Archives for General News

May 2008

Saturday, May 31:

Laudyms: 'US bribing Iraqi MPs to sign deal" (1 comments)

Rob Kall: Clinton camp enraged by Michigan, Florida delegate solution (4 comments)

Rob Kall: Rockefeller: Hayden's "˜Upbeat Assessment' On Al Qaeda "˜Not Consistent' With Intel Reports To Capitol Hill

Edwin Rutsch: Failed Conservative Values: All about Greed (1 comments)

Rob Kall: FL and MI Resolved, Puerto Rico, Montana and SD Remain (5 comments)

Rob Kall: Obama quits his Chicago church after long controversy (7 comments)

Rob Kall: Obama Will Overturn Unconstitutional Bush Laws In First 100 Days (14 comments)

Better World Order: Conyers Mulls Hearings Over McClellan Revelations (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: Intelligence Official Sees Little Progress Before Bush Exits

Sheila Samples: Licensed to Plunder

Laudyms: Interview with former "Donahue" producer and MSNBC pundit Jeff Cohen (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Kohn Signals Wall Street May Get Permanent Access to Fed Loans

Sheila Samples: Iraqis Protest Against US Military Deal

Sheila Samples: Credit where it's overdue

Sheila Samples: Israeli Housing Minister to permit 1460 new housing units in East Jerusalem settlements

Sheila Samples: US paying allies to fight war in Iraq

Abdus Sattar Ghazali: 'Narco-dollars' feeding militancy in Afghanistan, Pakistan

Sheila Samples: McCain Campaign Calls; A Nonprofit Steps In

Melinda Pillsbury-Foster: Looking for An Honest Judge in Santa Cruz (6 comments)

Friday, May 30:

Sheila Samples: Hayden: U.S. Cites Big Gains Against Al-Qaeda

Sheila Samples: Former prosecutors challenge White House immunity claim (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: Campaign Jousting Returns to Iraq War

Sheila Samples: U.S. Withdraws Fulbright Grants to Gaza

Sheila Samples: Under Pressure, White House Issues Climate Change Report (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Pepe Escobar Video: Spinning The IAEA Report on Iran's Nuclear Program

Sheila Samples: US Says Iran's Nuke Program Could Produce Disaster (2 comments)

Garda Ghista: A New Declaration of Independence (14 comments)

Amanda Lang: 24 Former U.S. Attorneys Say Congress Can Subpoena White House (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: Scott McClellan On Countdown: Talks To Keith Olbermann About His New Book (Video)

Better World Order: Scientists Cast Doubt on Kennedy Bullet Analysis

Laudyms: McCain's scary economic advisor

M. Wizard: Lost Tribes Discovered in Brazil (4 comments)

Laudyms: WTC7 "It was a controlled demolition" (video)

Roger Shuler: Meet a "Loyal Bushie" and a Corrupt U.S. Attorney

Amanda Lang: Arab States Ignore Iraq Debt Appeal

Amanda Lang: Iraqis Rally Over Us Security Deal

Amanda Lang: US, Russian, Israel, Pakistan, and China Boycott Cluster Bomb Ban Treaty

Amanda Lang: Last remaining Brit brought up on terror charge at Gitmo

Edwin Rutsch: Progressive Values Stories: Jim Dean on Responsibility and Participation (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: Europe fuel protests spread wider

Amanda Lang: McClellan: Bush Authorized Plame Leak (4 comments)

waronyou: 'Vitamin pills may cut effects of cancer drugs'

waronyou: Jim Rogers: More Pain for the Greenback, and the Failure of the Federal Reserve

Amanda Lang: McClellan: Take The Bush Administration's Claims On Iran "˜Very Seriously And Be Skeptical'

waronyou: Judge Napolitano on Fox - A Nation of Sheep

waronyou: Wanted for war crimes: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney

waronyou: Why Israel Is Talking to Its Enemies

waronyou: Zio-Clown Joe Lieberman to Kill Freedom of Speech

waronyou: Ron Paul supporters plan to make themselves heard at Missouri GOP convention (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: CNN's Ware dissmisses McCain's challenge that Obama visit Iraq.

M. Wizard: Phone home: Purported UFO video to be shown Friday

Jeffrey Rock: Calif. Senate rejects $7 billion for inmate medical care

Amanda Lang: Marines To Wage War In Indianapolis (3 comments)

Philosopher Jay: Clinton Taking Joe Lieberman Route to the White House (3 comments)

mahdi ibn-ziyad: Letter to a Puerto Rican Friend

Joel Wendland: Texas to do Business with Cuba

waronyou: McCain Reacts To McClellan: 'Every Intelligence Agency In The World And Every Assessment' (4 comments)

waronyou: Marines bringing combat training to Indy (2 comments)

waronyou: McCain linked to sub prime crisis

waronyou: Bush Claims More Powers than King George III

davidicke.com: The Illuminati Had Foresight (4 comments)

Roland Michel Tremblay: Is George W. Bush a Crowned Anarchist? (2 comments)

M. Wizard: CNN's Yellin: Network execs killed critical White House stories

ibrahim turner: Are you a coward like me? (6 comments)

Lindiana: Free Energy

Rob Kall: Pelosi's First Primary Opponent Since She's Been An Incumbent is Number One On Act Blue... and a Lesbian. (8 comments)

John Kusumi: Remembering Tiananmen Square (1 comments)

Thursday, May 29:

Sheila Samples: Syria dismisses Israeli demand to ditch Iran

Sheila Samples: U.S. Experts Bemoan Nation's Loss of Stature in the World of Science

Sheila Samples: For McCain, A Switch On Telecom Immunity?

Sheila Samples: DNC Lawyers Rule Against Clinton

Sheila Samples: Colonel Says Speaking Out Cost a Medal

Sheila Samples: 111 Nations, Minus the U.S., Agree to Cluster-Bomb Ban

Sheila Samples: Search Is Urged for Syrian Nuclear Sites

Sheila Samples: Pelosi vows to prevent fight at Dem convention

Rady Ananda: A Golden Year: NY Nears Marriage Equality (4 comments)

Joan Brunwasser: McClellan: Bush Admitted He Authorized Betrayal of Secret CIA Terror Weapons Program (2 comments)

Joan Brunwasser: Arkansas County to investigate latest election snafu (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: World Bank creates 1.2 bln dollar food crisis fund

Jason Leopold: U.S. Soldiers Launch Campaign to Convert Iraqis to Christianity

Amanda Lang: Bush's Former Mouthpiece Tells All

Laudyms: Senate Restricting Public Access to Contractor Data (1 comments)

Laudyms: Memo To Corporate Media: Anyone Can Dress Up As An Arab Terrorist & Fake An Al-Qaeda Tape

Laudyms: Eighteen years of work destroyed in less than four hours (3 comments)

Edwin Rutsch: Failed Conservative Values: Jim Dean on Corruption (6 comments)

Roger Shuler: A Curious Case of Christian "Values" (1 comments)

Martha Rosenberg: NPR 's Garrels Speaks on the Surge, Blackwater and Limits of Embedding

Amanda Lang: Wexler wants McClellan to testify about "earth-shattering" allegations

Laudyms: LifeLock, identity-protection firm, fails to protect CEO's I.D. (2 comments)

Laudyms: MP paid big price for speaking out in Harper's Ottawa (1 comments)

Laudyms: Iraq War May Have Increased Energy Costs Worldwide by a Staggering $6 Trillion (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: US cluster bombs to be banned from UK

Sheila Samples: Diplomats eyed for possible forced service in Iraq

Sheila Samples: Iran warns UN nuclear watchdog

Wednesday, May 28:

Sheila Samples: More racist e-mails in Secret Service lawsuit

Sheila Samples: Expert Explains High Number of Tornadoes

Amanda Lang: British PM Brown warns of global oil 'shock'

Sheila Samples: John Bolton escapes citizen's arrest at Hay Festival

Sheila Samples: Military Diagnosing More Post-Traumatic Stress

Sheila Samples: Late in the Term, an Exodus of Senior Officials

Sheila Samples: Foreclosures in Military Towns Surge at Four Times U.S. Rate

Margaret Bassett: Pakistan continues peace efforts with Taliban

Rady Ananda: John Bolton charge sheet: George Monbiot's list of accusations

Roger Shuler: Big Siegelman Story is Brewing at Vanity Fair

Better World Order: Human Rights Report Assails U.S.

Tim Riley: ABC, FBI Punk'd by Terror 'Fan Video'

Laudyms: Network news anchors praise the job they did in the run-up to the war- Greenwald

Sheila Samples: Defense Minister Barak Says Olmert Must Step Aside

Amanda Lang: Suspicions deepen on food labs - At issue: Were test results of tainted imports withheld?

