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.

Thursday, November 26:

Jim Hightower: Giving Thanks for America's Good Food Movement What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country's food rebels! The growing movement of small farmers, food artisans, local retailers, co-ops, community organizers, restaurateurs, environmentalists, consumers and others. This movement has spread the rich ideas of sustainability, organic, local control and the Common Good from the fringes of our food economy into the mainstream.

Ralph Lopez: *Fire Insubordinate McChrystal Now! Civilian Government! (1 comments) Continuing to try to paint the president into a corner and infringing on the president's prerogative to shape his own foreign policy is serious insubordination, and the leak and spin wars now conducted by "military officials" could not be more in the open.

Wednesday, November 25:

Charles Foerster: U.S. Foreign Policy: Blinded by Self-Righteousness, Greed & Arrogance; Held Together with Stupidity (2 comments) The Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy; The Use of Force.

Noeline Clayfield: CLIMATEGATE & POTENTIAL RELEASE OF FREE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY There has been very little media coverage of the recent release of information hacked from Global Warming Facility CRU, Anglia, UK,which has blown open the fraudulent activities of secret government and corporation promoting global warming and climate change. Now there is the potential release of free energy technology hidden and ignored for the last 100 years.

Saturday, November 21:

Liz Grover: *My Experience in Afghanistan & My Message to President Obama Liz Grover, an activist who lived and worked in Afghanistan for two years, makes her please to President Obama to use dialogue and genuinely listen to what the Afghan people want.

Alen Salerian: Betrayal by JFK's Four Trusted Men: McNamara, Bundy, Hilsman and Forrestal (1 comments) An exploration of the inner workings of some of President Kennedy's most trusted advisers and their influence on international policy and conflict.

Rick Rozoff: Rumors Of Coups And War: U.S., NATO Target Latin America Rumors Of Coups And War: U.S., NATO Target Latin America

Saturday, November 28:

Bob Herbert: Stacking the Deck Against Kids While Wall Street is handing out billions in bonuses, American families are struggling with joblessness, home foreclosures and rampant debt. The economic woes are exacting a fierce toll on family life, and children are taking a big hit — emotionally, psychologically and otherwise.

Friday, November 27:

The rabid right has made me doubt my faith in America What troubles me about the US today in ways I never expected to witness in my lifetime is not Obama's failure to solve all its urgent problems in a year, or even four. It is the scale of the irrational, emotional and ignorant, reaction his presidency has unleashed on the American right, some of it understandable in a fast-changing and confusing world, much of it ugly and increasingly violent in tone.

Wednesday, November 25:

Geithner's Disgrace. - By Eliot Spitzer (Slate) Barofsky's report reads like a case study in failed negotiation. The New York Fed didn't have the backbone to stand up to Wall Street, didn't understand its capacity to protect taxpayers, and didn't appreciate that its responsibility was to taxpayers.

Tuesday, November 24:

Obama, Teabaggers, Foreign Policy and Asia As Obama and the Democrats contemplate a new strategy for Afghanistan they should consider integrating fiscal discipline and limited government into their decision-making on this central foreign policy issue. After all, reducing and not expanding U.S. military in Afghanistan (and Iraq, and Korea, and Japan, and") would help control the spending by the federal government and reduce the deficit.

Iran's Nuclear Ambassador: 'We Have Nothing to Hide' Ali Asghar Soltanieh serves as Iran's ambassador to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He said,"We need guarantees that we will get fuel in return for our uranium. Given the way we've been treated by the West over the last 30 years, we have plenty of reasons to be mistrustful."

What Does "Pro-Palestinian" Really Mean?, Khaled Abu Toameh (4 comments) A Palestinian, who happens to also be a journalist, explains what being pro-Palestinian means to him. "It is time for the “pro-Palestinian” camp in the West to reconsider its policies and tactics. It is time for this camp to listen to the authentic voices of the Palestinians – those that are shouting day and night that the Palestinians want good leaders and an end to lawlessness, anarchy and financial corruption."

Monday, November 23:

Sanctions and Strategy Iran has rejected, at least for the moment, a proposal from the P-5+1 to ship the majority of its low-enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment. The P-5+1 are not even committed to the idea of sanctions. But they will move to sanctions if it appears that Israel or the United States is prepared to move aggressively. Sanctions satisfy the need to appear to be acting while avoiding the risks of action.

