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U.S. Politics

• "Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban," by Michael Hastings, BuzzFeed, May 18, 2012
• "Obama Can’t Knock the Hustle," by Robert Scheer, TruthDig, May 17, 2012
• "Austerian Pride," by digby, Hullabaloo, May 17, 2012
• "G.O.P. ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama," The New York Times, May 17, 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
• "DNC Shamed Into Helping Wisconsin Recall, Still Not Committing Funds," by David Dayen, Firedoglake, 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
• "So Much for Schneiderman Being Tough on Wall Street," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, May 16, 2012
• "The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Obama on JPMorgan," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, 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
• "How being 'the party of no' is working for the GOP," by Gary Younge, Guardian/UK, May 14, 2012
• "John Roberts’ Gilded Age SCOTUS," by Joan Walsh, Salon, 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
• "President Obama endorses gay marriage, cites Sasha and Malia," McClatchy Newspapers, May 9, 2012
• "Angry opponents of N.C. amendment call for moving Democratic convention from Charlotte," 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

• "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Quiet Drama in Philadelphia," by Ellen Brown, Common Dreams, May 20, 2012
• "A Little Help for the Long-Term Unemployed?," by Greg Kaufmann, The Nation, May 18, 2012
• "We Told You So," by James K. Galbraith, The Baffler, May 18, 2012
• "Why a Strong Middle-Class Is Necessary For Growth," by Mike Konczal, Next New Deal, May 18, 2012
• "Preying on the Poor: How Government and Corporations Use the Poor as Piggy Banks," by Andy Kroll & Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch, May 17, 2012
• "Apocalypse Fairly Soon," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 17, 2012
• "Why Markets Won’t Fix JPMorgan," by James Kwak, Baseline Scenario, May 17, 2012
• "JPMorgan’s Trading Loss Is Said to Rise at Least 50%," The New York Times, May 16, 2012
• "Jamie Dimon’s Hubris Unshakable as JPMorgan Reelects Him to Top Two Posts," by Nomi Prins, Daily Beast, May 16, 2012
• "California, the ninth largest economy in the world, resorts to austerity," Independent/UK, May 16, 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
• "Wells Fargo Has Blood on Its Hands: Desperate Man Commits Suicide After Shocking Foreclosure Mistreatment," by Dave Johnson, AlterNet, 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
• "Colleges as Merchants of Debt," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, May 13, 2012
• "Why We Regulate," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, 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
• "A Down Week, Worsened by a Weak Jobs Report," The New York Times, May 4, 2012
• "Discrepancies on Medical Bills Can Leave a Credit Stain," The New York Times, May 4, 2012
• "The Crushing Burden of Student Debt," by David Graeber, Mike Konczal, Brian Kalkbrenner and Sarah Jaffe, Truthout, May 4, 2012
• "Social security is not going broke," by David Cay Johnston, Reuters, May 4, 2012
• "Argentina and the magic soybean: the commodity export boom that wasn't," by Mark Weisbrot, Guardian/UK, May 4, 2012
• "The Stall Has Arrived," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, 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
• "American Austerity," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, April 25, 2012
• "Europe’s austerity recession," by Robert Reich, Salon, April 25, 2012
• "Bank CEOs gain as millions lose dreams, retirement to foreclosure," by Scott Klinger & John Cavanagh, Newark Star-Ledger, April 25, 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
• "Wall Street-Inflated Student Debt Bubble Hits $1 Trillion; Debtors Rally for Relief," by Sarah Jaffe, 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
• "Shareholders Say No to Citigroup CEO Pay: A Model for Fighting Crony Capitalism," by Dean Baker, Truthout, 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
• "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

• "Hondurans demand DEA leave after shooting," Associated Press, May 17, 2012
• "US envoy to Israel: US ready to strike Iran," Associated Press, May 17, 2012
• "The Political Drones Get Louder," by Ashfaq Yusufzai, Inter Press Service, May 17, 2012
• "US Arms Sale Sends Wrong Signal to Bahrain," by Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, May 17, 2012
• "D.E.A.’s Agents Join Counternarcotics Efforts in Honduras," The New York Times, May 16, 2012
• "America the Serial Killer," by John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, May 15, 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
• "Angela Merkel dealt further blow by German voters in key state election," Guardian/UK, 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
• "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
• "Obama escalates in Yemen – again," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 26, 2012
• "Iran Terror to the South!," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 24, 2012
• "Facing Cyberattack, Iranian Officials Disconnect Some Oil Terminals From Internet," The New York Times, April 23, 2012
• "Defense Department Plans New Intelligence Gathering Service," The New York Times, April 23, 2012
• "Washington double-talk on nukes," by Walter Pincus, Washington Post, 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
• "The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret," by Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone, April 16, 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
• "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

