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Monday, July 21, 2008
Bush Avoids Calling Obama By His Name
The last prominent reference came during a joke at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner in April, when Bush quipped that "Senator Obama" was unable to attend because he was "at church." It was a reference to the candidate's troubles with his controversial former minister.

Monday, July 21, 2008
Jared Bernstein: The Shampoo Economy
Our system of borrowing, lending, and financing investments by both businesses and households is a national treasure, one which we have squandered in recent years. Excessive deregulation has thwarted the transparency that is integral to creating appropriate price signals. Risk has been consistently underpriced, contributing to bad underwriting, negligent risk management, and deeply damaging bubbles.

Sunday, July 20, 2008
Off the Front Page: Underinsured Ranks Growing - Jeff Nygaard
(1 comments) Independent journalist critiques mainstream coverage of national health policy

Friday, July 18, 2008
Are birds coming home to roost for top torture advocate?
Former legal head of the DoD who pushed the Pentagon's interrogation policies once defended the bombing of rare birds in the Mariana Islands. Today Wayne Hanyes is an executive at Chevron. But his past work will continue to haunt him.

Thursday, June 26, 2008
New Humane Society investigation reveals loophole in ban on downer cattle
(1 comments) On Wednesday, the Humane Society released another investigative report showing sick or severely injured cows being dragged and shocked in order to move them into the auction ring at the Portales Livestock Auction in Portales, New Mexico. "The abuses of these suffering creatures must be stopped, to protect both animal welfare and food safety," said Humane Society president Pacelle.

Thursday, June 26, 2008
Someone Else’s Sacrifice
Why didn’t this picture of Sgt. Ryan John Baum lying in his coffin make the front page of the NY Times or the Washington Post instead of the back pages of the Rocky Mountain News?

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Aetiology: As the waters recede...what now?
Flooding is a potential nightmare when it comes to infectious diseases. The water can bring people returning to their flooded residences into contact with sewage, animal carcasses, and other sources of pathogens--and warm waters in June can mean the rapid replication of these organisms.

Thursday, June 19, 2008
Sweden approves wiretapping law
The former head of the country's intelligence agency, Saepo, said the law failed to safeguard individual rights and should be scrapped. "I think the law needs to be re-written. It is not enough to create a few checks and balances... It is the law itself, there is something wrong with it," Anders Eriksson told Swedish radio ahead of the vote.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Louisiana passes 'creation bill' -- Opponents: "The Bible was never intended to be a science textbook"
The Louisiana Coalition for Science is hoping Gov. Jindal will remember his biology degree from Brown University when he decides whether or not to veto SB 733, the "Louisiana Science Education Act."

Monday, June 16, 2008
UnAssociated Press - Boycott AP, Associated Press
AP's unclear rules about using exerpts from its stories is causing an uproar. A blogger solidarity action has ensued.

Monday, June 16, 2008
Gore endorses Obama
A few hours from now I will step on stage in Detroit, Michigan to announce my support for Senator Barack Obama. From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected President of the United States.

Saturday, June 14, 2008
Confessions of a Would-Be Bilderberger
I listened most intently to Kissinger's address (in Montreal)...Kissinger, who is also a member of the Trilateral Commission, also stressed that mass migration, climate change and the current energy and food crises must all be addressed on a global level.

Saturday, June 14, 2008
McClatchy- Maliki raises possibility that Iraq might ask U.S. to leave
BAGHDAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki raised the possibility that his country won't sign a status of forces agreement with the United States and will ask U.S. troops to go home when their U.N. mandate to be in Iraq expires at the end of the year.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
S. Koreans believe U.S. beef is being shoved down their throats
The USDA and the beef industry are strong-arming South Korea to accept its beef even as U.S. scientists, consumer groups, trade associations, businesses, and members of Congress call for improved testing.

Sunday, June 8, 2008
Bipolar Disorder: Epidemic Without a Disease
(7 comments) A child neurologist says bipolar disorder may be a fictitious disease that bankrolls big pharma, hurts kids.

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Comcast Is Hiring an Internet Snoop for the Feds
Wanna tap e-mail, voice and Web traffic for the government? Well, here's your chance. Comcast, the country's second-largest Internet provider, is looking for an engineer to handle "reconnaissance" and "analysis" of "subscriber intelligence" for the company's "National Security Operations."

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Sandy Sand: Ladies, never put yourself in an "Age Box."
(10 comments) We're a society that is bombarded with obnoxious health ads and behaves as though it's a commendable achievement to live to be 100, while with its other mouth, treats its people of age and maturity like crap.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
McCain's "Stop calling me Bush, you bastards" speech last night was an unmitigated disaster
(2 comments) Last night, John McCain gave what I called his "Stop Calling me Bush, you bastards" speech. It was a disaster -- and not just because McCain can't be separated from Bush. Too late for that. But, it's good to know that line of attack gets under McCain's skin.

Monday, June 2, 2008
The Anima Project puts clairvoyance and precognition under mathematical scrutiny
A seemingly simple web-based card matching game might end the debate of whether paranormal phenomena exists, according to Keith Comito, project administrator and creator of The Anima Project.

Monday, June 2, 2008
Children Return to Polygamist Cult- Just in Time for June Wedding Season
Bells are ringing in the Lone Star state on this joyous day. The Texas high court ruled last week that more than 400 children removed from the Yearning for Zion polygamist ranch weeks ago may be returned to their parents- and not a moment too soon since many of them have made arrangements for lavish June weddings.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions Send Statement to ExxonMobil and Chevron Corporate Shareholders
(3 comments) Antiwar, environmental and other social justice organizations will conduct protests at the Chevron and ExxonMobil annual shareholder meetings on May 28. (Chevron in San Ramon, CA, ExxonMobil in Dallas, Texas.) Activists will read the following statement from the Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq to the corporate shareholders at press conferences to be conducted in conjunction with the protests.

Monday, May 26, 2008
Showdown in Dallas: ExxonMobil faces shareholder revolt
AFP: It is the biggest American company with the fattest profits. But ExxonMobil faces an uprising from shareholders claiming the oil titan is failing to live up to its responsibility as a corporate citizen. (D'oh!) "ExxonMobil has long evinced a culture of defiance and indifference to many important concerns of long-term shareholders," said New York City Comptroller William Thompson.

Monday, May 26, 2008
New patient safety tool aimed at reducing harm from warfarin/Coumadin
Heads up. People on warfarin therapy should be closely monitored for changes in health status....Wrong dosages of warfarin sent more elderly people to the ER than any other medication, including insulin.

Friday, May 23, 2008
Mourning China's earthquake victims
This humanitarian disaster has shown the human face of the Chinese people to the world, and the human face of the world to the Chinese people. Their common humanity overrides political and ideological differences.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
International menopause experts at odds over HRT
Women want to know: Is HRT an unnecessary risk or a maligned therapy?

