Friday, August 29:

Mary Lyon: The Mile-High Milestone The Democrats made history and a home run in a Denver stadium.

McCain's Prickly TIME Interview TIME's James Carney and Michael Scherer were invited to the front of McCain's plane recently for an interview. McCain at first seemed happy enough to do the interview. But his mood quickly soured. The McCain on display in the 24-minute interview was prickly, at times abrasive, and determined not to stray off message.

Chris Floyd: Biden, Obama and The Blood-Dimmed Tide there he was, Old Joe Biden, hawing and barking behind the rostrum, just one step away from being one heartbeat away from being the President of the United States. This would be the same Joe Biden who spent year after year relentlessly pushing the creation of what I once called "the nuclear bomb of class warfare": the Bankruptcy Bill, which put a stranglehold on millions of Americans.

Froomkin: Afghanistan Pushes Back Apparently taking his cues from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is calling for some limits on what President Bush can do in his country.

Thursday, August 28:

Mary Lyon: Is This the Day America Started Growing Up? (8 comments) The disunification of the Democratic Party has now disintegrated. And that's only one huge step for the Party of Obama, Biden, and Clintons.

Amy de Miceli: Media Runs False Flag On Alex Jones (15 comments) The DNC appears to be crawling with provocateurs, and its no surprise they are circling Alex Jones, waiting to strike. As he takes to the street of Denver he has been harassed by "anarchists" who push, shove and slander.

The Financial Times and the 'Self-Confessed Mastermind of 9/11' The Financial Times once the liberal, enlightened voice of the financial elite, has yielded to the totalitarian-militarist temptation. The FT owns up to being a propaganda vehicle for a CIA program to discredit the suspect while he stands trial based on confessions obtained through torture.

Lobe: Tehran exploits US-Russian tensions The likelihood that Moscow will cooperate with US and European efforts to impose additional sanctions on Tehran through the UN Security Council, where Russia holds a veto, for not complying with the council's demands to halt its uranium-enrichment program has been sharply reduced.

Media Blackout: The Armada in the Gulf (2 comments) The most important news for the month of August was the fact that President Bush has quietly sent the largest armada into the Persian Gulf since the Iraq war began in 2003, when there were six carrier groups. This is a huge number of ships to be concentrated in one location in peacetime. This story has been completely ignored by the news media all over the West.

US election: Documentary explores the man behind negative campaigning Atwater helped complete an overhaul of the Republican attack strategy that was devastatingly successful and has come to define modern Republican presidential campaigns. He also mentored a young political operative called Karl Rove, who went on to guide George W Bush to successive election victories. Rove then mentored Steve "The Bullet" Schmidt, who runs John McCain's campaign and who has crafted its brutally negative ads.

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies According to Mikhail Molchanov, Moscow's new position is, if friendship with the West can only be bought by standing idly by and ignoring desperate pleas for help from a kindred, ethically affiliated nation, Russia cannot afford such a friendship. Cold war or not, the time of a politically correct, US-style Russia is now over.

Michael Bonanno: Bonanno Interviews Jarek Kupsc, Director, Writer and Star of "The Reflecting Pool" – Part II Jarek Kupsc wrote, directed, starred in and is distributing the first theatrical, dramatic production (it's first screening was in New York City) which deals with an alternative explanation for 9/11.

Richard Wise: PARTY UNITY CUTS BOTH WAYS Party leaders ask us to unite to win the November election. I am willing to do that, but Senate Democrats have to be willing to unite in the confirmation (or rejection) of future Supreme Court nominees. Their track record since the 1980s is not good.

M. J. Rosenberg: Carville is a Spy for Bush (2 comments) In this blog from Talking Points Memo, Rosenberg claims (from Bob Woodward's State of Denial) that Kerry was planning to challenge the Ohio vote on the morning after the 2004 election. He charges that Carville was a close confidant of Kerry, and used his position to transmit information to the White House and derail the Kerry challenge. Carville is now advising Obama.

Ashin Mettacara: *Two Buddhist monks arrested and interrogated in Myanmar (4 comments)

Pax Americana? (1 comments) "Rebuilding America's Defenses" puts the entire world on notice. America will get what it wants, from any country on earth, by any means necessary. We reserve the right to strike preemptively with or without the support of another country. This manifesto was written in early 2001. The American people weren't notified- but now we see the disasterous consequences.

OhioBlues: Ken Blackwell Marginalized? Subtle, stealth danger: Ken Blackwell Named Vice Chairman of RNC Platform Committee

Mary Mancini: How Long Will Americans Have to Stand in Line to Vote THIS November? Election Day 2004 in Ohio is a perfect illustration of the problems inherent in our electoral system and the process in which massive disenfranchisement becomes the norm.

john de herrera: About The Conventions What's the difference between a political convention, and the Article V Convention?

W. Christopher Epler (Bill): America's REAL 2 party system: Progressives vs. (dem/pug) Elites (2 comments) The last four years should be proof positive that America has a ONE party system, i.e., dems = pugs and pugs = dems. However, there's another perspective in which we DO have a two party system and that's between a vital Progressive Party and the dem/pug party of the elites. Said differently the core battle in America is between progressives and elites (and their dem/pug puppets). Nancy Pelosi (an elite "mole")comes to mind.

Some Issues Key to Party Identity Have Been Shunted to the Side in Denver Looking at what wasn't said in the convention at Denver per Congressional Quarterly: While immigration, gay rights, gun control and trade have roiled the national debate over the past few years, at the Democratic convention they are taking a side stage - or no stage at all. Red meat on such issues, which are dear to liberal hearts, has fallen victim....

Bush Escalates Tensions with Russia From Consortiumnews.com (Robert Parry). Quote: Everyone – from bipartisan foreign policy elites to the big U.S. news media – is again acting like the only way to walk is to swagger. But – as with the Iraq conflict – there are two sides to the story, as the Independent Institute's Ivan Eland notes in this guest essay

Federal court supports Tenn. school's confederate flag ban This is a week old & occurred in my hometown. Posting it because of "freedom of speech" cases vs "hate speech" in this election year. Quote: A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday in favor of a Tennessee school system that banned the clothing that displayed the Confederate battle flag because of concerns the symbol could inflame racial tensions at a high school.

Federal Attitude Policy The Transportation Security Administration has created more gantlets at American airports than most travelers realize. It has continually changed the rules for flying since it first deployed its 40,000+ army of screeners across the land. Americans are at much greater risk of being arrested or fined in the airport for not kowtowing to federal agents.

Stephen Pizzo: "Now, This!" (3 comments) I've spent a lot of time of late mulling what I think are the most important questions of our time....At least some answers -- I believe the most important answers -- can be found in a book written during the Reagan presidency by media scholar, Neil Postman, in his book,"Amusing Ourselves to Death."This may well be, the most important thing you read this year.

Mary MacElveen: In voting for McCain, some Clinton supporters are dishonoring her (2 comments) Senator Hillary Clinton, to her credit, has been outspoken on the health care crisis facing this nation for decades. Presently there are 47 million people who do not have it, and those numbers should count more than the 18 million who voted for her in the primaries.

