By Rob Kall
Is Army Abusing Children With Its Latest Experiment, The Army Experience Center?

By Rafe Pilgrim
Better The Pain Of Truth Than The Cancer Of Deceit
The question is are we to accept that avoiding "partisan dissension" justifies covering up deceit and treachery and the precedent that such may establish?

By David Swanson
Give Everyone Healthcare By Shutting Insurance Companies
Our nation has more money than any other, more weapons than all the others combined, and a majority of its citizens believing it is, in some undefined sense, superior.

By Dennis Kaiser
Bilderbergers Set To Meet - Beware!
The World's Power Elite are set to meet for their annual strategy meeting on May 14-19. Beware.

By GOAT
Child (or Agency) Protection?
What's wrong with Child Protective Services.

By Pete Latona
Confiscating The Homes Of The Brave
If foreclosures are just a symptom, then what is our disease? How did our economy get so sick and what can we do to heal? We are facing a new reality that requires us to significantly shift our paradigms..

By Stephen Lendman
Unreported Or Underreported Real Pandemics, Not Fake Ones Like Avian And Swine Flu
The current health scare is a scam.

By Michael Bonanno
In The Land Of The Free
The Torture Song

By Kevin Gosztola
"Audience Of One" Documentary Review
A documentary about Pentecostal Pastor Gazowsky who thinks God wants him to direct a big-budget Christian epic. He sets out to create a film that he describes as "Star Wars meets The Ten Commandments."

By George Washington
Stress Tests: A P.R. Stunt Devised By The Banking Industry
Stress tests are a p.r. stunt.

By DerLange
Flu Brings Out The Worst In Right Wingers
Michelle Malkin, Brian Savage, other conservative talk show hosts indulge pustulent hatred of immigrants as a result of H1N1 virus outbreak. Their lies are exposed: It isn't "illegals" they hate, it's immigrants in general.

By George Washington
"This Particular Strain Of Flu Got Its Genetic Start On U.S. Hog Farms Back In The 1990s. That's According To The CDC"
Its official . . . factory farms breed disease.

By Meryl Ann Butler
Palestinian Student's Heartfelt Letter To Obama

By M. Davis
One Flu Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Or: Whatever Happened To Context And Analysis In The News?
When it comes to reporting the "swine flu" epidemic, we confuse quantity of reporting on "news" with quality reporting and until we learn to tell the difference "they" will continue to manipulate us with scaremongering tactics and distraction. We have seen the enemy and the enemy is us.

By Mikel Weisser
Current Comedy, 4/27/08: Manifest Destiny
The H1N1 "Mexican Swine Flu" is ginving millions of American Revelationsits a reason to hate Mexicans all over again.

By James Raider
Dilettantes At The Chrysler Gate
The White House accusing the holdouts of acting against the national interest, is injecting the government directly into the management and decision making process governing the funds. This is a pretense that the activity of bankruptcy is somehow unnatural and un-American.

By Muhammad Khurshid
Give Time To Obama As He Is Bringing Change
US President Barack Obama has been bringing the real change in the world. Though it will be not a easy task for him to change the world, but he has the capability of this job.

By Bill Hare
Specter Switch: What Will Feminists Do?
Can feminists be persuaded to support Arlen Specter's re-election effort and look past Anita Hill grievances in the overall objective of assisting Obama and his agenda?

By Vi Ransel
France Fantasy
Spring washes life back to life after a long winter, creating a personal film set wherever, in your heart, you'd like to be in Spring.

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Michael Steele The Magically Disappearing Negro
Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele must have been struck by terminal amnesia. He yukked at and agreed with the swipe a radio caller took at President Obama. The caller called him "the magic negro." That's the goofy, tired, worn, ditty that tags Obama as a black man with the supposedly impregnable Teflon shield that renders him immune to any and all criticism, adversity, or just plain bad political luck.

