Archives for General News
June 2009
Tuesday, June 30:
Odyseus_97: A Few Thoughts on the Coup in Honduras: Information Clearing House - ICH
Amnesty International - Press Release: Iran: Detained political Leaders at Risk of Torture, Possibly to Force "Confessions"
Sheila Samples: Four US Soldiers Killed During Urban Pullout in Iraq
Sheila Samples: E. Coli Confirmed In Nestlé Samples
Jennifer Hathaway: Project Vote Smart
Glynn Wilson: Analysis of Siegelman's Motion Asking for New Trial (1 comments)
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 30, 2009
Eileen Fleming: The Spirit of Humanity's 21 and the Spirit that Preceded it
dick overfield: Franken finally to take his seat in Congress! Coleman Concedes!
Margaret Bassett: Voices from Vermont and America - Senator Sanders
Margaret Bassett: Franken Declared Winner in Minnesota
Timothy Cooper: The Greening of Iran
Sheila Samples: NEWS BREAK: Minn. rules for Franken in Senate fight (8 comments)
Meryl Ann Butler: Call on Congress to Condemn Israel's Seizure of Humanitarian Aid Ship on Route to Gaza, Call for End to Siege
Don Smith: Minnesota Supreme Count: seat Al Franken as a US Senator
Cynthia McKinney: *Cynthia McKinney and the Spirit of Humanity Crew are captured and detained by the Israel Navy (20 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Treasury Details New Consumer Agency, and Banks Cry Foul
Meryl Ann Butler: Israel Attacks Justice Boat; Kidnaps Human Rights Workers; Confiscates Medicine, Toys, Olive Trees (4 comments)
R-CALF USA: Tyson Rejects Group's Appeal for Moral Decency;
Martha Rosenberg: Doctors Boo Obama in Chicago (3 comments)
Grant Lawrence: Accidental Release of Extinct Swine Flu from Fort Dix Likely Origins of Present Virus
Jodie Evans: Iraq: What We Leave As We Withdraw (1 comments)
Cynthia McKinney: Israeli Navy surrounds Gaza relief ship SPIRIT
Sheila Samples: Ahmadinejad orders probe into Neda's 'suspicious' death (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Israeli ministers fear temporary settlement freeze will set precedent
Sheila Samples: Sarkozy to Netanyahu: Lieberman must go
Sheila Samples: US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,319
Sheila Samples: Cheney fears U.S. troop pullout
Sheila Samples: Israel permits new settlement homes
Monday, June 29:
Sheila Samples: Thousands of Pakistanis hold anti-US rally (1 comments)
Don Smith: Krugman: conservatives treasonous on climate change
Scott Baker: Almost Hell West Virginia
Roger Shuler: The Cheating of Don Siegelman, Part III (1 comments)
Cynthia McKinney: *FREE GAZA'S SHIP, The Spirit of Humanity is now surrounded by the Israeli Navy, being threatened and radios jammed! (1 comments)
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 27-29, 2009 (2 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Prisoner Was Crucified at Abu Grahib (1 comments)
GL Rowsey: Latin America on Edge After Honduras Coup (3 comments)
Daniel Geery: Betraying the Planet (1 comments)
John Little: When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns, and how guns REALLY become illegal (24 comments)
R-CALF USA: Group Responds to Tyson Complaint Letter; (5 comments)
Dean DeHarpporte: Was the Iranian Election Stolen? Does It Matter?
Margaret Bassett: Churches Transform Their Buildings into Bedrooms for Homeless (5 comments)
Sheila Samples: Agencies Clash on Military's Border Role
Sheila Samples: AP sources: Detainees imprisoned indefinitely?
Sheila Samples: Obama issues signing statement on $106B war bill (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Israel to register 34,348 acres near WB settlement (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: UN public hearing in Gaza broadcasts accounts of war victims (1 comments)
Sunday, June 28:
Eva Gollinger via shamus cooke: *OBAMA'S FIRST COUP D'ETAT? (8 comments)
Sheila Samples: U.S. and Russia Differ on a Treaty for Cyberspace
Lawrence Gist: Secretary Clinton Appoints Farah Pandith to Head New Office of The United States Representative to Muslim Communities
Lawrence Gist: Somalia Violence Claims the Lives of Hundreds (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Honduran Military Ousts President Ahead of Vote
Lawrence Gist: United Nations Security Council: Evaluation of Decade-Long Progress in the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict (1 comments)
Lawrence Gist: President Obama Must Address Colombian Human Rights Violations (3 comments)
Lawrence Gist: Milan Martić Transferred to Estonia to Serve Sentence for War Crimes
Lawrence Gist: Landmines and Explosive Remnants of War: Delivering on the Promises to Victims
Barry Krusch: Why We Need A New Constitution: Part 5 of 21
Lawrence Gist: Government Harassment of Mukhtar Mai: Pakistani Women's Rights Champion
Margaret Bassett: Obama's First Coup D'etat
Margaret Bassett: Congress Members Grabbed or Dumped Stocks as Market Crashed (1 comments)
David Glenn Cox: The Ghosts of Detroit (part 2)
Sherwood Ross: CIA Crucified Captive At Abu Ghraib (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Health-Care Activists Are Targeting Democrats Who Are Usually Allies (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Lewis and Clark in Murder Mystery
Monika Mitchell: Full Moon Rising: Consumer Financial Protection (1 comments)
foodchoices: GM Crops Growing in US National Wild Refuges (2 comments)
Lawrence Gist: International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Lawrence Gist: International Criminal Court to Visit African States
Odyseus_97: Iranian envoy: CIA involved in Neda's shooting? - CNN.com (2 comments)
Scott Baker: Senator Gillibrand's position on Healthcare for all (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Egypt re-opens Rafah crossing (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: H1N1 'swine' flu has infected an estimated 1 million in U.S.
