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January 2012

Tuesday, January 31:

Schneiderman: Outcry and OWS Caused Obama to "Retool" (5 comments)

A Crazy Republican Attack That Obama Himself Agrees With

A Competitive Dollar: The Missing Link in President Obama's Manufacturing Agenda

The Ugly Words of Newt Gingrich (1 comments)

BDS update: Peaceful blitzkreig and Israeli counterattacks

Romney's 50 Percent Hurdle

Can't Stop Now (2 comments)

The Biggest Risk to the Economy in 2012, and What's the Economy For Anyway? (4 comments)

Economics Lesson 1 (15 comments)

Not Racist Ron Paul, But Opportunist Ron Paul (19 comments)

Jared Bernstein: Inequality, the Middle Class, and Growth (1 comments)

Obama Defends Drone Strikes (2 comments)

Consensus 9/11: Seeking Truth, Dispelling Lies (4 comments)

Israel Lawlessly Indicts MK Sa'id Naffa

POP QUIZ: Why did gun sales in the US surge during the Christmas season?

Monday, January 30:

The military abuse video you haven't heard about

Right on Progressives! (1 comments)

Dead Men Talking (4 comments)

Will Obama go after Wall Street criminals? (8 comments)

One Possible answer to the question: Why Conservatives continue to vote against their own interests? (2 comments)

Military "Cuts" Cement Expanded Procurement Budget (1 comments)

*State of Our Job Seeking Union: Shrinking our military and employing a new, more needed army. (2 comments)

Illegal Immigration Part 1 (4 comments)

Corporations Have No Use for Borders (1 comments)

Charles Eisenstein's Vision: Money Working for Community

Wealth and Debt (8 comments)

Big Brother Internet (7 comments)

America is Not a Christian Nation (5 comments)

Iron Clad isn't Necessarily Rock Solid: How Israel Fares to America (2 comments)

*Medicare Prescription Insurance - for People or for Money? (2 comments)

*Obama Orders Military-Police Department Joint Exercises in Los Angeles. (1 comments)

Afghanistan War: A Quick Last Buck, Iranian in Refugee Camp

The Military Industrial Complex at 50 (1 comments)

An Ominous Foreboding, Israel vs Iran (3 comments)

Social Justice Quiz 2012: Thirteen Questions (4 comments)

Why do 99% of reporters cover 1% of the news? (5 comments)

Coalition Support for the Occupy Movement (11 comments)

Are We Teaching Our Kids to Earn -- Or How to Think?

Europe's Losing Game

Targeting AIPAC (7 comments)

Sunday, January 29:

This Time President Obama Literally in Gun Toters Sights (2 comments)

From Blue to Green: Power to the Cities! (2 comments)

Who wants to be a millionaire (with a flat tax)?

A Modest Proposal for Israel and Iran (1 comments)

The Death of the American Dream (3 comments)

Juliet Sinisterra: Loca-vesting (6 comments)

It is Time for Voters To Listen to Friedman (4 comments)

The Founders' True Foresight (1 comments)

Poverty and Perception (3 comments)

*Social Security-A Good Form of Social Insurance (3 comments)

We Will Not Be Silent

Franklin P. Lamb: 30 years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatilla Lebanese politicians still block Palestinian rights

Saving the City's Soul - Occupy (South East) Roanoke

Washington's War on Syria (1 comments)

Targeting Iranian Nationals

Saturday, January 28:

The Iranian oil embargo blowback (3 comments)

A Dose of Skepticism About Doctors Can Be Healthy

Hurrah for Egypt!

How Fox News Is Destroying The Republican Party (15 comments)

Coupon Clippers of the World Unite!

Sundering the Social Contract (3 comments)

Three Separate Incidents of Violent Intimidation of Dems by Republican Extremists in One Single Week (3 comments)

The Economic Normalcy Bias (1 comments)

Torchwood America (12 comments)

Why Do Conservatives Vote Against Their Own Interest? (56 comments)

What We Left Behind in Iraq (3 comments)

What the Gunners Want: What's in Rick Perry's Pocket, Unlimited (6 comments)

It's Not Just the Economy, Stupid! (1 comments)

ACTA: Worse Than SOPA and PIPA (1 comments)

Forecasting Economic Decline

Friday, January 27:

How Ron Paul Could Win (90 comments)

Re Iran: Say "Think Outside the Box!" (2 comments)

State of the Union 2012: Feelin' Stronger Every Day and Other Muzak (2 comments)

Wall Street's Dirtiest Deals Show Why Our Economy Fell Apart (11 comments)

Corporate Welfare and the Sad State of America. . . (1 comments)

OWS Right idea ... wrong target (17 comments)