By Background N015e
Requiem For Bill, Why May Day Will Never Be The Same
Memorial to William Price, an American Hero and ardent defender of the Constitution.

By Jim Quinn
If You Believe - Banks Are Recovering
The government has something up its sleeve this time. The conspirators are Barack Obama, Timothy Geithner and the Treasury Department, Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve, Sheila Baer and the FDIC, and Barney Frank and the Democratic Congress. They have colluded to commit taxpayer funds to enrich bankers that brought down the financial system, without getting Congressional approval.

By Jeff Rock
Re-Inflating The Bubble
Has the economic meltdown hit bottom? Are we heading back upwards? Since there is no viable explanation of 'How we got here' can we be certain the 'problem' is fixed?

By Ed Tubbs
Mirror, Mirror . . .
Concerning torture, for everyone who voted in 2004 for George W. Bush, the stain of their personal participation and guilt remains unblotted and indelible. What they knew of - or should have - they approved.

By Nicholas Smith
Admiral Joe Sestak Vs. Arlen Specter In 2010
Op-Ed Supporting Congressman Joe Sestak for the United States Senate.

By Stephen Dinan
A Time For Transpartisanship
Some jubilation is justified but we need to be careful not to neglect a still deeper need for our country -- to heal our fractious political process and move beyond partisan bickering.

By Stephen Pizzo
News Blues
Cable news is nothing like the news business I was in before hanging it up. First of all, we didn't try to keep a story alive beyond its natural life. We just reported the damn thing with as little la-de-da as possible.

By Press Release
Global Press Freedom Declines In Every Region For First Time

By Ronnie Sue Ambrosino
Bernard Madoff Victims Get Support From US Congress
Former Madoff investors are not going to be victimized again.They have joined together to solicit the aid of legislators to help them receive the restitution they are legally entitled to.Investors are encouraged by the Congressional support received from Congressmen Klein and Wexler,and request that additional representatives do their part in getting the SEC to fulfill its statutory obligation to force SIPC to abide by SIPA.

By Kenneth Briggs
Health Care Fast-Tracked
The most contraversial provision in the agreement on health care is a fast-track provision called reconciliation.

By Ed Tubbs
If You're Human, You Want A More Humane Court

By Joan Brunwasser
Exclusive Interview With Legal Schnauzer's Roger Shuler
Joining us today is Roger Shuler, citizen journalist and the brains behind the blog,Legal Schnauzer:"one couple's encounter with corrupt judges, slimy lawyers, and incompetent prosecutors in Alabama... and how you can avoid being cheated by the vermin who make a mockery of our justice system." Clearly, Shuler doesn't pull his punches.

By Jose Herrera
A Very Public Letter To Mr. Obama And Mrs. Clinton From A Venezuelan
Latin American people such as myself, trust that the Obama administration will fulfill the ideal of the US being a land of free people a lot more because being "free" necessarily implies allowing everyone else to be free. Barack Obama seem to have this same criterion and the entire world acknowledges, with pleasure, that his administration has decided to face the challenge of closing the Guantanamo torture center in Cuba.

By Steve Best
Who's Afraid Of Jerry Vlasak?
Similarly, when Vlasak urges animal liberation by any means necessary, he is asserting the right of animals to self defense. But since they cannot defend themselves (except for instances such as where elephants or tigers justly kill their trainers), humans must act on their behalf.

By Trailing Begonia
Solidarity Day On The 42nd Anniversary Of Israel's Seizure Of Gaza
End the Siege of Gaza! March on Washington, D.C., June 6 Solidarity Day on the 42nd Anniversary of Israel's seizure of Gaza

By Gene Messick
The Rise Of Anti-democratic Democrats
Most of us may think we know what the Democratic Party is about. But these days, organizations outside the Party are causing great confusion, especially one called Progressive Democrats of America. Perhaps this organization is neither Progressive nor Democratic, but flying under a piracy flag of it's own design. Here's more about what PDA is doing to the Democratic Party in North Carolina, a warning for other State Parties.

