By Muhammad Khurshid
Public Execution By Taliban Increases Terror In Tribal Areas
Taliban backed by terrorists have publicly executed a man in Mohmand Agency, tribal areas situated on Pak-Afghan. This latest action of Taliban is a clear proof that they have been governing the tribal areas. Now the situation in the areas has gone from bad to worst. Terrorists of international fame are getting the time for planning more attacks in the world, but rulers of Pakistan are still busy in power game.

By Dave Lindorff
Invasion Of The Pumpheads!
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but what do Dick Cheney and Bill Clinton, both bizarre guys, have in common? Heart surgery. And with heart surgery comes "pumphead" syndrome.

By Phil Rockstroh
Fastened To A Dying Animal: A Short Jeremiad Regarding That Affront To The Nation's Dignity Known As The US Election Pro
Trivial and specious narratives drive and dominate our national political debate and it has, as a consequence, rendered the nation's public too shallow to even apprehend the extent of the damage inflicted by official treachery, professional cupidity, and the degree of their own degradation therein.

By Rob Kall
Is The SCOTUS Picking Another President?
Who does today's Scotus Decision help more, Obama or Hillary? In this case, timing is everything.

By Larry Beinhart
The Myths And Harsh Effects Of Bush's Economic Class War
George Bush came into office. There was a recession almost immediately. Officially it began in March of 2001 and, officially, it ended eight months later. The causes of that recession are vague and amorphous, generally credited to the "business cycle."

By David Swanson
How "Conservatives" Pick Your Pocket
whether or not you voted for them

By Stephen Lendman
Green Scare State Terrorism
Bush administration waging state terrorism against environmental and animal rights activists. The DOJ is indicting, prosecuting, convicting and imprisoning innocent people.

By Brasch
John McCain Won't Be Looking For The Union Label
A massive labor campaign is directed to workers who may not know John McCain's anti-worker philosophy, one that almost matches that of the Bush-Cheney Administration.

By John De Herrera
Hello? Hello? Helllloooo?
I'm a fellow American citizen who has not yet given up hope about re-directing the ship of state. Won't you please take a moment to read this Op-Ed? It contains a solution.

By David Weiner
What Can A Young Citizen Do?
How activism might be effective

By David Sirota
Clinton Criticizing Closure Of Indiana Factory That Clinton Helped Close
Clinton is airing a television ad in Indiana, bemoaning the closure of a defense contractor Magnequench's manufacturing plant in Valparaiso (she is also echoing this line in her stump speeches). Looking at the camera, she tells us she's upset that the 200 jobs that were sent to China, and that "now America's defense relies on Chinese spare parts." Problem is, it was Bill Clinton who could have stopped it.

By JGideon
'Daily Voting News' For April 28, 2008
a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issues

By Mary Shaw
Why Do The Republicans Oppose Fair Pay?
According to the current law upheld last year by the Supreme Court, you have to be a mind reader or else accept lower wages than your white male colleagues receive. And that is fine with the Republicans, including John McCain.

By Olga Bonfiglio
Real Women Don't Throw Bombs
After four months of presidential primaries, what a refreshing contrast to see a woman speak forthrightly about justice and peace-especially at a time when the United States is indulged in saber-rattling with Iran.

By Kevin Gosztola
Who's Looking Out For You?
Politicians are playing it politically safe and it's hurting you. What are you going to do for yourself in this election?

By Barbara Peterson
Grow Local, Grow Safe
Transitioning from dependency on multinational agribusiness to localized food sources is not as hard as it sounds.

By William Cormier
If Bush Attacks Iran, How Should Americans React?
News sources everywhere are predicting an imminent attack on Iran. If this happens, how should Americans react and survive the carnage that follows? Once the bombs start falling, like it or not, we will be at war - and we must choose between being a victim or survivor.

By Stephen Pizzo
America's Maoist-like Cultural Revolution
Middle Americans what to know: Are you now, or have you ever been, an elitist?

By LINN COHEN-COLE
The Criminalization Of Raw Milk
On April 25, 2008, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Mark Nolt, a Wenger Mennonite (Horse and Buggy Mennonite) dairyman, threatened for months with arrest for selling raw milk without a permit was removed from his property by state troopers.

By Steve Young
Did You Hear What John McCain's Unrepentant Friend, Who He Sought Support From, Said?
Do we really want a president who allies himself with this kind of person?

