Saturday, November 28:

NISHOREN: New GMO Food Additives To Be Introduced Without Full Safety Appraisal The worst news yet from the world's largest maker of poisonous food additives, a total hoodwinking and conjob of Japan's Food Safety Commission, so look out! This stuff will be coming your way soon!

mikel weisser: Current Comedy: “Democrats Rising!” While not quite the James Carville and Mary Matalin of our time, my wife Beth is a centrist-progressive and I'm from the “Kucinich wasn't even left enough for me” crowd. When Beth opted to become a Democrat, then a candidate and challenge Ron Gould for the state senate seat in LD3, I shuddered for a second, then threw in with her and started attending events where donkey butt is considered a fashion accessory.

Betsy L. Angert: Thanksgiving; Time with Family. No Thanks (1 comments) Toddlers and tots rarely have opportunities to quietly, calmly, and genuinely converse with parents or the caregivers they are fond of. Hence, lads and lasses feel a sense of loss. By the teen years, the thought of another Thanksgiving celebration with relatives evokes an almost automatic response, “No thanks.”

Friday, November 27:

Susan Galleymore: A View from the Faultline (3 comments) I met a Birther! Here, in the San Francisco Bay Area. My small island town is a mix of people and, until 1997, was home port to one of the largest naval fleets in the Pacific. Many of those who worked on the naval base still live here. Nevertheless, I was surprised to find a real, live person who seriously believes that Barack Obama was born in Mombasa ...and that his presidency will last only one year.

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.

Wednesday, November 25:

Kathy Malloy: Sing Along: “Thank Heaven, for Little Girls . . .” Before you and your family zone out on tryptophan and ESPN and slap on the running shoes for the midnight Black Friday sales, take a moment to be thankful for the little things that make you happy.

Fred Cederholm: Thanksgiving ... it was a time of fellowship, remembrance, and gratitude... The third Thursday in November, we in the US observe a truly unique American celebration. It was a time of fellowship, remembrance, and gratitude. We look back upon where we have been, we consider where we find ourselves, and we contemplate where we are headed: normally we are thankful.

Elayne Clift: On the Backs of Women: The Politics of Betrayal (1 comments) From Afghanistan to America, when the chips are down, it's always women who get thrown under the bus.

Allan Goldstein: I Could be Even More Thankful A short, satirical to-do list for the holiday season. Go ahead, it's okay. You can laugh and still get to heaven one fine day. It might even help.

Monday, November 23:

Paul Craig Roberts: A Trial That Will Convict Us All (34 comments) Considering that some Muslims will blow themselves up in order to take out a handful of Israelis or US and NATO occupation troops, the payoff that Mohammed will get out of a guilty verdict is enormous. Are we really sure we want to create a Muslim Superhero of such stature?

Sunday, November 22:

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.

Barbara Bellows-TerraNova: The Wrath of a One-Breasted Woman, Bereft of Advice (1 comments) A One-Breasted Woman seeks the truth from a courageous doctor about what women should do with the impossible guidelines we're given.

Mary Shaw: What's Thanksgiving Really All About? (2 comments) The Thanksgiving holiday is just around the corner, but this year I am tempted to skip the festivities.

Jason Paz: The Anti-Death Squad; the Right to Live (1 comments) Throughout the ages the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have reigned supreme. The chances are the curses of war, pestilence, famine and disease have visited your doorstep. If you were lucky enough to be at work at the time, perhaps they claimed your spouse. In the final analysis they kill all of us, but this is not an excuse to make their mission easier for them.

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:

What festive cheer will the West bring to the Holy Land this Christmas? :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio or Last Christmas, did Gordon Brown spare a Yuletide thought for the starving, shivering Palestinians in Gaza? He wished the Jewish community a happy Chanuka from Number10.gov.uk and recalled how he celebrated with them Israel's 60th birthday"But he had no festive greeting for the Gazans. And no word of cheer, either, for the Christian communities in Gaza and the West Bank endlessly persecuted by his Israeli friends.

Giving Thanks to the Market | by Anthony Gregory Neglected by most official hosannas sung for those whom we presumably owe our loudest thanks are the greatest public servants of them all. I am talking about the merchants, the farmers and truck drivers, the waiters and waitresses, the storeowners and bag boys. I'm referring to the businessmen and businesswomen, the producers and sellers, the investors, the stockholders and brokers.

Wednesday, November 25:

One More Bubble to Go There were actually two debt bubbles. One was driven by Americans borrowing against unsustainable inflation in housing prices. The other was driven by America borrowing against unsustainable inflation in the price of the U.S. dollar. One more bubble is left to pop. When it does, our unique economic cushion -- privileged access to the world's savings -- will deflate.

Tuesday, November 24:

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."

Monday, November 23:

What Ever Happened to That Prosperity the Tax-Cutters Promised? Older households in the bottom and middle income thirds — those over age 50 — have, to be sure, seen their after-inflation net worths increase between 1983 and 2009. But these households have lost at least 22 percent of the wealth they held in 2007. As older families, Bosworth and Smart note, they now “have less time to recover.” That recovery may take some time.

Thursday, November 26:

Call it Ecocide: Babies With No Heads, 2 Heads or Monstrous Deformities (5 comments) Young women in Fallujah, the doctors wrote, "are terrified of having children because of the increasing number of babies born grotesquely deformed, with no heads, two heads, a single eye in their foreheads, scaly bodies or missing limbs." What might be causing this nightmare? The most likely factors are chemical or radiation poisoning

Families of Military Suicides Seek White House Condolences at a time when the Pentagon is trying to destigmatize mental health care in hopes of stemming a near epidemic of suicide among service members, the question of whether the survivors of military suicides deserve presidential recognition has taken on new significance.

Tuesday, November 24:

Atlantic Yards Project in Brooklyn Clears Legal Hurdle By CHARLES V. BAGLI Published: November 25, 2009 The last major obstacle to a groundbreaking for a $4.9 billion development fell after a ruling by New York's highest court.

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

Sunday, November 22:

Martha Rosenberg: Cash for Clunkers-like Ag Program is Domestic Dumping Funded by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act revenues, its Meat the Need proposal would increase the amount that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients receive in food assistance if they use it for animal products. Recipients would either get a separate electronic benefits transfer (EBT) card or earmarked vouchers.

Sherwood Ross: How About Tougher Laws To Protect Animals? (1 comments) U.S. laws to protect animals are entirely too weak, allowing widespread torture of laboratory animals.

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.

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