Monday, November 30:

Linda Milazzo: Teflon Dick: How Cheney Uses Media For Protection Dick Cheney has used the complicit American media, his most powerful anti-prosecution tool, to near Machiavellian perfection.

Thursday, November 26:

Charles Brown: FDA, mercury not affected by Obama's 'change' (1 comments) Obama promised change, such as higher ethical standards and a reduction in human mercury exposure. But at FDA, coziness with industry has resulted in the sabotaging of Obama's plans. Contrary to the President's campaign promises, FDA's new Commissioner, a product of the revolving door, and her deputy approve the continued use of mercury amalgam -- even for children and pregnant women --despite the risks of neurological harm.

Tuesday, November 24:

earl ofari hutchinson: It's Official: Afghanistan Is Now Obama's Baby There was never doubt the moment General Stanley McChrystal flatly told President Obama last summer that the US must deploy up to 45,000 more troops in Afghanistan that'd he heed his command. The Pentagon had officially spoken through McChrystal. With the rare exception of JFK's pushback against the generals during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when the Pentagon speaks presidents listen.

Rabbi Michael Lerner: Obama's Declining Popularity (13 comments) While Obama is still hailed around the world in almost messianic tones, recent polls indicate his approval rate is below 50% in the U.S. How could a man who aroused so much hope be losing support so dramatically? And what lessons can be learned for politicians all around the world?

Dave Lindorff: UK Inquiry: Blair Conspired with Bush as Early as February 2002 to Plot Iraq Invasion (11 comments) In the UK, people are learning about the deceit and lies of their former prime minister. In the US, there's no such investigation, and most of the media won't even report on the UK probe.

Monday, November 23:

Rob Kall: China Buys Hummer Brand-- Further Evidence of a Shock Doctrine Assaulted America? (17 comments) Naomi Klein described, in her breaktrhough book, Shock Doctrine, how a nation is attacked, shocked and torn apart, destroying the middle class. It looks like the GM sale of Hummer to a wealthy Chinese investor, probably with the help of Morgan Stanley, is an example of how it's happening in the US.

Friday, November 27:

Arthur Silber: Once Upon a Time...Wherein We Gaze into Our Inerrant Crystal Ball and Espy a Deadly Rat Need I remind you that Obama is the commander in chief? It's not complicated in the least. In fact, the United States could leave, within three or six months. Announce the phased withdrawal of all U.S. personnel -- and then do it. We could do the same in Iraq. We won't do it in either case.

Thursday, November 26:

VIDEO: Dana Perino Claims No Terrorist Attacks on U.S. During Bush Presidency Maybe we shouldn't be surprised. After all this is the same Dana Perino who is so embarrassingly ignorant that she didn't know what the Bay of Pigs was. (Even worse, she's so mind-numbingly stupid that she admitted it.)

E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Obama's thankless Thanksgiving It's now official: So in vogue are attacks on President Obama that even his proclamation calling the nation to a day of Thanksgiving has become the focus of criticism. I'm willing to bet that a right-wing talk jock near you will soon be declaring the "indigenous communities" reference "un-American," and the call to service as yet another shout-out to "socialism."

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.

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."

Richard Cohen - The missing Obama Governing has to be informed by moral clarity, by the sense that we always know the president's interior life -- his bottom lines. Obama's political career has been too brief for us to know his bottom lines by votes cast in any legislative body or decisions made as an administrator. He had little record but lots of rhetoric -- much of it morally stirring and beautifully written.

Monday, November 23:

Obama's First Judicial Nominee Confirmed (5 Months Later) Judge Hamilton had the support of both his home state Senators – Senator Lugar, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, and Senator Bayh, a well-respected moderate Democrat. He was rated “well qualified” by the American Bar Association, and his nomination cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee in June. But despite all this, conservatives had since prevented a final vote, arguing Hamilton was too liberal.

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).

Monday, November 30:

Obama's Speech on Afghanistan to Envision an Exit officials said the president wanted to use the address at the United States Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday night not only to announce the immediate order to deploy roughly 30,000 more troops, but also to convey how he intends to turn the fight over to the Kabul government.

Sunday, November 29:

John Little: Will the Growing Unemployment in America Lead to Civil Unrest and Revolution? (2 comments) What are the effects of increased unemployment on the sociopolitical front of the US?

Up to 9,000 Marines Set to Start Deployment to Afghanistan (3 comments) Days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin final preparations to deploy to southern Afghanistan and renew an assault on a Taliban stronghold that slowed this year amid a troop shortage and political pressure from the Afghan government, senior U.S. officials said.

Friday, November 27:

New Obama Policy Bars Lobbyists from Federal Advisory Panels Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street's influence in Washington, according to White House officials and lobbying experts. The reaction from the lobbying community has been swift and overwhelmingly negative

The Salahis, Obama's Uninvited Guests, Prompt an Inquiry Michaele and Tareq Salahi, slipped past multiple layers of high-level White House security Tuesday night and managed to rub shoulders, literally, with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, among others, at Washington's most exclusive social event this year.

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:

Obama to Offer 17% Emissions-Cut Goal in Copenhagen The White House's proposed emissions cut marks the first time the U.S. has offered a 2020 target in the international negotiations. The reduction will be “in the range of 17 percent,” Carol Browner, Obama's top adviser on energy and the environment, said today.

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.

Tuesday, November 24:

Lou Dobbs mulls White House bid (1 comments) Asked if he might make a run at the White House in 2012, Dobbs answered flatly: "Yes is the answer. I'm going to be talking some more with some folks who want me to listen in the next few weeks," Dobbs said. "Right now I'm fortunate to have a number of wonderful options."

Iraq inquiry: British officials heard 'drum beats' of war from US before 9/11 British officials heard the "drum beats" of war with Iraq emanating from the US government more than two years before the 2003 invasion and several months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Sir John Chilcot's Iraq inquiry has heard.

Monday, November 23:

Obama holds Afghan war meeting (1 comments) The White House has indicated that Monday's meeting-Barack Obama's ninth with his senior advisers on the war-will be the last before he announces his decision. No decision is expected to be announced until next Monday at the earliest, with Washington all but closing down for the Thanksgiving holiday later this week.

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