Sheila Samples: U.S. announces Afghan drug policy shift (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: In Political Storm, Governor's Wife Is Hurt but Unbowed (1 comments)
Saturday, June 27:
Sheila Samples: Violence May Hinder Talks With Iran, Obama Says
Mark Crispin Miller: House members cleaned up as market crashed (1 comments)
E. Nelson: Health Insurance Money Leads Directly to the Senators Against the Public Option Plan (1 comments)
Sherwood Ross: Germany, 1939; America, 2009; And Perverted Science (12 comments)
Brendan DeMelle: Obama Must Live Up To Campaign Pledge On Vieques Cleanup
Margaret Bassett: Debate Joined Over New Consumer Financial Protection Agency
Margaret Bassett: States Move Quickly to Put Highway Stimulus Funds to Work
Margaret Bassett: Most Recent College Grads Working Low-Skill Jobs
Margaret Bassett: Congress Suspends Health Care Debate as Crowds Rally for Plan
Ritt Goldstein: Banking, the Swedish model
Rob Kall: House passes Friday Night Surprise "HIstoric" climate-change bill (7 comments)
Sheila Samples: Author Naomi Klein calls for boycott of Israel (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: US denied Iran official visa for UN meeting (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: The Political Enclave That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Sheila Samples: Madoff Ordered to Forfeit More Than $170 Billion
Sheila Samples: US appoints envoy to Muslim world
Don Smith: Project Censored - Media Democracy in Action
Friday, June 26:
Rob Kall: Iranian cleric urges executing some protesters (6 comments)
Jason Leopold: Author Calls For DOJ's Ethics Watchdog to Probe Patrick Fitzgerald
Sheila Samples: U.S. grants support Iranian dissidents
Sheila Samples: Israeli Army amasses troops, military hardware along Lebanese border (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Obama administration seeks to quash suit by 9/11 families (1 comments)
Josh Mitteldorf: Wash Post: Obama Drafting Orders to Defy Habeas Corpus (7 comments)
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 26, 2009
Sheila Samples: Quartet urges settlement freeze
Sheila Samples: Obama and Congress Clash on How to Pay for Health Care (1 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: WaPo: Senate Panel Hears of Health Insurers' Wrongs Ex-Insider Testifies to 'Fear Tactics' (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Dozens of Journalists among Jailed in Iran
Margaret Bassett: Healthcare industry spending $1.4 million - a day - on lobbyists (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: GM picks Orion Twp. to build small cars
Margaret Bassett: Monica Conyers pleads guilty to conspiracy
B. Ross Ashley: Lunch hour protest by London's workers at crackdown in Iran
E. Nelson: Progressives Convince Arlen Specter to Support Public Option Plan
Grant Lawrence: German Pensioners Kidnap and Torture Financial Adviser
Rob Kall: Blogger Charged With Threatening Chicago-Area Judges (1 comments)
Scott Baker: NYC Watershed: Development Review: Riverkeeper's Industrial Gas Drilling Reporter
Sheila Samples: US reneges on Iraq withdrawal promises
Sheila Samples: Did Fed chief Bernanke threaten Bank of America officials on merger?
Thursday, June 25:
Margaret Bassett: Neo-Nazi Hal Turner Arrested Again | Hatewatch
Andrew Kreig: Update on Major Forum June 26 on Selective DoJ Prosecutions
Margaret Bassett: Deep in Bedrock, Clean Energy and Quake Fears
Grant Lawrence: US Reneges on Iraq Withdrawl Promise
Eileen Fleming: Have a cup of coffee with Vanunu
Curtis Walker: UCSB Forecast: CA May Be Headed for Depression -- Calbuzz
Stanimal: Obama Has US Ambassador Return To Syria
Darren Wolfe: Monsanto to cut 900 jobs as profit falls
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 25, 2009
Jennifer Hathaway: Michael Jackson Dead at 50
Joan Brunwasser: Fed's Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman Missing Trillions of Taxpayers' Dollars (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: New Program Could Reduce Student Loan Payments
Jennifer Hathaway: Citizen Tube
Scott Baker: The Great American Bubble Machine (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Netanyahu rejects settlement plea
Sheila Samples: Hamas rejects 'Jewish state' demand
Danny Schechter: Madoff In The Dock: THE CRIME OF OUR TIME
Sheila Samples: D.C. Crash Kills General Who Scrambled Jets on 9/11
Sheila Samples: Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder
Sheila Samples: FEMA Misspent Millions Intended For Katrina Victims (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Lawyer: Spanish prosecution of Bush lawyers will proceed
Sheila Samples: Iran opposition leader blasts rulers; 70 professors arrested
Sheila Samples: 'US drone' hits Pakistan funeral
Sheila Samples: Market Blast Kills More Than 75 in Baghdad's Sadr City
Sheila Samples: For Republicans, a Long Winter Gets Longer
Pam Miles: Major Forum About Justice Department's Misconduct
Scott Baker: The Bloodless Coup of the Global Financial Stability Board: From Guidelines to Rules
Sheila Samples: Radio Host Is Arrested in Threats on 3 Judges
Don Smith: Dick Cheney for President in 2012 (14 comments)
Roger Shuler: The Cheating of Don Siegelman, Part II (1 comments)
Don Smith: Arianna Huffington: Lobbyists on a Roll: Gutting Reform on Banking, Energy, and Health Care
Brasch: Tarnished Shields: The Morally Bankrupt 'Family Values' Republican Leadership (9 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Iran Arrests 70 Professors Who Met with Mousavi