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Peak Oil Resolution Passed in Minnesota House
The Minnesota House of Representatives passed a Peak Oil Resolution memorializing the Governor to take action to prepare a plan of response and preparation to meet the challenges of peak oil.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Book Review: You Don't Have To Be Famous: How to Write Your Life Story
(2 comments) Writing an autobiography (or an autobiographical essay) can be daunting. But writing your story can lend pattern to the formless chronicle of everyday life, share clinical or personal lessons learned, put painful events into perspective, and even bring back purpose and direction to a life set adrift by illness.

Sunday, May 11, 2008
Failure to report financial interest from tobacco companies taints CT scan-lung cancer studies
Weill Cornell Medical College researchers Claudia Henschke and David Yankelevitz published numerous articles about CT scans and lung cancer in major medical journals without revealing their $3.6 million grant from Vector, the parent company of the Liggett Group, a major cigarette manufacturer.

Thursday, May 8, 2008
Researchers map DNA of platypus
The mapping of the platypus genome has huge implications for researchers in evolution and human disease.

Thursday, May 8, 2008
The Re-Education of Jay Leno: A Mother's Day Reminder to Respect Black Women (and all Women) - Between the Lines
(5 comments) It was a moment that both he and the audience knew was totally inappropriate. If you've never seen 500 women's face freeze at one moment, it really not a good thing.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Tens of thousands riot in Mogadishu in eruption of anger over food prices - Africa, World - The Independent
(1 comments) Troops have fired into tens of thousands of rioting Somalis, killing two people in the latest eruption of anger over high food prices in Africa, witnesses said.

Monday, May 5, 2008
Rich bad-boy countries are the least worried about climate change
(1 comments) From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU): The wealthier a country is, and the larger its CO2 emissions, the less worried its citizens are about global warming.

Sunday, May 4, 2008
Moving up the food chain: PFCs present in nursing mothers' breast milk
Perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs, the same chemicals used in the manufacture of nonstick cookware and stain-resistant fabrics, are showing up in the breast milk of nursing mothers, according to a new study by the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This study is the first to document the presence of PFCs in human breast milk, according to the researchers.

Friday, May 2, 2008
Rev. Wright's honorary degree canceled by Northwestern
"In light of the controversy around Dr. Wright and to ensure the celebratory character of commencement not be affected, the university has withdrawn its invitation to Dr. Wright,'' said Alan Cubbage, vice president for university relations.

Friday, May 2, 2008
Obama’s ‘Race Neutral’ Strategy Unravels of its Own Contradictions
(2 comments) Wright finally forced Obama to choose sides in the conflict of racial/historical visions, and in doing so, performed a service on behalf of clarity. Rev. Wright exposed the flimsy tissues of so-called "race neutrality" in a nation founded on racial oppression.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Real Issues: Hunger, Housing, Heating Oil...and the War - Left Margin
(1 comments) The news that Spam (the kind you eat) sales were on the rise should have been enough of a tip-off, but with sales at Starbucks slackening you knew things were getting bad.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Exxon Mobil reports record $11B in quarterly profits
May Day, Mission Accomplished Day and Still Another Unprecedented Quarter of Record Profits Day!

Thursday, May 1, 2008
LA Times: Dockworkers take May Day off, idling all West Coast ports - Los Angeles Times
Thousands of dockworkers at 29 West Coast ports, took the day off work today in what their union called a protest of the war in Iraq, effectively shutting down operations at the busy complexes...At the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, as few as 10% of the truckers showed up to haul freight that day. Longshore workers, however, continued loading and unloading ships.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
May Day 2008 Statement from the Iraqi Labour Movement To the Workers and All Peace Loving People of the World
(1 comments) On this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and occupation to increase support for our struggle for freedom from occupation - both the military and economic.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Port Workers of Iraq to Shut Down 2 Ports in Solidarity w/ILWU
(2 comments) BREAKING NEWS: Members of the Port Workers Union of Iraq plan to shutdown the ports of Umm Qasr and Khor Alzubair for one hour on May Day in solidarity with the shutdown of all West Coast ports by members of ILWU in opposition to the occupation of Iraq. (Watch the USLAW web site for updates.)

Monday, April 28, 2008
Draft Report: Chemicals in plastics may hinder child brain development
(1 comments) The U.S. National Toxicology Program has released a draft report suggesting that an estrogen-like chemical in plastic could be harming the development of children's brains and reproductive organs. The agency invites public comment.

Sunday, April 27, 2008
Scotland: Tayside and Central Oil refinery strikers hold rally
Production has ceased at the plant, Scotland's only oil refinery, and BP has shut its key Forties oil pipeline. The Scottish and UK Governments insist there is enough fuel to go round, but extra supplies are being shipped in from Europe.

Sunday, April 27, 2008
Independent Leading article: The price of our oil dependency
Industrial action appears to be back in vogue. Members of the National Union of Teachers marched through London and other cities last week in the first education strike in 20 years. And yesterday 1,200 staff from the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland began a two-day walkout. The NUT strike inconvenienced many parents. But the action of Scottish oil workers threatens much wider disruption.

Saturday, April 26, 2008
Sharpton vows to 'close this city' after officer acquittals
Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.

Friday, April 25, 2008
Amnesty International Obtains Secret Video Showing Horror of Beheading in Saudi Arabia
(1 comments) Amnesty International has received secretly filmed grisly footage of a man being beheaded in Saudi Arabia. The organization strongly condemns the execution and calls for the Saudi Arabian government to adhere to the U.N. moratorium on executions around the world.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
To Hillary Clinton Supporters: Your Candidate Just Said She's Prepared to Murder Millions of Innocent People
(Note: Be warned that the rude pundit does not censor his words.) "She is willing to make the United States a target for nuclear retaliation and massive terrorist acts should Israel be attacked. Now that's a (bleep'in) way to tell people to take their hope and shove it up their (bleeps). Happy (bleep'n) Earth Day."

Monday, April 21, 2008
Clinton on Iran Attack: 'Obliterate Them'
(2 comments) Good Morning America: "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," Clinton said. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."

Sunday, April 20, 2008
BlackCommentator: Sen. Hillary Clinton Must Explain the Praising of a Group of KKK Supporters
(1 comments) Senator Clinton, self-righteous in her attacks on Senator Obama concerning his associates, should explain why Bill Clinton, while president, repeatedly praised the United Daughters of the Confederacy. This is an organization that many, including some whites and a former U.S. senator from Illinois, have called racist.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
ei: Carter's visit with Hamas' Meshal
(2 comments) "Carter seems more comfortable with terrorists than with friends like Israel." So said a newsflash on the Israeli daily Haaretz's website last Sunday...in an interview with Haaretz, he (Carter) stressed that to make peace you have to talk to everyone.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Hissing Cockroach not a good pet for allery sufferers
(3 comments) Handling the insects can also cause infections if the mold (found in the feces and expoliated shell) enters an open wound or is inhaled into the lungs.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Healthcare, poverty and race
Decades of studies documenting health care disparities have failed to result in policy changes.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
US left-wing bloggers to visit Sderot
(2 comments) The "Left-Wingers" arriving Thursday include Daily Kos editor David Waldman and former Moveon.org lobbyist Tom Matzzie, who currently heads the anti-war 'Campaign to Defend America.' The trip is sponsored by the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC).

