

Kevin Gosztola: Are the Days of Free Internet News Coming to End? (12 comments)

H. Lewis Smith: UN Treaty on Children's Rights: The Dawning of a Conspiring New World Order? (9 comments)

Ralph Lopez: *A Really Stupid, Unnecessary War (8 comments)

James Raider: Common Sense - Apple Will Not Twitter

Dave Lindorff: The Obama Administration is Becoming a Stand-Up Comedy Act (24 comments)

Deena Stryker: What Specter's Spectacular Could Portend (6 comments)

Bob Burnett: Arlen Specter's Legacy

Ed Martin: US government document says Bybee and Yoo must go to jail (1 comments)

David Glenn Cox: The Trickle Up Theory (3 comments)

jill mclaughlin: Our Leaders Won't, But We Can Prosecute War Criminals (3 comments)

David Basora: Carrie Prejean: If You Can't Call Her A Liar, Then Leave Her Alone (5 comments)

Carola Von Hoffmannstahl: Arlen Specter Zelig, America's Unsung Pulp Star

Philip Greene: Will the Bad Guys Really Get Away With It? (8 comments)

Grant Lawrence: The Dalai Lama: A Good Showman but an Empty Robe (9 comments)

Jann Swanson: Texas Governor's Hollow Threat (1 comments)

Robert Arend: The Obama Administration: April 11 Thru 30 2009 (2 comments)

Michael Morrissey: 9/11 Aletheia (3 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part II (6 comments)

David Swanson: In the Name of Womanhood and Humanity (1 comments)

Thursday, May 7:

Tom Degan: The G.O.Pizza Party (1 comments)

Allan Goldstein: Swine Flu Hate Speech (1 comments)

Ann Kramer: Producing the next "Greatest Generation"

Mr.: Relevant Thoughts on the Liberian Government's Debt and Money

David Swanson: *Baucus v. Democracy (4 comments)

Walter Barton: Bigotry, a National Organization for Marriage Trademark

Joseph Russo: Bank Loan Dilemma - Can the Economy Recover?

Jerry West: Path To A Better Future

Andreas Umland: Will There Be a Second Crimean War? (2 comments)

J. Patrick O'Connor: The 'Mumia Exception' (7 comments)

Raymond Budelman: The Audacity of Leadership: the Right Cries Wolf, and the Left Screams Out for Health Care (2 comments)

Frank Barat: Non Violence in Palestine: An Analysis (4 comments)

Ronnie Sue Ambrosino: My Letter to Judge Chin at Bernard Madoff's Plea Hearing

Mike Malloy: Poison (3 comments)

Jason Leopold: DOJ Report Reaches "Damning" Conclusions for Bybee and Yoo (6 comments)

George Washington: The Economy Will Not Recover until the Perpetrators of Our Crises Are Held Accountable

Harold Hellickson: Two Decades of Political Racketeering (2 comments)

Barbara Peterson: How Bankers Seized America through Liars' Loans and Accounting Fraud (2 comments)

Kevin Zeese: Obama's Drug Czar Nominee Approved a Potential Break from the Past (1 comments)

Lawrence Velvel: The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, and the Obama Administration, Part II (2 comments)

Ivan Hentschel: A Bonfire of the Profanities

Medea Benjamin: Who Will Stop the AIPAC Jews Before it is Too Late? (7 comments)

Chris Floyd: Far Beyond Torture: The Long, Dark History of an Imperial Factotum (2 comments)

Don Siegelman: *How Selective Prosecution Can Affect Every Member of Congress (2 comments)

James Brett: The Disaster (4 comments)

Edward S. Herman: Inky Notes, April 23: Paying Santorum Well; Inky Loves John Yoo; Supports Rightwing Attack on Free Speech; Tea-Baggers

jeff rock: Squandering Opportunity (2 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Judge Bybee and the Challenge of Removing a Stain on the Legal System (3 comments)

Richard Neville: The Torturer's Apprentice (2 comments)

Wednesday, May 6:

paul roberts: America's Shame (15 comments)

David Swanson: *It's National Nancy Off the Table Day (4 comments)

