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U.S. Politics

• "The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Obama on JPMorgan," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 16, 2012
• "So Much for Schneiderman Being Tough on Wall Street," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, May 16, 2012
• "RNC Goes All In to Defend Wisconsin's Walker, but Where's the DNC?," by John Nichols, The Nation, May 16, 2012
• "DNC Shamed Into Helping Wisconsin Recall, Still Not Committing Funds," by David Dayen, Firedoglake, May 16, 2012
• "Uncovering the Other ALECs," by Sarah Blaskey & Steve Horn, Truthout, May 16, 2012
• "Needy States Use Housing Aid Cash to Plug Budgets," The New York Times, May 16, 2012
• "Bill Clinton, Boehner, and Some Other Rich White Guys Had a "Summit" and Agreed: It's Your Fault," by Richard (RJ) Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, May 15, 2012
• "The National Security State Wins (Again): Why the Real Victor in Campaign 2012 Won’t Be Obama or Romney," by Tom Engelhardt & William J. Astore, TomDispatch, May 15, 2012
• "John Roberts’ Gilded Age SCOTUS," by Joan Walsh, Salon, May 14, 2012
• "How being 'the party of no' is working for the GOP," by Gary Younge, Guardian/UK, May 14, 2012
• "JPMorgan Sought Loophole on Risky Trading," The New York Times, May 12, 2012
• "Coal, Foreclosures and Bank of America’s ‘Extraordinary Event’," by Amy Goodman, TruthDig, May 10, 2012
• "Hope and Hesitation in Obama’s Sudden Conversion," by Robert Scheer, TruthDig, May 10, 2012
• "Mitt Romney, Bully," by Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, May 10, 2012
• "Wall Street’s immunity," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 10, 2012
• "Romney Apologizes After Reports of Bullying Emerge," The New York Times, May 10, 2012
• "How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, May 10, 2012
• "Activists Want DNC Convention to Move out of North Carolina After Amendment One Passage," by David Dayen, Firedoglake, May 9, 2012
• "Angry opponents of N.C. amendment call for moving Democratic convention from Charlotte," McClatchy Newspapers, May 9, 2012
• "President Obama endorses gay marriage, cites Sasha and Malia," McClatchy Newspapers, May 9, 2012
• "DC Democrats Upset That Feingold Called Out Pelosi’s Game of Footsie with Bowles-Simpson," by David Dayen, Firedoglake, May 9, 2012
• "Lugar Loses Primary Challenge in Indiana," The New York Times, May 8, 2012
• "Plutonomy and the Precariat: On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline," by Tom Engelhardt & Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch, May 8, 2012
• "The American Character," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 7, 2012
• "Liberals Steer Outside Money to Grass-Roots Organizing," The New York Times, May 7, 2012
• "Progressive Election Strategy and the Norman Solomon Campaign," by Jeff Cohen, New Politics, May 4, 2012
• "Occupy Doesn’t Need to Get With the Vote," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 3, 2012
• "Plutocracy, Paralysis, Perplexity," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 3, 2012
• "The Peace Prize War President," by David Bromwich, Huffington Post, May 3, 2012
• "The People Behind the Lawmakers Out to Destroy Public Education: A Primer," by Diane Ravitch, Education Week, May 2, 2012
• "The Constitutional Crimes of Barack Obama," by Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch, May 2, 2012
• "Bread, Circuses, and the Edwards Prosecution," by Scott Horton, Harper's, May 1, 2012
• "Romney spokesman quits after right-wingers freak out about his being gay," by Alex Pareene, Salon, May 1, 2012
• "As His Austerity Agenda Melts Down, Scott Walker Blames Protests for Record Job Losses," by John Nichols, The Nation, April 30, 2012
• "Celebrating our “Warrior President”," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 29, 2012
• "A Resurgent American Left?," by Eli Zaretsky, Dissent, April 27, 2012
• "Obama Justice and medical marijuana," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 26, 2012
• "Revive Socialism!," by Michael Kazin, Dissent, April 25, 2012
• "Two Blue Dogs Defeated in Pennsylvania Primaries," by John Nichols, The Nation, April 25, 2012
• "Justices Seem Sympathetic to Central Part of Arizona Law," by Adam Liptak, The New York Times, April 25, 2012
• "Iran War Politics: Elizabeth Warren Contradicts Defense Secretary In Hawkish Talk, Bob Kerrey Calls Attack 'Disaster'," by Nico Pitney, Huffington Post, April 24, 2012
• "Reports show hard-to-track donors dominate outside giving," USA Today, April 22, 2012
• "Shift on Executive Power Lets Obama Bypass Rivals," by Charlie Savage, The New York Times, April 22, 2012
• "The Citizens United Gang," by Jim Hightower, Creators.com, April 18, 2012
• "ALEC Retreats, Sort Of," Yes! Magazine, April 17, 2012
• "ALEC Disbands Task Force Responsible for Voter ID, 'Stand Your Ground' Laws," by John Nichols, The Nation, April 17, 2012
• "Raising Kids Is Work? Tell That to Women on Welfare," by Laura Flanders, The Nation, April 16, 2012
• "In Senate, Republicans Block Debate on ‘Buffett Rule’," The New York Times, April 16, 2012
• "The War on Public-Sector Workers," by Dean Baker, Truthout, April 16, 2012
• "Obama and Romney Are Politicians, Not Visionaries," by Dean Baker, Common Dreams, April 10, 2012
• "Santorum Quits Race, Clearing Path for Romney," The New York Times, April 10, 2012
• "The "Suicidal State" and the War on Youth," by Henry S. Giroux, Truthout, April 10, 2012
• "The Buffett Rule’s low bar," by Robert Reich, Salon, April 10, 2012
• "It's Romney, the GOP Candidate Opposed by 59 Percent of Republicans," by John Nichols, The Nation, April 10, 2012
• "How Rick Santorum Moved the GOP Primary to the Right," by Ben Adler, The Nation, April 10, 2012
• "Deepening the progressive bench," by Katrina vanden Heuvel, Washington Post, April 10, 2012