Kevin Gosztola: With IVAW, the People Courageously Crossed the Line (2 comments) The people stood with IVAW yesterday after Rage Against the Machine played a concert and demanded that Obama incorporate their "three point of unity" into his policy.

Dave Lindorff: Foreign Policy and National Security Are Not the Same Thing (1 comments) We don't need another war president. We need a peacemaker who recognizes that national security and foreign policy are not the same thing, and that national security begins at home.

If Obama Wins, Who Will Be in His Cabinet -- And Who Should Be? (3 comments) Jim Hightower names names and comments, & ends by saying: The substance of an Obama presidency -- and its degree of progressivity -- will not be determined by these advisers. They are mostly implementers, who will be guided by his own idealism and willingness to be bold.

Greatest Failure of Thought in Human History (1 comments) In fact, this failure will be our collective epitaph.

Bill Clinton shows -- and gets -- the love All is well, according to Joan Walsh. Both Clintons did themselves and the Party good. Nice video.

Democratic Party Platform Committee: Link to final draft of 2008 Democratic Party Platform (2 comments) 2008 Democratic Party Platform

Luke Ryland: NY Times does it again: More 'Judy Miller' tapdancing (Pt2) NY Times does it again: More 'Judy Miller' tapdancing (Pt2) Terrible reporting from the NYTimes regarding the nuclear black market.

Michael Fury: Meet the New Boss (1 comments) Empire you can believe in

Georgia is the graveyard of America's unipolar world If Seamus Milne is correct - and his argumentation is certainly cogent - a very big nail in the coffin of the unipolar world will come when and if the SCO countries, including China, reach a decision to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Welcome to a multipolar world, which we can at least hope will be governed more wisely than the unipolar world of the last 15 years !...

ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors (1 comments) During the arrest, one of the officers can be heard saying to Eslocker, "You're lucky I didn't knock the f..k out of you."

Stephen Lendman: Torture As Official Israeli Policy (3 comments) Only the US and Israel officially sanction torture as state policy. Refer to my earlier article - Torture As Official US Policy.

Dean Powers: Huffington Post Attacks NBC, Advances Right Wing Agenda (2 comments) The Huffington Post ran a major hit on MSNBC today, headlining a series of articles with: "MSNBC Implosion." The coverage served mostly to amplify a FAUX News and conservative blog wet dream.

Ron Fullwood: Celebrating Obama's Blackness (1 comments) The fact of Barack Obama's blackness hasn't really been explicitly highlighted or overtly vocalized by the major speakers who've stepped up to the podium to sing his praises, or even by the candidate himself.

Bruce K. Gagnon: THAT'S NOT CHANGE, IT'S MORE OF THE SAME (1 comments) Joe Biden accuses McCain of not being for "change" and then he calls for more troops in Afghanistan and says we will confront Russia.

Michael Lubin: Mississippi (7 comments) Bush's ruthless ICE conducts the largest workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, and what do fellow workers do? Snitch and clap. The state of Mississippi has a long, dark history, and it seems its darker-skinned residents can still expect the same.

Cynthia McKinney-Green Party's Presidential Candidate: It's Time for Real Change--How the Democrats Helped Bush Hijack the Country (5 comments) Cynthia McKinney's rousing speech outside of the Democratic National Convention this week. Her speech spoke of REAL change in America, not nebulous change that can't be defined by the mainstream presidential candidates.

Bill Sharon: *Frick and Frack Discussion of the options for dealing with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Allen L Roland: *DEM CONVENTION/ DAY THREE ~ BILL POSTURES, JOE BELLOWS WHILE KUCINICH DELIVERS The carefully scripted and choreographed Democratic convention slumbers on with Bill Clinton effectively posturing on Wednesday and Joe Biden bellowing his message to the faithful but the best speech of the convention was Dennis Kucinich's WAKE UP AMERICA on Tuesday afternoon before a half empty auditorium : Allen L Roland

billmon: Really Proud (3 comments) for the first time I can remember -- or at least since the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Richard Nixon -- I'm really, really proud to be a Democrat.

Brent Budowsky: The Great Pundit Cable Republican PUMA Fraud (2 comments)

Jim Hightowerm (Hightower Lowdown---- published August 28, 2008): If Obama Wins, Who Will Be in His Cabinet? and Who Should Be? The first substantive discussion on this issue that I have read, in addition to my own articles on this subject....the passage about Robert Rubin is most interesting!

Tumerica: Got a Traffic Ticket in the Mail for a Right on Red at an Automated Enforcement Light? If you get a traffic ticket for an automated enforcement intersection, what can you do? How I fought Big Brother and won.

scott creighton: Running Interference for the New DNC Platform of Betrayal: Three Speeches in Two Days Now that the three big preliminary speeches of the Democratic Convention in Denver are relegated to history, and right before tonight's main event speech, perhaps it's time, just for a moment, to take a step back and really listen to what was and what wasn't said.

Alamantra: "The One" : Why right-wing "celebrity attack ads" won't work on Barack Obama The recent line of right-wing attacks on Barack Obama have been to emphasize his popularity and turn it against him by painting him as nothing more than a celebrity -- "an empty suit" was the phrase I heard one pundit use. Right-wing trolls and bloggers have commonly taken to referring to Senator Obama online as "The One." This line of character attack is not particularly new or original...

Harold Hellickson: So you're proud to be an American So your proud to be an American, right? When Michelle Obama said she was "proud of my country" she had to be honoring the civil rights progress, from the time of her birth in 1964 to now, that which facilitated her husbands political ascendancy? When she said "for the first time in my adult life" she had to be referring to some of our other accomplishments. Lets look at some of our accomplishments both home and abroad.

Ralph Lopez: *Would a Charge of Treason Stick to George Bush? There has been discussion within the impeachment movement over whether George Bush can formally be accused of treason, or if such accusations are fanciful and would not meet legal muster. I believe they would.

Ed Martin: We need to nail the Constitution to the desk in the Oval Office When you get a new toy, an appliance, a computer, any complicated device, you usually get a set of instructions on how to operate it. The Constitution is the operating instructions for the United States. The President, being the executive officer of our nation, needs to have those instructions hand to know what he can do and especially what he can't do, since operating a complex device incorrectly leads to disaster.

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Friday, August 29:

Jason Leopold: Billionaire Backer Of Anti-Obama Ad Previously Broke Campaign Finance Laws Harold Simmons has reemerged as the main financial backer of American Issues Project, the latest in a long list of political groups Simmons has financed with the intended goal of influencing public perception of Democratic candidates and derailing their political aspirations.

New Orleans Girds for Another Storm Any damage to New Orleans on the eve of next week’s Republican Convention in Minnesota could also serve as a politically tinged reminder of the Bush administration’s ineffective response to Hurricane Katrina. The storm could veer from Florida to the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, but its current path is aimed at southern Louisiana and Mississippi, which bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina.