Amanda Lang: Billions taxdollars spent yet U.S. ports vulnerable to terrorists, probe finds

Amanda Lang: Senate Armed Services Comm targets security contractors in new legislation - lobbyists deploy in mass to DC

Sherwood Ross: Bush Air Force Talk Distorts World War II History

Amanda Lang: 40,000 Troops Diagnosed with PTSD since 2003

Jim Scherrer: Revolutionary Prostate Cancer Treatment Comes To Puerto Vallarta (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: McCelland's Book: Dick Cheney was 'the magic man' behind the curtain...leaving no fingerprints

M. Wizard: John Bolton to Be Target of Citizen's Arrest at Hay Festival

Amanda Lang: McCain Backtracks on 'Apology Requirement' For Telecom Amnesty, Supports Retroactive Immunity

Amanda Lang: Taxpayers pay for Bush to attend McCain fundraiser.

Margaret Bassett: Dem lawyers: Fla., Mich. can't be fully restored

Margaret Bassett: Ohio Democrat's Chances for Columbus Seat Not Open-and-Shut Case

Bev Harris: Bev Harris on Voice of the Voters May 28th, 8PM ET (2 comments)

Tuesday, May 27:

waronyou: How Bob Barr and Wayne Allyn Root took over the Libertarian Party (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: Phil Gramm, McCain Co-Chair, Lobbied US On Mortgage Crisis While Advising Candidate On Economic Policy (2 comments)

Laudyms: Germany calls for ban on oil speculation

Joan Brunwasser: Corrections: In Which the New York Times Perpetuates the Myth It Created -- That Bush Won Florida in 2000 (1 comments)

Vicki Moots: Bush wants $600 million for Iraq police; but cuts aid to U.S. cops

Margaret Bassett: What's Wrong with Oklahoma? Richard L. Fricker (2 comments)

Laudyms: Death Squad in Delaware: The Case of the Murdered Marine (3 comments)

Amanda Lang: Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: States Chafing at U.S. Focus on Terrorism

Amanda Lang: McCain guru, former Sen. Phil Gramm linked to subprime crisis

Sheila Samples: Post-traumatic stress soars in U.S. troops

Jason Leopold: GOP Contender Linked to Attorney Firing

Amanda Lang: NPR Nails Perps in Subprime Crisis: Leaves Out Media

Meryl Ann Butler: New Ben & Jerry Peace Flavor Honors Lennon and Activists

Mac McKinney: Bush 'plans Iran air strike by August' (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Pentagon Shill Returns to CNN's Lou Dobbs to Talk About Iran

Sheila Samples: Atomic Monitor Signals Concern Over Iran’s Work

Sheila Samples: 2 American Soldiers Are Killed in Insurgent Attacks in Iraq

Cheri Roberts: AZ State Senator Wants 9/11 Answers

Arun Prabhakaran: MPR: Protest groups urge police to grant protest permit

Kathlyn Stone: Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions Send Statement to ExxonMobil and Chevron Corporate Shareholders (3 comments)

Roger Shuler: Jill Simpson is Still Standing Strong (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: McCain Blames Military For Disaster In Iraq; Lets Self Off The Hook

Margaret Bassett: U.N. nuclear watchdog faults Iran's lack of cooperation

Margaret Bassett: Canada Foreign Minister quits for security slip

Margaret Bassett: Rezko jurors will work late 'to help conclude our decision'

Amanda Lang: War protesters interrupt John McCain's foreign policy speech in Colorado: Updated

Amanda Lang: Liar-in-Chief Bush Splits His Pants Straddling His BS Hard Line in Engaging Sudan

Amanda Lang: Foreclosures in Military Towns Surge at Four Times U.S. Rate

Barbara Peterson: US residents in military brigs? Govt says it's war (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Senator Attacks McCain for Having Served In the Military Too Much

Rob Kall: Upstart, Open Source Firefox, Challenges the Big Web Browsers

Monday, May 26:

Sheila Samples: Volunteers sought to counsel returning troops

Sheila Samples: For Women Warriors, Deep Wounds, Little Care

Sheila Samples: Military Chief Warns Troops About Politics

Margaret Bassett: Worries in GOP About Disarray in McCain Camp

Laudyms: How telecoms are attempting to buy amnesty from Congress

Amanda Lang: *Military Pay Grades - A National Disgrace (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: Drug taken to stop smoking is linked to traffic mishaps - Los Angeles Times

Kathlyn Stone: Showdown in Dallas: ExxonMobil faces shareholder revolt

Alex Jones: George W Bush Authorized 911 Attacks Says Government Insider (11 comments)

Amanda Lang: Shiite Cleric al-Sistani Issues Fatwa Forbidding Iraqis From Selling Food To Americans

Sherwood Ross: Bush Claims More Power Than King George III or Cromwelll

Amanda Lang: Obama & Hillary have so many donors - FEC and others processing systems overwhelmed (1 comments)

Press Release: LAST DAY OF "A SEA OF TOMBSTONES: THE COST OF WAR"

waronyou: The New Global Hunt for Tax Cheats

waronyou: Paul backers to make their voices heard at Washington Republican Convention (1 comments)

Martha Rosenberg: All Over but the Litigation for Merck

waronyou: Awash In Profits, Exxon Extracting Every Penny From Its Franchisees (1 comments)

carola perritte: The Charade & Abuse of Memorial Day (May 24, 2008)

Sunday, May 25:

Sheila Samples: Safety Lapses Raised Risks In Trailers for Katrina Victims

Sheila Samples: Oil: A global crisis (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Poll Says Obama Faces Racial Challenge in General Election (1 comments)

Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Raw Story: Fox Commentator Jokes About Killing Obama

Sheila Samples: NASA Spacecraft Appears to Have Landed on Mars

Amanda Lang: UK's largest union merges with United Steelworkers creating 1st trans-Atlantic labor org.

Better World Order: Student researching al-Qaida tactics held for six days | higher news | EducationGuardian.co.uk

Amanda Lang: Merrill-Lynch sees U.S. giving nod for Gulf currency change

Scott Silver: Privatization of Everything: Can you see the similarities? (2 comments)

Gregg Gordon: Utah Phillips: 1935-2008 (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Veterans' burials nonstop at national cemeteries

Saturday, May 24:

Better World Order: Is the Internets Radicalizing You? (11 comments)

Sheila Samples: Mukasey Defends Author of So-Called Torture Memos (4 comments)

JC Garrett: Charges dropped against mall activists (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: 100 times a day, a veteran is buried (1 comments)

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 24, 2008

Better World Order: The Associated Press: US residents in military brigs? Govt says it's war

Amanda Lang: Sentence in Yoo Torture Memo Discounted FISA

Amanda Lang: Here're the savings from Arctic drilling '75 cents a barrel'

Amanda Lang: Senate OK's bill barring contractors from avoiding tax

Amanda Lang: Bush's 'Love and Hates' List

Amanda Lang: AWOL Bush 'Strongly Opposes' 0.5 Percent Increase In Military Pay Because It Is 'Unnecessary' (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: US residents in military brigs? Govt says it's war (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: House aims at Pentagon 'propaganda' on Iraq war

Amanda Lang: Toobin Calls Voter ID Laws 'A Clear Attempt By Republicans To Stop Democrats From Voting' (2 comments)

Roger Shuler: Don Siegelman Comes Out Swinging (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Biden: "This Is The Worst Administration In American Foreign Policy In Modern History, Maybe Ever" (3 comments)

Amanda Lang: Bush-McCain fundraiser not selling enough tickets to fill Phoenix convention center.