Economy

• "California, the ninth largest economy in the world, resorts to austerity," Independent/UK, May 16, 2012
• "Wells Fargo Has Blood on Its Hands: Desperate Man Commits Suicide After Shocking Foreclosure Mistreatment," by Dave Johnson, AlterNet, May 15, 2012
• "Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, May 15, 2012
• "Lessons in Disloyalty: Eduardo Saverin and the Facebook IPO," by Ilyse Hogue, The Nation, May 14, 2012
• "Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase: Why It's the Scandal of Our Time," by Richard (RJ) Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, May 14, 2012
• "Colonized by Corporations," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, May 14, 2012
• "Why We Regulate," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 13, 2012
• "Colleges as Merchants of Debt," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, May 13, 2012
• "A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College," The New York Times, May 12, 2012
• "More Than 200,000 Americans Will Lose Their Unemployment Benefits This Weekend," by Pat Garofalo, Think Progress, May 11, 2012
• "CHARTS: Economic Mobility Is Stronger In Union States," by Travis Waldron, Think Progress, May 10, 2012
• "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte: How Bank of America Silenced a Whole Town," by Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, May 10, 2012
• "Waiting for Copernicus: On the Slow-Death of Neoliberalism," by John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, May 8, 2012
• "New York Times Reporters Need to Read Krugman’s Columns," by Bill Black, Naked Capitalism, May 8, 2012
• "Health care increasingly out of reach for millions of Americans," McClatchy Newspapers, May 7, 2012
• "How to End This Depression," by Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books, May 7, 2012
• "Why America's Rich People Are Better Than Everyone Else's," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, May 7, 2012
• "The Stall Has Arrived," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 4, 2012
• "Argentina and the magic soybean: the commodity export boom that wasn't," by Mark Weisbrot, Guardian/UK, May 4, 2012
• "Social security is not going broke," by David Cay Johnston, Reuters, May 4, 2012
• "The Crushing Burden of Student Debt," by David Graeber, Mike Konczal, Brian Kalkbrenner and Sarah Jaffe, Truthout, May 4, 2012
• "Discrepancies on Medical Bills Can Leave a Credit Stain," The New York Times, May 4, 2012
• "A Down Week, Worsened by a Weak Jobs Report," The New York Times, May 4, 2012
• "Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games: Sending Debt Peonage, Poverty, and Freaky Weather Into the Arena," by Tom Engelhardt & Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch, May 1, 2012
• "The Tinder-Box Society," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 1, 2012
• "Five Tax Fallacies Invented by the 1%," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, April 30, 2012
• "How to Destroy Education While Making a Trillion Dollars," by Robert Freeman, Common Dreams, April 29, 2012
• "Depression Symptoms: What’s Behind Europe’s Spike in Suicides," by Michelle Chen, In These Times, April 26, 2012
• "Bank CEOs gain as millions lose dreams, retirement to foreclosure," by Scott Klinger & John Cavanagh, Newark Star-Ledger, April 25, 2012
• "American Austerity," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, April 25, 2012
• "Europe’s austerity recession," by Robert Reich, Salon, April 25, 2012
• "Wall Street-Inflated Student Debt Bubble Hits $1 Trillion; Debtors Rally for Relief," by Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet, April 24, 2012
• "Wells Fargo, Terrified to Face Victims of Its Foreclosure Fraud and Predatory Lending, Locks Shareholders Out of Annual Meeting," by Joshua Holland, AlterNet, April 24, 2012
• "The Middle Class Hasn't Disappeared. It's Just Sliding Toward the Bottom," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, April 23, 2012
• "The Housing Market Doldrums," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, April 23, 2012
• "Call for Growth Rises to Counter German Push for Austerity," The New York Times, April 23, 2012
• "Shareholders Say No to Citigroup CEO Pay: A Model for Fighting Crony Capitalism," by Dean Baker, Truthout, April 23, 2012
• "Schneiderman Propagandist Confirms Report of Lack of Staffing for Mortgage Fraud Task Force," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, April 19, 2012
• "Rising Fears That Recovery May Once More Be Faltering," The New York Times, April 19, 2012
• "Locking Down an American Workforce: Prison Labor as the Past -- and Future -- of American “Free-Market” Capitalism," by Tom Engelhardt, Steve Fraser & Joshua B. Freeman, TomDispatch, April 19, 2012
• "Spain’s contagious collapse," by Paul Ames, Global Post, April 19, 2012
• "How the Goldman Vampire Squid Just Captured Europe," by Ellen Brown, Truthout, April 18, 2012
• "Five Reasons Why The Very Rich Have NOT Earned Their Money," by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, April 16, 2012
• "Six Rigged Rules Corporations Use to Dodge Taxes," by Sarah Anderson & Scott Klinger, The Nation, April 16, 2012
• "For Two Economists, the Buffett Rule Is Just a Start," The New York Times, April 16, 2012
• "Europe’s Economic Suicide," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, April 15, 2012
• "Vampire Squid Update: SEC Fines Goldman For Huddles," by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch, April 13, 2012
• "The Federal Reserve Turns Left," by William Greider, The Nation, April 11, 2012
• "An Economic Quagmire," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, April 10, 2012

Bush Accountability

• "War Tribunal Finds Bush, Cheney Guilty of War Crimes," Common Dreams, May 13, 2012
• "Yoo, Latif, and the Rise of Secret Justice," by Scott Horton, Harper's, May 9, 2012
• "Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial," by Andy Worthington, Future of Freedom Foundation, May 7, 2012
• "No Accountability for Torture," by David Cole, New York Review of Books, May 7, 2012
• "More federal judge abdication," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 4, 2012
• "UC Berkeley's John Yoo torture suit tossed out," San Francisco Chronicle, May 3, 2012
• "'Torture memos' author can't be sued for harsh interrogations, court rules," Christian Science Monitor, May 2, 2012
• "Jose Rodriguez, Poster Boy," by Scott Horton, Harper's, May 1, 2012
• "U.S. Torturers are Still Awaiting Arrest," by William A. Collins, Other Words, April 30, 2012
• "Bush aide blasts torture," by Jordan Michael Smith, Salon, April 10, 2012