KBR, Partner in Iraq Contract Sued in Human Trafficking Case A Washington law firm filed a lawsuit yesterday against KBR, one of the largest U.S. contractors in Iraq, alleging that the company and its Jordanian subcontractor engaged in the human trafficking of Nepali workers.

Britain indefinitely postpones military exercise with Georgia The British Ministry of Defense has decided to postpone indefinitely its September joint military exercise with Georgia due to Tbilisi's recent conflict with South Ossetia. Tbilisi launched a military offensive against South Ossetia on Aug 8, seeking to retake control of the region. At least 64 Russian peacekeepers and hundreds of South Ossetian civilians died, with thousands more forced to flee the devastated republic.

Thursday, August 28:

EU snubs Georgia for Ossetia crisis summit There will be no Georgian presence at an emergency session of the EU called to discuss the situation in South Ossetia. The September 1 meeting has seen France, which currently holds EU presidency, vote against inviting Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.

WHO study backs universal health care | International | Reuters No surprise! The world suffers from inequity in health care. Life expectancy can range from 43 to 86 years, depending upon the country. But the inequities are, of course, not limited to 3rd-world countries. Within countries, the poor have much higher death rates than the rich, and the US, once again, helps lead the examples. Too bad this isn't a concern of our current political leaders.

Frank Silva: Shut Your Pie Hole! (2 comments) America's problems would all go away if people like me would just shut up.

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For August 28, 2008 a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issue

Roger Shuler: Gruesome Murders Help Unmask GOP Corruption A gruesome murder in suburban Birmingham causes the Alabama press to take a critical glance at local Republican leaders.

Launch of controversial child database delayed UK: The launch of a controversial new government database containing details of every child in the country is to be delayed for technical reasons, it was revealed today. ContactPoint, a computer system carrying personal information about all under-18s, was due to come online in April this year. It will now be delayed until January next year, children's minister Kevin Brennan said today.

Jeremy R. Hammond: Agents of Nuclear Black Market Were C.I.A. Assets (1 comments) At the urging of the U.S., the Swiss government destroyed evidence relating to the Tinner family's dealings with A.Q. Khan's underground network of nuclear proliferation, while government sources acknowledge that the Tinners were paid informants for the C.I.A.

McCain's Plan to Privatise Veterans' Health Care McCain argues that giving veterans a VA card that they can use at private doctors would shorten the long wait times many veterans face in seeing government doctors, who are nearly universally viewed as among the best in the world. Virtually all veterans groups oppose McCain's plan. The Veterans of Foreign Wars' national legislative director has said the VA card would "undermine the entire system".

Some Clinton Donors Are Contributing to McCain (1 comments) More than 85 of Clinton's fundraisers, including Donald Trump, Univision chief executive Joseph Uva, cable mogul Charles Dolan, philanthropist Norma Hess and one of Florida's biggest lobbyists appear to be skipping Barack Obama when it comes to writing checks for the general election, according to an ABCNews.com review of campaign finance records.

Protesters denied access to attorneys, forced to march in leg shackles, ACLU charges The ACLU issued a stinging rebuke to the Denver Police Department Wednesday, alleging that the department may have violated laws and constitutional rights of protesters arrested outside the Democratic National Convention.

U.S. marines shifted from Iraq to Afghanistan American and Iraqi officials announced on Wednesday that United States forces would hand over control of the Anbar Province, the scene of some of the war's most gruesome violence, to the Iraqi military as soon as next Monday. Most of the departing US soldiers are marines, many of whom will be sent to Afghanistan, where conflict has renewed between NATO forces and a resurgent Taliban.

US Takes Direct Control Of Operation In Tribal Areas There are reports that the United States has taken direct control of operation being underway in Bajaur Agency, tribal areas situated on Pak-Afghan border against terrorists. So far more than a half a million tribesmen have migrated to other places from Bajaur Agency. The ruthless bombing by jet fighters and gunship helicopters have converted Bajaur Agency into ghost town. Now Bajaur Agency is the most dangerous place.

Obama Moves to Confront Swift Boaters (3 comments) With threats of legal action, boycotts and a response ad launched quietly to avoid publicity, the Obama campaign has put conservative donors and television stations on notice that 2008 will not be 2004, when Sen. John F. Kerry, the Democratic nominee, waited weeks to respond to attacks on his Vietnam War record and ultimately did so ineffectively.

Flashback: Biden on 9/10/01 warned the 'real threat' may come in "˜the belly of a plane' (2 comments) "If George Bush had listened to Joe Biden instead of Donald Rumsfeld, the history of the past seven years would have been very different. We might have prevented 9/11."

Wednesday, August 27:

Jason Leopold: Judge Rebuffs White House Immunity (1 comments) Facing a new reversal in federal court, the Bush administration is finding its options narrowed in its effort to stop congressional testimony from former White House counsel Harriet Miers and chief of staff Joshua Bolten regarding the firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006.

U.N. Envoy Rebuked For Solo Diplomacy Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was once again scolded by senior State Department officials for diplomatic freelancing, but he appears likely to keep his job in the Bush administration's waning months. Khalilzad has done little to dispel rumors that he is considering running for president of Afghanistan, seeking to oust Hamid Karzai.

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For August 27, 2008 a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issue

Indicted Senator Ted Stevens Wins G.O.P. Primary (1 comments) Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska won the Republican primary in his home state on Tuesday, soundly defeating six Republican challengers less than a month after he was indicted by a federal grand jury for concealing more than $250,000 in gifts from an oil services company.

Kim McDaniel: We Are Change Schools Long Beach City Council on NAU California's We Are Change Long Beach educates Long Beach City Council on the need to get educated about the North American Union (aka: Security and Prosperity Partnership).

NATO’s navy delivers weapons to Georgia under the guise of humanitarian aid “The US Navy destroyer USS McFaul, which is currently docked in the Georgian port of Batumi, carries about 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles on board. They are outfitted with nuclear warheads and are meant to hit ground targets. The remaining NATO ships are currently concentrated in the northern part of the Black Sea,” a source in the military intelligence of the Russian Federation said.

Price the Vote: Federal money for electronic voting runs out, but the meter on voting machines keeps on ticking In Utah, as in most of the country, electronic voting equipment was sold with service costs that go on forever. While Utah counties now own the voting machines, they rent the software, and the annual price of software licensing and maintenance agreements statewide adds up to about $1 million per year. With HAVA funds exhausted, taxpayers will foot the bill.

Iraq veterans make noise at convention Iraq war veterans are playing an active role at the Democratic convention, where they’ve marched, staged mock foot patrols on downtown sidewalks and met with a former first lady to discuss veterans’ health care.

Debra Bartoshevich Betrays Women in Support of Choice by Stating that McCain is Not for Overturning Roe V. Wade When He Debra Bartoshevich is a former Clinton delegate who John McCain is now featuring in an ad. She says, in he ad, she's supporting McCain. This article pulls some background on her together.