• "Entrapment of Cleveland 5 and NATO 3 is nothing new," by Jake Olzen, Waging Nonviolence, May 20, 2012
• "House Vote Upholds Indefinite Detention of Terror Suspects," The New York Times, May 18, 2012
• "Why No Trials for Abu Zubaydah and Seven Other “High-Value Detainees” in Guantánamo?," by Andy Worthington, Future of Freedom Foundation, May 18, 2012
• "NATO Protesters Held Without Charge After Raid as Chicago Steps Up Police Activities," by Yana Kunichoff, Truthout, May 18, 2012
• "Drone filmmaker denied visa," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 18, 2012
• "CPD Chief Won’t Talk About Night Raid That Resulted in Disappearing of Activists," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 18, 2012
• "Activists Disappeared Ahead of NATO Summit Continue To Be Held Without Charge," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 18, 2012
• "NATO Kicks off With Harassment of Protesters, Ominous Warnings to Press," by Allison Kilkenny, The Nation, May 18, 2012
• "A Victory for All of Us," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, May 18, 2012
• "The Police, the iPhone and Your Right to Record," by Tim Karr, Media Citizen, May 18, 2012
• "Police Preemptively Raid Apartment & Arrest Activists Ahead of NATO Summit," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 17, 2012
• "Federal Judge’s Injunction Finds NDAA is Worse than Material Support Laws," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 17, 2012
• "Obama’s Yemen EO Still Lets Our Spooks Pay the Targets of the EO," by Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel, May 16, 2012
• "Judge Blocks Controversial NDAA," Courthouse News, May 16, 2012
• "Obama’s new free speech threat," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 16, 2012
• "Federal court enjoins NDAA," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, May 16, 2012
• "Peter Van Buren & the State Department’s Suppression of Free Speech," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 16, 2012
• "Columbia Study Suggests Texas Executed an Innocent Man," by Scott Horton, Harper's, May 16, 2012
• "On the Eve of the NATO Summit, Is Phone Jamming Coming to Chicago?," by Tony Dokoupil, Daily Beast, May 16, 2012
• "Five Reasons Drone Assassinations are Illegal," by Bill Quigley, Counterpunch, May 15, 2012
• "New research suggests Tasers can be lethal," by Charlie Mole, Bureau of Investigative Reporting, May 15, 2012
• "How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' - and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook," by Rick Perlstein, Rolling Stone, 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’s Continued Defense of User’s Rights," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 8, 2012
• "Twitter sides with Occupy protester in NY court battle over tweet history," Guardian/UK, May 8, 2012
• "The Defense Department’s ‘Systematic Disregard’ for Whistleblowers," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, May 7, 2012
• "Military Judge: ‘Open Question’ Whether Constitution Applies to 9/11 Terror Suspects," 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
• "FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites - now," by Declan McCullagh, CNet, May 4, 2012
• "The Revolt Against the NDAA Hits Congress," by Adam Serwer, Mother Jones, May 4, 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
• "The NYPD May Day siege," by Natasha Lennard, Salon, 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
• "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
• "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
• "The C.I.A.’s Misuse of Secrecy," by Jameel Jaffer & Nathan Freed Wessler, The New York Times, April 29, 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
• "To Joliet jail for NATO offenders?," Chicago Sun-Times, 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
• "The NSA Is Watching You," by Amy Goodman, TruthDig, April 25, 2012
• "Ex-CIA Officer Who Destroyed Waterboarding Videos: Torturers "Disgusted" at Being Labeled "Torturers"," Common Dreams, April 25, 2012
• "The Shroud of Secrecy in Bradley Manning’s Legal Proceedings," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, April 25, 2012
• "Crime boasting for profit," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, April 25, 2012
• "US relents and grants visa to lawyer for CIA drone strike victims in Pakistan," Guardian/UK, April 24, 2012
• "Bradley Manning: a show trial of state secrecy," by Michael Ratner, Guardian/UK, April 24, 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
• "Convicting Bradley Manning in Secret," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, 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
• "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
• "The TSA's mission creep is making the US a police state," by Jennifer Abel, Guardian/UK, April 18, 2012
• "Get Your Boot Off My Neck," by Kerry Kennedy, Inter Press Service, April 16, 2012
• "Three in elite NYPD anti-gun unit accused of treating black suspects like 'animals'," New York Daily News, April 16, 2012
• "First They Come for the Muslims," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, April 16, 2012
• "Personalizing civil liberties abuses," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, 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

• "The Organic Watergate: Alarming Report Reveals USDA's Cozy Relationship with Corporate Agribusinesses in 'Organics'," Common Dreams, May 18, 2012
• "90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer's Bee-Decimating Pesticide," by Tom Philpott, Mother Jones, May 16, 2012
• "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
• "NOAA: US Experienced Warmest 12-Month Period in 117 Years," Common Dreams, May 9, 2012
• "Monsanto, Dow and Genetically Modified Trouble," by Jim Hightower, Truthout, 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

• "Hundreds of Protesters Head to Chicago Mayor's House to Oppose Health Clinic Closures," by Allison Kilkenny, Truthout, May 20, 2012
• "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
• "Spanish Indignados return to their squares," by Ter Garcia, Waging Nonviolence, May 14, 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
• "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