International Affairs

• "America the Serial Killer," by John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, May 15, 2012
• "Angela Merkel dealt further blow by German voters in key state election," Guardian/UK, May 13, 2012
• "America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill: On Staring Death in the Face and Not Noticing," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, May 13, 2012
• "The Energy Wars Heat Up: Six Recent Clashes and Conflicts on a Planet Heading Into Energy Overdrive," by Tom Engelhardt & Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch, May 10, 2012
• "Stop Grading Obama's Foreign Policy on a Curve," by Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, May 8, 2012
• "In Victory, Greek Left Says: No Bailout, No Austerity," Common Dreams, May 8, 2012
• "The End of Austerity in Europe?," by Jeanne Kay, Foreign Policy in Focus, May 4, 2012
• "The fraud of “humanitarian wars”," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 2, 2012
• "Osama bin Laden's death has had zero impact on America's security," by Gary Younge, Guardian/UK, May 1, 2012
• "Further Reflections About John Brennan's Targeted Killing Speech," by Jameel Jaffer, ACLU Blog of Rights, May 1, 2012
• "In the Face of CIA Drone Strikes, Pakistan is Powerless," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, April 30, 2012
• "Top U.S. Security Official Says ‘Rigorous Standards’ Are Used for Drone Strikes," by Charlie Savage, The New York Times, April 30, 2012
• "Obama’s Death Panels: Jeremy Scahill at the Drone Summit [VIDEO]," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, April 29, 2012
• "United States Talks Fail as Pakistanis Seek Apology," The New York Times, April 27, 2012
• "Obama escalates in Yemen – again," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 26, 2012
• "A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC: Neoliberal Dragons, Eurasian Wet Dreams, and Robocop Fantasies," by Tom Engelhardt & Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch, April 26, 2012
• "Iran Terror to the South!," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 24, 2012
• "Washington double-talk on nukes," by Walter Pincus, Washington Post, April 23, 2012
• "Defense Department Plans New Intelligence Gathering Service," The New York Times, April 23, 2012
• "Facing Cyberattack, Iranian Officials Disconnect Some Oil Terminals From Internet," The New York Times, April 23, 2012
• "Abroad, as at home, Obama coasts on a wave of disappointment," by Gary Younge, Guardian/UK, April 22, 2012
• "Expanding Bombings in Yemen Takes war Too Far," by Bruce Ackerman, Washington Post, April 20, 2012
• "Petraeus and the signature of U.S. terror," by Jefferson Morley, Salon, April 19, 2012
• "Argentina's critics are wrong again about renationalising oil," by Mark Weisbrot, Guardian/UK, April 18, 2012
• "Do Americans love war?," by Jefferson Morley, Salon, April 17, 2012
• "Blowback Fears Grow over US Drone Program in Yemen," Common Dreams, April 17, 2012
• "Obama Dismisses Latin American Leaders’ Calls for Drug Legalization in Colombia," by Jon Walker, Firedoglake, April 16, 2012
• "Punishing Cuba 50 Years On: Caught in a Cold War Time Warp," by Ben Schreiner, Common Dreams, April 16, 2012
• "The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret," by Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone, April 16, 2012
• "Egypt’s Saturday Night Massacre and the Presidential Race," by Juan Cole, Informed Comment, April 15, 2012
• "What the Laws of War Allow: Do the WikiLeaks War Logs Reveal War Crimes -- Or the Poverty of International Law?," by Tom Engelhardt & Chase Madar, TomDispatch, April 15, 2012
• "Why Washington’s Iran Policy Could Lead to Global Disaster," by Tom Engelhardt & Juan Cole, TomDispatch, April 12, 2012
• "The CIA and Castro: an Undying Obsession," by Saul Landau & Nelson P. Valdes, Counterpunch, April 10, 2012
• "U.S.’s shameful Bahrain policy," by Murtaza Hussain, Salon, April 10, 2012

"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

• "US attack kills 5 Afghan kids," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 8, 2012
• "Kabul suicide attack coincides with Barack Obama visit," Guardian/UK, May 2, 2012
• "Suicide bombers kill 7 after Obama leaves Afghan capital," Reuters, May 2, 2012
• "The Children of Fallujah - Sayef's story," by Robert Fisk, Independent/UK, April 24, 2012
• "Wars of Attrition: Green Zones of the Mind, Guerrillas, and a Technical Knockout in Afghanistan," by Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse, TomDispatch, April 24, 2012
• "U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers," Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2012
• "The US and The Afghan Train Wreck," by Conn Hallinan, Antiwar.com, April 17, 2012
• "Taking Uncle Sam for a Ride: How Pakistan Makes Washington Pay for the Afghan War," by Tom Engelhardt & Dilip Hiro, TomDispatch, April 17, 2012
• "Afghan Assaults Signal Evolution of a Militant Foe," The New York Times, April 16, 2012