Denver Police use Tear Gas on Non-violent Demonstrators This article appeared in a NYTimes blog, but not in the print edition. I am concerned that the Newspaper of Record doesn't find this worthy of more coverage. The pattern of building jail cells, clubbing photographers, and gasing small groups of non-violent demonstrators suggests a policy decision to use police violence as a deterrent to legitimate political expression.

Congressman Keith Ellison: Ellison Credit Card Provision Becomes Closer to Law (5 comments) Clears Financial Services Committee

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Are The Missiles in Poland a Plot to Upstage Obama and Give the White House to McCain? (41 comments) I say the missiles of October II is a lame attempt, ala Nixon vs Kennedy and the steel strike fraud and the WMD's, to scare Americans. I don't know maybe the Poles blind or scared, but this looks like a plan to show that a war hero is better prepared to settle the problem than Obama. I think the FIX is in to have McCain settle the Missiles issue and win the White House. What do you think?

Fear grips immigrants after Laurel, Miss. plant raid LAUREL, Miss. - A day after the largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, Elizabeth Alegria was too scared to send her son to school and worried about when she'd see her husband again. Nearly 600 immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally were detained, creating panic among dozens of families in this small southern Mississippi town. Gov. Barbour signed new law.

Sherwood Ross: Head off Future Massacres By Curbing Bullying, Psychologist Says (4 comments) Massacres in our schools, malls, and workplaces might be reduced if we better understood they frequently come from the revenge motive, meaning society needs to put an end to bullying on campus and to provide better means of airing grievances in the workplace.

North Korea threatens to renew nuclear program North Korea threatened Tuesday to renew its nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang says that the United States has reneged on its promise to remove North Korea from the state sponsors of terrorism list, while Washington responded that it wants independent verification of the country's nuclear disarmament. North Korea also announced this week that it "suspended disabling" its nuclear facilities on Aug. 14.

Brazil set for Indigenous Indian land ruling Brazil's Supreme Court is preparing to deliver a landmark decision on the rights of indigenous people. The court has been asked to rule on whether an indigenous reservation known as Raposa Serra do Sol can remain a single unbroken territory. Indian leaders believe the case will set a crucial precedent regarding the protection of their rights and land.

Obama Campaign Wages Fight Against Swiftboat Group’s Ads (3 comments) Senator Obama’s campaign is waging a forceful campaign against a new conservative group running ads linking him to the 1960s radical William Ayers Jr.

Tuesday, August 26:

NKorea suspends nuclear reactor disablement "The U.S. postponed the process of delisting the (North) as a 'state sponsor of terrorism,'" the Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency. "Now that the U.S. breached the agreed points, the (North) is compelled to take" countermeasures.

US occupation now being confronted by Iraqi democracy Until last month, President George W. Bush had been insisting that there should be no fixed timetable for withdrawal, since a pullout would have to depend on “conditions on the ground.” Then he relented somewhat by beginning to talk about a “general time horizon.” It is already something of an open secret that US officials are becoming more frustrated with an ostensibly more nationalist Iraqi government.

US air strike massacres civilians in western Afghanistan In one of the worst atrocities of the US-led occupation of Afghanistan, as many as 90 civilians were massacred by an American air strike last Friday in the western province of Herat. At least 60 of those killed were children under the age of 15, according to Afghan government and military sources.

Stephen Crockett: Completely covering my car with union stickers & 1st Labor Day Parade in Bethlehem, PA in 50 years! Article gives details of how unions and union members can help make the 1st Labor Day Parade extra fun and have a mobile lasting impact by covering my 1997 Ford Explorer completely in union bumper stickers... hood, sides, roof, front and back. Create a rolling labor movement billboard!

US continues to ratchet up tensions with Russia Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the deputy chief of the Russian military’s general staff, said, “The fact that there are nine Western warships in the Black Sea cannot but be cause for concern. They include two US warships, one each from Spain and Poland, and four from Turkey.”

Cheney To Visit Georgia Next Week Cheney's trip to Georgia will put the Bush administration's most prominent hawk in a war zone still occupied by lingering Russian troops, and is likely to irritate leaders in Moscow, who have condemned the United States for siding with Georgia in the conflict.

Afghanistan demands end to Nato air strikes on villagers Tensions increased today between Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, and US and Nato troops, with the government ordering a review of foreign military activities amid claims that dozens of civilians have died in raids and air strikes over the past week.

John Little: THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF WAR This is a treatise on the history of commercializing wars through to the present.

Mary Mancini: The Electronic Voting Machine Hokey Pokey (You Put Your Right Vote In. It Spits Your Wrong Vote Out) Paperless electronic voting is a black hole.

Jeremy R. Hammond: Zardari Announces Bid for President of Pakistan As the government of Pakistan moves to resettle the political turmoil caused by Musharraf's miscalculated bid to keep his grip on power last year and his recent resignation, the U.S. is scrambling to make the most of the loss of Washington's man in Pakistan.

US diplomat targeted in Pakistan militant attack | World news | The Guardian More news from Peshawar and Bajaur following last week's suicide bombs: Two gunmen, armed with automatic weapons, attacked the armored vehicle of the US consul-general and then drove off. No one in the vehicle was hurt and no one, so far, is laying claim to being responsible.

OhioBlues: McCain and Hagee: Still Joined at the Hip by Joe Lieberman A more detailed and serious article describing the dangerous and continuing alliance/triangle between McCain, Lieberman and the apocalyptic John Hagee.

Meryl Ann Butler: Dennis Kucinich's Rousing Speech Wakes Up America at the DNC (25 comments)

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For August 26, 2008 a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issue

Congressman Announces Bombing of Iran & Suspended Election (YouTube) Bob Feuer, attorney, public defender for 24 years, and challenger to John Olver (D), for the seat in Massachusettes' 1st Congressional District, says that in a meeting in the Jones Library, (10 am, July 5, 2007), Olver clearly explained why he and other Dems will not impeach Bush. Feuer notes that Olver was quoted on the front page of the Berkshire Eagle, 8-4-07. Folks outside the Berkshires may have missed this vital news.

Conyers Praises Court Order Denying Stay of Subpoena Ruling - Nancy Pelosi | News from Presidential Candidates, the Hous (1 comments) Today, United States District Judge John Bates denied the Administration's request for a stay of his July 31 ruling that no White House official is immune from Congressional subpoena. The effect of the denial of the stay is that Harriet Miers must appear and testify before the House Judiciary Committee regarding her role in the politicization of the Department of Justice, including the firing of U.S. Attorneys in 2006.

Lawrence Velvel: The Momentary and the More Permanent (1 comments) Starting from at least 1898, if not from King Philip's War in the seventeenth century, this country has often gotten what it wanted via war, and much of its citizenry is brainwashed to think war is the way. We are in dire need of both intelligence and long term thinking.

Bloggers at Democratic convention plant their stake | Five hundred strong, Netroots workers in the Big Tent near Denver's Pepsi Center gain camaraderie - and affirmation.