By Skeeter Sanders
McCain, Nominee Of 'Rich People's Party,' Calls Obama 'Out Of Touch' With The Poor
Hillary Rodham Clinton, move over. John McCain has decided to join you in the "Let's Beat Up Barack Obama Hypocrites Club" with his remarks on Sunday that the Illinois senator is insensitive to poor people and out of touch on economic issues because of his opposition to suspending the federal gasoline tax...

By Dennis Diehl
Dear God - Most Of Us Need To Talk To You About The Few Of Us Who Are Scaring All Of Us
Hi God, It's us. We gotta talk.

By Mikael Rudolph
If I Had A Million Dollars...

By Mike Folkerth
Old Mother Hubbard; America's Cupboard:
What is it going to take to wake American citizens up to seriousness of our economic crisis; starvation and homelessness?

By Allen L Roland
VETERAN'S KEEP DYING FOR BUSH'S ONGOING LYING
18 veterans commit suicide a day which is a living testament to the idiocy of both George W Bush and his foolish and illegal Iraq war and oil grab ~ a war which has left a lasting stain of shame on every veteran who participated and a nation who condoned it: Allen L Roland

By Woody Powell
CALL IT BRIBERY
Lobbying, as it is practiced by the powerful, is dangerously close to bribery, which is a crime. the article builds a case for election reform to bring representation in government back to the people.

By Jay Janson
Pope Benedict Praised The UN & Subsidiarity (Rev. MLK Jr Praised The Peace Movement!)
Pope Benedict made oblique criticisms of Anglo-Americans causing crises, said human rights are only real where based on justice, called for "a greater degree of international ordering based on a broad principle that communities be more important and free of top-down governance. No mention of the wars of occupation! Is his silence not embarrassing for Catholics in a peace movement ignored while thousands of Iraqis/Afghanis die?

By Press Release
Uncounted's David Earnhardt On Mike Malloy Tonight
TONIGHT,April 28th,10:00PM Eastern,7:00 PM Pacific-With today's Supreme Court ruling backing IN's law requiring voters to show photo identification,and the Governor of FL's decision to begin enforcing strict fines of up to $1,000 for groups that lose voter registration forms or turn them in late,David and Mike will have plenty to talk about...Can you say "fired up?"What about, "Why they wanna make it so hard for us to vote?"

By William Betz
Getting Over Scalia
A thug is a thug regardless of his ethnic identity,whether his thuggery is perpetrated at the point of a gun or the point of a pen.The crime perpetrated by black-robed thugs in 2000,a crime hidden behind pseudointellectual and dishonest legal reasoning for purely political purposes, a crime so vile that it makes a mockery of democracy, is equally unforgivable.

By Press Release
Today's Supreme Court Ruling Will Add To Long List Of Hurdles Already Facing American Voters
Election experts fear that today's ruling in Crawford v Marion County Election Board will not only prompt state election officials to enact similarly restrictive ID laws,but will also lay the foundation for them to impose other restrictions that unnecessarily burden voting.These restrictions,including laws targeting civic groups that help register voters and improper implementation of federal laws intended to protect voters

By The Web
Loser Take All: Election And The Subversion Of Democracy: Tuesday, May 6th, NYC
This monthly series hosted in NYC by author and activist Mark Crispin Miller features authors whose books tackle political and public issues from a stance outside the mainstream. This month features Mark's own new book, Loser Take All, an anthology of writings by well-respected election activists covering the vast election fraud that has been perpetrated by the GOP-with the Democratic Party's acquiescence-since 2000.

By Mark Crispin Miller
SCOTUS Upholds Indiana Photo ID Law
This decision was supposed to come in June, but Roberts et al.didn't want to wait that long.Why?Perhaps because they want the law in place when IN Dems turn out to (try to) vote in their primary on May 6 (next Tuesday). And certainly because they want to give the GOP in other states a chance to ram through laws like IN's.(There are already similar laws in several other states.They aren't as strict as IN's so maybe now they can

By Mark Crispin Miller
Help Clint Curtis
Friends,please help him raise the funds he needs to file for this fall's House race in FL's 24th Congressional district.He only needs $2000!Not too much to ask for such a patriot,who's done so much to spread the word about BushCo's election fraud--despite the interference,and/or non-cooperation, of both parties.Help Clint run against Tom Feeney,& maintain his struggle for an honest voting system in the Sunshine State,& beyond.