By Bill Hare
Ken Annakin RIP: Master International Director
Ken Annakin was one of the world's leading filmmakers. He will be missed by cinema fans throughout the world.

By Roy S. Carson
Venezuela: Pots Calling Kettles Black Immediately Comes To Mind!
The Rev. Vizcaino explicitly regrets the occurrence and that he was writing from the Perija heartland of the anti-Chavez opposition in western Zulia State where, traditionally, the locals view anything and everything emanating from faraway Caracas as alien to their Guaijira antecedents.

By John R Moffett
The Real Swine Flu Conspiracy
Both the political left and the political right have their favorite swine flu conspiracy theories concerning the origins of the H1N1 strain of influenza that has caused unnecessary panic around the world.

By James Raider
A Nation Changing First 100 Days
As noted here previously, this President's First Hundred Days should have been spent understanding the complexities permeating the economy of the great nation he was taking charge of, and most of all he should have established for himself a thorough grasp on the nature of this peculiar economic ingredient we call inflation.

By DerLange
GOP Headed For Ruin, Spector Defection Warns
Republican extremists have taken control of the party after the 2008 election debacle - and their relentless focus on Libertarian ideology and ultra-conservative social positions is wrecking the party. Arlen Specter's defection exposes Republican peril.

By Angelo
Open Letter To Obama
Open letter to Barack Obama

By William Cormier
'When You Grow Up On A Farm In Georgia, Your First Girlfriend Is A Mule'
I'm compelled to stand-up for my fellow Georgian's and make a few things clear. No, "When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is (not) a mule!" For a man that is seeking the governorship of Georgia, it seems unfair that he would seek to rationalize his aberrant behavior by claiming that it's the "norm" on Georgia farms. I wish that bestiality was the least of his issues, but this man believes in murder too.

By Mark Sashine
In Memoriam Of The Warrior-Brother Fallen
Listen to the music, people. That's the proper tribute to the glorious Russian nation, to the fallen warrior- brother who saved the world and didn't even get a proper burial. I have a dream.

By Mike Kirchubel
1819 Revisited

By Michael Cavlan
Civil Disobedience, Congress, Darfur And Horse And Pony Shows
Bravery and Acts of Civil Disobedience? Why Darfur and why now?

By Mary MacElveen
Public School Teachers Are The Unsung Heroes In This Society
Public school teachers are the unsung heroes in this society and as one looks upon the captains of industry, namely Wall Street executives, teachers beat them hands down. As teachers teach, they look to be the solution makers and that to me is meritorious.

By James Brett
Economy V. Ecology

By Robert Braunstein
Pros And Condo
Poem, Politics, Condoleeza Rice, Government, Legal

By Ralph Nader
In The Public Interest
 

By Mick Youther
Scientists Discover That Conservatives Are Brain-Dead
We don't know if President Obama has the right answers or not; but we already know where the Republicans' conservative policies lead. We are living through the mess they created right now.

By Jason Paz
The Republican Death Wish For America

By Eric Walberg
The Torture Trail: Lincoln Or Ford?
The question now swirling around political corridors is whether Obama will fight the monsters or let them off the hook.

By David Kendall
Dr. King Spanks Obama: Part 2
Through two centuries, a continuous indoctrination of Americans has separated people according to mythically superior and inferior qualities while a democratic spirit of equality was evoked as the national ideal... Nothing can be more diabolical than a deliberate attempt to destroy in any man his will to be a man and to withhold from him that something which constitutes his true essence.

By Walter Barton
Virginia Foxx – America's Future
Virginia Foxx, the real hoax from North Carolina.

By Robert Naiman
On Israeli Settlement Freeze, Public Has Obama's Back
There have been hints Obama has been considering conditioning U.S. aid to Israel on a real freeze of Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank. A new poll shows three-quarters of Americans oppose Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank. This is up 23 points from 2002. Even among respondents who say they sympathize with Israel more than the Palestinians, 64% say Israel should not build settlements in the West Bank.

