Archives for General News

December 2009

Thursday, December 31:

Sheila Samples: Judge dismisses all charges in Blackwater shooting

Sheila Samples: Gaza Freedom March: Reimagining Change

Sheila Samples: Colo. firm employs most retired officers from mentor program

Sheila Samples: Plans to Close Gitmo Haven't Changed

Sheila Samples: Western troops accused of executing 10 Afghan civilians, including children

Sheila Samples: Court freed Somali suspect with chemicals, syringe

Mac McKinney: RUSSIA TODAY VIDEO: Did US know about Christmas day attempted terrorist attack?

Sheila Samples: Pakistan to seek terror charges against Americans

Daniel Geery: Reactions Regarding Rush

Roger Shuler: What's the Real Story Behind Karl Rove's Divorce? (5 comments)

Mac McKinney: Wining Hearts and Minds? Afghans Protest Killings by Military

Wednesday, December 30:

Eileen Fleming: Israeli police arrest nuclear whistleblower Vanunu

Margaret Bassett: 13 AGs Threaten Suit over Health Care (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: UPDATE: Eight Civilians killed in Afghanistan attack were US 'CIA agents

Scott Baker: State Oil and Gas Regulators Are Spread Too Thin to Do Their Jobs by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica

Sheila Samples: BREAKING: Limbaugh Taken to Hospital With Chest Pains

Stanimal: World's Fastest Train Forced to Stop Due to Disorderly Smoker (1 comments)

B. Ross Ashley: PM suspends Parliament - thestar.com

Martha Rosenberg: "Naughty" Pharma Still Got Christmas Presents From FDA in 2009 (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: 8 Americans die in suicide blast in Afghanistan

Sheila Samples: Rove Attacks Obama Response To Failed Terrorist Plot, Despite Bush's Delayed Response In 2001

Margaret Bassett: At Least Six Americans Killed in Afghan Attack

Margaret Bassett: Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Claim Karachi Bombing

Margaret Bassett: E.U. Challenged to Restore Fiscal Credibility

Margaret Bassett: Internal Army Report Finds Early Missteps in Afghanistan

abbas sadeghian, Ph.D.: Iran's Reformist Leaders Threatened with Assassination Payvand Iran News

Ed Tubbs: BREAKING NEWS: JFK photo was a retouched November, 1967 Playboy feature (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: At Least Six Americans Killed in Afghan Attack

Margaret Bassett: Red River Flooding Solution Is a Problem to Some (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Terror Inquiry Looks at Suspect's Time in Britain (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Israel Opens Second Banned Highway to Palestinians Before Mitchell Visit

Margaret Bassett: What Other Al Qaeda-linked Attacks have Involved Yemen?

Sheila Samples: Dick Cheney: Barack Obama 'trying to pretend' (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Republicans see political opportunity in Obama response to failed airplane bomb

Sheila Samples: Vladimir Putin calls for more weapons to stop America doing 'whatever it wants'

Sheila Samples: Afghan probe says NATO fighting killed children

Roger Shuler: Debt Collectors Face Lawsuit After Florida Man's Death

Margaret Bassett: Putin Sounds Warning on Arms Talks

Margaret Bassett: Detroit's Fortunes Crash in Chaotic Summer of '08

Meryl Ann Butler: Dennis Kucinich: US War Presidents ignore Congress & Constitution (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: Open Highway 443 to More Palestinians, Israeli Court Rules

Sheila Samples: U.S. Had Early Signals of Terror Plot, Officials Say

Tuesday, December 29:

Sheila Samples: VIDEO: Afghanistan Army Flunks Pentagon Report Card

Margaret Bassett: Google, AdMob Draws Consumer Group Scrutiny

Margaret Bassett: $250,000 in Bank? Check Deposit Insurance

Sheila Samples: Iran seeking to smuggle purified uranium

Sheila Samples: US spies: Israel or UK forged nukes report on Iran

Sheila Samples: US castigates Israel over new Jerusalem Al-Quds plan

Sheila Samples: Afghan soldier kills U.S. service member at army base

CODEPINK: No Stone Unturned

Dennis Kucinich: Treasury's Assistance to Fannie and Freddie (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Iraq Signs Deal With European Oil Giants

OilGuy: Iraq Limping Back to Take Control of it's natural Resources

Sheila Samples: America First Hero Traficant Seeks Return To Congress

Sheila Samples: Action Alert: Gaza Freedom March News

Sheila Samples: U.S. concerned about new Japanese premier Hatoyama

Sheila Samples: U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged

Sheila Samples: Levi-Bristol custody fight over Palin grandchild will be public

Danny Schechter: LOOK TO THE FUTURE NOT THE PAST AS YEAR ENDS

Joan Brunwasser: Who's running the TSA? No one, thanks to Sen. Jim DeMint

Margaret Bassett: Republican Senator DeMint Holds up Nomination for TSA Chief

Bill Perry: Gaza March Photos; "No More Than 6 People can Assemble" in Egypt (7 comments)

Rick Rozoff: End Of The Year: U.S. Recruits Worldwide For Afghan War

Ann Garrison: Terrorizing Ugandans; the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009

Monday, December 28:

Jerry Policoff: Health Insurance Monopolies Are Illegal. There Is No Insurance Antitrust Exemption (1 comments)

abbas sadeghian, Ph.D.: Arrests Continue As State TV Confirms Eight Killed In Iran Protests Payvand Iran News

Sheila Samples: Afghanistan children killed 'during Western operation'

Sheila Samples: Specter: Republicans Plotted Early To Stop Bipartisanship, Beat Obama In 2012

Sheila Samples: 'The US military is exhausted'

Sheila Samples: Despite promise, Israel eyes building on Palestinian land (1 comments)

Linda Milazzo: 85 Yr Old Holocaust Survivor On Hunger Strike Pressuring Egypt For Entry Into Gaza (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Lieberman: Yemen will be 'tomorrow's war' if pre-emptive action not taken

Sheila Samples: GOP's internal wars are playing out in Placer County, Calif.