By Dennis Diehl
There Are No Chosen People, Religions Or Governments On The Planet
...just people, religions and governments.

By Steve Brant
Barack's Choice: Yes To Fox News; No To Hillary Clinton
This is about the contrast between Barack appearing on Fox New Sunday today and his decision to refuse to debate Hillary Clinton. I frame it as the difference between talking to people who can potentially be part of a dialogue for creating a collaborative future for America - using diplomacy to give them the chance to prove they can be part of such a dialog - and not talking to people who have demonstrated that they cannot u

By Mark Sashine
Victoria Scacci ( Partly Fiction)
Kids from the refugee families were licking that delicious, flavorful, multicolored ice- cream for the first time in their lives. And it was fun.

By Bennet Kelley
"Obama And Generation Jones: It Is Our Time To Lead"
Have you noticed the increasing references to Obama being part of Generation Jones (not a Boomer nor GenXer)? I think its' a very relevant subtext to this election. This argument seems to be building a lot of traction; I've seen numerous media venues, including The Washington Post, Newsweek, Fox News Channel, CBS, USAToday, and CNN all recently make this specific argument that Obama is part of Generation Jones.

By James Brett
Geneva Conventions
The U.S. Department of Justice is playing puerile games with the law. Their objective is transparent. They are trying to avoid the deserved prosecution of Bush, Cheney, and others. There is no way, however.

By JGideon
'Daily Voting News' For April 26 And 27, 2008
a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issues

By Edwin Rutsch
Failed Conservative Values: Barack Obama On Status Quo Versus Change

By Michael Collins
A Call To Action
What if a sitting president broke international laws & treaties. And what if that same president disregarded Constitutional law, suspended the Bill of Rights, hijacked at least one election through fraud & manipulation & used the Attorney Generals office to fire anyone who got in his way, among other things. And what if all of this was well reported. Not just online but in the main stream press as well. And what if no one..

By Stephen C. Rose
Obama Needs To Tell Where He Stands
Barack Obama, in five fireside chats, could tell the nation where he stands. It would be a lot better than another debate. And it might help a large number of undecideds to figure out who to vote for.

By Allen L Roland
ANDREA GIBSON / A POEM FOR OUR TIME OF NATIONAL APATHY
The price of apathy is fascism and we are now paying that price in America. Andrea Gibson is a poet/activist, and winner of the first ever Women of the World Poetry Slam (2008). She recited her short but powerful poem, "For Eli," at the Peace Isn't Quiet Festival at Hobart and William Smith College two weeks ago. Here is the powerful video of her performance: Allen L Roland

By Roger Shuler
Siegelman And The Alabama Press
I've taken a journalism class or two in my time,and this one is hard to figure.The state's former gov gives his first major in-state interview since his release from prison and the AP's Montgomery bureau doesn't pick it up?This is curious: both stories are sympathetic to Siegelman,yet they don't run the first one and then don't mention the second because, well,I guess as they say on South Park,"Nothing to see here,move along."

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OpEdNews Poll: Has Reverend Wright Helped Or Hurt Obama With Talks And Interviews
click through to vote in the poll

Voter Advocate Rush Limbaugh Applauds Supreme Court's 'Huge, Huge, Huge Move To Undercut Democrat Voter Fraud'
Polling Place Photo ID Restrictions in Indiana Upheld by SCOTUS in Courageous and Historic Dredd Scott-like Decision By Why Stop at Keeping Black and Elderly Fraudsters from Stealing Elections?...

Analysts Predict $10.00 A Gallon Gas
That's the message from a couple of analytical energy industry trackers, both of whom, based on the surging oil prices, see considerably more pain at the pump than most drivers realize.

Agrobacterium And Morgellons Disease, A GM Connection?
Preliminary findings suggest a link between Morgellons Disease and Agrobacterium, a soil bacterium extensively manipulated and used in making GM crops; has genetic engineering created a new epidemic?

Petraeus, Falling Upwards
Selling the President's General: The Petraeus Story

Military Propaganda Pushed Me Off TV
As for the major TV networks, they were not hoodwinked by a Pentagon propaganda scheme. They were willingly complicit, and have been for decades.

