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Friday, June 27, 2008
STEVEN PEARLSTEIN--THE RECESSION IS JUST STARTING
The wind has just been taken out of the optimists sails.

Sunday, May 4, 2008
Who Will Tell the People? Thomas L. Friedman
(1 comments) We are not as powerful as we used to be because over the past three decades, the Asian values of our parents' generation - work hard, study, save, invest, live within your means - have given way to subprime values: "You can have the American dream - a house - with no money down and no payments for two years."

Thursday, May 1, 2008
FEAR IS A TAX AND WE'RE EAGERLY PAYING IT
Security is an obsession that defies natural limits. And we submit because we like it. Al-Qaeda likes it, too. Never before have so few terrorized so many with so little.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Dockworkers Protest Iraq War
Thousands of dockworkers at West Coast ports stayed off the job on Thursday in what their union said was a call for an end to the war in Iraq.

Monday, April 28, 2008
STANLEY FISH--MUCH ADO--BARACK AND WILLIAM AYERS
Moreover, I have had Bill and his wife Bernardine Dohrn to my apartment, was a guest lecturer in a course he taught and joined in a (successful) effort to persuade him to stay at UIC and say no to an offer from Harvard.

Sunday, April 27, 2008
"DEAR SENATOR OBAMA . . . " by Karl Rove
(3 comments) President Bush's former senior adviser offers advice for fighting the 'elistist' label.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
USE OF MILITARY FORCE WITHIN THE U.S.? INTERESTING CONCEPT
(1 comments) Another John Yoo memo from the DDD (Department of Deep Deception)

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
E.J.DIONNE--THE STREET ON WELFARE
Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
STEVEN PEARLSTEIN--A BAILOUT, FOR EVERYONE
This week, it was a $200 billion bond-for-bond swap for the big investment houses.

Sunday, March 2, 2008
JAMES CARROLL--AMERICA'S GHOST STORY
Military power, that is, functions in America the way state religion has functioned in other societies. The Pentagon is the temple of this religion. It has dogmas, rituals, high priesthood, saints, cults of sacrifice, sacred language and a justifying narrative - what theologians call "salvation history."

Saturday, March 1, 2008
A Brand of Politician: To a True Maverick, It's an Earned Label
A San Antonio human rights lawyer and former state legislator who wrote a fervidly liberal newspaper column almost until the day he died in 2003 at 82, Maury Maverick Jr. considered himself a zealot for freedom.

Thursday, February 28, 2008
DAVID IGNATIUS--THE FADING JIHADISTS
The data are crystal clear, We have taken a fire that would otherwise burn itself out and poured gasoline on it.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
THE NIGHTMARE FROM "THE DAYDREAM BELIEVERS"
OF THE GROWING library of books on what has gone wrong since George W. Bush came to power, one of the more insightful is Fred Kaplan's new "Daydream Believers, How A Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power."

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
A WAR WE MUST END--JOHN PODESTA
Even a cursory examination of American history reveals the complexity of concluding a war that has taken on such a stark partisan tint.

Friday, February 22, 2008
NOTES FROM A DYING NATION

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime

Friday, February 1, 2008
FBI DIRECTOR: MORTGAGE FRAUD 'SUBSTANTIAL'
(2 comments)

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
INVESTING IN AMERICA

Sunday, January 27, 2008
Judiciary Committee should move to impeach Bush and Cheney
(4 comments) Can a President disobey the law in order to protect the country in wartime? “No”, says Former Representative Elizabeth Holtzman who served on the House Judiciary Committee during proceedings toward Nixon's impeachment. The Constitution requires the president to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed’, she explains in this still seminal essay on the need to impeach Bush and Cheney for subverting the Constitution.