Sherwood Ross: CIA's Panetta Okays Renditions (6 comments)
Iranian news service: Lawyers prove Saudi Royals Funded 9/11 (12 comments)
Cynthia McKinney: *They Denied Us So They Wouldn't Have to Ram Us!--UPDATED (5 comments)
R-CALF USA: News Conference to address seizure of Herman Schumacher's home by Tyson Fresh Meats. (1 comments)
Grant Lawrence: Federal Govt: Geronimo's Remains Should Stay with Yale Skull and Bonesmen (3 comments)
Stanimal: Another GOP "Family Values:" S.C. Governor Caught In Extramartial Affair (1 comments)
Wednesday, June 24:
Joan Brunwasser: Senate Panel Hears of Health Insurers' Wrongs Ex-Insider Testifies to 'Fear Tactics'
Robert Parry: Iran Divided & the 'October Surprise' (4 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Justice Department Misconduct Conference in DC June 26 National Press Club to Host Speakers Including Conyers, Clemon, H
Roger Shuler: The Cheating of Don Siegelman, Part I
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 24, 2009
Margaret Bassett: 75% Don't Believe CEOs and CFOs Give True Picture
CODEPINK: Afghan Women Speak Out: Malali Bashir on Security
Margaret Bassett: Harkin Attends Progressive States Network Press Conference
Cynthia McKinney: *We Leave for Gaza Tomorrow; I've Asked the White House to Intervene for our Safety (2 comments)
US Government: Latest 10 Videos of Dem Senators on Health Care
Richmond Shreve: News after Newspapers (8 comments)
Rob Kall: Moussavi's HQ Apparently Raided
Rob Kall: US files trade case against China over exports
John Greenewald: When Alabama Troops Hit The Streets – Illegally?
Don Smith: House Democrats push health care reform plan
Tuesday, June 23:
Margaret Bassett: Oakland Green Job Corps Grads Get to Work
Margaret Bassett: Startup' Prefab Homes Aim for Zero Energy Bills
Rob Kall: Mousavi, Celebrated in Iranian Protests, Was the Butcher of Beirut (5 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: PR insider to testify re: healthcare propaganda
Joan Brunwasser: New York Times Wrong Again on 'E-Voting' (2 comments)
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 23, 2009
Grant Lawrence: The Banks Don't Need More of our Trillions--Yet
Chris Fisher: AIG Trading Partners Squeeze Insurer Before Bailout (Update2) - Bloomberg.com
nation of gandhis: Iranian People Demand Democracy
Èzili Dantò: *Haiti: UN provoke mourners, gun down unarmed, blames it on victims
Allen Fischer: Stop the Presses – The FED is NOT Printing Dollars
Byron DeLear: Iran Uprising - The Truth Will Prevail (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: The Reckoning Looks at the International Criminal Court's First Years
Margaret Bassett: Lingering Unemployment Likely to Challenge Obama and the Nation
Roger Shuler: Demanding Justice in the Paul Minor Case
Margaret Bassett: Why Healthcare Reform is Still Alive, Despite Initial Cost Estimates
Margaret Bassett: Ideas Online, Yes, but Some Not So Presidential
Margaret Bassett: Another Window Opens on Nixon Presidency
Mac McKinney: Analysis casts doubts on Ahmadinejad's victory (3 comments)
Chris Fisher: Obama's Undeclared War Against Pakistan Continues, Despite His Attempt to Downplay It (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Ending Mountaintop Removal Mining is AlterNet's Top Take Action Campaign of The Week
Lynn Buske: USDA Report Indicates American Organic Farmers Being Sold Out (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: NASA moon bombing violates space law & may cause conflict with lunar ET/UFO civilizations
Sheila Samples: In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health
Monday, June 22:
Roger Shuler: Is Alice Martin an Incorrigble Liar? (1 comments)
Rick Rozoff: Militarization Of Space: Threat Of Nuclear War On Earth (4 comments)
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 20-22, 2009
Cynthia McKinney: *I Sent a Message to the President about My Trip to Gaza . . .
Margaret Bassett: Kim McMillan for Tennessee Governor
Margaret Bassett: Atlanta Is Making Way for New Public Housing
Margaret Bassett: One billion Suffer from World Hunger
Margaret Bassett: Evidence Indicates Manioc was a Major Maya Crop
Margaret Bassett: Rumsfeld Unapologetic About Iraq
Margaret Bassett: A Rare Attack on Bagram Air Field
Scott Baker: Business’ health care costs to rise 9%
Chris Fisher: UN: World hunger reaches 1 billion mark - Yahoo! News
Scott Baker: Numbers On Welfare See Sharp Increase (1 comments)
Don Smith: Krugman on Health Care Showdown Between Dems (5 comments)
Sheila Samples: Times Reporter Escapes Taliban After 7 Months
Sheila Samples: Agents say DEA is forcing them illegally to work in Afghanistan (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: In stark legal turnaround, Obama now resembles Bush
Sheila Samples: Drug industry in deal with Baucus, White House (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Iran's Mousavi urges more protests
sometimes blinded: Journal of Science: Highest CO2 levels in 2.1 MY
Grant Lawrence: Economic Depression Fuels Emotional Depression: England Joins US as Prozac Nations
Sunday, June 21:
Sheila Samples: 'Jewish state' recognition urged (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Tony Blair pushed Gordon Brown to hold Iraq war inquiry in private
Ann Wright: President Carter and Citizen Activists Witness Destruction in Gaza (1 comments)
Georgianne Nienaber: Ticketmaster/Echomusic Abandons Artist's Websites
Rory O'Connor: Censoring Pro-Palestinian Political Messages?