Sunday, April 6, 2008
Proposed European Missile Shield's Politics Overshadows Feasibility
(1 comments) Today, AP reports that "US, Russia Disagree on Missile Defense." Missing from the dialogue is that experts from the American Physics Society and the Arms Control Association believe that the untested missle defense system lacks feasibility.

Sunday, April 6, 2008
Who's protecting America's drug supply? (John Moffett)
(2 comments) How the FDA let contaminated heparin into U.S. hospitals.

Friday, March 21, 2008
Eyes Wide Open and Crying in St Paul
Our hearts are broken and who will stop the criminals in the White House?

Thursday, March 20, 2008
MN Gov proposes tax increase on low income people
In his proposed budget, Governor Pawlenty (who is a top seed for McCain's VP slot) cuts the renters' property tax refund by $34 million. The result, a $34 million tax increase on the Minnesotans who can least afford it.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Dozens of anti-war protestors arrested outside IRS this a.m.
WASHINGTON - At least 33 people have been arrested in anti-war protests in D.C. Wednesday. The protests mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war. Police made the arrests at the Internal Revenue Service as demonstrators crossed barricades and blocked the front and side entrances to the building.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Cheney cites 'phenomenal' Iraqi security progress as bombing kills 40
(From the What A Dick Dept): Cheney's "phenomenal" improvements in security include a female suicide bomber killing at least 40 and injuring at least 50.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
United States censors Guantanamo prisoner's sketch of force-feeding
(1 comments) The United States has censored a gruesome drawing by a Guantanamo Bay detainee depicting him as a skeleton being force-fed at the military prison, the man's lawyers said Monday as they released a recreation of the sketch.

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Iraq War 5th year: Twin Cities Protest
Event summary and gorgeous crowd shots by renowned photographer Kayakbiker at Silenced Majority.

Friday, March 14, 2008
The Uses of Empathy: A Medical Student’s Perspective
Explores the role of empathy through life experience and theory.

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Iraq's health care system crippled by staff and medical supply shortages
(3 comments) Zainab Naji in Baghdad describes how five years of war and corruption have put Iraq's health care system in a crisis state.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Artwork Inspired by Pain and Healing
Online museum features orthopaedics-inspired artwork.

Sunday, March 2, 2008
Man admits striking woman on the way to anger management class
(2 comments) This guy also qualifies for the Darwin Awards. He was tracked down using the contents of his folder for anger class which he used to strike yet another person.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Guantanamo Bay Biomedical Research Facility?
(2 comments) Tropical disease expert and journal editor suggests a new purpose for the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Monday, February 25, 2008
The Black Commentator - Cover Story: Reporting Bush's Safari. Not Exactly as Scripted - Left Margin By Carl Bloice, BC E
(2 comments) Going over various U.S. media reports about President George Bush's sojourn in Africa, one would get the impression that it was some kind of victory lap for the lame duck president, waving to adoring crowds as a whole continent rose up in praise of his good works.

Sunday, February 3, 2008
BREAKING: Grateful Dead to Reunite for Obama Feb. 3
The lineup: Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir will be joined by Jackie Greene, John Molo and Steve Molitz. This will mark the first time that the members of the legendary band have performed together since 2004. They have agreed to reunite for this one-time-only event in order to lend support to Senator Obama leading into the crucial "Super-Tuesday" series of primaries held on Tuesday, February 5th.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Protesters Arrested at Huckabee Office
The protest was part of a campaign called Seasons of Discontent: A Presidential Occupation Project, which goes by the acronym SODaPOP. According to its Web site, the project was organized by the Illinois-based activist group Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Shaw said the project had sent presidential candidates letters seeking commitments for an immediate end to the war in Iraq.

Saturday, December 29, 2007
Dissident Voice : Socialism Is the Only Way (Malcolm Martin)
(22 comments) In the near term, capitalism will take increasing advantage of war, disaster, disease, terror, and slavery to feed itself. Wholesale destruction and regime change will be visited on the oil producing states like Iraq, Iran and Venezuela and other resource-rich areas. Left unchecked, eventually the United States, China, India and the European Union will fight wars for control of world markets and access to resources.

Thursday, December 27, 2007
IRAQ: Saddam Provided More Food Than the U.S.
(1 comments) The Iraqi government announced that monthly food rations will be cut by half. The government also wants to reduce the number of people depending on the rationing system by five million by June 2008. Iraq's food rations system was introduced by the Saddam Hussein government in 1991 in response to the UN economic sanctions which killed half a million Iraqi children, and as many adults, according to the UN.

Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wexler urges hearings on Cheney trial
"The way we pass stem-cell research, the way we get implemented a children's health care plan, the way we get higher fuel economy standards...is to have impeachment hearings," Wexler said. "Because that'll get the president's eye. That'll get the vice president's eye." (And I hope their ears.)

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Oliver Stone considering biopic of Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN -- Oscar-winner U.S. director Oliver Stone will likely travel to Tehran to hold discussions with Iranian officials on his proposal to make a biopic about President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

Thursday, November 1, 2007
Radio host rallies blacks for Friday boycott
Radio host and organizer Warren Ballentine hopes a "national blackout" of businesses will send Washington a message that blacks are fed up with racism and injustice, and he rejects criticism that his campaign is un-American....By some estimates, the U.S. economy could lose millions of dollars if the more than 40 million African-Americans keep their wallets in their purses and pockets Friday.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
War protests: Why no coverage?
(3 comments) "...it seems remarkable to me that in some of the 11 cities in which protests were held – Boston and New York, for example – major news outlets treated this "National Day of Action" as though it did not exist." - Jerry Lanson is a professor of journalism at Emerson College in Boston

Friday, October 26, 2007
Mindfulness, Blended Orgasms and the News
Former NYT reporter Doug McGill is an enlightened journalist! "...if the mass media -- and journalism as the conscience of the mass media -- is going to contribute to world peace, it will have to help develop calm states of mind among its consumers worldwide." (Read more of Doug's reflections on "The Journalist and the Buddha: Applying Buddhist Ethics to the News")

Sunday, October 14, 2007
The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us
(1 comments) Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those “good Germans” who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo. It’s up to us to wake up our somnambulant Congress...There is nothing left to lose except whatever remains of our country's good name.

Thursday, October 11, 2007
Jewish group wants media to give "perfected Jew" Coulter cold shoulder
(1 comments) Steppin' on toes wherever she goes. Includes link to Media Matters article and video.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
George Galloway: Should Che be an icon? Yes
Che, in particular, defies the right-wing stereotype of the ice-cold, cunning revolutionist.

Friday, October 5, 2007
Obama stops wearing American flag pin
(3 comments) Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, D-Ill., said he will no longer wear an American flag lapel pin because it has become a substitute for “true patriotism” since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “My attitude is that I’m less concerned about what you’re wearing on your lapel than what’s in your heart."

