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October 2005

Monday, October 31:

Lynne Glasner: Straight Lines and Revolving Door Circles

Robert Parry: Is Impeachment the Answer? (3 comments)

Douglas Drenkow: *The Nuclear Question: Are Women Chattel?

Michael Leon: TNR's Jason Zengerle Fronts for NeoCons

Mike Whitney: Carry on, Patrick Fitzgerald.

Mary Shaw: Teachers vs. Rock Stars

Sheldon Drobny: Fitzgerald Threw a Softball

Walter Brasch: Cheney's Refrain: 'I'm a Believer'

thepen: The Department of TORTURE

Patricia Goldsmith: Revolution

Sunday, October 30:

Stephen Crockett: A Growing Movement Against Corporate Excesses

R. J. Kovic: "Surreality" shows and deadly "Comedies"

Stephen Crockett: Democratic Talk Radio Urging Democrats to Help Cheney Select New Chief of Staff

Mike Whitney: Outing Valerie Plame put us all in Greater Danger

Gene C. Gerard: Bush's Kind of Guy

Larry Scott: DISABLED VETERANS TAKING "FRIENDLY FIRE"

Carol Wolman: "Elect" theology by Carol Wolman

Greg Moses: Reversing the Pistons of Empire: One America for Peace

Saturday, October 29:

Rob Kall: Right Wingers See Themselves as Pariahs (1 comments)

Carol Wolman: Hungry for justice (1 comments)

Gerald Rellick: The Price of Incompetence (2 comments)

Angie Pratt: Aiding and Abetting

Rob Kall: Bush Meets Bush; Iran’s President learns by example

David Swanson: Writing in an Age of Terror (1 comments)

Anthony Wade: The First Card Falls, The Truth Remains Hidden (1 comments)

Friday, October 28:

Mick Youther: Frank Luntz: Homeland Propagandist (3 comments)

John Kelley: A New Mission for Americans

Bernard Weiner: Libby's Indictment: A Window Into the White House Cesspool

Andrew Bard Schmookler: The Blindness of the Liberals-- With a Case in Point (Tom Friedman) (2 comments)

Chuck Pennacchio: From Bush's Weakest Week to Dismantling His Strongest Link

Edwin Anthony Dalecki, Jr: Libby's best bet-- cut the deal' and squeal like a stuck Neo-Con pig? (1 comments)

Jackson Thoreau: Libby indictment names Rove - or 'Official A' - as confirming Plame's identity to Libby

Michael Leon: Fitz the Earnest One (1 comments)

Dr. Gerry Lower: Fairness and Equality in America-- Self-Evident or Not So Much?

Mike Whitney: Life after Rove

Gregory Elich: Fifty-one American Revolutions

Michael Hammerschlag: AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: HEY, HARKAVY!

Thursday, October 27:

Anthony Wade: The Politicization of Criminals

Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman: Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings (1 comments)

David Michael Green: Al Gore, Unleashed (7 comments)

Dave Zirin: Dave Zirin's Sports For Progressives: How Baseball Strip-mines the Dominican Republic

Michael Leon: No Ballyhooing on New Supreme Court Nominee

Mike Whitney: Thinking the Unthinkable; opening up negotiations with the Iraqi Resistance

Carol Wolman: We the people vs. the traitors

Rob Kall: Miers Out-- Next Chess Move in the SCOTUS Nominee Game

Robert Parry: 'Plame-gate' & Myth of the Renegade Aide (2 comments)

Senator Barbara Boxer: Barbara Boxer's Statement on U.S. Military Death Toll in Iraq Reaching 2,000

Ted Bohne: Saddam Murder Trial-- A little "pot calling the kettle black?"

Peter G. Cohen: Can Democrats Renew Their Party?

Andrew Bard Schmookler: The Bushite regime shows a pattern common to evil rulers: that they destroy what they claim to love-- Part I

Jason Miller: Where is the Grand Inquisitor When You Need Him?

Wednesday, October 26:

Mickey Z.: "Silence is the greatest of all crimes" (2 comments)

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Signs of the Turning of the Tide

Dr. Gerry Lower: Who Pays the Bills for the Bush Administration? The "Good" Bad Guys or the "Bad" Good Guys?

