Archives for General News
August 2010
Tuesday, August 31:
Sheila Samples: Murkowski Concedes Senate Race in Alaska
Margaret Bassett: Kaiser Workers to Vote on Replacing SEIU Union
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: Virginia State Election server still down. DC internet vote experiment delayed
Sheila Samples: U.S. expands sanctions on North Korea (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Egg recall, food safety: Filthy conditions found at mega farms
Sheila Samples: Afghan authorities take over biggest bank to avoid meltdown
Sheila Samples: Afghan attacks kill US troops
Roger Shuler: Obama Should Be Listening to Message from Alabama Democrats (1 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: Global markets fall as investors are braced for poor US economic results
Sheila Samples: Glenn Beck launches conservative news site TheBlaze.com
Sheila Samples: U.S. citizens who say they were tortured get their day in court (1 comments)
GLloyd Rowsey: U.S. anticipates 'vigorous process' between Israel, Palestinians
Sheila Samples: Mexico seizes 'La Barbie,' drug lord famed for beheadings
Sheila Samples: White House sued for 'targeted killings' (2 comments)
Monday, August 30:
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: VA Election Site IT outage. Kathy Dent recount flap. AK's 11,200 iffy mail ballots
Mac McKinney: Oil Spill: BP Reverses, Admits There's Oil in Local Pensacola Waters
Sherwood Ross: Be All You Can Be---Become a Labor Organizer (2 comments)
Danny Schechter: WHO OWNS OUR MEDIA AND WHY IT MATTERS (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: 7 US troops killed in 2 south Afghan bomb attacks
Roger Shuler: Alabama Democrats Pull a Shocker--And We Love It!
Sheila Samples: After Washington rally, Glenn Beck assails Obama's religion
Sheila Samples: More Sophisticated Rigs Drill Deeper Still for Oil
Mac McKinney: Report: Israel planning to attack Hezbollah arms depots in Syria - Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Sunday, August 29:
Mac McKinney: Creeping Fascism: Arson at Tennessee Mosque Site
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: AZ, FL, TN vote probs. Harris TX voting equip burned up. EVM expert bailed out (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Abbas puts onus for talks on Israel
Cliff Weathers: NY-19: Nan Hayworth's Notaries Admit to Misconduct
Better World Order: Congress may sneak through Internet "kill switch' in defense bill
Sheila Samples: Fair Game - Can Big Banks Maintain the Status Quo on Derivatives?
Mac McKinney: Israeli spiritual leader: "May God strike down' Palestinians
Sheila Samples: For Obama, Steep Learning Curve as Chief in War
Mac McKinney: AFP: Rwanda threatens to curtail cooperation with UN
Sheila Samples: Erekat: Israeli religious figure urging genocide of Palestinians
Sheila Samples: Policy Options Dwindle as Economic Fears Grow
Èzili Dantò: Wyclef Jean's presidential candidacy in Haiti by Ezili Danto (1 comments)
Martha Rosenberg: Salmonella with Your Omelet? Don't forget Stroke and Ovarian Cancer (3 comments)
GLloyd Rowsey: Three Dead, Dozens Wounded in North Iran Earthquake (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Commander Stresses Iran's Readiness to Confront Various Threats
Sheila Samples: Graft-Fighting Prosecutor Fired in Afghanistan
Saturday, August 28:
Andrew Steele: Glenn Beck Cult Holds Creepy Revival at Lincoln Memorial in DC (3 comments)
Terrence Aym: Vladimir Putin, the Russian Superman (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Sharpton's 'Reclaim the Dream' Event Brings Thousands to Honor MLK
Margaret Bassett: UAW's King, Jesse Jackson Lead Detroit March for Jobs
Sheila Samples: Iran renews call for nuke-free Mideast
Sheila Samples: WikiLeaks war logs posting 'will lead to free speech ruling'
Mac McKinney: Oil spill: A poor appetite for gulf seafood - latimes.com
Benjamin woods: "Where Do We Go From Here?" or Reclaiming Martin Luther King Jr.
Sheila Samples: UPDATE: Taliban attacks Nato Afghan bases
Sheila Samples: Taliban attack US base in Afghanistan
Friday, August 27:
Sheila Samples: US wants agreement now, peace later
Mac McKinney: ISRAEL ORDERS MASSIVE MILITARY FUEL STOCKS FAR IN EXCESS OF THAT REQUIRED FOR NORMAL OPERATIONS
Mac McKinney: Washington's Blog: Is Corexit Spraying STill Going on in Gulf
Don Smith: Rep. Lynn Woolsey Calls on Simpson to Resign From Deficit Panel (1 comments)
Dahr Jamail: Fish Kills Worry Gulf Scientists, Fishers, Environmentalists (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Conservative Group Accused of Abusing Tax Status
Margaret Bassett: Drought in Russia Ripples Beyond the Wheat Fields
Georgianne Nienaber: Orange Beach AL Testing the Waters As Rumors Flow Faster Than Oil (6 comments)
Sheila Samples: Afghan war kills 3 more US soldiers
Sheila Samples: 'Afghan president dependant upon US'
Sheila Samples: Banks' Self-Dealing Super-Charged Financial Crisis
Sheila Samples: Iowa foes of same-sex marriage seek to oust judges who legalized it
Sheila Samples: Bernanke: Recovery 'less vigorous' than expected but on track
Mikhail Lyubansky: The brothers Koch: Rich, political, and playing to win
Sheila Samples: North Korea releases US citizen
Thursday, August 26:
Kevin Gosztola: Chicago videographer Gregory Koger found guilty on three counts from attempted video recording
Sheila Samples: Afghan leader criticises US pullout
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: India's Electronic Voting Controversy. Suit seeks to void Shelby TN election
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, How Washington Rules
Jason Leopold: Alyeska, Federal Regulators Probing Employee's "Cover-Up" Claims Related to May Oil Spill
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: 11 Very Reasonable Places Your Stimulus Dollars Went (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Mother Teresa's Birthday: Commemoration and Protest at the Empire State Building
Sheila Samples: The U.N. Security Council's great disappearing act
Sheila Samples: Key Karzai Aide in Corruption Inquiry Is Linked to C.I.A.