Selling the "Supply-Side' Myth (1 comments)

Tunisia and Egypt One Year On

Alabama Bible Thumping Jesus Cult (2 comments)

Enclosure -- Understanding Capitalism And "Free Markets" (2 comments)

Torture and Abuse in Libya

Forget SOPA and PIPA. Obama Signed ACTA, Rescuing and Weakening Congress Again (13 comments)

Selling War

Profile of a Rogue State (2 comments)

Thursday, January 26:

Why No Responsible Democrat Should Want Newt Gingrich to Get the GOP Nomination (2 comments)

How Obama can win big (1 comments)

#OWS Arrests Cost US Dearly in Press Freedom (1 comments)

Wisconsin 'John Doe' Probe: What Did Walker Know? When Did He Know It? (4 comments)

Panetta: Military Spending Is Going Up (3 comments)

Fallout from Failure to Impeach (5 comments)

Pivot Toward Asia-Pacific

US probe hardens Pakistani suspicions (1 comments)

America's Shadow Banking System, A Web of Financial Fraud (8 comments)

Obama's Faux Populism Sounds Like Bill Clinton (2 comments)

Fidel Castro on the Republican Candidates, "The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been" (3 comments)

Obama's Common Sense (2 comments)

Religion: Sacred cow of the U.S. Supreme Court (1 comments)

Obama's Failed State of the Union (7 comments)

Independent Fact-Finding Lybian Mission

Wednesday, January 25:

Kookoo for Cocoa Puffs

Obama's Words

Sanctimonious Hypocrites Can't Diminish the Warmth for Joe Paterno (1 comments)

The Surefire Way to End Online Piracy: End Copyright

Occupying Libido: Negotiating a landscape of hypocrisy and hungry ghosts (7 comments)

The Symbol (1 comments)

The President's Address, Soaring Rhetoric Doesn't Match The Reality (2 comments)

Our Unpredictable Country: Who Could Have Known.....? (3 comments)

Mitt, Mormons, and Money (2 comments)

War With Iran Imminent?

PAC Man (1 comments)

A Reckless, Misguided Attack on Iran Could Set the Middle East Ablaze (5 comments)

War Was Over Because Our Grandparents Wanted It (3 comments)

Will Gingrich Bring White Supremacy Back to the White House? (1 comments)

The Truth Behind the Coming "Regime Change" in Syria

Now Begins the Silly Season! (4 comments)

Corporations Are NOT People: What's at Stake

The Armenian Genocide (7 comments)

Whistling Past the Graveyard

Tuesday, January 24:

O's SOTU, ANNOTATED: BIDEN AND A SLICE OF FACE

Top Ten Reasons Obama Should Fire Treasury Secretary Geithner (5 comments)

The British National Health Service - Is It Safe With the Tories? (4 comments)

US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes (8 comments)

Drowning In Hypocrisy (16 comments)

A Way Around The Federal Nuclear Power Fix

Europe at war with Iran (1 comments)

#january 25 One Year Later: Social Media & Politics 3.0

Why You Should Care About What is Going on in Tucson (1 comments)

The Fiscally Reckless Mitch Daniels

Christianity Is Not a Jewelry Store (3 comments)

Occupy Protester Guilty of Lynching?!

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) removes any need for SOPA or PIPA. It's WORSE (4 comments)

A resolution for cat people (2 comments)

Pups on Parade: EU Obediently Pushes Toward War with Iran (2 comments)

FLAME-- A PR Org for Israel-- Advocates Murdering Scientists (21 comments)

Vilifying Communism and Accommodating Imperialism: The Sham and Shame of Slavoj Zizek's "Honest Pessimism"

Embody the Movement: Dancing for Economic Justice (2 comments)

Will Predatory Hedge Funds Succeed in Milking Greece for All It's Worth? (3 comments)

The Man Who Refuses Silence (3 comments)

Gingrich Wins in the "Sahara of the Bozart"

There's No New Newt! (2 comments)

Arab League Arrogance (1 comments)

Violence Rages Across Libya

Monday, January 23:

Built on Shifting Sands (1 comments)

Newt's Victory: Was it a "Surge" of popularity or faulty voting machines? (1 comments)

The Deaths of JFK, RFK -- and the Silence of the Lambs (7 comments)

Lock Out

Thank You for Standing Up (9 comments)

Reagan's Hand in Guatemala's Genocide (4 comments)

The State of Obama's 2008 Promises (3 comments)

Being on disability benefits in a world of Supremacists (7 comments)

Digging a Deeper Hole

Franklin P. Lamb: Lebanon's Maid of Darkness facing US hate crimes investigation (2 comments)

South Carolina: America's Breadbasket of Laughter

Iraq War Ends Nine Years Too Late (2 comments)

*Congress, Internet, Banks and Us

A winning Strategy For Iran, and for the World (18 comments)

"ANY PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE DONE" THE SAME AS OBAMA? Not Quite, Mr. Romney--ask Bush about Tora Bora (3 comments)

Former US Marine age 23 Kills 4 in California - A Monster or a Victim?

