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Archives for OpEdNews Op Eds May 2009 Sunday, May 31: Mick Youther: Another Pandemic of Fear (5 comments) James Raider: Obama's Private Economic Conundrum Baldwin Park Democrat: Another Nail in the GOP Coffin - La Raza (4 comments) Dana Gabriel: NAIS: Farmers and Ranchers Under Attack (2 comments) Linda Milazzo: How I Witnessed Sarah Palin's Fuming Anti-Abortion Fanatics (16 comments) Prof. John Kozy: Can America be Fixed? (1 comments) Jay Janson: *A Dream Cabinet of Integrity for a More Progressive Economy Walter Barton: The Bible and Simple Minds (4 comments) Daniel Vojir: So How Magnanimous Will The Protect Marriage people Be Now? (3 comments) Jason Paz: The Leftist Jihadist Alliance and Its Implications for Israel Anjali Singh - CNS: Penniless Plight (1 comments) Harold Hellickson: America's Axis of Evil (6 comments) Jennifer Hathaway: *Single Payer Healthcare (17 comments) Theresa Paulfranz: Current Evolutionary Leap (7 comments) Rob Kall: Did Bill O'Reilly's Words Kill the Abortion Doctor? (15 comments) Sherwood Ross: Is Obama Truly Serious About Ending Failed "War On Drugs"? (13 comments) Frosty Wooldridge: Part 1: An examination of the Tragedy of the Commons (2 comments) Hamad S Alomar: With Netanyahu in charge of the Orchestra, it is time for Hezbolla, Hamas and Iran to dance (9 comments) Allan Wayne: Made in USA. America's Most Enduring Industry. (3 comments) Charles L. Riccillo: "The Wine Is Bad - Throw OUT the Current Economy!" (1 comments) Babette Hogan: *Green Supervisor and Greenpeace Call for People to Lean Hard on Legislators (1 comments) Vi Ransel: Deja Moo, I Think I've Heard This Bull Before (2 comments) Mary MacElveen: When disaster strikes, we are all Americans (5 comments) Barry Kissin: THE LYNCHING OF BRUCE IVINS OpEd news: Videos of OEN Editor Steve Leser on Fox News' the Bulls and the Bears yesterday (4 comments) Rafe Pilgrim: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, No It's CYBERCZAR! (3 comments) Stephen Pizzo: Intervention (4 comments) Philip Farruggio: Both Heaven & Earth Are Watching (11 comments) Bill Hare: Are Republicans Going the Way of the Whig Party? (12 comments) George Washington: "The Sexual Humiliation Of Iraqi Prisoners...Was Not An Invention Of Maverick Guards, But Part Of A SYSTEM" (2 comments) Saturday, May 30: George Washington: Demand that Obama Actually Fix the Economy By Taking the Power to Create Money Away from Private Bankers (5 comments) Jim Quinn: AIN'T NO REST FOR THE WICKED (11 comments) SR Darapuri, Citizen News Service (CNS): Why Dalits have slammed Mayawati's Sarv-jan Formula? earl ofari hutchinson: Picketing President Obama Is the Wrong Way to Get Blacks to Back Gay Marriage (1 comments) Robert Parry: 'Scaredy-Cat Nation' Risks US Security (1 comments) Jason Miller: So who are the terrorists here? (6 comments) Mikhail Lyubansky: Multiculturalism is For Sale: A Photo Journal (3 comments) Jon Faulkner: A Free Republic Morphs Into Feudalism (5 comments) Patrick Mattimore: Right Move by the College Board Regarding Advanced Placement (1 comments) Allan Goldstein: Sonia Sotomayor and GOP Self-Immolation Ed Tubbs: Sonia Sotomayor and Louie-Louie and a truly weighty issue. (2 comments) shamus cooke: The Deeper Origins of the Economic Crisis (6 comments) Tenzin Lekshay: New Aristocracy in Tibet: CCP loyalists David Swanson: #1 Idea on Obama's Site (3 comments) Freddie Venezia: Empathy (at SCOTUS) (3 comments) Dave Zirin: Sotomayor is a Sporting Judge (1 comments) James Raider: Obama's Not So Free Money (6 comments) Mary Shaw: Why the Torture Photos Should Be Released (9 comments) phil fredericks: IT IS POSSIBLE (3 comments) Ibrahim Musaev: *New Yorkers: Let us get on bicycles! (2 comments) PETA: Cruelty on the midway (1 comments) David Glenn Cox: The Next Wave (2 comments) Kyle Griffith: Truly Balancing the Economy (14 comments) Rebecca Em Campbell: TEN-POINT PROGRAM FOR SYSTEMIC ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION (18 comments) Friday, May 29: Chris Floyd: Convergence and Continuity: The American-Backed Terror Campaign in Iran (2 comments) Ben Jealous: NAACP President Vists Troy Davis on Georgia's Death Row (7 comments) Tom Degan: Judge Sonia Has Her Day Ashin Mettacara: *Myanmar : Sri Lanka Is Worthy To Be Condemned Ed Tubbs: Harvey Milk, the wafer and the wine, and Sotomayor Muhammad Khurshid: How We Can Save This World From Further Destruction? (4 comments) G.E. Nordell: The Evil of Dick Cheney (2 comments) Ellen Brown: But Governor, You CAN Create Money! Just Form Your Own Bank. (5 comments) John Basel: Give the Middle Class a Much Needed Break Jill Jackson: California Blues (6 comments) Linda Milazzo: LT. Dan Choi Takes "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Directly To Obama (3 comments) George Washington: The Socratic Method of 9/11 Truth (18 comments) Vi Ransel: PASHTUNISTAN (or Oh Well, at Least They Won't Get the Nukes) (3 comments) Jefferson Morley: Dead Spy's JFK Files Pose a Test for Obama's FOIA Order Paul Richards: NREPA – A Homespun Vision for the Northern Rockies (1 comments) Talha Mujaddidi: Tales of U.S. Hegemony and Pakistani Government Betrayals (3 comments) David Glenn Cox: One Hundred Days (1 comments) dick overfield: Has Obama Stepped into the Abyss? (8 comments) George Washington: There's a Reason that Jon Stewart is the World's Most Popular Truth-Teller (7 comments) Philip Greene: And The Sheep Shall Lead (3 comments) Olga Bonfiglio: Who Wants to Be George W. Bush? (2 comments) Brock Novak: North Korea: Only One Solution - "Global Ignore" (4 comments) William Fisher: Mr. Common Law's Next Adventure David Swanson: Open Govt Extends Hours: What Will You Vote For? Bob Burnett: The GOP vs. Pelosi: Where's the Outrage? (6 comments) Kevin Gosztola: Obama Didn't Betray the Left, the Left Betrayed the Left (16 comments) Stephen Lendman: Manipulation - How Markets Really Work (3 comments) Eugene Elander: GM really has it coming! (9 comments) Thursday, May 28: Danny Schechter: Wall Street's Scams, Lies and Frauds (1 comments) Mikhail Lyubansky: Accusations of "Racism" In Sotomayor's Speech Off Base, Out of Touch, and Very Telling (21 comments) John Nichols: Judge Sotomayor's Diabetes: Not a Weakness But a Strength Ray McGovern: Colin Powell: No Good Samaritan (7 comments) Cindy Sheehan: The Day of the Dead (5 comments) Marjorie Cohn: Obama's Guantanamo Appeasement Plan (1 comments) Bev Harris: BlackBox Blog-O-Lection -- IMPORTANT! -- Thurs. May 28, 2009 (1 comments) George Washington: Conspiracies and the Martha Mitchell Effect (4 comments) Mike Malloy: Perros Que Come Estiércol Kathy Malloy: What is that -- Tobasco Sauce? Pointy-headed Liberal . . . . (2 comments) Dave Lindorff: Sotomayor's Problem isn't being Too Latina; It's Having Hung with White Suits Too Long (8 comments) Doug Morrison: The Creative Murder of Select and Notable Newspapers (5 comments) Herbert Hoffman: We Have More to Fear than Fear (3 comments) Cindy Sheehan: War is Unsuitable for Children: Another YouTube outrage (1 comments) Eugene Elander: Cooperatism: What the World Really Needs Now (8 comments) nation of gandhis: North Korea's Isolation, When Going It Alone Is Not An Answer Mike Krauss: The Axis of Middle Class Misfortune (1 comments) Eric Boehlert: Why didn't Washington Post columnists call Cheney a disgrace? (1 comments) Richard Clark: *Will widespread middle-class affluence ever return to the United States? (4 comments) James Brett: Holy War (9 comments) Douglas Smyth: *Mountaintop Mining, Politics and Lawsuits (1 comments) PETA: Meet your meat (1 comments) F. Vyan Walton: Children Raped at Abu Ghraib, General Calls it a War Crime (15 comments) The Make it Safe Coalition (MISC): *Tell the Obama Administration to Demand Whistleblower Protection! Dennis Kaiser: Open Letter to Timothy Geithner (1 comments) Rudi C. Loehwing: Codex Alimentarius - Part Six: Final Summary Paul Craig Roberts: Succumbing to the dark side; Do Americans Have a Moral Conscience? (10 comments) Richard Distelhorst: The Way Out (15 comments) Bob Koehler: Peace Rising Michael Hammerschlag: CAIRO CALM Mary Shaw: Is Sotomayor a threat to Roe v. Wade? Don't ask the NY Times. (2 comments) Brad Kirsch: John Yoo Warns Against "Results-Oriented" Sotomayor (9 comments) Kathleen Bushman: Blood - Guts - and Dollars (1 comments) Robert Arend: Extraordinary Extradition: The