Naomi Klein on Obama [video] Klein speaks about Obama and the intellectual and political integrity of the progressive movement. "What will the people who helped win his historic victory ask of Obama now? I hope that we, that you, will demand that he earn the incredible trust that he has been given, because the hard truth is this: Obama may have the energy and the anger and the networks of the antiwar vote, but he does not have a plan to get us out of Iraq

Monday, August 25:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Poll: A New Political System in Satire (2 comments) SATIRE: A new political system which replaces the 2 party system which is really 1 PARTY SYSTEM. My system though it appears to be a 3 Party System, But acknowledging that 2 of the 3 are 1, is really back to a 2 party system in which the lies of 2 the 1 party system lie a lot, what you have remaining is either a ZERO party system, a 1 Party System opposed by 2 of 1 half of 1 Parties, so three equals=1=0, I think...???

Sunday, August 24:

Robert N Smith: Personhood of corporations. (24 comments) What status does a corporation have?

John Olsen: The conventions and escort services. (8 comments) A question as to which of the conventions will benefit escort services the most.

Friday, August 22:

Kris Malmquist: Poll: Anthrax Attacks Solved? (9 comments) Do you agree with the government's conclusion that Mr. Bruce Ivins was solely responsible for the anthrax attacks of mid-September 2001?

Gene Cappa: WTC 7 Brought Down By Fire NIST Concludes - Do You Agree? (52 comments) NIST Report on WTC 7 indicates "fire" alone collapsed the skyscraper building in a mere 6.5 seconds.

PeterJ: We're Having An Election! We're Off To See The Wizard, We're Out Of The Woods......Bull! (6 comments) Something must be done. I don't believe that we can accomplish it from the outside in but I do believe that there's someone in our government who's well aware of our plight (as I believe Nancy Pelosi is but is very afraid) who is not afraid but needs our numbers in order to accomplish their goals. We need to let them know we're here and not afraid to stand up. Do you Agree that petitions and rally's will accomplish nothing?

Tony Forest: Johnny Got His Gun (41 comments) Bear Arms or lose the right to vs. Nutcakes arm armed to the hilt

Hal Smith: US Missle shield (20 comments) What are your thoughts on the missile shield? What is it really for?

Thursday, August 21:

Rob Kall: Should The Dems Strip Joe Lieberman of His Committee Appointments? (23 comments) has Lieberman gone too far?

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: POLL: Is The Two party System Dead in The Water? Lets Use This System Instead! (14 comments) This may be a satire, but am I deadly serious or what? Who the Hell knows. All I do know is that I doubt that three parties are enough, or two many, or too few. So, I bring a few seriously silly points up to prove my own points. No, not the ones on the top of my head, the ones on the top of yours. Hey get over your serious side and have some fun. well, maybe and maybe not. At least have a good day... or not-maybe.

Wednesday, August 20:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Shall We Indict The Oil Profiteers And Nationalize All Necessities? (24 comments) record oil prices again? I say never again. I say cap oil, retroactively.Bush likes retroactive guarantees. I say Give him one, rebate retroactively all profits in a lump sum check to each citizen based on their use of fuel for the last seven years, and then indict the oil profiteers and their enablers!

Sunday, August 17:

alan17b0: Streaming Ad at Top of Main Page (11 comments) What do you think of the streaming ad at the top of the OEN main page?

Saturday, August 16:

Edwin Rutsch: Will the progressive movement eventually implode and 'eat their young'? (22 comments) In my interview with Gavin Newsom, calls for inculsivity and warns against the progressive movement 'eatting it's young'.

Thursday, August 14:

DrTruth: How will you defend America and your freedoms? (13 comments) Are we only a nation of sheeple, or are we sick of the games and crimes, and willing to do something to stop this madness?

Darren Wolfe: Who Do You Believe? (14 comments) The question is, do you believe the government's figures that show growth and no recession or the private economist's figure's that show contraction and recession?

Sherwin Steffin: Do articles have an effect on your vote? (9 comments) This poll seeks to determine the effect, if any, that posted articles will have on your vote in this Presidential Election. What do you plan to do?

PeterJ: Do We Really Have Any Control Over Our Current State (27 comments) Can we control our own destiny or is it "In God's Hands"? Is this a problem created by man that can be fixed by man or are we powerless, at the mercy of greedy, evil people who have attained so much power we can have no affect on them? Should we boycott, should we revolt or should we just pray until our knees are bloody? How you feel is going to affect the final outcome. Will you bring us to Armageddon?

Richard McGinn: Would President Washington continue to warn against party faction and foreign influence? (6 comments) Washington's 1796 Farewell Address to the nation emphasized the need for a unified federal government and warned against party faction and foreign influence. If he were alive today, what is the likelihood that our first President would change his mind about those two things?

Donald Rankin III: When Might You Vote For a Political "Outsider"? (19 comments) When do the potential benefits outweigh the risks of voting for Nader, McKinney, Barr etc.?

Wednesday, August 13:

Rob Kall: Which rating system will you be more likely to USE on OpEdNEws (29 comments) in the spirit of bottom-up participation OpEdNews encourages, please voice your opinion on the two possible rating systems we're considering.

Rob Kall: Should McCain or Obama Be Speaking to the Georgian President? (22 comments) SHould either candidate be talking to Georgian President Shakashvilli

Hal Smith: Is the conflict in Georgia a pretext to WWIII (32 comments) Do you know the truth?

Gene Cappa: Did Bush Comply With "Authorization to Use Military Force"? (9 comments) Did Bush comply with the "Authorization to Use Military Force" Resolution when he attacked Iraq without UN Security Council approval?

Rob Kall: Do You Support Equal Rights for Third Party Candidates? (20 comments) Do you support a federal law requiring equal treatment for all political parties, in terms of rules for registering candidates and getting them on the ballot, including petition requirements and participation in debates?

Monday, August 11:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Poll: Why Isn't Obama Closing McCain Out? Putting Him away? (22 comments) In the wake of the most unpopular Presidents in history who leaves an economy on shambles, millions in foreclosure, almost as many out of work or under-employed, the clone of Bush-McCain with the same platform as Bush is not going away and is persistently, though slowly, closing the deficit between them. WHY? IS THAT?

Sunday, August 10:

John Wood Sr: Poll: Follow up to "Should Obama Use Bush's Powers to Restore America?" (2 comments) If this was our last, best chance, would you support doing these things?

Rob Kall: Should Iraq Start Paying for it's own reconstruction? (36 comments) Iraq is projected to see over $75 million in revenues. Should they start paying their own way.

Friday, August 8:

Rob Kall: Should OpEdNews Have Posted News of John Edwards Affair? (40 comments) Now that the news about John Edwards affair is out, now that he's admitted it and told ABC news, now that the major news shows are saturated with reporting on it, did OpEdNews make the right decision posting a link to an article reporting on Edwards scandal?