The War We'll Never Win (5 comments)

United Corporations of Gingrich (4 comments)

America's Great Divide Between Rich and Poor

NPR and PBS Anti-Iranian Propaganda (6 comments)

Sunday, January 22:

Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure (3 comments)

World Peace Is Hanging By A Thread (60 comments)

More On Ron Paul (43 comments)

Joseph Vincent Paterno Died Today, but his "Grand Experiment" Lives On! (1 comments)

Hey NBC, Monday's Debate Panelists Need To Better Represent! (1 comments)

How Spiritual Practices Help us to Live With Less Stress (2 comments)

The Assassination of MLK (10 comments)

Vote for Bans on Corporate Crimes. (2 comments)

*War continues in Burma's Kachin State, Sanctions must be maintained

Mitt Romney Wins Twice--Until He Doesn't (3 comments)

*King Who Condemned US Wars Again Betrayed by War-Supporting Clergy's Praise (2 comments)

We Must Stop This Corporate Takeover of American Democracy (10 comments)

AES Direct, True Innovation in Export Automation or something else? (1 comments)

A Keystone Comedy

Behold a pale horse ... Mitt's fatal flaw (1 comments)

UK Government Suppresses Truth (3 comments)

Handbook on Israeli Apartheid

Gingrich in South Carolina... Where Up is Down (6 comments)

Judging Obama (5 comments)

Saturday, January 21:

With South Carolina Victory, Gingrich Rides Adelson Money Train Against Obama (10 comments)

Getting Rid of "Anti-Israel" Presidents (2 comments)

How Newt Gingrich Saved the Military Industrial Complex (2 comments)

Corporate Rule Is Not Inevitable (3 comments)

So Pa, So Good ... But Must Activists Always Align With Corporations to Win? (1 comments)

The Blockbusters

Climate Change a 'Fabrication'? Ask a Wintering-Over Hummingbird, or Check out Your Daffodils (48 comments)

Alvin Greene Was Here: 100% Unverifiable Statewide E-Voting in SC's 2012 GOP Primary (2 comments)

Insanity Masquerading as Sanity (1 comments)

The Royal Stall (1 comments)

RNC Decides to Finish Destroying Democracy - Citizens United on Steroids (5 comments)

Will Saving the Environment Require a Shorter Work Week? (11 comments)

Outsourcing America's Health Care to Mexico (2 comments)

Just Short of Treason in Georgia and Kansas (17 comments)

The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Association (3 comments)

Did Media Collude With Rwanda to Set Up Congo General Laurent Nkunda? (2 comments)

Anti-Syrian Pack Journalism (4 comments)

Israel Claims Syria/Hamas-Connected Terror Cells Uncovered (1 comments)

Obama to Grant Banks Robosigning Immunity in Showdown With Breakaway AGs [Updated] (25 comments)

War and Being and Nothingness (3 comments)

Colbert and Stewart for a better America in America

Friday, January 20:

President's State of the Union Speech Will be Under Fire--Again

Amy Fried, Ph.D.: How Does RW Decide What's Private? (5 comments)

Forget Romney, Gingrich Is Running Against 'Liberal Media'--and It Might Work

16 year old girl threatened by Christians with beatings and worse (11 comments)

America's Mobility Problem (5 comments)

Why Conflict With Iran Isn't Likely ... Probably. (6 comments)

Govt remains adamant to reopen graft cases against President Zardari in Swiss court

Book whitewashes Guantanamo military tribunals (6 comments)

Of Candidates and Negative Campaigning - Lobbyists and the Floodgates of Money (1 comments)

The new and revised Preamble to the Constitution (14 comments)

Hunger Is a 'Weapon of Mass Destruction', says Jean Ziegler (3 comments)

Beating Up on Chavez (7 comments)

Wisconsinites v. Governor Scott Walker

The US-GCC Fatal Attraction (1 comments)

No Going Back... (3 comments)

Thursday, January 19:

Why the GOP Presidential Candidates Talk Race (in Code) (4 comments)

Congress Needs to Get to Work (3 comments)

A Simple, Overlooked Reason SOPA and PIPA Have Appeared, Like a Cancer (10 comments)

Obama Stands Up to Israel, Tamps Down Iran War Threats (24 comments)

Constitutional Amendment to Create Public Financing Introduced by Kucinich (6 comments)

Obama's Denial of Keystone Permit Was a Welcome Win Against Big Oil (2 comments)

A Call to Amend the Constitution and Reverse Citizens United

The FBI and Federal Prosecutors Say My Journalism Is "Extremist" (13 comments)

Romney takes us to infinity and beyond (3 comments)

Chase Madar: Accusing Wikileaks of Murder (2 comments)

The Joys of Blogging (2 comments)

Hedge Funds Have Human Rights Too (2 comments)

Baradei's Anguish

Republicans Boo the Golden Rule (7 comments)

*Occupy Wall Street Descends on Congress, Says: Money Out of Politics!