Sheila Samples: 270 Illegal Immigrants Sent to Prison in Federal Push (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Controversial Contractor’s Iraq Work Is Split Up

Sheila Samples: U.S. suffers casualties in bombing near Fallujah

Marc McDonald: New York Times Continues To Peddle Myth That Bush Won Florida In 2000

chris rice: Elder Abuse (Care) Part 1

Margaret Bassett: On Cancer's Trail 4 Corners Area with Uranium

Better World Order: B.C. researchers say death toll in Iraq distorts decline in global terrorism (2 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Parents claim racism in Harper Lee's Ala. hometown

Georgianne Nienaber: Sloppy Forensics Cloud Verdict in DRC Journalist Serge Maheshe's Murder

Friday, May 23:

Laudyms: Israeli pilots threatened to blast Blair's jet out of sky (4 comments)

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 23, 2008

Vickie Karp: VoteRescue Radio, Friday, 5/23, 6-8pm CDT presents Bruce Funk

Joan Brunwasser: Recounting the Recount and Counting the Uncounted

Joan Brunwasser: Massive (And Wholly Predictable) ES&S Touch-screen Failures in Arkansas and West Virginia

Jason Leopold: Rove Protégé May Dig for Dirt on Obama (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Iraqi TV station says U.S. troops killed cameraman

Sheila Samples: Cheney says Iraq surge is a success (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: Iran's surprise package tests waters

Sheila Samples: In Iraq, a Surge in U.S. Airstrikes

Sheila Samples: McCain Defends 'Enron Loophole'

Roger Shuler: Caught on Tape! Corrupt Republicans in Alabama (5 comments)

Skeeter Sanders: Scorched Earth: Clinton Campaign Morphs Into a 'Stop Obama' Movement (4 comments)

ladybroadoak: George W Bush Authorized 911 Attacks Says Government Insider (4 comments)

Edwin Rutsch: Progressive Values Stories: Norman Solomon on We're All in it Together (1 comments)

Georgianne Nienaber: Xenophobic Violence Escalates in South Africa (5 comments)

Rob Kall: Democrats seek Iraq embezzlement probe (1 comments)

Thursday, May 22:

Sherwood Ross: President Supposed To Be "Presider," Not "Decider" (2 comments)

Joan Brunwasser: RNC Hiring Rove Protege To Dig Oppo Research On Obama

Mary Mancini: 'Uncounted' Update: Wundervoll! Merveilleux! Jolly Good Show, Old Chap!

Joan Brunwasser: KARL ROVE SUBPOENAED BY HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE IN SIEGELMAN CASE

Sheila Samples: Again, Bush Optimistic in Iraq, Talks Victory

Sheila Samples: Billions of Dollars Unaccounted For in Iraq, Pentagon IG Reports (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Where Are Those Iranian Weapons in Iraq?

Sheila Samples: Iraqi forces load up on U.S. arms

Sheila Samples: House Overrides Veto of Farm Bill

Sheila Samples: Appeals Court Overturns Sect Custody Decision

Amanda Lang: Obama calls McCain's GI Bill statement "schoolyard taunt" - Politico.com

Sheila Samples: Skyrocketing Oil Prices Stump Experts

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 22, 2008

Sheila Samples: Former Bush aide Rove again subpoenaed in probe

Amanda Lang: Fed: Delinquency Rates Rose Sharply in Q1

Amanda Lang: Chairman Conyers Subpoenas Karl Rove (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: Rove’s Subpoena: Another letter; another refusal; and Conyers last nerve (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: McCain Will Reject The Hagee Endorsement (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: Vandals damage Stonehenge

Amanda Lang: Appellate court overturns polygamist sect custody decision

Amanda Lang: Ted Kennedy: I'd like wife to take seat

Sheila Samples: Senate Passes Iraq War Funding Bill

Sheila Samples: Advice From White House Is Not Always Followed

Margaret Bassett: St. Paul Passes ACORN-Backed Foreclosure Moratorium

Margaret Bassett: Gus Puryear: Bush's Latest Dangerous Court Nominee

James Brett: For Keith and the Countdown Staff

Margaret Bassett: House Auditors Report Possible Second Case of Skimming

Melinda Pillsbury-Foster: Murder for Hire In Santa Cruz – The Curious Career of Irwin Joseph

Amanda Lang: Torture Turf Wars

Amanda Lang: Interactive Map: Where Is Our Oil Coming From?

Amanda Lang: Boehner And Buddies Hope The Public Forgets Whose Energy Policy This Is - REPUBLICANS!

Amanda Lang: Big Brother is "Watchin", er, 'Listening'

Amanda Lang: Gas Prices Rise, Execs Face Congress - VIDEO (1 comments)

Edwin Rutsch: Failed Conservative Values: Norman Solomon on Dog Eat Dog Greed

Amanda Lang: China Quake Despair Turns To Anger

Amanda Lang: Israel Sets Demands For Syria

Amanda Lang: France Hit By National Strike

Amanda Lang: Un: Food Costs Hitting World's Poor

Amanda Lang: Energy Watchdog Warns Of Oil-Production Crunch

Amanda Lang: Gov't home price index posts largest drop in 17-year history

Amanda Lang: Leaky New Orleans levee alarms experts

Amanda Lang: Oil Hits $135 - Skyrocketing Oil Prices Stump Experts

Amanda Lang: Chertoff, DHS Will Face Questions on Care of Detained Immigrants Before Congress

Margaret Bassett: |What's Behind the Battle Over the New GI Bill?

Amanda Lang: Habib's claims backed by FBI agent

Amanda Lang: Waxman Laughs Off Boehner's Demand for Apology (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Soldiers Describe Misconduct | May 21, 2008 PBS

Margaret Bassett: Obama Prepares to Take Over DNC -- Political Wire

Amanda Lang: New Scrutiny For "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", Federal Appeals Court Rejects Automatic Dismissal Of Openly Gay Service Member

Munich: Spanish firm offers $12.8 billion to lease Pa. Turnpike

Better World Order: Is the U.S. falling behind in broadband?

nation of gandhis: *Expand The Dann Investigation Press Conference, Your 2008 Ohio Elections At Stake

David Bloys: County Official Resigns, Takes Federal Plea Deal

Wednesday, May 21:

Sheila Samples: Audit Finds FBI Reports Of Detainee Abuse Ignored

Sheila Samples: Fossella Decides Not to Run for Reelection

Jerry Frey: George Bush Is Not A Leader (4 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Obama, Clinton chart an endgame

Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Reporting on Senator Biden at the Center for American Progress (3 comments)

Amanda Lang: US Fed cuts growth estimate by 1%

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 21, 2008

Rady Ananda: Portland elects its first openly gay mayor

Rady Ananda: Portland elects its first openly gay mayor

Rady Ananda: Portland elects its first openly gay mayor

Rady Ananda: 38 whales die after stranding on Senegal coast

Laudyms: Budget Hero - setting federal budget priorities (video)

Margaret Bassett: Somalia violence flares in the wake of U.S. airstrike

Amanda Lang: Feds offer help to student loan industry - not students

Amanda Lang: DoJ Torture Report: Paints a picture of ghastly treatment of detainees by US

Amanda Lang: Report: U.S. Soldiers Did 'Dirty Work' for Chinese Interrogators (5 comments)

Dave Lindorff: For His Treatment of Children in the 'War on Terror' Bush is a War Criminal (2 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Homeland Security's Emerging Immigration Police State

Amanda Lang: Did George Bush Break the Clean Air Act?

Amanda Lang: McCain adviser: Sometimes it's "˜accurate' to describe a woman as a "˜bitch.'

Amanda Lang: Govt. May Have Massive Surveillance Program For Use In "˜National Emergency,' 8 Million "˜Potential Suspects'

Mary Ann Gould: "The Paradox of Fair Elections: Private Votes, Public Counting" Tonight 5/21, 8-9pm ET

Tuesday, May 20:

Sheila Samples: Egyptian leader walks out after Bush misses his keynote (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: Top Military officer: Iran jeopardizing peace in Iraq

Sheila Samples: House passes bill to sue OPEC over oil prices (2 comments)

Joan Brunwasser: Why 'Vote-by-Mail' Elections are a Terrible Idea for Democracy

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 20, 2008

Sheila Samples: Kansas Citians Are Angry: The Kansas City Star Outsources to India

ladybroadoak: BAE scandal and 9/11 truth coming to a crunch

Better World Order: Justice Department Report Reveals Senior Government Officials Knew Early On Of Interrogation Abuse But Did Not Stop It

Hans Bennett: PhillyIMC: Philadelphia-area Mid East Peace Activists cast a Shadow of Mourning over "Israel at 60" Celebration

Eileen Fleming: Vanunu: Almost Free and at Home in Norway

Rady Ananda: Cuba fights homophobia (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Colombian rebel's surrender weakens FARC after 24 yrs

the web: Gas ripoff?

Lawrence Velvel: Eric Lichtblau's Defense Of The Times' Disastrous Failure To Print The NSA Spying Story in October 2004

Margaret Bassett: Sen. Edward Kennedy has malignant brain tumor

Sheila Samples: Kennedy Diagnosed With Malignant Brain Tumor

Sheila Samples: House Conservatives to Offer Ideas for G.O.P. Message

Sheila Samples: White House denies Iran attack report

Press Release: Landmark election recount bill becomes law in Minnesota

Sheila Samples: CIA death squads killing with “impunity” in Afghanistan (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: YouTube refuses Lieberman request

Margaret Bassett: Vets Testify to War Atrocities, Vow to Fight and Resist Bush (2 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Kennedy's Absence Stalls Numerous Bills (4 comments)

Sheila Samples: Pelosi: More must be done to stop Iran (5 comments)

Sheila Samples: Gore wins $1 million prize from Israeli group

Sheila Samples: Key architect of Iraq war defends case for US-led invasion

Sheila Samples: Lieberman Calls on Google to Take Down Terrorist Content

Sheila Samples: White House takes swipe at NBC News

Sheila Samples: Keeping Secrets: In Presidential Memo, a New Designation for Classifying Information

Margaret Bassett: Former Clinton aide, Obama strategist in talks

Sheila Samples: Q&A With Don Siegelman: "I Think This Will Make Watergate Look Like Child's Play" (1 comments)

Monday, May 19:

Amanda Lang: Gen. Odom: Military Analysts Can't Defend Relationship With Pentagon "˜Because Of Its Conspiratorial Nature'

Amanda Lang: Top general encourages blogging, despite military policy blocking blogs.