Rick Rozoff: Cold War Origins of the Somalia Crisis (2 comments)

Marjorie Cohn: Stanford Antiwar Alums Call for War Crimes Investigation of Condoleezza Rice (22 comments)

Camillo "Mac" Bica: Deadly Games

Moral Compass: *Campaign Finance Is Just Another Term for Bribery (2 comments)

democrat: At Least One Challenge Still Ahead for Specter (2 comments)

George Washington: U.S. Votes For 9/11-Style Commission To Probe Financial Crisis (3 comments)

Pete Latona: Why Obama's Economic Plan Will Fail (6 comments)

The Candid Blogger: $100 Million Raised for Bush Memorial Library at SMU (2 comments)

Marc McDonald: Forget Michael Savage, When Will Britain Ban George W. Bush? (3 comments)

Dinesh Sharma: What do Barack Obama and Slumdog Millionaire have in common?

Fifth Column Press: *Sex and Censorability on Amazon.com (2 comments)

George Washington: How We Can Reclaim Control (6 comments)

Stephen Soldz: New article elucidates military psychologists' complicity in detainee abuse and "ethics" coverup (1 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: World Asthma DaY: Asthma control is appalling in countries

Ray McGovern: Rudman: Deus ex Machina on Torture (2 comments)

Chris Hedges: Buying Brand Obama (10 comments)

CODEPINK: In the Name of Mothers Around the World

Stephen Pizzo: Serious Lapse in Judgment Indeed (4 comments)

Kevin Zeese: Why I Was Among Eight Health Care Advocates to Get Arrested in the Senate Yesterday (10 comments)

Press Release: Doctors Challenge Exclusion of Single-Payer from Health Care Debate (1 comments)

earl ofari hutchinson: Miss California is Right to Scream About Beauty Contest Hypocrisy (3 comments)

Nicola Nasser: When, Where the Pope Inspires No Hope

waldopaper: Goering Mocks Us (19 comments)

NancyT: *America Needs a Voting Rights Movement (2 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part I (5 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Suffolk Cty., NY: High school children should not be used as drug informants (4 comments)

Tuesday, May 5:

Robert Parry: The Need to Hold the GOP Accountable (11 comments)

Dean Baker: Outsourcing the Bosses: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler (1 comments)

Mike Malloy: The Savage Weiner (14 comments)

Kathy Malloy: Cinco de Meglomaniac (2 comments)

Rory OConnor: Babes in TortureLand (7 comments)

David Swanson: An Even Worse Bybee Memo

Kevin Anthony Stoda: In Search of a Metaphor to Combine what We've Seen in America, Myanmar, Gaza, and elsewhere This Past Year (7 comments)

Stephen Soldz: Coalition for an Ethical Psychology Calls for Investigation of American Psychological Association Torture Collusion (8 comments)

Marti Oakley: *Rep. DeLauro: Ever hear of the US Constitution?

Jesse Hamilton: An Iraq Veteran's Reasons for Opposing the Army Experience Center (4 comments)

Dave Lindorff: First Victim on Road to Abu Ghraib: Rumsfeld Was Behind Torture of John Walker Lindh

Richard Hirschhorn: Barack Obama-and the money what aint real (1 comments)

megan kargher: Corporate Swine Project Significant Profits for Toxic Flu Vaccines (12 comments)

Ed Tubbs: Girding for the Healthcare Fight: Are you Ready? (1 comments)

David Glenn Cox: Stray Cats (12 comments)

Mad Jayhawk: Tea Parties Revisited

Monday, May 4:

sibel edmonds: In Congress We Trust... Not (29 comments)

Kindra Muntz: It's official. We WON. IT'S OVER! (1 comments)

Stephen Soldz: American Psychological Association ethics policy-maker endorses torture (7 comments)

Mike Malloy: Tea Bag THIS, Mo-Fo's (6 comments)

Hans Bennett: The Angola Three: Torture in Our Own Backyard (3 comments)

Kenneth Briggs: A Supreme Decision

George Washington: Support Our Troops: Prosecute Torture (1 comments)