By Jan Baumgartner
Rumors, Speculation And Fear: San Miguel De Allende Copes With The Spread Of Media-Fueled Alarm, Not H1N1 Virus
Reported from San Miguel de Allende, State of Guanajuato, Mexico

By John Washburn And David Klein
Daily Voting News Update For May 2, 2009
We are thankful for the opportunity to honor the work of John Gideon by continuing the Daily Voting News. We appreciate the encouragement expressed and patience during this transition under trying times. Because multiple days are covered in this issue of the DVN, news items within a given state are in chronological order; the date of publication appears in headline of the article for this issue only.

By Ann Wright
Torture: An Author And A Resister
As a Bush administration political appointee Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice, Jay Bybee, a Mormon, wrote one of four torture memos released last month. In September 2003, another Mormon, a woman soldier, US Army Spc. Alyssa Peterson, said she refused to use the interrogation techniques that Bybee had authorized on Iraqi prisoners.

By The Old Codger
Apologists For Deadbeat Dads

By William Fisher
UN Report: Rights Abuses In Iraq
Is this what we spilled blood and spent treasure to achieve?

By Nima Shirazi
On Ahmadinejad And Progressive Myopia
Many critiques of Iranian President Ahmadinejad's speech at the Durban II conference have surfaced from the progressive left. How informed are these critiques and do they tell the truth?

By Shamus Cooke
Obama And The Crisis Of The U.S. Auto Industry
Instead of "restructuring" the plants to produce mass transit vehicles, electronic cars, or selling cars at government subsidized prices, the Obama administration is intervening solely with the principle that the automobiles must "make a profit" on the "free market."

By Jason Leopold
How A Health Benefits Law Formed The Basis For The 'Torture Memo'
Yoo's legal opinions virtually gave President Bush unilateral authority to launch preemptive military strikes against any regime suspected of having ties to terrorist groups, provided Bush with the power to begin a covert domestic surveillance program, and authorized the president to allow CIA agents to interrogate alleged terrorist detainees using brutal methods of interrogation as long as it didn't result in death or maiming

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English Government To Close Lifeline For Iraqi Interpreters In Two Weeks
A Times Online article reports of England's desertion of its Iraqi interpreters.

The Irish Lead The Way: Open Letter To President Obama
"At the Bilin Conference an Israeli asked me 'how can we touch the hearts of the Israeli people' so they can change their Government's policies?'...there is so much fear amongst the Israeli's of ethnic annialiation but this fear can be dissolved by the politics of the heart...I appeal to you President Obama..."-Mairead Maguire,Nobel Peace Laureate

NEWS ALERT: N.Y. Times To File Notice It Will Close Boston Globe
The New York Times Co. said last night that it is notifying federal authorities of its plans to shut down the Boston Globe, raising the possibility that New England's most storied newspaper could cease to exist within weeks. The move could amount to a negotiating ploy to extract further concessions from the Globe's unions, since the notice does not require the Times Co. to close the paper after 60 days.

Thirty-Six Thousand People Do Not Die Each Year From "Regular Flu" (Confirmed)
Mike Adams: I find it interesting that when talking about swine flu, the criteria for inclusion in statistics is positive identification in a rigorous laboratory. But when talking about regular flu, the criteria for inclusion is, technically speaking, anybody's wild guess. The 36,000 number, it turns out, was pulled out of thin air. It has no scientific validity whatsoever, even according to the CDC's own standards.

(Video) Peter Schiff: Currencies And Chrysler
Gold, stocks, commodities, the Dollar, and the Chrysler madness

Condaleezza Rice On Torture: I Was Just Passing Along Orders
Rice using the same type of justification Nazis did during Nuremberg Trials.

