U.S. Politics

"If Harry Reid Allows The Silent Filibuster, It's All On Him," by Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake, Oct. 13, 2009

"Unions Will Oppose Baucus Bill Unless It's Changed," Associated Press, Oct. 13, 2009

"Baucus Committee OKs a Health Bill, But Not Reform," by John Nichols, The Nation, Oct. 13, 2009

"Democrats and Afghanistan: what's at stake," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Oct. 13, 2009

"Insurers Make Case for Public Option," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, Oct. 13, 2009

"Bribe, Vote, Repeat," by Marie Cocco, TruthDig, Oct. 12, 2009

"Insurers Mount Attack Against Health Reform," by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Huffington Post, Oct. 12, 2009

"Gay issues, the 'fringe left' and the liberal veal pen," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Oct. 12, 2009

"Whiner-in-Chief," by John Nichols, The Nation, Oct. 12, 2009

"Stalled agenda irks labor leaders," Boston Globe, Oct. 12, 2009

"Democrats Call Insurance Industry Report Flawed," The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2009

"Obama's Campaign Merits a Peace Prize," by John Nichols, The Nation, Oct. 10, 2009

"Why Was a Lightweight Montana Senator on the Finance Committee Tasked to Take on Health Care Reform?," by Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown, Oct. 10, 2009

"Accusing Obama critics of 'standing with the terrorists,'" by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Oct. 10, 2009

"Lobbyists Fight Last Big Plans to Cut Health Care Costs," The New York Times, Oct. 10, 2009

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Economy

"Dubious Economics: Obama's Recovery Plan and the Median Wage Earner," by Alan Nasser, Common Dreams, Oct. 13, 2009

"The Great Depression Through Fresh Eyes," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Oct. 13, 2009

"Paulson's Revealing Phone Records," by Nomi Prins, The Daily Beast, Oct. 12, 2009

"Was the Financial Bailout Just a Slick, Friendly Takeover of the Federal Government?," by Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal, Oct. 12, 2009

"Another Take on Solving the Foreclosure Crisis: Loans to Jobless Homeowners," by John Dodds, Truthout, Oct. 12, 2009

"Credit Tightens for Small Businesses," The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2009

"Wall Street speed dial gets Tim Geithner directly," Associated Press, Oct. 8, 2009

"Who Ran Away with Your 401K?," by James Ridgeway, MotherJones.com, Oct. 8, 2009

"A Stimulus by Any Other Name," by Tim Fernholz, The Amrican Prospect, Oct. 7, 2009

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Bush Accountability

"Inside Rumsfeld's Pentagon," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Oct. 13, 2009

"Obama's DOJ May Appeal Ruling Ordering Release of Cheney's CIA Leak Transcript," by Jason Leopold, Truthout, Oct. 13, 2009

"Obama Administration Accused Again of Concealing Bush-Era Crimes," by Matt Renner, Truthout, Oct. 12, 2009

"Congress set to act to keep abuse photos hidden," Associated Press, Oct. 10, 2009

"A historian's account of Democrats and Bush-era war crimes," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Oct. 8, 2009

"Congress' Torture Cover-Up," by Adam Serwer, The American Prospect, Oct. 8, 2009

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International Affairs

"Palestinian faith in Obama 'evaporates,'" Guardian/UK, Oct. 13, 2009

"Diplomacy in the lead on Iran nuclear issue -- for now," Los Angeles Times, Oct. 12, 2009

"Obama has betrayed mission to forge Mideast peace," by Gideon Levy, Haaretz, Oct. 11, 2009

"Obama, man of peace? No, just a Nobel prize of a mistake," by Robert Fisk, Independent/UK, Oct. 11, 2009

"Protesters in Honduras Criticize U.S. Response to Crisis," PBS, Oct. 10, 2009

"Honduran Coup Regime in Crisis," by Greg Grandin, The Nation, Oct. 8, 2009

"The Goldstone Report: Killing the Messenger," by Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus, Oct. 7, 2009

"Opportunities and Risks in Honduras," by Gabriella Campos, Foreign Policy in Focus, Oct. 7, 2009

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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

"Obama quietly deploying 13,000 more US troops to Afghanistan," Guardian/UK, Oct. 13, 2009

"Support Troops Swelling U.S. Force in Afghanistan," Washington Post, Oct. 13, 2009

"Obama at the Precipice: Tough Guys Don't Need to Dance in Afghanistan," by Tom Engelhardt & William J. Astore, TomDispatch, Oct. 11, 2009

"Afghanistan - the proxy war," by Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston Globe, Oct. 11, 2009

"Are Obama advisers downplaying Afghanistan dangers?," McClatchy Newspapers, Oct. 11, 2009

"Terrorist attack in Pakistan shows how vulnerable it is," McClatchy Newspapers, Oct. 11, 2009

"Iraq's Anbar bombings only latest sign of trouble," McClatchy Newspapers, Oct. 11, 2009

"Top UN official in Afghanistan admits fraud tainted election," Guardian/UK, Oct. 11, 2009

"Troop Levels Are Still Focus of Debate," The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2009

"A Dogged Taliban Chief Rebounds, Vexing U.S.," The New York Times, Oct. 10, 2009

"Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan," by Fred Branfman, TruthDig, Oct. 9, 2009

"War of the Worlds: London, 1898; Kabul, 2009," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch. Oct. 8, 2009

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Civil Liberties

"Attorney Reports Human Rights Abuses of GI Resisters," by Dahr Jamail, Truthout, Oct. 13, 2009

"Why Many Guantanamo Detainees Ordered Released Are Still Stuck There," ProPublica, Oct. 12, 2009

"Banned at Guantanamo library: Noam Chomsky (no surprise)," McClatchy Newspapers, Oct. 11, 2009

"Muslims in U.S. feel unfairly implicated in the war on terror," McClatchy Newspapers, Oct. 11, 2009

"Lawyer Blasts 'Congressional Depravity' on Guantánamo," by Andy Worthinton, Antiwar.com, Oct. 10, 2009

"Is the Phone Company Part of the Government?," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Oct. 9, 2009

"Telephone Company Is Arm of Government, Feds Admit in Spy Suit," by Ryan Singel, Wired, Oct. 8, 2009

"Losing the Moral High Ground," by Frida Berrigan, Foreign Policy in Focus, Oct. 7, 2009

"On Guantánamo, Lawmakers Reveal They Are Still Dick Cheney's Pawns," by Andy Worthington, Andyworthington.co.uk, Oct. 6, 2009

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Environment and Sustainability

"It's about time: EPA to probe atrazine again," by Margaret Krome, Madison Capital Times (Wisconsin), Oct. 13, 2009

"Cleansing the Air at the Expense of Waterways," The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2009

"A look at fracking: Documentary explores environmental consequences of gas extraction method," Boulder Daily Camera (Colorado), Oct. 12, 2009

"Millions will starve as rich nations cut food aid funding, warns UN," Guardian/UK, Oct. 11, 2009

"BIODIVERSITY: Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry," Inter Press Service, Oct. 9, 2009

"Four Degrees of Devastation," Inter Press Service, Oct. 9, 2009

"Climate Roulette," by Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation, Oct. 7, 2009

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Media Issues

"FTC idiocy on bloggers and disclosure," by Markos Moulitsas, Daily Kos, Oct. 13, 2009

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Activism

"Our Arrest at the White House: The Price of Peace," by Jessica Arents, Counterpunch, Oct. 12, 2009

"Greenpeace Takes Anti-Oilsands Message to Oil Companies' Homes," Vancouver Sun/Canada, Oct. 11, 2009

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