Civil Liberties/ Human Rights

• "Columbia Study Suggests Texas Executed an Innocent Man," by Scott Horton, Harper's, May 16, 2012
• "Peter Van Buren & the State Department’s Suppression of Free Speech," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 16, 2012
• "Federal court enjoins NDAA," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 16, 2012
• "Obama’s Yemen EO Still Lets Our Spooks Pay the Targets of the EO," by Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel, May 16, 2012
• "Obama’s new free speech threat," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 16, 2012
• "Judge Blocks Controversial NDAA," Courthouse News, May 16, 2012
• "New research suggests Tasers can be lethal," by Charlie Mole, Bureau of Investigative Reporting, May 15, 2012
• "Five Reasons Drone Assassinations are Illegal," by Bill Quigley, Counterpunch, May 15, 2012
• "Chomsky on Obama," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 14, 2012
• "Did the White House Direct the Police Crackdown on Occupy?," by Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch, May 14, 2012
• "What Law & What Process for Muslims in America?," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 14, 2012
• "Keyboard Jihadist?," by Michael May, The American Prospect, May 14, 2012
• "Another innocent executed?," by Rania Khalek, Salon, May 14, 2012
• "Justice Department Sues Arizona Sheriff," The New York Times, May 10, 2012
• "Why protesters curse cops," by Natasha Lennard, Salon, May 10, 2012
• "Leaks Abound as Details Around CIA Sting Operation Surface," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 9, 2012
• "Twitter sides with Occupy protester in NY court battle over tweet history," Guardian/UK, May 8, 2012
• "Twitter’s Continued Defense of User’s Rights," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 8, 2012
• "Military Judge: ‘Open Question’ Whether Constitution Applies to 9/11 Terror Suspects," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 7, 2012
• "The Defense Department’s ‘Systematic Disregard’ for Whistleblowers," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 7, 2012
• "Justice Cheated," by Kenneth Roth, The New York Times, May 6, 2012
• "Surveillance State democracy," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 6, 2012
• "New Police Strategy in New York: Sexual Assault Against Peaceful Protestors," by David Graeber, Daily Kos, May 5, 2012
• "The Revolt Against the NDAA Hits Congress," by Adam Serwer, Mother Jones, May 4, 2012
• "FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites - now," by Declan McCullagh, CNet, May 4, 2012
• "The NYPD May Day siege," by Natasha Lennard, Salon, May 3, 2012
• "Obama Administration Moves to Censor Torture Testimony from 9/11 Suspects," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 3, 2012
• "Groups Call on Justice Department to Protect Right to Record," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 3, 2012
• "Another Victory in the War on Drugs," by Scott Horton, Harper's, May 3, 2012
• "Police Adapt Tactics, Use ‘Snatch and Grab’ Arrests During May Day," by Rebecca Burns, In These Times, May 2, 2012
• "Since bin Laden’s death," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 1, 2012
• "The Jose Rodriguez lesson," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 1, 2012
• "Oakland police monitor questions response to Occupy," San Francisco Chronicle, May 1, 2012
• "NYPD Raids Activists’ Homes Before May Day Protests," by Adrian Chen, Gawker, April 30, 2012
• "Life Under Constant Watch," by Firmin DeBrabander, Common Dreams, April 30, 2012
• "In Suit, Protesters Say City Violated Their Constitutional Rights," by Colin Moynihan, The New York Times, April 30, 2012
• "Chicago to Welcome Militarized May Day?," by Yana Kunichoff, Truthout, April 30, 2012
• "You Are All Suspects Now. What Are You Going to Do About It?," by John Pilger, Antiwar.com, April 30, 2012
• "The C.I.A.’s Misuse of Secrecy," by Jameel Jaffer & Nathan Freed Wessler, The New York Times, April 29, 2012
• "To Joliet jail for NATO offenders?," Chicago Sun-Times, April 28, 2012
• "Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I.," by David K. Shipler, The New York Times, April 28, 2012
• "Stripping and Searching," by Christopher Brauchli, Common Dreams, April 28, 2012
• "Wall Street Tracks ‘Wolves’ as May 1 Protests Loom," Bloomberg News, April 26, 2012
• "The Harm Done by Bradley Manning’s Alleged Leaks," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, April 26, 2012
• "Ex-CIA Officer Who Destroyed Waterboarding Videos: Torturers "Disgusted" at Being Labeled "Torturers"," Common Dreams, April 25, 2012
• "Crime boasting for profit," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 25, 2012
• "The Shroud of Secrecy in Bradley Manning’s Legal Proceedings," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, April 25, 2012
• "The NSA Is Watching You," by Amy Goodman, TruthDig, April 25, 2012
• "Bradley Manning: a show trial of state secrecy," by Michael Ratner, Guardian/UK, April 24, 2012
• "US relents and grants visa to lawyer for CIA drone strike victims in Pakistan," Guardian/UK, April 24, 2012
• "Convicting Bradley Manning in Secret," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, April 23, 2012
• "No real justice in Guantanamo," by Reed Brody, Los Angeles Times, April 23, 2012
• "Federal judge complicity," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 23, 2012
• "Drone Protesters Preemptively Arrested Before Reaching Hancock Air Force Base," by Kevin Gosztola , Firedoglake, April 22, 2012
• "Surveillance State evils," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 21, 2012
• "FBI Seizes Server From Progressive Internet Service Provider," by Jamie McClelland, War Is a Crime, April 20, 2012
• "America’s drone sickness," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 19, 2012
• "The Torture Trials at Guantánamo," by Andy Worthington, Future of Freedom Foundation, April 19, 2012
• "The TSA's mission creep is making the US a police state," by Jennifer Abel, Guardian/UK, April 18, 2012
• "Police, Protests and Pepper Spray in California," by Tom Hayden, The Nation, April 18, 2012
• "Supreme Court Makes It Even More Impossible for Torture Victims to Win Lawsuits," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, April 18, 2012
• "How Obama Became a Civil Libertarian's Nightmare," by Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet, April 18, 2012
• "Personalizing civil liberties abuses," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 16, 2012
• "First They Come for the Muslims," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, April 16, 2012
• "Three in elite NYPD anti-gun unit accused of treating black suspects like 'animals'," New York Daily News, April 16, 2012
• "Get Your Boot Off My Neck," by Kerry Kennedy, Inter Press Service, April 16, 2012
• "Forty years in solitary: two men mark sombre anniversary in Louisiana prison," Guardian/UK, April 16, 2012
• "Remember the Pepper-Spraying Cop? UC Davis Releases a Powerful Report," by James Fallows, The Atlantic, April 15, 2012
• "Did NYPD “Undercover Agent” Try to Suborn Tarek Mehanna into a “Terrorist Plot”?," by Jeff Kaye, Firedoglake, April 14, 2012
• "Drone activist denied visa," by Murtaza Hussain, Salon, April 13, 2012
• "Feds ready whistleblower trial," by Jesselyn Radack, Salon, April 13, 2012
• "Occupy and the Right to Protest," by Laura Bolt, The Nation, April 13, 2012
• "Local TV Cameraman Filing Criminal Complaint After He and Occupy Videographer Beaten by Minneapolis Cops," by Phoenix Woman, Firedoglake, April 10, 2012
• "The Hollow Point Men," by Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch, April 10, 2012