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 18 and 19, 2008

Joan Brunwasser: The GOP War on (Democrats) Voting

Laudyms: Thousands killed by US's Korean ally

James Q. Jacobs: Updated: How Kerry Votes Were Switched to Bush Votes in Ohio (3 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Blacklisted by the Bush government

Hans Bennett: PHILADELPHIA: Brewerytown Organizers Threaten to Boycott Rita's Water Ice

Laudyms: Linguist gives students lesson in free thinking (1 comments)

Melinda Pillsbury-Foster: America's Courts, City Hall, Child Protective Services, and more. Threats in ways you never imagined. (1 comments)

Laudyms: Better Secrecy for Open Source Intel Collectors Urged

Jason Leopold: McCain Defends 'Enron Loophole' (2 comments)

Laudyms: Max Keiser: Post Traumatic Oil Price Disorder

Sherwood Ross: Bush Environment Record "Worst" Of All Presidents (1 comments)

Rady Ananda: Dutch government bans electronic voting

Jan Baumgartner: Anti-Immigrant Violence Continues in South Africa

Jan Baumgartner: Zimbabwe Opposition Accuses Military Over Assassination Plot

Amanda Lang: Shifting the health insurance burden to the taxpayers - Why are CEOs so resistant?

Margaret Bassett: Taliban militants strike in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province

Sunday, May 18:

Sheila Samples: Iran busts CIA terror network

Sheila Samples: 60 Minutes: The List: A Mission To Save Iraqi Lives (4 comments)

Sheila Samples: Quran-shooting: The religious Abu Ghraib

Amanda Lang: Breaking: Spakovsky Withdraws as FEC Nominee

Kathleen Wynne: Texas Caucus Fraud (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Bin Laden's latest message lashes out at Arab leaders (2 comments)

Margaret Bassett: House Approves the "Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008"

Laudyms: Bolivia under siege - US-funded autonomy movements threaten to tear the country apart

Joan Brunwasser: Q&A with Don Siegelman: I think this will make Watergate look like child's play! (1 comments)

Nick Nyhart: *Says Obi-John McCainobi: These Aren't the Lobbyists You're Looking For

Paddy Shaffer: Ohio Attorney General Office Now Under Lobbyist Control

Steven Rosenfeld: Election Activists Win Three Key Battles (1 comments)

Press Release: *Ellen Brodsky to run for Supervisor of Elections in Broward Co., FL!

Amanda Lang: Iraq Veterans Describe Atrocities to Lawmakers (30 comments)

Amanda Lang: IRAQ BLOOD BATH CONTINUES: Sunday: 17 Iraqis Killed, 46 Wounded

Amanda Lang: Webb: Bush Would Be First President In History To Veto Benefits For Vets

Margaret Bassett: BAE bosses detained at US airport in Houston

Margaret Bassett: US sniper shot at Koran in Iraq

Amanda Lang: DOJ says no FBI agents participated in 'abusive' interrogation.

Amanda Lang: Did Huckabee Have Someone Set Up Obama Remark?

Joan Brunwasser: SEVERAL BIG VOTING RIGHTS VICTORIES ON FRIDAY!

Bev Harris: Voting Rights Advocate Susan Pynchon Honored by Florida ACLU

Margaret Bassett: Obama, Clinton make final Oregon push - from Portland

Margaret Bassett: US Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan

Margaret Bassett: Judge delays war-crimes trial for Supreme Court

Saturday, May 17:

Sheila Samples: Bush An "Appeaser," Says Egyptian Press (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: Bush says Saudi oil boost doesn't solve US problem

Sheila Samples: Hundreds Held in Iraqi Sweep

Margaret Bassett: Ted Kennedy not in immediate danger; seizure cause sought

Barbara Peterson: Marti Oakley on Mark Dankof's America!

Artemesia: *My work as a disability advocate helping people with disabilities help themselves with important legislation.

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 17, 2008

Sheila Samples: Judge Delays War-Crimes Trial for Supreme Court

Sheila Samples: U.S. Sergeant Refuses to Go to Iraq: "This Occupation is Unconstitutional and Illegal"

Sheila Samples: U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan

Sheila Samples: Texas: Immigration Checks, Hurricanes Don't Mix

Cheryl Abraham: Immigrants Sedated With Dangerous Psychotropic Drugs Against Their Will (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Knesset members: “Bush more Zionist than Olmert” (3 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Oregon race could spell end of Schumer streak

Better World Order: Historic Senate Vote Rejects FCC's Rules

Friday, May 16:

Rady Ananda: Hooray, CA! Look Who's Kissing Her Now (14 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Book by Melody Petersen on Pharmaceutical Ads

Mark Crispin Miller: Election Fraud, not Voter Fraud, is a National Security Threat (5 comments)

Sheila Samples: Saudis see no reason to raise oil production now

Sheila Samples: U.S. sees need for "tangible action" on Iran: Israel

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 16, 2008

Sheila Samples: Ventura and former campaign manager hint at Senate race

Sheila Samples: Official Urged Fewer Diagnoses of PTSD

Sheila Samples: House Approves Tax on Rich to Aid G.I.’s

Sheila Samples: Senate Rejects Media Consolidation

Sheila Samples: Probe of Blackwater Killing Moves Forward

Amanda Lang: Flashback: McCain once sought to push the NRA out of the GOP.

Amanda Lang: Consumer confidence at lowest level since 1980.

Amanda Lang: Bush Once Again Fails To 'Jawbone' King Abdullah Into Increasing Oil Production (5 comments)

Laudyms: Chicago Citizens Reject Terror Drill Fearmongering (2 comments)

M. Wizard: US Soldier Refuses to Serve in 'Illegal Iraq War' (2 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Democrats Quickly Strike Back After Bush "˜Appeasement'

the web: NH Attorney Twomey's Statement to Congress re: Phone Jamming Election Crime Etc.

Susan Allen: *Alert Congress: Collection of DNA Samples Upon Arrest is Illegal Without Judicial Warrant (2 comments)

Thursday, May 15:

Amanda Lang: EMAIL: VA staff to "refrain from giving a diagnosis of PTSD straight out

Amanda Lang: World's Wildlife and Environment Already Hit by Climate Change, Major Study Shows

Amanda Lang: Exclusive Video: McCain Was For Talking To Hamas Before He Was Against It...

Amanda Lang: US House Passes Iraq Pullout Plan - But Not So Fast To Celebrate

Amanda Lang: MILITARY: Yet More Spin Uncovered

Amanda Lang: Fed should deflate some bubbles

Amanda Lang: Iranian embassy employees shot in Baghdad

Amanda Lang: McCain Blasts Obama As Unfit To Defend America

Amanda Lang: Davis Warns Fellow Republicans: "...if we were a dog food, they would take us off the shelf" (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Conyers on Rove: "Someone's got to kick his ass." (6 comments)

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 15, 2008

Amanda Lang: McCain: Bush ‘Exactly Right’ On ‘Appeasement’ Remark, Praises Reagan’s Handling Of Iran Hostage Crisis (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Bush gets emotional during tribute to himself.

Amanda Lang: Chris Matthews Stumps Right-Wing Radio Host: ‘Tell Me What Chamberlain Did?’ ‘I Don’t Know’ (1 comments)

Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Linked on Raw Story: Medved Uses Pseudo-Science to Justify Stereotypes (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Lieberman On Bush Comparing Democrats To Nazi-Appeasers: "˜The President Got It Exactly Right' (15 comments)

Amanda Lang: U.S. military cuts ties with Chalabi

Margaret Bassett: Obama Snags Endorsements of former SEC Chairmen

Rady Ananda: 360 post-9/11 workers have died, including 80 of cancer

Amanda Lang: In Speech Before Israeli Parliament, Bush Compares Democrats To Nazi-Appeasers (16 comments)

Margaret Bassett: The Amazing Money Machine

CASMII: US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all (3 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Survey of voters, candidates & who "would never vote for"

Kevin Anthony Stoda: Uranium and Lead Kuwaiti's Sand Heads for Idaho (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Juan Crow: The Deep South's New Second-Class Citizens

David Earnhardt: Mayday Mayday! Will your vote count in November?

