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U.S. Politics

• "Brokering a GOP disaster," by Jonathan Bernstein, Salon, Feb. 21, 2012
• "In Republican Race, a New Breed of Superdonor," The New York Times, Feb. 21, 2012
• "The Radical Center We Don't Need," by Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post, Feb. 19, 2012
• "Obama’s Plan to Save the Military From Cuts—at the Expense of Domestic Programs," by George Zornick, The Nation, Feb. 17, 2012
• "Money Throws Democracy Overboard," by Bill Moyers & Michael Winship, Truthout, Feb. 14, 2012
• "Two Polls Show a Santorum Surge," by Michael D. Shear, The New York Times, Feb. 13, 2012
• "Election 2012: the return of 'culture wars'," by Gary Younge, Guardian/UK, Feb. 10, 2012
• "The Billionaires' Brokered GOP Convention," by Greg Palast, Truthout, Feb. 9, 2012
• "CPAC welcomes white nationalists," by Alex Pareene, Salon, Feb. 9, 2012
• "How Rick Santorum Stokes Race and Class Anxieties to Win Unlikely Primary Victories," by Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet, Feb. 8, 2012
• "The Sad Spectacle of Obama’s Super PAC," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, Feb. 7, 2012
• "Top official: drone critics are Al Qaeda enablers," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Feb. 6, 2012
• "Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power," by Bill Quigley, Common Dreams, Feb. 6, 2012
• ""Right to Work": Indiana Lets It All Slip Away," by David Macaray, Counterpunch, Feb. 3, 2012
• "The Democrats Who Unleashed Wall Street and Got Away With It," by Robert Scheer, TruthDig, Feb. 2, 2012
• "The Deal That Saved Detroit (and Banned Strikes)," by Laura Flanders, The Nation, Feb. 2, 2012
• "Romney's Super-PAC Attack Machine, Brought to You by Big Finance," by Andy Kroll, Mother Jones, Feb. 1, 2012
• "“I’m not concerned about the very poor”," by Steve Kornacki, Salon, Feb. 1, 2012
• "Indiana Governor Signs a Law Creating a ‘Right to Work’ State," The New York Times, Feb. 1, 2012
• "Romney remark on poor draws attack from Obama campaign," McClatchy Newspapers, Feb. 1, 2012
• "With restrictions gone, '1 percenters' dish millions, alter race for White House," McClatchy Newspapers, Feb. 1, 2012
• "US's Largest Cancer Charity Caves to Right-Wing Pressure, Ends Partnership With Planned Parenthood," by Jodi Jacobson, RH Reality Check, Feb. 1, 2012
• "The Party People of Wall Street," by Bill Moyers & Michael Winship, Common Dreams, Jan. 30, 2012
• "Hedge Funds, So-Called Centrists, and The 1% Candidate," by Peter Hart, Other Words, Jan. 30, 2012
• "The predictable aftermath of the anti-CAP smear," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 27, 2012
• "The GOP’s unemployment trap," by Andrew Leonard, Salon, Jan. 24, 2012
• "The Washington-Wall Street Revolving Door Keeps Spinning," by Bill Moyers & Michael Winship, BillMoyers.com, Jan. 23, 2012
• "The State of Our Disunion: A Globalizing Private Sector, A Government Overwhelmed by Corporate Money," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, Jan. 23, 2012
• "Politics of Resentment," by Jamelle Bouie, The American Prospect, Jan. 22, 2012
• "Gingrich (and Race-Baiting) Wins in South Carolina," by Adele Stan, AlterNet, Jan. 22, 2012