Wednesday, August 25:
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: Why Pac-Man voting hack matters.FL vote problems. Citizens United aftershocks
Margaret Bassett: Wells Fargo Diving into Mortgage Securities (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Insurgents Assert Their Strength With Wave of Bombings Across Iraq
Sheila Samples: Man Held in Anti-Muslim Stabbing of Cabby in New York
Joan Brunwasser: The BRAD BLOG Informs NBC's Chuck Todd That Ballots Are Not Actually Counted by Humans
Sheila Samples: UPDATE: Groups call for Alan Simpson's resignation over 'sexist' letter
Sheila Samples: Peres warns IAEA chief of Iran nuclear threat
Sheila Samples: Two US-led troops killed in Afghanistan
Sheila Samples: Pakistan Flooding Disrupts Afghan War Supplies
Henry Pelifian: Marlin's profits came at taxpayer expense by Jeff Passan (1 comments)
Roger Shuler: Don Siegelman and the Evil of a Political Prosecution (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: I.R.S. Plan to Uncover Companies' Tax Strategies (2 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: Obama Appointed Deficit Commission Co-Chair Alan Simpson: Social Security Is Like "A Milk Cow With 310 Million Tits" | F
Tuesday, August 24:
Andrew Kreig: Victims Of $3.6 Billion Petters Ponzi Fraud Protest Court Process (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: Thousands strain Fort Hood's mental health system (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: Afghan Resistance Statement Regarding Petraeus's Latest Remarks
Margaret Bassett: Halliburton Employee Warned BP That Oil Well Plan Was Risky
Sheila Samples: Obama to appeal stem cell ruling (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: County Clerk Revokes Measure A - Mount Shasta, CA
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: DOJ approves GA voter check system. Rutherford TN election official fired
Sheila Samples: Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America's Military Strategy in the Muslim World
Sheila Samples: Task force: Military suicide prevention efforts inadequate
Sheila Samples: Prosecutors may decide today on charges against WikiLeaks founder
gloria bilchik: Resuscitating Democracy: An interview with Fair Vote's Rob Richie (2 comments)
Ted Newcomen: Police Ombudsman's Claudy Report - Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Tony Karon, The Bomb-Iran Debate From Hell
Sheila Samples: Israel orders destruction of 2 mosques
Sheila Samples: Vacationing Netanyahu can't find time to meet IAEA chief
Sheila Samples: Shirley Sherrod declines USDA job
Sheila Samples: Minority leader Boehner to call for extending tax cuts, question stimulus spending
Rob Kall: College Dropout Factories--Graduating less than 20% of Students (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Fort Hood Shooting Revealed Multiple Military Security Lapses (7 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Welfare's Transformation - Video (1 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: Third World children, 'lab rats' for US (1 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: 'Bushehr plant nullified US threats'
Monday, August 23:
Media Matters: What Fox has wrought: Anti-Park51 protests full of right-wing hate (5 comments)
Medea Benjamin: Blackwater vs. Pinkwater: The Wife of Erik Prince Picks a Fight With CODEPINK (3 comments)
Jonathan Cook: Israelis Risk Jail To Smuggle Palestinians; 600 Sign Up For Campaign Of Disobedience
Sheila Samples: State Department details Blackwater violations of U.S. laws
Sheila Samples: As egg producers consolidate, problems of just one producer can be far-reaching (2 comments)
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: Florida voter alert! After India EVM expert arrest. Dan Rather on voting machines
Sheila Samples: Flotilla UN probe starts in Turkey
Sheila Samples: Abby Phillip: Ban on stem cell research issued
Margaret Bassett: Digg Inc. Building New Website, Seeking CEO
Sheila Samples: Chamber emerges as formidable political force
Margaret Bassett: High-Income People Would Benefit Significantly From Extension of "Middle-Class" Tax Cuts
Roger Shuler: What Can Happen When A Professor Is a Tough Grader? (3 comments)
James Ridgeway: The Latest Bi-Partisan Attack on Social Security: Let Them Eat Cat Food (3 comments)
Danny Schechter: HARD TIMES ARE GETTING HARDER. ARE THEY EVER! (22 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Armey To Republicans: "We'll Replace You' (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Hamid Karzai: U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Private Contractors Engaging In Terrorist, Mafia-Like Activity
Sunday, August 22:
Media Matters: Steve Hayes latest to cover up conservative attacks on Muslims' religious freedom
Sheila Samples: Air base expansion plans reflect long-term investment in Afghanistan
Sheila Samples: Facing Afghan mistrust, Al-Qaeda fighters take limited role in insurgency
Sheila Samples: Flash Market Crash Is Still Under Investigation
the web: Voter Alert: Florida 2008 Absentee Voters May Have Problems at Polls
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: India E-voting expert arrested. TN voters deserve answers. Australia Bush v Gore?