Kevin Gosztola: VIDEO: Matt Gonzalez Campaigns From the Heart of San Francisco (4 comments)

Munich: Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers

Wednesday, May 14:

Sherwood Ross: U.S. Holding 51,000 Iraqis In Prison, Most Illegally

Joan Brunwasser: TAKE ACTION: Thor Hearne and MO GOP Attempt to Rewrite Constitution to Allow Voter Disenfranchisement (1 comments)

Joan Brunwasser: Rove refuses call to testify under oath

Jason Leopold: Torture Policies Undermine 9/11 Case

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 14, 2008

Sheila Samples: Harriett Miers Says Her Clash With Congress Will Outlast Bush (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: US foreclosure filings surge 65 percent in April

Sheila Samples: Blunt Federal Letters Tell Students They’re Security Threats

Margaret Bassett: Edwards gives long-awaited endorsement to Obama

Sheila Samples: Blue Dogs Fight Tuition Perks for Vets

Sheila Samples: Bush hails Israel on 60th anniversary visit

Amanda Lang: There's no sugar coating this one - the Republican Party got beat

Margaret Bassett: Reading the Health Care Tea Leaves for 2009

Amanda Lang: John Edwards to endorse Obama in White House race

Amanda Lang: Conyers to Rove: NO (5 comments)

Kathlyn Stone: Peak Oil Resolution Passed in Minnesota House

Amanda Lang: Judge: Dems Must Wait until June to File Suit against McCain

Amanda Lang: McConnell's Farm Bill Priority: Tax Breaks For Thoroughbred Race Horse Owners

Margaret Bassett: House passes election-year farm bill

Amanda Lang: Global Warming Denier Group Set To Recycle Attacks on Al Gore

Amanda Lang: GOP Uses GI Bill As A ‘Political Gimmick’ On Senate Floor To Thwart Passage Of First Responder Legislation

Amanda Lang: Independent Witnesses to War Perish at the Hands of the U.S. Military in Iraq : Indybay

Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Huffington Post: Some History on the Michigan Delegates

Laudyms: Feds: Drugs made at kosher meat plant

Rob Kall: Are You On Drugs? Odds Are, Yes. Over half of Americans on chronic medicines

Amanda Lang: N.C. Sen: Kagan Moves Up within 5 Points of Liddy Dole

Kevin Anthony Stoda: Zainab Al-Suwaij Speaks at the AWARE CENTER on "A Special Model for Muslim Women in a Modern Society" (2 comments)

Jason Leopold: Bush Operative Pushes Voter-ID Law

rob balsamo: 9/11: Press Release - For Immediate Release - Air America Radio: What Happened At The Pentagon?

Richard Mathis: "Curious" shirt choice (2 comments)

Richard Mathis: U.S. should go on diet of its own, India says

Mary Ann Gould: "We the People":The Constitution, Our Vote and Election 2008 on Voice of the Voters 5/14/08

Jonathan Nack: Nader calls U. S. "corporate fascism" (6 comments)

No Lies Radio: LIVE BROADCAST Winter Soldier HEARING.

Tuesday, May 13:

Better World Order: To Curb Truancy, Dallas Tries Electronic Monitoring

Ellen Brown: DID BEAR STEARNS FALL OR WAS IT PUSHED? HOW INSIDER TRADING SAVED JPMORGAN AND LOOTED TAXPAYERS (9 comments)

Old MacDonald: Patent For a Pig

Margaret Bassett: Tennessee has money woes per Governor Bredesen

Amanda Lang: Fmr. Military Intel Officer Reveals US Listed Bombed Palestine Hotel in Baghdad as Target - Wiretapped dead journos (1 comments)

Rady Ananda: Iran says to sue Britain & US over mosque blast (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: NOAA chief urges creating National Climate Service

Amanda Lang: Another government sacks environmental leader - Brazil's Amazon minister resigns

Rady Ananda: Blunt Federal Letters Tell Students They're Security Threats (2 comments)

Rady Ananda: SA: Apartheid Victims to Sue Multinationals

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 13, 2008

Amanda Lang: US drops charges against Saudi '20th hijacker' in Sept. 11 attacks

Joan Brunwasser: 'Hello,' They Lied: NH, TX Sec. of State Officials Continue to Deceive Voters

Sheila Samples: US must focus on Iraq, less on future wars-Gates

Amanda Lang: Blasts Hit Indian Tourist City

Amanda Lang: SPAIN: Barcelona Forced To Ship In Water

Amanda Lang: Non-Borrowed Reserves and the Fed's Balance Sheet

Amanda Lang: Politicians fail to comprehend breadth of infrastructure crisis

Amanda Lang: Senators Demand Answers/Documents On EPA Ouster Of Mary Gade

Laudyms: OMB Interference under Scrutiny in Congress

Sheila Samples: Senate votes to halt oil reserve shipments

Sheila Samples: Pastor Hagee apologizes for anti-Catholic remarks (1 comments)

Eileen Fleming: The Church of the Nativity in the Little Town of Bethlehem: Today, 2007 and 2002... (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Conyers Mounts Opposition to Iran Attack (9 comments)

Rob Kall: Fox commentator: Ron Paul revolt could be 'disaster' for Republicans (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: House Republicans File Brief Siding with White House in Subpoena Battle

Amanda Lang: Military analysts named in Times expose appeared or were quoted more than 4,500 times on broadcast nets, cables, NPR

Amanda Lang: Washington University Law Professors: Rescind Honorary Degree For Anti-Feminist Phyllis Schlafly

Josh Mitteldorf: Charges dropped against Gitmo "terrorist" whose Confession was obtained through torture

Amanda Lang: Bond: White House seems flexible on immunity for telecoms over wiretaps (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: Cease-Fire Fails To Pacify Sadr City

Amanda Lang: GOP Shifts Away From Bush on Oil Bill

Amanda Lang: TREASURY: Corporate Tax Revenues Down As Federal Deficit Balloons 88% Higher Than Last Year (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Rove refuses call to testify under oath AGAIN (4 comments)

Amanda Lang: How The Pentagon Propaganda Machine Worked: Are you telling me to tell a lie??? surely not!

Stephen C. Rose: Indiana Congressman Joe Donnelly Endorses Barack Obama

Susan Allen: *Comcast Censorship: Complaint to MA Attorney General (4 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Efforts to remove Detroit mayor to go to vote

Margaret Bassett: Hedge Fund Titans Are Treating Us Like Pawns in Their Economic Chess Games

Sheila Samples: 200-plus at Furman University opposing Bush visit

Sheila Samples: 5 Gitmo detainees to face 9/11 capital case

Monday, May 12:

Laudyms: Government Efficiency and Network Theory

Sheila Samples: Domestic spying far outpaces terrorism prosecutions

Sheila Samples: Rove tells House panel he'll answer questions in writing

Joan Brunwasser: GOP Vote-Suppressor-in-Chief Thor Hearne Deserves a Raise, Gets a Boost from the NYTimes and Continues His Unapologetic

Joan Brunwasser: New Front in Republican War on Voting: Disabled American Veterans (1 comments)

Joan Brunwasser: Faulty Machines Ready to Count Your Vote

Amanda Lang: This Week in Congress 5.12.08 - 5.16.08

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 12, 2008

Amanda Lang: Former State Dept. Official: Amb. Crocker Is Either 'Negligent' Or 'Intentionally Misleading'

Laudyms: Quiet US Confession: Weapons Were Not Made In Iran After All (5 comments)

Laudyms: Secret Law Hearing Follow-Up

Barbara Peterson: FDA Posts Trilateral Cooperation Charter for the NAU

Laudyms: White House Issues Policy on "Controlled Unclassified Info"

Amanda Lang: ABC/WaPo Poll: America 'SERIOUSLY off on the wrong track' (3 comments)

Kevin Gosztola: Taking a Stand Against War

Amanda Lang: Lieberman: Airstrikes in Iran are 'a distinct possibility'

Think Progress: Immigrant Detention in US Can Be 'Death Trap'

Amanda Lang: World CO2 levels at record high - sliding out of control (20 comments)

Amanda Lang: Domestic spying far outpaces terrorism prosecutions

Amanda Lang: China quake leaves 8,533 dead in one province: Xinhua

Amanda Lang: Powerful quake kills thousands in southwest China

Amanda Lang: American Legion Backs Webb GI Bill: This Bill Would "˜Encourage' Young People To Join The Military

Amanda Lang: McCain has missed every major environmental vote this Congress

Amanda Lang: Food Crisis Hits Fallujah (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Commonwealth re-admits Pakistan after six-month suspension