EPA OPENS CHEMICAL RISK ASSESSMENT TO CORPORATE LOBBYING
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled a new process for assessing the health risks of new chemicals that allows chemical manufacturers and other industries to play key roles. As a result, it will be much easier to inject corporate influence into public health determinations that should be purely scientific. One hallmark of the changes is pushing government research to the side in favor of industry funded

This Red Square Shows The Area Of Current Technology Solar Cells Needed To Supply The Whole World's Energy
How can we afford NOT to move to solar?

THE BRIDGE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
Half the world's tropical and temperate forests are now gone. The rate of deforestation in the tropics continues at about an acre a second. About half the wetlands and a third of the mangroves are gone. An estimated 90 percent of the large predator fish are gone, and 75 percent of marine fisheries are now overfished or fished to capacity. Species are disappearing at rates about a thousand times faster than normal.

What Is Really Causing Agflation?
The old laws of the marketplace are no longer working. Food prices have been rising for six years because of surging demand, and increased production is not restoring the balance as in the past. In fact, prices have been going up even faster over the last year. The so-called "financialization" of commodities markets, that is, the influx of investment funds seeking safer and more lucrative assets, has intensified the trend

Election Day In Florida May Look Familiar
Three laws in particular are at issue, including a “no match, no vote” measure; the provision managing voter registration drives conducted by third parties, like the League of Women Voters; and a law that would keep a voter from correcting mistakes or omissions on a registration form in the final month before an election and would bar that person from having his or her vote counted.

Dad's Video Of Run-down Barracks Sparks Military Response
Video shows moldy, rusty building with paint chipping; broken drain pipe Picture: Soldier in a sink to prevent 3 inches of sewage water from overflowing "This is embarrassing. It's disgusting," soldier's father says Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Dick Cody: "There's no excuse" for conditions

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.

"Transgenic Seed Companies Lie And Bribe:" Interview With Goldman Prize Winner Jesus Leon Santos
Biotech corporations that developed genetically modified seeds are bribing authorities and carrying out costly advertising campaigns "plagued with lies in order to create monsters that attack life," says Jesús León Santos, an indigenous man who is one of this year's winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize. To everyone who thinks that our ancient systems are just a matter of romantic ideals, we say we are on the right path

Officials: 31 Of 53 Girls From Sect Ranch Have Been Pregnant
53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 were living on the ranch in Eldorado. Of that group, 31 already have children or are pregnant.

Clinton & Obama Finally Slam Pentagon Propaganda; McCain Silent
Clinton calls for an investigation and Obama for more transparency. McCain - hush, hush.

A Thousand Workers On Strike Bring Chaos To The Oil World
You may not have heard of the Grangemouth refinery yet, not of the Ineos private equity firm, but you surely will in the coming days, as the reality of the strike taking place there, starting this week-end, finally hits the traditional media (it's already been all over the financial media, and has been one of the main drivers of the oil price increases last week):

Draft Report: Chemicals In Plastics May Hinder Child Brain Development
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.

Obama Donor Received A State Grant
Terrific Los Angeles Times reporting on yet another highly questionable part of Obama's early history.

In The Rezko Trial, A New Name Surfaces: Karl Rove
. Former Illinois state official Ali Ata is expected to testify about a conversation he had with Rezko in which the developer alleged Rove was "working with" a top Illinois Republican to remove the Chicago U.S. attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald.

NY Times Sunday Circulation Plummets 9.2% While 'WSJ' Gains
Print circulation continues on its steep downward slide, the Audit Bureau of Circulations revealed this morning in releasing the latest numbers for some of the country's largest dailies for the six-month period ending March 31, 2008. When a full analysis appears it is expected to find, according to sources, the biggest dip yet, about 3.5% daily and 4.5 for Sunday.

Rev. Wright Detroit NAACP Speech
Four videos comprising all of Rev. Wright's Sunday Speech to the NAACP in Detroit, plus a section of Lincoln's Second Inaugural and uncut Wright sermons.

Nevada's GOP State Convention Shuts Down Early
Outmaneuvered by raucous Ron Paul supporters, Nevada Republican Party leaders abruptly shut down their state convention and now must resume the event to complete a list of 31 delegates to the GOP national convention.