William Bike: Artificial vs. Natural Turf Battle Takes the Field in Chicago
Sheila Samples: US base attacked in Afghanistan
Sheila Samples: UK PM rules out resignation
Saturday, June 20:
Margaret Bassett: Worse Than Subprime? Other Mortgages Imploding Slowly
Cynthia McKinney: *After a Brief Layover in Abu Dhabi, I've Reached Doha (1 comments)
Grant F. Smith: Nuclear Weapons Key to Israeli Retention of Captured Territory (1 comments)
J. M. Branum: *Fort Hood breaks the law by locking up AWOL soldiers with general population prisoners in a local county jail (1 comments)
Rob Kall: City requires Facebook, Google, Myspace passwords from job applicants (2 comments)
Joe Quinn: What are they hiding? Flight 447 and Tunguska Type Events (6 comments)
Scott Baker: In stark legal turnaround, Obama now resembles Bush (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Iran council to hear complaints
Sheila Samples: Judge Questions Justice Dept. Effort to Keep Cheney Remarks Secret
Sheila Samples: Former Senate leaders push healthcare compromise
Friday, June 19:
Sheila Samples: Republican Senator Inhofe Refuses To Even Meet With Sotomayor (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Judge to review Cheney interview in CIA leak case
Cynthia McKinney: *What do we have in common? (8 comments)
Jennifer Hathaway: Firing Back on Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 19, 2009
Sheila Samples: UK protests over Iran's 'evil' jibe
Sheila Samples: Senate's Health-Care Draft Calls for Most to Buy Insurance, Nixes Obama's 'Public Option' (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: 'No US charges' over Afghan raid (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: On Health Care, Obama Tries to Seize the Moment
Sheila Samples: In a Staff Shuffle, Signs of Obama’s Direction on Mideast
Richmond Shreve: Beware: Hot News Emails May Carry Viruses (1 comments)
Ashin Mettacara: *Aung San Suu Kyi's Birthday Celebrated in Sri Lanka (2 comments)
Sister Begonia: Police identify 200 children as potential terrorists
Margaret Bassett: How India and Pakistan can Resolve Kashmir Now
Roy Eidelson: No Place to Hide: Torture, Psychologists, and the APA (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: Inventory Uncovers 9,200 More Pathogens
Sheila Samples: Pentagon delays Afghan air raid report
Sheila Samples: Billionaire banker in 'FBI custody' (1 comments)
Thursday, June 18:
Grant Lawrence: Democrat Change? Funding for Continued War Approved
Margaret Bassett: Navy Pursues N. Korea Ship; Tensions Rise (1 comments)
Ellen Brown: The Retreat of the Shadow Lenders: Why Deflation and Not Inflation Is the Order of the Day (13 comments)
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 18, 2009
Dan Bryan: Recession's Knockout Punch Could Still Come
Sister Begonia: Bush takes swipes at Obama policies (4 comments)
Brasch: Twelve Angry White People: Jury Nullification in a Pennsylvania Coal Town (26 comments)
Danny Schechter: ARE OBAMA'S FINANCIAL PROPOSALS A ROAD TO REAL REFORM? (3 comments)
Allan Wayne: Ramadan in Zahedan. Terror Strikes IRAN (4 comments)
John Miller: Groups Praise U.S. House of Representatives for Highlighting West Papua
Marjorie Cohn: Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
Joan Brunwasser: Head of CA GOP Voter Registration Firm Pleads Guilty to Voter Registration Fraud
Èzili Dantò: Haiti: Ezili's HLLN blasts Miami Herald's coverage of Jean Juste Memorial
Grant Lawrence: $100 can get You a House in Detroit
Scott Baker: Questions for Hearing on Denial of Benefits to Civilian Contractors Injured in Iraq and Afghanistan
Don Smith: A Political Love Story (a musical animation about Bush and Pelosi)
Paul Fidalgo: New Jersey, Virginia and other States of Flux
Wednesday, June 17:
Sheila Samples: Bush takes swipes at Obama policies (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Air France jet 'broke' in mid air
Sheila Samples: Lieberman rejects settlement freeze
Kevin Gosztola: Defying the Crackdown on Foreign Media in Iran (1 comments)
Sean Fenley: Carter says Gaza Palestinians treated like animals
Sister Begonia: Thirty Years After the Revolution, U.S. Still Struggles to Understand Iran
John Little: Fidel Castro, My Life - Chapter 10: Revolution: First Steps, First problems (a book review) (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: CIA declassifies report on Israel's nukes
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 17, 2009
Sheila Samples: CIA Fights Full Release Of Detainee Report
Sheila Samples: White House Comments On IG Dismissal
Sheila Samples: E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress
Joan Brunwasser: Restore Justice at Justice Coalition Seeks DOJ and Congressional Investigations of Judge Who Presided Over Trial of Ex-A
Eileen Fleming: A Sunday with Vanunu (2 comments)
Grant Lawrence: US Consumers Under Severe Stress--Credit Card Defaults at Record High in May
Margaret Bassett: Bush-Era Lawyer Could Stand Trial for Penning 'Torture Memos'
Stanimal: New Economic Union Created By BRIC Countries to Challenge US
Stanimal: CIA's $1,000 a Day Interrogators Are Fired (1 comments)
GL Rowsey: The Health Reform We Need & Are Not Getting, by Arnold Relman
Marc McDonald: GOP Politicians OK With Tax-Funded Health Care---But Only For Themselves
Sheila Samples: Sen. Ensign admits affair with ex-campaign staffer (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Hydrogen gas leak forces another launch delay
Tuesday, June 16:
Roger Shuler: Here's How An Appellate Court Cheated Don Siegelman
Sheila Samples: Israeli Police and Military Brutalize Peaceful Protesters at Netanyahu's Speech
Sheila Samples: Why is Dennis Ross being ousted as Obama envoy to Iran?