Environment and Sustainability

• "When Polluted Water Is Safe to Drink: Inside the Dimock Fracking Fight," by Mike Ludwig, Truthout, May 16, 2012
• "Fukushima nuclear disaster: who profits and who pays?," by Jan Haverkamp, Greenpeace Blog, May 16, 2012
• "Climate Crisis: The Silence is Deafening," by Brian Moench, Common Dreams, May 14, 2012
• "Report: Fracking Wastewater Disposal Methods Leave Environment, Public Health at Risk," Common Dreams, May 10, 2012
• "Monsanto, Dow and Genetically Modified Trouble," by Jim Hightower, Truthout, May 9, 2012
• "NOAA: US Experienced Warmest 12-Month Period in 117 Years," Common Dreams, May 9, 2012
• "Chemical Agriculture Goes to the Mattresses," by Leeann Brown, Enviroblog/Environment Working Group, May 8, 2012
• "The Nuclear Industry Has Melted in Japan and France," by Harvey Wasserman, Counterpunch, May 7, 2012
• "Study: Biodiversity Loss Impacts as Great as Climate Change Impacts," Common Dreams, May 4, 2012
• "Too Hot Not to Notice? A Planet Connected by Wild Weather," by Tom Engelhardt & Bill McKibben, TomDispatch, May 3, 2012
• "New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years," by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, May 1, 2012
• "U.S. 'dirty oil' imports set to triple," CNN, April 30, 2012
• "Pink Slime and Mad Cow Just the Tip of the Iceberg," by Paula Crossfield, Civil Eats, April 27, 2012
• "A Battle Over an Engineered Crop: Opposition Rises to Dow's "Agent Orange Corn"," The New York Times, April 25, 2012
• "A Plea for Rio+20: Don’t Commodify Nature," by David Korten, Yes! Magazine, April 24, 2012
• "ALEC and ExxonMobil Push Loopholes in Fracking Chemical Disclosure Rules," ProPublica, April 24, 2012
• "Arctic Ocean could be source of greenhouse gas: study," Agence France Presse, April 22, 2012
• "Earth Day means nothing if We Don’t Limit Carbon Emissions," by Juan Cole, Informed Comment, April 22, 2012
• "Why Fukushima Is a Greater Disaster than Chernobyl and a Warning Sign for the U.S.," by Robert Alvarez, Institute for Policy Studies, April 20, 2012
• "Obama Echoes Bush, Sets Plan for Polar Bear Extinction," Common Dreams, April 18, 2012
• "Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists," by Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English, April 18, 2012
• "The Climate Movement Takes On Fracking: Interview With Bill McKibben," by Christine Shearer, Truthout, April 17, 2012
• "EPA Paves Pathway for 'Agent Orange' GM Corn," Common Dreams, April 10, 2012

Media Issues

• "The Only Beltway White Guy Pundits Too Hot for the Sunday Shows?," by Peter Hart, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, May 15, 2012
• "D.C. Journalism: High School All Over Again," by Bill Boyarsky, TruthDig, May 10, 2012
• "Meanwhile, in the land of the free…," by Dan Gillmor, Columbia Journalism Review, May 7, 2012
• "Media silent when administration targets sources," by Edward Wasserman, Miami Herald, May 7, 2012
• "Bored With Occupy—and Inequality," by John Knefel, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, May 3, 2012
• "NBC News’ top hagiographer," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 3, 2012
• "Unfit to Broadcast: Rupert Murdoch and the FCC," by Karl Grossman, Counterpunch, May 2, 2012
• "Dog-training the press corps," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 30, 2012
• "Is 'America Revealed'--or PBS? Dow-sponsored public TV series tracks Dow's product lines," Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, April 23, 2012
• "Word Order: The Internet as the Toy With a Tin Ear," by Tom Engelhardt & Lewis Lapham, TomDispatch, April 22, 2012
• "Attacks on RT and Assange reveal much about the critics," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 18, 2012
• "Broadcasters Are ‘Against Transparency,’ Says FCC Chairman," ProPublica, April 17, 2012

Activism

• "Blockupy Frankfurt: taking the struggle to the next level," by Jerome Roos, ROAR, May 16, 2012
• "'Blockupy Frankfurt' Protesters Cleared From Camp During Anti-Austerity Demonstration," Common Dreams, May 16, 2012
• "First NATO protest targets Obama," by Natasha Lennard, Salon, May 16, 2012
• "Farm Protesters Land Seized by UC Berkeley," by Alison Hope Alkon, Civil Eats, May 14, 2012
• "Occupy Chicago Prepares for NATO," by Allison Kilkenny, The Nation, May 14, 2012
• "Blockupy Frankfurt is a glimmer of hope in times of austerity," by John Holloway, Guardian/UK, May 14, 2012
• "Spanish Indignados return to their squares," by Ter Garcia, Waging Nonviolence, May 14, 2012
• "Thousands Turn Out to Protest Bank of America Shareholders' Meeting," by Allison Kilkenny, The Nation, May 9, 2012
• "Organizing against Bank of America in enemy territory," by Laura Gottesdiener, Waging Nonviolence, May 8, 2012
• "Charlotte City Manager Declares Bank of America Shareholder Meeting 'Extraordinary Event'," by Allison Kilkenny, The Nation, May 8, 2012
• "Occupy's liberation from liberalism: the real meaning of May Day," by David Graeber, Guardian/UK, May 7, 2012
• "Georgia County Sheriff Evicts Four-Generation Family In Raid Resembling 'Drug Bust'," by Allison Kilkenny, The Nation, May 4, 2012
• "Occupied Oakland's May Daze," by Susie Cagle, Truthout, May 4, 2012
• "A May to remember," by Ken Butigan, Waging Nonviolence, May 3, 2012
• "David Harvey: Taking back the streets for anti-capitalist struggles," by Aaron Leonard, Rabble/Canada, May 3, 2012
• "The 99 Percent Wakes Up," by Joseph Stiglitz, Daily Beast, May 2, 2012
• "OWS marks May Day with a beatific vision and a big march," by Nathan Schneider, Waging Nonviolence, May 2, 2012
• "After a general strike," by Grace Davie, Waging Nonviolence, May 2, 2012
• "How to Rebrand Occupy," by Arun Gupta, The Progressive, May 1, 2012
• "'Shame on You': Why I Interrupted Obama Counter-Terrorism Adviser John Brennan," by Medea Benjamin, Common Dreams, May 1, 2012
• "U.S. Workers, Students Reclaim May Day," by Haider Rizvi, Inter Press Service, May 1, 2012
• "No School, No Work… But in Chicago, No General Strike," by Joe Macare, Occupied Chicago Tribune, April 30, 2012
• "Why I’m striking," by Natasha Lennard, Salon, April 30, 2012
• "Why Are We Striking? Or to put it another way – what’s wrong with the world?," by Mike David, Adbusters, April 30, 2012
• "99% Spring Has Sprung: Shareholder Actions Underway Across the County," by Mary Bottari, PR Watch, April 29, 2012
• "Mutual aid on May Day and beyond," by Rachel Leone, Waging Nonviolence, April 29, 2012
• "Occupy Prepares for May Day: No Work, No School, No Banking," by Allison Kilkenny, The Nation, April 27, 2012
• "Occupy Activists Breathe New Life Into May Day," by Peter Dreier, The Nation, April 27, 2012
• "Conspiracy theorist takes a swing at Tar Sands Action but misses," by Bryan Farrell, Waging Nonviolence, April 25, 2012
• "Ten reasons to love hassle lines," by Nadine Bloch, Waging Nonviolence, April 25, 2012
• "Protest over GE tax payments erupts at company's shareholder meeting," Detroit News, April 25, 2012
• "Occupy Wall Street: what is to be done next?," by Slavoj Žižek, Guardian/UK, April 24, 2012
• "Occupy Joins Forces With Direct Action Badasses, ACT UP," by Allison Kilkenny, The Nation, April 23, 2012
• "Police Arrest Protesters at Wells Fargo in Iowa," by Laura Flanders, The Nation, April 23, 2012
• "Occupy, the 99% Spring, and the New Age of Direct Action," by Mark Engler, Yes! Magazine, April 23, 2012
• "‘Why do oppressed people have such great jokes?’ — The Yes Men’s Andy Bichlbaum," by Laura Gottesdiener, Waging Nonviolence, April 23, 2012
• "With eyes on May Day, OWS allies escalate against jefes," by Diego Ibanez & Laura Gottesdiener, Waging Nonviolence, April 19, 2012
• "Making our arrests count," by Yotam Marom , Waging Nonviolence, April 18, 2012
• "Hundreds Protest America's Crooked Tax System," by Allison Kilkenny, The Nation, April 18, 2012
• "Cops Clear Occupy; Orderly Eviction, Arrests," by Thomas MacMillan, New Haven Independent, April 18, 2012
• "Did civil rights need Deacons for Defense?," by George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence, April 17, 2012
• "Occupy Oakland, Permitted Protest, and Police Repression," by Mike King, Counterpunch, April 17, 2012
• "NYPD Raid Occupy's Sleep-In Protest," Common Dreams, April 16, 2012
• "But is it Occupy?," by Natasha Lennard, Salon, April 16, 2012
• "Occupy Wall Street's Occupation of Wall Street Facing Eviction Despite Legal Protections," by Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet, April 16, 2012
• "The landscape of May Day in New York," by Nathan Schneider, Waging Nonviolence, April 16, 2012
• "Why we stand against the police," by Sparrow Ingersoll & Suzahn Ebrahimian, Waging Nonviolence, April 15, 2012
• "Ask not who’s co-opting you, ask whom you can co-opt," by Nathan Schneider, Waging Nonviolence, April 14, 2012
• "How Occupy Co-Opted MoveOn.org," by Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones, April 13, 2012
• "The right to self-defense," by George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence, April 10, 2012

