Friday, November 27:

Dave Berman: Book Review: "am I being kind" by Michael J. Chase Presenting stories of his own imperfect self and spiritual evolution as context, Chase delivers a simple and digestible message influenced by The Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Eckhart Tolle, Ram Dass, Buddha and Christ (among others), without being cerebral, esoteric or religious.

Wednesday, November 25:

Steven Leser: Video of Steve Leser's debate with Stuart Varney on Fox News' Your World Regarding Cap & Trade and Climate gate (12 comments) We discuss the hacked emails of climate gate as well as the costs and proposals of Cap & Trade and Copenhagen

Ted Newcomen: New Anti-Islamic Working Class Group Rattles British Government A new anti-islamic white working class grass-roots organization has got the British political establishment rattled. The English Defense League (EDL)has moved in to fill the vacuum caused by widespread disenchantment with traditional mainstream parties as the UK struggles with the economic recession.

Harvey Wasserman: Still more fluff, lies and radiation from TMI and the new nuke media machine Like this vast core of green groups, Moody's, Standard & Poor, Citibank and a powerful cohort of financial analysts see atomic power as a horrific investment that can only be described as, well, radioactive. The risks of building a new reactor, says a recent Citibank report, "are so large and variable that individually they could each bring even the largest utility company to its knees."

Monday, November 23:

Patricia Mailloux: How to Win in the Game of Life About the health care reform and why we should consider universal health care as a viable option for our future.

P. Orin Zack: Short Story: "Striking the Set Piece" (12th in a series) If corporations could be convicted of their crimes, which ones would you want to bring to justice? Some, such as Blackwater, are obvious choices, because they boldly flaunt the law, or sidestep it by operating in the grey zones between government and private industry. Others are more subtle. They bankroll campaigns and pad pockets, and in return, get legislation either passed or blocked. Don't be hoodwinked by the puppeteers.

Daily kos: The Real Irony of Psalms 109 (3 comments) The rich irony is that those who have chosen this Bible verse as a slogan clearly have no idea of the context and meaning of that which they quote. The Bible clearly says the exact opposite of that which they imply.

Sunday, November 22:

Gustav Wynn: Is Sean Hannity's Political Talk Hampering Our Children's Critical Thinking? (14 comments) The Supreme Court will soon be deciding if McCain-Feingold campaign regulation should allow corporations to fund election propaganda. But we already have this going on every day in talk radio, where the #1 broadcasters in the US are openly partisan and supported by corporate contributors like the Heritage Foundation. Should we allow propaganda over public airwaves and if so, what will this do to our children?

Sunday, November 29:

David R. Griffin's review of The Ground Truth The one-sidedness of Farmer's book is manifest in his endnotes, which include no reference to any writings aimed at exposing serious problems with the 9/11 Commission. Farmer does not even mention "The Commission" by former New York Times writer Philip Shenon, who pointed out, among other things, that Zelikow had secretly written a detailed outline of the Commission's report before his research staff had even begun its work.

Saturday, November 28:

Gideon Levy: Israel is lying to itself about 'united Jerusalem' And the prime minister has told us other lies, such as "our commitment to protect freedom of worship for all the religions in Jerusalem, and to ensure fair and equal treatment for the city's residents, Jews and Arabs alike." Freedom of worship? It's a sad joke. In no other city is access to holy places restricted.

Rolling Stone: Citizen Gore Andrew Rasiej, founder of the bipartisan Personal Democracy Forum, the largest annual gathering of tech-political geeks, calls Gore a "godfather of this emerging political movement."

Friday, November 27:

What Is Totalitarianism? If the United States came under the control of a totalitarian regime, would we recognize it? Could it be that we have already passed that dreaded threshold and missed it?

Eugene Robinson - A hotter planet, whatever the e-mails say (1 comments) It would be great if this were all a big misunderstanding. But we know carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and we know the planet is hotter than it was a century ago. The skeptics might have convinced one another, but so far they haven't gotten through to the vanishing polar ice.

Wednesday, November 25:

Have the Media 'Falsely Framed' ACORN? During its four decades of community organizing, ACORN has earned the ire of certain business groups, banks and pay-day lenders, and and the Republican Party. Their attack on ACORN is part of a broader conservative effort to discredit Barack Obama -- first as a candidate, then as President.

Tuesday, November 24:

Huffington: Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama's Katrina? "At this point you have to wonder what Obama's attachment to Summers and Geithner is."

The myth of the superhuman terrorist Hysteria hits high water when talk turns to the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Elected officials seem to have taken lessons from P.T. Barnum: "The most deadly killers in the world"; "The worst of the worst." But when proof substitutes for prattle, federal judges see it �differently: Thirty-eight prisoners have had their fate decided by the courts, and 30 have been cleared.

Russia: Cleaning Up the Media Garbage It's hard to imagine that Medvedev's hope for a better Russia will ever be realized if he doesn't address the issue of media corruption.

Monday, November 23:

ZIHOP as Limited Hangout The Military Industrial Complex did not arise from some flaw in the American character, nor indeed from Zionism. It arose, simply put, because capital requires more capital, power more power still. Powerful states act out. “Small states are virtuous only because of their weakness.” (Bakunin).