Sheila Samples: Rallies over mosque near Ground Zero get heated
Sheila Samples: Netanyahu: Security before borders
Sheila Samples: Four US troops killed in Afghan war
Sheila Samples: Assange claims 'smear campaign' (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: 'Iran's reaction to a U.S. strike won't be confined to the Mideast'
Martha Rosenberg: Is Meat and Milk From Clones in the Food Supply? (1 comments)
Barack Obama: Obama: "We Cannot Allow the Corporate Takeover of Our Democracy" (28 comments)
Sheila Samples: Small Investors Flee Stock Market Even as Companies Recover (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Probe finds hundreds of cases of mishandled evidence in N. Carolina (1 comments)
Saturday, August 21:
Sheila Samples: Five US-led troops killed in Afghanistan
Sheila Samples: UK: Iran entitled to peaceful N energy
Sheila Samples: UN report: IDF barring Gazans' access to farms, fishing zones
Sheila Samples: Rape claim against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange withdrawn
Sheila Samples: Fueling of Iran's nuclear plant begins
Sheila Samples: Regulators shut down big Chicago bank, seven others
Sheila Samples: In Mideast Talks, Scant Hopes From the Beginning (3 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: Obama Admin Claims End to Combat Operations in Iraq, But Iraqis See Same War Under a Different Name (6 comments)
Rob Kall: Arrest warrant for Assange dropped - Europe - Al Jazeera English
Margaret Bassett: How the Fox-Comcast Machine Crushed a Journalist Who Spoke Out Against Bill O'Reilly
Friday, August 20:
Sheila Samples: Palin's underwhelming ticket sales (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Settlements 'may halt' direct talks
Billy Wharton: Trader Joe's Protest Produces Distracted Shopping - Billy Wharton
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: Shelby CO TN certifies flawed election. Are election audits worth it? Pac-Man II
Sheila Samples: Blackwater Reaches $42 Million Settlement With U.S.
Sheila Samples: Iran to begin fueling nuclear reactor -- and that's good news
Sheila Samples: Family, U.S. offer differing versions of deadly Afghan raid
Sheila Samples: Hundreds of millions in Katrina funds still unspent
Ellen Brown: HOMEOWNERS' REBELLION: COULD 62 MILLION HOMES BE FORECLOSURE-PROOF? (22 comments)
Sheila Samples: U.S., Afghanistan plan to screen cash at Kabul airport to prevent corruption
Margaret Bassett: Egg Recall Is Expanded Again
Margaret Bassett: BP's Spill Fund: Facts and Figures
Sheila Samples: Three US-led troops die in Afghan war
Ralph E. Stone: WRAP's 2010 "Without Housing" Update Has Arrived (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Iran says might halt high-level uranium enrichment
Èzili Dantò: Douglas Perlitz admits to sexually abusing homeless Haiti boys (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Withdrawal Reports Anger Families and Soldiers Fighting in Iraq
Sheila Samples: Israelis and Palestinians to Resume Talks, Officials Say
Thursday, August 19:
Sheila Samples: U.S. Persuades Israel That Iran's Nuclear Threat Is Not Imminent
Mac McKinney: Israelis Subverting Media: Declassified Senate Investigation Files Reveal Clandestine Israeli PR Campaign in America (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: 'Ground Zero mosque': New Yorkers take dim view of rabble-rousing outsiders
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: Touchscreens recycled as PacMan games.Verified Voting Internet Voting Pt 1
Mac McKinney: Gulf Oil Plume Is Not Breaking Down Fast, Research Says (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Oil 'plume' threatens Gulf waters
Joan Wile: Gray Panthers Applaud Obama's Vow to Fight Privatization of Social Security (9 comments)
Sheila Samples: Iraq War vet kills pregnant wife, daughter, self
Sheila Samples: BP final well kill delayed - Disaster in the Gulf
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Markey Says Report That Most Oil Is Gone Has Led To 'False Confidence'
Ann Garrison: Rwanda's Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza speaks to Womens International News Gathering Service
Margaret Bassett: Why Germans Want out of Google's Street View
Sheila Samples: Afghanistan and African nations at greatest risk from world food shortages
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Manhunters, Inc.
