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February 2012
Wednesday, February 29:
Occupy SF Protesters Really Close to Forming People's Reserve Credit Union (1 comments)
Argentine advice for Greece: "Default Now!' -- RT (1 comments)
David Corn: Did Private Spy Shop Get US Intel From Bin Laden Raid?
9 Santorum Speeches That Make Me Want to Throw Up
Why Do We Need a Volcker Rule?
Edward DeMarco Refuses Foreclosure Fix Favored (1 comments)
Dana Milbank: Mitt Romney's acceptance speech, in (mostly) his own words
The Need for a Black Agenda, by B.A.R. Executive Editor Glen Ford (1 comments)
Americans Are Bailing Out on Banks Too Big to Care; Credit Unions, Partnership and State-Run Banks Offer Alternatives (6 comments)
Tuesday, February 28:
Eugene Robinson: Rick Santorum's rhetoric goes to the extreme
Why Democrats Have a Problem with Young Voters
Blown Away: How the US Fanned the Flames in Afghanistan
Greenwald: The NYPD spying controversy: a microcosm for the 9/11 era
Monday, February 27:
The March of Christian Dominionism 1: What Is Christian Dominionism? (6 comments)
Over Last 10 Years, General Electric's Effective Tax Rate Was 2.3%
Syria, Iran and the Obama Doctrine
Sunday, February 26:
Paul Krugman: What Ails Europe?
Obama Won't Back An Israeli Strike On Iran (4 comments)
Washington's War in Yemen Backfires
How the 2012 Primary Has Revealed a GOP on the Verge of Collapse (2 comments)
Saturday, February 25:
Single-Payer Health Care Is Coming To America-Are We Ready? (2 comments)
Ted Turner: Stop Keystone pipeline before it's too late (3 comments)
George W Bush in 2012 Election -- The Man Who Wasn't There (1 comments)
How Israel Could Remove Assad Diplomatically and Bring Peace to Syria (1 comments)
Friday, February 24:
Frank Rich on the National Circus: The GOP's Season Finale Bombs
Why We Must Occupy Our Food Supply
Amy Goodman -- How far can Russ Feingold push campaign finance reform?
Matt Taibbi: Arizona Debate: Conservative Chickens Come Home to Roost
How Drone War Became the American Way of Life
Those weak losers who care about "law"
Paul Krugman -- Romney's Economic Closet
Thursday, February 23:
Why Super PACs Are Even More of a Scam Than You Might Have Thought
Dan Froomkin: Obama Corporate Tax Plan Would Create Big Winners And Big Losers
E.J. Dionne Jr. -- President as an alien
The Predictable Presidency and an Edge on Consensus (1 comments)
Specious Free Exercise Arguments Can't Hide the War on Contraception
Birth control: The right's still winning
Gail Collins: Four Dudes and a Table
There Is Nothing Constitutional About State-Mandated Transvaginal Ultrasounds
Harvest America or Invest in America
Wednesday, February 22:
Tucker Carlson: 'Iran Deserves To Be Annihilated'
Mark Morford: How to be more like Satan
David Corn: Does Santorum Believe Obama Is Part of a Satanic Plot?
Tuesday, February 21:
A wedge divides progressives and women in Washington State
Experts Say Iran Attack Is Irrational, Yet Hawks Are Winning the Debate (1 comments)
In Book, Feingold Offers Insider's View of Senate Post-Sept. 11
Why Romney Is Collapsing | Eliot Spitzer
Juan Cole: Israeli PM Netanyahu attacks Gen. Dempsey as Servant of Iran
Joe Conason: Desperate Fantasy: Can Jeb Bush Save The GOP? (5 comments)
Eugene Robinson: Rick Santorum could take Republicans down with him
Transborder Data Flows at Risk
Beating the Drums of War, Again
Monday, February 20:
The Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy
Tobacco Sales In California: Fewer Smokers Is Bad For State Budget (1 comments)
Will The Supreme Court Reconsider Citizens United? (1 comments)
E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Ideological hypocrites
Free Bradley Manning! (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: Pain Without Gain
Sunday, February 19:
Bruce Springsteen: 'What was done to my country was un-American' (2 comments)
Municipal Bonds Are Sometimes Still Lost in the Fog
Saturday, February 18:
Hungry for Freedom, Starving for Justice: a story of hunger striker Adnan Khader
The Invincible Military-Industrial Complex
Charles M. Blow -- Santorum's Gospel of Inequality
Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman
Republicans Are Unprotected On Contraception
OPINION: A Black Woman's "Life of the Mind" is Her Own: Melissa Harris Perry
"Top GOP Senator" To ABC News: If Romney Loses Michigan, "He Will Publicly Call' For Jeb Bush
Face the Truth: Racial Profiling Across America - Short Video Documentary
Friday, February 17:
Iran: false nuclear fears cloud the west's judgment (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: Moochers Against Welfare
Thursday, February 16:
Concerning the Violent Peace-Police, An Open Letter to Chris Hedges (5 comments)
While He Was A Senator, Rick Santorum Voted With President George W. Bush Over 95% Of The Time
Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Carol J. Adams, author of "The Sexual Politics of Meat," Weighs in on PETA Ad
Gail Collins: Why Congress Has No Date for the Prom
Amy Goodman: The Afghan War's Nine Lives
Giving Away the Store: The Black Political Class as Bystanders and Looters, by Bruce A. Dixon (1 comments)
9 things the rich dont want you to know about taxes - By DC Johnston
Poor, White, and Republican : The New Yorker (3 comments)
Iran seems an unlikely culprit for the attacks on Israeli diplomats
Wednesday, February 15:
The Right-Wing Media's Discipline Machine
Illusion of Recovery: Feellings vs. Facts (1 comments)
Mark Morford: Santorum, the bishops, and you
Black Hawks In Boston: The American Military Empire Comes Home (1 comments)
Syria Slaughters, Hamas Terrorizes: Public Relations Firms Advance their Cause
Tuesday, February 14:
GOP Goes All-In Against Birth Control (And More!) (3 comments)
SYRIA: NATO's Next "Humanitarian" War?