Randolph T. Holhut: PETER GALBRAITH'S THREE-STATE REMEDY FOR AVOIDING CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ

Mike Whitney: Assassinations in Lebanon; Pipelines in Haifa

Andy Ostroy: Fantasies of an Honest Opponent Hinder Liberal Response to Republican Machine

Tuesday, October 25:

David Swanson: Why I'm Getting Arrested at the White House Today

Danny Schechter: Show The War, Tell The Truth Campaign

Bernard Weienr: Patrick Fitzgerald's Diary: Watching Them Flop, Squirm, Flip

Mary Pitt: Medicare Prescriptio Rip-Off

David Sirota: What Should Progressives Demand From Candidates - Sizzle or Substance? (1 comments)

Monday, October 24:

Andrew Bard Schmookler: To Deal With Opponents, Liberals Need not just Bridge-Building Tools, But Battle-Waging Tools as Well (2 comments)

Anthony Wade: Corruption-Lite and The Two Party System That Has Choked the Democracy out of this Country. (2 comments)

Carol Wolman: Indictment, then impeachment, then indictment

Mike Whitney: Après Rove le Déluge

Edwin Anthony Dalecki, Jr.: Bush STUPID stamped on Foreheads!"

David Sirota: Vermont GOP Senate Candidate Caught Lying Through His Teeth

Greg Moses: Criminalizing La Raza Cosmica

Paul Rogat Loeb: Hard Conversations About the Big Easy

Chuck Pennacchio: The Way For Democrats to Win Again (2 comments)

Brasch: A Scary Costume

Rob Kall: Right Wingers Getting Nervous as Miers' Role in Bush Corruption Unfolds (1 comments)

Dave Haigler: Love-Hate Over Gays

Patricia Goldsmith: Capitalism for Dummies (1 comments)

Tamara Knowles: STOP THE CLAPPING AND LOOK IN THE MIRROR: The Moral of the Plamegate Affair

Sunday, October 23:

Rob Kall: It’s hard to avoid the reach of Fox and It’s People

R. J. Kovic: Sergeant Benderman: Serving Time for Having a Conscience

Anthony Wade: In Pursuit of Ideology, The Truth Has Fallen (1 comments)

Larry Scott: "THEY'RE SENDING ME BACK TO HELL AGAIN"

Mike Whitney: Voting in Afghanistan; warlords, jihadis, and Iranian-agents

Stephen Crockett: Inequality: Lessons of 9-11 and New Orleans

Michael Leon: Peace Movement Brings Down Bush. It’s True, So Enjoy It (2 comments)

Saturday, October 22:

Cindy Sheehan: They Are Not Numbers

Carol Wolman: Time for repentance (1 comments)

thepen: THE COMING HURRICANE FITZGERALD... (2 comments)

Stephen Edward Seadler: WAR, PEACE AND ARMS CONTROL IN THE BRONZE AGE

Rob Kall: Are Progressives the New Moderates? (3 comments)

David Swanson: Outing WHIG

Friday, October 21:

Mick Youther: Troop Abuse

Ernest Partridge: While the Iron is Hot (1 comments)

Robert Jensen: Abe Osheroff: On the joys and risks of living authentically in the empire

DOUG THOMPSON: Death Watch at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Carol Wolman: it doesn't take a weatherman...

Thursday, October 20:

John Kelley: Insourcing:

Mike Whitney: Saddam’s Metamorphosis; genocidal maniac or folk-hero

Carol Wolman: Called to account

Rob Kall: Tough Liberals (2 comments)

Richard Neville: BETWEEN A HARD PLACE AND STEVIE NIX

Mike Whitney: Escorting Judy to the Gallows

Wednesday, October 19:

David Swanson: Say it Ain't So, Joe Wilson!

Dave Zirin: When Fists are Frozen: The Statue of Tommie Smith and John Carlos (1 comments)

Randolph T. Holhut: "MISS RUN AMOK" TAKES DOWN THE NEW YORK TIMES

Stephen Soldz: Avian flu excuses begin

David Sirota: What's the Difference Between a Liberal and a Progressive?

Ernest Partridge: The Illusion of Normality

Jane Stillwater: Write THIS on your Absentee Ballot: "Better, safer & more accurate than Diebold!"

Carol Wolman: Grace and sin in America

Larry Scott: KEEPING THE UNIFORMED UNINFORMED

Douglas Drenkow: Iraq, LNG, Credibility: As Plame Was Losing Her Cover, Cheney Was Losing His Power

Andrew Bard Schmookler: What America Needs Now--A Prophetic Social Movement That Speaks Moral Truth to Amoral Power

Steven A. Hass: BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN POLITICS

Tuesday, October 18:

Kirk Muse: Becoming a Warrior in the The “language war.” (1 comments)

Anthony Wade: The King of Softball and His Gang of Apologists

Bernard Weiner: "Good Night, and Good Luck" -- Joe McCarthy Rides Again

David Sirota: David Sirota: Partisan War Syndrome-- The left falls victim to a debilitating disease.

Andy Ostroy: Bush Critic Gets Fired

Robert Parry: When Journalists Join the Cover-ups

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Why can't the left face the Stolen Elections of 2004 & 2008?