Audio Archives, 2001

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• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December

December

Week Ending Dec. 7, 2001

• Will U.S. Military Intervention in Afghanistan Prevent Future Acts of Terrorism?
• Veterans for Peace Respond to White House Call to Talk with Students About War
• Prospects Are Dim for New Middle East Peace Initiative Without Fundamental Policy Shift

Week Ending Dec. 14, 2001

• Middle East Enters Dangerous New Cycle of Carnage.
• Amnesty International Opposes Bush Plan to Revive FBI Surveillance of U.S. Political and Religious Groups.
• Organizers Say November Protests Against U.S. Army's School of the Americas Most Successful Yet.

Week Ending Dec. 21, 2001

• Ashcroft's Charge That His Critics Aid Terrorists Echoes of McCarthy Era.
• Israel's Assassination of Militant Palestinian Leaders Provoked Latest Series of Suicide Bombings.
• President Bush and His Corporate Allies Spend Millions to Win House Fast Track Trade Bill.

Week Ending Dec. 28, 2001

• As War Winds Down, Thousands of Afghan Refugees Still Vulnerable to Starvation and Cold.
• Many Fear U.S. Withdrawal from ABM Treaty Will Trigger New Global Nuclear Arms Race.
• 1st U.S. Shipment of Food to Cuba in 40 Years A Sign of Hope for Better Relations.

November

Week Ending Nov. 2, 2001

• Humanitarian Aid Group Critical of U.S. Military Food Drops During Bombing of Afghanistan.
• Despite Sept. 11 Terror Attack, Protest Against U.S. Army's School of the Americas Will Proceed November 16-18.
• Murder of Mexican Human Rights Attorney Raises Questions about President Vicente Fox's Commitment to Democratic Reform.

Week Ending Nov. 9, 2001

• Afghan Civilian Deaths, Injuries Resulting from U.S. Bombing Could Undermine America's War Against Terrorism.
• Anthrax Danger Multiplied by Systematic Underfunding of U.S. Public Health Care.
• U.S. Middle East Policy Angers Much of Islamic World, Breeding Sympathy for Terrorism.

Week Ending Nov. 16, 2001

• Critics Say GOP Economic Stimulus Plan is Nothing Less than Profiteering in the Name of Patriotism.
• Groups Demand Information on Over 1,000 Detained Immigrants Held in Secret Since Sept. 11 Terror Attacks.
• 18 Arrested After Police Break Up Oct. 25 Hartford, Conn. Peace Protest.

Week Ending Nov. 23, 2001

• After Taliban Abandon Afghanistan's Cities, Will U.S. Be Drawn into a Protracted Guerilla War?
• Under Pressure from Poor Nations, World Trade Organization Agrees to Make Affordable Medicines Available to Treat Those in Need.
• Planned Parenthood Says Attorney General Ashcroft Ignores Anthrax Threats Made to Abortion Clinics

Week Ending Nov. 30, 2001

• Critics Say Bush Military Tribunals Will Be Kangaroo Courts.
• Groups Work to Pass Legislation Ensuring Women Have Role in Rebuilding Afghanistan.
• Have the Sept. 11th Attacks Derailed the Global Social Justice Movement?