Why Afghans Dig Empire Graveyards It is precisely the far greater dangers that people in other countries have faced in the past that enable them to put the threat of terrorism in perspective. Paradoxically, it is the relative safety of the United States that makes Americans so vulnerable to panic and propaganda when faced with such a limited threat.

Eric Margolis: Critics of Afghanistan need to look in mirror (1 comments) Ironically, across the Muslim world, the same western powers scourging Karzai are seen as major sources of corruption, keeping a repressive regime in power by buying dictators, generals and politicians. Many Afghans support the Taliban because it is seen as an enemy of corruption and an enforcer of justice, however harsh.

Paul Krugman: The Phantom Menace (2 comments) it's politically difficult for the Obama administration to enact a full-scale second stimulus. Still, he should be trying to push through as much aid to the economy as possible. And remember, Mr. Obama has the bully pulpit; it's his job to persuade America to do what needs to be done.

Sunday, November 29:

Washington Times ex-editor sues, wants paper sold Richard Miniter, a former editor at The Washington Times, is suing the paper for forcing him to attend a church event when he was first hired last year and other stress-inducing conditions. In recent weeks three executives have been fired and its top editor has resigned. In a CNN interview, Miniter said the paper is losing about $40 million a year. "In fact the paper has lost money for more than 27 straight years."

Vietnamese Man Sleeps Beside Wife's Corpse For Five Years A China Daily news report on a Vietnamese man who dug up his wife's corpse and slept with it the past five years.

Martha Rosenberg: Sarah Palin Excelling at "Chicago Speak" when it comes to rogue pronouns and verbs and circumlocutions that never end up where they started, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Daley seem separated--vocally--at birth.

Couple said to seek payment Reports surfaced that the aspiring reality-TV stars were trying to sell their story for hundreds of thousands of dollars and CNN said the couple's upcoming appearance on "Larry King Live" had been cancelled.

John Little: Will the Growing Unemployment in America Lead to Civil Unrest and Revolution? (1 comments) What are the effects of increased unemployment on the sociopolitical front of the US?

Saturday, November 28:

Georgianne Nienaber: UN Report on Congo: A Boeing 727 From Florida, US Stonewalling, and Gold for Dubai (7 comments) You gotta read the full report to believe it...Arms shipments or suspected shipments to the DRC from Spain, North Korea, Ukraine, Iran, Libya, China, Belgium, Tanzania, the British Virgin Islands and others; US stonewalling on bank and phone records and 727 purchase from Florida.

Russia Train Crash 'Caused by Bomb' A bomb blast caused the Russian train crash in which at least 26 people were killed, intelligence officials say. BBC with short video.---The Nevsky Express derailed with nearly 700 on board as it ran through remote countryside between the capital Moscow and the second city, St Petersburg.

Hugo Chavez: Israel plans to 'terminate the Palestinian people' "We .. are on the side of the Palestinian people's memorable struggle ... against the genocidal state of Israel that knocks down, kills and aims to terminate the Palestinian people," Chavez told visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

rob balsamo: 9/11: PENTAGON AIRCRAFT HIJACK IMPOSSIBLE (7 comments) FLIGHT DECK DOOR CLOSED FOR ENTIRE FLIGHT

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: VENEZUELA: Son of a revolutionary friend shot dead outside his home at 7:00 a.m. They shot dead the 24-year old son of an old personal friend in Barquisimeto at around 7.00 a.m. Thursday morning. Apparently, a car with three persons aboard passed by the house as young Mijail left his dad's car running with keys in the ignition.

Friday, November 27:

David Fiderer: Rewriting History to Blame Tim Geithner: An Incomplete Story of the AIG Bailout (2 comments) Placing the blame on Geithner for problems with the AIG bailout suits those who want to oversimplify the problem, and deflect away culpability from the Bush Administration.

Siegelman: Bush lawyers still running Justice Department Siegelman's lawyers argued the relationship between Siegelman and Scrushy was nothing out of the ordinary, and this fall 91 former attorneys general agreed, and urged the Supreme Court to hear Siegelman's case because it "concerns the criminalization of conduct protected by the First Amendment — the giving and receiving of campaign contributions."

Wednesday, November 25:

Press Release: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Expected To Announce Settlement Freeze As part of the efforts to give momentum to the peace talks with the Palestinian Authority and advance Israel's comprehensive national interests, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will today (Wednesday), 25.11.09, ask the Security Cabinet to approve a ten-month suspension of new residential construction permits and new residential construction starts in Judea and Samaria.

Tuesday, November 24:

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan (1 comments) Members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an investigation by The Nation has found.

Danny Schechter: Will Christmas Save US? Can "Black Friday Rescue The Economy? Will Christmas Shopping and Black Friday Bail Out the ailing American Economy asks News Dissector Danny Schechter

Monday, November 23:

Ann Garrison: Rwanda Green Party activists claim illegal detention Saboteurs disrupted the Rwandan Green Party's fourth attempt to meet, on 10.30.2009, which was then shut down by police. Today's Rwandan News Agency reports that eight Rwanda Greens charge they were illegally arrested and detained during the following week, and that they have now been prevented from convening again.

Newspaper circulation may be worse than it looks While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies. Under the new auditing standards, if a newspaper sells a "bundled" subscription to both the print and electronic editions, the publication is often allowed to count that subscriber twice.

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