• "Cultural Populism Catapults Gingrich to South Carolina Victory," by Ben Adler, The Nation, Jan. 21, 2012
• "The GOP’s South Carolina nightmare," by Steve Kornacki, Salon, Jan. 21, 2012
• "Uproar after Jewish American newspaper publisher suggests Israel assassinate Barack Obama," Ha'aretz/Israel, Jan. 21, 2012
• "In 2006, Gingrich backed censoring the web," by Josh Gerstein, Politico, Jan. 21, 2012
• "Gingrich Wins South Carolina Primary, Upending G.O.P. Race," The New York Times, Jan. 21, 2012
• "Obama to Draw an Economic Line in State of the Union," The New York Times, Jan. 21, 2012
• "Corporate Rule Is Not Inevitable," by Sarah van Gelder, Yes! Magazine, Jan. 20, 2012
• "It’s More Than a War of Words," by Joel Bleifuss, In These Times, Jan. 18, 2012
• "After 'Citizens United': The Attack of the Super PACs," by John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney, The Nation, Jan. 18, 2012
• "Newt Gingrich and the Art of Racial Politics," by Charles M. Blow, The New York Times, Jan. 17, 2012
• "The Racism Dance: Republicans Slinging Race-Tainted Mud," by Linn Washington, Jr., Counterpunch, Jan. 16, 2012
• "Big banks have picked their candidate, and it's Romney," McClatchy Newspapers, Jan. 15, 2012
• "Iran and the Terrorism game," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 12, 2012
• "The new WH Chief of Staff and Citigroup," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 12, 2012
• "Revolving Door: From Top Futures Regulator to Top Futures Lobbyist," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, Jan. 11, 2012
• "Republican National Committee Files Brief Seeking To Allow Corporate Funding Of Campaigns," by Ian Millhiser, Think Progress, Jan. 11, 2012
• "The GOP's Blatant Racism," by Gary Younge, The Nation, Jan. 10, 2012
• "Detroit May Be Next Michigan City to Get 'Emergency Manager'," Common Dreams, Jan. 10, 2012
• "RNC Fights For Corporate Right To Give Money To Candidates And Party Committees," by Dan Froomkin, Huffington Post, Jan. 10, 2012
• "Will Romney Lie His Way to the White House?," by Dean Baker, Truthout, Jan. 9, 2012
• "Romney’s Bain Capital Made Billions While Bankrupting Nearly One-Quarter Of The Companies It Invested In," by Pat Garofalo, Think Progress, Jan. 9, 2012
• "A Big Check, and Gingrich Gets a Big Lift," The New York Times, Jan. 9, 2012
• "The Corporate Candidates," by The New York Times editorial, The New York Times, Jan. 9, 2012
• "Occupy New Hampshire Counters the Republican Narrative," by Ben Adler, The Nation, Jan. 9, 2012
• "Occupy New Hampshire Derides Both Parties," Common Dreams, Jan. 8, 2012
• "Pity the Quarter-Billionaire: Take a Ride on the RINO in 2012," by Tom Engelhardt & Thomas Frank, TomDispatch, Jan. 8, 2012
• "Occupy the Caucus: Dozens Arrested Challenging Corporate Influence in Iowa," by Mike Ludwig, Truthout, Jan. 3, 2012
• "A Gathering Storm Over ‘Right to Work’ in Indiana," The New York Times, Jan. 2, 2012
• "Iowa officials brace for Occupy protests," Politico, Jan. 2, 2012
• "Obama’s Only Friend Left?," by Russ Baker, Who What Why, Jan. 2, 2012
• "Montana High Court Says 'Citizens United' Does Not Apply In Big Sky State," by Steven Rosenfeld comments_image 82 COMMENTS, AlterNet, Jan. 1, 2012