October

Week Ending Oct. 5, 2001

• Bush Rallies Public Support for War Against Terrorism But Critics Warn Against Over-reaction
• U.S. Peace Movement Confronts Unique Set of Issues in Responding to Expected U.S Military Actions
• Osama bin Laden and Taliban Products of Cold War Battle Against Soviet Union

Week Ending Oct. 12, 2001

• U.S. Civil Liberties Endangered After Sept. 11 Terrorist Strike
• Media's Role During the Nation's Crisis: Investigative Journalism or Cheerleading?
• Changed Political Climate Affects Struggle to Stop Navy Bombing Exercises on Vieques

Week Ending Oct. 19, 2001

• U.S. Attack on Afghanistan Could Provoke Dangerous Backlash Across Muslim World
• Catholic Bishop Opposes U.S. War in Afghanistan; Calls For Examination of American Foreign Policy
• Columnist Nat Hentoff Urges Citizens to Oppose the Coup D'Etat Against Bill of Rights

Week Ending Oct. 26, 2001

• America's UN Ambassador and White House Nominee for State Department Post Could Undermine U.S. Credibility in Battle Against Terrorism
• Bush Administration Uses Sept. 11 Attack to Push for Oil Drilling in Arctic Wildlife Refuge
• Labor and Environmental Groups Fight GOP-Sponsored Fast Track Trade Bill

September

Week Ending Sept. 7, 2001

• Protest Actions Planned for Vieques as Navy Prepares for September Bombing Exercises
• On the 5th Anniversary of Welfare Reform, Poverty Rates Remain Unchanged
• NOW Campaigning to Dissuade CNN from Hiring Rush Limbaugh

Week Ending Sept. 14, 2001

• U.S. Walkout of World Conference Against Racism Criticized by Many Nations and Civil Rights Activists
• Coalition Protesting Policies of World Bank and IMF Lays Out 4 Key Demands in Advance of September Actions
• After 6 Years Leading AFL-CIO, John Sweeney Has Achieved Mixed Results

Week Ending Sept. 21, 2001

• New York-Washington Terror Attacks Aggravate Xenophobia and Could Erode Civil Liberties
• Search for Answers: Who Will Bush Target for Retaliation?
• Corporate Media Coverage of Terror Strikes Ignore Root Cause of Hostility Toward U.S.

Week Ending Sept. 28, 2001

• In the Wake of Terror Attacks, Thousands Gather in New York's Union Square to Mourn and Debate
• The Nation Questions Why U.S. Intelligence Agencies Failed to Detect or Stop Terror Plot
• Will Bush Administration Respond to Assaults on New York and Washington with Indiscriminant Violence?
• Progressive Religious Leaders Issue Call for a Faith-based Response to Terrorism

August

Week Ending Aug. 3, 2001

• Protest Organizers in Genoa Blame Police for Violence which Disrupted Powerful G8 Summit Demonstrations
• Bonn Climate Accord Signed by 178 Nations; Compromises Open Many Loopholes
• HIV/AIDS Prevention in Africa Hindered by Cultural Repression of Women

Week Ending Aug. 10, 2001

• Bush Administration Charged with Arrogance as it Withdraws from Growing Number of International Treaties
• National Lawyers Guild Considers Campaign to Impeach Supreme Court Justices Who Stopped Fla. Vote Count
• Physician's Group Calls for a Halt to Depleted Uranium Ammunition Use

Week Ending Aug. 17, 2001

• Attacks on Haitian Police May be Linked to Anti-Aristide Political Forces
• Teamsters Dump Turtles to Pass Bush Energy Plan
• 40-Day Fast Launched to Protest 11 Years of Iraq Sanctions

Week Ending Aug. 24, 2001

• Palestinians View Israeli Occupation of East Jerusalem's Orient House as a Serious Provocation
• Amnesty International Adopts Jailed Mexican Environmentalists as Prisoners of Conscience
• Bush Administration Crackdown on Travel to Cuba Challenged by Coalition Opposed to All Restrictions

Week Ending Aug. 31, 2001

• Christopher Hitchens Discusses Why He Believes Henry Kissinger Should Be Tried for War Crimes
• Earth First! Activist and Bombing Victim Darryl Cherney Describes Lawsuit Against FBI and Oakland Police Dept.
• Black Panther Partya Cofounder Bobby Seale Relates Struggles of 1960s to Today's Fight for Social Justice

July

Week Ending July 6, 2001

• Peru's Fugitive Spy Chief Arrested; Questions Raised about His CIA Relationship
• Patient's Bill of Rights Fails to Address Underlying Issues of U.S. Health Care Crisis
• Pro-Democracy Convention Launches Electoral Reform Campaign

Week Ending July 13, 2001

• Efforts to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Cease-Fire Fail
• Rainforest Action Network's Tax Exempt Status Under Attack by Oil, Timber and Tobacco Industry
• Yale University Unions Unite for Hospital Organizing Drive

Week Ending July 20, 2001

• Fast Track Battle in Congress will Determine Future of Free Trade Agreements
• World Bank-IMF Policies in Developing World Target of Massive, Washington, D.C. Protest in September
• U.S. Customs Seizes Medical Aid Bound for Cuba on Canadian Border

Week Ending July 27, 2001

• Successful Missile Defense Weapons Test Boosts Bush Drive to Deploy Treaty-Busting Star Wars System
• Aborted White House-Salvation Army Deal Reveals Bush Support for Tax Payer Funded Discrimination
• Cuban Rodenticide Brought to U.S. in Challenge to Cuban Economic Blockade

June

Week Ending June 1, 2001

• Bush Energy Plan Exacerbates Global Pollution While Subsidizing White House Allies in Utilities and Big Oil
• More Activists Arrested on Vieques as Resistance Continues Against U.S. Military Presence on the Puerto Rican Island
• Supporters of Leonard Peltier Prepare for June Actions

Week Ending June 8, 2001

• No End in Sight for Mideast Violence as Israel Rejects Freeze on Settlements
• Power Shift in Senate may Hamper Bush Judicial Appointments
• Drive to Revive Nuclear Power Jeopardizes Public Health and Wastes Tax Dollars

Week Ending June 15, 2001

• Amnesty International Targets Human Rights Abuses in U.S.
• Bush Administration Working to Defeat Sandinista Party in November Nicaraguan Presidential Election
• Campaign Continues to Push for Closure of U.S. Army's School of the Americas

Week Ending June 22, 2001

• Timothy McVeigh's Execution Provokes Renewed Debate on Death Penalty
• U.S. Civil Rights Commission Condemns Officials' Conduct During Florida 's Pivotal 2000 Election
• 5 Cubans Convicted of Spying on U.S. While Exile Groups Continue Attacks on Havana

Week Ending June 29, 2001

• Protesters Arrested as U.S. Navy Resumes Vieques Military Exercises
• Europeans Resist Bush Administration's Environmental Policies and Missile Defense Program
• Campaign Finance Bill Faces 'Poison Pill' Amendments in House

May

Week Ending June 1, 2001

• Bush Energy Plan Exacerbates Global Pollution While Subsidizing White House Allies in Utilities and Big Oil
• More Activists Arrested on Vieques as Resistance Continues Against U.S. Military Presence on the Puerto Rican Island
• Supporters of Leonard Peltier Prepare for June Actions