Thursday, October 4, 2007
Archbishop Tutu barred by U. of St Thomas because of criticism of Israel
(4 comments) University administrators revoked an invitation that had been extended to the Nobel Peace Laureate saying Tutu's presence would deeply offend some members of the Jewish community who charged him with anti-semitism. JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE RALLIES AROUND TUTU.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Most Americans want Iraq war funding cut: poll
Only about 25 percent of Americans support the administration's $190 billion war funding request; 70 percent want the proposed allocation reduced, the Post said.

Monday, October 1, 2007
How to Address Humanity's Global Crises? Challenge Corporate Power, Embrace True Democracy
The physicist, activist and author Vandana Shiva outlines the scope of the "triple threat" represented by the end of cheap oil, human-induced climate change, and resource scarcity.

Monday, October 1, 2007
US, Iraqi civilian deaths fall sharply
American state media (i.e. pervasive, far-reaching White House political organ) is propaganzing "surge" as success. AP: "The decline signaled a U.S. success in bringing down violence in Baghdad and surrounding regions since Washington completed its infusion of 30,000 more troops on June 15." This is pure spin and amazingly galling given that even Bush water carrier Sen. Coleman said the surge was a failure.

Monday, October 1, 2007
Iraq: The Hidden Facts: Message From The Iraqi Resistance.
Video and transcript - "Bush does not respect his own people and we believe that because he knows that a political solution will not be reached with the Iraqi Resistance, he will leave to democrats a heavy burden by the time he leaves office. He cannot comprehend that a few good men have brought has project in the Middle East to a complete halt.

Sunday, September 30, 2007
I hate all Iranians, US aide tells MPs
(3 comments) British MPs were shocked when WH foreign policy adviser Debra Cagan told them: "I hate all Iranians." When confirming the comment one of the six MPs said: "She is very forceful and some of my colleagues were intimidated by her muscular style." (Cagan learned the ropes under Richard Armitage during Bush I.)

Friday, September 28, 2007
Navy to alter barracks shaped like swastika
(1 comments) Money coming out of their ears and other orifices, too. The Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify the appearance of a barracks complex that resembles a swastika from the air, officials said. THE BUILDING HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 1967. Why don't they just put up tarps?

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Giuliani Party Seeks $9.11 Per Person
According to the invitation, "$9.11 for Rudy" is an "independent, non-denominational grass-roots campaign to raise $10,000 in small increments to show how many individual, everyday Americans support 'America's Mayor.'"

Monday, September 24, 2007
"Specific Suggestion: General Strike" by Harper's Garret Keizer
Any strike, whether it happens in a factory, a nation, or a marriage, amounts to a reaffirmation of consent. The strikers remind their overlords-and, equally important, themselves-that the seemingly perpetual machinery of daily life has an off switch as well as an on.

Friday, September 21, 2007
Obama: Senate vote on MoveOn ad a cheap political stunt
(2 comments) Barack Obama, unlike 72 Senators distracted from dealing with a costly bloody war in a substantive way, gets it right when he says today's symbolic resolution against a silly MoveOn ad is a waste of time

Friday, September 21, 2007
U.S. military cemetery running out of space | Reuters
U.S. Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, both Kansas Republicans, on Thursday sent a letter to William Tuerk, the under secretary for memorial affairs at the Department of Veterans Affairs, urging for full funding for a new cemetery for Fort Riley.

Thursday, September 20, 2007
MoveOn.org Didn't Invent 'BetrayUs'-The Troops Did!
(1 comments) Diarist DelicateMonster at DailyKos recounts military use of 'General Betraeus' going back at least two years. And a Timesonline article quotes a general using the phrase.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007
(US Attorney for MN) Paulose under investigation by feds
The federal Office of Special Counsel is investigating allegations that Rachel Paulose, U.S. attorney for Minnesota, mishandled classified information, decided to fire the subordinate who called it to her attention, retaliated against others in the office who crossed her, and made racist remarks about one employee.

Monday, September 17, 2007
CLG - Minot AFB Clandestine Nukes 'Oddities'
(4 comments) Since the Minot story broke a week ago about the missing nukeclandestine operation from Minot, we have the following (for those who are paying attention): 1. All six people listed below are from Minot Airforce base 2. All were directly involved as loaders or as pilots 3. All are now dead 4. All within the last 7 days in 'accidents'

Thursday, September 13, 2007
Wanted: Unruly Activists
The first thing the members of Congress did before they heard the testimony of General David Petraeus, the Administration's new political point man on the war, was to throw the members of Code Pink out of the room. The Code Pinkers are those obnoxious females wearing their eponymously colored T-shirts with end-the-killing slogans on them.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007
The 'proxy war': UK troops are sent to Iranian border
British forces have been sent from Basra to the volatile border with Iran amid warnings from the senior US commander in Iraq that Tehran is fomenting a "proxy war". In signs of a fast-developing confrontation, the Iranians have threatened military action in response to attacks launched from Iraqi territory while the Pentagon has announced the building of a US base and fortified checkpoints at the frontier.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007
US Senator asks for Iran invasion
(Lieberman, of course.)

Wednesday, September 12, 2007
ACC orders commandwide standdown Friday -
(2 comments) Air Force Times says six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads were loaded onto a B-52H in Minot, ND, and then flown to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., "without anyone on the ground or bomber realizing the nuclear weapons were on the plane."

Friday, September 7, 2007
Bare bums protest aims anti-Iraq war message at Bush
(2 comments) Australia's ABC News: Around 50 people have bared their bottoms in protest against APEC and the visiting US President George W Bush.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007
blackagendareport.com - Triple Threat: Racism, Economic Exploitation and War
Dr. Martin Luther King spelled it out, forty years ago. The American people and the world face a triple-threat, the hydra-head of racism, economic exploitation and war. The Bush regime and its permanent war ambitions seek to enshrine the triple-threat to the planet as official policy of the U.S. government - placing the globe on death-watch.

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Sen. Mike Gravel: Hillary Sandbags the Anti-war Movement
(1 comments) In an attempt to please an audience of veterans Monday, Hillary Clinton said the surge was "working" and gave a helping-hand to the Bush spin machine, Pentagon dead-enders and right-wing pundits who have already begun to quote her.

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Bill Murray arrested for drinking on a golf cart in Sweden
(1 comments) Murray apparently drove the golf cart to the trendy Cafe Opera nightclub, less than a mile away, and was pulled over on his way back to the hotel. Nilsmark (head of the golf tournament Murray was attending) said the vehicle wasn't intended for guests but added: "I don't hold any grudge against Bill Murray for borrowing our cart for a while."

Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Bush May Have Buried The GOP
A senior writer and editor at GOPUSA.com whines over Bush's policy failures and big-spending ways until he simply runs out of space. No pity.

Friday, August 17, 2007
Gates Foundation adds Iraq to its focus
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is making its first foray into Iraq, funding a new initiative to relocate more than 150 scholars facing threat and persecution.