Strategies Against Indian Point (2 comments)

One man armed with a cell phone and a scrap of paper shocks the political world.

Why corruption in Miami-Dade County must be rooted out? (1 comments)

Protesting Internet Censorship

Postponing Joint US/Israeli Exercises (2 comments)

Wednesday, January 18:

Thank God for the Jobs Crisis! (8 comments)

Mossad False Flag Story-- Disinfo, or Open Door to Bigger Issue (3 comments)

The Religious Right? Wrong! (17 comments)

The World War on Democracy

The Afghan dust is settling

Dead Men Only Vote Once: Right Wing Joker Proves Voter Fraud Nonexistent (3 comments)

Israel's immigration plan for 'ethnically pure' bunker state (3 comments)

Anarchy on the High Seas (1 comments)

Mama, They're Taking My Kodachrome Away

It Is All One Big Thing (3 comments)

Two-Party Tyranny (7 comments)

*Pulitzer Prize-Winner Sues Obama Over NDAA, Says Occupy Wall Street is the Target. (1 comments)

The ethics of grocery shopping; or, why I went to the Occupy Los Angeles General Assembly (4 comments)

Observations from Charleston: God Help South Carolina (3 comments)

Chris Dodd's paid SOPA crusading (8 comments)

Stop Internet Censorship. Oppose SOPA and PIPA (13 comments)

NSA buŸllshitt: Refusing to Return Whistleblowers' Computers (1 comments)

Overturning "Citizens United", The Quintessential Need of this Country (2 comments)

New Polls: Economy Still Bush's Fault, GOP Responsible For Gridlock (2 comments)

Three False Assertions by the Grand Jury turned the Press and Public against Joe Paterno and Penn State (4 comments)

The New Normal: Economic Weakness and Decline (1 comments)

Israel Plans Major Gaza War (1 comments)

Tuesday, January 17:

The U.S. Trade Deficit is Killing the Economy (4 comments)

I.M.F and the Stimulus of Destabilization. (1 comments)

Strange Fruit: The Poisonous Legacy of Liberation (2 comments)

Time Is on Our Side: The Survival of Social Security

Boo Hoo! (1 comments)

Free Enterprise on Trial (2 comments)

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Begs New Yorkers To Protect Him From Out-Of-State Forces

In Signal to Israel, US Delays War Games

A Rainy Day in D.C., Marching to Close Guantanamo

Spaceborne Nuclear Russian Roulette (1 comments)

Prophesying On This Crazy Election Year: What To Expect In Religion, Politics and The Country's Top 21 Wingnuts (1 comments)

Even Hate My Rock and Roll (3 comments)

Can Jack Lew Do for Obama What AmeriCorps Did for Clinton?

*King Condemned US Wars versus Obama Praises Continues Starts Wars Lies About 'em (1 comments)

Money in Politics has taken America from a Democracy to a Plutocracy

Collateral Savages (1 comments)

Must Read Photos - Does this make any sense? (5 comments)

Billionaire Funds Santorum Run; Call Koch Brothers A "National Treasure" (1 comments)

Mitt Romney's Hard-Right Agenda

Abusing East Jerusalem Children

Monday, January 16:

Geriatric Obfuscating Pathology: Is The GOP Self-Destructing? Could We Be So Lucky? (2 comments)

Dakota - Montana (2 comments)

Beautifying Racism

Washington Moves The World Closer To War (13 comments)

Close the Guantánamo Gulag (2 comments)

21st Century Racism

Why I'm Suing Barack Obama (43 comments)

U.S. Corporations: Closely Allied With China, Selling Out America (6 comments)

*Why Bain Won't be Romney's Bain

Aurel Braun and David Matas: Defending Human Rights: The Havel Example

No More "King-Washing" the Pentagon, Please

Will Colbert and Stewart's Mitt The Serial Killer Ad Make Corporate Personhood a Presidential Election Issue? (2 comments)

Happy Birthday, Dr. King -- we've come a long way, but we still have a long way to go! (1 comments)