Sheila Samples: 'Bloated' MySpace cuts a third of workforce
Sheila Samples: Report: 300,000 Palestinians facing home demolitions (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: CIA Mistaken on 'High-Value' Detainee, Document Shows
Sheila Samples: Calif. Aid Request Spurned By U.S.
Jason Leopold: Yoo, Bybee Rendition Memo Drafted Specifically For Zubaydah's Torture (1 comments)
Ann Wright: Israeli Police and Military Brutalize Peaceful Protesters at Netanyahu's Speech (3 comments)
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 16, 2009
Rob Kall: Reuters:US State Dept asked Twitter to delay Mon. Maintenance
Margaret Bassett: Blue Cross Praised Employees Who Dropped Sick Policyholders, Lawmaker Says
E. Nelson: Carter says Gaza Palestinians treated like animals
Josh Mitteldorf: NYT: Second World Economic Summit in Yekaterinburg
Roger Shuler: Public Integrity Section Shows Lack of Integrity in Siegelman Prosecution
Rob Kall: Iran's 3rd Revolution: 7 Protesters Killed, Journalists Threatened with Arrest if They Report Street Protests (17 comments)
John Jonik: Should Obama Sign Tobacco Bill? (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Intriguing Plan in Michael Moore's Home Town: Bulldoze the Ghost 'Burbs
Margaret Bassett: Home Loan Scamming Is Still Going Strong -- and Now You're Paying for It
Rob Kall: Facebook Personalized URLs-- Free But Going Fast
Grant Lawrence: Man Begins Manufacturing Revolutionary 110 MPG Car Engines
Scott Baker: Detainee says he lied to CIA in harsh interrogations
Jim Goodman: The Dairy Oligarchy (3 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: Twitter Acknowledges Role in Iran, Reschedules Maintenance
Monday, June 15:
Sheila Samples: Anger over UK probe into Iraq war
Sheila Samples: US Iran adviser Dennis Ross to move from post
Sheila Samples: CIA Fired Firms Aiding Questioning
Sheila Samples: Hosni Mubarak: 'Netanyahu is ruining peace chances' (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: 'PM placed obstacles on road to peace'
Joan Brunwasser: Russian Roulette...Without the Certainty
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 14-15, 2009
Don Smith: Your money or your life! Health care or thievery? (12 comments)
Rob Kall: Barack Obama and the White House woo The New York Times
Joel Wendland: Super-majority Supports Obama's Health Reform Plan
Joan Brunwasser: Neo-Nazis are in the Army now
Margaret Bassett: Neo-Nazis Are in the Army Now
Richmond Shreve: Protest draws Death Threats - Will Shame Alone Deter? (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Hatred, Chaos and Savage Beatings in Tehran
Margaret Bassett: Obama's Health Plan: Battle Lines Become Clearer
Margaret Bassett: Following the Money in the Health Care Debate
Margaret Bassett: As U.S. Overhauls the Banking System, 2 Top Regulators Feud
Odyseus_97: Americans in Jerusalem 'Feel the Hate' for Obama | CommonDreams.org
Odyseus_97: Netanyahu Defies Obama with Harsh Conditions for Palestinian 'Entity' | CommonDreams.org
Better World Order: Two Days Before 9/11, Military Exercise Simulated Suicide Hijack Targeting New York (1 comments)
Lynn Buske: Scandal Fuels Meltdown in Organic Dairy Industry (3 comments)
Sunday, June 14:
Sheila Samples: Author: Fitzgerald libel threat aimed at censoring key 9/11 tale (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: A.P. in Deal to Deliver Nonprofits' Journalism
Sheila Samples: Gordon Brown puts Israel lobbyist in charge of Britain's Middle East policy (2 comments)
Sibel Edmonds: Major DEA Scandal & Time Magazine (2 comments)
Roger Shuler: Don Siegelman and the Plague of Judicial Bias (1 comments)
Stanimal: Cheney, Wishes the USA Is Attacked (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Ahmadinejad brushes off Iran election violence
Odyseus_97: The unlikely friends of the Holocaust memorial killer | Nick Cohen | Comment is free | The Observer
Sheila Samples: Israel urges 'disarmed Palestine'
Sheila Samples: Full text of Netanyahu's foreign policy speech at Bar Ilan
Kevin Gosztola: "An election without free flow of news and information is not democratic" (4 comments)
Scott Baker: Projection: It'll be years before jobs return to much of U.S
Rob Kall: Many in Congress Hold Stakes in Health Industry (3 comments)
chris rice: Strike updates: IRAN
Paul Hawley: Up-to-Date Iran News
Jason Paz: Honor Killing an Ancient Curse Updated (4 comments)
Saturday, June 13:
Margaret Bassett: Clinton Says U.S. Questions Iranian Election Results
Margaret Bassett: Ahmadinejad Reelected in Iran as Demonstrators Protest Result
Sheila Samples: Daily Kos: Mousavi arrested?