Friday, August 17, 2007
The Blotter: Secret White House Manual: How to Stop Anti-Bush T-Shirts
The manual is stamped "SENSITIVE – DO NOT COPY." Its cover warns readers that "it is a violation of Federal law to duplicate or reproduce this manual without permission. It is not to be photocopied or released to anyone outside of the Executive Office of the President, White House Military Office or United States Secret Service." It is currently posted on the ACLU's Web site, and available here.

Sunday, August 12, 2007
Democrats Say Leaving Iraq May Take Years
Shame on the NYT for it's blatant propaganda. Once again, no mention of Kucinich or Gravel for that matter. They are "positioning" us to accept that continued occupation is inevitable.

Sunday, August 12, 2007
Kathy Kelly: Get To Work!
I'm convinced that our work must always have one foot placed in nonviolent resistance to the forces that design and wage wars, with the other foot standing among people who bear the physical and mental affliction caused by these forces. Today, I'm thinking especially about two young women who found themselves in nightmare circumstances because, in their view, they simply wanted to have a job.

Sunday, August 12, 2007
Protesters show up in force near Cheney home
(1 comments) Casper, WY Tribune: "We organized it because of the war in Iraq and what an injustice it has been," Walt Farmer, retired Air Force captain and registered Republican said. "The Vice President has received a pass in Jackson long enough. We want to let them know we don't approve of the war or how they play fast and loose with the Constitution."

Sunday, August 12, 2007
Iraqi PM calls for crisis summit
In recent weeks almost all Sunni members of the cabinet have quit. Others are boycotting meetings, leaving at least 17 cabinet seats empty.

Saturday, August 11, 2007
Sweden cancels all air traffic with Iraq
The decision was made after gunfire was aimed at a Nordic Airways plane as it took off from an airfield in northeastern Iraq Wednesday, The Local reported.

Saturday, August 11, 2007
Gonzales, Tired of Ruining Our Justice System, Takes Time to Ruin Iraq\'s
(2 comments) The Justice Department said that Gonzales arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for his third trip to Iraq to meet with department officials who have been there to help fashion the country's legal system.

Saturday, August 11, 2007
Iraq war boss says US draft 'worth considering'
Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the top US military officer in charge of coordinating the war effort in Iraq, says that it makes sense to consider a return of the draft to meet the military's needs. (Reported in Australian media)

Saturday, August 11, 2007
Canadian Torture Documents Confirm Role of CIA, FBI
Back in 2006 a report was filed by Canadian Justice O'Connor about the tortured Canadian Maher Arar, there was much speculation about what the government was hiding. Turns out that Canada was trying to protect America. The documents have been released and what the they showed was that CSIS knew that Maher Arar was being sent to be tortured, courtesy of the CIA.

Saturday, August 11, 2007
It's time to stop accepting Bush's failures- Editorial : Albuquerque Tribune
(1 comments) Given that U.S. forces have been largely pinned down in the bloody Iraq occupation and civil war for the past four years, should it surprise anyone in Washington, Peoria or Albuquerque that al-Qaida has regrouped and grown stronger in its historic stomping grounds of Pakistan and Afghanistan? Is it coincidence that almost nobody is talking about persistent homeland vulnerabilities here, including U.S. ports, power plants, etc

Tuesday, August 7, 2007
UK asks US to release 5 from Guantanamo
(1 comments) Britain called Tuesday for the Bush administration to release five British residents held at Guantanamo Bay - a policy reversal that suggests new Prime Minister Gordon Brown is pursuing a tougher line with the U.S. than his predecessor

Friday, August 3, 2007
Fight Over Oil Tax Threatens Energy Bill
A rebellion by oil-state Democrats over $16 billion in new taxes on oil companies is threatening to upend House Democratic leaders' plans to swiftly pass energy legislation.

Friday, August 3, 2007
First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq (Updated)
Robots have been roaming the streets of Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time -- the first time in any warzone -- the machines are carrying guns.

Thursday, August 2, 2007
Bridge was rated 'structurally deficient' in 2005
The highway bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River on Wednesday was rated as "structurally deficient" two years ago and possibly in need of replacement. Meanwhile, Gov. (no new taxes) Pawlenty said Wednesday night that the bridge was inspected in 2005 and 2006, and that no structural deficiencies were identified. Guess it depends on the inspector. Are they privately outsourced, too?

Thursday, August 2, 2007
Nick Coleman: Public anger will follow our sorrow
For half a dozen years, the motto of state government and particularly that of Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been No New Taxes. It's been popular with a lot of voters and it has mostly prevailed. So much so that Pawlenty vetoed a 5-cent gas tax increase - the first in 20 years - last spring and millions were lost that might have gone to road repair.

Thursday, August 2, 2007
Water Taps Run Dry in Baghdad
(2 comments) BAGHDAD - Much of the Iraqi capital was without running water Thursday and had been for at least 24 hours, compounding the urban misery in a war zone and the blistering heat at the height of the Baghdad summer. Note: The forecast for Friday is 116° F. But the Americans in the Green Zone all have AC and water.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Cheney on Trip to Ashcroft's Hospital Bedside: "I Don't Recall"
(1 comments) A friend suggests water boarding.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
What we know (now) about the FBI's CIPAV spyware
ComputerWorld investigates surveillance program; issues Freedom of Info Act request on the FBI's spyware program.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Bush to join Coleman fundraising effort
Bush will be the featured guest at a Coleman fundraiser Aug. 21 in Eden Prairie, a Minneapolis suburb, according to an invitation The Associated Press obtained Wednesday and confirmed with a spokeswoman for the hosts. The invitation contains multiple donor levels, up to $14,600 per couple. (Coleman is still toast, with or w/o Bush money.)

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Four-lane bridge collapses in Minneapolis
All four lanes of the Interstate 35W Mississippi River bridge near University Avenue collapsed into the river and onto businesses underneath the highway during rush hour at 6:05 p.m. Wednesday. They are reporting that about 50 cars fell into the water.

Saturday, July 28, 2007
The NAACP's Battles Are Much the Same as 100 Years Ago
Julian Bond's NAACP convention speech. "They used 9/11 as an excuse to wage war in Iraq. They used the hurricane to wash away decent pay for workers and for minority-and women-owned businesses. They are turning the recovery over to the same no-bid corporate looters who are profiting from the disaster of Iraq. They boasted that they wanted to make the government so small it would drown in a bathtub-and in New Orleans, it did."

Saturday, July 21, 2007
Marines to train at new Israeli combat center - Marine Corps Times
(1 comments) Published June 25 in a military newspaper:In a new, elaborate training center in the Negev desert, Israeli troops and U.S. Marines and soldiers are preparing for planned warfare at summer's end. The 7.4-square-mile "generic city" was built by the Army Corps of Engineers and funded largely from U.S. military aid.

Friday, July 20, 2007
President of Iraq Oil Union Explains Opposition to Draft Oil Law (video)
Hassan Jumaa Awad al Assadi, President of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU), spoke July 18 to over 200 people at Friends Meeting House.The IFOU represents 26,000 workers across Iraq. They have struck three times against the privatisation of Iraqi oil and have forced the Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki to negotiate with them. Despite this, the IFOU is still an illegal organisation.