Economy

• "Growing Air of Concern in Greece Over New Bailout," The New York Times, Feb. 21, 2012
• "Once again, speculators behind sharply rising oil and gasoline prices," McClatchy Newspapers, Feb. 21, 2012
• "The 50-State Foreclosure Settlement: Why Hasn’t Anyone Gone to Jail?," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, Feb. 21, 2012
• "The Gas Wars," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, Feb. 20, 2012
• "Lockouts: The Empire Strikes Back," by David Macaray, Common Dreams, Feb. 14, 2012
• "The Job Killing Deficit Hawks," by Dean Baker, Counterpunch, Feb. 13, 2012
• "Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It," The New York Times, Feb. 11, 2012
• "Perfect Storm Threatens Long-Term Unemployed," by Greg Kaufmann, The Nation, Feb. 10, 2012
• "Why the Foreclosure Deal May Not Be So Hot After All," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, Feb. 9, 2012
• "The Top Twelve Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, Feb. 9, 2012
• "Executive Excess in the New Gilded Age," by Sarah Anderson, Counterpunch, Feb. 9, 2012
• "Mortgage Plan Gives Billions to Homeowners, but With Exceptions," The New York Times, Feb. 9, 2012
• "Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Say," The New York Times, Feb. 9, 2012
• "Mind-Blowing Charts From the Senate's Income Inequality Hearing," by Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones, Feb. 9, 2012
• "Greek austerity moves leave nation's economic safety net in tatters," McClatchy Newspapers, Feb. 8, 2012
• "The Downward Mobility of the American Middle Class, and Why Mitt Romney Doesn’t Know," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, Feb. 6, 2012
• "Report: Massachusetts, Nevada Would Have to Give Up Foreclosure Fraud Suits to Join Deal," by David Dayen, Firedoglake, Feb. 6, 2012
• "CA AG Harris Could Enter Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Late," by David Dayen, Firedoglake, Feb. 6, 2012
• "Why the AGs Must Not Settle: Robo-signing Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg," by Ellen Brown, Common Dreams, Feb. 5, 2012
• "Schneiderman MERS Suit and HUD’s Donovan Remarks Confirm That Mortgage “Settlement” is a Stealth Bank Bailout," by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, Feb. 5, 2012
• "Deal Is Closer for a U.S. Plan on Mortgage Relief," The New York Times, Feb. 5, 2012
• "The privatization trap," by Mike Konczal, Salon, Feb. 5, 2012
• "January jobs report sizzles, shows a strong start for 2012," McClatchy Newspapers, Feb. 3, 2012
• "Beyond the Bubble Economy," by David Korten, Yes! Magazine, Feb. 2, 2012
• "Austerity Does Not Grow the Economy," by Dean Baker, Counterpunch, Feb. 1, 2012
• "The Next Marx," by John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, Jan. 31, 2012
• "Corporations Have No Use for Borders," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, Jan. 30, 2012
• "Freddie Mac Bets Against American Homeowners," by Jesse Eisinger & Chris Arnold, , ProPublica, Jan. 30, 2012
• "The Siren Call of Austerity," by David Cay Johnston, Reuters, Jan. 28, 2012
• "Thomas Friedman Wants to Take Away the Weekend," by Mark Engler, Dissent, Jan. 27, 2012
• "State of the Apple (Rotten)," by Jeff Ballinger, Labor Notes, Jan. 25, 2012
• "The Next Housing Bailout," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, Jan. 23, 2012
• "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work," by Charles Duhigg & Keith Bradsher, The New York Times, Jan. 21, 2012
• ""The Workers are Animals. Let's Replace Them with Robots."," by Frank Pasquale , Balkinization, Jan. 20, 2012
• "Apple's Foreign Suppliers Demonstrate Widespread Scamming and Horrific Abuse of Employees," by William K. Black, AlterNet, Jan. 20, 2012
• "This Week in Poverty: An American Commitment to Children?," by Greg Kaufmann, The Nation, Jan. 20, 2012
• "The Jobless Recovery," by Mark Weisbrot, Counterpunch, Jan. 20, 2012
• "US Unemployment Now Down to Where African-American Unemployment Was, Pre-Recession," by Mike Konczal, Rortybomb, Jan. 19, 2012
• "After Tragedy, Apple Tries to Polish Image on Workers’ Rights," by Michelle Chen, In These Times, Jan. 18, 2012
• "Right to Work—for Less," by Gordon Lafer, The Nation, Jan. 18, 2012
• "Poverty in America: The Subject Presidential Candidates Would Prefer to Ignore," by Marsha Coleman, Black Agenda Report, Jan. 17, 2012
• "Free Enterprise on Trial," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, Jan. 16, 2012
• "Euro Woes Could Revive Bout of Market Volatility," The New York Times, Jan. 16, 2012
• "Foreclosure Auctions Show Raw Form of Capitalism," The New York Times, Jan. 14, 2012
• "http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/14-4," by Danny Schechter, Common Dreams, Jan. 14, 2012
• "Among the Wealthiest One Percent, Many Variations," The New York Times, Jan. 14, 2012
• "The Foreclosure-to-Rental Screwjob," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, Jan. 13, 2012
• "Bitter Politics of Envy?," by Charles M. Blow, The New York Times, Jan. 13, 2012
• "Everything You Need to Know About Wall Street, in One Brief Tale," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, Jan. 13, 2012
• "US Foreclosure Rate Lowest Since Pre-Recession," Associated Press, Jan. 12, 2012
• "The Perils of 2012," by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project Syndicate, Jan. 12, 2012
• "Survey Finds Rising Perception of Class Tension," The New York Times, Jan. 11, 2012
• "World Economic Forum warns of economic turmoil and social upheaval," Guardian/UK, Jan. 11, 2012
• "Poverty in America likely to get worse, report finds," Guardian/UK, Jan. 11, 2012
• "The Remarkable Public Sector Depression," by David Dayen, Firedoglake, Jan. 9, 2012
• "Breaking Ground for a World Beyond Capitalism," by Gar Alperovitz, Common Dreams, Jan. 7, 2012
• "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory," by Ira Glass & Mike Daisey, This American Life, Jan. 6, 2012
• "Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs," The New York Times, Jan. 4, 2012
• "For 2012, Signs Point to Tepid Consumer Spending," The New York Times, Jan. 2, 2012
• "Keystone Jobs Versus Competitive-Dollar Jobs," by Dean Baker, Truthout, Jan. 2, 2012
• "How We Got Here With the Economy and How to Get Out," by Robert Freeman, Common Dreams, Jan. 1, 2012
• "Austerity Reigns Over Euro Zone as Crisis Deepens," The New York Times, Jan. 1, 2012

