U.S. Politics

"Harkin May Drop 'Card-Check' to Pass Milder Labor-Law Changes," Bloomberg News, May 5, 2009

"At Annual Meeting, Pro-Israel Group Reasserts Clout," The New York Times, May 5, 2009

"Byron Dorgan's Wife Lobbied Against Cramdown," Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake, May 5, 2009

"Over $42 Million Paid to Lobbyists Working to Defeat 'Cramdown' in 1Q 2009," Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake, May 5, 2009

"CO Sen. Bennet Says Obama Deliberately Stopped the Cramdown Bill; Who Is Lying - Obama or Bennet?," by David Sirota, Open Left, May 5, 2009

"The AIPAC Case in Washington, Iraq, and Beyond," by David Bromwich, Huffington Post, May 4, 2009

"President Obama's War Budget: Analyzing the Numbers," by Jeff Leys, Common Dreams, May 4, 2009

"Race, Voting Rights, and the Genius of Justice Souter," by Heather K. Gerken, The American Prospect, May 4, 2009

"Why Obama is Taking on Corporate Tax Havens," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, May 4, 2009

"Contam-i-Nation," by Leslie Savan, The Nation, May 3, 2009

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Economy

"Who Shredded Our Safety Net?," by James Ridgeway, Mother Jnes, May/June, 2009

"Economic Casualties Pile Into Tent Cities," USA Today, May 5, 2009

"The Uninsured Are the Symptom, Not the Disease," by Claudia Chaufan, KQED, May 5, 2009

"It's Time to Rethink the Problem at Risk," by Mark Schmitt, The American Prospect, May 5, 2009

"'One More Bubble!,'" by Robert Parry, Consortium News, May 4, 2009

"Recession can hit hard in families headed by women," USA Today, May 4, 2009

"Bank Profits, Banker Pay and Other Banker Tricks" by Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate, May 4, 2009

"Outsourcing the Bosses: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler," by Dean Baker, AlterNet, May 4, 2009

"Giving Voice to Recession's Victims," by Carol Goar, Toronto Star/Canada, May 4, 2009

"Defying the Economic Odds: The World Melts Down, China Grows," by Tom Engelhardt & Dilip Hiro, TomDispatch, May 3, 2009

"What Happens When Angry Citizens Crash the Gates of America's CEO Class?," by Mark Ames, Playboy.com, May 2 2009

"Into the Pitch Black Tunnel: Economy on the Ropes," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, May 1-3, May 4, 2009

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Bush Regime

"Interrogating Torture," by Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker, May 11, 2009

"Why the New Torture Defense Is a Good Offense," by Ari Melber, The Nation, May 5, 2009

"Former Bush Officials Work to Soften Ethics Report on Interrogations," Washington Post, May 5, 2009

"Charges Seen as Unlikely for Lawyers Over Interrogations," The New York Times, May 5, 2009

"Democrats Seek More Interrogation Documents," Washington Post, May 5, 2009

"The 'best and the brightest'? Spare me," by Michael Lind, Salon, May 5, 2009

"Gonzales says US should be open to torturing again," by John Byrne, Raw Story, May 4, 2009

"An Even Worse Bybee Memo: The Iraq War Memo," by David Swanson, Counterpunch, May 4, 2009

"4th-Grader Questions Rice on Waterboarding," Washington Post, May 4, 2009

"UAE 'torture' scandal and cover-up sparks outrage in the U.S.," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 3, 2009

"Abu Zubaydah's suffering," by Joseph Margulies, Los Angeles Times, Apr. 30, 2009

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International Affairs

"Addressing U.S., Hamas Says It Grounded Rockets," The New York Times, May 5, 2009

"Obama and Africa: Much Room For Improvement," by John Feffer and Emira Woods, Foreign Policy in Focus, May 1, 2009

"Pelosi the Hawk," by Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus, Apr. 27, 2009

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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

"Truckloads of Dead Civilians After Afghan Battle," Reuters, May 5, 2009

"Obey Issues A 'Vietnam' Warning on Pakistan," by Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, May 5, 2009

"Al Jazeera Strikes Back at Pentagon, Releases Unedited Footage of US Soldiers' 'Bible Study' in Afghanistan," by Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports, May 5, 2009

"Stopping Pakistan Drone Strikes Suddenly Plausible," by Robert Naiman, Common Dreams, May 5, 2009

"Torture and Impunity in Iraqi Prisons," by Jeremy Scahill, Antiwar.com, May 5, 2009

"US Soldiers in Afghanistan Told to 'hunt people for Jesus... so we get them into the kingdom,'" by Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports, May 4, 2009

"Pakistani army flattening villages as it battles Taliban," McClatchy Newspapers, May 4, 2009

"Afghan Ayatollahs Press Marital Rape Law," by Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, May 4, 2009

"In Baghdad, Iraqis fear return of sectarian bloodshed," McClatchy Newspapers, May 3, 2009

"In Baghdad, dread grows with death toll," Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2009

"Half Life of a Toxic War: Iraq's Wrecked Environment," by Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank, Counterpunch, May 1-3, 2009

"The myth of Talibanistan," by Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, May 1, 2009

"US faces Iraq-like spending problems in Afghanistan," Christian Science Monitor, May 1, 2009

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Civil Liberties

"The Cold Air of the Dark Ages: Torture and Mr. Obama," by William Blum, Counterpunch, May 5, 2009

"First Amendment," by digby, Hullabaloo, May 5, 2009

"California: Ruling Against Anti-Creationism Teacher," Associated Press, May 5, 2009

"Obama Returns to Bush Era on Guantánamo," by Andy Worthington, Future of Freedom foundation, May 4, 2009

"Problem of Guantánamo Detainees Returns to Haunt Barack Obama," Times/UK, May 4, 2009

"Democrats leave Gitmo closing money out of bill," Associated Press, May 4, 2009

"Bush-Era Secrecy Still Hiding Govt Data," ABC News, May 4, 2009

"U.S. has a 45-year history of torture," by A.J. Langguth, Los Angeles Times, May 3, 2009

"Officials: Gitmo court system likely to stay open," Associated Press, May 3, 2009

"Kiss the Era of Human Rights Goodbye: What Bush Willed to Obama and the World," by Tom Engelhardt & Karen J. Greenberg, TomDispatch, Apr. 30, 2009

"Rights, Not Raids," by Bill Ong Hing & David Bacon, The Nation, Apr. 29, 2009

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Environment and Sustainability

"A New Chance to Save the Northern Rockies," by Carole King Klein, Counterpunch, May 5, 2009

"Poaching, Human Encroachment Force Elephants to Abandon Troubled Zimbabwe," Telegraph/UK, Apr. 28, 2009

"Climate chaos predicted by CO2 study," Independent/UK, Apr. 30, 2009

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Media Issues

"Jeffrey Rosen, TNR and the anonymous smears against Sonia Sotomayor," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 5, 2009

"How '07 ABC Interview Tilted a Torture Debate," The New York Times, Apr. 27, 2009

"Will Public Media Survive Where Mainstream Media Failed?," by Jessica Clark & Patricia Aufderheide, The American Prospect, Apr. 30, 2009

"Defining Public Media for the Future," by Jessica Clark, Kinsey Wilson, Rey Ramsey, Sascha Meinrath & Ellen Hume, The American Prospect, Apr. 30, 2009

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Activism

"Doctors, Single Payer Activists Arrested," by Donna Smith, Common Dreams, May 5, 2009

"Climate Justice and Coal's Funeral Procession," by Joshua Kahn Russell, ZNet, May, 2009

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