Richard McGinn: Congressional Apology to Muslims imminent in the anthrax terrorism case? (2 comments) Although few of the details are known, it is already patently clear that the 2001 anthrax mailings were an inside job and a false flag operation intended to lay the blame on uncooperative Arabs, and to frighten the rest of the world into waging war against "the enemies of civilization" in the Middle East.

Gene Cappa: Should Congress Go Into Special Session For Impeachment Hearings? (20 comments) Should Congress be called into Special Session for Impeachment Hearings?

john de herrera: The Article V Convention? (14 comments) In regards to change, America's Supreme Law offers each and every citizen one of two choices: Congress or Convention.

Mark E. Smith: How Many Votes Does Obama Need? Does the popular vote have any impact on a candidate's decision whether or not to concede?

Thursday, August 7:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Poll: Would you vote for Nancy Pelosi? (26 comments) Nancy Pelosi has steadfastly refused to consider impeachment of the war criminals in the White House. Will, or should, the democrats re-elect her? If you lived in San Francisco's 8th District, would you vote for her again?

Wednesday, August 6:

John Wood Sr: Should Obama Use Bush's Powers to Restore America? (19 comments) Would you support a president Obama if he were to use the Executive powers Bush grabbed and abused to enable America to realize its constitutional ideals? WHY, OR WHY NOT?

Tuesday, August 5:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: POLL: FOR WHICH WOULD YOU VOTE IF AT ALL? (28 comments) My Poll Litmus Test: A)-WOULD YOU VOTE FOR MCCAIN IF HE WAS A DEMOCRAT, SAYING THE SAME THINGS HE NOW IS SAYING? YES, NO B)-WOULD YOU VOTE AGAINST OBAMA IF HE WAS A REPUBLICAN, SAYING THE SAME THINGS HE NOW IS SAYING? YES, NO

Monday, August 4:

Ben Kall: Do you support racists and propagandists, I mean big media? (14 comments) do you still subscribe to cable TV

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Poll: Should The USA Ban Private Contractor Armies? (23 comments) Private armies in America? Blackwater says it wants to rent the largest private armies in the world to American Corporations. To do what hunt down people who return toxic goods they buy at department stores or slaughter private citizens in Banana Republic Nations which protest land grabs? Vote now!

Rob Kall: Votingwise, Are you Sane or Psychotic? (33 comments) voting to end Eight Years of Shock Doctrine Presidency or Deludedly Supporting McCain, by voting for Him or any Third Party Candidate?

Sunday, August 3:

Mary Neal: Treatment or Prison for Mental Patients? (20 comments) Poll to determine if Americans favor prison or treatment for the mentally ill.

Saturday, August 2:

Gene Cappa: Is Bush Guilty of Nuremberg War Crimes? (40 comments) Could Bush be guilty of the very same war crimes that got the Nazi war criminals convicted on in 1946?

Robert N Smith: Petition the Government (15 comments) Would a mass petition of the government instead of a demonstration work better?

Richard McGinn: Suicide or assassination? (19 comments) The FBI's lead suspect in the September, 2001 anthrax attacks -- Bruce E. Ivins -- died Tuesday night, apparently by suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with responsibility for the attacks. The underreported implication is that the anthrax attacks were an inside job, and a false flag operation as well, because Muslims (and Saddam Hussein in particular) got the blame, and the Iraq war was the result.

Thursday, July 31:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Poll: Should The USA Nationalize The Oil Industry? (8 comments) Record Profits on DECREASED production of oil this quarter near $12 Billion in profits for three months and on target for $45 billion for the year! What is wrong with the above picture when Russian oil companies are selling gasoline at the pump for $1.00 a Gallon, Venezuela for $00.12 a gallon, in Iraq before the war at $00.05 a gallon and other Mid-East oil companies at between $00.14 gallon to $00.30 a gallon, today?

Ed Martin: Can George Bush's crimes be prosecuted after he leaves office? (16 comments) Can George Bush's crimes be prosecuted after he leaves office?

Wednesday, July 30:

DC Rapier: Contemptuously yours, Karl Rove (3 comments) Aye or Nay on issuing a warrant for the arrest of Karl Rove

Tuesday, July 29:

Gustav Wynn: Poll on the Government's Terror Alerts (6 comments) Weigh in on the government's terror alerts. What do they mean to you in 2008?

Monday, July 28:

Rob Kall: Did Right Wing Hate Radio Influence the Tennessee Unitarian Church Killer? (34 comments) Did the hate spewed by toxic right wing talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and Glen Beck plant the seed of the idea to kill liberal Unitarian church members?

Georgianne Nienaber: Is it Ethical to Manage Baboons in South African Pine Plantations by Culling? (10 comments) For the third consecutive year, I will be attending a baboon management workshop in South Africa. I need something more than my own opinion, which has changed over the past three years.

Sunday, July 27:

Cathy Garger: Can Cindy Sheehan Beat Nancy Pelosi? (18 comments) Do you think Cindy Sheehan can beat Rep. Nancy Pelosi in Congress?

Allen Lee: Automated Tellers and Bias (3 comments) This poll is an attempt to learn whether person who use automated machines in public do so to avoid racial or gender bias from a human service provider.

PeterJ: What Do You Believe Is The Number One Problem Plaguing Our Nation? (69 comments) The economy "experts" think that they have the answers,the wannabe "generals" tell us how to run a war,immigration crowd wants to build a fence and shoot Mexicans. Now,there are a growing number of people who recognize the "Establishment",the industrial-military complex of the ruling class elite as the vampire sucking our country dry. How do you believe we should begin rebuilding this nation? From outside in or inside out?

Edwin Rutsch: Is Bob Barr correct that conservative values have failed? (10 comments) Is Libertarian Presidential Candidate Bob Barr correct that traditional conservative values have failed?

Saturday, July 26:

Mark Adams: Do you think that impeachment is newsworthy? (18 comments) Do you think that impeachment is newsworthy?

Friday, July 25:

Kevin Gosztola: Who do you believe gave the most valuable testimony at the "impeachment" hearing today? (33 comments) The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Executive Power and the Bush Administration today. It was a result of a groundswell of support for impeachment in America.

Saturday, March 15:

Sponsored by www.worldproutassembly.org: "Building a New World" Conference The deep longing for positive, lasting change is the bedrock upon which this conference is based. How do we fix our country and our world? And how can we form one mass movement to address the crisis? (Event Date: May 22, 2008)

Sponsored by ourfuture.org: Take Back America a meeting of progressives (Event Date: Mar 17, 2008)

Wednesday, December 31:

Sponsored by Freedom Ambassadors: Walk for Human Dignity A national coalition of over 50 local, state and national organizations are participating in walk from Tucson to Phoenix beginning May 2 to call for an end to racially fomented hate crimes. The ten-day peaceful walk will end with a rally in downtown Phoenix on Mother's Day, May 11, honoring mothers for teaching children to treat all human beings with equal dignity. (Event Date: May 1, 2008)

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Thursday, August 28:

AMERICAN GULAG: Slavery Haunts America's Plantation Prisons This scene is not a glimpse of plantation days long gone by. It's the present-day reality of thousands of prisoners at the maximum security Louisiana State Pen, otherwise known as Angola. At the country's largest prison, 80% of its prisoners are African-American and critics say, "It's not even really a metaphor for slavery. Slavery is what's going on."