Bush Accountability

• "U.N. asked to probe U.S. efforts to squelch Spain torture probe," McClatchy Newspapers, Jan. 19, 2012
• "Spanish Court Resumes Gitmo Prosecution," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Jan. 18, 2012
• "Spanish judge reopens Guantanamo torture probe," McClatchy Newspapers, Jan. 12, 2012

International Affairs

• "US Warns Israel: No War With Iran," by Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, Feb. 21, 2012
• "Hypnotized into an endless dirty war," by Gary Kamiya, Salon, Feb. 20, 2012
• "Another March to War?," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, Feb. 17, 2012
• "Iran uses terror to target civilians, and so does Israel," by Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz/Israel, Feb. 16, 2012
• "“Losing” the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1," by Tom Engelhardt & Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch, Feb. 14, 2012
• "Portugal’s Debt Efforts May Be Warning for Greece," by Landon Thomas Jr., The New York Times, Feb. 14, 2012
• "Syria: Slipping into Civil War," by Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Feb. 13, 2012
• "The Dilemmas of Israeli Power," by Roger Cohen, The New York Times, Feb. 13, 2012
• "Bahrain police fire tear gas at protesters," Associated Press, Feb. 13, 2012
• "Adding Fuel to Syria's Fire," by Anya Barry, Foreign Policy in Focus, Feb. 13, 2012
• "With Bahrain home to 5th Fleet, US faces dilemma over crackdown on protests," Stars & Stripes, Feb. 12, 2012
• "Israel vs. Iran: The Truth Slips Out," by Ira Chernus, Common Dreams, Feb. 9, 2012
• "Elections Are for Suckers," by Robert Scheer, TruthDig, Feb. 9, 2012
• "Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran's nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News," NBC News, Feb. 9, 2012
• "Tracking the Secret War on Iran," by Hamed Aleaziz, Mother Jones, Feb. 9, 2012
• "Syrian Repression, the Chinese-Russian Veto, and U.S. Hypocrisy," by Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus, Feb. 7, 2012
• "U.S. Embassy in Syria Halts Operations as Violence Flares," The New York Times, Feb. 6, 2012
• "U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Feb. 5, 2012
• "U.S. Leak on Israeli Attack Weakened a Warning to Netanyahu," by Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service, Feb. 4, 2012
• "The growing Iranian military behemoth," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Feb. 4, 2012
• "Obama terror drones: CIA tactics in Pakistan include targeting rescuers and funerals," by Chris Woods & Christina Lamb, Bureau of Investigative Journalism/UK, Feb. 4, 2012
• "Covert drone war: A question of legality," by Chris Woods, Bureau of Investigative Journalism/UK, Feb. 4, 2012
• "Iran is the root of all evil," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Feb. 3, 2012
• "See No Evil: A Strange Absolution of Obama’s Warmongering," by Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque, Feb. 3, 2012
• "Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran," by David Bromwich, Huffington Post, Feb. 2, 2012
• "Why American 'democracy promotion' rings hollow in the Middle East," by Mark Weisbrot, Guardian/UK, Jan. 31, 2012
• "Hormuz-Mania: Why Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Could Ignite a War and a Global Depression," by Tom Engelhardt & Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch, Jan. 31, 2012
• "The Ongoing War on Iran," by Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Jan. 31, 2012
• "Focus on Iran and China Could Hasten American Decline," by William Pfaff, TruthDig, Jan. 31, 2012
• "Immobility Nation," by Salvatore Babones, Other Words, Jan. 30, 2012
• "Iranian Aircraft Carriers in the Gulf of Mexico: It Can’t Happen Here," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, Jan. 29, 2012
• "U.S. military teams, intelligence deeply involved in aiding Yemen on strikes," by Dana Priest, Washington Post, Jan. 27, 2012
• "Obama administration using loophole to quietly sell arms package to Bahrain," by Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy, Jan. 27, 2012
• "Seven Truths Inconvenient to U.S. Foreign Policy," by Dan Kovalik, Counterpunch, Jan. 20, 2012
• "The World War on Democracy," by John Pilger, Antiwar.com, Jan. 20, 2012
• "Could Ecuador be the most radical and exciting place on Earth?," by Jayati Ghosh, Guardian/UK, Jan. 19, 2012
• "Israel Tamps Down Iran War Threats," by Ray McGovern, Consortium News, Jan. 19, 2012
• "New U.S. Commando Team Operating Near Iran," by Spencer Ackerman, Wired, Jan. 19, 2012
• "The 'invented people' stand little chance," by Robert Fisk, Independent/UK, Jan. 14, 2012
• "False Flag," by Mark Perry, Foreign Policy, Jan. 13, 2012
• "Iran, U.S. need a crisis exit ramp," by Gary Sick, CNN, Jan. 12, 2012
• "Blast kills Iran nuclear expert amid 'covert war'," Associated Press, Jan. 12, 2012
• "U.S. Drone War Returns to Pakistan (And It Ain’t Stopping)," by Spencer Ackerman, Wired, Jan. 11, 2012
• "Obama's Pentagon Strategy: A Leaner, More Efficient Empire," by Medea Benjamin & Charles Davis, Common Dreams, Jan. 7, 2012
• "Obama Seeks to Distance U.S. from Israeli Attack," by Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service, Jan. 3, 2012
• "Lexington analyst: Obama arms sales 'a striking departure' from other Dems," by John T. Bennett, The Hill, Jan. 2, 2012
• "End of the pro-democracy pretense," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 2, 2012