Skeeter Sanders: Clinton Campaign Appears Doomed as Obama Takes Over Superdelegate Lead

Amanda Lang: UNEARTHED: Environmental news

Zena Crenshaw: Private Citizens Address Judicial Accountability on Capitol Hill

Sheila Samples: VIDEO: CBS: America’s infrastructure is crumbling

Sunday, May 11:

Jon Gold: Justin Martell Questions WH Press Secretary Dana Perino On 9/11 Secrecy

Martha Rosenberg: Egg Supplier to Dept. of Defense Caught in Cruel Video; Trader Joe's Dumps

Amanda Lang: Judge: Womans rape case against Halliburton can go to trial

Amanda Lang: CBS: America's infrastructure is crumbling

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 10 and 11, 2008

Sheila Samples: Bodies Flow Into Hard-Hit Area of Myanmar

Sheila Samples: Losing a Home, Then Losing All Out of Storage (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: As Losses Mount, GOP Begins Looking in the Mirror (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Memo Shows Frustration With Special Counsel

Sheila Samples: Michelle Vetoes Hillary

Sheila Samples: Judge Drops General From Trial of Detainee

Amanda Lang: Young evangelicals flee GOP over Iraq, economy, John McCain

Amanda Lang: Cost of veterans care to rise, despite decline in total number of vets.

Kevin Gosztola: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

Margaret Bassett: Morris Dees Discusses New Lawsuit Against Klan

Lora Chamberlain: Help Us Bring Clean Elections to Illinois (2 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Families will make case for vaccine link to autism

Margaret Bassett: 22 dead in Mo., Okla., Ga. after new round of storms - EarthLink - Main News

Kathlyn Stone: Failure to report financial interest from tobacco companies taints CT scan-lung cancer studies

Joan Brunwasser: Memo Shows Frustration With Special Counsel (1 comments)

Eileen Fleming: MOTHER'S DAY UPDATE! This Press Release Made Mine

Jason Leopold: IBM, Darrell Issa, and Millions of "Lost" White House Emails (4 comments)

Melinda Pillsbury-Foster: A Happy Mother's Day Greeting from Social Services (10 comments)

Meryl Ann Butler: MY, MY, IT'S AMERICAN PIE: A Mother's Day Celebration (3 comments)

Stephen Fox: Aspartame Manufacturer Ajinomoto Sues UK Supermarket Chain, ASDA owned by Walmart, for Removing Chemical from Stores! (5 comments)

Saturday, May 10:

Rob Kall: Hardball: Smerconish Likens Arianna To A Hooker Outing A John For Saying John McCain Didn't Vote For Bush (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Florida: Magazine pushes racial buttons (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Army's Chief Liaison to Pakistan Is Pulled From Assignment

Sheila Samples: Murdoch Ends Bid to Buy Newsday

Sheila Samples: Iraq Contractor in Shooting Case Makes Comeback

Sheila Samples: Tentative Deal on Truce in Sadr City

Sheila Samples: As Stimulus Rebates Go Out, Stores Want the Whole Check

Sheila Samples: Bush and House G.O.P. Team Up to Present Show of Strength

Amanda Lang: Lebanese army won't take on Hezbollah - Civil war possible?

Amanda Lang: Obama outlines plans for race against McCain

Amanda Lang: Feds Close Arkansas National Bank For "Unsafe And Unsound" Practices

Amanda Lang: Arabs hold crisis talks on Hezbollah "˜coup' in Beirut

Amanda Lang: Parading of dead fighters' bodies like slaughtered animals taunts Mahdi Army

Amanda Lang: Gaza Power Plant Shuts Down

Amanda Lang: McCain convention chief quits after past ties to Burma revealed - Politico.com

Amanda Lang: Fatality At Afghan Anti-Us Protest - Wounded

Amanda Lang: Obama takes superdelegate lead

Amanda Lang: Another Bush Admin Smack-down: Judge Disqualifies General From Detainee Trial

Amanda Lang: Justice Stevens contrasts lethal injection methods - Eight Belles death more humane

Margaret Bassett: If Michelle Obama is next first lady At Power Lunch, female

Amanda Lang: 1st GOP Convention Crisis: McCain's Convention Chair Worked for Burma's Military Junta

Amanda Lang: Nigeria Unrest Costs Shell Dear

Amanda Lang: Darfur: Khartoum Under Curfew After Clashes

Amanda Lang: Missouri Turns Back Anti-Civil Rights Initiative

Amanda Lang: POLL: Obama and Clinton Beat McCain Because Of The Economy

Amanda Lang: FLIP FLOP: McCain tripped up (again) on abortion-rights inconsistencies - The Carpetbagger Report

Amanda Lang: McCain facing anti-GOP zeitgeist

Amanda Lang: Cease-fire reported with Iraqi militants in Sadr City

Amanda Lang: Blackwater unlikely to face charges for Sept. '07 Iraq shootout.

Christopher Wright: Food & U - Part II

Amanda Lang: McCain: New Jersey's Embattled U.S. attorney, Chris Christie, has done a 'good' job.

Peter Rost: Suicide: "An exit strategy" for doctors (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: Obama Suggests Offer Maybe Clinton Can't Refuse - To Help With Her $25 Million Problem

Sheila Samples: 39 Republicans Join Democrats As Mortgage Bill Passes House

Sheila Samples: IRAQ: The elusive Iranian weapons (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: Hinchey calls Blue Dog behavior "absolutely shameful"

Sheila Samples: Senator’s Ties to Real Estate Draw Criticism

Sheila Samples: Stone's Bush film set for pre-polling day release (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: CBO: Better GI Bill would cut retention 16%

Friday, May 9:

Sheila Samples: Plame seeks to resurrect suit in CIA leak case

Sheila Samples: Military stops cremating troops at Delaware facility that handles pets

Margaret Bassett: Federal regulators close Arkansas bank ANB Financial

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 9, 2008

Joan Brunwasser: What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen

the web: Thom Hartmann's Exclusive Interview with Don Siegelman (2 comments)

Jason Leopold: Lost E-Mails Obscure 'Plame-gate' (3 comments)

Amanda Lang: Right Wing Media Doctors Audio Clips To Distort Al Gore's Comments About Cyclone Nargis (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: Cheney: Bagdad's Disneyland-Style Amusement Park Is Evidence That Things Are Going "˜Swimmingly' In Iraq (3 comments)

Lawrence Velvel: Re: The Other Lesson Of Munich. (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: New CBO Report Proves McCain Is "˜Full Of It' In His Opposition To Webb-Hagel GI Bill

Margaret Bassett: Millennials Are About to Give American Politics a Makeover

Laudyms: Giant Food & Biotech Corporations Make Billions in Profit from Growing Global Food Crisis

Christopher Wright: Food and U - Pt 1 (1 comments)

Larisa Alexandrovna: Cusack slams corporate media, talks up new movie 'War, Inc.'

Margaret Bassett: Zimbabwe violence escalates

Amanda Lang: NY Times, Washington Post Confirm Arianna's Story That McCain Did Not Vote For Bush

Amanda Lang: McCain Pushed Land Swap That Benefits Backer

Amanda Lang: Plame Renews Suit against Rove, Cheney, and Libby

Ernest Steadman: VA Down For The Count? (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Only Two News Networks Willing To Explain Their Role In Pentagon Propaganda Program

Amanda Lang: Rumsfeld blames the generals for poor pre-war planning. (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: U.S. Army's 'stop-loss' orders up dramatically over last year

Amanda Lang: Pentagon Drops Post in Pakistan for Top General

Amanda Lang: Democrats Unveil Consumer-First Energy Act Of 2008

Amanda Lang: Gas jumps nearly 3 cents to record; oil crosses $124

Amanda Lang: Republicans vote against Mother's Day.

Amanda Lang: Federal judge orders CIA to turn over 2002 torture memo for review.