C.L. Pagano: Virgo New Moon, August 30, 2008 (6 comments) Work and Change are the order of the day. This New Moon is a preview of the big celestial face-off on election day - the opposition of Uranus (revolutionary new ideas) to Saturn (the old guard). These are the energies that faced off in the 60s, and we're about to enter a 4-year twilight zone that takes us back to the 60s so we can move forward to the future.

martinweiss: *the imperative of universal healthcare the brief but compelling argument for universal health care-- indisputable facts mandate that everybody must be in the pool.

Adam Bessie: My Students Have Cooler Phones than I Today's American college student has more technology in her pocket than some small African country you've never heard of, which could easily be looked up in seconds on Wikipedia (if someone was actually bored enough in class to do this). The author, a college English instructor, wonders about why his students have such awesome technology - and why it is so, so much better than his clunker, which can only make calls (OMG!).

Wednesday, August 27:

Dennis Diehl: As Hurricane Gustav Approaches--It's Weather-Not God's Judgement (4 comments) Weather is just weather. While one can get in the path of that which will not respect your humanity, it is not God's judgement on us.

O'Terry: Blood of the Earth (2 comments) A Poem for Our Mother Earth

Dan Koch: A New Single Theory is Just the Same old Story (36 comments) An Early layman's Critique of the WTC7 Final Report.

New Space tTelescope map shows the sky as if viewed through gamma-ray glasses During its first 95 hours of operation, the telescope generated a gamma-ray map of the sky similar to the one obtained by Nasa's now-defunct Compton Gamma-ray Observatory, which took years of observations to produce. The Fermi telescope has now carried out its "first light" observations The gamma-ray map of the sky from the LAT's "first light" observations shows the glowing gas of the Milky Way, blinking pulsars, and...

Bayer on defensive in bee deaths Bayer CropScience is facing legal scrutiny in Germany because of the effect one of its best-selling pesticides has had on honeybees. On the other side of the Atlantic, the Natural Resources Defense Council is pressing for research information on clothianidin. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the pesticide in 2003 and has been accused of hiding honeybee data.

Allen L Roland: *DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION / DAY TWO ~ HILLARY'S TAINTED LEGACY (5 comments) Hillary Clinton's tainted legacy will be her self-serving ' 3 AM ' Ad which she used to disqualify Obama and elevate herself and John McCain, during the primaries, at the expense of the Democratic party ~ knowing full well that John McCain would use that Ad, as he is now, to disqualify Obama as Commander in chief : Allen L Roland

Tuesday, August 26:

Martha Moffett: Queen of the Fabricated Memoir (4 comments) Now forgotten, "Cradle of the Deep" was the publishing scandal of the 20th century.

Shepherd Bliss: Slow Food Nation to Release Healthy Food & Agriculture Declaration (1 comments) Initiated by Roots of Change, the final draft of the Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture will be released on August 29 at San Francisco's City Hall, seeking to change the food policy of the U.S. It is a national call for a new, sustainable food system.

O'Terry: Drastic Measures [[bomb]] I wrote this poem 13 years ago. Wish I had had a place to publish it then.

USDA Gift to Monsanto (2 comments) The US Department of Agriculture's give-away insurance rates for GM crops risk bankrupting the public coffers. The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation has approved a program that will reduce crop insurance costs between 20 and 70% for those growing (GM) maize. The program was crafted by the Monsanto Corporation and its first beneficiary is limited to its GM maize. The rest of the farming community may feel especially aggrieved

Co-author of 100 Things To Do Before You Die dies at 47 (3 comments) get that bucket list written already!

Monkeys experience joy of giving, too, study finds (2 comments) unlike rightwingers. It appears the evolutionary tree is a bit twisted when it comes to conservatives. They are lower on it than monkeys.

Allen L Roland: *Democratic Convention, Day One: Michelle's Moment Just what is the DNC and what does it really represent other than a pre-chosen President and Vice President and a four day photo op and celebration for the Democratic party? Its main message in 2008 will be inclusion versus exclusion. That was delivered eloquently by Michelle Obama last night and it will succeed in November.

Monday, August 25:

THE DELUSION REVOLUTION: ON THE ROAD TO EXTINCTION AND IN DENIAL (6 comments) We're in trouble, on all fronts, and the trouble is wider and deeper than most of us have been willing to acknowledge. We should struggle to build a road on which we can walk through those troubles -- if such a road is possible -- but I doubt it's going to look like any path we had previously envisioned, nor is it likely to lead anywhere close to where most of us thought we were going.

Watch Videos In The Firefox Sidebar With YouPlayer YouPlayer is an innovative Firefox extension which further adds to the joy of watching YouTube videos by letting you play them in your Firefox sidebar. Afterwards you don't need to go to the site again and again - you can just play a video in the sidebar and also carry on some other work, like checking emails. It lets you create a playlist of videos and the playing order can be customized.

Heaven's Angels NY Times: Leather and skull-clad NYC bikers use tattooed muscle to save animals and teach schoolkids how to be kind.

Sunday, August 24:

Rady Ananda: Video Interview of a Voter's Hero: Stephanie Tubbs Jones (3 comments)

Stephen Fox, Contributing Editor Santa Fe Sun News: Medical News: Howard Dean, M.D. as Secretary of Health or FDA Commissioner? Japanese create stemcells from wisdom teeth Howard Dean as FDA Commissioner? A compelling argument. Also, stem cell research continues, no matter how far into the ground this administration buries its head.

Allen L Roland: *IMAGINATION / THE FUEL FOR LIVING YOUR DREAMS As a young child I imagined and actually saw a world cemented in a joyful loving uniting energy that transcended time and space. It was first a deep knowing, then it became a theory and finally I proved it and it became my Unified Field ~ but essentially it was a universal truth rising through the stars and getting more and more powerful each moment: Allen L Roland

Saturday, August 23:

Michael Greenwell: Hollow Traditional music is not a commodity.

robert braunstein: Benefits of youth (2 comments) Human rights

Peter Dearman: Why isn't sepak takraw an Olympic event?

Friday, August 22:

Internet Abuzz: Avian Flu Weaponized? "Our best intelligence estimate is that pandemic Avian Flu has already been created through genetic engineering. The evidence shows the Avian Flu has been turned into a viral threat through bioengineering in the United States, fusing the deadly genome of the 1918 Pandemic, misnamed the "Spanish Flu," with the DNA of the innocuous H5N1 virus in a growth medium of human kidney cells, according to the National Institutes of Healt

Thursday, August 21:

Steve Windisch (jibbguy): Free Energy and the Open Source Energy Movement (Part 4) (8 comments) This issue is about Plasma: The work of Kiril Chukanov and Josef Papp, the FireStorm spark plug of Robert Krupa, Stan Meyer's water powered dune buggy... And the recent experiments in the Open Source movement to use plasma spark to power our cars with tap water!

robert wolff: WHAT THERE IS - IS ALL THERE IS (11 comments) Sustainability, "why worry about the price of oil, why not consider how to do without?"