"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

• "Karzai Demand on Night Raids Snags U.S.-Afghan Pact," by Gareth Porter & Shah Noori, Counterpunch, Feb. 21, 2012
• "Afghans protest burning of Korans at U.S. base," Washington Post, Feb. 21, 2012
• "Special Ops Now Defines the Pentagon's Expanding Wars," by Danny Schechter, Common Dreams, Feb. 14, 2012
• "450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet: The Pentagon’s Afghan Basing Plans for Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops," by Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse, TomDispatch, Feb. 12, 2012
• "Army Officer's Leaked Report Rips Afghan War Success Story," by Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service, Feb. 11, 2012
• "Marines Sport Nazi SS Flag in Afghanistan," by Adam Weinstein, Mother Jones, Feb. 9, 2012
• "In Afghan War, Officer Becomes a Whistle-Blower," The New York Times, Feb. 5, 2012
• "U.S. Plans Shift to Elite Units as It Winds Down in Afghanistan," The New York Times, Feb. 4, 2012
• "Taliban responsible for 77% of civilian casualties in Afghanistan, U.N. says," McClatchy Newspapers, Feb. 4, 2012
• "Truth, lies and Afghanistan: How military leaders have let us down," by Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, Armed Forces Journal, Feb. 4, 2012
• "Unit leader among Marines who urinated on corpses," McClatchy Newspapers, Feb. 1, 2012
• "Nato prediction of Taliban victory in Afghanistan is immensely damaging," by Simon Tisdall, Guardian/UK, Feb. 1, 2012
• "The Haditha Massacre: No Justice for Iraqis," by Marjorie Cohn, Counterpunch, Jan. 31, 2012
• "Lessons from Iraqi outrage over US drones," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 30, 2012
• "US marine pleads guilty over Haditha killings," Al Jazeera English, Jan. 24, 2012
• "Iraq: Intensifying Crackdown on Free Speech, Protests," Human Rights Watch, Jan. 22, 2012
• "Afghanistan's Karzai met with insurgents' peace delegation," McClatchy Newspapers, Jan. 21, 2012
• "Nato's Afghan alliance unhinged by growing mutual mistrust," Guardian/UK, Jan. 20, 2012
• "Afghanistan’s Soldiers Step Up Killings of Allied Forces," The New York Times, Jan. 20, 2012
• "Blood on Whose Hands? Bradley Manning, Washington, and the Blood of Civilians," by Tom Engelhardt & Chase Madar, TomDispatch, Jan. 19, 2012
• "Corruption in Iraq: 'Your son is being tortured. He will die if you don't pay'," Guardian/UK, Jan. 16, 2012
• "US marines accused of war crimes," Guardian/UK, Jan. 11, 2012
• "Seven years after sieges, Fallujah struggles," by Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English, Jan. 3, 2012
• "Are We Witnessing the Final Disintegration of Iraq? Mass Poverty and Sectarian Strife," by Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Jan. 2, 2012
• "Group: 162,000 Civilan Deaths in Iraq Since 2003 Invasion," Common Dreams, Jan. 2, 2012