Monday, January 14, 2008
THE CLINTONS AND HISTORY

Sunday, January 6, 2008
GEORGE MCGOVERN CALLS FOR BUSH-CHENEY IMPEACHMENT
(22 comments)

Friday, December 28, 2007
DAVID IGNATIUS ON BENAZIR BHUTTO

Friday, December 21, 2007
CURRENT IED STRATEGY WAS IGNORED FOR YEARS

Friday, December 7, 2007
On Wall Street, Mortgaged Principles

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
'Hidden Costs' Double Price Of Two Wars, Democrats Say
The economic costs to the United States of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so far total approximately $1.5 trillion, according to a new study by congressional Democrats that estimates the conflicts' "hidden costs"-- including higher oil prices, the expense of treating wounded veterans and interest payments on the money borrowed to pay for the wars.

Saturday, November 10, 2007
House Parliamentarian Vetoes Article 1

Saturday, November 10, 2007
Spooks refuse to toe Cheney's line on Iran

Tuesday, November 6, 2007
PAKISTAN--Hitting the Mute Button on the Freedom Agenda
Just last Thursday, President Bush spoke of his Freedom Agenda spreading democracy across the globe: "We are standing with those who yearn for liberty." Yesterday, the Bush administration unveiled a pragmatic new foreign policy: The Stand by Your Man Agenda.

Sunday, November 4, 2007
MIKE MUKASEY--YOU UNDERSTAND THIS?
Waterboarding Used to Be a Crime By Evan Wallach Sunday, November 4, 2007; B01

Sunday, November 4, 2007
GEORGE F. WILL--Congress's Unused War Powers
Americans are wondering, with the lassitude of uninvolved spectators, whether the president will initiate a war with Iran.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
HONEY, THEY SHRUNK THE CONGRESS
The founders wanted the "people's branch" to be strong, but the Bush administration has usurped a frightening number of Congress's powers - with very little resistance. The question is whether members of Congress of both parties will do anything about it.

Sunday, October 28, 2007
BUSH'S DANGEROUS LIASONS
Tracing the origin of the term 'terrorist'

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Anti-Terrorism on Trial
We've seen this kind of regime before. In the McCarthy era, the government, working behind closed doors, created lists of "subversive organizations" and then held individuals responsible for any association with such groups, often using secret evidence to support its charges. Such actions invited abuse, harmed innocents and infringed on the very rights the government claimed to be protecting.

Sunday, October 21, 2007
Finally, Action! Ron Paul Introduces Bill to Defend Constitution!
NAOMI WOLF-It's not every day that there is something concrete you can do to save democracy in one powerful stroke and make sure your kids don't come of age in an American in which we are no longer protected by the rule of law.

Saturday, October 13, 2007
Joe Conason: Wesley Clark\'s memoir : Five Countries in Five Years | Salon.com
Wesley Clark's new memoir casts more light on the Bush administration's secret strategies for regime change in Iran and elsewhere.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets
(1 comments) SITE Intelligence Group, says this premature disclosure tipped al-Qaeda to a security breach and destroyed a years-long surveillance operation that the company has used to intercept and pass along secret messages, videos and advance warnings of suicide bombings from the terrorist group's communications network.

Thursday, October 4, 2007
Baghdad in New York--Immigration Raids
Armed squads bursting into homes in the dead of night with shotguns and automatic weapons, terrorizing families and taking away anyone who lacks identity papers, even if they have raided the wrong house. It may sound like Baghdad, but it is the suburbs of New York City

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Putin--President, then Premier, then President Again
MOSCOW, Oct. 1 -- President Vladimir Putin on Monday gave the clearest indication yet that he intends to continue ruling Russia after his term expires next spring, possibly by becoming prime minister, an office that analysts here say he could make as powerful as the presidency.

Monday, October 1, 2007
Scandal du Jour, Air Force Arranged No-Work Contract
Commonwealth Research and its parent company, Concurrent Technologies, are registered with the Internal Revenue Service as tax-exempt charities, even though their primary work is for the Pentagon and other government agencies.

Sunday, September 30, 2007
THE CONSTITUTION IN PERIL--NEWSWEEK
(2 comments) The War on Terror didn't start as an attack on Americans' rights, but several new books argue that's exactly what happened.