Sheila Samples: PHOTOS, VIDEO: Iran: Riot in Tehran streets after election day
Margaret Bassett: Ahmadinejad Defiant on 'Free' Iran Poll
Sheila Samples: Mobile phones, Facebook, YouTube cut in Iran
Sheila Samples: Ahmadinejad Re-Election Doesn't Deter Obama From Engaging Iran
the web: Updated V: Rioting Grows Ayatollas Call for New Elections, Telephone Cut Off Teheran, Mousavi Arrest (3 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Protests Roil Iran's Capital as Opposition Disputes Vote (1 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: Liveblogggin the Fallout from Iran's Election (1 comments)
Odyseus_97: YouTube - Glenn Beck ties 9/11 Truthers to Holocaust Shooting
Sheila Samples: US denounces North Korean threat
Sheila Samples: Judge: Ex-Bush lawyer can be sued over torture
Sheila Samples: Computer Piloting & Air France Crash
Sheila Samples: Israeli lobby 'causing drift between Obama, senators'
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 13, 2009
Jennifer Hathaway: All About Irving
Jennifer Hathaway: Slutty Gorilla Airline Attendants? or: The Silverback Hath Spoken (1 comments)
Jonathan Nack: Surging Oil Prices Buoy Venezuelan Economy
Eileen Fleming: MasterCard and the Extremist Settlers of Silwan
David Bright: Maine Legislature rebukes Courts, Democratic Party
Sheila Samples: Rivals both claim victory in Iran's election
Friday, June 12:
Jennifer Hathaway: BREAKING: Internet Swine Flu Bomb (7 comments)
Sheila Samples: Why Isn't This on CNN? Afghan Refugee Describes Recent US Bombings (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: US general heads to Afghanistan to develop new strategy
Sheila Samples: U.N. Security Council Adopts Stiffer Curbs on North Korea
Grant Lawrence: US "Rustbelt" Cities May Have to be Bulldozed
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 12, 2009
Sheila Samples: Secrecy Over Data on Bombings Hides Abuses
Joan Brunwasser: Affordable College - More notes from America's Future NOW Conference (2 comments)
Max Respect: 2 Japanese w/ $134 BILLION in US Bonds Busted at Swiss Border (7 comments)
Odyseus_97: China Trashes Tibetan Environment for Cash
Martha Rosenberg: Start Your Engines Drug Reps! FDA Panel Says Yes to Seroquel, Zyprexa and Geodon for Kids! (2 comments)
Grant Lawrence: Experts: Endocrine Disruptor BPA Found in Bottles Worrisome
Darren Wolfe: H.R. 1207 Passes 218 Co-sponsors
R-CALF USA: Group Submits Supplemental Comments (1 comments)
Thursday, June 11:
Sheila Samples: Lawmakers Invested in Bailed-Out Firms
Sheila Samples: Iraq releases three of five US contractors
Danny Schechter: WHO CAN WE BANK ON AS THE CRISIS SHARPENS?
Sheila Samples: Bill Would Give FDA Broad Powers to Regulate Tobacco
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 11, 2009
US Government: Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization & Recruitment (1 comments)
Robert Parry: Tying Obama to Bush's Budget Mess
Margaret Bassett: Obama's Visit Puts Health Care, Green Bay in Spotlight
Margaret Bassett: Obama to address AMA Delegates in Chicago
Margaret Bassett: A Panic Attack over Healthcare Tab
Margaret Bassett: 10 Large Banks Allowed to Exit U.S. Aid Program
Margaret Bassett: U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Is Given More Leeway
Grant Lawrence: US Supreme Court: Sacred Peaks Not Sacred (2 comments)
Wednesday, June 10:
Sheila Samples: Peled proposes Israeli sanctions on US
Sheila Samples: London's Metropolitan Police accused of waterboarding suspects
Andrew Kreig: *Alabama Decisions Illustrate Abuse of Judicial Power (1 comments)
John Little: Fidel Castro, My Life - Chapter 9: Lessons from a Guerrilla War (3 comments)
RevBlake: Sotomayor
Grant Lawrence: Global Military Spending Up as Economy Sinks
Gustav Wynn: You Can Help Halliburton Rape Victim Fight Lopsided Arbitration Law
Ted Newcomen: The Forgotten Casualties - US Army mental health failure
Sheila Samples: US 'failing' to oversee contractors
Sheila Samples: Terror Names Linked To Doomed Flight AF 447
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 10, 2009
Eric Lotke: Center-Left America (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Left, Right Press Obama on War Funds
Sheila Samples: U.S. Envoy Reassures and Presses a Wary Israel
Sheila Samples: US denies N Korea invasion plans
Sheila Samples: UK 'terrorism suspects' win appeal
thereisnospoon: Islamism and Rightism: A Match Made in Heaven
Rob Kall: Health Professionals Tell Congress They Want Single-Payer (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: In Congress, Gates Sounds Positive Note on Afghanistan
Margaret Bassett: Pakistan: Massive Hotel Bomb Further Erodes Security
Margaret Bassett: One Tough Sell: Paying for Health Care Overhaul (2 comments)
sibel edmonds: The Current Battle against State Secrets Privilege (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Decision Makers Differ on How to Reshape Nation's Medical Services
Tuesday, June 9:
Sheila Samples: US: support for Israel 'unshakable' (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Bound, blindfolded and beaten – by Israeli troops
Sheila Samples: Supreme Court Clears Way for the Sale of Chrysler to Fiat
Roger Shuler: Is Another Bush Prosecution Falling Apart? (2 comments)
Jerry Policoff: Pennsylvania Can Lead the Way! Rally for Single-Payer Healthcare At the Capitol on June 11th
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 09, 2009
Sheila Samples: Republicans Seize Control of New York State Senate
Sheila Samples: North Korea urged to free reporters
Sheila Samples: CIA Urges Judge To Keep Bush-Era Documents Sealed
Allan Wayne: Abram Hoffer, Canadian Physician, Orthomolecular Pioneer, and Challenger of Pharmaceutical Industry, dies at age 91. (5 comments)
Ann Garrison: Obama in Cairo: no conciliatory words about oil and gas reserves
Robert Borosage: The Federal Reserve Scrubs Its Image (3 comments)
Monday, June 8:
Steve Baggarly: Walking for Disarmament
Grant Lawrence: Bloody Standoff with Amazon Indians over Exploitation of the Rain Forest (1 comments)