Civil Liberties/ Human Rights

• "Justice Kagan sides with the Right on Miranda," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Feb. 21, 2012
• "US veterans deported after they served," McClatchy Newspapers, Feb. 21, 2012
• "Police Chief Timoney, Meet Bahraini Mothers," by Medea Benjamin, Common Dreams, Feb. 21, 2012
• "Punishing Protest, Policing Dissent: What Is the Justice System for?," by Erik Hoffner, Truthout, Feb. 20, 2012
• "Aerial Surveillance, Snipers, Face Masks: Chicago's Newest Anti-Protest Measures Revealed," by Yana Kunichoff, Truthout, Feb. 20, 2012
• "Khader Adnan and now-normalized Western justice," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Feb. 20, 2012
• "NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast," by Chris Hawley, Associated Press, Feb. 19, 2012
• "Creeping Fascism," by Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch, Feb. 17, 2012
• "Britain Shouldn’t Aid a Lawless America," by Eric L. Lewis, The New York Times, Feb. 13, 2012
• "U.S. v. Pakistan on transparency and accountability," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Feb. 13, 2012
• "Some Who Decline an Optional Iris Photo Are Kept Longer in Jail, Critics Say," The New York Times, Feb. 12, 2012
• "Punishing Protest, Policing Dissent: What is the Justice System For?," by Eric Hoffner, Common Dreams, Feb. 12, 2012
• "The NDAA and the Militarization of America," by Carl Mirra, Foreign Policy in Focus, Feb. 10, 2012
• "Silent State: The Campaign Against Whistleblowers in Washington," by Tom Engelhardt & Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch, Feb. 9, 2012
• "The Grave Threat of “Homegrown Terrorism”," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Feb. 8, 2012
• "Democrat balks over secrecy on Awlaki killing," Washington Post, Feb. 8, 2012
• "Repulsive progressive hypocrisy," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Feb. 8, 2012
• "Wall Street’s Secret Spy Center, Run for the 1% by NYPD," by Pam Martens, Counterpunch, Feb. 6, 2012
• "ACLU Wants Obama To Release Targeted Killing Records," by Adam Serwer, Mother Jones, Feb. 1, 2012
• "Ranger zaps off-leash dog walker with shock weapon," San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 31, 2012
• "Citizen Training," by Digby, Hullabaloo, Jan. 31, 2012
• "Group Says FBI Snoops on Wikileaks Supporters," by Iulia Filip, Courthouse News, Jan. 31, 2012
• "Rahm’s Chicago crackdown aims at Occupy," by Natasha Lennard, Salon, Jan. 31, 2012
• "Torture, and impunity in US courts," by Jonathan Hafetz , Al Jazeera English, Jan. 30, 2012
• "Leon Panetta’s explicitly authoritarian decree," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 30, 2012
• "The Caging of America: Why do we lock up so many people?," by Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, Jan. 30, 2012
• "It’s Time to Police the N.Y.P.D.," by Faiza Patel & Elizabeth Goitein, The New York Times, Jan. 30, 2012
• "Dismantling the Master’s House: Psychologists and Torture," by Roy Eidelson, Common Dreams, Jan. 29, 2012
• "4 Officers in East Haven, Conn. Harassed Latinos and ‘Rats,’ U.S. Says," The New York Times, Jan. 24, 2012
• "Rules of American justice: a tale of three cases," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 24, 2012
• "Charlotte OKs expansion of police powers during Democratic National Convention," McClatchy Newspapers, Jan. 24, 2012
• "The NDAA and Indefinite Detention," by Joanne Mariner, Counterpunch, Jan. 23, 2012
• "Western justice and transparency," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 23, 2012