Alan Greenspan Explained Why We Invaded Iraq (And Why Iran is Next) (1 comments)

A Window of Opportunity: How Do We Get It Open? (3 comments)

China's Foreign Reserves Decline While the U.S. Believes China Trade is Unfair (1 comments)

Cruel and Unusual Punishment (1 comments)

Sinai Torture Camps

Corporate Personhood Cannot Withstand Organized Persons (3 comments)

And So I Go From Here (2 comments)

Sunday, January 15:

Iranian Scientists Die as Bibi's War Looms

Easy to Gut Public Education When Your Own Kids Attend Private School

Who Knew There Was So Much Poverty? The Poor, That's Who (1 comments)

Mitt Romney Desperate to Hide Truth - Debate to take place (3 comments)

The Annunciation of Humankind (3 comments)

Occupy the Neighborhood: How Counties Can Use Land Banks and Eminent Domain (5 comments)

Overton Window on Mortgage Walk Away Moving, Banks Scared (5 comments)

America's Last Chance; with update from PCR (32 comments)

Republicans and America's Rancid Dance With Racism (4 comments)

Cutting the Federal Bureaucracy by 50% (minimum) (19 comments)

Rats, Water and Tug-of-War. How YOU Can Help OccupyDC (2 comments)

Criminalizing Dissent in America (1 comments)

Planned Regime Change in Iran and Syria (1 comments)

Saturday, January 14:

Romney's Equity Firm Pedigree Shows His True Colors (1 comments)

Franklin P. Lamb: Will a pro-Gadhafi "Green Revolution" topple the NTC?

*King Would Have Demanded Nuremberg Style Indictment of US Leaders and We Will! (4 comments)

Theory and Practice in Occupy (1 comments)

The Shining Torch (1 comments)

Turning America into Pottersville (2 comments)

What do abused dogs and laid-off workers have in common? (1 comments)

Where Has All the Propofol Gone? (2 comments)

Marines and Afghan Dead - A Reality We Need to Discuss (2 comments)

Man of Compassion (9 comments)

Haley Barbour and the Culture of Death and Violence (5 comments)

Heading for More Middle East War (1 comments)

Racist Israeli Supreme Court Rulings (1 comments)

Hugo Chavez, Drugs, Guantanamo Bay and Vultures (33 comments)

Friday, January 13:

What will revolution look like in an era when we have more power as consumers than as mere voters? (2 comments)

Alexander Litvinenko: The Who-Done-It Fraud -- Was He Really Murdered? (1 comments)

*Help Johnnie Lee Savory Get His DNA Tests So He Can Prove His Innocence. (1 comments)

The Great American Money Myth (4 comments)

Mitt Romney: The Everlasting Candidate (2 comments)

The New York Times public editor's very public utterance (6 comments)

Obama Sending US Forces to Libya

Are journalists supposed to look for the truth? (6 comments)

Madness Reigns with Obama's Threats to Iran (3 comments)

Ron Paul's False Founding Narrative (71 comments)

Occupy Wall Street and the Scent of Revolution (8 comments)

Would Rick Santorum Bring About More Abortions? (3 comments)

*Americans can Choose Between Being American or Human but Not Both Presently (8 comments)

Never Go Naked to Knife Fight in South Carolina (2 comments)

The Republicans' Mitt Romney Problem (1 comments)

Waging Covert War on Iran (1 comments)

Ongoing Global Economic Crisis (2 comments)

Thursday, January 12:

Let's Play: Name That Candidate (10 comments)

Iraq - Heroism Amidst the Carnage

Nebraska Medicaid Finally Won.They Murdered Me! (2 comments)

How Much Is an Earth, and Do You Have One in Extra Large? (1 comments)

The Youthful Magic of Ron Paul (9 comments)

Herding Americans to War With Iran (1 comments)

Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and American Capitalism (1 comments)

Charles M. Young: The Budgies are Listless

Republican Socialists, Democratic Capitalists (2 comments)

There's Hope for Republicans Yet (4 comments)

Tom Engelhardt: Superpower Adrift in an Alien World

Conservatives in crisis (1 comments)

A Dangerous Game Israel and the U.S. are Playing with Iran (2 comments)

The role of black intellectuals - too much talk, not enough action? (7 comments)

Democracy Lost: the Iowa Caucus, the New Hampshire Primary, and the Shortchanging of American Presidential Politics (2 comments)

Haiti: Two Years Later

Israel's Draconian Infiltration Law

The Next War on Washington's Agenda (22 comments)

Wednesday, January 11:

Technology has unintended consequences (1 comments)

Lieberman's Bill to Kick Off Internment Camps (17 comments)

presstv: Obama Warned Over Dumb War With Iran (2 comments)