KENNY KING: Right now, what used to be Massey Energy is now Alpha Natural Resources; they have one called the Camp Branch surface mine, which will wipe out a large portion of the battlefield, and it's actively workin' and they're within, right now, I think within 1,700 feet of the ridgeline -- Spruce Fork Ridge -- and they're movin' that way pretty quick. But that's the only active one right now; there's several more that's been permitted by the state and they just approved another 50.3-acre site amendment to a larger permit for Mingo Logan; and then you have an Adkins Fork surface mine which is 332.9 acres, which will completely wipe out the southern end of the battlefield, including a lot of sites that were occupied by the actual marching miners. That area is super important because it's got sites associated with both sides of the conflict, so that would be super important to protect right there.

BETWEEN THE LINES: I interviewed some people along the march route, some of whom were supportive, and some who weren't. One guy is an electrician and keeps big equipment operating for the mining companies and mountaintop removal and he said he supports saving Blair Mountain but he does support mountaintop removal in general. And he said...I've talked to a number of people in the state who think mountains are really useless and it's better if you flatten them out and then you can have industry and golf courses and prisons and different things. What do you say about that?

KENNY KING: Okay, as far as putting industry up there, there's probably already, in Logan County alone, close to 40,000 acres that have already been flattened and I would say, when you count the permits that have been applied for and in process, you're lookin' at over 50,000 acres, which comes close to 20 percent of the whole land mass of the county. And I don't see any development -- very little, very little. Matter of fact, the governor has an industrial park on one of the mountaintop removal sites, and I don't believe there's anything up there. Nobody wants to put anything up there because of the cost. You have to pump water up there constantly, then you gotta climb the mountain, usually it's out in the middle of nowhere, there's nothin' there. People don't want to locate in places like that.

BETWEEN THE LINES: He also said that's what they would do, and he also said, 'Nobody wants to go see the mountains.' I guess he doesn't know about all the tourism in mountain states...

KENNY KING: You got the Hatfield-McCoy Trail. That's mountain trails. That's why they come in here, to ride the trails and see all this beautiful scenery. That's ridiculous. (Laughs.) They got nothing, really. They got no argument whatsoever. They know it and they're just desperate to come up with some silly thing.

BETWEEN THE LINES: The other thing several people told me was, aside from development, there's way more wildlife on the mountaintop flattened sites than there was on the mountain itself, even though the Appalachian Mountains have more diversity than almost anywhere in the world. But these guys were saying, "I go up there to hunt all the time. And there's deer up there and rabbits and all these things I never used to see." Do you think it's just because they never saw them because the trees were in the way?

KENNY KING: That's what I was going to say. If you got two miles of clear open fields, grass, you're going to see something out there. It may seem like there's more; I don't know if there's been any scientific studies done on it yet, but if there were, I'm sure it would show that all this is being dissected, bisected, you know, it's been just cut apart so much that it has to be affecting their habitat now. I mean, these deer are not going to go out in the middle of these big fields on a hot summer day and lay down, or eat, or whatever. They're going to go in to the forest land where it's cool, and where the water is and all that. That's ridiculous. (Laughs.)

BETWEEN THE LINES: Just tell me briefly, you've been working 20 years on this?

KENNY KING: Yeah.

BETWEEN THE LINES: So, you've been working 20 years on this, and then there's people in the last five-ten years that have really started a movement to end all mountaintop removal. So, how did you guys, the two organizations, Friends of Blair Mountain and Appalachia Rising, come together?

KENNY KING: Well, we got a common cause, I guess. We're about preserving the history and you can't separate it now because of all the mountaintop removal. You have to consider that because that's the biggest threat. So we just got a common cause I guess; we're both working for the same thing, I guess.

BETWEEN THE LINES: And what do you hope, or think, predict, will come from this weeklong march and this gathering?

KENNY KING: If nothing else, a lot of national attention and maybe some peoople will start wondering about it and maybe they'll start contacting their politicians or whatever and try to convince them there's gotta be something done. We're gonna have to search for a different fuel source and all that. We can't keep going down the same road we're goin'. We gotta do something.

For more information on Friends of Blair Mountain, visit FriendsofBlairMountain.org

Related Links:

• Friends of Blair Mountain at FriendsofBlairMountain.org
• Appalachia Rising at AppalachiaRising.org/
• March on Blair Mountain at MarchonBlairMountain.org
• "The March on Blair Mountain," by Carol Polsgrove, Counterpunch.org, June 13, 2011
• “Blair Mountain march nears end," SundayGazettemail.com, June 9, 2011
• "The Blair Mountain Project," by Melinda Tuhus, In These Times, May 16, 2011
• "Fighting the battle of Blair Mountain," The Guardian, Nov. 22, 2010
• "The Battle of Blair Mountain, Round Two," MotherJones.com, Nov. 12, 2010

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