Sheila Samples: Newsweek's Zakaria Defects to Rival Time
Sheila Samples: Civilians to Take U.S. Lead After Military Leaves Iraq
Sheila Samples: Pakistan flood homeless toll put at over 4 million
Robert Arend: The Obama Administration: August 1-16, 2010 (2 comments)
GLloyd Rowsey: Australian election: breakthrough forecast for Greens
Dennis Kaiser: 'Israel has 8 days to strike Iran' (1 comments)
Joshua Sanders: President Obama Seeks to Expand American Manufacturing
Wednesday, August 18:
Sheila Samples: Genetically Manipulated Crops: The GMO Catastrophe in the USA. A Lesson for the World
Margaret Bassett: Foreclosures in State Hit Latino Homes Hardest (1 comments)
Mac McKinney: SKYTRUTH: BP/Gulf Spill - 172 Million Gallons of Oil, 11.6 Billion Cubic Feet of Natural Gas Left in Gulf
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: Maricopa AZ election protection suit filed. TN and WA election websites crash
Sheila Samples: U.S. support for Israel is decreasing, new poll shows
Sheila Samples: Scientists estimate nearly 80 percent of oil remains a threat
Sheila Samples: Eric Prince, Blackwater/Xe founder, relocating to UAE
Sheila Samples: US ends combat operations in Iraq
Dan Lieberman: Victimization and a Cultural Center (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Collapsing Marsh Dwarfs BP Oil Blowout as Ecological Disaster (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Social Security and the Federal Deficit (5 comments)
Sheila Samples: Hot button: GOP candidates knock global warming (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: General Stanley McChrystal Signs With Leading Authorities, Inc. for Exclusive Lecture Representation
Sheila Samples: U.S. may sue Arizona's Sheriff Arpaio for not cooperating in investigation
Sheila Samples: A "Straddling Bus' Traffic Solution in China
Danny Schechter: SETTLE THIS: Banks Pay Fines, Won't Admit Crimes (4 comments)
Eileen Fleming: The Fire of Resistance VS Nuclear Weapons
Mac McKinney: FOUND: Seafloor Covered in Oil 40 Miles South of Panama City, FL - HEADING EAST
Tuesday, August 17:
Sheila Samples: 'Dr. Laura' to end radio show over racial controversy
Sheila Samples: Top Senate Democrat Kerry presses Karzai on corruption
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: Waukesha WI clerk keeps vote data on her PC, El Paso CO invites public oversight
Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall: Mycobacterium Avium Paratuberculosis: The Most Dangerous Food Borne Killer (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Civil Rights Groups Take On Beck
Sheila Samples: Israel has '8 days' to hit Iran nuclear site: Bolton (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: DOJ Foot-Dragging On Prison Rape Unites Left-Right Coalition
Roger Shuler: Tom DeLay Whitewash Is Another Black Mark for Obama DOJ (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Terrorist tapes found under CIA desk
Sheila Samples: Drilling Permits for Deep Waters Face New Review
Sheila Samples: START expiration ends U.S. inspection of Russian nuclear bases
Sheila Samples: Obama's new line -- courtesy of McConnell
Sheila Samples: 3 U.S. Soldiers, 2 Afghans Killed in Bombings
Rob Kall: Conservative Muslim-Americans' Letter To GOP Leaders: Don't Bring Mosque Debate Into Elections
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Portrait of a Sagging Empire (1 comments)
J. Edward Tremlett: How the "ground zero mosque" fear mongering began, by Jusin Elliot
Ray Lutz: Candidate Lutz hosts hunger strike kickoff rally at El Cajon Promenade
Sheila Samples: Obama warns Turkish PM over stance on Israel, Iran
Sheila Samples: Robert Gates dismisses Gen Petraeus suggestion that withdrawal from Afghanistan can be postponed
Monday, August 16:
Sheila Samples: Appeals court blocks gay marriages until December
Sheila Samples: Meeting with Karzai opponents highlights U.S. policy dispute
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: MORE Tenn. election fiascos. New Lee FL mail ballot probs. Wallach's 'The Wørd'
GLloyd Rowsey: Fresh worries surface as Gulf shrimp season opens
Margaret Bassett: Karzai Says He'll Disband Foreign Security Firms
Sheila Samples: Nuclear inspection of Israel sought (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: 'Good ol' boys' in Warren's way?
Sheila Samples: Feds clear DeLay after six years
Rob Kall: Birther Queen Orly Taitz Smacked Down By Supreme Court On 'Frivolous' $20K Litigation Fine (1 comments)
Roger Shuler: Does This Provide More Evidence of Sociopathy Among Republicans?
the web -- The Raw Story: Afghan government gives private security firms 4 months to disband
Sheila Samples: Former US commander in Afghanistan to teach at Yale (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Feds Clear Tom DeLay
Sheila Samples: Congress growing more wary about corruption in Afghanistan, Sen. Kerry says
Margaret Bassett: Obama Launching 3 Days of Fundraising Travel
Sheila Samples: Tea Party Activists Rally on Arizona-Mexico Border
Sunday, August 15:
Sheila Samples: Israeli general: Flotilla killings low
Sheila Samples: Dead cow carcasses "resurrected" to produce cloned beef (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Media invent Obama "backtrack" on NYC Islamic center comments
Sheila Samples: Russia: Iran's nuclear program peaceful
Sheila Samples: Israel rejects preconditions for talks ‎
Linda Milazzo: Santana Rocks Greek Theater 80th Birthday Tribute to Human Rights Icon Dolores Huerta. Si Se Puede! (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Troop deaths top 2000 in Afghan war
Sheila Samples: Michael Howard leads MPs' call for Dr David Kelly inquest
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Engelhardt, The War Mentality
GLloyd Rowsey: Obama Signs Border Bill to Increase Surveillance
Sheila Samples: 'Tehran Declaration can solve N-issues'
Sheila Samples: City Cemeteries Face Gridlock
Sheila Samples: Gen. David Petraeus says Afghanistan war strategy 'fundamentally sound'
Sheila Samples: Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents
Sheila Samples: Congress growing more wary about corruption in Afghanistan, Sen. Kerry says
Sheila Samples: In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming
Sherwood Ross: *Pentagon Holding U.S. Hostage To Endless Wars (3 comments)
Margaret Bassett: UN Chief in Pakistan as Flood Crisis Worsens
Saturday, August 14:
GLloyd Rowsey: Three Months After Gulf Blowout, BP Still Hasn't Updated Emergency Procedures
Sheila Samples: Right-wing media blast President Obama's support for freedom of religion
Sheila Samples: Prominent Democrats want Kennedy's widow to run for his Senate seat
Sheila Samples: Judges Reject Interrogation Evidence in Gitmo Cases
Sheila Samples: Dr David Kelly was on a hitlist, says UN weapons expert as calls grow for full inquest
Sheila Samples: Pentagon rejects new investigation into killing of Spanish cameraman by US troops in Iraq (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: WikiLeaks Says It Won't be Threatened by Pentagon
Sheila Samples: Big chunk of economic stimulus yet to be spent by state, local governments
Sheila Samples: Rescuers reach area where Nev. miners are trapped
Sheila Samples: Obama claims GOP trying to destroy Social Security
Rob Kall: Obama endorses building of Mosque Near Ground Zero (100 comments)
Native American: Rash of suicides at Quebec City hospitals alarms nurses' union By Marianne White
Sheila Samples: What the Gaza flotilla probe reveals about Netanyahu, Barak, and Ashkenazi (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: Detroit Goes From Gloom to Economic Bright Spot (1 comments)
Friday, August 13:
Chris Landau: *Why does the world fear dating the oil and gas from the BP blowout well? By Chris Landau (Geologist) (7 comments)
Sheila Samples: U.S. soldiers' mission shows Afghan war's uncertainties
Margaret Bassett: New Rules Won't Eliminate Excessive Bank Fees
Margaret Bassett: Shiller Sees Double-dip if Jobs Aren't Created
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: Shelby TN investigation Diebolded. Internet voting 'nothing to deter attacker.'