Defending The U.S. Constitution-Thank You Lt Watada
Bush launches his crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by attacking Iraq on false pretenses. Lt Ehren Watada says NO, no way, his orders to Iraq illegal and immoral, a war of aggression as defined at Nuremberg, and not sanctioned by the UN Security Council. Thank You Lt Watada.

Old Japanese Maps On Google Earth Unveil Secerts
A Yahoo news article tells how old Japanese maps available on Google Earth reveal dark secrets.

The Next Female Justice
A daily Beast news article list some options of women Obama might fill Justice Souter's seat.

Waterboarding Interrogations: The CIA's $1000.00 A Day Specialists
An ABC news article reports about the "Specialists" who the CIA hired.

Will Gavin Newsom, Face Of Israel, Become The Next Governor Of California?
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom now aspires to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger as the next Governor of California. In March 2008, the Jewish Community Federation arranged San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's all-expense paid junket to Israel, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. Israel21century.com recorded the mayor's promise to "continue the narrative ... for another 600 years."

Top Senate Dem: Banks Own Congress
Sen. Dick Durbin, on a local Chicago radio station this week, blurted out an obvious truth about Congress that, despite being blindingly obvious, is rarely spoken: "And the banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place."

What's Missing From Every Media Story About H1N1 Influenza
If you read the stories on H1N1 Influenza in the mainstream media, you might incorrectly think there's only one anti-viral drug in the world. It's name is Tamiflu and it's in short supply. That's astonishing to hear because the world is full of anti-viral medicine found in tens of thousands of different plants. And yet how many does the mainstream media mention? Zero. H1N1 flu is not a hoax. But the way MSM reports it, it is.

GM Fails To Boost Crop Yields
An important new report from Dr Doug Gurian-Sherman, a former biotech specialist with the EPA who is now with the Union of Concerned Scientists, shows that "despite 20 years of research and 13 years of commercialization, genetic engineering has failed to significantly increase US crop yields." Recent studies have shown that organic and similar farming methods can more than double crop yields at little cost to poor farmers

First Genetic Analysis Of Swine Flu
The first genetic analysis of how well this virus transmits from person to person concludes that it spreads barely well enough to keep itself going. But it may be too early for celebrations. The 1918 flu pandemic, caused by another H1N1 virus, started with a mild, early wave in spring and early summer and the virus began its lethal second wave the following autumn.

Swine Flu Ancestor Born On U.S. Factory Farms
Scientists have traced the genetic lineage of the new H1N1 swine flu to a strain that emerged in 1998 in U.S. factory farms, where it spread and mutated at an alarming rate. Experts warned then that a pocket of the virus would someday evolve to infect humans, perhaps setting off a global pandemic. The new findings challenge recent protests by pork industry leaders that industrial farms shouldn't be implicated

Montana Defies Feds With The Montana Firearms Freedom Act - HB 246
The State of Montana defies the federal government and its gun laws.

Bling Dynasty: Enter The Dragon
A Mother Jones article outlines how China is benefiting from the economic storm.

Did America Forget How To Make The H-Bomb?
A Mother Jones article reports how US nuclear "Experts" forgot how to make a crucial component for nuclear weapons.

From An Israeli Citizen To Lenord Cohen
A Aljazeera.com article talks about the 400 child deaths from Israel's latest incursion into Gaza.

Germany: Confirms First Human-to-Human Infection
A spiegel news article reports of Germany's first human-to-human infection of the 1(H1N1) Flu virus.

Israel Bombs Tunnels, Cuts Gaza Feeding Tubes
Israeli fighter jets strike tunnels across the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt to further tighten the noose of hunger around the blockaded enclave.

Jailed For Exercising The Right To Remain Silent
Why has Sam Dodson been held indefinitely, on $10,000 cash bail, without access to legal council for 19 days, in an unsanitary jail cell in the Cheshire County Correctional Facility in Keen, New Hampshire, since April 13th? Answer: because he had the audacity to exercise his Miranda, Constitutional, and big government-hugger right to remain silent.