Brian and Kerry Ann Howes Story (5 comments) Wednesday, May 27: Kenneth Briggs: Republican Health Position (4 comments) Robert Borosage: Betting on Failure: The Right's Story (1 comments) Phil Rockstroh: The Audacity of Hopelessness (5 comments) Joe Bageant: A redneck view of the Obamarama (3 comments) Tom Hayden: The Long Peace Movement: The Silence of MoveOn (2 comments) David Sirota: Teabags vs. Douchebags Why this May Not be the Second Coming of the New Deal After All. (2 comments) Mike Malloy: Nukes and Missiles and Bombs, Oh My! (1 comments) Robert Parry: Obama Caves to 'Scaredy-Cat Nation' (1 comments) George Washington: Psychologists Weigh In On 9/11 (18 comments) Kathy Malloy: Git-R-Dun... George Washington: Parody Can Wake the Sleepwalker (1 comments) Jill Jackson: Anti Choice? (3 comments) David Swanson: "Looting of America" Author Sees Opportunity in Meltdown (2 comments) Dean A. Banks, MCIWD, DD: An Open Letter to Brian L. Roberts, CEO of Comcast Cable Paul Craig Roberts: Who will Stand Up To America and Israel? Bruce K. Gagnon: WHAT ABOUT NORTH KOREA? David Weiner: Imperialism Is Not Just Immoral, Either Theresa Paulfranz: Where is Our U.S. Group IQ ? (6 comments) Brock Novak: Proposed UN North Korea Strategy: Ignore (aka "Rope a Dope") (3 comments) Andreas Umland: Fascist Tendencies in Russia's Political Establishment: The Rise of the International Eurasian Movement (4 comments) Jay Janson: *U.S. Threat to Atom Bomb North Korea Never Forgotten (4 comments) Kevin Gosztola: So, It's Like Rendition Without Airplanes? Rudi C. Loehwing: Codex Alimentarius - Part Five - Are All WTO Member Countries Obligated to Follow Codex Standards? Dennis Kaiser: Bilderberg Plans For Economic "Recovery" (18 comments) Ezili Dant�: *Rush Limbaugh/Clear Channel must be held accountable for racial, sexual slur and hate tirade on Haitians (2 comments) Stephen Lendman: Ending Today's Economic Crisis Simply and Easily, in America and Globally (20 comments) Steven Leser: Sotomayor Nomination - GOP says Latino Values not right for Supreme Court (22 comments) Tuesday, May 26: Phil Rockstroh: Against the Tortured Logic of Obama's Placebo Presidency: A Call for the Audacity of Hopelessness (19 comments) Dave Zirin: New Orleans's Not-So-Super Bowl Dean Baker: Blue Cross Millionaires Are Scared to Compete With a Public Plan (2 comments) Tom Hayden: The Long Peace Movement: The Silence of MoveOn (4 comments) Mike Malloy: 14 Amendment: R.I.P. (1 comments) OhioBlues: Netanyahu Throws Down the Gauntlet (2 comments) Bill Hare: CIA Chronicles: The CIA Veering from the Truth! How Shocking! (2 comments) Chris Hedges: "Clean" Energy and Poisoned Water (4 comments) Dave Lindorff: Maybe the US Prison System Should Take Lessons from Guantanamo (2 comments) Allen L Roland: *The Ultimate Cheney Deception is 9/11 Conspiracy (41 comments) John Nichols: Obama Pick Sonia Sotomayor Reflects America (3 comments) Jon Faulkner: 1886 - When The American Experiment Died (8 comments) David Swanson: Obama's Open Forum Opens Possibilities (2 comments) Mickey Z.: Activism 101 (4 comments) Stephen Lendman: Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestine Andrew Bard Schmookler: Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Letting His Foes Be the Focus of Ugliness (11 comments) Phillip Bannowsky: Capitalism Produces Rich Bankers, but Socialism Produces Happiness (7 comments) Dean Powers: The Storm is Always Building at the New York Times (1 comments) Robert Naiman: IraqTortureGate: Powell Denies Knowing He Used Tortured Evidence for UN Case (1 comments) Michael Collins: SHIP OF STATE OR SHIP OF FOOLS (10 comments) Grant Lawrence: An Open Letter to Jesus: My God Would Torture to Save Lives (22 comments) America 20xy: The "Ultimate Sacrifice" vs. the minimum sacrifice...thoughts after Memorial Day (6 comments) Monday, May 25: Marjorie Cohn: Obama's Guantanamo Appeasement Plan (15 comments) The Old Codger: As China Goes... (1 comments) David Michael Green: Overcoming the Poverty of Ambition: Barack Obama and the Bully Pulpit (1 comments) Steven Leser: Video of my Appearance today on Fox News vs Stuart Varney and Mike Slater (14 comments) jerry lanson: The Times Flunks Ethics 101 (2 comments) Rafe Pilgrim: Seeking Comfort in Torturing the Language (1 comments) Richard Spisak: Do my Eyes, Deceive me... Or Did I Just See Sen. Graham Nearly Defend Speaker Pelosi? Bob Ryley: Blaming The Poor For Wall Street's Mess: The Game Continues (1 comments) Robert Parry: Colin Powell Skates Free on Torture (4 comments) waldopaper: Our Empire of Dirt (redux) Franz J. T. Lee: Europe is well on its way to Walk the Plank of Recession Andrew Hughes: The Obama Dystopia Anjali Singh - CNS: Taking the Law in Their Hands (1 comments) John Maxwell: Haiti's Great White Hope? (4 comments) ncvoter: New Yorkers Sold Down the River, Pilot Will Put Uncertified Voting Machines in 45 of 60 Counties Rahul Pandey: What is to be done in the next five years? William Helbig: The War Drums Beat Again (3 comments) Jay Janson: *Mourn! Not Honor!, Our Dying in Dishonorable, Murderous Wars (17 comments) Joan Brunwasser: Part Two, Chipping Away at the Siegelman Case with Paul Benton Weeks (10 comments) Stephen Lendman: Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestine (3 comments) Sunday, May 24: Kevin Gosztola: Healthy Skepticism Toward Memorial Day (22 comments) Muhammad Khurshid: No More Politics On War Please elliot cohen: President Obama's Orwellian New Category of "Prolonged Detention" Allen L Roland: *Memorial Day 2009 / War is A Waste, Not A Celebration (3 comments) Dave Lindorff: Land of the Weak and Home of the Wussy (2 comments) Freddie Venezia: Personal Thoughts on Memorial Day Wagonhorse: A Clue to the Clueless (4 comments) Daniel Vojir: The New Repulsive Republicans: Featuring Cheney's Chamber of Horrors! (1 comments) John Sanchez Jr.: General Tso's Motors (2 comments) Mumia Abu-Jamal: The Politics of Office (1 comments) Kyla Glaser, ESQ.: An Open Letter to Sean Hannity (3 comments) Allan Goldstein: Much ado about everything (3 comments) Stephen Soldz: Spain copies US practice of universal jurisdiction (3 comments) Rady Ananda: Tech-Gate: What Is This Device? (35 comments) David Swanson: The 45th President (3 comments) William Fisher: Shhhhhh...It's Still a (State) Secret (2 comments) Cindy Sheehan: Day of the Dead (11 comments) Rowan Wolf: Our Rights On the Line - Still (3 comments) ALONE: Close Guantanamo, Move It to School of the Americas, Prosecute Both (3 comments) Deepak Tripathi: India's General Election Ed Tubbs: Don't be juked! Rudi C. Loehwing: Codex Alimentarius - Part Three: European Influence on Codex Mark Biskeborn: *Religious Morality Is Problematic-A Failure in American Government (2 comments) Bob Patterson: A Shiny, Brand New Conspiracy Theory (4 comments) Karyn Strickler: *A Failure of Leadership: Rapid and Massive Action Needed to Avert Climate Change (10 comments) Tolu Olorunda: Our Schools Suck: A Book Review (3 comments) Rudi C. Loehwing: Mandated HPV Vaccine at Question in UK (4 comments) Saturday, May 23: Nima Shirazi: The Grift that Keeps on Giving: Bibi's 'Innocent' Gift to Obama (7 comments) Steven Thompson: The Reform Party - What Went Wrong And Why Jason Paz: Mark Twain, Bibi and Barack (2 comments) mac Sperry: "detoV I " - A 110 Word Short Story On "Vote Secrecy" - The Enabling Characteristic of Vote Fraud. Joan Brunwasser: Chipping Away at the Siegelman Case with Paul Benton Weeks (4 comments) David Sirota: Just When You Thought the Corporate Rip-Off Schemes Couldn't Get Any Worse... (1 comments) jenny dorgan: Southern Lawmakers Say "No We Can't" (1 comments) Elayne Clift: Why Not a National Friendship Day? (1 comments) David Glenn Cox: Where Do We Go When All Hope Is Gone? (13 comments) Benadrit: President Cheney - A question R. A. Louis: Twitphilia & Twitanoia: Controlling Technology (15 comments) Monish Chatterjee: The Death of Prabhakaran and the Fate of Populist Movements (2 comments) Tommy News: *Get Ready To React: Prop H8 Marriage Ruling Day of Decision is Tuesday 5-26 (2 comments) Daniel Vojir: No Wall Between Church and State: Ireland and The Largest Child Abuse Scandal in History (4 comments) William Cormier: An Open Letter to President Obama; Why Is Corporate America Destroying Our Economy? (12 comments) David Latt: *Cheney's Dirty Little Secret Finally Revealed (7 comments) earl ofari hutchinson: Painful Truth in Cheney's Spat with Obama (2 comments) Melvin A. Goodman: The CIA's Long History of Bamboozling Congress (6 comments) jill mclaughlin: Breaking News: U.S. Citizens Hate Torture and Are Acting to Stop It (2 comments) Paul Karsh: Obama Needs My Voice. Here it is (3 comments) Jay Janson: *Most War Dead Are Civilians: On Memorial Day, Mourn Them First Friday, May 22: Marilyn Noyes: Don Siegelman Isn't Giving up and Neither am I (1 comments) Ed Martin: The NYT Presents the Living Definition of Republican Obtuseness (3 comments) mikel weisser: Current Comedy, 5/18/09: Tortured Pros (1 comments) sibel edmonds: Two Sides of the Same Coin: Heads-Heads (44 comments) Stephen Crockett: Delaware State Worker Coalition and Allies Fight Massive Pay Cuts: Part 1 (1 comments) Richard Girard: No Crisis of Conscience (3 comments) Zaw Nay Aung: The Junta is Going for 'Utter Devastation' Zin Linn: ASEAN must support Aung San Suu Kyi Vi Ransel: Intelligence Is a Piano (1 comments) John Little: Strawman - Guns in Self-defense (21 comments) Jeff Cohen: Forget 'Centrists,' We Need Progressives in the Supreme Court -- Right-Wingers Will Fight Whomever Obama Picks (3 comments) Allen L Roland: Cheney's Nat Security Speech / Lies vs Facts (7 comments) Lawrence Velvel: Letter to Douglas Shulman Ray McGovern: Cheney: Support for Israel Feeds Terrorism (2 comments) Nancy Tobi: Secret vote counting and the lost art of democratic elections (1 comments) David Sirota: Facing Progressive Pressure, Obama Backs off Panama Free Trade Agreement (4 comments) George Washington: Cheney Defending Torture is Like Charles Manson Defending Murder (1 comments) Frosty Wooldridge: Each year 46 million abortions worldwide: Catholic Church Mathew Maavak: A Roulette of Terror, Nukes and Jihad (3 comments) David Swanson: Fantasy Finance and Real Fixes Maryrose Asher: Citizen Politics John S. Hatch: Torture & 9/11 (2 comments) Bob Burnett: The Republican Dilemma (2 comments) Michael Corcoran: Shared Complicity: The Tragedy of the Pelosi/CIA Affair (9 comments) Enver Masud: Zalmay Khalilzad: Neocon to Serve as De Facto Leader of Afghanistan? (2 comments) Carter Calhoun: Oil Companies Complicit in War Crimes Rick Rozoff: Scramble for World Resources: Battle for Antarctica (2 comments) Franz J. T. Lee: Venezuela: Are we on Orbit of International Class Struggle? Bobby Ramakant: Call for International Action to Combat Epidemic of Non-communicable Diseases Kevin Gosztola: Should Americans Allow 9/11 and the Perceived Threat from al Qaeda to Dictate Our Future? (7 comments) Stephen Lendman: Internet Threatened by Censorship, Secret Surveillance, and Cybersecurity Laws Mary MacElveen: Supermax prisons: Budget cuts were made during the Bush years Thursday, May 21: shamus cooke: GM's Turn on Obama's Chopping Block (1 comments) Joan Wile: J'Accuse! CNN Distorts and Twists the News (1 comments) James Raider: Detroit Icons - Ending More Than An Era (4 comments) Dr. Lenore Jean Daniels: Malcolm, the MOVE Family, and the Movement You Can Believe In will richard oconnor: Why Unions Have Failed, and Obama Should Let Them (2 comments) Chris Floyd: The American Way: In Defense of George W. Bush (4 comments) Nima Shirazi: Stop the Press! This is what Israeli Democracy Looks Like (11 comments) Robert Arend: The Obama Administration: May 1-15, 2009 (1 comments) Don Don: Why Abortion Isn't Murder (6 comments) Michael Weber: Nancy Pelosi: the Human Shield In The Torture Debate Mike Malloy: Dominus Vobiscum (1 comments) The Cornucopia Institute: Corporations Undermine Organic Reputation: Chinese Soy Imports and Toxic Petrochemicals amicus curiae: A Solution to Salmonella Contaminated Foods? (2 comments) Jim Finley: A Search for Reason on Gun Ownership (11 comments) David Latt: *The Governator Gets It Wrong Again (3 comments) John Tait: Blacklisting Mr. Black George Washington: Columbia Space Shuttle Investigation $175 Million. Challenger Investigation $100 Million. 9/11 Investigation $15 Million (5 comments) Lorna Salzman: Four More Years: The Obamavore's Dilemma (2 comments) Allen L Roland: The Great Revisionist / Dick Cheney (5 comments) George Washington: Obama Is Considering Doing Something Even Bush Didn't Try: "Preventive Detention" of People Who Will Never Get a Trial (10 comments) Ellen Brown: The Weimar Hyperinflation: Time to get out the wheelbarrows? (10 comments) waldopaper: Torches, Forks and a Single Banner (4 comments) David Swanson: Does Cheney Make Obama Look Good Enough? (2 comments) Kevin Zeese: Baucus Flees Single Payer Questions, Conducts Business of Health Care in Secret (3 comments) Jason Paz: Howard Zinn's Three 'Just' Wars (5 comments) Doreen Carlson: Aventis Vaccine Factory in Mexico Danny Schechter: The Crimes of Wall Street: Investigate 'Control Frauds' (1 comments) Muhammad Khurshid: US Is Still Betting on the Wrong Horse In Pakistan (1 comments) Charlotte Laws: Adam Lambert: Don't Worry, Elvis Would Have Lost American Idol, Too R-CALF USA: USDA's Lax Import Rules Expose US Cattle to Mad Cow Disease (3 comments) Sherwood Ross: Obama Expands the American Warfare State (13 comments) Rory OConnor: Prairie Home Torture Companion (3 comments) Mary MacElveen: Still a turnip-truck government when it comes to Guantanamo Bay (4 comments) Matt Kjeldsen: The Bill of Rights for Awakening Patriots (13 comments) OhioBlues: Long Before Rummy's Bible Thumping, We Knew . . (5 comments) Carol Cleveland: The Joy of Conspiracy Denial (32 comments) Mumia Abu-Jamal: Government for Whom? (1 comments) Pete LaTona: Are Baseball Players Paid Too Much? (8 comments) Michael Morrissey: Was the Air Force One Flyover a Warning to Obama? (12 comments) Joe Quinn: Dick Cheney - Tortured Evidence (1 comments) Wednesday, May 20: Lord Rudi C. Loehwing: Codex Alimentarius – A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy shamus cooke: The Economy's Search for a New Normal Lord Rudi C. Loehwing: The US Safe Haven for Dietary, Nutritional Supplements - Under attack... from within (1 comments) Suzana Megles: Let Your Legislators Know How You Feel about Animal Legislation (5 comments) Robert Borosage: The Health Care Lobby: Watch What They Do (1 comments) Andrew Bard Schmookler: Senate Democrats, the Closing of Guantanamo, and the Obama Strategy: A Tentative Hypothesis (1 comments) Paul Craig Roberts: Watching Obama Morph Into Dick Cheney (65 comments) David Sirota: When An Intern Can Form a Shell Corporation, It's Time For Trade Reform Robert Naiman: Will Speaker Pelosi Stand Up to the IMF? Eric Walberg: Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib: Action, Cut! (1 comments) George Washington: U.S. Officials Admitted that Boys Were Sodomized In Iraq Prison (10 comments) Camillo "Mac" Bica: Fratricide at Camp Liberty Barry De Jasu: Our Transparent President. (4 comments) Allen L Roland: Bush Answered To God And Cheney / In That Order (3 comments) Allan Wayne: Raise a White Flag, End a Dark War. (2 comments) Stephen H. Cassidy: Magnetix Toy Injuries: A Failure To Inform Safety Regulators Doug Wallace: All Attorneys Working in the Congress During and for the Bush Administration Should be Disbarred (4 comments) George Washington: The One Case of Torture Obama Doesn't Want You to Learn About (6 comments) Bunnatine H. Greenhouse: *Halliburton Whistleblower Gagged by US Army Corps of Engineers after Testifying in Congress (1 comments) Bob Patterson: A Question about exceptions to the exceptions for Charlie Krauthammer Mary MacElveen: Are we prepared when it comes to earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes and tornadoes? auroraaustraliis: GFC Solutions? J. Edward Tremlett: Doom and Gloom for the Dumb and the Glum (132 comments) David Swanson: *Priorities (2 comments) Dave Lindorff: Where's the Outrage? When it Comes to National Labor Law We Have a Corporate Crime Wave (5 comments) David Basora: Michael Steele: "The Era Of Apologizing Is Over" When Did It Start? (1 comments) steve young: Now The Hard Work Begins Craig Harrington: Made in the USA? The Truth Behind the Labels (1 comments) Ralph Lopez: *George Bush's Village People Moment Jeff Cohen: Will Obama Move Supreme Court Rightward? (2 comments) Laura Roslin: Effort to Disbar Bush Torture Lawyers Earns Kevin Zeese BuzzFlash's Wings of Justice Award KatieSF: Testimony Overlooked? Former Head of Siegelman's Transition Team clears Siegelman: "There was no bribe" (4 