Robert O'Connor: Coup de Main fail by "Francis Marion"
Margaret Bassett: Relief Well to Be Completed in Gulf
Dustin Ensinger: Ohio Candidates Keep Focus on Trade Issues
Dustin Ensinger: Obama Signs Manufacturing Enhancement Act
Roger Shuler: Government Pays Restitution to Victim of Bush DOJ (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Longshot US Senate candidate from SC indicted
Sheila Samples: Iran to gain nuclear power as Russia loads fuel into Bushehr reactor
Margaret Bassett: DNC Uses Open-source Software to Ease Voter Registration - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
Sheila Samples: Elizabeth Warren, likely to head new consumer agency, provokes strong feelings (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Pentagon push to phase out top brass causing much consternation
Sheila Samples: High and Low Finance - Uncertainty Is the Only Tax Certainty
Rob Kall: Most Commented Upon OEN Articles in the Past Three Days
Margaret Bassett: Again, Health Insurers Seeking Ways to Defy Health Care Law
Margaret Bassett: Warren, Axelrod Meet as Consumer Agency Decision Looms
Margaret Bassett: All-Mail Voting Is One Winner of Colorado's Primary
Sherwood Ross: Army Ordered Massive Return Fire When Civilians Present (7 comments)
Martha Rosenberg: Do Politicians Have to Hunt to Get Elected? (1 comments)
Danny Schechter: Countdown To Collapse: The Recovery Is Not Recovering (3 comments)
GLloyd Rowsey: Mexican States Ordered to Honor Gay Marriages (2 comments)
Jonathan Cook: US Arms 'Bonanza' in Middle East; Israel and Saudis to Buy Advanced War Planes (2 comments)
Thursday, August 12:
Mac McKinney: U of South Florida Says Government Tried to Squelch Their Oil Plume Findings
Don Smith: Reagan insider: GOP destroyed economy Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: On first day of Khadr's Guantanamo trial, attorney faints
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Obama's Beach Will Be Clean, But Oil Lies Beneath Sand Nearby
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: Pitkin CO touchscreen woes. Foul play in TN vote? Free Xpress for military ballots
Margaret Bassett: Wells Fargo Faces Larger Suit on Overdraft Fees
Sheila Samples: BP to pay fine for Texas refinery
Sheila Samples: Housing crisis reaches full boil in East Point; 62 injured
Sheila Samples: Iraqi general says planned US troop pull-out 'too soon'
Roger Shuler: The South is NOT Our Most Conservative Region (5 comments)
Sheila Samples: Turkey sets up own Gaza flotilla inquiry (2 comments)
R-CALF USA: Is It Because They Have the Truth to Hide? NCBA, AMI, NMA Decline Opportunity for Public Debate
R-CALF USA: Analysis Concludes GIPSA Competition Rule Would Have No Impact On U.S. Premium Beef's Marketing Arrangements
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Mark Engler, Paying Oil's True Cost
Lynn Buske: Federal Court Victory: Almond Farmers Can Challenge USDA Pasteurization Rule (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Palin Joins Armey as Republicans Aid Tea Party Hostile Takeover
Elaine Cullen: Airline Mergers Threaten National Airline Sovereignty
AAA AAA: U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know It: Laurence Kotlikoff
Chris Landau: *Are we about to have another blowout on the BP blowout well? By Chris Landau (geologist) (5 comments)
Sheila Samples: Netanyahu rejects peace talks based on 1967 borders (1 comments)
Wednesday, August 11:
Sheila Samples: Officer off Gitmo jury for agreeing with Obama
Joyce McCloy: Feds, TBI called on TN election. FL mail ballot fiasco. '3 Idiots' and India elections
Sheila Samples: U.S. Military to Press for Slower Afghan Drawdown
Sheila Samples: Texas Republicans mull options over jobs bill mandate
Margaret Bassett: Dollar Hits Low Against Yen, Dealing Blow to Japan's Economy
Timothy V. Gatto: Excuse The American Left Mr. Gibbs (12 comments)
Sheila Samples: State Dept. faces skyrocketing costs as it prepares to expand role in Iraq
Sheila Samples: Russia's LUKOIL resumes gasoline supply to Iran -trade
Roger Shuler: Sports Artist Gains Support In Battle for the First Amendment
Susan Galleymore: Obama, Stop Building Nuclear Weapons (1 comments)
Daniel Patrick Welch: Year Round Greenhouse School Keeps Kids Chugging, Come Hell or High Water (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: What's Green, White and Blue? American Jobs
Margaret Bassett: For Those With Jobs, a Recession With Benefits
Margaret Bassett: S..Carolina Takes Stimulus Money
Margaret Bassett: $26-Billion Aid Package For States Becomes Law
Native American: U.S. losing Afghanistan to China (1 comments)