Amanda Lang: McCain Stays Silent On Hagee's Homophobic Slurs

By Jennifer O’Connor: Thoroughbred racing: Whipped to the finish (2 comments)

Michael Shaw: Obama open to Clinton as possible running mate | U.S. | Reuters

International Whistleblowers Association: Whistleblowers Announce Annual Washington Lobby Meeting May 11-18 (1 comments)

No War on Iran Coalition-Chicago: Chicago City Council Considers Resolution Opposing War on Iran

Assoc. Press: *Indiana nuns turned away for lack of picture ID (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: Eight killed when rockets hit US base (1 comments)

Thursday, May 8:

Sheila Samples: Israeli PM denies taking illicit donations from American

Jason Leopold: Introducing The Public Record - A Real News Magazine (2 comments)

Joan Brunwasser: Special Counsel shut down probe of Siegelman case last year (1 comments)

Joan Brunwasser: Brad Friedman Hosting 'Election Year Special Coverage' Today on KPFK with Special Guest: MO SoS Robin Carnahan

Joan Brunwasser: FL SoS Browning, Sarasota County's Dent Fight Against Election Integrity in Sunshine State

Melinda Pillsbury-Foster: Relight the Flame of Freedom in Denver – End WAR (2 comments)

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 8, 2008

Margaret Bassett: Directors of Developmental Disabilities Meets in Nashville

Rady Ananda: 9/11 theorist not curtailing his research (8 comments)

Sheila Samples: Cheney aide subpoenaed to testify to Congress

Sheila Samples: Bob Barr to run as Libertarian

Sheila Samples: 43,000 deployed unfit for combat

Hans Bennett: IWW Delegation Returns from Haiti (1 comments)

Munich: Feds take over NCC fairgrounds for May training exercise

Amanda Lang: FBI withdraws digital library's national security letter

Laudyms: FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional National Security Letter After ACLU and EFF Challenge

Laudyms: One million voters cancelled in Indiana

Laudyms: McCain's Big Idea: Create A Human Trafficking Task Force (That Already Exists)

Margaret Bassett: Amnesty International USA - Action for Human Rights

Laudyms: U.S. deploys more than 43,000 unfit for combat

Margaret Bassett: Lebanon unrest widens amid government, Hizbullah tension

Margaret Bassett: BBC NEWS | Europe | Russia 'expels US embassy staff'

Sheila Samples: Bush Comment on Food Crisis Brings Anger, Ridicule in India (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: FBI Backs Off From Secret Order for Data After Lawsuit (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Air pollution in Wyo. community rivals that of big cities

Kathlyn Stone: Researchers map DNA of platypus

Cheryl Abraham: May Day 2008: Powerful Protests! And a Requiem for Mainstream Media (3 comments)

Margaret Bassett: ACLU Lauds House Judiciary Committee on Torture Investigation

Joan Brunwasser: Howard Dean speaks of voter suppression on CNN today..anchor squirms.

Rob Kall: Chris Matthews Admits: MSNBC Bosses Were "Basically Pro-War" (1 comments)

Rob Kall: Did Rush Limbaugh Tilt Result In Indiana?

Wednesday, May 7:

Sheila Samples: Bush Vows to Veto Housing-Relief Bill in House

Sheila Samples: Lawyers for Guantánamo Inmates Accuse U.S. of Eavesdropping

Sheila Samples: Lawyers for Guantánamo Inmates Accuse U.S. of Eavesdropping

Gustav Wynn: Bush to America: The Dog Ate My Homework (Again)

Laura Carlsen | May 5, 2008: A Primer on Plan Mexico (1 comments)

Mac McKinney: Gorbachev: US could start new Cold War

Espiritu Pardo: Army May Have to Borrow to Meet Payroll

Sheila Samples: U.S. Consumer Debt Rises More Than Forecast in March

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 7, 2008

Chris Lugo: Green Party of Tennessee Nominates Lugo for Senate (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Beirut Paralysed By Labour Strike

Amanda Lang: McCain on equal pay: "˜I don't think you're doing anything to help the rights of women.' (5 comments)

Laudyms: Deja Vu: NYT, US Propaganda and War with Iran

Amanda Lang: Gore: It Is 'Obscene' That Bush Has Dismissed 'George Washington's 200-Plus Year Prohibition On Torture'

Amanda Lang: Dem Senators Berate EPA Official AGAIN

Margaret Bassett: With Nominations, Bush Seeks End to FEC Impasse (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: State Department Says "˜Missing' Laptops Now Located (2 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Clinton lends herself $6.4M as Obama's lead grows

Margaret Bassett: House Panel Subpoenas Top Cheney Aide

Stewart Nusbaumer: Indiana Has Its Night! (1 comments)

Rob Kall: Broke GOP Leaders Warn Shellshocked Reps of Election Disaster

Press Release: We did it! Clint Curtis is on the ballot for FL-24! (1 comments)

Mary Mancini: "Uncounted": On the Road, On the Radio, and Onward in Oregon

Kevin Barrett: William Blum to Noam Chomsky: How Could It NOT Matter Whether 9/11 Was a False-Flag Op? (2 comments)

Mary Ann Gould: We the People: The Constitution, Our Vote Tonight, 5/7 on "Voice of the Voters"

Tuesday, May 6:

Sheila Samples: Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Report offers answers (1 comments)

Josh Mitteldorf: Forget Nuclear (1 comments)

Richard Hayes Phillips: *"Witness to a Crime" Available Online

Bev Harris: Cancelled or changed, there's a whole lotta shuffling going on in W. Indiana database

Laudyms: Post-War Suicides May Exceed Combat Deaths

Laudyms: Yoo Subpoenaed To Discuss Interrogation Practices

Laudyms: Newly Unredacted Report Confirms Psychologists Supported Illegal Interrogations In Iraq and Afghanistan

Laudyms: We didn't mean to kill them

Laudyms: Iran cites Israeli nuclear activity as example of world's hypocrisy

Sheila Samples: Google Ends Microsoft’s Yahoo Search

Sheila Samples: Democrats Set to Defy Bush on War Bill (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Justice System For Detainees Is Moving At a Crawl

Sheila Samples: Analyst warns of oil at $200 a barrel (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: House panel subpoenas top Cheney aide

Sheila Samples: Yoo, Ashcroft To Testify On Interrogation Policies; Subpoena Authorized For Addington

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 06, 2008

Sheila Samples: FBI Raids Office of Special Counsel

Joan Brunwasser: How many Joses can you see? A lot.

Joan Brunwasser: Democratic Congress to Voters: What Election Problems?

Joan Brunwasser: Austin Plans 'Point-by-Point' Review of Hart InterCivic E-Vote System in Light of Federal Fraud Lawsuit

Joan Brunwasser: Report: 12 of First 15 Voters at NC Precinct Not Found in Pollbooks

Joan Brunwasser: Students, Nuns, Denied RIGHT to Vote in Indiana Today Following Supreme Court Approval of State Photo ID Restrictions, S

Sheila Samples: Green Berets stretched by two-front war

Laudyms: Intel Community Moves Towards Performance-Based Pay

Rob Kall: Malaysian blogger charged with sedition for implying deputy PM involved in murder

Amanda Lang: Having Flipped To 'Securing Our Borders First,' McCain Flops Back To 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform'

Amanda Lang: Pentagon & AWOL Bush Warns Of "˜Harm' From Webb's Effort To Give Educational Benefits To Soldiers After 'Only' 2 Years

Amanda Lang: FBI Raids Home, Office of Office of Special Counsel

Laudyms: Military and Homeland Security Dictate Who Lives And Who Dies In A Pandemic

Rady Ananda: NC: The fix is in already!! (3 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Russia-Georgia tensions escalate over breakaway republic (4 comments)

Amanda Lang: Kurtz: Media won't cover Pentagon propaganda "˜because they are embarrassed.'

Amanda Lang: Yoo Agrees to Testify

Amanda Lang: Senate GOP Blocks DOJ IG From Investigating Torture

Amanda Lang: Post-War Suicides for Iraq & Afghanistan May Exceed Combat Deaths, U.S. Says

Amanda Lang: REPORT :: Racial disparities persist in drug arrests for minorities, esp. African Americans

Margaret Bassett: Ohio Democrats talk impeachment after AG refuses to resign (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Corruption Eats Into Food Rations As Iraqi Civilians Starve

Rob Kall: Zogby Polling :Female Voters Deserting Hillary (17 comments)

Margaret Bassett: 10 Questions and Answers About the Indiana Primary

Margaret Bassett: A Gritty N.C. City Where Obama Has Appeal on Primary Day

Kathlyn Stone: Tens of thousands riot in Mogadishu in eruption of anger over food prices - Africa, World - The Independent (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Freezing to show warming trend

Sheila Samples: Top U.S. officer says would prefer no war on Iran

Monday, May 5:

Sheila Samples: TV News Blackout on Pentagon Pundits

Sheila Samples: San Diego Firm Named in Torture Suit (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Iraq Says No Hard Evidence of Iran Support For Militia

Sheila Samples: Iran says new talks with U.S. on Iraq meaningless

Lance Ciepiela: *Iraq War Crimes Report

Michael Chevalier: 'NYT' vs McClatchy on Iran's Link to Iraqi Insurgents

kellie bean: It's Official: John And Elizabeth Edwards Will Not Endorse In Prez Race

Joan Brunwasser: GOP Polling Place Photo ID Restrictions: Keeping Vets (and So Many More) From Voting in America (1 comments)