Sheila Samples: No Necessity in Tiller's Murder

Sheila Samples: Cowboy hats, secret files and more headed to Bush library

Mac McKinney: FALSE FLAG?:Who Was The Nice Indian Man Who Got Umar on the Plane with NO Passport? (10 comments)

Sheila Samples: Gaza aid convoy to change course

Margaret Bassett: Will the West's Criticism of China for Jailing Top Dissident Backfire?

Margaret Bassett: Iraq's Critical Year

Margaret Bassett: U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion

Sheila Samples: U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion

Sheila Samples: More Questions on Why Terror Suspect Was Not Stopped (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Women at Arms - Another Peril in War Zones - Sexual Abuse by Fellow G.I.'s

Sunday, December 27:

Don Smith: US: Guantanamo Prisoners Not "Persons' by William Fisher -- Antiwar.com

Scott Baker: In New Gas Wells, More Drilling Chemicals Remain Underground by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica

Linda Milazzo: UPDATE: Gaza Freedom March: 38 Detained By Egypt

Margaret Bassett: Details of Detroit Flight, Suspect charged

Sheila Samples: US troop death in Afghanistan doubles toll for 2008

Sheila Samples: U.S. official's criticism of Israel ambassador sparks furor (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: Incident on Another Amsterdam-to-Detroit Flight

Sheila Samples: Pentagon reviewing strategic information operations

Margaret Bassett: Stocks Higher? Famed Investor Says Don't Bet on I

Sheila Samples: Kim Peek, Inspiration for "Rain Man,' Dies at 58

Margaret Bassett: Seniors Worry About Medicare Advantage Cuts

Georgianne Nienaber: Over Detroit Skies: Roey Rosenblith

M. Wizard: We Only Have Those Rights As Citizens the President Deems Appropriate

Sheila Samples: Wife, brothers describe Israeli assassinations

Sheila Samples: Elite U.S. Force Expanding Hunt in Afghanistan

Saturday, December 26:

M. Wizard: OBAMACARE REJECTED BY "PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM" (1 comments)

Eileen Fleming: December 27, 2009, 2008 and What this little one knew in 2005 regarding Gaza

Sheila Samples: US Consulate car nearly runs over guard

Sheila Samples: UN expert slams "tragic" international failure in Gaza

Sheila Samples: Additional Layer of Restrictions Is Imposed on Airline Passengers

Sheila Samples: Civilian, military planners have different views on new approach to Afghanistan

Sheila Samples: Debate Shows Obama Plays by Washington's Rules

Sheila Samples: Nigeria banker fears son is alleged plane attacker

OilGuy: India Facing Fierce Competition in its Search for Oil and Natural Gas Resources

Margaret Bassett: Passengers Thwart Attack

Sheila Samples: Raids follow US plane bombing bid (1 comments)

Mac McKinney: Russia: No proof of military N-plans in Iran (1 comments)

abbas sadeghian, Ph.D.: Tehran protesters clash with Iranian security forces, Los Angeles Times

Friday, December 25:

Sheila Samples: Robot Romance: Inventor Le Trung takes his 'fembot' girlfriend to Christmas dinner (6 comments)

Mac McKinney: Israeli Repression Wave Targets Activists

Ann Garrison: Uganda's oil, and gay death penalty, may rival Saudi Arabia's

Linda Milazzo: UPDATED: Terrorism Attempt On Northwest Airlines Flight From Netherlands to Detroit (15 comments)

Sheila Samples: Egypt blamed for Gaza convoy delay

Sheila Samples: Netanyahu: Israel faces the 'Goldstone threat'

Margaret Bassett: Along U.S.-Mexico Border, a Torrent of Illicit Cash

Margaret Bassett: The Where of a Coming Terror Trial Is a Case in Itself

Sheila Samples: Military to drop order on soldiers' pregnancy in Iraq

Sheila Samples: Taliban video shows captured U.S. soldier

Sheila Samples: U.S. promises unlimited financial assistance to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Rare Christmas blizzard roils travel in central U.S.

Sheila Samples: What Congress' health care overhaul likely means for you

Margaret Bassett: Taliban Video Shows Captive US Soldier Bowe Bergdahl

Margaret Bassett: Yemen Says It Attacked a Meeting of Al Qaeda

John Kusumi: PRC: Merry Christmas, Here's 11 Years In Prison (2 comments)

Thursday, December 24:

Don Smith: Christmas Song for Rahm Emanuel (5 comments)

Rick Rozoff: World's Sole Military Superpower's 2 Million-Troop, $1 Trillion Wars (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: Pope Benedict XVI knocked to floor during Christmas Eve Mass (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Militants vow to counter US surge in Afghanistan

Sheila Samples: Activists and Holocaust Survivor to March in Gaza, Egypt Says No to March (8 comments)

Sheila Samples: Israel opens organ theft hearing

Eileen Fleming: On Claire's 'street with no name' in the little town of Bethlehem, 2009 (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: Yemeni forces launch attack on al-Qaeda operatives

Sheila Samples: Banks That Bundled Bad Debt Also Bet Against It

Margaret Bassett: Obama Vows to C ut Red Tape for Small Banks

Margaret Bassett: Pushing China May Aid Bay Area (2 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Banking / Wells Fargo, Citigroup Repay TARP

Sheila Samples: Senate passes $290 billion increase to debt limit

Margaret Bassett: Loan Program May Stir Nuclear Industry

Sheila Samples: Gates proposes $2 billion in funds to aid unstable countries

Margaret Bassett: Obamas Headed to Hawaii for Christmas Vacation

Sheila Samples: Exhausted and Divided, Senate Casts Holiday Vote

Roger Shuler: The Parker Griffith Story Takes Some Curious Turns

Daniel Geery: Christian Action Proves Athiests Right (1 comments)

Rob Kall: Carney (D- PA) Spurns GOP, McCain, Embarrassing Republican Party (3 comments)

OilGuy: China Secures Gas Supply From Turkmenistan: Who's the True Winner?