Friday, July 20, 2007
Bush to cede power to VP during colonoscopy
(3 comments) President Bush will undergo a routine colonoscopy Saturday and temporarily hand presidential powers over to Vice President Dick Cheney, the White House said.He last underwent colorectal cancer surveillance on June 29, 2002.

Friday, July 20, 2007
U.S. says Iraqi militant nonexistent
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Candidate Al Franken Strikes Pro-War Sen Coleman in Ad
The Franken campaign is taking out a full-page ad in the Star Tribune tomorrow that criticizes Coleman for siding with the president's (sic) war policy over the wishes of his constituents. Franken has been invited to attend a two-day anti-occupation rally next week. Wonder if he will come and show solidarity with the people....

Thursday, July 19, 2007
September 29 Coalition Continues Call for Unity
Instead of a unified massive demonstration this fall, there are four or five separate protests planned. The fragmentation in the antiwar movement has helped the politicians take over. Some forces in the antiwar movement are more invested in the Democratic party and the outcome of the 2008 presidential elections, than they are in keeping the antiwar heat in the streets.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Marine ordered Iraqi women and kids shot, squad member testifies - International Herald Tribune
(1 comments) A Marine charged with murdering two girls and killing several other Iraqis gave orders to shoot into a roomful of children and young women, a squad member testified.

Monday, July 16, 2007
Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran | The Guardian
The Washington source said Mr Bush and Mr Cheney did not trust any potential successors in the White House, Republican or Democratic, to deal with Iran decisively. They are also reluctant for Israel to carry out any strikes because the US would get the blame in the region anyway.

Sunday, July 15, 2007
Ellison Says Principles Are Behind Effort to Impeach Cheney | Twin Cities Daily Planet | Minneapolis - St. Paul
(1 comments) Some people say the attempt to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney isn't anything more than a charade by far-left Democrats. That's not the case for U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, who gets animated about the subject. The freshman Democrat from Minneapolis has joined a dozen or so lawmakers as co-sponsors of a bill to impeach Cheney for "high crimes and misdemeanors."

Sunday, July 15, 2007
Ship of fools: Johann Hari sets sail with America's swashbuckling neocons - Independent
(7 comments) From time to time, National Review – the bible of American conservatism – organises a cruise for its readers. I paid $1,200 to join them. The rules I imposed on myself were simple: If any of the conservative cruisers asked who I was, I answered honestly, telling them I was a journalist. Mostly, I just tried to blend in – and find out what American conservatives say when they think the rest of us aren't listening.

Sunday, July 15, 2007
Bush like Hitler, says first Muslim in Congress | Telegraph
(1 comments) America's first Muslim congressman has provoked outrage by apparently comparing President George W Bush to Adolf Hitler and hinting that he might have been responsible for the September 11 attacks.

Friday, July 13, 2007
Dollar hits all-time low against euro after weak U.S. GDP
(1 comments) The dollar fell to an all-time low against the euro Friday, after a government report showed the U.S. economy slowed to a real annualized growth rate of 1.3% in the first quarter, marking the weakest expansion in four years.

Friday, July 13, 2007
Christians protest Hindu chaplain in Senate
Three protesters were arrested in the public gallery of the Senate and charged with unlawful conduct yesterday for shouting down the opening prayer, which for the first time ever was being conducted by a Hindu.

Friday, July 13, 2007
Chertoff: Al-Qaeda not at pre-9/11 strength
(7 comments) Chertoff must have taken some Pepto-Bismol for that "gut feeling" he had the other day.

Saturday, July 7, 2007
New 7 wonders of the world named
But the new wonders campaign hasn't been universally recognized. The United Nations' cultural organization, UNESCO, issued a statement saying it has "no link whatsoever" to the vote. Egypt's top antiquities expert also objected to the list. He said Egypt's pyramids are a "symbol of the genius of the ancient people" -- and are above any sort of online poll.As a result, the organizers struck up a compromise.

Friday, July 6, 2007
What will it take for Black men to heal?
(2 comments) Eldridge Cleaver [in Soul on Ice] is clear: For us to heal, for us to be liberated, we must join with other groups, including progressive Whites, and destroy a greedy, capitalistic economy and build a more humane society on its ruins.

Friday, July 6, 2007
Court Nixes Suit Against Spying Program
(5 comments) The 2-1 ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel was not on the legality of the surveillance program. But it vacated an order by a lower court in Detroit last August that the post-911 warrantless surveillance aimed at uncovering terrorist activity was unconstitutional, violating rights to privacy and free speech and the separation of powers.

Friday, July 6, 2007
Michael Moore: BlueCross Secret Memo Re: 'Sicko'
(1 comments) An employee who works at Capital BlueCross has sent us a confidential memo written and circulated by its Vice President of Corporate Communications, Barclay Fitzpatrick. His job, it seems, was to go and watch "Sicko," observe the audience's reaction, and then suggest a plan of action for how to deal with the movie.

Friday, July 6, 2007
Suicide Exposes Squalor in Texas Prison

Thursday, July 5, 2007
Judge Lifts Injunction on 'DC Madam' Phone Records
(5 comments) Court dismisses government's request for a restraining order on the list of "co-conspirators"

Thursday, July 5, 2007
Congressman Believes Bush Will Cancel 2008 Elections, But Opposes Impeachment
(5 comments) Constituent report: U.S. Rep. "is deeply concerned whether we will actually have an election in Nov. '08, as he believes this administration will likely strike Iran from the air, declare a national emergency, and cancel the '08 elections. He thinks impeachment is a futile waste of legislative energy, will be harmful of democratic '08 victories, and further tighten the "gridlock" he has complained of for the past few decades.

Thursday, July 5, 2007
GOP Sen. Domenici breaks with Bush on war
President Bush's Iraq strategy suffered a new Republican defection Thursday as New Mexico Sen. Pete V. Domenici said the president's approach was not working and called for a new one that would allow American troops to start leaving. (That makes seven.)

Wednesday, July 4, 2007
God is too great for one religion (and other poems)
God is too great to be confined to one religion/One faith, one calling, one vision can not contain the miracles/The sun and all its spheres, the stars across the growing galaxies/Touch only pale as clouded moon to noon day sun upon the myriad mysteries

Wednesday, July 4, 2007
IRAQ: ULEMA COUNCIL ISSUES FATWA ON OIL LAW
(1 comments) Baghdad, 4 July (AKI) - Iraq's Council of the Ulema, a group of senior Sunni Muslim clerics led by Sheikh Harith al-Darri, has emitted a fatwa (religious edict) forbidding members of parliament from ratifying a draft law on oil and gas which has already been approved by the government of prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Analysis: Pardon shows worst in politics
WASHINGTON-The hypocrisy is unpardonable. President Bush's decision to commute the sentence of a convicted liar brought out the worst in both parties and politics. (This one has a great punchline.)

