U.S. Politics

"The United States of Plutocracy," by William Pfaff, TruthDig, Sept. 8, 2009

"The Snowe Job, and Why a "Trigger" for a Public Option is Nonsense," by Robert Reich, Talking Points Memo, Sept. 8, 2009

"Big Business's Hidden Hand in the Smear Job on Van Jones," By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet, Sept. 8, 2009

"Rep. Mike Pence, Who Led Witch Hunt Against Van Jones, Took $1000s From Extremist Erik Prince," by Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports, Sept. 6, 2009

"It Could Be the End of Our Democracy as We Know It," by E.J. Dionne, TruthDig, Sept. 6, 2009

"Coming Soon to a Democracy Near You...," by Michael Winship, Common Dreams, Sept. 5, 2009

"In Shift From Prior Administrations, White House to Open Visitor List," Washington Post, Sept. 5, 2009

"Sick and Wrong: How Washington is screwing up health care reform - and why it may take a revolt to fix it," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, Sept. 3, 2009

"Who's Blocking Health Care Reform Now? Blue Dogs? Senate Dems? House Progressives? Or the White House Itself?," by Bruce A. Dixon, Black Agenda Report, Sept. 2, 2009

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Economy

"Death Bonds: Wall Street Teams Up With Insurance Companies to Kill People, Reap Profits," by Sally Kohn, Common Dreams, Sept. 8, 2009

"A year after financial crisis, the consumer economy is dead," McClatchy Newspapers, Sept. 8, 2009

"Our Wallets Get Emptier," by Marie Cocco, TruthDig, Sept. 7, 2009

"What exactly did the Fed do with $2tn?," by Dean Baker, Guardian/UK, Sept. 7, 2009

"Who are the wealth creators?: The right says the answer is rich people, not workers -- who are wealth destroyers," by Michael Lind, Salon, Sept. 7, 2009

"States Ignoring Stimulus Welfare Fund," by Michael Grabell, Christopher Flavelle and Emily Witt, ProPublica, Sept. 7, 2009

"Activists Demand Real Change as Foreclosures Mount," Inter Press Service, Sept. 6, 2009

"'American Casino': How Our Nation's Financial Sector Became a Massive and Unregulated Gambling Operation," by Joshua Holland, AlterNet, Sept. 5, 2009

"Unhappy Labor Day," by Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, Sept. 4, 2009

"States Cut Back and Layoffs Hit Even Recipients of Stimulus Aid," The New York Times, Sept. 4, 2009

"FHA Faces Mounting Losses," by Paul Kiel, ProPublica, Sept. 4, 2009

"HMO claims-rejection rates trigger state investigation," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 4, 2009

"The Anguish Of Unemployment," by Arthur Delaney, Huffington Post, Sept. 3, 2009

"Executives at financial firms who received bailout funds get big salaries, report says," Kansas City Star (Missouri), Sept. 1, 2009

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Bush Accountability

"The Complicit General," by Philippe Sands, New York Review of Books, Sept. 24, 2009

"Another Senior Bush Justice Official Takes the Fifth?," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Sept. 8, 2009

"The Case of Col. Larry James: Psychologist Accused of War Crimes Opposes Investigations," by Stephen Soldz, Counterpunch, Sept. 8, 2009

"U.S. Tried to Soften Treaty on Detainees: Bush White House Sought to Shield Those Running Secret CIA Prisons," Washington Post, Sept. 8, 2009

"Could George W. Bush end up behind bars?," CNN, Sept. 5, 2009

"Major ruling against Ashcroft highlights evils of preventive detention," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Sept. 5, 2009

"Calling Hannah Arendt," by Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, Sept. 2, 2009

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International Affairs

"Israeli settlement expansion may bring one-state solution closer," by Paul Woodward, The National/Abu Dhabi, Sept. 8, 2009

"A Familiar Pattern: IMF Gives Honduran Government $175 Million," by Mark Weisabrot, Counterpunch, Sept. 7, 2009