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 05, 2008

Rady Ananda: County Clerk with Bogus Degree Clashes with Judge over Web Site

Roger Shuler: Love Connection? Abramoff and the D.C. Madam (2 comments)

Laudyms: How Fraud Fueled the Mortgage Crisis

Laudyms: Landowners' Rebellion: Slavery and Saneamiento in Bolivia

Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Clinton Mailing Gun Gaffe

Rob Kall: Myanmar believes 10,000 dead from cyclone

Sherwood Ross: Sadr City, Chicago, and Segregation (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Hundreds of Laptops Missing at State Department

Rob Kall: Clinton Camp Considering Nuclear Option To Overtake Delegate Lead

Sunday, May 4:

Rob Kall: CBS Poll: Support For Obama Rebounds, In Wake Of Controversy Over Former Pastor, Illinois Senator Builds Lead Over McCai (1 comments)

John Kusumi: Activists Paint Pillar Orange

Margaret Bassett: Chafee's new book is tough on pro-war Democrats & Bush

Amanda Lang: U.N. sees world climate change deal in 2009 (2 comments)

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 3 and 4, 2008

Amanda Lang: Design of a memorial to Flight 93 fuels tension between families (3 comments)

Amanda Lang: Nigeria oil rebels say mulling Obama truce appeal

Amanda Lang: Asia fears lost decade from food price shock

Amanda Lang: Even the Insured Feel the Strain of Health Costs - McCain's Plan is a Killer

Mac McKinney: CONTRADICTING PETRAEUS: Iraq says No Hard Evidence of Iran Support for Militia

Amanda Lang: Baghdad hospital damaged by U.S. missile, dozens injured

Amanda Lang: US-backed plan sees shiny future for embattled Green Zone (3 comments)

Amanda Lang: Howard Dean On Fox News Sunday: Your Coverage Is "Shockingly Biased" (VIDEO)

Amanda Lang: Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis (2 comments)

Amanda Lang: Memo To Bush: "˜Magic Wand' Not Needed To Deal With Gas Prices (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: Despite Repeated Warnings, KBR's Flawed Wiring Still Kills G.I.’s (3 comments)

Amanda Lang: Audit: Up to 400 State Department laptops missing

Amanda Lang: Judge rejects Army Corps of Engineers immunity over Katrina

Margaret Bassett: Democrat Cazayoux wins congressional seat in Louisiana - EarthLink - Main News

Margaret Bassett: US Weighs Thousands More Troops for Afghan War

Joan Brunwasser: RAW STORY: San Diego GOP Chair Revealed as Infamous International Software Hacker

Joan Brunwasser: San Diego GOP chairman co-founded international piracy ring (3 comments)

Rob Kall: Interns Wanted for OpEdNews.com (1 comments)

Saturday, May 3:

Margaret Bassett: House Committee Threatens Rove With Subpoena (4 comments)

Roger Shuler: Good Day for Siegelman, Good Day for Justice (4 comments)

Cathy Garger: Interview with "Building A New World Conference" Organizer, Garda Ghista (4 comments)

John Lorenz: Republicans Crossing Over to Vote in Democratic Contests

Sheila Samples: Bush predicts the economy is going to 'come on' (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Despite Alert, Flawed Wiring Still Kills G.I.’s

Sheila Samples: Iran won't talk to U.S. on Iraq till attacks stop: report

Sheila Samples: Microsoft Withdraws Its Bid for Yahoo

Margaret Bassett: This time not Wright, but the Rev. Moon in a long history (1 comments)

Amanda Lang: Cheney: History will say Bush made America 'safer' and "˜more hopeful.' (1 comments)

Rady Ananda: BILL: One-Third of Parliament Reserved for Women in India (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: What backroom conniving are Steny Hoyer & Chris Carney

By HELEN THOMAS: Bush admits he approved torture (1 comments)

Dave Davis: Artificial Foods and Corporate Crops: Can We Escape the 'Frankenstate'?

Sheila Samples: Released From Guantanamo: Sami al-Hajj hits out at US captors (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: Iraq presents proof of Iranian meddling: official (4 comments)

Sheila Samples: EPA official ousted while fighting Dow (4 comments)

Sheila Samples: Somali fighters threaten revenge against U.S. after airstrike

Friday, May 2:

Brent Budowsky: Forget Wright - The Super Surge to Obama Has Begun (6 comments)

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 2, 2008

Amanda Lang: Senate panel bans private contractors in CIA interrogations

Amanda Lang: Blackwater: Looking for A Few Good Hundred Million

Amanda Lang: Oklahoma vet slams Inhofe for ditching Webb's GI Bill.

Amanda Lang: Senior U.S. Official: McCain's Plan To Kick Russia Out Of The G8 Is "˜Impossible' And "˜Just A Dumb Thing'

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Did the US Supreme Court just elect John McCain? (5 comments)

Press Release: "Uncounted" Goes North by Northwest

Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Move On's Bush-McCain Challenge

Amanda Lang: Pat Tillman's mother still not sure she's being told the truth

Sheila Samples: New EPA Standards Would Cut Amount Of Lead in the Air

Sheila Samples: Five Years, Two Words, No Letup

Sheila Samples: Senate Panel Moves to Shift Costs of War to Iraq (3 comments)

Margaret Bassett: CQ Politics | Push to Shift Iraq Costs Has Bipartisan Flavor

Amanda Lang: Iran moving into the big league (5 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Deaths ground US training planes

Amanda Lang: Union Shuts West Coast Ports in Antiwar Protest (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Rep, blogger has Al Franken's Senate campaign reeling

Amanda Lang: Poll: More disapprove of Bush than any other president

John R Moffett: Voting Rights Are Too Important to Leave to the States (1 comments)

Edwin Rutsch: Progressive Values Stories: Scott Henderson on the Common Good (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: North Korea promises steps to break nuclear-deal impasse

Vickie Karp: Clint Curtis on Vote Rescue Radio - Sunday, May 4th, 2-4pm CDT

Press Release: Second Former DNC Chair Paul G. Kirk, Jr Endorses Obama (4 comments)

Kathlyn Stone: Rev. Wright's honorary degree canceled by Northwestern

Margaret Bassett: Powdered cocaine not just for white yuppies any more

Micheal Muskal: *Another suspicious suicide (2 comments)

Hans Bennett: NY Times showcases new book "The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal"

Thursday, May 1:

Sheila Samples: Gulf States May End Dollar Pegs, Kuwait Minister Says

Sheila Samples: ACLU: Pentagon Documents Highlight Interrogation Methods

Rady Ananda: Poll: Only 2.9 percent of Americans are LGB (2 comments)

Press Release: Natl Lawyers Guild to Testify on Torture Liabiliy Before House SubComm

Larisa Alexandrovna: Break-ins plague targets of US Attorneys

Sheila Samples: U.S. launches foreign news Web sites (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Dockworkers take May Day off, idling all West Coast ports

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For May 1, 2008 (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: U.S. launches foreign news Web sites

Joel Wendland: Multimedia: Labor Says No to Housing Cuts

Margaret Bassett: Pennsylvania Avenue -- Book on 2 branches of govt

Margaret Bassett: Huge rally in Cuba marks May Day per BBC

Sheila Samples: House committee threatens Rove with subpoena (1 comments)

Jim Freeman: Dockworkers Protest Iraq War

Kathlyn Stone: LA Times: Dockworkers take May Day off, idling all West Coast ports - Los Angeles Times

Amy Gait: *Protest Don Siegelman's travel restrictions! (2 comments)

Laudyms: MAYDAY ALERT! Terror Drills Could Go Live! (3 comments)

Rady Ananda: FDA Faulted for Approving Studies of Artificial Blood

Rady Ananda: White House Undermines EPA On Cancer Risks, GAO Says

Amanda Lang: Bush administration refuses to turn over telecom documents

Kathlyn Stone: Exxon Mobil reports record $11B in quarterly profits

Mikael Rudolph: *Methodists reject SMU Bush Presidential Library 844-20 (5 comments)

Cenerentola: Remote Voting--Who's Counting?

Mary: Major Anti War Assembly to be Held in Cleveland June 28, 29, 2008 (2 comments)

waronyou: Ron Paul Nevada Delegates Voted to National Convention before Recess (1 comments)

Mac McKinney: McCain Accused of Accepting Improper Donations from Rothschilds

Margaret Bassett: Major news in the Delegate contest

Richard Mathis: Bloggers Blame Clinton Supporter for Destructive Rev. Wright Speech

Rob Kall: Pittsburgh, Los Angeles have worst U.S. air pollution

Rob Kall: White House Lamely Tries to Spin 'Mission Accomplished' banner

Laudyms: The White House email controversy: hearings spotlight disturbing IT practices

 

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