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Kucinich No Longer Alone in Seeking Cheney Impeachment - Capitol Briefing
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is no longer "standing alone" when it comes to calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Undercover, under fire
(2 comments) The Washington press corps is too busy cozying up to the people it covers to get at the truth.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Rep. Jackson: Bush Actions 'Crime Against Constitution'
Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. says this time the president went too far. After word that Bush commuted Libby's sentence Jackson plans to call on House Democrats to start impeachment proceedings. "I certainly hope Nancy Pelosi will withdraw her initial remarks that impeachment is completely off the table," Jackson said.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Olbermann: Bush, Cheney should resign
(3 comments) SPECIAL COMMENT: We of this time-and our leaders in Congress, of both parties-must now live up to those standards which echo through our history: Pressure, negotiate, impeach-get you, Mr. Bush, and Mr. Cheney, two men who are now perilous to our Democracy, away from its helm.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Statement of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald
Although the President's decision eliminates Mr. Libby's sentence of imprisonment, Mr. Libby remains convicted by a jury of serious felonies, and we will continue to seek to preserve those convictions through the appeals process."

Sunday, July 1, 2007
Demonstrators march in Kennebunkport to protest Bush-Putin meeting - International Herald Tribune
Several hundred demonstrators gathered Sunday on the day of Russian President Vladimir Putin's summit meeting with President George W. Bush to attack both leaders - Bush for the war in Iraq and Putin for his crackdown in the breakaway region of Chechnya.

Saturday, June 30, 2007
U.S. Raids Baghdad Slum; 26 Iraqis Die
(1 comments) The U.S. military said it conducted two pre-dawn raids in Sadr City, killing 26 "terrorists" who attacked U.S. troops with small arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades and roadside bombs. But Iraqi officials said all the dead were civilians.

Saturday, June 30, 2007
US-Mexico Border barrier accidentally crosses border
Oops! First they hire illegal immigrants to build it, then they build it in the wrong country. D'oh! Oh well, it will only cost taxpayers a little over $3 million to fix the 1.3 mile screw-up. These people are grossly incompetent.

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Dow Jones Reporters Fail to Show Up for Work
Wall Street Journal reporters across the country chose not to show up for work today, according to a memo.

Thursday, June 28, 2007
House Members Seek $4,400 Pay Raise
(2 comments) Despite low approval ratings and hard feelings from last year's elections, Democrats and Republicans in the House are reaching out for an approximately $4,400 pay raise that would increase their salaries to almost $170,000.

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Hip Hop, Habeas & Building a Movement
Peace blogger rejoices in the intermingling of the Hip Hop and Anti-War movements.

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Embarrassment as U.S. probes £1bn arms bribe
(2 comments) The U.S. inquiry will also be a huge embarrassment to President George Bush, who had a close relationship with Prince Bandar when he was ambassador to Washington during the first five years of the Bush administration.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007
CIA misconduct wide ranging
(1 comments) Examples of CIA misconduct described in 693 pages of documents released Tuesday reveal details on Castro assisination plot, and spying on student dissidents and journalists.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007
High School scholars urge Bush to ban use of torture
(2 comments) America's brightest high school students. selected from each state for the prestigious Presidential Scholars Program, tell Bush to stop torturting people.

Monday, June 25, 2007
The Iraqi Tribunal Charade --the Media Plays Along
Barry Lando: It's understandable that there's been no mention in the Baghdad courtroom of foreign complicity with Saddam's crimes. What is surprising, though, is how thoroughly the American media have played along with that charade.

Monday, June 25, 2007
Chavez warns of resistance war with U.S.
"We must continue developing the resistance war, that's the anti-imperialist weapon. We must think and prepare for the resistance war everyday," said Chavez, who has repeatedly warned that American soldiers could invade Venezuela to seize control of the South American nation's immense oil reserves.

Sunday, June 24, 2007
March of the People
On June 21st people from across the country gathered in Chicago to begin an 800-mile march to Washington, DC. They will arrive on September 11. Participants demand an immediate withdrawal of US Troops from Iraq and the impeachment of those leaders who oppose it. The web site has a map of the route and a march diary.

Saturday, June 23, 2007
Report: IAF preparing for Iran strike | Jerusalem Post
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has been training on long-range flights, including refueling in mid-flight, in preparation for potential strikes against Iranian nuclear targets.

Thursday, June 21, 2007
 Iraqis make progress on sharing oil sales
(1 comments) UPI's Ben Lando:Iraqi negotiators have come to an agreement on divvying up revenues from oil sales, a major, though not final breakthrough on a package of oil laws. (Kudos to UPI for following this story.)

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
An apology for delay in releasing cancer findings
(Registration required) The Minnesota Health Commissioner suppressed the release of information about a deadly cancer that took the lives of 35 Iron Range miners. The union representing the miners and nine legislators said the 4,000 miners that work in the taconite industry deservedto know, and have called for the commissioner's dismissal as well as a criminal investigation.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Cuba's Health Minister on 'SICKO' and More
Cuban Health Minister Dr. José Ramón Balaguer said Cuba didn't intend to promote its health services by allowing Michael Moore to bring patients there for the filming of 'SICKO', Moore's new documentary on the US health crisis. "From the human(istic) perspective, we're open to receiving any patients needing our health services," said the minister, but he admitted the film gave the world a sense of their humanistic principles.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Open the gates immediately - Haaretz Editorial
(9 comments) Many Israelis are watching the television news these days with feelings of powerlessness and shame. They see hundreds of haunted and frightened women and children crowding into the corridor of the Erez crossing and asking to be allowed to flee Gaza through Israel to the West Bank in order to save their lives.

Monday, June 18, 2007
Laboratory for a Fortressed World
"Much of this growth has been in the so-called "homeland security" sector. Before 9/11 homeland security barely existed as an industry. By the end of this year, Israeli exports in the sector will reach $1.2 billion--an increase of 20 percent. The key products and services are high-tech fences, unmanned drones, biometric IDs, video and audio surveillance gear, air passenger profiling and prisoner interrogation systems."

Monday, June 18, 2007
Could Pakistan fall to extremists?
(3 comments) This fear of nuclear-armed mullahs has played a motivating role in American policy toward Pakistan since Sept. 11, experts say. It has led the Bush administration to back a military ruler seen to be strong and supportive of American interests, despite the fact that he overthrew a democratically elected government.

Sunday, June 17, 2007
Humana, UnitedHealth Suspend Some Health Plans After Complaints
Humana Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and five other U.S. health insurance companies agreed to stop selling a type of government-funded plan for the elderly in response to complaints that sales agents forged signatures and enrolled dead people.

Friday, June 15, 2007
Protestors Spring Big Hoax on Oil Expo Audience - CommonDreams.org
(1 comments) Further adventures of the Yes Men.

Friday, June 15, 2007
˜Iraq Summer" hopes to isolate President Bush
(1 comments) A coalition of anti-Iraq war groups is targeting 40 GOP lawmakers around the country in a grassroots effort modeled on the "Freedom Summer" civil rights campaign and the more recent initiative against privatizing Social Security. "It's going to be like laying asphalt in August; it's going to be that type of heat," Americans United for Change President Brad Woodhouse said.