Ralph Lopez: *Connell's Sister Now Doubts Plane Crash Was Accident (1 comments)

Stephen Unger: The Need for People-Friendly Research & Development

Howard Garrett: *Anti-submarine Warfare Training Kills Marine Life

Richard Heinberg: Somebody's Gotta Do It (3 comments)

Bob Patterson: Fraudulent Journalism; It's Never Gonna Stop (1 comments)

Dr. Dennis Loo: Four Times in Eight Sentences (3 comments)

George Washington: Was Torture Really Part of a Religious Crusade? (6 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Swine flu: Keeping it in perspective in relation to other diseases (1 comments)

William Fisher: Torture Detainees Shoot Obama in Foot

William Rivers Pitt: The Other 100 Days

Robert Parry: 'One More Bubble!'

David Swanson: *An Even Worse Bybee Memo

Chris Bowers: Is President Obama Putting Net Neutrality At Risk? (1 comments)

Stephen Lendman: Unreported or Underreported Real Pandemics, Not Fake Ones Like Avian and Swine Flu (5 comments)

GOAT: *Child (or Agency) Protection?

Dennis Kaiser: Bilderbergers Set To Meet - Beware! (23 comments)

David Swanson: Give Everyone Healthcare By Shutting Insurance Companies (20 comments)

Rafe Pilgrim: Better the Pain of Truth than the Cancer of Deceit

George Washington: Unless We Stand Up and Demand Safe Meat Production, Next Time We WILL Have a Plague (12 comments)

Sunday, May 3:

Steve Best: Who's Afraid of Jerry Vlasak? (1 comments)

Jose Herrera: A Very Public Letter to Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton from a Venezuelan

Ed Tubbs: If you're human, you want a more humane Court (2 comments)

Kenneth Briggs: Health Care Fast-Tracked

Ronnie Sue Ambrosino: Bernard Madoff Victims Get Support from US Congress (5 comments)

Joni Greever: The Justice Myth in America (18 comments)

Jason Paz: The Audacity of Torture; the Audacity of Prosecution (8 comments)

Elaine Brower: Criminal Complaint Served and Seven Arrested at the Army Experience Center in Philadelphia Mall (18 comments)

Press Release: Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time (1 comments)

Stephen Pizzo: News Blues

Stephen Dinan: A Time for Transpartisanship (1 comments)

Nicholas Smith: Admiral Joe Sestak vs. Arlen Specter in 2010

Ed Tubbs: Mirror, mirror . . . (1 comments)

jeff rock: Re-Inflating the Bubble (5 comments)

Jim Quinn: If You Believe - Banks Are Recovering (2 comments)

earl ofari hutchinson: Michael Steele the Magically Disappearing Negro (1 comments)

Bill Hare: Specter Switch: What Will Feminists Do? (1 comments)

Muhammad Khurshid: Give Time To Obama As He Is Bringing Change (5 comments)

James Raider: Dilettantes at the Chrysler Gate (3 comments)

mikel weisser: Current Comedy, 4/27/08: Manifest Destiny

M. Davis: One flu over the cuckoo's nest, or: Whatever happened to context and analysis in the news? (9 comments)

George Washington: Stress Tests: A P.R. Stunt Devised by the Banking Industry (3 comments)

DerLange: Flu Brings Out the Worst in Right Wingers (2 comments)

Saturday, May 2:

Jason Leopold: How a Health Benefits Law Formed the Basis For the 'Torture Memo'

Ann Wright: Torture: An Author and a Resister (5 comments)

Jan Baumgartner: Rumors, Speculation and Fear: San Miguel de Allende Copes with the Spread of Media-Fueled Alarm, Not H1N1 Virus (21 comments)

William Fisher: UN Report: Rights Abuses In Iraq

amicus curiae: CDC Figures of Flu Deaths Are Not Correct (4 comments)

shamus cooke: Obama and the Crisis of the U.S. Auto Industry (2 comments)

Walter Barton: Virginia Foxx – America's Future

Nicholas Smith: Souter's Supreme Court Legacy: Conservative Appointee, Liberal Justice