June 8, 2001

• No End in Sight for Mideast Violence as Israel Rejects Freeze on Settlements
• Power Shift in Senate may Hamper Bush Judicial Appointments
• Drive to Revive Nuclear Power Jeopardizes Public Health and Wastes Tax Dollars

Week Ending June 15, 2001

• Amnesty International Targets Human Rights Abuses in U.S.
• Bush Administration Working to Defeat Sandinista Party in November Nicaraguan Presidential Election
• Campaign Continues to Push for Closure of U.S. Army's School of the Americas

Week Ending June 22, 2001

• Timothy McVeigh's Execution Provokes Renewed Debate on Death Penalty
• U.S. Civil Rights Commission Condemns Officials' Conduct During Florida 's Pivotal 2000 Election
• 5 Cubans Convicted of Spying on U.S. While Exile Groups Continue Attacks on Havana

Week Ending June 29, 2001

• Protesters Arrested as U.S. Navy Resumes Vieques Military Exercises
• Europeans Resist Bush Administration's Environmental Policies and Missile Defense Program
• Campaign Finance Bill Faces 'Poison Pill' Amendments in House

April

Week Ending April 6, 2001

• White House Rhetoric and Actions Signal Dangerous Chill in U.S.-Russian Relations
• Zapatistas Negotiating Indigenous Rights Accord with Mexico's Divided Legislature
• Lori Berenson Stands Trial Again in Peru's Courts

Week Ending April 13, 2001

• Hopes for Independent Palestinian State Waning with U.S. Government's Uncritical Support for Israel
• New National Coalition Forms to Challenge Economic Sanctions Against Iraq
• Reform Groups Withdraw Support for Modified McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Bill

Week Ending April 20, 2001

• China's Reaction to U.S. Spy Plane Incident Related to Its History of Conflicts with Imperial Powers
• Children's Defense Fund Decries Bush Proposed Budget Cuts for Programs that Assist Poor Children
• Labor Historian Examines Challenges Ahead for Global Social Justice Movement

Week Ending April 27, 2001

• Bush Budget Plan Redistributes Nation's Wealth from Poor, Middle Class to the Rich
• Protests to Confront 34 Heads of State Meeting in Quebec City to Negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas
• Author Says Militant Activists Are Driving Force Behind New Global Social Justice Movement

March

Week Ending March 2, 2001

• Increasing Human Rights Abuses by Paramilitary Groups Linked with U.S.-Funded Colombian Army
• New European Union Rules on Genetically Engineered Products Fail to Dispel Public Apprehension over "Frankenfoods"
• Labor, Environmental and Human Rights Groups Organizing to Oppose April Americas Free Trade Treaty Summit in Quebec City

Week Ending March 9, 2001

• The Corrupting Influence of Money in Politics Extends Well Beyond Clinton Pardons
• Hope for Reviving Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Dim as Labor Party Joins Sharon Government
• Change in the Air as International Support for Iraq Embargo Erodes

Week Ending March 16, 2001

• Major Pharmaceutical Companies Sue to Overturn South African Law Making AIDS/HIV Drugs Affordable
• Bush Administration Launches Drive to Partially Privatize Social Security
• Zapatista Rebel Caravan Presses for Indigenous Rights in Mexico

Week Ending March 23, 2001

• Major Media Ignores Afghanistan's Growing Refugee Crisis
• Author Barbara Ehrenreich Criticizes Democratic Party's Weak Response to Bush Administration's Right-Wing Agenda
• Militant Protest Against White Supremacist Leader Matt Hale Leads to Clashes with Police in Wallingford, Connecticut

Week Ending March 30, 2001

• White House Signals an End to North Korea Negotiations as Bush Administration Pursues National Missile Defense Program
• Bush Betrays Campaign Pledge to Limit Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Nation's Power Plants
• Campaign Finance Reform Legislation Faces 'Poison Pill' Amendments and Phony Alternative Bills

February

Week Ending Feb. 2, 2001

• Missouri Citizens Group Director: Attorney General Nominee John Ashcroft Too Extreme For Missouri, Too Extreme For the Country
• Interior Department Nominee Gale Norton at Odds with Public Support for Protecting the Environment
• NOW's Patricia Ireland Says Progressive Groups No Longer Divided But Ready As Coalition to Confront Bush Agenda

Week Ending Feb. 9, 2001

• Bush Executive Order Defunds Family Planning Counseling Services Overseas
• Economist Asserts $1.6 Trillion Bush Tax Cut Will Unfairly Benefit Top 1% of Population Without Stimulating Lagging Economy
• Utility Greed, Not Power Shortage, Root Cause of California's Deregulation Disaster

Week Ending Feb. 16, 2001

• Diverse Coalition Must Continue to Oppose Republican Policies After Failed Campaign to Deny Ashcroft Attorney General Post
• Progressives Battle Corporate Conservatives for Soul of Democratic Party
• Federal Probe Targets Right-wing Cuban-American Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart for Alleged Violations of Campaign Finance Law

Week Ending Feb. 23, 2001

• Election of Ariel Sharon to Israeli Prime Minister Diminishes Hopes for Mideast Peace
• President Bush's Plan to Deploy Star Wars System Will Launch New Global Nuclear Arms Race\
• Congressional Progressive Caucus Proposes Alternative to Bush Tax Plan

January

Week Ending Jan. 5, 2001

• U.S. Hostility Will Be Major Challenge to Returning Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
• Rightist Nicaraguan President Aleman Attacks Nongovernmental Organizations After Sandinista Party Gains in Municipal Elections
• Former Director of Committee to Protect Journalists Examines the Responsibility of Reporters in Time of War

Week Ending Jan. 12, 2001

• Attorney General Nominee's Career Marked by Opposition to Reproductive Rights and Civil Rights Law
• Economist Says the Bush $1.3 Trillion Tax Cut Proposal Benefits the Rich Without Forestalling Recession
• Despite Increasing Oil Prices and Revenue Iraq Embargo Still Claim Victims

Week Ending Jan. 19, 2001

• Progressive Coalition Gears Up for Battle Against Bush Cabinet Nominees
• A Special Report on the Latest Conflict at Pacifica Radio's WBAI

Week Ending Jan. 26, 2001

• NAACP, ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Florida's Discriminatory Electoral System
• Civil Rights Leader Asserts Democratic Leadership Fails to Defend Rights of America's Disenfranchised Voters
• Journalist Present at Pine Ridge Reservation Shootout Advocates Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier

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