Sheila Samples: Jack Straw faces Iraq inquiry grilling over Tony Blair letter

Sheila Samples: Iraq inquiry reveals chaos that led Britain to war

Wednesday, December 23:

Mac McKinney: How the White House Grinch Stole Christmas from 9/11 First Responders

Sheila Samples: Sami al-Hajj Went From Guantánamo Cell to Al Jazeera Desk

Sherwood Ross: Federal War Spending Exceeds All Spending By States

Sherwood Ross: Afghan War Apt To Spell Economic Misery for U.S.

Ursula Siebert: *Shopocalyse Now (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Media On Palin's 'Banned List' Ejected From Going Rogue Event

Sheila Samples: Alabama Democratic Party accuses Parker Griffith's consultant of downloading Dems' voter ID data (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: "Balloon boy' parents get jail time

Press Release: Gaza Freedom March on December 27, 2009

Sheila Samples: World powers have 'failed' Gazans

Margaret Bassett: 2009's Mortgage Modifications Pretty Minor

OilGuy: Arab Leaders Finally Awake to Growing Iranian Threat

Roger Shuler: Parker Griffith is Our MDP: Most Despicable Politician (3 comments)

Martha Rosenberg: New Year's Resolutions for the Drug Industry for 2010 (2 comments)

abbas sadeghian, Ph.D.: Ahmadinejad Receives Cold Reception In Shiraz ,peyvand news of Iran

Eric Lotke: The 2010 Elections: Bring "em on! (9 comments)

Tuesday, December 22:

Margaret Bassett: Drug Industry Girds for Rise in Its Share of Overhaul

Margaret Bassett: Plan to Move Guantánamo Detainees Faces a New Delay

Sheila Samples: Israel can't play military card against Iran: think tank (1 comments)

OilGuy: The Two Kinds of Junior Natural Resource Companies

Sheila Samples: The Privatization of War: Scahill reports 121,000 contractors in Afghanistan (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: House Democrat blames Pelosi, leaders for switch

Sheila Samples: Michael Jackson: FBI releases classified files on star

Sheila Samples: Microsoft loses i4i appeal; must pay $290M and alter Word

Sheila Samples: Sarah Palin: 'Death panels' may be in final healthcare reform bill (1 comments)

Mac McKinney: Press TV: U.S Kill 63 Civilians, 28 Children in Yemen Airstrikes (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Ahmadinejad adds fuel to Israel debate over Iran nuclear ambitions

Sheila Samples: Obama rejects criticism on health-care reform legislation

Sheila Samples: Deep in Health Bill, Very Specific Beneficiaries

abbas sadeghian, Ph.D.: Clashes Erupt at Reformist Cleric's Funeral ,The Wall Street Journal (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: States' jobless funds are being drained in recession

Rob Kall: Suicide Bombing; OEN Exclusive On-Site Witness Report of Attack on Peshawar Press (7 comments)

Dave Lindorff: Forget the Happy Talk: Longer, Deeper Recession Ahead, Execs Warn (2 comments)

Sherwood Ross: No Chance Obama's Afghan War Will End Well

Sheila Samples: Obama to Name Howard A. Schmidt as Chief of Cybersecurity

Monday, December 21:

Sheila Samples: Rights groups: World has betrayed the citizens of Gaza

Rob Kall: Dean, Lieberman; Obama To Blame for Death of public option

Sheila Samples: As Military Launches New Attack In Afghanistan, U.S. Ambassador Suggests Extended U.S. Occupation

Mac McKinney: Threat of Rising Seas Looms over Coastal Africa

Joan Brunwasser: Glass Half-Empty, Glass Half-Full, part 3--Older Americans at Risk

Sheila Samples: 'US policy toward Iran is duplicitous'

Mac McKinney: Merry Christmas from America: Images of the Dead Children Killed by U.S. Bombs in Yemen (7 comments)

Sheila Samples: Turmoil in Pakistan threatens Obama's new Afghan strategy

Sheila Samples: Charitable organization not needed for this outreach

Margaret Bassett: GOP Critics in Senate Shaping Financial Overhaul Bill

Margaret Bassett: Chinese Group Won't Buy U.S. Gold Mining Company

Roger Shuler: Justice Department Can't Handle the Truth About Siegelman Judge

Margie Burns: "Cheney Stonewalled CIA Leak Probe -- and Succeeded," by Margie Burns

Lawrence Velvel: The SEC's Brief Filed Before Judge Lifland In Madoff.

A. Scott Piraino: An Interview with Scott Fenstermaker, Part VI

Carl Hulse and David M Herzenhorn NYTimes: Democrats Clinch Deal with Nelson #60

Margaret Bassett: Health-care Bill Clears Crucial Vote in Senate, 60 to 40

Margaret Bassett: Nelson Cites Reason Behind Health Care Compromise

Margaret Bassett: Civilians Train in "Afghan City' in the Midwest

Sheila Samples: Health Bill Passes Key Test in the Senate With 60 Votes

Sunday, December 20:

Robert Arend: The Obama Administration: December 1-16, 2009

Garland Favorito: Three complaints filed against Georgia SoS inspector office

Joan Brunwasser: Advisers on Vaccines Often Have Conflicts, Report Says

Sheila Samples: Senate pushes to pass bill by holiday

Sheila Samples: Mullen worries about Iran running out clock on U.S.

Margaret Bassett: Afghan Killing Bares a Karzai Family Feud

Margaret Bassett: China's Export of Labor Faces Growing Scorn

E. Nelson: The Godfather of the Public Plan Explains Why He Still Believes in the Health Care Bill by Jacob Hacker (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: Plight of Contractor Raped in Iraq Spurs Push in Congress

Sheila Samples: Pregnant soldiers could face court-martial

Sheila Samples: Insurance, health care firms give Lieberman big bucks

Sheila Samples: How health lobbyists influenced reform bill

Sheila Samples: Neb.'s Nelson Sees Backlash on Health Reform Plan

Rick Rozoff: Yemen: Pentagon's War On The Arabian Peninsula (4 comments)

Sheila Samples: Sunday Take: For Democrats, health-care debate exposes deep wounds - washingtonpost.com

Margaret Bassett: Do all Those Government Secrets Need to be Secret?