Doc "Old Codger" McCoy: Apologists for Deadbeat Dads (7 comments)

David Kendall: Dr. King Spanks Obama: Part 2

Eric Walberg: The torture trail: Lincoln or Ford? (1 comments)

Ed Tubbs: We need these laws, and we need them NOW! (1 comments)

Jason Paz: The Republican Death Wish for America (1 comments)

Mick Youther: Scientists Discover That Conservatives Are Brain-Dead (11 comments)

Ralph Nader: In the Public Interest (2 comments)

Mike Kirchubel: 1819 Revisited (1 comments)

Michael Cavlan: Civil Disobedience, Congress, Darfur and Horse and Pony Shows (2 comments)

James Brett: Economy v. Ecology (8 comments)

Gene Messick: The Rise of Anti-democratic Democrats (4 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Public school teachers are the unsung heroes in this society (2 comments)

larry beinhart: An Ode to Spring (of Banks We Sing)

David Glenn Cox: From Haymarket to Ludlow from Harlen to Matewan from Mother Jones to You (5 comments)

Mark Sashine: In Memoriam of the Warrior-Brother Fallen (4 comments)

William Cormier: 'When You Grow up on a Farm in Georgia, Your First Girlfriend Is a Mule' (8 comments)

Angelo: Open Letter to Obama (1 comments)

DerLange: GOP Headed for Ruin, Spector Defection Warns

James Raider: A Nation Changing First 100 Days

Roy S. Carson: Venezuela: Pots Calling Kettles Black Immediately Comes to Mind!

Friday, May 1:

Bruce K. Gagnon: Obama Continues Bush Policy on Weapons to Georgia (5 comments)

Betsy L. Angert: Condoleezza Rice avows; President is above law (7 comments)

Kathy Malloy: Viral Racism (4 comments)

Bev Harris: Blackbox BLOG-O-LECTION Clips (2 comments)

Thomas Riggins: The Pakistan Peccadillo (6 comments)

Bobby Ramakant: Sri Lanka: Humanitarian disaster in making

Shobha Shukla - Citizen News Service (CNS): Chernobyl disaster day: Let Humanity And Nature Coexist (1 comments)

R-CALF USA: Western Ag Reporter Attacks Cattle Producers; Infers Organization Compromised Member Policy on NAIS (2 comments)

Robert Borosage: Obama's Grade at 100? What About Our Grade? (4 comments)

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Same Dark Spirit at Work (6 comments)

Brent Budowsky: The Great Bank Robbery of 2009 (32 comments)

By Dave Lindorff: Workers Always Lose, Even in Rescue Operations (8 comments)

Lawrence Velvel: Justice Jackson's (pre-justiceship) Speech of December 1936. (2 comments)

Jason Leopold: Senate Panel's Report Links Detainees' Murders to Bush's Torture Policy (6 comments)

Mary MacElveen: Foreclosure bill: With Democratic Senators like this, who needs enemies? (7 comments)

Margaret Bassett: ABC News' Blotter Updates its 2007 Torture Story (3 comments)

Michael Collins: THROW THE BUMS OUT - ALL OF THEM Senate Millionaires Kill Mortgage Assistance for Citizens (69 comments)

Bob Burnett: Obama's Off Probation (6 comments)

Grant Lawrence: Obama Says Waterboarding Torture--Now What? (13 comments)

adeeba folami: *Child Protective Services & the Business of 'Legalized Kidnapping' (8 comments)

sharon kayser: The Swimming Naked Prophecy (3 comments)

Muhammad Khurshid: Obama Is Reaching To Roots Of Terrorism (4 comments)

Rev. Dan Vojir: Unabashed Hatred From The Republican Party Has Been Condensed... (7 comments)

Kevin Anthony Stoda: The Berlin Wall 20 Years After: Let's Compare Other Walls (6 comments)

Jason Paz: In Defense of Jewish Survival (135 comments)

Chris Floyd: The Bolter: Specter Spectacle Hides Deadly New Folly in Terror War

Robert Parry: Who Betrayed 'Objective' Journalism? (3 comments)

David Michael Green: The Party Is Over (10 comments)

 

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