Thursday, June 14, 2007
Juan Cole: Samarra Fallout, Surge not Working
The Sadr Bloc in the Iraqi Parliament is threatening to suspend their participation in legislation in protest against the failure to rebuild and protect the Shiite Askariya shrine in Samarra. If they really do suspend participation in parliament, it would probably mean that no benchmark legislation will be passed any time soon-- not the petroleum law, not revision of the laws on de-Baathification, not constitutional amendments

Thursday, June 14, 2007
US doctor smeared for raising drug concerns
When a well-respected doctor raises concerns about the side effects of an important medicine, you'd expect drug safety officials to investigate. Instead, a spokesman for the US Food and Drug Administration is alleged to have chosen a different strategy: smearing the doctor in question.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Lieberman asked to resign from his own party
The Connecticut for Lieberman Party is calling on Senator Joseph Lieberman to resign from the U.S. Senate following his remarks made Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation regarding military action against Iran. "No longer represents the views of the citizens of Connecticut."

Monday, June 11, 2007
British parliament rejects Iraq war inquiry
Another party line vote.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Letters on Scooter Libby Released by Court
Letters sent to Judge Reggie B. Walton regarding the sentencing of vice presidential aide Lewis I. "Scooter" Libby, who was convicted of obstruction of justice, were released by the court (373-page pdf). Several of them touched on matters of secrecy and national security policy.

Saturday, May 26, 2007
Anonymous Senator Blocks FOIA Bill
(4 comments) An unidentified Republican Senator placed a secret hold on the Open Government Act, a bipartisan bill to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act, thereby preventing the Senate from acting on the bill this week.

Thursday, May 24, 2007
VOTE ALERT: Dick Cheney Dems Plan to Hide Votes On Iraq TODAY
(2 comments) Today is the day House Democrats are expected to vote on Iraq - except, news out of Washington this morning says the leadership has come up with a nifty little trick to try to prevent the public from seeing who voted for giving Bush a blank check, and who voted against it.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Representative Dennis J. Kucinich: "It's All About Oil"
(7 comments) Congressman Kucinich invoked personal priviledge today to inform House members in detail about the Hydrocarbon Law and how it will benefit oil companies but not Iraqis.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007
The ICE man cometh
If Saturday's raid was an immigration raid, then Minneapolis police should never have participated. If the Minneapolis Police Department expects community cooperation they should know better than to go running around the Mercado Central with ICE agents in black SUVs and body armor.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Uranium tests for veterans proposed
(1 comments) A Minnesota State Senate committee OK'd a bill providing for testing veterans to see if dust from spent-uranium munitions has harmed them.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007
New Technique Lets Bloggers Tackle Late-Night News Dumps
(2 comments)

Monday, March 19, 2007
Peace Marchers Arrested (and beaten) at St. Patrick's Day Parade
(3 comments) Colorado Springs, CO. Seven anti-war protestors were arrested for bringing "social issues" to the parade. One woman was badly injured from being dragged off the parade route. The woman, in her mid-60s, was wearing a peace sign. An early report said the injuries were "minor," but the pictures state otherwise. The protestors had a permit to participate but the parade organizer asked to have them removed.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Nick Coleman: Democracy in Iraq? Maybe we should try it in Congress
(2 comments) Are our protests too polite? Star Tribune columnist Nick Coleman describes how a brave Republican Congressman is "Standing up against people!" during the launching of the national Occupation Project on Tuesday. The Congressman's communication director calls peaceful antiwar activists "a mob."

Friday, February 2, 2007
A Lot of Planning (An acrostic poem)
(1 comments) Acrostic: 1 : a composition usually in verse in which sets of letters (as the initial or final letters of the lines) taken in order form a word or phrase or a regular sequence of letters of the alphabet

Monday, January 29, 2007
9 arrested in anti-war protests in congressional office buildings
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Thursday, January 4, 2007
But It's Thomas Jefferson's Koran!
(3 comments) Minnesota Rep.-elect Keith Ellison was attacked last month when he announced he'd take his oath of office on the Koran. Staying one jump ahead of the bigots, Ellison will be taking his oath on none other than Thomas Jefferson's Koran.

Tuesday, January 2, 2007
CAIR Play?
(3 comments) Sen. Barbara Boxer recalled an award she recently gave to an Islamic activist because of his ties to a major American Muslim organization-that critics say has ties to terrorist activities.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Universal mental health screening at a pre-school near you
(3 comments) Just how comfortable are parents having their children, from pre-school through high school, screened for mental illness? How will they respond when or if their child is diagnosed with a mental disorder and prescribed psychotherapeutic drugs?

Friday, September 29, 2006
Cheney Boat Protesters Head to Trial Oct. 12 (Kathlyn Stone)
(3 comments) A jury trial has been scheduled for Minnesotans Bob Heberle, 71, St. Anthony, and Roger Cuthbertson, 67, of Shoreview, for their actions during a protest of a June 26 Republican fundraising party headlined by Vice President Dick Cheney.

Friday, September 15, 2006
NYPD Reverses Decision, Grants Sept. 19 March Permit To United For Peace & Justice (Kathlyn Stone)
(3 comments) The New York City Police Department has changed its mind and agreed to issue a permit for a march and demonstration Sept. 19 protesting President Bush's address to the United Nations General Assembly that day, a spokeswoman for the antiwar group United for Peace & Justice said Friday.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Iraqis Plan Nationwide Walkout Sept. 24
(3 comments) Samir Adil, president of the Iraq Freedom Congress, outlined plans for an international day of protest Sept. 24, the forth anniversary of the day that the Bush Administration decided to invade Iraq. The IFC's aim is to return safety and security to Iraq through a secular resistance movement.

Thursday, August 31, 2006
Basra Oil Workers Strike Could Resume Sunday
(3 comments)

Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Election Nullification 2: Speaker's Special Source
(3 comments) What would you think if you heard that a member of Congress was sworn in prior to the official certification of his hotly contested and controversial election? Would it matter to which political party the member of Congress belonged?

Wednesday, August 30, 2006
International Labor Leaders Predict More Iraq Labor Strikes
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Friday, August 25, 2006
Iraqi oil workers end strike
(3 comments) Oil workers in southern Iraq say they have won higher pay and a share in profits after a one day strike. Pay before the strike averaged $200 US/month.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Iraq Oil Workers on Strike
(3 comments) BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hundreds of oil company employees went on strike Tuesday for higher pay, officials said.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006
HMOs eyeing a slice of the universal health care pie
(3 comments) HMO eyes slice of universal health care pie: persistence and patience by health care reform advocates paying off

Monday, July 3, 2006
Health Politics: Who benefits from Bird Flu pandemonium?
(3 comments) Health and science writer Kathlyn Stone believes journalists should tell the whole story about bird flu, even if it exposes those who benefit financially and politically from the national strategy.