comments) Stephen Lendman: "Over the Rainbow" (11 comments) Tuesday, May 19: Jon Faulkner: Reinforcing The Two Party Myth (7 comments) Grant Lawrence: Bush Fought the Iraq War by the Bible and Look What Happened (14 comments) George Washington: Here's a Detailed Plan For Closing Guantanamo, So Congress Can Fund Closure (1 comments) background n015e: Dr. Bruce Jessen and Dr. James Mitchell deserve a special medal. Marilyn Noyes: Don Siegelman Has Fans Everywhere (3 comments) Mike Malloy: Teacher (2 comments) Jeffrey M. Smith: American Academy of Environmental Medicine Calls for Immediate Moratorium on All Genetically Modified Foods (35 comments) Bev Harris: Connecticut Election Audit: 'Ridiculous, Unacceptable, Unconscionable' (1 comments) Dennis Kaiser: Is It too Late to Save Our Nation? (22 comments) Cindy Sheehan: For Cripes' Sake, Make Him Already! (26 comments) Kyle Griffith: Internet Censorship and the Third Inalienable Right (4 comments) Pete LaTona: American Politics: Over Promise Then Under Deliver (3 comments) Kathy Malloy: Onward, Christian Soldiers! (3 comments) George Washington: Guantanamo Prisoners STILL Being Tortured Under Obama (3 comments) John Jonik: Current U.S. Health System a Success (2 comments) William Fisher: Pelosi's Loss; Our Gain (7 comments) David Swanson: *Too Slow Zelikow: UVA Backs Torture (6 comments) William Fisher: Obama Considering National Security Courts (1 comments) Bernard Weiner: "Shallow Throat": Is Obama Turning Into Bush Lite? (3 comments) Tim Fleming: The Hypocrisy of Right-Wing Radical Catholics (1 comments) Muhammad Khurshid: Report from The Pakistani Drone War Front Lines (23 comments) Rob Kall: Nancy Pelosi; Courageous Hero (54 comments) Pulladigm: I Prefer There Not Be Abortion. However... (12 comments) Rafe Pilgrim: Understanding Torture (7 comments) mac Sperry: SuperCapitalism: The Sperry Plan To Rescue The U.S. Economy (15 comments) Ray McGovern: Note to Nancy Pelosi: Colin Powell Got Snookered at CIA, too (32 comments) Monday, May 18: Joan Brunwasser: Vets Speak Out! Interview with Devon Read (4 comments) George Washington: Like Iraq, the 'Facts' on 9/11 Were 'Fixed around the Policy' (9 comments) Robert Parry: Knowing 'What's Good for the Country' (3 comments) Stephen Soldz: Mental Health professionals' letter asks Michelle Obama to investigate diagnostic abuse of veterans Robert Parry: Giving Some Love to the Inquisition (2 comments) Allen L Roland: Madoff Scandal Expands / Frontline Video Mike McCray: *America Must Support the Acorn 8! (1 comments) Chris Hedges: The Disease of Permanent War (16 comments) Lawrence Velvel: The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann and the Obama Administration, Part III (6 comments) John Nichols: Auto Bailout Blues: Spin, Lies and Layoffs (3 comments) Olga Bonfiglio: Back to the 'Old Normal' of Domesticity (3 comments) steve young: Why Is 'Far Right' Newsmax Advertising On 'Far Left' MSNBC? (2 comments) Will Allen: We Need Food and Farming Regulation NOW! (5 comments) Ed Tubbs: President Obama Speaks at Notre Dame - Video (1 comments) Kevin Zeese: Using a Law License to Facilitate Torture Should Result in Disbarment (18 comments) G.E. Nordell: "The Party of No" (7 comments) Dean Baker: The Health Care Industry: Protectionism the Free Traders Love (2 comments) James Brett: Sack Rahm (21 comments) Andrew Bard Schmookler: Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Correlation of Forces (2 comments) Kevin Gosztola: How a Bunch of Ragtag Militant Protesters Turned the Gates of Notre Dame into the Gates of Hell (6 comments) David Swanson: *Disbarring 12 Torture Lawyers (9 comments) Jerry Policoff: Barack Obama Spins the Facts, Takes Single-Payer Health Care Off the Table (57 comments) Stephen Lendman: Restoring National Sovereignty with A Truly National Banking System ; Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part VI (5 comments) Sunday, May 17: Mike Adams: H1N1 Swine Flu Likely Already Infecting 100,000 Americans, Admits CDC (4 comments) W. Christopher Epler (Bill): Look, none of us wanted this, but we must fight fire with fire (7 comments) Joan Brunwasser: Vets Speak Out! Interview with Christopher Gallagher (3 comments) Lord Rudi C. Loehwing: *The 'Business' of Drugs: The Money behind Falsified Drug Research (4 comments) winston: This isn't what I voted for (21 comments) Press Release: American Rights at Work Applauds Appointment of Mary Beth Maxwell to Labor Department Post (1 comments) Stephen Soldz: APA ethics policy-maker clarifies defense of torture; reveals American Psychological Association - Pentagon collusion (8 comments) Bob Fitrakis: The Lethal Media Silence on Kent State's Smoking Guns (15 comments) Sam Bahour: Endgame Diplomacy for the Mideast (2 comments) Keith Pope: A Plain Man's Guide to Tax, Taxation and Other Fictions (2 comments) Elaine Brower: A Legend in Her Own Time Jim Neusom: Blacks Sue Banks over Home Loans Michael Gillespie: Sen. Tom Harkin Calls for Release of Torture Photos (1 comments) Ellen Olenska: Dear Mr. President: We will fight you (7 comments) Eileen Dannemann: Judge Forces Chemotherapy on Minnesota Child: Emerging Totalitarianism via the Medical Model (4 comments) Mary MacElveen: Torture: Bush, Cheney, et al should be the target and not Speaker Nancy Pelosi (6 comments) Rowan Wolf: Yes We Can Say No to Torture (2 comments) Ron Fullwood: Obama's Hardest Thing (4 comments) Tim Buchholz: The Battle of Blair Mountain Grant Lawrence: Senate Allows Credit Card Banksters to Continue 'Loan Sharking' (3 comments) Grant Lawrence: Obama Says Too Much Change Is Bad When Asked about Healthcare for All (2 comments) Jay Janson: *National Day of Mourning for Afghan Dead in US Bombing (4 comments) William Cormier: As the Economy Worsens, A New America Is Emerging, Part 1 (4 comments) Pete Latona: Bernie Madoff...Come On Down! (1 comments) Bob Patterson: Bush-Obama: 'A rose by any other name' michael payne: The transformation of our unsustainable American lifestyle is underway (12 comments) Steven Leser: Obama and Notre Dame - Catholics and Others Misled by GOP on Abortion (4 comments) August Adams: Single Payer: We Draw a Line in the Sand (3 comments) jeff rock: Obama Doesn't Trust US Justice System (5 comments) Bobby Ramakant: Baby victim of acid attack in India gets support Ronnie Sue Ambrosino: *Who Decides What Madoff Victims Get? Picard or the Law? (1 comments) Carl Bernofsky: How the Supreme Court Chooses Mary Shaw: GOP Misleads on Health Care Bureaucracy (4 comments) Kevin Gosztola: At the Middle of this Struggle over Catholic Identity, Notre Dame Students Will Graduate (1 comments) Saturday, May 16: Joan Brunwasser: Vets Speak Out! Interview with Rick Reyes (1 comments) Steven Best: Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism David Sirota: First Amendment Rights Watch: Criminalizing the Internet (10 comments) Jason Leopold: Ex-CIA Official: Agency Brass Lied to Congress About Interrogations (1 comments) Jay Janson: American Values? Obama: 'Americans don't resent the rich, they wanna be rich' (2 comments) Jason Leopold: EXCLUSIVE: Documents Describe Prisoner Abuse Photos Obama is Withholding (2 comments) Jason Leopold: Obama Pressured Into Withholding Prisoner Abuse Photos (2 comments) Rady Ananda: Earth's Enemies: GE, Monsanto and Obama's AG pick, Ignacia Moreno (14 comments) Brasch: The Dick Cheney Magical Mystery Media Tour (1 comments) James Raider: Continental Flight 3407 – Casting Blame on Pilots? Allan Goldstein: Dijon mustard, Elizabeth Edwards, steroids, and other non-opinions W. Christopher Epler (Bill): The 6,000 year old 'Have' and 'Have Not' War is now in our face (49 comments) Scott Baker: *The Myth of Personal Frugality (2 comments) Rob Kall: Obama Picks a Clarence Thomas for the EPA (122 comments) Kenneth Briggs: Don't Ask Don't Tell Laurel Vale: How to RUIN an Industry: GM WHEAT! (21 comments) Lord Rudi C. Loehwing: *Codex Alimentarius - Part Two: The current U.S. consensus (2 comments) Ron Fullwood: Hiding Torture Photos is Just Another Tactic in the 'Information War' (1 comments) Lord Rudi C. Loehwing: Codex Alimentarius and Non-European Countries - Part One (4 comments) Bill Hare: Cheney's Multiple Layers of Deceit (9 comments) Gwen DArcangelis: "Swine Flu": Is the Scare Over? (9 comments) PETA: No sure bet for thoroughbred horses (1 comments) sameh abdelaziz: Electronic health records are wrong prescription