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 07-08, 2009
Roger Shuler: A University Defrauds the Federal Government, Then Cuts Jobs
Margaret Bassett: Michigan Meets Recovery Act Highway Funding Deadline Three Weeks Ahead of Schedule
Margaret Bassett: Florida Stands to Lose $1 Billion Because of Lehman Brothers' Bankruptcy
Linda Milazzo: CODEPINK To Host Week Long Human Rights Protest At Israel/Gaza Border (8 comments)
Sheila Samples: Israel ministry wages settlement war against U.S. (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Netanyahu wants "maximum understanding" with U.S
Sheila Samples: Coleman stays course despite gov. exit (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: After Critical Report, State Dept.'s Historian Is Reassigned
Jason Leopold: Newly Released E-Mails Reveal Cheney Pressured DOJ to Approve Torture (3 comments)
Danny Schechter: OBAMA ELECTRIFIES WORLD: SHOULD WE BELIEVE THE HYPE? (8 comments)
Sheila Samples: Key figures in global battle against illegal arms trade lost in Air France crash (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: BREAKING: N. Korea Sentences 2 U.S. Journalists to 12 Years of Hard Labor (1 comments)
Sunday, June 7:
Sheila Samples: 'Single-Payer' Supporters Challenge Democrats (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Obama shows Iran carrot, Clinton stick (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Israel facing hundreds of war crime lawsuits (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Afghanistan to 'try criminal foreign troops'
Sheila Samples: U.S. Lawyers Agreed on Legality of Brutal Tactic
Sheila Samples: A High-Priced Media Campaign That Iraqis Aren't Buying (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Defiant Watergate Burglar, Ex-CIA Operative
Daniel Geery: Do Your Views Choose Your News? (2 comments)
arn specter: Call for Amendment to S416, Cluster Bomb Bill
Grant F. Smith: AIPAC Defamation Lawsuit threatens to Pierce Veil of Secrecy (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Castro questions timing of Cuban spy arrests (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Five U.S. contractors held in slaying of another in Iraq (1 comments)
Saturday, June 6:
Eileen Natuzzi: *The Solomon Islands and the lack of US funding
Margaret Bassett: For Obama, the Hardest Part is Yet to Come
Rob Kall: Little-Enforced Law Opens Window for Suits Against Extremist Groups
Rob Kall: Report: Before Congressional Run, Scarborough Represented Killer Of Abortion Doctor (1 comments)
Rob Kall: The plot to kill Barack Obama (1 comments)
M. Wizard: Submarines Now Account For A Third Of The Cocaine Smuggled Into U.S.
Sheila Samples: Kennedy bill would make employers provide care
Daniel Geery: A New Religion Is Born (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: The Secrecy Court of Last Resort: New Declassification Releases by the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 06, 2009
Margaret Bassett: California's Water Woes Threaten the Entire Country's Food Supply (5 comments)
Margaret Bassett: A Brief History of the Radical, Violent Right: How Racist Hate Groups Joined Up with Abortion Terrorists
Sheila Samples: Among Israel's U.S. Backers, Anxiety and Some Support Greet Obama's Words (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Settlers build 'Oz Yehonatan' outpost (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: VIDEO: Huge Waves Detected in Atmosphere
Sheila Samples: Two in Justice's Integrity Section Transferred
Grant Lawrence: Overhauling US Healthcare Would Boost Economy
B. Ross Ashley: EFF and ACLU Planning to Appeal Dismissal of Dozens of Spying Cases | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Sheila Samples: Inhofe Rips Obama As ‘Un-American,’ Suggests He’s On The Side Of Terrorists (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: U.S. May Permit 9/11 Guilty Pleas in Capital Cases (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Israel: No policy change after Obama speech (1 comments)
Friday, June 5:
Margaret Bassett: U.S. Charges Couple With Spying for Cuba
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 05, 2009
Sheila Samples: Intelligence pick bows out over CIA tactic ties
Sheila Samples: US accuses pair of spying for Cuba (3 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Judge Tosses Warrantless Wiretap Cases (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Europe Agrees How to Open Door to dDozens of Guantanamo Detainees
Sheila Samples: ON THIS DAY: Senator Robert F. Kennedy Shot
Sheila Samples: WAR CRIMES IN GAZA? Palestinian Lawyers Take on Israel
Sheila Samples: Contractors Using Military Clinics (2 comments)
Jennifer Hathaway: Harvard: Medical Bills Underlie 60% of US Bankruptcy (1 comments)
Roger Shuler: Even Republicans Can't Believe Holder's Latest Move in Alaska Case (1 comments)
Daniel Geery: Out of Thin Air: How Money is Really Made (2 comments)
Scott Baker: ABORTION FOE TO LEAD HHS FAITH-BASED OFFICE
Sheila Samples: U.S. soldier killed in grenade attack in Iraq
Sheila Samples: Three US soldiers, poll candidate killed in Afghanistan
Thursday, June 4:
Sheila Samples: Feds Search for Man Allegedly on 'Mission to Kill the President'
Mary Wentworth: WHY "PRO-LIFERS" GET IT WRONG (a few words in honor of Dr. George Tiller) (9 comments)
Grant Lawrence: Vatican: Genetically Modified Food "Praisworthy" (5 comments)
Heather Meyer: Obama, Senate Dems Consider Public Health Care Option With A Trigger
Margaret Bassett: Digging up an Advertising Strategy (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Feinstein, Carmakers Clash on Cash for Clunkers (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Justice Dept. Looks at High-Tech Firms' Hiring
Sheila Samples: Iran nuclear leaks 'linked to Israel'
Sheila Samples: UN investigator 'shocked' by scale of destruction in Gaza
Grant Lawrence: Pilot Reports UFO in Texas--FBI Investigating
Rick Rozoff: Canada: Battle Line In East-West Conflict Over The Arctic (1 comments)
Roger Shuler: Did Holder Go Easy on GOP Phone Jammer?