Sunday, November 22:

Obama's extra-judicial killers Bush authorized the CIA to operate freely and fully in Afghanistan with its own paramilitary teams—and to go after Al Qaeda on a worldwide scale, using lethal covert action to keep the role of the US hidden. As he has now continued other Bush-Cheney legacies, President Obama has permitted the CIA to operate freely and fully, with its dread pilotless Predator drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Saturday, November 28:

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.

Friday, November 27:

Eileen Fleming: President Obama, the little town of Bethlehem and Americans for Palestinian Equal Rights (2 comments) Putting Christ back in Christmas should mean remembering that he too was born, lived and died under a brutal military occupation.

Ralph Lopez: *Military Families Ask Obama Not to Send Sons and Daughters Our son returned to us in good physical health and we were able to hold him in our arms and not just keep him in our hearts. So many of our friends within the organization we co-founded, Military Families Speak Out, have not shared this outcome.

Thursday, November 26:

U.S. Is Seeking 10,000 Troops From Its Allies for Afghan War The Obama administration views a substantial contribution from its allies as a way to keep the American troop increase lower and blunt domestic political criticism of the Afghan war. It would also allow the administration to come close to the military's request for 40,000 additional troops without relying totally on the already stretched American armed forces.

Wednesday, November 25:

U.S. Policy on Honduras Puts Latin Ties at Risk, Brazilian Says The United States risks souring relations with much of Latin America if it recognizes a presidential election in Honduras on Sunday, the foreign policy adviser to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil said. if Washington insists on recognizing the election, several countries will respond by seeking countermeasures in the Organization of American States.

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.

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez convokes Fifth International; vindicates 'Carlos the Jackal' During a meeting with delegates attending an 'International Meeting of Parties of the Left' in Caracas, President Chavez took a bold but measured step in convoking The Fifth International on grounds that it is not enough to mouth the current left-wing dominant slogan: a "better world is possible ... it is possible and necessary."

Obama to attend climate talks in Copenhagen the president will attend international climate talks next month in Copenhagen and commit the U.S. to a short-term emission reduction target "in the range of 17 percent" below 2005 levels. will travel to the Danish capital Dec. 9, one day before he visits nearby Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

US rejects landmine ban treaty (2 comments) The US administration has rejected a global treaty, supported by more than 150 countries, banning the use of landmines. Patrick Leahy, a US senator and a leading advocate for the treaty, called the decision "a default of US leadership" and criticised the state department's policy review as "cursory and half-hearted".

Tuesday, November 24:

Don Lieber: Depleted Uranium, The Emerging Radiation Crisis in Iraq and US Students: Vermont Takes Lead with Divestment (1 comments) The University of Vermont voted to divest from companies which produce Depleted Uranium weapons, as reports from Iraq are beginning to detail an emering radiation crisis. The U of V appears to be the first US Universityh to take this action.

Homeless Organization Is Called a Fraud an investigation by Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo appears to have confirmed what many New Yorkers secretly (if somewhat guiltily) suspected all along: The United Homeless Organization, supposedly a nonprofit group set up to help feed and house the homeless, was actually an elaborate fraud.

Monday, November 23:

Palin quizzes Billy Graham about Bible's view of Middle East Sarah Palin, the hottest name in the Republican Party, took a detour from her book-signing tour Sunday to dine with Billy Graham at his mountaintop home in Montreat, NC. Graham's son, Franklin, who was present for the 2 1/2-hour get-together, said, "Daddy feels God was using her to wake America up."

Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government The surge in borrowing over the last year or two is widely judged to have been a necessary response to the financial crisis and the deep recession, and there is still a raging debate over how aggressively to bring down deficits over the next few years. But there is little doubt that the United States' long-term budget crisis is becoming too big to postpone.

Sunday, November 22:

The Cornucopia Institute: Food Manufacturers and Organic Industry Lobbyists Circle the Wagons Two powerful lobby groups in the food industry, The Grocery Manufacturers of America and the Organic Trade Association, recently intervened as friends of the court in a federal consumer class-action lawsuit accusing the nation's largest supplier of private-label organic milk of consumer fraud.

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: Venezuela's Chavez wants to see a united PSUV coming out of weekend congress Addressing delegates to the extraordinary congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), President Chavez lambasted the cynical remarks of Colombian Foreign Minister, Jaime Bermudez who said he was disappointed in the silence shown by the South American Union of Nations (Unasur) to President Chavez' war-mongering discourse.

Saturday, November 21:

Eileen Fleming: Gilo and Last Straws (3 comments) This week's announcement of Israel's plan to build 900 more dwellings in Gilo with a price tag of NIS 1.86 million for a 5-room apartment has garnered international criticism as well as from the US.

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