Margaret Bassett: Pa. Assembly Corruption Probe Nears Critical Phase

M. Wizard: Al Franken: Senate Health Care Bill "...an enormous step forward. It's something we can build on." (3 comments)

Saturday, December 19:

abbas sadeghian, Ph.D.: Iran: Basij member describes election abuse,Channel 4 news

Sheila Samples: EU castigates Israel over 'national priority' settlements

Sheila Samples: 'Deal has been reached on climate change treaty'

Sheila Samples: 2 million troops have deployed since 9/11

Sheila Samples: US Attack Kills 120 In Yemen

Sheila Samples: Obama approves aid to Israel, PA

Joan Brunwasser: Disgraceful: Discredited E-Voting Vendor VP Appointed to U.S. EAC Advisory Panel

Joan Wile: PEACE GRANNIES INVADE BROOKLYN'S TARGET STORE WITH SONGS AND PROTESTS AGAINST WAR TOYS

Joan Brunwasser: The Prosecution of Ted Stevens & Don Siegelman

Margaret Bassett: Stunning Statistics About the War Every American Should Know

M. Wizard: Venezuela's Chavez 'Still' Smells Sulfur After Obama Speech

Rob Kall: Obama; to Defiant Dem DeFazio "Don't think we're not keeping score, brother"

GLloyd Rowsey: Two Stories of GI Resistance, from the Iraq Veterans Against the War

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: Venezuela could get 42% bottle of Scottish whisky for gas emissions reduction

Margaret Bassett: Nelson Will Vote for Health Care Overhaul, Breaking Logjam

Sheila Samples: Lieberman: Settlement activity to restart full force in 10 months

Sheila Samples: Lawyers for Blackwater Guards Challenge Use of Nicknames (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Autism Jumps 57% in Just 4 Years (1 comments)

Muhammad Khurshid: Plight Of Half Milllion Refugees Worsens

Margaret Bassett: U.S. to Make Stopping Nuclear Terror Key Aim

Margaret Bassett: Alaska Sen. Begich Surprises Colleagues while Presiding over Senate

Don Smith: Radical Right -- The Billionaires Behind The Hate

Sheila Samples: McConnell not backing down on health overhaul as round-the-clock votes loom

Sheila Samples: Israeli pleads guilty to leaking classified U.S. documents

Sheila Samples: F.B.I. Accused of Abuse of Power in Clinton Case

Friday, December 18:

Don Smith: School Lunch Meat Gets an 'F'

Don Smith: Sen. Bernie Sanders can save health care from Joe Lieberman.

Sheila Samples: Huge Triangle UFO Spotted Above Moscow's Red Square

Sheila Samples: VIDEO: GOP Senators Appear on TV With Anti-gay, Anti-abortion Christian Martyrdom Advocate (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Homeowners often rejected under Obama's loan plan

Sheila Samples: 'The UK is not a banana republic' (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: Pentagon plays catch-up as toll of repeat combat duty rises / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Margaret Bassett: Twitter Disrupted by Web Attack

Margaret Bassett: Mack Won't Take a Bonus for 2009

Margaret Bassett: Google Loses in French Copyright Case

Margaret Bassett: Climate Deal Announced, but Falls Short of Expectations

Margaret Bassett: 'Tis The Season To Be Frugal

Margaret Bassett: Autism Society of America: U.S. Autism Prevalence Rises to 1 in 110

Margaret Bassett: Predator Drone Download by Iraqi Insurgents Wasn't 'Hacking'

Rob Kall: Religious Right Including Members Of Congress Pray For God To Stop The Health Care Bill (2 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones

Thursday, December 17:

Mac McKinney: CHANNEL 4 VIDEO: Defector Says He Helped Rig Iran's Election

Sheila Samples: Kyoto Redux? Obama's Challenges at Copenhagen Echo Clinton's at Kyoto

Don Smith: IRS Quietly Gives Citigroup Big $38 Billion Tax Cut, Wiping Out All Of The Taxpayer's "Profits"

Margaret Bassett: Global Panel Proposes Stronger Rules for Banks

Robert Arend: Jeffrey Young: SEIU Complains, But Backs Moving Bill

Cannabis Sativa: AT&T, BellSouth sued for $1B in overtime -Birmingham Business Journal - Staff

Sheila Samples: US drones hacked by Iraqi insurgents

Sheila Samples: Iran blasts off ahead of countdown

Sheila Samples: Uncertainty surrounds Afghan troop pullout

Sheila Samples: Obama to arrive in Copenhagen amid Republican dissent

Sheila Samples: Golf Inc. Pays for Tiger's Affairs With Lost Ads

Sheila Samples: Scientists crack 'entire genetic code' of cancer (1 comments)

Joan Brunwasser: Elizabeth Warren: Feminomics: Women and Bankruptcy

Ellen Brown: EU/IMF Revolt: Greece, Iceland, Latvia May Lead the Way (4 comments)

Judith Acosta: The Objects of Our Devotion: Spiritual-Need Marketing (4 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Pakistan Reported to Be Harassing U.S. Diplomats

Margaret Bassett: President Zardari under Pressure after NRO Ruling

Margaret Bassett: Senator Presses for Arlington Answers

Wednesday, December 16:

Mac McKinney: Wayne Madsen on Russia Today: US behind power change in Lithuania to approve black site prison?

Mac McKinney: Tadzio Mueller & Naomi Klein discuss non-violently shutting down negotiations in Copenhagen

Don Smith: Dean urges defeat of emerging health care bill

Joan Brunwasser: IRS Audits Single Mother For Not Making Enough Money

Sheila Samples: Tactical Implications of the Headley Case

Scott Baker: SEC Just Now Seeking Key Information On Meltdown by Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica

Sheila Samples: War bonds proposed to pay for Afghanistan, Iraq conflicts (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Pelosi: Obama's on his own to win money for Afghan buildup

Sheila Samples: U.S. steps up special operations mission in Afghanistan

Sheila Samples: Global Warring: Failure Looming at Copenhagen Climate Summit

Sheila Samples: Lieberman says he won't rule out running as a Republican in 2012

Sheila Samples: UN: Much of West Bank closed to Palestinian building

Sheila Samples: Torture suit too hot to be heard, U.S. says

Sheila Samples: Arms Sales to Taiwan Will Proceed, U.S. Says

OilGuy: The Natural Gas Sector, Shale Gas & Exxon's $31 Billion Takeover of XTO Energy

Sheila Samples: Iran missile test draws Western condemnation (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: India: Was Mumbai suspect a double agent for US?