Native American: To understand and promote the strategic defense of the United States (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Barak bombards Gaza flotilla inquiry with information broadside
Sheila Samples: Russia against unilateral Iran sanctions
Tuesday, August 10:
Sheila Samples: Accountability unclear in Israeli probe of deadly Gaza flotilla raid
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: TN Election fiasco. Internet voting? 'Pleash just help me inshert..key in the lock'
Mac McKinney: Record Heat: 17 Nations Beat or Equal All-Time High Temperatures This Summer
Sherwood Ross: A New Look At The Education of College Football Players
Margaret Bassett: Omar Khadr Trial Begins This Week - video (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: As a Park Runs Above, Deals Stir Below
Margaret Bassett: Poor Marks from Voters For Obama Outnumber Positive On Each of 13 Major Issues
Sheila Samples: More worried about recovery, Fed takes small steps
Sheila Samples: Pakistan floods a megadisaster of epic proportions
Sheila Samples: Rep. Rangel dares House to expel him
Sheila Samples: Flotilla violence was 'expected'
Sheila Samples: Vanunu upon release from jail: Let me leave this country
Sheila Samples: Galloway slams West for "double standards" (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Texas Gov. Perry asks Obama for more troops, drones along border (1 comments)
Roger Shuler: Impact of Climate Change is Obvious in Antarctica (4 comments)
Rob Kall: White House Spokesman Gibbs Unloads on "Professional Left" unloads anger over criticism from 'professional left' "Those (1 comments)
MikeHersh: The DNC is asking Democrats to weigh in (1 comments)
Linn Washington, Jr: Weed Weirdness: Pot Legalization Measure Creates Strange Alliances in California (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Elizabeth Warren Uncovered What the Govt. Did to 'Rescue' AIG, and It Ain't Pretty (2 comments)
Eileen Fleming: *Vanunu Speaks After 78 Days in Solitary (8 comments)
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Stephan Salisbury, Extremism at Ground Zero (Again) (1 comments)
Sheila Dean: Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)
Sheila Samples: Pressure grows on UN Human Rights Council to scrap its flotilla probe (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Israel threatens pullout from UN probe (1 comments)
Monday, August 9:
Sheila Samples: Karzai to replace foreign security firms (1 comments)
Mac McKinney: Oil Hits Golden Pond Marsh on Walter Anderson's Famous Horn Island
Margaret Bassett: Jodie Fisher Says her Claim Toppled CEO of HP
Sheila Samples: Gates: Pentagon to cut thousands of jobs
Roger Shuler: Racist Debt Collector Gets Nailed for $1.5-Million Judgment (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Gulf accident reports paint an image of confusion, stress and danger on rigs
Sheila Samples: With Many Still Starving, India Rethinks Its Safety Net
Native American: Internet Spying Spec Leaked by Monica Horten
Mac McKinney: HEALTH ALERT: Oil & Dispersant Getting Into Food Chain
Sheila Samples: Pakistan Floods, Russia Heat Fit Climate Trend
Sheila Samples: Israel insists Flotilla attack lawful (5 comments)
Sheila Samples: Iran MP urges fair conditions for N-talks
Sheila Samples: Russia wildfires: Thick, toxic smog chokes Moscow residents
Margaret Bassett: Social Security Nears 75th Anniversary
Margaret Bassett: Democratic Candidates all but Ignore their Legislative Successes (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Stimulus Bill Helped Some far More Than Others
GLloyd Rowsey: Well Capping Brings Relief But Fear of Abandonment (3 comments)
Danny Schechter: As The Economic Team Bails, The System Fails To Create Jobs (Again) (13 comments)
Margaret Bassett: How Facebook Betrayed Users and Undermined Online Privacy
Greg Moses: In Dallas Obama will Find Memories of a Deported Student (1 comments)
Sunday, August 8:
Sheila Samples: Liz Cheney contradicts economists, claims the stimulus has "not worked"
martinweiss: IT'S WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT: Nuclear Waste Pools in N. Carolina, by Jeffrey St. Clair
Sheila Samples: As oil-spill cleanup shifts gears, gulf residents fear they'll be forgotten
Sheila Samples: Genetically Modified Crop on the Loose and Evolving in U.S. Midwest
Sheila Samples: Fidel Castro returns to public life with nuclear war warning for Barack Obama
Sheila Samples: BP: Cement plug stopping Gulf oil leak hardened
Sheila Samples: Washington Vows No Slack-Off In Gulf Oil Cleanup
Sheila Samples: Dodd: Warren Nomination to Consumer Bureau Could Stir Fight (2 comments)