Growing Sino-Pakistan military ties ring alarm bells in India (1 comments)

Can Pakistan Elect the "Right" Leader? (1 comments)

The SEC Appears to Be Colluding with the Management of CMKM Diamonds, Inc. (1 comments)

Occupy Wall Street + NDAA = I join the Socialist Party (15 comments)

How Markets Fail (5 comments)

*NDAA Military Detention of US Citizens Breaks Through to Major Media. Not American One, the BBC. (2 comments)

Guantanamo Prisoners Stage Peaceful Protest and Hunger Strike on 10th Anniversary of the Opening of the Prison

'Confession' of Accused CIA Spy Reveals Link to US Videogame Maker (7 comments)

Obama, Sarkozy & Taxing Wall Street

Since the Candidates Are Acting Like Children, Let's Treat Them That Way (3 comments)

*When Does "Support and Defend" the Constitution Become Enforceable? (1 comments)

What We Owe to Bertha von Suttner (1 comments)

The Bain of Capitalism

Victorious Romney Rallies GOP for Bain Capitalism (1 comments)

Iran: The Neocons Are At It Again (4 comments)

Mike Whitney: Is Chavez next? (3 comments)

Welcome to the big leagues, Mitt (2 comments)

Reinventing the Middle East lexicon

Unaccountable: Private Military Contractor Abuses (1 comments)

Palestinian Liberation Requires Unity (1 comments)

Tuesday, January 10:

A Hard Act to Follow

If it's Tuesday, it Must Be New Hampshire

Saving the Post Office: The Models of Kiwibank and Japan Post (4 comments)

NYT "Clarified" Santorum's "Black" Quote

The Economic and Financial Legerdemain of the Obama & Bush Administrations (4 comments)

Campaign 2012: The Disconnect Widens (1 comments)

Psychologists' Collusion in Ongoing Illegal Detentions (4 comments)

NULLIFICATION: The Never Ending War with the left. (2 comments)

Rights Group Slams Governments For "Double Standard" on Arab Spring (3 comments)

Occupy Your Stomach: Occupy Your Life (2 comments)

A Culture of Resistance is Born in 2011: the People United in an Independent Movement (27 comments)

Israel Plans More Walls

Racist Discrimination Against Israeli Arabs (1 comments)

The Zionization of American politics and how it could be terminated (8 comments)

Monday, January 9:

An Open Letter to NYT Staffers: Leave the Plantation and Join Us (1 comments)

How a Little Bit of Good Economic News Can Be Bad for the President

Armed With Naivete (2 comments)

The Pentagon's strategy review: A blueprint for world war (3 comments)

The Gospel of the Penniless, Jobless, Marginalized and Despised (7 comments)

The Imperative of the Republicans' Rightward Imperative (4 comments)

Guantanamo, that "place of suffering and injustice" (5 comments)

*The Flaw in 99 vs. 1 (9 comments)

Iraq - Humble Advice to Its People

Among the Darn Things that Kids Draw

Strolling on Santorum: What's Wrong With This Picture? (2 comments)

Dumping on "The Obamas" (2 comments)

My Brother is Dying

Lies to Live By (3 comments)

Freedom: An Endangered Species in America

Targeting Journalists in Iraq (1 comments)

The road map to the Afghan endgame

Sunday, January 8:

Corporate Personhood Worse, Ending It Easier, Than You Think (8 comments)

Adelson and Ross: Yin Yang of US Politics (7 comments)

Tomgram: Thomas Frank, Why the Tea Party Needs Mitt (1 comments)

Fleecing the Angry Whites (1 comments)

The evil of indefinite detention and those wanting to de-prioritize it (5 comments)

*Assault on Democracy (1 comments)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man, His Times And His Message (1 comments)

Out Here in the Streets (3 comments)

Iraq: A country in shambles (1 comments)

Santorum Advocates Sperm Personhood (humor, I hope) (1 comments)

Meet Foster Friess, Billionaire who Bought Iowa for Santorum (9 comments)

Bear Kosik: What Is to Be Done? (3 comments)

*Trouble in the Homeless Home of Occupy Wall Street (1 comments)

*As Burma's civil-war goes on, Kachin Rebels shot down Burma Army's copter

"They have turned away from what I commanded them' (3 comments)

GREED! Anatomy of a revolution (14 comments)

*An army of volunteers for peace

Tragedy in Tucson: A Somber Anniversary's Call to Repudiate Right-Wing Extremism (4 comments)

Targeting Journalists Covering OWS Protests (2 comments)

Marwan Barghouti: Prisoner of Conscience (1 comments)

Saturday, January 7:

Why I won't vote for Obama in November (20 comments)

Is Obama the Trojan Horse, A Psychopath, A Bad Boyfriend or all Three? (77 comments)

Why Occupy? Here's why. (5 comments)

A Pennsylvanian's Guide to the Rick Santorum You Don't Know (2 comments)

The Ever-Lasting Theocon-Republican Dance with Family Values Super Hypocrisy (1 comments)

A New Year in a New NDAA America (4 comments)

*What's the Point on the Economy? (3 comments)

Government Versus the People: Incompatible Objectives, Irreconcilable Differences (9 comments)

Justice for the 99%: A new political party for the rest of us (15 comments)

Killer Cops Aren't Heroes: We Need Police Who Think Like Firefighters, Not Like Soldiers in a War Zone (11 comments)

Obama Immigration Agency Exaggerating Deportations

2011: A surprisingly good year for animals (1 comments)

UH-OH! The Tea Party + OWS alliance that the banksters were $hitting themselves over has arrived (2 comments)

The Dismal Economic Outlook For The New Year (10 comments)

NancyT: NH Secretary of State: "Citizen Election Observers Threaten Election Integrity" (19 comments)

Obama's New Military Strategy (2 comments)

Libyan Violence and Instability (1 comments)

Michele Bachmann: The XX Factor

Friday, January 6:

Why Conservatives Can't Do Journalism

Let's Stop Waging War To Advance America's "Interests." (4 comments)

Responsibility and Respect (3 comments)

The US-Iran economic war (2 comments)

Mitt, Son of "Citizen's United" (2 comments)

The Stolen War

Extraordinary Measures: Shredding the Curtain of an Enduring Atrocity (3 comments)

HuffPost's Latest e-Book: OCCUPY: Why It Started. Who's Behind It. What's Next

Obama's Pentagon Strategy: A Leaner, More Efficient Empire (2 comments)

Mitt's Army of God (1 comments)

*Can the US Government be Trusted as Judge and Jury in NDAA Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens?

Making Sport of Our Future (3 comments)

The scaffolding of an American police state (1 comments)

*The American Crisis: To Free a Lender-Owned Nation (Part IV)

2012: Will the Left Support Obama? (3 comments)

Promoting War on Iran (2 comments)

Obama Plans More War (1 comments)

Horror and Puppetry

Secrets of Empire & Self-Deceptions Of Partisans: Yet a howling defiance into the darkness of the corporate state night (9 comments)

Why Not Attack Iran? (13 comments)

Thursday, January 5:

Rick Santorum Is Wrong (6 comments)

Ron Paul Is No Friend to Progressives (93 comments)

Broke and Broken (3 comments)

Obama: "Yes, I'm in a Can" (3 comments)

Our Suicidal Ruling Class: Why Won't the Rich and Powerful Try to Save Themselves? (3 comments)

*The American Crisis: To Free a Lender-Owned Nation (Part III)

The Decline of the Public Good (7 comments)

Republicans continue Richard Cordray appointment hissy fits, with one exception

Forced Military Testing in American High Schools

Speaking Of Rabbits, America, Comanches And Unintended Consequences (1 comments)

Killing Kids is So American (22 comments)

Arms Dealer Obama Will Win by Default (8 comments)

The Iowa Republican Tea Party Caucus (2 comments)

American Idol On Steroids (1 comments)

2012's Questions Answered

The Good School; Principals or Principles (1 comments)

Labor: the New Gold Standard (4 comments)

2012 and the Not-So-Great-Depression of the Nouveau Poor (1 comments)

The Plight of Iraqi Children

Systematic West Bank Settler Violence

Palestinian Children Detained Oppressively in Isolation

Wednesday, January 4:

Why Can't They Accept Our Benevolent Tutelage? (5 comments)

A Betrayal of the Founders (5 comments)

Was the Iowa Caucuses' Real Winner Not in the Race?

Santorum 'Wins' Iowa, Everyone Else Doesn't

Èzili Dantò: Haiti: Jan 1, 2012 Another Independence Day Under Occupation (3 comments)

Our House is in Disorder, Why the Flag Should be Flown Upside Down in Distress

The World's Deadliest Profession: Coal Miners Pay in Blood for China's Economic Miracle (1 comments)

Rumsfeld-Era Propaganda Program Whitewashed by Pentagon (2 comments)

Obama's words are hollow. Time for Liberals and Conservatives to Unite and Fight the NDAA. (4 comments)

Radiation Checker: the gift that keeps on giving (2 comments)

A Triumph of Democracy (1 comments)

We all have a Rosa Parks moment -- what counts is how we respond (6 comments)

Haiti: Seven Places Where the Earthquake Money Did and Did Not Go (1 comments)

Obama says: 'Consider the alternative' - but is there one? (7 comments)

Is Nepal Practicing Faulty Inclusion Laws?