Sheila Samples: China's Rapid Reactor Expansion Raises Safety Concerns

Sheila Samples: Clinton Defends Human Rights Approach (1 comments)

Roger Shuler: Does Siegelman Case Mean GOP Governors Are Headed for Prison? (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Climate Talks Near Deal to Save Forests

Sheila Samples: Senate healthcare bill advances with rejection of imported drugs

Sheila Samples: FTC sues Intel for anti-competitive practices

Stephen Fox: New Zealand Green Member of Parliament Blasts Soft Drink Firms Pushing Aspartame (1 comments)

Lynn Buske: Dean Foods, Target Stumble—Being Forced to Correct Deceptive Practices

Tuesday, December 15:

Sheila Samples: Nuclear Iran: Christian leaders urge tough sanctions by US

Sheila Samples: Gallup Poll: 44 Percent Of Americans Want Bush Back

Rob Kall: Senate Votes Down End to Drug Imports Ban. How they voted on drug imports plan - Yahoo! News (4 comments)

Don Smith: Washington Sketch: Obama writing a different prescription now - washingtonpost.com

Bruce K. Gagnon: NEW SPACE WAR FILM JUST OUT (2 comments)

OilGuy: Africa's Increasing Importance in Worldwide Energy Security Affairs

Margaret Bassett: Wind Resistance -- Wyoming

Margaret Bassett: Energy Costs Drive Up U.S. Producer Prices

Margaret Bassett: China's Rapid Reactor Expansion Raises Concerns

Sheila Samples: Evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Calif. at age 91

OilGuy: Is Turkey Shifting Alliances?

Sheila Samples: DOD: Obama's Afghan Surge Will Rely Heavily On Private Contractors

Eric Lotke: Federal Reserve: Are You Listening To Your Own Data?

Daniel Geery: Natural Climate Change: 100 reasons why

Martha Rosenberg: Bone Drug/Cancer News Highlights Women's Risky Therapy Choices

Roger Shuler: Is It Too Easy for America to Go to War? (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: Military Faces Challenges in Deploying More Troops to Afghanistan

Sheila Samples: Lieberman Gets Ex-Party to Shift on Health Plan

Sheila Samples: British involvement in Iraq war blamed on Blair's ‘sycophancy'

Sheila Samples: Lieberman supported Medicare expansion

Margaret Bassett: 20,000 Evacuated as Philippine Volcano Oozes Lava

Margaret Bassett: Obama Presses 'Fat-cat Bankers' to Lend, But has No Real Leverage

Margaret Bassett: New Gas Pipeline From Central Asia Feeds China

Margaret Bassett: Settlement Reached in Suit over Missing White House E-mails

Margaret Bassett: Blast Kills 23 in Dera Ghazi Khan

Margaret Bassett: Tony Blair to Testify Publicly About Bogus Intel Used to Justify Iraq Invasion

Margaret Bassett: Contractors Watching Contractors

Margaret Bassett: Airlines Expected to Lose $5.6 Billion in 2010

Margaret Bassett: Suicide Car Bomb Blast in Kabul

Margaret Bassett: China and U.S. Hit Strident Impasse at Climate Talks

Margaret Bassett: Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Gitmo Torture Case Claiming Detainees Are Not "Persons" (1 comments)

OilGuy: The Great Oil Grab! How the Major Powers are Dividing the World's Resources

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: Venezuela's "scorpion" war among emerging boli-bourgeoisie groups...

Herstory: Witchcraft charge laid in Toronto fraud case By Amy Husser

Scott Baker: Underused Drilling Practices Could Avoid Pollution by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica

Sheila Samples: Four blasts rock Baghdad's Green Zone

Monday, December 14:

Sheila Samples: US court rejects Guantanamo appeal

Sheila Samples: US: Afghan border threat growing

Sheila Samples: The Obama Administration Debates Drones

Dahr Jamail: Veterans Group Calls On Soldiers to Refuse Orders to Deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: Afghan policemen killed in attacks

Sheila Samples: UK court 'issued warrant for Livni'

Sheila Samples: White House to Harry Reid: Cut deal with Joe Lieberman (3 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Citigroup Reaches Deal to Repay U.S. Bailout Funds

Sheila Samples: National Security Archive and White House Reach Agreement for Restoration of Missing Bush White House E-mails

Georgianne Nienaber: HRW Report on Congo: Fetuses Ripped From Wombs and Children Burned Alive (4 comments)

Allan Wayne: Iraq War Pictures Probably too Horrible to Post by Canadian Mind Products (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Evan Bayh appears to be dropping national aspirations

Daniel Geery: Simple Answer to Obama

Sheila Samples: Thieves strike Toys for Tots warehouse in Wichita

Roger Shuler: Paul Minor Ruling Presents Good News and Bad News

Sheila Samples: In Afghanistan, Marines live a tough camp life

Sheila Samples: Copenhagen global warming talks suspended over rich-poor divide

John McDonald: Center for Future of Teaching and Learning Examines The Status of Teaching in California

Margaret Bassett: Attacker Fractures Berlusconi's Nose

Margaret Bassett: Iraq War Inquiry Depicts Britain as Sidekick to U.S.