Don Smith: Kamran Pasha's Blog - Blog Archive - Anwar al-Awlaki: The Jim Jones of Islam (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Some Republicans are on the endangered list (2 comments)
Greg Moses: Dallas Donor Plans to Discuss Deportee Case with Obama
Eileen Fleming: Vanunu Released from Solitary Confinement But Still Not Free
Olga Bonfiglio: How Music Helped Save New Orleans After Katrina
Sheila Samples: The end - Iraq war is over, but deployments continue
Saturday, August 7:
Sheila Samples: Afghan media: US-led death toll at 4,413
Sheila Samples: US dismisses BP dispersants threat (4 comments)
Sherwood Ross: Bernie Madoff & The Watchdog That Didn't Bark or Bite (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Foreign mercs must leave, Karzai says
Jonathan Cook: Suspected Torturer Gets Key Police Job in Jerusalem; Doron Zahavi Accused of Running Israel's Abu Ghraib
Sheila Samples: Ahmadinejad: 9/11 scenario dubious (2 comments)
Bill Quigley: Katrina Pain Index 2010 New Orleans Five Years Later (1 comments)
Frank Smecker: War of the World: How the American Empire Project Trashed a Planet for Profit, While Selling the Public Lies
Sheila Samples: Massive ice island breaks off Greenland (14 comments)
Sheila Samples: 6 Americans on medical team killed in Afghanistan (3 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: Should Videotaping the Police Really Be a Crime? - TIME (7 comments)
Sheila Samples: Gaza aid flotilla to set sail from Lebanon with all-women crew (3 comments)
Friday, August 6:
Sheila Samples: VIDEO: Defense Department Press Briefing on Wikileaks
Mac McKinney: The Mobile Press-Register: Tests suggest oil dispersant washing up on Alabama beaches
Sheila Samples: House Dems want meeting with Obama to urge Warren nod
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: TN e-poll book blocks 3,000 voters. Rivest-Risks of Internet Voting negate benefits
Margaret Bassett: Paul Magliocchetti | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
M. Wizard: BP May Drill for Oil Again at Leak Site
Sheila Samples: Climate talks in danger of unravelling as China and US clash
Margaret Bassett: Battle Looms Over Huge Costs of Public Pensions
Sheila Samples: BP risks Obama row by hinting it may return to stricken oil well
Margaret Bassett: Governments Go to Extremes as the Downturn Wears On
Sheila Samples: From Fires in Russia to Flooding in Asia, Extreme Weather Taking Its Toll
Franklin P. Lamb: America's "Dog in the Fight"
Andrew Kreig: What's Next After Kagan's Confirmation? (3 comments)
David Fiderer: Financial Legislation Doesn't Mean Much If The Government Won't Aggressively Police Against Fraud
Martha Rosenberg: Paralysis and Alcoholism Funny? Yes Said Cartoonist John Callahan
Sheila Samples: U.S. worried by Hamid Karzai's attempt to assert control over corruption probes
Dave Lindorff: Musta Slipped Through the Cracks: Dodd-Frank 'Reform' Act May Force Companies to Clean Up Their Act
Margaret Bassett: Medicare Stronger, Social Security Worse in Short Run, Report Finds
GLloyd Rowsey: In Memory of August 6, 1945, and of Joseph Rotblat (8 comments)
Sherwood Ross: Hiroshima (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: US lawmaker challenges targeted killing (7 comments)
Sheila Samples: Fires force Russia to relocate munitions
Thursday, August 5:
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Medicare Gets New Lease On Life; Social Security Remains Healthy
Margaret Bassett: Fannie Mae Seeks $1.5 Billion From U.S. Treasury After 12th Straight Loss
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: SC Voting machine lawsuit heads to court. Target 'sorry' political donations offend
Margaret Bassett: Romer To Leave White House
Dahr Jamail: Gulf Residents Likely Face Decades of Psychological Impact From BP's Oil Disaster
Daniel Geery: Please Don't DIGG This!
Sheila Samples: Govt wants website to hold back 15,000 documents
Sheila Samples: Karzai calls for probe of U.S.-backed anti-corruption task force
Sheila Samples: Senate confirms Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court
Sheila Samples: Russia Bans Grain Exports After Drought Shrivels Crop
martinweiss: GRAINS-Wheat soars on Russia export halt, curbs imposed, Reuters
Sheila Samples: Obama No-Shows Come to Life on Veteran Death Benefits
Roger Shuler: Siegelman and the Downside of the Supreme Court's Ruling on Honest-Services Fraud (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Senate approves jobs bill to stop teacher layoffs
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Engelhardt, Out, Damned Spot!