Jewish Professor In Trouble For Gaza Holocaust
Comparing the images of children killed in the recent Israeli war on Gaza to the Holocaust has opened the gates of hell against sociology professor William I. Robinson, and American Jew, and brought accusations of anti-Semitism.

Run To Help Gaza Kids
A newly established British charity is seeking to help raise funds for the children of Gaza by sponsoring an event that seeks to break the Guinness Book world-record for the number of people running 100 meters in a 24-hour relay.

Swine Flu Mostly Hits Young: CDC Uncertain About Spread
U.S. health officials said on Sunday "...The new flu virus appears to be fairly widespread in the United States and seems to be hitting mostly younger people, with very few cases reported in people over 50...."

The Last Empire
A Mother Jones Pictorial of how China is emulating the American lifestyle.

White House Threats In Chrysler Episode
"One of my clients was directly threatened by the White House, and in essence compelled to withdraw its opposition to the deal, under threat that the full force of the White House press corps would destroy his reputation if it continued to fight..."

Falk Tells Why Israel Stonewalls Gaza Probe
UN investigator Richard Falk says Israel refuses to cooperate with a Gaza war crimes probe because it knows deep down that it made serious human rights violations.

Israel In Massive West Bank Land Grab
Israel is planning a huge West Bank land grab that would further isolate Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) and leave a future Palestinian state unviable, the Israeli Peace Now group has revealed.

The Angola Three: Torture In Our Own Backyard
A Alternet article describes the conditions in US prisons.

The Obama Administration Is Moving Toward Reviving The Military Commission System For Prosecuting Guantánamo Detainees
Brezinsky said Obama had been "vetted" before he was allowed to be President...

Students & Musicians Fight & Fear Taliban
A CNN report of how students and musicians are rallying in Pakistan to protest against the Taliban.

I Can Call Someone Hitler Or A Nazi, But You Can't.
Fresh from witnessing a neoconservative Hudson Institute-sponsored Alan Dershowitz/Jon Voight et al tirade smearing everyone from Hamas and Hezbollah to Ahmadinejad and, well, most Palestinians, as Nazis and Hitlers, it should come as no surprise that a {Jewish] professor is now actually being investigated by the Anti-Defamation League and his employers for suggesting a comparison between Gaza and the Warsaw Ghetto.

US Diplomats Lauded For China Ties
A China Daily report on American diplomats receiving awards by China for US-China relations.

UK's 1st Female Poet Laureate Is A Lesbian
A China Daily report on UK's 1st female Poet Laureate.

Mans Savings Shredded By Rats
A China Daily article reports how a mans savings was shredded by rats.

Disclosed: Diebold/Premier's Humboldt County Termination Letters
Those who have ever had questions about the perils to US democracy vis-a-vis the dangerous over-reliance on private corporate vendors for the execution of our public elections, should take note of the troubling truths spelled out in Diebold/Premier's termination letters.A good first step towards any "fresh start" would be for Diebold/Premier to refund all the taxpayer money it took,in exchange for the soon-to-be-useless

RNC Wants Court Okay For 'Vote Caging' Again
Well, they got the Supreme Court. Now's as good a time as any to get "official" permission to suppress the vote again. Beats winning by actually getting more votes than the other guys, I guess

Abu Ghraib Guards Say Memos Show They Were Scapegoats
Graner and other defendants -- including Lynndie R. England, who was photographed holding a naked detainee by a leash -- were blocked by military judges from calling senior U.S. officials to the stand at their trials in 2004 and 2005. The government would not acknowledge any policy or procedure that could have led to what the world saw in the photographs.

Blaming ‘Media Hype’ For Swine Flu Fears
Warnings by health officials this week that the spread of a new strain of H1N1 swine flu meant that a global pandemic was “imminent” were followed by clarification that the word pandemic will be used “even if the new virus turns out to cause mainly mild symptoms.” The situation presented the world’s news media with a conundrum: How loudly should a responsible person shout (or whisper) “Possible Fire!” in a crowded theater?