for automation (2 comments) Jim Quinn: Jesus of Suburbia (18 comments) John Pagoda: A Catholic Education (10 comments) Stephen Lendman: The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (1 comments) Jon Faulkner: Paying To Subjugate Yourself (10 comments) Friday, May 15: background n015e: Why isn't THIS memo front and center in the torture debate? (3 comments) Press Release: American Perceptions of Peace, Arab Attitudes America: A New Perspective Eric Walberg: NATO in Georgia: Fun and Games Robert Wexler: AG Holder Repudiates Torture (6 comments) Chuck Simpson: The Government's Shameful War on Marijuana Users (1 comments) alan17b0: Letter to Congressman Van Hollen for Single Payer Health Care (3 comments) Bobby Ramakant: Justice, where art thou? Two years of Dr Binayak Sen's imprisonment Donald de Fano: Who Cares What Nancy Pelosi Knew or When She Knew It? (6 comments) earl ofari hutchinson: The Other Farrah Story (2 comments) Dave Lindorff: Caught in a Lie: US Uses Phosphorus Weapons in Afghanistan (2 comments) Don Siegelman: Tell Obama to clean out the DoJ! (3 comments) Bev Harris: BlackBox Blog-O-Lection May 15, 2009 Naomi Klein: The Cure for Layoffs: Fire the Boss! (5 comments) George Washington: Executive Summary: What do the Experts Say About Torture? Allen L Roland: Cheney Wrapping Himself Around The Flag Of Patriotism Jason Leopold: Cheney Intervened in CIA Inspector General's Torture Probe (1 comments) George Washington: Expert: Prosecuting Those Who Created Torture Program Will Reduce Attacks Against U.S. and American Troops John Nichols: The Case for Kenosha (1 comments) Michael Fox: Miracles Whipped (1 comments) Stella Adams: Demand Change from Bank of America Comment Period Extended til 5/23/09 (2 comments) Mary MacElveen: Greed is the true demon and cancer (2 comments) Andrew Bard Schmookler: Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: A Missed Opportunity? (13 comments) Richard Volaar: The Beauty of Torture (5 comments) Nicolas Mottas: European Union: A Progressive Agenda Is Needed Rick Rozoff: Adriatic Charter and the Balkans: Smaller Nations, Larger NATO Gary Dorrien: A Case for Economic Democracy Lawrence Velvel: The Concept of Net Equity Being Used by the Trustee and SIPC Bruce K. Gagnon: Whose War Now? (2 comments) Ralph Lopez: *Torture, Joe Six-Pack, and the Iraq Thing Grant Lawrence: No Future Money For Social Security--Gave it All to the Bankers (4 comments) Philip Greene: Can We Look Back to Go Forward? ALONE: Marriage, Integration, and Immigration Policy -Modern Bureaucracy Reflecting the Worst (1 comments) Bob Patterson: Salvaging Obama's Legacy Jason Paz: It Takes Generations to Get That Dumb (2 comments) Ed Tubbs: Beware the Bogeyman! (1 comments) Allan Pierson: Tea Party's Potential Wasted Playing Politics Human Rights Watch: China: Tiananmen's Unhealed Wounds Daniel Vojir: An Open Letter To Hillary Clinton: Don't Let Michael Savage Out Of The Country! (3 comments) Paul Karsh: Torture, Phil Hendrie, and political expediency (1 comments) Joel S. Hirschhorn: Constitutional Rubbish (12 comments) mikel weisser: Current Comedy 5/11/09: Your Miss Teen California, Joe the Plumber (1 comments) Mark Harris: Swine Flu Threat Highlights Need for Single-Payer Debby Bodkin: Letter to University of Notre Dame In Support of President Barack Obama's Invitation to Speak--2009 Commencement Walter Barton: Church and State – Two Sides of Marriage (4 comments) shamus cooke: Obama's Middle East Imperialism (5 comments) Scott McLarty: Fire Departments and Health Care (11 comments) Pete Latona: Shameless Hedge Funds Force Chrysler into Bankruptcy (7 comments) Editor LNAV: India Is Transforming into Endemic E-Surveillance Society John Kusumi: Scolding Beijing and Washington the web: *DOJ opposes national security whistleblower protections (4 comments) Bob Burnett: Global Warming: Through a Glass Darkly (6 comments) Stephen Lendman: Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part V (11 comments) Steven Leser: Pelosi and Torture - Bombshell Evidence that the CIA Invented Evidence of Informing Democrats (87 comments) Thursday, May 14: David Swanson: *76 Members of Congress Oppose Staying in Afghanistan Forever (1 comments) David Swanson: *Holder's Plans as Clear as Gonzales' Memory W. Christopher Epler (Bill): Dire Desiderata for the 21st Century (6 comments) John Bruhns: Torture Debate May Not Go in Our Favor R-CALF USA: *NAIS will Reduce Competition in U.S. Cattle Industry Ezili Dantò: Haiti's Riches: Interview with Ezili Dantò on Mining in Haiti Trailing Begonia: Introducing the Gaza Human Rights Campaign (7 comments) DAnne Burley: *March to Clean up the Courts Say No to Corruption (3 comments) Kathy Malloy: Who, Me? mike ferner: Veterans for Peace to President Obama: 'You will find us in the streets' (7 comments) Mike Malloy: There's a Word For This: It's 'Evil' (3 comments) Howard Zinn: Changing Obama's Mindset (6 comments) Allen L Roland: Obama Moves To Dark Side With Choice Of Gen McChrystal (7 comments) George Washington: One of the Main Sources for the 9/11 Commission Report was Tortured Until He Agreed to Sign a Confession that He Was NOT (5 comments) Dean Baker: Why We Can't Wait To Move On Bank Reform Tom Hayden: McChrystal's Rise: More Secrets, Less Daylight Marilyn Noyes: *Plea for calls to the White House on behalf of Don Siegelman (1 comments) William John Cox: Fear of Crime and Things to Come (1 comments) George Washington: Most of Those Tortured Were Innocent (1 comments) Bob Koehler: Goliath's Vulnerability Is the Truth Stephen Pizzo: Capitalism's Greatest Hits (6 comments) Dave Lindorff: On Torture and War, Obama Sounds Increasingly, and Disturbingly, Like Bush (33 comments) Ed Tubbs: Outing a Healthcare Reform Subterfuge. Nick van Nes: Open Letter To My Representative, William Delahunt, D-MA (8 comments) Ed Martin: An Article as Proctoscope for Dick Cheney and Richard Cohen (13 comments) Daniel Pourkesali: Iran's Missiles Not an Existential Threat (7 comments) Don Williams: *Shout it from the rooftops--Al-Libi--keep his torture story alive (4 comments) Ray McGovern: Rumsfeld Redux: 'Ugly' Questions for Gen. Myers (11 comments) Dean Powers: GOP's Frank Luntz' Memo on Health Care; How to Fight Luntz (5 comments) Mary Shaw: Why I Oppose the Inquirer Boycott (8 comments) Kevin Gosztola: Obama Employs Bush Administration Tactic to Halt Release of Detainee Photos (11 comments) Wednesday, May 13: CasaZaza: Splitting the Sky vs Bush: Civil Resistance in the 21st Century (1 comments) Dana Gabriel: The SPP: Three's Company or Three's a Crowd? DerLange: "Cash for Clunkers" - Well, Maybe NOT "Clunkers," but CASH, Yeah! Darren Wolfe: Oaths, War, And Liberty (1 comments) John Stanton: USA v Don Ayala: HTS Management, Army Leadership on Trial Too Jason Paz: Defusing Citizen Outrage (2 comments) ALONE: Is Now the Time When Spin Is No Longer Enough? (4 comments) Jason Leopold: Army's Prescription to Combat Solider Suicides: Christianity (3 comments) Bobby Ramakant: The Asthma Drug Facility brings down cost of drugs Jason Paz: Surviving in the Post Nuclear Proliferation Age Mike Malloy: "Sadistic . . . Violent . . . Inhuman" (4 comments) Kathy Malloy: Doubleplus Ungood Doublethink Vi Ransel: Class War in America, the Ongoing Assault (8 comments) Robert Parry: WPost Columnist Winks at Torture Allen L Roland: *Combat Veterans, PTSD, Drugs And Suicide (1 comments) Greg Nick: The IBM/Lockheed Martin Census: GPSing Your Home (1 comments) Dean Baker: Social Security: Downturn Does NOT Affect Long-Run Picture (2 comments) Andrew Bard Schmookler: Obama, The Torture Pictures, and this Dick Cheney Moment: A Speculation (11 comments) Dean Baker: The Bankrupt Debate Over Bankrupting Our Children E. Nelson: Mike Connell, Paul Wellstone, and Beverly Eckert Buffalo Plane Crashes and Futuristic Directed Energy Weapons Systems (7 comments) Chris Hedges: Becoming What We Seek to Destroy Robert Borosage: What's Good for General Motors Is... Never Mind (2 comments) Brent Budowsky: Credit-Card Law Has Painful Impact (13 comments) Siv O'Neall: Will Democracy Forever Remain an Illusion? (13 comments) Mary MacElveen: Social Security and Medicare: Our golden years have turned to lead (6 comments) George Washington: 'Happy Talk' Can NOT Fix the Economy (5 comments) Pam Miles: Replace the Bush U.S. Attorneys Andrew Bard Schmookler: Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Premise (7 comments) Glen Ford: Obama Shows His True Katrina Colors (1 comments) Rob Kall: Get Out In the Streets And FIGHT for Universal, Single Payer Health Care (42 comments) John Jonik: FDA To Promote Increased Smoking (3 comments) David Glenn Cox: The Future Without A Future (2 comments) Jennifer Hathaway: Single Payer or CSM? (10 comments) Ed Komarek: MJ 12 and the Aviary Walter Barton: *Don't Ask, Don't Tell Must Go Now (6 comments) OhioBlues: The Circular Dangers of John Hagee, AIPAC and Netanyahu Steven G. Erickson: The New Car Sales Scam (2 comments) Mary Shaw: The Trouble With Health "Insurance" (5 comments) Stephen Lendman: Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part IV (6 comments) Tuesday, May 12: Rady Ananda: Naomi Klein: Left Economist Says Take Action NOW (18 comments) Kevin Zeese: The Single Payer Fire Has Been Lit (3 comments) Max Gladwell: 10 Ways to Change the World through Social Media John Little: Cuba Has Bypassed the US in Health Care (11 comments) Norman Solomon: A Progressive Challenge to Jane Harman Muhammad Nasir Khan Khattak: *Appeal: Help displaced northern Pakistanis Abu Ahmad: *CODEX is in HR 875: Learn why your health depends on stopping it (5 comments) Yup Farming: *40 'Progressives' Support Industrial Destruction of Sustainable Farming (2 comments) Tim Carpenter: *Fight for Single Payer Health Care (4 comments) James Brett: Afghanistan's McGenerals (8 comments) John Nichols: David Simon, Arianna Huffington and the Future of Journalism (2 comments) Debra Sweet: Protesting Torture Across the US May 2009 Mike Malloy: Indict Them; Prosecute Them (4 comments) Rory OConnor: Media Torture (2 comments) Allen L Roland: *Bungee Jumping With The Fed: It's Only Your Money (1 comments) Rady Ananda: Obama's Higher Education Budget a Mixed Bag for African Americans Dave Lindorff: Captains of Industry Don't Go Down with the Ship (3 comments) Rady Ananda: Obama Increases Number of Prisons, Cops (20 comments) Roger Shuler: Federal Prosecutors Want Longer Sentence for Siegelman (2 comments) Kate Stayman: Don't Let Dick Cheney Get Away with Torture (1 comments) Mickey Z.: Obama and the denial of genocide (5 comments) Sherwood Ross: Will Nation that Housed 425,000 Nazis in WWII Reject Gitmo Detainees? (4 comments) David Swanson: *Baucus Arrests Five More Doctors, Nurses, Activists (12 comments) Sandy Shanks: Travesty in Iraq (7 comments) Suzana Megles: Disappointing Giveaway from Oprah (11 comments) David Swanson: *200 Orgs Ask for Special Prosecutor for Cheney and Bush (9 comments) Bob Patterson: Pasadena = Car-spotting Capital of the World! ! ! David Weiner: Imperialism Is Not Merely Irritating (4 comments) Anjali Singh - CNS: Press Does a Reality Check On Swine Flu Ed Tubbs: Health Insurers' Bottom Line Defines 'Medical Necessity' (8 comments) Paul A. Moore: Today, the dreams of Grant Park were tested in the real world (5 comments) Monday, May 11: W. Christopher Epler (Bill): The Belly of the Beast: Unregulated, national/international economics (6 comments) Theresa Reed: Kenyan Man Sues over Sex Boycott 'Suffering' (8 comments) George Washington: 9/11 Mastermind: "During ... My Interrogation I Gave A Lot Of False Information In Order To Satisfy What I Believed The (3 comments) Mike Malloy: 'Soldiers work for corporations, not for the people' (12 comments) Allen L Roland: *Camp Leatherneck Rises In Afghanistan's Desert Of Death (2 comments) Ann Garrison: Newsom for a Nuclear California (3 comments) Bruce Toien: Democrats Complicit? No Wonder No Torture Investigations (7 comments) Sandy Shanks: Travesty in Iraq (4 comments) George Washington: Americans Supported Torture Because They Were Deceived into Thinking that it was a Necessary Evil (3 comments) Dwight Black: SSRIs (Prozac): The Unidentified Marriage Killer (11 comments) Roy Eidelson: How Americans Think About Torture--and Why (14 comments) Andrew Bard Schmookler: Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Overview (11 comments) Kenneth Briggs: Same Old Party Mary MacElveen: As an Internet writer: I am thankful I grew up in the age of newspapers (4 comments) earl ofari hutchinson: Hatin' on Miss California is not about a Contract (4 comments) Uri Avnery: Does Iran Resemble Nazi Germany? (19 comments) David Sirota: Three Questions About Obama's 'Major' Health Care Announcement Today (12 comments) Marni Levin: World Hypocrisy (7 comments) Dave Lindorff: 1-2-3 What Are We Fighting For? The War Crimes Song-and-Dance Routine David Swanson: *Three Worst Reasons to Delay Putting Cheney in Prison Robert Arend: Wanda Sykes Takes Aim and Pierces Limbaugh's Treasonous Heart (22 comments) Gary Price: The More things change, The more they remain the same [Oligarchs = Facism] (1 comments) winston: Specter is an opportunist--he holds inconsistent political stances, but then so has Obama. (2 comments) Muhammad Nasir Khan Khattak: *Bombs for Pashtoons and Dollars for Punjab (4 comments) Michael Shaw: Torture...OK Pelosi Knew in 2002! But what could this all really mean? (30 comments) Rick Rozoff: NATO War Games In Georgia: Threat Of New Caucasus War (1 comments) Grant McIntire: We will be in Afghanistan for years to come. (8 comments) Stephen Lendman: Global Debt Enslavement - From Gold Reserves to Petrodollars; Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part III (1 comments) Richard Neville: The AfPak Blues (6 comments) Sunday, May 10: thepen: Except That We WON'T Shut Up About Single Payer Health Care, No Matter What Senator 'More Police' Baucus Says (6 comments) Stephen Soldz: 'Sleep deprivation': Euphemism and CIA torture of choice (1 comments) Cindy Sheehan: The More Things Change... (1 comments) earl ofari hutchinson: Put Donald T. Sterling's NAACP Award on Hold Kevin Zeese: Max Baucus Should Not Be Deciding Health Care for America (10 comments) Carolyn Baker: When Facing Reality Is Not 'Negative Thinking' (9 comments) Kyle Griffith: Could the "Pig Plague" Turn BLACK? (15 comments) Ethan Indi: Oil-garchical Collectivism (1 comments) Jim Miles: Food shortages and science (4 comments) gail combs: Food Safety Bills: More Dangerous than the Patriot Act (7 comments) Jim Goodman: Think Before You Eat, Agriculture and the Environment (2 comments) Steve Clemons: Obama Needs to End Silence on Biggest Civil Rights Move of Our Time (1 comments) Coleen Rowley: What's FISHY?---PawLENTY! (1 comments) Rafe Pilgrim: Prosecutions for Torture Unlikely (5 comments) James Raider: Obama's Squandering More Than Capital Dean Baker: Rate of Job Loss Slows Moderately, Unemployment Rate Rises to 8.9 % (3 comments) John Nichols: A Democrat Calls for Executive Accountability Rae Abileah: Where was Tikkun Olam at the AIPAC Conference in DC? (1 comments) Linda Milazzo: Joe Wright's The Soloist Exploits the Skid Row Community (7 comments) Jason Miller: He no longer heard the cries of the animals or saw the flowing blood.... (2 comments) Michael Collins: The Big "Con": Taliban take Pakistan and its "Another 9/11" (12 comments) Allan Wayne: Quoth the Pig Part 3. Fat as Hell and Not Taking It Anymore (2 comments) John Nichols: The Year of Same-Sex Marriage! (7 comments) Saturday, May 9: Tom Engelhardt: Washington's Imperial Attitude: We Talk About Countries Like We Own Them (4 comments) Jim Hightower: Memo to Media: Populism Is a Rebellion Against Corporate Power -- It's Not Just Stupid, Raw Anger (7 comments) Jason Leopold: CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Documents to ACLU (1 comments) thepen: The Senate LAUGHS About How Many Police It Takes To Silence The American People On Single Payer Health Care (15 comments) Pete Latona: A Simple Analogy of the Housing Collapse (2 comments) Grant McIntire: The Event that Caused the Economic Crisis in Zimbabwe (1 comments) Paul Kruger: *What Have We Become? (4 comments) Dwayne Hunn: *Open Letter to General Contractor Barack Obama (1 comments) David Michael Green: Get Obama (12 comments) Jason Leopold: Ex-Sen. Domenici Under Increased Scrutiny in US Attorney Firings Probe Robert Borosage: Wrong Way Steny Ron Fullwood: Bombing Afghans in Defense of Afghanistan? (1 comments) Allen L Roland: *Criminal Injustice System In Action / American Violet (2 comments) Donna Smith: Happy Mother's Day from America's Health Insurance Plans and Mr. Baucus (2 comments) Ralph Nader: The Single Payer Taboo (6 comments) F. Vyan Walton: For the Last Time - ALL OF IT - was