President's 2013 Budget Revives 1603 Solar Tax Credit, Eliminates $4B in Fossil Fuel Subsidies : Greentech Media (1 comments)
Frank Rich: Who in God's Name is Mitt Romney?
Money and Morals - Paul Krugman
Monday, February 13:
Thomas Friedman: We Need a Second Party (9 comments)
Saturday, February 11:
Robert Fisk: From Washington this looks like Syria's 'Benghazi moment'. But not from here
Enemies of the State: Koch Brothers (5 comments)
MJ Rosenberg: Iran War: What Is AIPAC Planning? (1 comments)
Gail Collins: The Battle Behind the Fight
Attacks on Disclosure - For Some Citizens United Did Not Go Far Enough In Allowing Secret Donations
It's Time To Occupy Mainstream Media
Van Jones: Bank Settlement: $25 Billion Down, $675 Billion to Go
Friday, February 10:
David Corn: Dr. Gingrich and Mr. Newt
Decline Watch: Is the U.S. Constitution going out of style?
5 Big Lies About the Phony 'War on Religion' (2 comments)
Kevin Drum: Why I'm Feeling So Hard-Nosed Over the Contraception Affair
Paul Krugman: Money and Morals
We Really Do See Differently--Liberals and Conservatives
The Top Twelve Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement
Thursday, February 9:
Bradley Manning's Own Defense Appears To Concede He's No Hero
Robert Redford: Keystone Pipeline Facts
E.J.Dionne Jr -- Clint Eastwood, Rick Santorum and the limits of pessimism
Wednesday, February 8:
Dear Ronald Reagan: Thanks for Wrecking America (1 comments)
Why We Shouldn't Be Surprised That Susan G Komen for the Cure is Anti-Women
Mark Morford: How to be outraged in America
Tuesday, February 7:
Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis: Truth, Lies and Afghanistan
U.S. Jews Should Heed Top Israeli Soldiers Who Oppose Bombing Iran - The Daily Beast (1 comments)
Monday, February 6:
How to Score a Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Deal
Pentagon Whistleblower: Truth, lies and Afghanistan
E.J. Dionne, Jr -- The Citizens United catastrophe
Saul Alinsky, Who? | BillMoyers.com
Paul Krugman: Things Are Not O.K. (1 comments)
Sunday, February 5:
Stephen Colbert is winning the war against the Supreme Court and Citizens United (1 comments)
Maureen Dowd: The Great Man's Wife (3 comments)
Saturday, February 4:
Top Of The Pyramid Billionaires, Secretly Buying The 2012 Election (2 comments)
Susan G. Komen's priceless gift
Charles M. Blow: Romney, the Rich and the Rest
Friday, February 3:
David Ignatius: Is Israel preparing to attack Iran?
Barry Lando: Iran: Only Half the Story
Robert Fisk: We've been here before -- and it suits Israel that we never forget 'Nuclear Iran'
Leon Panetta's explicitly authoritarian decree
Faced with good news about economy, Romney dissolves into incoherence (2 comments)
Lizzie Phelan: New York Times video interview with Lizzie Phelan (14 comments)
Paul Krugman: Romney Isn't Concerned
Thursday, February 2:
E.J. Dionne: Mitt Romney won in Florida but lost overall
Joe Conason: What Happened in Florida Won't Stay in Florida
Why Record Black Male Unemployment Remains Invisible to the First Black President
Wednesday, February 1:
Ezra Klein: Doing the math on Obama's deficits
San Francisco Dispensaries' Annual Sales Estimate: $41 Million | Legalization Nation (3 comments)