Margaret Bassett: Some Top Donors to Obama Campaign say they're Not Getting Perks

Margaret Bassett: Drug Money Saved Banks in Global Crisis, Claims UN Advisor

Margaret Bassett: Copenhagen Climate Protesters Rally

Sunday, December 13:

Sheila Samples: Jewish town won't let Arab build home on his own land

Sheila Samples: Lieberman resists Medicare buy-in plan (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: Monsanto seed business role revealed (3 comments)

Rob Kall: Despite U.S. laws, thousands still virtual slaves in America (1 comments)

Martha Rosenberg: The Sex Scandal No One Wants To Talk About (2 comments)

Scott Horton: Freedom on the Horizon for Paul Minor (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: Rates Are Low, but Banks Balk at Refinancing

Sheila Samples: Capitol Briefing - Senate clears $447B omnibus measure

Sheila Samples: Copenhagen talks stagnate as protests turn violent

Don Smith: The Republican Party fights ... with itself / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Margaret Bassett: Defense Secretary's Trip Encounters Snags in Two Theaters

Sheila Samples: Military Memo - Defense Secretary's Trip Encounters Snags in Two Theaters

Sheila Samples: Representative Obey See Echoes of Vietnam in Afghan Troop Surge

Saturday, December 12:

Sheila Samples: Blair 'will give public evidence'

Sheila Samples: U.S. Coordinates With Pakistan on Troop Surge, Holbrooke Says

Sheila Samples: White House unhappy with Iran nuke proposal

Rob Kall: Hundreds of Protesters Arrested at Climate Talks

Jason Leopold: Blistering Indictment Leveled Against Obama Over His Handling of Bush-Era War Crimes (12 comments)

Bill Quigley: Why ACORN Won (5 comments)

Rob Kall: Fla. judges, lawyers must 'unfriend' on Facebook

Alex Engwete: What's being occulted at COP 15: Fish Wars, Hydraulic conflicts, Water Wars- Climate change wars have already begun (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: House Ban on Acorn Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional

Margaret Bassett: CIA Cancels Blackwater Drone Missile-Loading Contract

Muhammad Khurshid: Is Waziristan Operation Really Over?

Better World Order: DC: EMERGENCY ANTI-ESCALATION RALLY - Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009

Herstory: Military launches inquiry into Afghan detainee By Janice Tibbetts and Juliet O'Neill

background n015e: Tiger Woods and the Ambien bombshell they aren't chasing. (1 of 3 in a series) (5 comments)

Friday, December 11:

Sheila Samples: Clinton whips Iran on sites (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Jobs Crisis Fact Sheet

Rick Rozoff: U.S., NATO War In Afghanistan: Antecedents And Precedents

arn specter: Incredible Organized Murders in the Philippines

Margaret Bassett: Americans Owe Less. That's Not All Good.

Rob Kall: Pharma Deal Shuts Down Senate Health Care Debate; Flushes out Whore Carper (D- DE)

OilGuy: Iran's Gains Strategic Momentum Balancing Russia, the PRC, and the West

OilGuy: Speakable and Unspeakable About The Copenhagen Climate Meeting

OilGuy: The hot money likes commodities these days

OilGuy: The Economic Impact of Global Warming

Margaret Bassett: New New Deal: House Passes Sweeping Financial Regulations

Sheila Samples: House Votes to Tighten Regulation of Financial System

Sheila Samples: Gates Expects New Sanctions on Iran (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Jenny Sanford files for divorce from South Carolina governor

Sheila Samples: Blackwater tied to clandestine CIA raids

Sheila Samples: Kucinich: Resolutions to End Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan (1 comments)

Thursday, December 10:

Sheila Samples: Iraqi Prime Minister, Maliki, Puts Off Meeting With Gates

Sheila Samples: Blackwater Guards Tied to Covert Raids by the C.I.A.

Sheila Samples: Obama administration looks to spin off program from TARP for small business

Joan Brunwasser: Obama's Big Sellout (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Egypt denies building 'Gaza wall'

Roger Shuler: A Major University Is Infected With Research Fraud (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: Health Insurers Caught Paying Facebook Gamers Virtual Currency To Oppose Reform Bill

Sheila Samples: Obama Accepts Nobel, Says He Understands Cost of War

Sheila Samples: Petraeus Says Afghan War Is Tougher Fight Than Iraq

Sheila Samples: Accepting Peace Prize, Obama Evokes ‘Just War'

Press Release: University of the People Attracts Academics from Columbia, Yale and New York University

Martha Rosenberg: Smart Technology--Anticipating Our Every Inconvenience

R-CALF USA: Group Praises Portions of USDA's New TB Plan But Strongly Opposes Zoning That Usurps States' Rights (2 comments)

Wednesday, December 9:

Joan Brunwasser: Blue Cross Working to Make Health Care Reform Unconstitutional

Sheila Samples: Sarah Palin: WaPo Faces Heat For Running Op-Ed

Sheila Samples: Obama, other Dems praise new health compromise

Sheila Samples: Gates claims victory near in Afghanistan

Sheila Samples: VIDEO: Five Americans detained in Pakistan raid

Sheila Samples: Mexico: The War with the Cartels in 2009 | STRATFOR

Sheila Samples: Lawmakers agree to subpoena WH gate-crashers

Daniel Geery: Afghanistan's Bravest Woman Speaks

Sheila Samples: Exclusive: George Stephanopoulos gets 'GMA'

Sheila Samples: McChrystal: 'Taliban will lose war'

Sheila Samples: Afghan army 'in need of US funds'

Sheila Samples: McChrystal: Getting bin Laden key to defeating al Qaida

Sheila Samples: For the feds, some Wall Street firms are too big — to punish

M. Wizard: Howard Dean Supports Public Option Compromise

OilGuy: What's Happening With Iraq's Oil

Rick Rozoff: NATO's Secret Transatlantic Bond: Nuclear Weapons In Europe (3 comments)

Tuesday, December 8:

Mac McKinney: General McChrystal: Bin Laden Capture Key to U.S. Efforts (3 comments)

Don Smith: Deal replaces public option in Senate health-care bill - washingtonpost.com (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Yahoo Sells All Its Users Private Email Contents to U.S. Agencies for Small Price (2 comments)

Roy S. Carson: Copenhagen Climate Change Summit?

Margaret Bassett: Why Barney Frank Is Furious About Financial Reform

Sheila Samples: President Obama told me to stop ‘demeaning' him, says Rep. Conyers

Rob Kall: White House wants suit against Yoo dismissed (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Google Unveils News-by-Topic Service

Eric Lotke: The President Asks for Help. From Us.