Are Your Tax Dollars Being Used To Fund Human Rights Abuses In Gaza?
The US government is planning to pour more money- billions of dollars- to continue this madness. Tell them what happened in Gaza and ask them to investigate. Gaza's streets are littered with "made-in-the-US" ammunitions; Gaza's schools with "made-in-the-US" phosphorus.

Jack Kemp, Former QB And Congressman, Dies
Jack Kemp, the nine-term Congressman from Western New York, Housing Secretary under George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole's 1996 running mate, has passed away, his family announced Saturday night. A professional quarterback for 13 years in the NFL, CFL and AFL, Kemp was diagnosed with cancer in January.

On Ahmadinejad And Progressive Myopia
While these forward-thinking, long-time Cheney-haters have never been fooled by the bogus search for WMD or the torturific term “enhanced interrogation,” they seem to have a hard time believing that the country of Iran isn’t some Israel-threatening hotbed of hostile anti-American activity, lorded over by apocalypse-happy clerics, eagerly spinning centrifuges with the intent to destroy the Western world.

The AIPAC Case In Washington, Iraq, And Beyond
The Justice Department announced that the charges would be dropped two days before the opening of the 2009 AIPAC Convention. One may have noticed earlier that the Obama administration and the government of Israel play each other on a tight clock. Israel withdrew from its devastating assault on Gaza only hours before the inauguration of Barack Obama.

US Hides Behind Iran Sanctions Threat
Whereas United States President Barack Obama promised in his new year message to Iran that he was committed to a new diplomacy that "will not be advanced by threats", a month later this is precisely what is happening. This is in light of new White House-backed legislation in the US Congress that aims to impose "crippling sanctions" on Iran by targeting its energy imports.

Long Live Palestine!
The new Democratic White House is taking the same stand on the Palestinian plight as other administrations have done before. They continue to support the brutal and illegal occupation of Palestine and say they will continue to support Israel’s right to "defend itself." But the question we must ask is this: When 1,400 civilians are killed in one month in Gaza, 300 of whom were children, which side really needs to defend itself?

Paul Street: Status QuObama: A Hundred Days Of Fake-Progressive BS And Liberal-Left Surrender
In the actuality of American politics and policy, the officially "electable" candidates are vetted in advance by what Laurence Shoup calls "the hidden primary of the ruling class." By prior Establishment selection, all of the "viable" presidential contenders are closely tied to corporate and military-imperial power in numerous and interrelated ways.

Israeli Air Force Sharpening Arrows For Iran
Israeli Air Force is exercising with rockets capable of reaching Iran preparing for a variety of 'scenarios' in the event of a war with the country. The IAF has deployed its Arrow and Patriot missile interceptors pitting the apparatuses against different projectiles, The Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday. "We are working hard to be ready for the Iranian threat," an Air Force officer said.

Why Latin America's Left Keeps Winning
Washington's foreign policy establishment has been proven wrong. Latin America is more stable and democratic than ever. Ecuador's Correa actually delivers on his campaign promises. A new constitution is seen as one of the most progressive constitutions in the world, with advances in the rights of indigenous people, civil unions for gay couples and a novel provision of rights for nature, allowing lawsuits for eco-damage.

Palestine's Holocaust Museum
A aljazeera.net reports on the Palestine's Holocaust Museum with eerily similar pictures of what Israel has done to Palestinians.

Rulers Silent On Nargis Anniversary
A aljazeera.net report on Burma's ignoring the 1st anniversary of Cyclone Nargis.

Iran Says Nuclear Program Should Be Treated Like Japans
A Tehran Times article reports that Iran's nuclear program should be treated no different from Japan.

Floating Oil Lake Should Keep A Lid On Prices
A Tehran Times article reports of glut of oil in the market will keep prices stable.