"Despite Slump, U.S. Role as Top Arms Supplier Grows," The New York Times, Sept. 6, 2009

"Netanyahu to approve new West Bank homes in a snub to Obama," Independent/UK, Sept. 5, 2009

"US harshly rebukes Israel on settlement plans," Associated Press, Sept. 4, 2009

"Zelaya Speaks," by Tom Hayden, The Nation, Sept. 4, 2009

"U.S. Lifts Almost All Curbs on Family Visits to Cuba," Washington Post, Sept. 4, 2009

"U.S. May Not Recognize Results of Honduran Vote," Washington Post, Sept. 4, 2009

"IMF: stop funding Honduras," by Mark Weisbrot, Guardian/UK, Sept. 3, 2009

"The Middle East Firestorm Ahead," by Immanuel Wallerstein, Middle East Online, Sept. 1, 2009

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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

"'We're pinned down:' 4 U.S. Marines die in Afghan ambush," McClatchy Newspapers, Sept. 8, 2009

"Afghanistan by the Numbers: Measuring a War Gone to Hell," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, Sept. 8, 2009

"Team Obama Divided on Afghanistan," by Robert Naiman, Truthout, Sept. 8, 2009

"Should Obama go 'all in' on Afghanistan?," by Andrew J. Bacevich, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 7, 2009

"Military leery of Afghanistan escalation with no clear goals," McClatchy Newspapers, Sept. 7, 2009

"Fake Afghan Poll Sites Favored Karzai, Officials Assert," The New York Times, Sept. 6, 2009

"Pictures of dying marine bring war home to America," Observer/UK, Sept. 6, 2009

"At some Afghan polling places, Karzai got every vote," McClatchy Newspapers, Sept. 5, 2009

"Rift with Karzai worsens as 95 perish in Nato air strike," Independent/UK, Sept. 5, 2009

"Afghanistan Isn't Worth One More American Life," by Joe Galloway, Antiwar.com, Sept. 5, 2009

"Plans to boost Afghan troops sparks UK withdrawal possibility," Independent/UK, Sept. 4, 2009

"NATO Airstrike in Afghanistan Kills up to 90," Associated Press, Sept. 4, 2009

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Civil Liberties

"Administration Seeks to Keep Terror Watch-List Data Secret," Washington Post, Sept. 6, 2009

"What Torture Never Told Us," by Ali Soufan, The New york Times, Sept. 5, 2009

"US Torture Programs: Obama's Mixed Progress," by George Hunsinger, Common Dreams, Sept. 5, 2009

"Ashcroft can be sued over arrests, appeals court rules," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 5, 2009

"'Terror' Witness Can Sue Senior Bush Official: Court," Agence France Presse, Sept. 5, 2009

"The Case of the Biodevastation 7: What the Police Won't Apologize For," by Don Fitz, Counterpunch, Sept. 4-6, 2009

"Canadian Supreme Court to hear Khadr case," Toronto Star/Canada, Sept. 4, 2009

"CIA doctors face human experimentation claims," Guardian/UK, Sept. 2, 2009

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Environment and Sustainability

"Global warming has made Arctic summers hottest for 2,000 years," Guardian/UK, Sept. 3, 2009

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Media Issues

"Truthout Becomes First Online-Only News Site to Unionize," by Maya Schenwar & Matt Renner, Truthout, Sept. 8, 2009

"Will 'Astroturf' Groups Block Net Neutrality Reform?" by Megan Tady, Save the Internet, Sept. 5, 2009

"' You Can't Handle The Truth,'" by Jon Taplin, Talking Points Memo, Sept. 5, 2009

"Rare AP Photo Captures Deadly Attack on U.S. Marine in Afghanistan -- Pentagon Protests," by Greg Mitchell, Huffington Post, Sept. 4, 2009

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Activism

"US Antiwar Activist on Afghanistan: 'Doubt Will Turn into Dissent'," Spiegel Online/Germany, Sept. 7, 2009

"Thousands in Berlin to Protest Nuclear Energy," Deutsche Welle/Germany, Sept. 5, 2009

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