Rearming The World
Why nations are suddenly locked in an arms race unseen since the early days of the Cold War: Much of this new arms spending is concentrated among the world's biggest consumers of resources, which are trying to protect their access to energy, and the biggest producers of resources, which are taking advantage of their new wealth to build up their defenses at a rate that would have been unthinkable for a developing country until

3 Reasons The Economy Is Headed South
Crude prices have increased by about two-thirds in just the past year, after essentially doubling during the prior few years. As it burst, the bubble in housing spread to credit markets across the U.S. and beyond. And inflation is precipitated by increasing fuel and food costs.

Top 25 Censored Stories For 2008 | Project Censored
The stories are ever more horrific. Links at site: (view article)

The "Green Peril": Creating The Islamic Fundamentalist Threat
Islamic fundamentalism should not be considered 'a disease that spreads willy-nilly to infect whole populations.' Like Protestant fundamentalism, argues David Ignatius, it is a 'religious response to the confusion and contradictions of the modern world. The anti-American attitudes of Islamic groups in the Middle East are not directed against Christianity but are instead a reaction to U.S. policies and interventions

IDF Choppers In Service Of Drug Cartel
American officials demand Israel provide explanations for how U.S.-made choppers sold to Israel ended up in service of Columbian drug cartel. The incident may cloud relations between the countries. According to American sources, the military copters currently serve the drug mafia in the South American country.

Stimulus Checks Set To Stimulate The Gas Pump - And Economies Overseas
The US Energy Information Administration estimates that the price for an average gallon of gas will increase by $.40 per gallon this year. If gasoline consumption remains steady at 2007 levels, then it will cost an extra $231 to fuel a car in 2008, more than a third of their stimulus check. The Middle East coffers flowth over.

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.

Investigators: Millions In Iraq Contracts Never Finished
Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being falsely described by the US government as complete. This uneven reconstruction effort has cost US taxpayers more than $100 billion.

Barack Obama Rejects Clinton's Call For New Debate
``We're not going to have debates between now and Indiana,'' Illinois Senator Obama said in an interview that aired today on Fox News Sunday. ``I'm not ducking. We've had 21." Clinton yesterday said she wanted to debate Obama without moderators. ``Just the two of us going for 90 minutes, asking and answering questions,'' Clinton said while campaigning in South Bend, Indiana. ``We'll set whatever rules seem fair.''

Letters Give C.I.A. Tactics A Legal Rationale
While the Geneva Conventions prohibit “outrages upon personal dignity,” a letter sent by the Justice Department to Congress on March 5 makes clear that the administration has not drawn a precise line in deciding which interrogation methods would violate that standard, and is reserving the right to make case-by-case judgments.

The Whistleblower's Unending Story
"This is the message the courts are sending to whistleblowers," Welch says, the Tennessee in his voice taking on a chill. A new image beams on to the classroom screen - a pack of hunting dogs. In their midst is the prey, a nervous fox, head down low. "When you're in deep trouble, keep your mouth shut and your eyes straight ahead."

The Neoconning Of A Nation: Vice-President, Shilling Troupe Of Retired Generals, Deliver Fantastic Tales For Their Cause
Vice-President Dick Cheney and fellow neocons forced the CIA to release the James Bondish video in an effort to sabotage an impending six-nation agreement to end North Korea's nuclear program. They bitterly oppose the deal for being too soft on Pyongyang. Neocons long have worried the possibility of North Korea selling nuclear technology to Arab states posed a potential threat to Israel.

The Clock Is Ticking For An Attack On Iran
The Persian Gulf is now crammed full of US attack ships, ranging from a missile-armed nuclear sub to aircraft carriers packed with tomahawk cruise missiles and fleets of attack aircraft larger than most nation's entire air forces (and also with nuclear weapons). I would say the die is cast, and that it awaits only the pretext.

Baghdad Green Zone Blasted Under Cover Of Storm
Militants bombarded Baghdad's Green Zone with rockets on Sunday, taking advantage of the cover of a blinding dust storm to launch one of the heaviest strikes in weeks on the fortified compound. Iraqi police said eight missiles or mortars had hit the Green Zone and another 14 fell in other parts of the Iraqi capital, killing two people and wounding 20.

Obama On Fox
TPM suffered so you don't have to. Highlights of Obama's interview on Fox ...

Governor Rendell Honors Farrakhan
How hypocritical is this? Ed Rendell embraces Louis Farrakhan while Hillary besmirches Barack with her special F word. She should be ashamed.