Saturday, November 28:

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: New push in Venezuela's agrarian reform arouses violent verbal PR reaction A recent push by the Agriculture & Lands (MAT) Ministry and the National Lands Institute (INTI) to recover more land for peasants in Guarico State and Lake Maracaibo South Bank has aroused a violent verbal and PR reaction by ranchers and opposition media, accusing the government of imitating Richard Mugabe's land grab of farms belonging to white farmers in Zimbabwe.

David Kendall: Dr King Spanks Obama: Part 4 Higher levels of economic democracy are a prerequisite, not a byproduct, of programs like Basic Income Guarantee and Single Payer Health Care. 1) Fire your boss and reorganize the workplace cooperatively. 2) Close your bank account and deposit your money in a credit union or some other form of publicly owned bank. That is, any kind of system that does not feed back into the currently predominant debt-based monetary system.

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.

Dan Fejes: Through the Looking Glass With the DOJ (2 comments) Recent actions by the Department of Justice in the case of a Guatánamo detainee are more suited for the Queen of Hearts than a court of law, and the most plausible explanations are corruption or incompetence.

Grant Lawrence: War Crimes, Exploitation, Abuse, and Suffering Brought to You by the 'Big Lies' (5 comments) In TV reality, the suffering and the exploitation offered by the Military Industrial Complex to the world is ignored or sometimes even applauded by Americans. Unfortunately, Americans can no longer hide behind the entertainment, the booze, and the pills.

Friday, November 27:

Cindy Sheehan: You Get What you Vote For! (35 comments) the peace movement will definitely have to increase our peace as the war machine increases it's violence!

Stephen Lendman: Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim Denied Parole Political persecution in America

Wednesday, November 25:

James Brett: Jobs! Can They Not Hear and See? (9 comments) The honeymoon is definitely over. The Obama Administration has shown its hand and the hand is empty. The country's best columnist agree that something serious is amiss in the West Wing, not just across the breadth and length of our land. Enjoy your Thanksgiving repast, but remember there are millions who cannot!

Tuesday, November 24:

Russ Buchanan: How the Democrat Party Lost Its "ic" (11 comments) My determination to find out why and when Republicans replaced "Democratic Party" with the stunningly childish "Democrat Party" led me to a secret strategy session held by the Republican elite shortly after their defeat at the polls. Strangely, the minutes of the meeting were written in verse.

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?

Monday, November 23:

Kevin Gosztola: Rejecting the Narrative for Health Reform in America, Believing in a Better Way (9 comments) To the extent that politicians in Washington, D.C. have not attempted reform of this magnitude with a concerted effort for a decade (perhaps, decades depending on how you regard Hillary Clinton's past efforts), the recent votes on health reform in the House two weeks ago and in the Senate this weekend are historic. But the dominant political culture has channeled righteous outrage into something terribly inadequate.

Stephen Lendman: Targeting Muslim Charities in America (3 comments) Targeting the innocent is the face of a police state.

Sunday, November 22:

Rodrigue Tremblary: A Real Revolution in the Making in the US Health Care Industry (1 comments) The U.S. Congress is presently debating a most important piece of legislation that would profoundly reform the U.S. healthcare system. This is without a doubt the most important domestic proposal advanced by the Obama administration.

Richard Girard: The Social Element of Social Capitalism "Women and children first!" cried the Titanic's Captain as she prepared for her final, fatal plunge. In our modern world, I believe that how we treat children and the opposite sex is a direct reflection of how we react to different and diverse peoples and ideas. There are few if any supporters of the ERA in the KKK; we need to examine the basis for this truth.

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: After a visit to the Ana Soto Socialist farm in Venezuela, I say hell to the begrudgers! (1 comments) One of the myths currently being spun with care and malice abroad by opposition think tanks, such as VenEconomy or Veneconomia is that state companies and expropriated farms are "unproductive, highly political, inefficient and badly administered."

Robert Parry: The Madness Returns As soon as the mainstream news correspondents sensed that the tide was turning again, they smoothly readjusted to the resurgence of know-nothing-ism. Palin's recitation of right-wing talking points was treated with deference and respect, except by the likes of Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's “Daily Show.”

Saturday, November 28:

15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams Now I know why Obama didn't sign the treaty banning landmines, so he and Wall Street could say to the poor and hungry of America, "Let them eat landmines."

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?

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:

Stephen M. Walt: Why They Hate Us: on military occupation One of the many barriers to developing a saner U.S. foreign policy is our collective failure to appreciate why military occupations generate so much hatred, resentment, and resistance, and why we should therefore go to enormous lengths to avoid getting mired in them.

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.

Inconsistent Conservatives and Progressives by Sheldon Richman The problem is that conservatives and progressives fail to see that their arguments can legitimately be applied to government activity across the board, including activities they like. If each side were consistent, it would oppose many things it now favors.

Monday, November 23:

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.

Saturday, November 28:

Rick Rozoff: Christmas 2009: U.S., NATO To Expand New Millennium's Longest War Christmas 2009: U.S., NATO To Expand New Millennium's Longest War

Wednesday, November 25:

Rob Kall: Teabaggers Mock A Mourning Grandmother. How Would You Describe Them (22 comments) a town hall brings out teabaggers who go after a mourning grandmother.

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."

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.

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.

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."

Sunday, November 22:

Religious Leaders Call for Civil Disobedience if Laws Don't Respect Faith A formidable coalition of 150 Catholic, Orthodox and evangelical leaders are calling on Christians in a new manifesto to reject secular authority – and even engage in civil disobedience – if laws force them to accept abortion, same-sex marriage and other ideas that betray their religious beliefs.

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