Sheila Samples: Lockheed's F-16 shows resilience as Oman is interested in buying more
Darren Wolfe: FIJA Activist Julian Heicklen Busted Again in NY, 8/4/2010
Kathleen Wells: Attorney Mike Papantonio Says BP is a Criminal, Sociopathic and Predatory Corporation (3 comments)
Ray Lutz: Candidate Lutz slams Hunter's vote protecting rapists
K.L. Carlson: PHARMACEUTICAL'S CONTROL PUTS NEW MOTHERS AND INFANTS IN GRAVE DANGER - AND POSSIBLY LITERALLY IN THEIR GRAVES (4 comments)
Ray Lutz: GASLAMP FUNDRAISER TO CAP WEEK OF ENDORSEMENTS FOR LUTZ CAMPAIGN
Sheila Samples: Behind the Media Blockade in the Gulf (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: House to return next week to move $26 billion state aid package
Sheila Samples: US report undermines BP spill effects
Sheila Samples: Questions to EPA on Gulf and Dispersants, from Expert at EPA
Wednesday, August 4:
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: ATMs AND Voting Machines are hackable. Obama admin on the military vote
Sheila Samples: Scientists cast doubt on claims BP spill's no threat to Gulf
Sheila Samples: Uninsured throng free clinic -- a symptom of bad economy
Ned Lud: After Afghan War Leaks, Revisions in a Shield Bill
Jason Leopold: Confidential Report Blames BP Executive For Distress at Alyeska Pipeline
Sheila Samples: U.S. Treasury unveils new action against Iran
Sheila Samples: Fallen soldiers allegedly prove profitable for insurance companies
Sheila Samples: Iran denies claims of assassination attempt on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Sheila Samples: Vote on New START nuclear arms treaty delayed in Senate
Sheila Samples: BREAKING: Jobs bill clears a key hurdle in the Senate
Sheila Samples: After Afghan War Leaks, Revisions in a Shield Bill (1 comments)
Bettye Johnson: 2012 - Are You Ready? (3 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: For-Profit Colleges Encouraged Fraud And Used Deceptive Marketing, Watchdog Says
Sheila Samples: BP well in Gulf killed with heavy mud in 8-hour operation (1 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: Mosque near Ground Zero site gets go-ahead
Kevin Gosztola: Oil spill damages legislation thwarted in Senate by Democrats (1 comments)
Robert Arend: The Obama Administration: July 17-31, 2010 (1 comments)
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Bill McKibben, A Wilted Senate on a Heating Planet (1 comments)
Eric Lotke: New York State and Prisoners of the Census: Democracy on the March! (1 comments)
Cenk Uygur: Rep. Rogers: We Should Have Considered Executing Daniel Ellsberg (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: White House rebuffs Iran call for talks (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: US-led forces under fierce Taliban fire
Don Smith: Facebook | Protest Human Rights Violations in Kashmir
Tuesday, August 3:
Sheila Samples: Senate Democrats can't get votes to pass Gulf oil spill bill
Sheila Samples: Oil in Gulf Poses Only Slight Risk, New U.S. Report Says (2 comments)
Roger Shuler: Obama Administration Seems to be Terrified of White People (3 comments)
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: 1 in 10 MN mail ballots rejected. DOJ on MOVE Act Waivers, military vote
Dahr Jamail: Scientists Deeply Concerned About BP Disaster's Long-Term Impact (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: GOP leader McConnell: Fourteenth Amendment is in need of review (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: New Democratic strategy for creating jobs focuses on a boost in manufacturing (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Bernice King to Hold SCLC Prayer Vigil
Sheila Samples: Desperation Grows as Jobless Benefits Run Out
Sheila Samples: Pakistan president will 'put David Cameron straight' over terror claims
David Fiderer: How The Charges Against Maxine Waters Were Fabricated Out of Next to Nothing (2 comments)
Dave Kisor: Why are renewable fuels called alternative (3 comments)
Jennifer Hathaway: The Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity
Danny Schechter: Anniversary: In An August Like This, The Economy Collapsed (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: Iran warns Israel against new ME war
Sheila Samples: Assad: Chances of war 'increasing'
Mac McKinney: Treating us Like Little Children: FDA declares Gulf Seafood Safe to eat Based on Smell Test (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Iran to boycott sanctions sponsors
Monday, August 2:
Mac McKinney: NY Times: Spill Is Biggest Accidental Oil Release Ever, New U.S. Data Show
Press Release: NY District Attorney Continues Attack On Health Activists After Charges Are Dropped (4 comments)
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: On Dept of Justice, Military Vote rumors. Sarasota SoE Dent's anti-audit 'timeline'
Sheila Samples: Ahmadinejad invites Obama to debate (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: Dutch become 1st NATO member to quit Afghanistan (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: In Speech on Iraq, Obama Reaffirms Drawdown
Sheila Samples: Rangel, Waters, and the perils of Democrats 'draining the swamp'
Roger Shuler: GOP Setting the Stage for Investigations of Obama (6 comments)
Chris Landau: *Magnitude 3.0 Earthquake hits Gulf of Mexico New Orleans Region by Geologist Chris Landau (18 comments)
Sheila Samples: US: Afghan pullout to be limited
Sunday, August 1:
Sheila Samples: Iran vows 'crushing response' if attacked by Israel or U.S.
Sheila Samples: Afghanistan: The unsustainable in pursuit of the unbeatable
Joyce McCloy: Voting News: Beware Absentee Ballots. Judge nixes Sarasota audits. OR online primary hype
Olga Bonfiglio: Climate Change Begets Delta Urbanism (3 comments)
Martha Rosenberg: Army Suicide Report Ignores Suicide-Causing Drugs (7 comments)
Rob Kall: Blocked from Eavesdropping, UAE, Saudis to Ban BlackBerry E-mail, Web Browsing and Messaging (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Crises at home sap Obama's outreach abroad
Mac McKinney: BP, Coast Guard Ignored Order to Stop Using Dispersants (1 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: Cluster bomb ban comes into force
Sheila Samples: Obama letter to Palestinian leader included warning, PLO says
Kevin Gosztola: Public Letter to The Washington Post Editorial Board* - Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the U.S. (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Gulf oil spill: Did Coast Guard allow excessive toxic dispersants? (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: U.S. nears key step in European defense shield against Iranian missiles
Sheila Samples: Targeted Killing Is New U.S. Focus in Afghanistan
Rebecca Em Campbell: URGENT: Activist Jane Burgermeister Threatens Suicide on Her Blog Today; How We Might Help (3 comments)
Mac McKinney: NY Times: Despite directive, BP used oil dispersant often, panel finds