Jason Miller: Surrender is not an Option

Monday, October 17:

Rabbi Michael Lerner: What Cindy Sheehan Said on Yom Kippur at Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in S.F. (4 comments)

Larry Scott: VETERANS' BENEFITS ARE NOT SAFE

Carol Wolman: Possessions and life

by Cindy Sheehan: Supporting Hillary (4 comments)

Patricia Goldsmith: Preventing a Fourth Reich (1 comments)

John Kelley: Its Official: The Red Queen is Programming the Sunday News Programs

Sunday, October 16:

Sheila Samples: GOOD AMERICANS -- DEMOCRACY'S GRAVEDIGGERS? (1 comments)

Mike Whitney: Judy Miller’s Confession; wading through the rubbish for a grain of truth by Mike Whitney

Carol Wolman: People and Corporations

Stephen Crockett: Staying A Wrong Course

Saturday, October 15:

David Swanson: Peering Under the Plame Outing

Mick Youther: Where is the Justice?

Anthony Wade: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1 comments)

Carol Wolman: Descendants of Abraham

John Kelley: Wake Up and Live

Mike Whitney: The Iraqi Constitution; a cynical cover for partition

Gene C. Gerard: VA Seeks to Punish Iraq War Veterans (1 comments)

Friday, October 14:

Stephen Crockett: A Deep Look at Corruption Culture

Carol Wolman: The Most Secretive Administration

Mary Pitt: The Burning Question (1 comments)

Thursday, October 13:

Ted Bohne: So China Won’t Regulate it’s Textile Industry So US Can Compete? Get Used to it, America!!

Rob Kall: Let's Nail Dennis Hastert and Bury Bush, DeLay, Frist and Rove with New Tough Organizations

Jordan Flaherty: Crime and New Orleans

Andy Ostroy: --Restoring America's Greatness-- Our "Contract with America" (1 comments)

Mike Whitney: Can Attacks on Oil Facilities lead to Peace?

Carol Wolman: Theological Blackmail (1 comments)

Abigail A. Fuller and Neil Wollman: Should the U.S. Withdraw? Let the Iraqi People Decide

thepen: POLLS DON'T IMPEACH PRESIDENTS; PEOPLE DO!

Douglas Drenkow: Another Crony?! It's Enough to Make You Sick. Or Dead.

Wednesday, October 12:

Rob Kall: Dear Iraq Troops, Vets and Their Families (1 comments)

Doug Dingus: Journalists and Bloggers, how are they different and can we trust them?

David Swanson: Note to Randi Rhodes (1 comments)

Gary Leupp: Connected at the Roots? Judith Miller, “Scooter” Libby, and the June Notes;

Allen Snyder: Regressive Fish Stinks From The Head Down (2 comments)

Rob Kall: A Note to You Bush-Supporters, You've Been Duped, Betrayed and Made a Fool Of.

Randolph T. Holhut: MORE DEADLY THAN 9/11: THE COMING FLU PANDEMIC

David Sirota: Dems' New Agenda: The Good, the OK, and the Ugly

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D, best-selling mythology expert: Re-creating the Deadly Flu Virus: as Chilling as Resurrecting Dracula

Frank Pitz: Being in America (1 comments)

Tuesday, October 11:

Bill Willers: Breaking the Bank: The Rightwing Road to America's Privatized Future

Andy Ostroy: More Buzz on Al Gore Running in '08

Bernard Weiner: Before the Plamegate Deluge: Honoring Our Journalistic Heroes

John D. Goldhammer: Dr. Bush and Mr. Hyde: The Fundamentalist Shadow of George W. Bush (1 comments)

Carol Wolman: PIOUS RULERS

Robert Jensen: Eulogy for America/Hope for Creation

David Sirota: Making the "Strong," "Tough," & "Macho" Case for Withdrawal

Monday, October 10:

John M. Kelley: Gay Marriage - The New Willy Horton

Cindy Sheehan: I Have Arrived; I Am Home

E. T. SIMON: Fiction, Fantasy, or Fear Mongering? (1 comments)

Andy Ostroy: Specter May Subpoena Dobson on Miers "Assurances"

Doug Thompson: The Ghost of Joe McCarthy (1 comments)

Mike Whitney: George Bush and the Four Horsemen

Rob Kall: A review of the Paul Krugman Monday October 10th article titled, “Will Bush Deliver?”

Patricia Goldsmith: History

Carol Wolman: A time for repentance

Sunday, October 9:

Larry Scott: CIO Power Grab at VA

Jane Stillwater: The Simpsons: Who will Homer & Marge vote for in 2006?

