Wednesday, November 25:

Kevin Gosztola: Single Payer Advocates Address Deep Flaws in Democratic Health Bill On the day before Thanksgiving, members of single payer advocacy organizations gathered for a press conference to voice strong concerns with a Democratic health bill that they feel fails to address the biggest problems with health care in America.

Saturday, November 21:

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.

Thursday, November 19:

Richard Cummings: Going Rogue;A Missed Opportuity Why Sarah Palin is not a real populist and how she might have been one.

Wednesday, November 18:

Kathy Malloy: Criminal Injustice (3 comments) Why are Republicans afraid of the law? Did they collectively buy into Dubya's belief that the U.S. Constitution, and therefore our entire system of government, was nothing more than a “goddam piece of paper,” and, furthermore, should be abandoned if it might possibly be used to protect a swarthy Muslim?

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.

Friday, November 20:

Learning the Wrong Vietnam Lessons The Thomas-Barry article – subtitled “Unraveling the mysteries of Vietnam may prevent us from repeating its mistakes” – is not really about learning from those mistakes. It's actually about persuading the American public to support escalation in Afghanistan.

Wednesday, November 25:

US rejects landmine ban treaty 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:

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan Revealed A former senior executive at Blackwater confirmed the military intelligence source's claim that the company is working in Pakistan for the CIA and JSOC, the premier counterterrorism and covert operations force within the military. He said that Blackwater is also working for the Pakistani government on a subcontract firm that puts US Blackwater operatives on the ground with Pakistani forces

Friday, November 20:

FDL Book Salon Welcomes Maggie Mahar, Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much It’s an overwhelming story & through it all we read of physicians torn between the traditional ethics of their profession & incentives & temptations of the money-driven system that surrounds them.Mahar shows the best of them struggling to create islands of ethical sanity,to collaborate & share information (using IT reforms,evidence-based medicine)in a hospital & drug industry that would rather withhold information because

Thursday, November 19:

Eric Lotke: Obama's Home And The Report Is Out: China Takes Us To School (7 comments) President Obama is home from China and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission today releases its 2009 report to Congress. What have we learned? That we need to pay attention because we're getting schooled.

R-CALF USA: 40 Groups Disagree with USDA's Latest BSE Court Submission; Agency Poised to Conform to Global Edict Instead of Domestic (9 comments) On Nov. 17, 2009, R-CALF USA and 39 other groups sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to express their serious concerns about the agency's status submission.

Wednesday, November 18:

Dissection of Palin's 'Going Rogue' begins (1 comments) When asked where she's going next, Palin said, "I'll be heading home to Alaska, of course. Back to that kitchen table. We'll discuss the day's news and the next stop. I always tell my kids that God doesn't drive parked cars, so we'll talk about getting on the next road and gearing up for hard work to travel down it to reach new goals."

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