Aaron Roland: The Elephant in the Room: My Meeting With Senator Baucus (2 comments)
M. Wizard: A Glimmer of Economic Hope? Pending Homes Sales Surge in April
Pam Miles: *Let them know (2 comments)
Roger Shuler: Cyril Wecht Lands Verbal Haymakers on Bush Prosecutor
Danny Schechter: JUNE 4: STANDING UP TO TANKS AND FOR TRUTH (2 comments)
Mikhail Lyubansky: Transcript: Obama Seeks 'New Beginning' In Cairo (1 comments)
Scott Baker: Unemployment Insurance Buckles After Years of Underfunding
Sibel Edmonds: Newsweek & Michael Isikoff (4 comments)
Ed Tubbs: Getting' it straight: Baucus and friends have got to go. (5 comments)
background n015e: Un.Be.Lieve.Able. Cheney effectively admits he lied us into war. (1 comments)
Wednesday, June 3:
Ann Garrison: Schwarzenegger's budget is an oil spill, off the California Coast
Sheila Samples: Netanyahu cites secret deal with Bush to justify more settlements
Cynthia McKinney: Cynthia McKinney Announces Formation of DIGNITY (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: New U.S. Afghan strategy will cost billions, take years
Sheila Samples: U.S. Report Finds Errors in Afghan Airstrikes
Sheila Samples: Cheney Led Briefings of Lawmakers To Defend Interrogation Techniques
Sheila Samples: King Abdullah Greets Obama in Saudi Arabia
Sheila Samples: THE TABOO OF TIANANMEN SQUARE
Diane Wittner: Extraordinary Baltimore HealthCare Now! Town Hall Shows Growing Single Payer Coalition (3 comments)
Ralph Lopez: *I am in Kabul, Afghanistan, Report I (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Energy Secretary: Release of Y-12 Info 'of Great Concern'
Ed Tubbs: A Fib: This is personal, almost. (2 comments)
Bill Quigley: Revolutionary Haitian Priest, Jean-Juste, Presente! (1 comments)
Makenna Goodman Chelsea Green Publishing: In New Book, Howard Dean Takes On Opponents of Health Care Reform : Chelsea Green
Rick Rozoff: NATO Of The South: Chile, South Africa, Australia, Antarctica
Martha Rosenberg: Sure You're Ready for a Dancing Cockatoo like Snowball? (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Inside the Obama White House
Tuesday, June 2:
Sheila Samples: Pawlenty's 2012 Aspirations Linked to Signing Off Soon on Franken's Senate Seat (1 comments)
Odyseus_97: MINA Breaking News - Condi Rice & Livni involved in Love Affair (2 comments)
Jason Leopold: Powell Told U.S. Tortured Detainees, But He Failed to Act (2 comments)
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 02, 2009
Kent Welton: ABORTION IS NOT A SIN - THE BOOK II (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Progressives Have the Troops and a Massive War Chest for Health Care Reform
Margaret Bassett: Obama Has 250,000 'Contractors' Deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: California's Unemployment Fund Short by Billions (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Minnesota Justices Are Skeptical in Senate Case
Sheila Samples: UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION? Spain's 'World Court' May Be Restricted
Sheila Samples: Why'd Obama switch on detainee photos? Maliki went ballistic
Sheila Samples: US to sell 'bunker buster' bombs to South Korea (1 comments)
Odyseus_97: Princes Among Men | CommonDreams.org
Odyseus_97: Navy Vet Honored, Foiled Israeli Attack | CommonDreams.org (1 comments)
Lance Ciepiela: Cheney and Rice Remember 9/11. I Do, Too. (5 comments)
James Jaeger: MONETIZING DEBT
Marc McDonald: Doctors Who Performed Abortions In Nazi Germany Faced Death Penalty (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: "CQ HealthBeat Policy Preview Conference" online June 3
Compusician: *Privacy and Dignity Laws (1 comments)
Èzili Dantò: Haiti: Honoring the Life of Father Gerard Jean Juste
Monday, June 1:
Joan Brunwasser: MN Supremes Hear Oral Argument on Coleman Appeal
Ann Kramer: Full Spectrum Economy Talking Points (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: In Cox Years at the SEC, Policies Undercut Enforcement Efforts
Sheila Samples: U.S. Weighs Tactics on Israeli Settlement
Sheila Samples: Immune therapies finally working against cancer
Ellen Theisen: 'Daily Voting News' for June 01, 2009
Jason Leopold: Crisis at the VA as Benefits Claims Backlog Nearly Tops One Million (2 comments)
Richmond Shreve: Where to harness the wind?
Margaret Bassett: G.M. Designates 14 Plants for Closing
Roger Shuler: Did Siegelman's Former Lawyer Have a Glaring Conflict? (3 comments)
Margaret Bassett: PA Governor Rendell Announces $76 Million To Create Green Jobs, Sustainable Communities
Margaret Bassett: Governor Announces Iowa Railroads Receive More Than $9 Million In Disaster Aid
Sheila Samples: UN war investigators arrive in Gaza
Sheila Samples: Settlers 'rampage' in West Bank
Sheila Samples: Al-Qaida seen as shaken in Pakistan
Joan Brunwasser: Obama administration sides with Saudis on 9/11 suit (3 comments)
Scott Baker: City Resists State on Voting-Machine Program