Jason Miller: We Can’t Let "It" Happen Here (1 comments)

Mike Whitney: When Torture becomes Policy

Rob Kall: A Note to You Bush-Supporting Suckers, You've Been Screwed (4 comments)

Saturday, October 8:

Anthony Wade: Invisible Ballots, Confirming Our Worst Fears About Democracy in Decline (2 comments)

Mike Whitney: Bunker-days with George Bush (1 comments)

Carol Wolman: The Valley of Decision by Carol Wolman

Mary Shaw: *Bush's Torture Scapegoat (1 comments)

Gene C. Gerard: Sex Education Programs Endanger Students and Violate the First Amendment

Friday, October 7:

Elizabeth Gibson: Carville: Dems need stronger narrative to win (1 comments)

Cindy Sheehan: From Despair to Hope

Andrew Bard Schmookler: Dodged a Bullet-- But the Gun’s Still There

Mike Whitney: Edging Towards Disaster with Iran

Carol Wolman: One world, one God, one justice

Al Gore: Remarks by former Vice President Al Gore at the We Media conference in New York (1 comments)

E. T. SIMON: Condoleezza Rice’s Blueprint for a Repressive State

Jordan Flaherty: Race, Relief and Reconstruction in New Orleans

Edwin Anthony Dalecki, Jr.: "Why is it?" "The Big Dipper and then the Rise of Threats!" (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: A HORRID REALITY... (1 comments)

Thursday, October 6:

Mick Youther: *Operation: Enduring Stupidity

Douglas Drenkow: *The Truth, The (Less Than) Whole Truth, & (Almost) Nothing But The Truth About Harriet Miers

Robert Parry: How Rotten Are These Guys?

Al gore: Al Gore: Our Media Has Been Hollowed Out (1 comments)

press release: Let PDA Know about Local Elected Progressives in Your Area

Mike Whitney: Martial Law; the one answer to every question

Carol Wolman: The Just and the Wicked

Wednesday, October 5:

Burton H. Wolfe: The Decline of the Daily Newspaper (1 comments)

John M. Kelley: Trojan Horses or Why the Unanimity of Both Parties On the Supreme Court Candidates Shows the Failure of our Political s

Randolph T. Holhut: TODAY'S GOP: HOME OF CRONY CAPITALISM AND CORRUPTION (1 comments)

Robert Jensen: Bush isn't a racist -- just one more privileged, soulless person (2 comments)

thepen: Bush nominates HAM sandwich for Supreme Court and Harry Reid bites

Carol Wolman: Why Americans should observe Ramadan (2 comments)

Douglas Drenkow: *Meet "Justice Miers": Love-Child of Bush in Bed with Top Dem

Tuesday, October 4:

Anthony Wade: The Brilliance Within the Stupidity of the Miers Nomination (2 comments)

Dave Zirin: Barry Bonds Laughs Last (1 comments)

CAROL WOLMAN, M.D: Is the President Nuts? (1 comments)

Mike Whitney: Iraq-- a right rollicking cock-up

Carol Wolman: A Special Day- Addendum

Rob Kall: Taking Back the Congress with the Help of DeLay, Frist, Bush, Brown and Mier

Cindy Sheehan: *War-Hawk Republicans and Anti-War Democrats:

Carol Wolman: A special day

Jane Stillwater: Flight plan: Discovering that Social Security isn't the parachute I thought it was

Don Monkerud: The Crony Saga

Bob Fitrakis: Did Bush administration attack peace movement with military grade biological bacteria?

Dr. Ben "Go Fu*k Yourself Cheney" Marble: The Discrepancy Between Missing People and Confirmed Fatalities in Mississippi

Jason Miller: VIEWING TERRORISM THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS (1 comments)

Monday, October 3:

David Sirota: Miers Headed Law Firm Repeatedly Forced to Pay Damages For Defrauding Investors

Anthony Wade: Are you Kidding Me?

Mick Youther: Bush’s Noble Cause

Anthony Wade: What I Learned In Louisiana

Jane Stillwater: Gangs of DC: The Bush bureaucracy has invaded America's turf & what can we do?

Carol Wolman: Praying for George

Angie Pratt: If She Doesn't Answer the Questions Then The Vote is No (2 comments)

Rob Kall: *Immediately Oppose the Outrageous Nomination of Harriet Miers (5 comments)

Paul Bigioni: The Real Threat of Fascism (2 comments)

Patricia Goldsmith: Nazis (1 comments)

Sunday, October 2:

Burton H. Wolfe: What to Expect from John Roberts (1 comments)

Larry Scott: Dismantling the VA

Mike Whitney: The Occupation of New Orleans

David Swanson: *In Support of Weakness on National Security (1 comments)

Saturday, October 1:

Carol Wolman: "The harder they come... (1 comments)

Mike Whitney: Why not Torture Judith Miller? (2 comments)

Gene C. Gerard: Soldiers Shouldn't Serve as Police Officers

 

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