Margaret Bassett: Obama Offers Help for Small Businesses

Margaret Bassett: U.S. Agrees to $3 Billion Deal in Indian Trust Suit

Sheila Samples: Offshore oil drilling gets go-ahead in Alaska's Arctic (2 comments)

OilGuy: The Continuing Saga of Iran's Nuclear Build-Up by Claude Salhani

Sheila Samples: Indiana soldier is first to die of toxic exposure in Iraq

Sheila Samples: Afghan Says Army Will Need Help Until 2024

Sherwood Ross: Federal Law Shielding Jailers From Legitimate Suits (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: A lonely voice against the Fed now leads a chorus

Sheila Samples: Taliban establishes elaborate shadow government in Afghanistan

Sheila Samples: Global Warming Is Not Slowing, New Analysis Says

Sheila Samples: White House Issues Open Government Directive

David Fiderer: Fox News Embraces Cyber-Terrorism to Subvert the Copenhagen Summit (6 comments)

Daily kos: President Obama asks Rep. Conyers Why He is "Demeaning" Him (7 comments)

Roger Shuler: Why Is Obama Worried by Corruption in Afghanistan, but not in U.S. (4 comments)

Sheila Samples: Meet Chelsea Clinton's colorful future in-laws

Sheila Samples: Scores dead in Iraq bomb blasts

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: Venezuela's agrarian reform: Hacienda, chapel on Simon Bolivar historic route

Margaret Bassett: The American State of Bankruptcy, 2009

Robert Arend: Reuters: Nurses unions merge, back healthcare overhaul

Don Smith: Journalism That Matters | Convening, connecting, inspiring, building bridges to a new news ecology

martinweiss: Palestinians and Israelis Unite in Nonviolence to Save a Village

Sheila Samples: Pakistan Told to Ratchet Up Fight Against the Taliban

Monday, December 7:

Mac McKinney: Sleazy American Media Trumpets Honduran Elections Without Seeing Giant Fraud

Don Smith: ACORN: Report on videos: No illegal conduct; Roadmap to renewal (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: U.S. nurses unions merge, back healthcare overhaul

Sheila Samples: U.S. is 'in this thing to win,' Gates says of Afghan war

Sheila Samples: Dozens killed in Pakistan attacks

Josh Mitteldorf: Dept of Justice to the Rescue! (of John Yoo) by Scott Horton

Frank Huzur: Interview With IMRAN KHAN

Sheila Samples: Head of Israel-focused equity fund admits bribing New York State officials (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: $10 million is smuggled out of Afghanistan daily, official says

Sheila Samples: Company issues 2nd recall for tainted beef

Sheila Samples: Climate Countdown: Optimism as Copenhagen Conference Gets Underway - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Roger Shuler: A University Makes Money Off India, While Cheating Trainees From India

Sheila Samples: McChrystal's plan for Afghanistan war remains largely intact

Judith Acosta: American Pathology (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: Is U.S. prepared to care for more casualties from troop buildup?

Margie Burns: Emails Show bin Laden was Bush Talking Point, not Target, by Margie Burns (3 comments)

Ronnie Sue Ambrosino: *Madoff Victims to Work With Congress to Help Victims of Financial Crimes

Margaret Bassett: When Angry Calls Cross the Line (6 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Supreme Court to Take up Corruption Law

Margaret Bassett: Deployments Taking Toll on Military's Children

Margaret Bassett: Ethics Rules for Congress Curb but Don't End Trips

Margaret Bassett: U.S. Forecasts Smaller Loss From Bailout of Banks (1 comments)

Ted Newcomen: Massive police presence successfully contains UK street protests

Sheila Dean: *8 States to choke DHS deadline game of "chicken" (4 comments)

Rick Rozoff: Loose Cannon And Nuclear Submarines: West Prepares For Arctic Warfare (4 comments)

Sheila Samples: Gates Calls July 2011 the Beginning, Not End, of Afghan Withdrawal

Mac McKinney: A Message From The Taliban: Who Is Responsible for the Anarchy in Afghanistan? By Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Vide (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: UN climate change confab kicks off today

Sunday, December 6:

Sheila Samples: Agent Orange's lethal legacy

Herstory: A Short History of Freebie Marketing

Eileen Fleming: The Vanunu Opera (6 comments)

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: Venezuela's agrarian reform: Agroforestry to improve Barquisimeto water supplies

Sheila Samples: Dr David Kelly: doctors start legal action for new inquest

Sheila Samples: FDIC Shuts Down AmTrust Bank, 5 Others: 130 Failed Banks So Far In 2009

Sheila Samples: Report: 14000 Palestinian olive trees subjected to Israeli aggression in 2009

Don Smith: Power of prayer flunks an unusual test - Heart health (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Kay Bailey Hutchison Admits to Mistake Supporting Bank Bailout

Lynn Buske: Giant Organic Livestock Operation Decertified by USDA (1 comments)

Margaret Bassett: Obama Administration Says Guantanamo Detainees will Likely go to Illinois Prison

Cyril Mychalejko: New Study Asserts Climate Change Will Increase Conflicts in Africa (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge' in Afghanistan (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: On the Hill - Obama's War, Democrats' Unease

Saturday, December 5:

Medea Benjamin: International Participation in December 31 Gaza Freedom March Tops 1,000 As Registration Closes

Eileen Fleming: "If nothing changes-Jerusalem will burn"-Rabbi Arik W. Ascherman (3 comments)

Sheila Samples: Interior secretary issued notice in Blackwater plea

Sheila Samples: Iran can shut down vital oil route: US navy

Sheila Samples: 'No Afghanistan withdrawal in 2011'

Sheila Samples: President Obama to Capitol Hill to Push for Health Care Bill

Sheila Samples: Senate votes down GOP plan to strip Medicare cuts from health-care bill (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: Blessed are conservative in Bible translation

Sheila Samples: UK 'suddenly' let in on Bush war plans

Sheila Samples: Obama's Climate Summit Trip to Be ‘Most Productive'

Sheila Samples: Goldstone wins human rights award from Sweden NGOs

Sheila Samples: Group promoting climate skepticism has extensive ties to Exxon-Mobil | Raw Story

Margaret Bassett: Osama Bin Laden - Where is he?