Torture! (1 comments) George Washington: Why the Government's Attempt to Instill False Confidence Will Backfire Rowan Wolf: StressTest? Would you feel healthy? (1 comments) Mary Shaw: I'm Not Against Religion, I'm Against Religious Hypocrisy (14 comments) ALONE: CULTURE, DEMOGRAPHICS, CHURCH-MOSQUE STRESSES (5 comments) Bill Hare: Nagging Similarities Between JFK Assassination and 9/11 (7 comments) Friday, May 8: Mark Lange: *Forget Tea Parties. Bring a Pitchfork to a Shareholder Meeting. (1 comments) Kathy Malloy: Dear God, Why Are My Parents Homophobic? (11 comments) Allen L Roland: *The Thriving Fear Based Prison / Industrial Complex (4 comments) Paul Craig Roberts: Criminalizing Criticism of Israel (25 comments) George Washington: Time Calls Geithner a "Con Man" and the Stress Tests a "Confidence Game" (3 comments) Sheila Samples: Seeds of Truth (24 comments) Dean Hartwell: Fix Our Policies to Fix the Budget (1 comments) William Lewis: The Nail In Our Economic Coffin mikel weisser: Current Comedy, 5/04/09: This is Only a Test E. Nelson: Max Baucus, Listen to Ed Schultz and Give Doctor Marcia Angell a Seat at the Table (2 comments) Matt Kjeldsen: The Myths That Control Us (13 comments) Thomas Riggins: Richard Haass, Torture, and the Rule of Law (6 comments) George Washington: Some Experts Think This Could Be WORSE than the Great Depression (5 comments) Bob Koehler: The Hounds of Heaven (5 comments) Amy Fried: Call Her secretary Rice (4 comments) Kenneth T. Tellis: The United States has been in denial of its own illegal actions for years (9 comments) Kevin Gosztola: Are the Days of Free Internet News Coming to End? (12 comments) Dana Gabriel: UN Treaties Fail to Respect American Sovereignty and the Constitution (25 comments) H. Lewis Smith: UN Treaty on Children's Rights: The Dawning of a Conspiring New World Order? (9 comments) Ralph Lopez: *A Really Stupid, Unnecessary War (8 comments) James Raider: Common Sense - Apple Will Not Twitter Dave Lindorff: The Obama Administration is Becoming a Stand-Up Comedy Act (24 comments) Deena Stryker: What Specter's Spectacular Could Portend (6 comments) Bob Burnett: Arlen Specter's Legacy Ed Martin: US government document says Bybee and Yoo must go to jail (1 comments) David Glenn Cox: The Trickle Up Theory (3 comments) jill mclaughlin: Our Leaders Won't, But We Can Prosecute War Criminals (3 comments) David Basora: Carrie Prejean: If You Can't Call Her A Liar, Then Leave Her Alone (5 comments) Carola Von Hoffmannstahl: Arlen Specter Zelig, America's Unsung Pulp Star Philip Greene: Will the Bad Guys Really Get Away With It? (8 comments) Grant Lawrence: The Dalai Lama: A Good Showman but an Empty Robe (9 comments) Jann Swanson: Texas Governor's Hollow Threat (1 comments) Robert Arend: The Obama Administration: April 11 Thru 30 2009 (2 comments) Michael Morrissey: 9/11 Aletheia (3 comments) Stephen Lendman: Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part II (6 comments) David Swanson: In the Name of Womanhood and Humanity (1 comments) Thursday, May 7: Tom Degan: The G.O.Pizza Party (1 comments) Allan Goldstein: Swine Flu Hate Speech (1 comments) Ann Kramer: Producing the next "Greatest Generation" William Moldestad Jr.: Relevant Thoughts on the Liberian Government's Debt and Money David Swanson: *Baucus v. Democracy (4 comments) Walter Barton: Bigotry, a National Organization for Marriage Trademark Joseph Russo: Bank Loan Dilemma - Can the Economy Recover? Jerry West: Path To A Better Future Andreas Umland: Will There Be a Second Crimean War? (2 comments) J. Patrick O'Connor: The 'Mumia Exception' (7 comments) Raymond Budelman: The Audacity of Leadership: the Right Cries Wolf, and the Left Screams Out for Health Care (2 comments) Frank Barat: Non Violence in Palestine: An Analysis (4 comments) Bob Williamson: Leaked Government Letter (1 comments) Ronnie Sue Ambrosino: My Letter to Judge Chin at Bernard Madoff's Plea Hearing Mike Malloy: Poison (3 comments) Jason Leopold: DOJ Report Reaches "Damning" Conclusions for Bybee and Yoo (6 comments) George Washington: The Economy Will Not Recover until the Perpetrators of Our Crises Are Held Accountable Harold Hellickson: Two Decades of Political Racketeering (2 comments) Steven Thompson: *Judicial Corruption Forces Plea To Governor Barbara Peterson: How Bankers Seized America through Liars' Loans and Accounting Fraud (2 comments) Kevin Zeese: Obama's Drug Czar Nominee Approved a Potential Break from the Past (1 comments) Lawrence Velvel: The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, and the Obama Administration, Part II (2 comments) Ivan Hentschel: A Bonfire of the Profanities Allen L Roland: GOP Is a Traveling Circus on Its Last Legs (4 comments) Medea Benjamin: Who Will Stop the AIPAC Jews Before it is Too Late? (7 comments) Chris Floyd: Far Beyond Torture: The Long, Dark History of an Imperial Factotum (2 comments) Don Siegelman: *How Selective Prosecution Can Affect Every Member of Congress (2 comments) James Brett: The Disaster (4 comments) Edward S. Herman: Inky Notes, April 23: Paying Santorum Well; Inky Loves John Yoo; Supports Rightwing Attack on Free Speech; Tea-Baggers jeff rock: Squandering Opportunity (2 comments) Dave Lindorff: Judge Bybee and the Challenge of Removing a Stain on the Legal System (3 comments) Richard Neville: The Torturer's Apprentice (2 comments) Wednesday, May 6: Paul Craig Roberts: America's Shame (15 comments) David Swanson: *It's National Nancy Off the Table Day (4 comments) Rick Rozoff: Cold War Origins of the Somalia Crisis (2 comments) Marjorie Cohn: Stanford Antiwar Alums Call for War Crimes Investigation of Condoleezza Rice (22 comments) Camillo "Mac" Bica: Deadly Games Moral Compass: *Campaign Finance Is Just Another Term for Bribery (2 comments) democrat: At Least One Challenge Still Ahead for Specter (2 comments) Mike Palecek: 2008 DNC Remembered: Interview with Daphne Webb George Washington: U.S. Votes For 9/11-Style Commission To Probe Financial Crisis (3 comments) Pete Latona: Why Obama's Economic Plan Will Fail (6 comments) The Candid Blogger: $100 Million Raised for Bush Memorial Library at SMU (2 comments) Marc McDonald: Forget Michael Savage, When Will Britain Ban George W. Bush? (3 comments) Dinesh Sharma: What do Barack Obama and Slumdog Millionaire have in common? Fifth Column Press: *Sex and Censorability on Amazon.com (2 comments) George Washington: How We Can Reclaim Control (6 comments) Stephen Soldz: New article elucidates military psychologists' complicity in detainee abuse and "ethics" coverup (1 comments) Bobby Ramakant: World Asthma DaY: Asthma control is appalling in countries Ray McGovern: Rudman: Deus ex Machina on Torture (2 comments) Chris Hedges: Buying Brand Obama (10 comments) CODEPINK: In the Name of Mothers Around the World Stephen Pizzo: Serious Lapse in Judgment Indeed (4 comments) Kevin Zeese: Why I Was Among Eight Health Care Advocates to Get Arrested in the Senate Yesterday (10 comments) Press Release: Doctors Challenge Exclusion of Single-Payer from Health Care Debate (1 comments) earl ofari hutchinson: Miss California is Right to Scream About Beauty Contest Hypocrisy (3 comments) Nicola Nasser: When, Where the Pope Inspires No Hope waldopaper: Goering Mocks Us (19 comments) Nancy Tobi: *America Needs a Voting Rights Movement (2 comments) Stephen Lendman: Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part I (5 comments) Mary MacElveen: Suffolk Cty., NY: High school children should not be used as drug informants (4 comments) Tuesday, May 5: Robert Parry: The Need to Hold the GOP Accountable (11 comments) Dean Baker: Outsourcing the Bosses: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler (1 comments) Mike Malloy: The Savage Weiner (14 comments) Kathy Malloy: Cinco de Meglomaniac (2 comments) Rory OConnor: Babes in TortureLand (7 comments) Allen L Roland: *America's Dilemma / The Need For Moral Courage David Swanson: An Even Worse Bybee Memo ALONE: In Search of a Metaphor to Combine what We've Seen in America, Myanmar, Gaza, and elsewhere This Past Year (7 comments) Stephen Soldz: Coalition for an Ethical Psychology Calls for Investigation of American Psychological Association Torture Collusion (8 comments) Marti Oakley: *Rep. DeLauro: Ever hear of the US Constitution? Jesse Hamilton: An Iraq Veteran's Reasons for Opposing the Army Experience Center (4 comments) Dave Lindorff: First Victim