Saturday, November 28:

Roy S. Carson: VENEZUELA: Hugo Chavez' big mouth! Woops ... he's gone and done it again! Years ago it might have taken days for Chavez' rasher statements to reach the disbelieving ears of Europeans, North Americans or even those in Asia and elsewhere in the Pacific who give a damn about what's happening along southern Caribbean shores. The time differential and the cost of reporting trivialities were not unsubstantial and lunacies were kind of expected from faraway places.

Wednesday, November 25:

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.

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.

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?

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:

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).

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.

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.

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

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:

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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