To Uncle Sam Social Activism Equals Terrorism (7 comments)

The Postal Service lies to the people of the Bronx

Bear Kosik: Stuck in the Mud: The Ultimate Outsider's View of the Occupy Movement (5 comments)

*The American Crisis: To Free a Lender-Owned Nation (Part II) (3 comments)

*PoliticusUSA.com Shills for Obama on Whether NDAA Military Detention Applies to American Citizens.

Y2012- The Year Of A Coward (35 comments)

Why are Democrats Attacking Ron Paul? (25 comments)

Money Power Runs America (2 comments)

Shooting the Messenger in Syria

Tuesday, January 3:

The streets of 2012 (8 comments)

Obama Signs Police State Legislation

Obama Seeks to Distance U.S. from Israeli Attack (2 comments)

Keystone Jobs Versus Competitive Dollar Jobs

Speaking to Iowa: The big lie and our role in truth

*The American Crisis: To Free a Lender-Owned Nation (Part 1) (4 comments)

The GOP Ticket in 2012: Romney-Rubio (2 comments)

Fleecing the Poor (9 comments)

For a Sane Economy in 2012, How About a Little Shame? (2 comments)

The Coming Caucus and Primary Charade

Tyranny in the Forecast -- The Outlook for the New Year (21 comments)

How can the expectation levels of this two party duopoly sink any lower? (17 comments)

Debacle! (3 comments)

Blood in my Eyes for You: The Deep Progressive Love for the Laureate's "Industrial Killing Machine" (2 comments)

2012 is the Year to Finally Bury Nuke Power

Commission Requires Presidential Aptitude Test --

End of the pro-democracy pretense (1 comments)

Saudis to Reinforce Crackdown on Peaceful Protesters, Amnesty Says

Rick Ungar: More Proof Big-Profit Insurers Doomed; Single Payer Coming Sooner Rather Than Later (6 comments)

A "smart legal coup d'etat" is underway in Pakistan?

Rodger Cook for Congress (2 comments)

Iraq: The Legacy of Deception and Its Costs (4 comments)

Crisis Conditions Grip Eurozone (2 comments)

Proposed FCC Media Consolidation Rules

Monday, January 2:

Iran and Historical Forgetting (12 comments)

Obama's Only Friend Left? (2 comments)

From Now On ... Our Biggest Mistake is Believing We Are Free (4 comments)

Ron Paul's Fetish on Civil Rights (12 comments)

What REALLY Happened at Zuccotti Park on New Years When We Re-Occupied and Re-Energized OWS (10 comments)

Declare Independence From Corporate Power!

Iran/Iraq "Defectors" and Disinformation

Iowa's $200-Per-Vote Caucuses Reward Negatives, Nastiness, Narrow Thinking (1 comments)

*Arrests at White House Over NDAA Military Detention of Americans, Occupy Wall Street Joins Fight. (1 comments)

Ken Kesey--Lessons For Occupy Movement (3 comments)

Unsustainable Israeli Politics of Exclusion in Jerusalem

*OWS is going to be what the people make it. (6 comments)

Wanton, Willful Treason By Congress!

Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Into Law (19 comments)

Hijacking Somalia (1 comments)

Obama's America: Tyranny and Permanent War (7 comments)

Ratcheting Up Middle East Tensions (2 comments)

Sunday, January 1:

R.I.P. Bill of Rights 1789 - 2011 (19 comments)

Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies (28 comments)

Economic Reform Newsletter: The Biggest bailout in history just got bigger; The People vs. Geithner (lawsuit) (3 comments)

The Libyan Tragedy: lessons for the western left (4 comments)

Is Iran an Existential Threat or a Strategic One? (3 comments)

Blowback?: Will 2012 Be Our Year of Living Dangerously ? (2 comments)

The Threat of War Against Iran and Syria is Real

Progressive Somnambulism (2 comments)

New Year communication: The Nepalis and the Global Village (1 comments)

The Sources and Risks of Russia's White Revolution: Why Putin Failed and the Russian Democrats May Too

GOP Republicans - playing with Ron Paul's loaded gun. (3 comments)

Murder of Dr Shah highlights the insurgency in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province

Traveling at the Speed of Life (1 comments)

Enough Feckless Nattering -- Obama IS Our Next President (1 comments)

Just Imagine The Rose Parade Occupied For The People (4 comments)

Obama's New Year Resolution: More Middle East War

Appalling Bahraini Prison Conditions and Treatment

Occupy Phase II: The Supreme Court (3 comments)

 

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