Ramona Byron: Making Terra Preta Soil: Ramona's Recipe for Home-Made Dirt (5 comments) Personal account of efforts to replicate Amazonian self-fertilizing Terra pretta soil.

Brenda Epperson: Living with the Insane (6 comments) I wrote a short summary of my experiences from being raised by a mentally ill parent to read at that meeting but wasn't given that opportunity. I no longer have that letter but it went something like this:

robert braunstein: No Fault Capitalism (1 comments) Same story different decade. They get the mine we get the shaft

Why a common treatment for prostate cancer ultima... ( Some of the drugs given to many men ...) Treatments for prostate cancer have not produced the expected results. Although the drugs may slow the growth of some cells, a new study has found that other cells may actually be stimulated to grow. The androgen receptor in prostate cells can provide a natural inhibitor for cell growth. This new study suggests that turning the receptors off in some cells while turning others on may provide better results.

Wednesday, August 20:

Sally Stride: *The Politics of Fluoridation (4 comments) Science never has shown that adding fluoride chemicals into water supplies is a safe and effective way to reduce tooth decay. Fluoridation was achieved through clever PR and persistence by special interest groups.

HEALTH: Bad New Air Pollutant Found (1 comments) LSU scientists report a new form of air pollution -- persistent free radicals. Each day, we breathe in 300 cigarettes' worth of the harmful molecules.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran launches satellite carrier Iran says it has successfully launched a rocket capable of carrying its first domestically built satellite.

Meryl Ann Butler: Fresh New Discovery - Can You Guess What This Photo Is? (25 comments)

Tuesday, August 19:

Georgianne Nienaber: Mr. Bill: "OH NO, Fix the coast you broke, Shell Oil!"

Key Photosynthesis Step Replicated: Scientists Learn From Nature To Split Water Into Hydrogen And Oxygen (1 comments) [[IM1]] An international team of researchers led by Monash University has used chemicals found in plants to replicate a key process in photosynthesis paving the way to a new method that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The breakthrough could revolutionize the renewable energy industry by making hydrogen – the clean, green fuel of the future – cheaper and easier to produce on a commercial scale.

Allen L Roland: *BUSH AND CHENEY IMPEACHED IN SAN FRANCISCO / SEE VIDEO (3 comments) A small group of San Francisco actors, including myself, and our fearless director have created, what Congress continues to resist, the successful Impeachment trial of George W Bush and Dick Cheney ~ watch the pre-release video, order a free copy and get involved by signing Dennis Kucinich's Impeachment petition : Allen L Roland

Monday, August 18:

It's starting in Canada (video) (5 comments) After 10,000 plus years of safe, effective, affordable botanical medicine, the federal governments of various countries have decided, with the "encouragement" of the white collar criminals in the pharmaceutical industry and government, to "protect" the Canadian public from herbs and food supplements. 70% of currently available natural health products will be removed from the market.

Smithsonian scientists discover new bird species Scientists have discovered a new species of bird in Gabon, Africa, that was, until now, unknown to the scientific community: an olive-backed forest robin (Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus). Their findings were published in the international science journal Zootaxa today, Aug. 15.

McCain: No Net Neutrality While many of McCain's proposals mirror his Democratic opponent Barack Obama's technology policy, a McCain presidency would sharply differ from an Obama presidency on the issue of network neutrality, which would mandate that broadband service providers treat all network traffic in a nondiscriminatory manner. "John McCain does not believe in prescriptive regulation like net neutrality," the policy statement declared.

New Video: McCain's McMansions (2 comments) John McCain is soaring to new heights of hypocrisy on his wife's personal jet. He flies around the country bent on duping the public into believing he's "one of them," a regular guy who can empathize with Americans facing an overwhelming economic crush. What's more, he disparages those who oppose his ridiculous policy proposals as "elitist." But who's the real elitist? The REAL McCain is...

Michael Dewey: Don't Get Me Started (2 comments) We ran into trouble scamming for oil. The whole Middle East is coming to a boil. While there is genocide in Africa. When we can't come to their aid, it just goes to figure there is no money for our powers that be to eat.

Sunday, August 17:

Obama, McCain discuss faith, issues at Saddleback Church (1 comments) The lead sentence in LA Times report: The presidential candidates were on stage together for just a moment, but John McCain and Barack Obama offered an arresting contrast Saturday night both stylistically and on sensitive issues, most sharply on abortion. Final paragraph deals with candidates' definition of "rich."

Allen L Roland: *THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATION / LOVE AFTER LOVE The ultimate celebration is the celebration of our true authentic self as it emerges, like the butterfly, from a dark cocoon of fear, self doubt and unworthiness into a world of light, freedom and celebration ~ and love is the vehicle for, in relationship, it brings us face to face with our deepest fears: Allen L Roland

Saturday, August 16:

Mark E. Smith: A Jew in Jalalabad (16 comments) In the early seventies when I went to live in Afghanistan for five years, I knew very little about Moslems but I had a vague idea that they hated and killed Jews, so I was very careful not to tell anyone that I was Jewish.

Steve Windisch (jibbguy): Are CFL's Designed to Make Us Pay More On Our Power Bills? (15 comments) Poor AC Power Factor and the billing practice of charging by "Apparent Power" add up to U.S. Consumers being billed nearly double for the use of Compact Flourescent Lamps... But this is just the tip of the iceberg when considering AC motors: Adding up to over $160 Billion annually in "over-billing" by the electric utility corporations, simply for want of a low-cost component that U.S. appliance manufacturers refuse to add!

Colorado Creating US's First Fossil Fuel-Free Community The latest trend in the green movement – other than EVs – seems to be greenhousing communities. Considering everyone needs a place to live, this is a perfect focus for injecting green technology into daily living. Arvada, Colorado is all over this concept, going farther than solar roofing, or LEED certification goals. They're setting up a community that will completely eliminate the use of fossil fuels.

7 Myths of Crowd Psychology (2 comments) 7 common myths about crowd psychology debunked

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Friday, August 29:

O'Terry: Quotations About Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Thursday, August 28:

Samson: Notes on Obama's speech (1 comments)

kgongre: Keep Your Hate To Yourself (3 comments)

Mac McKinney: Russia and Hypocrisy (1 comments)

JOHN LORENZ: ABC News Doing Hit Job on DNC and Obama about Lobbyists

Alfred McGuire: The Republican Party: You're Afraid To Call It Evil? (6 comments)

Mr M: Shelter From the Storm

Hal Smith: Bosses email to employee's

Case Wagenvoord: Therapeutic Torture

Karen Fish: Vladimir Putin is reading OpEdNews on Georgia and blames John McCain (9 comments)