Sheila Samples: Baucus nominated girlfriend for U.S. Attorney job (8 comments)

Friday, December 4:

Robert Arend: The Obama Administration: November 16-30, 2009

OilGuy: Iran's Nuclear Ambitions Highlight the potential of Uranium and Nuclear Power

Tawanda kanhema: Rwanda has not healed: Rusesabagina

Ted Newcomen: US Intelligence raises spectre of upcoming civil unrest in United Kingdom

Rick Rozoff: Geopolitical Crossroads: Pentagon, NATO Complete Conquest Of Balkans

Sheila Samples: Homeland Security panel faces ethics scrutiny after credit card hearing

Margaret Bassett: Foreclosures Can Offer Deals, but Buyer Beware

Jason Hamza van Boom: Member of the Swiss Political Party that Pushed for Minaret Ban Converts to Islam

Margaret Bassett: Suicide Bombers Kill at Least 40 at Pakistan Mosque

Sheila Samples: US military offers $40,000 challenge to internet users

OilGuy: What are Oil Companies doing to clean up their Act

Sheila Samples: Obama likely to endorse using bailout funds to create jobs, Gibbs says

Sheila Samples: Votes against Zelaya by Honduras' congress 'disappoint' U.S. officials

Martha Rosenberg: Fished Killed; Waterways Poisoned by Illinois Destroyer of Natural Resources (5 comments)

Sheila Samples: What does Afghan timeline mean? Depends who's asking

Sheila Samples: NATO Pledges 7,000 Troops, but Avoids Details

Sheila Samples: Gates Says Afghan Drawdown Timing Is Flexible

background n015e: Brother President, you Break my Heart. (3 comments)

Tom Eley: Torture continues at US prisons in Afghanistan (4 comments)

Sheila Samples: Sarah Palin Goes 'Birther': Obama Birth Certificate 'A Fair Question' (VIDEO)

Thursday, December 3:

Sheila Samples: VIDEO: This Is How the CIA Kills Terrorists Using Predators

Margaret Bassett: Europe's Secret Nuclear Weapons: What Should NATO Do?

Sheila Samples: C.I.A. Expanding Drone Assaults Inside Pakistan

Margaret Bassett: Canopy Financial Faces SEC Fraud Charges

Sheila Samples: Pakistan PM rejects Gordon Brown's demand to 'take out' Osama bin Laden

Susan Galleymore: Wanted: Vaccine and a Cure

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: Venezuela: Alo Presidente has become a school where auto-criticism is open

Sheila Samples: Stephanopoulos offered 'Good Morning America' job, sources say

Sheila Samples: House votes to make current estate tax permanent

Sheila Samples: McChrystal sells Obama war plan

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez declares war on "counter-revolutionary" crime and delinquency...

Roger Shuler: A "Deep Throat" Has Emerged in the Mike Connell Plane Crash (7 comments)

Sheila Samples: Lawmakers scrutinize new Afghan strategy

Sheila Samples: Justice Dept.'s second in command is stepping aside

John McDonald: Measuring Success, Making Progress

Rob Kall: OpEdNews Poll: 87% say Obama Failed to Persuade them Afghan Troop Increase Good

Grant Lawrence: Corporate Killer Blackwater's Eric Prince was a CIA Agent

Margaret Bassett: Arms Treaty Likely to Expire Before New Pact Is Set

Margaret Bassett: U.S. Adding Contractors in Afghanistan at Fast Pace

Cynthia McKinney: *Is President Obama's Surge A Trap? (14 comments)

Wednesday, December 2:

Richmond Shreve: Fake H1N1 (Swine Flu) alerts lead to malware

Sheila Samples: West Point Anti-War protest

Margaret Bassett: Home Buyers Will Have to Lay out More Cash for an FHA Mortgage

Sheila Samples: New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage Bill (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Israeli Spy Imprisoned By The U.S Demands Executing Palestinian Detainees (3 comments)

Robert Arend: Google to Limit Free Online News Searches

OilGuy: A Detailed Guide on the Many Different Types of Crude Oil (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: 2 Messages on Afghanistan for 2 Sides on the War

Sheila Samples: Gates: 'Severe consequences' for Afghan failure

Sheila Samples: Video: British sailors head to Dubai

Sheila Samples: Israel criticizes proposed E.U. stance on East Jerusalem

Margaret Bassett: Daschle Draws Health Care Fire

Sheila Samples: McChrystal: Strengthening Afghan forces 'most important thing we do'

Margaret Bassett: Blackwater Founder Cutting Ties with Company

E. T. SIMON: Beth Reinhard and Marc Caputo

Margaret Bassett: Between the Lines, an Expansion in Pakistan

Tuesday, December 1:

David Fiderer: Why Obama Won't Do What's Needed to Deal With the Mortgage Crisis

Press Release: Members of Congress Comment on Obama Afghanistan Position (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: 'Sunsetting' Provisions of Patriot Act Revives Privacy Debate

Sheila Samples: From Tea Party to Treason

Sheila Samples: Iran says no legal basis for IAEA resolution

Cynthia McKinney: *On Obama's Impending Speech (2 comments)

Sheila Samples: Pirates Seize Oil Tanker, U.S.-Bound, Off Somalia (1 comments)

Sheila Samples: Florida Highway Patrol to issue Tiger Woods a careless driving citation

Ilene Flannery Wells: DJ Jaffe: Maurice Clemmons: Mental Illness Does Cause Violence

Sheila Samples: AP Exclusive: Obama aunt anguished by separation

Sheila Samples: Preparing for Afghanistan: The Marines' Factory of War

Scott Baker: Sam Stein: Huffington Post: Bush Officials, RNC Praise Obama's Afghan Knowledge And Surge Strategy

Sheila Samples: The Gaza Freedom March

Sheila Samples: Dick Cheney slams President Obama for projecting ‘weakness'

Sheila Samples: Senate health bill wouldn't increase insurance costs for most, CBO says

Margaret Bassett: War Fraud Whistleblowers Under Wraps (1 comments)

Press Release: *Long-awaited e-voting lawsuit preparing to launch! (2 comments)

Mac McKinney: Obama orders 30-35,000 more troops for Afghanistan, surge to begin by Christmas (2 comments)

Robert Arend: The Obama Administration: November 1-15, 2009

 

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