on Road to Abu Ghraib: Rumsfeld Was Behind Torture of John Walker Lindh Robert Naiman: Stopping Pakistan Drone Strikes Suddenly Plausible (1 comments) Richard Hirschhorn: Barack Obama-and the money what aint real (1 comments) megan kargher: Corporate Swine Project Significant Profits for Toxic Flu Vaccines (12 comments) Ed Tubbs: Girding for the Healthcare Fight: Are you Ready? (1 comments) David Glenn Cox: Stray Cats (12 comments) Mad Jayhawk: Tea Parties Revisited Monday, May 4: sibel edmonds: In Congress We Trust... Not (29 comments) Kindra Muntz: It's official. We WON. IT'S OVER! (1 comments) Stephen Soldz: American Psychological Association ethics policy-maker endorses torture (7 comments) Mike Malloy: Tea Bag THIS, Mo-Fo's (6 comments) Hans Bennett: The Angola Three: Torture in Our Own Backyard (3 comments) Kenneth Briggs: A Supreme Decision George Washington: Support Our Troops: Prosecute Torture (1 comments) Ralph Lopez: *Connell's Sister Now Doubts Plane Crash Was Accident (1 comments) Stephen Unger: The Need for People-Friendly Research & Development Howard Garrett: *Anti-submarine Warfare Training Kills Marine Life Richard Heinberg: Somebody's Gotta Do It (3 comments) Bob Patterson: Fraudulent Journalism; It's Never Gonna Stop (1 comments) Dr. Dennis Loo: Four Times in Eight Sentences (3 comments) George Washington: Was Torture Really Part of a Religious Crusade? (6 comments) Mary MacElveen: Swine flu: Keeping it in perspective in relation to other diseases (1 comments) William Fisher: Torture Detainees Shoot Obama in Foot William Rivers Pitt: The Other 100 Days Robert Parry: 'One More Bubble!' David Swanson: *An Even Worse Bybee Memo Tom Hayden: Ten More Things You Can Do to Oppose War in Afghanistan Chris Bowers: Is President Obama Putting Net Neutrality At Risk? (1 comments) Stephen Lendman: Unreported or Underreported Real Pandemics, Not Fake Ones Like Avian and Swine Flu (5 comments) GOAT: *Child (or Agency) Protection? Dennis Kaiser: Bilderbergers Set To Meet - Beware! (23 comments) David Swanson: Give Everyone Healthcare By Shutting Insurance Companies (20 comments) Rafe Pilgrim: Better the Pain of Truth than the Cancer of Deceit George Washington: Unless We Stand Up and Demand Safe Meat Production, Next Time We WILL Have a Plague (12 comments) Sunday, May 3: Steve Best: Who's Afraid of Jerry Vlasak? (1 comments) Jose Herrera: A Very Public Letter to Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton from a Venezuelan Ed Tubbs: If you're human, you want a more humane Court (2 comments) Kenneth Briggs: Health Care Fast-Tracked Ronnie Sue Ambrosino: Bernard Madoff Victims Get Support from US Congress (5 comments) Joni Greever: The Justice Myth in America (18 comments) Jason Paz: The Audacity of Torture; the Audacity of Prosecution (8 comments) Elaine Brower: Criminal Complaint Served and Seven Arrested at the Army Experience Center in Philadelphia Mall (18 comments) Press Release: Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time (1 comments) Stephen Pizzo: News Blues Stephen Dinan: A Time for Transpartisanship (1 comments) Nicholas Smith: Admiral Joe Sestak vs. Arlen Specter in 2010 Ed Tubbs: Mirror, mirror . . . (1 comments) jeff rock: Re-Inflating the Bubble (5 comments) Jim Quinn: If You Believe - Banks Are Recovering (2 comments) earl ofari hutchinson: Michael Steele the Magically Disappearing Negro (1 comments) Bill Hare: Specter Switch: What Will Feminists Do? (1 comments) Muhammad Khurshid: Give Time To Obama As He Is Bringing Change (5 comments) James Raider: Dilettantes at the Chrysler Gate (3 comments) mikel weisser: Current Comedy, 4/27/08: Manifest Destiny M. Davis: One flu over the cuckoo's nest, or: Whatever happened to context and analysis in the news? (9 comments) George Washington: Stress Tests: A P.R. Stunt Devised by the Banking Industry (3 comments) DerLange: Flu Brings Out the Worst in Right Wingers (2 comments) Saturday, May 2: Jason Leopold: How a Health Benefits Law Formed the Basis For the 'Torture Memo' Ann Wright: Torture: An Author and a Resister (5 comments) Jan Baumgartner: Rumors, Speculation and Fear: San Miguel de Allende Copes with the Spread of Media-Fueled Alarm, Not H1N1 Virus (21 comments) Robert Naiman: On Israeli Settlement Freeze, Public Has Obama's Back (4 comments) Nima Shirazi: On Ahmadinejad and Progressive Myopia (5 comments) William Fisher: UN Report: Rights Abuses In Iraq amicus curiae: CDC Figures of Flu Deaths Are Not Correct (4 comments) shamus cooke: Obama and the Crisis of the U.S. Auto Industry (2 comments) Walter Barton: Virginia Foxx – America's Future Nicholas Smith: Souter's Supreme Court Legacy: Conservative Appointee, Liberal Justice The Old Codger: Apologists for Deadbeat Dads (7 comments) David Kendall: Dr. King Spanks Obama: Part 2 Eric Walberg: The torture trail: Lincoln or Ford? (1 comments) Ed Tubbs: We need these laws, and we need them NOW! (1 comments) Jason Paz: The Republican Death Wish for America (1 comments) Mick Youther: Scientists Discover That Conservatives Are Brain-Dead (11 comments) Ralph Nader: In the Public Interest (2 comments) Mike Kirchubel: 1819 Revisited (1 comments) Michael Cavlan: Civil Disobedience, Congress, Darfur and Horse and Pony Shows (2 comments) Franz J. T. Lee: Labor Day 2009: What is the supreme question of global depression and recession? James Brett: Economy v. Ecology (8 comments) Mary MacElveen: Public school teachers are the unsung heroes in this society (2 comments) larry beinhart: An Ode to Spring (of Banks We Sing) David Glenn Cox: From Haymarket to Ludlow from Harlen to Matewan from Mother Jones to You (5 comments) Mark Sashine: In Memoriam of the Warrior-Brother Fallen (4 comments) William Cormier: 'When You Grow up on a Farm in Georgia, Your First Girlfriend Is a Mule' (8 comments) Angelo: Open Letter to Obama (1 comments) DerLange: GOP Headed for Ruin, Spector Defection Warns James Raider: A Nation Changing First 100 Days Roy S. Carson: Venezuela: Pots Calling Kettles Black Immediately Comes to Mind! Friday, May 1: Bruce K. Gagnon: Obama Continues Bush Policy on Weapons to Georgia (5 comments) Betsy L. Angert: Condoleezza Rice avows; President is above law (7 comments) Kathy Malloy: Viral Racism (4 comments) Bev Harris: Blackbox BLOG-O-LECTION Clips (2 comments) Thomas Riggins: The Pakistan Peccadillo (6 comments) Bobby Ramakant: Sri Lanka: Humanitarian disaster in making Shobha Shukla - Citizen News Service (CNS): Chernobyl disaster day: Let Humanity And Nature Coexist (1 comments) R-CALF USA: Western Ag Reporter Attacks Cattle Producers; Infers Organization Compromised Member Policy on NAIS (2 comments) peter collins: The 'Specter' of HR 1106 Robert Borosage: Obama's Grade at 100? What About Our Grade? (4 comments) Jim Fetzer: Arlen Specter and The "Magic" Bullet (6 comments) Andrew Bard Schmookler: Same Dark Spirit at Work (6 comments) Brent Budowsky: The Great Bank Robbery of 2009 (32 comments) By Dave Lindorff: Workers Always Lose, Even in Rescue Operations (8 comments) Lawrence Velvel: Justice Jackson's (pre-justiceship) Speech of December 1936. (2 comments) Jason Leopold: Senate Panel's Report Links Detainees' Murders to Bush's Torture Policy (6 comments) Mary MacElveen: Foreclosure bill: With Democratic Senators like this, who needs enemies? (7 comments) Margaret Bassett: ABC News' Blotter Updates its 2007 Torture Story (3 comments) Michael Collins: THROW THE BUMS OUT - ALL OF THEM Senate Millionaires Kill Mortgage Assistance for Citizens (69 comments) Bob Burnett: Obama's Off Probation (6 comments) Grant Lawrence: Obama Says Waterboarding Torture--Now What? (13 comments) adeeba folami: *Child Protective Services & the Business of 'Legalized Kidnapping' (8 comments) sharon kayser: The Swimming Naked Prophecy (3 comments) Muhammad Khurshid: Obama Is Reaching To Roots Of Terrorism (4 comments) Daniel Vojir: Unabashed Hatred From The Republican Party Has Been Condensed... (7 comments) Bruce Cain: *Beyond the Global Marijuana March: Re-Legalization (3 comments) ALONE: The Berlin Wall 20 Years After: Let's Compare Other Walls (6 comments) Jason Paz: In Defense of Jewish Survival (135 comments) Chris Floyd: The Bolter: Specter Spectacle Hides Deadly New Folly in Terror War Robert Parry: Who Betrayed 'Objective' Journalism? (3 comments) David Michael Green: The Party Is Over (10 comments)
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