• "Ex-C.I.A. Officer Charged in Information Leak," The New York Times, Jan. 23, 2012
• "In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims," The New York Times, Jan. 23, 2012
• "Supreme Court: Warrants needed in GPS tracking," Washington Post, Jan. 22, 2012
• "Banning Books in Tucson," by Dennis Bernstein, Consortium News, Jan. 21, 2012
• "How Bradley Manning’s fate will be decided," by Justin Elliott, Salon, Jan. 21, 2012
• "Authority for NYPD-CIA collaboration questioned," Associated Press, Jan. 20, 2012
• "Why Obama's 'targeted killing' is worse than Bush's torture," by Mary Ellen O'Connell, Guardian/UK, Jan. 20, 2012
• "Guantanamo’s system of injustice," by Laura Pitter, Salon, Jan. 19, 2012
• "Emanuel's Protest-Squashing "Sit Down and Shut Up" Ordinance Passes in Chicago," by Yana Kunichoff, Truthout, Jan. 18, 2012
• "DHS Pumping Money into Drones for Domestic Surveillance, Hunting Immigrants and Seizing Pot," by Tom Barry, AlterNet, Jan. 16, 2012
• "Who are the victims of civil liberties assaults and Endless War?," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 16, 2012
• "Let's Stop Sentencing Children to Life without Parole," by Everette R.H. Thompson, Other Words, Jan. 16, 2012
• "Why I’m Suing Barack Obama," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, Jan. 16, 2012
• "Who did give the green light to torture?," by Paul Vallely, Independent/UK, Jan. 15, 2012
• "10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free," by Jonathan Turley, Washington Post, Jan. 13, 2012
• "TSA Air Marshal Arrested in Mugging of Boston Occupier," Wired, Jan. 13, 2012
• "The Closing of the Public Square," by Jeremy Kessler, The New Republic, Jan. 12, 2012
• "Gitmo at Ten," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Jan. 11, 2012
• "Coercive Attrition and the Occupy Movement: Oakland’s Dirty War," by George Ciccariello-Maher, Counterpunch, Jan. 9, 2012
• "The evil of indefinite detention and those wanting to de-prioritize it," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 8, 2012
• "Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor," by Murat Kurnaz, The New York Times, Jan. 7, 2012
• "Va. prisons’ use of solitary confinement is scrutinized," Washington Post, Jan. 7, 2012
• "Guantánamo: Ten Years and Counting," by David Cole, The Nation, Jan. 4, 2012
• "Obama Signs the NDAA, World Does Not End (Yet)," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Jan. 3, 2012
• "Arizona’s War on Mexican-American Studies," by Roberto Rodriguez, Counterpunch, Jan. 3, 2012
• "The Road to the NDAA: The Indefinite Detention of American Citizens and Other Assaults on Civil Liberties," by Joanne Mariner, Counterpunch, Jan. 3, 2012
• "Final Curtain: Obama Signs Indefinite Detention of Citizens Into Law As Final Act of 2011," by Jonathan Turley, Jonathan Turley's Blog, Jan. 2, 2012

Environment and Sustainability

• "Heartland Institute leak exposes strategies of climate attack machine," Guardian/UK, Feb. 21, 2012
• "Renewables Are a Reality: How We Can Ditch Fossil Fuels Without Any Help From Congress," by Fen Montaigne, Yale Environment 360, Feb. 20, 2012
• "France asks EU to suspend GM crop authorisation," Agence France Presse, Feb. 20, 2012
• "Civilisation faces 'perfect storm of ecological and social problems'," by John Vidal, Guardian/UK, Feb. 20, 2012
• "Sierra Club Answering for Taking a Driller’s Cash," by Felicity Barringer, The New York Times, Feb. 13, 2012
• "Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning in France," Reuters, Feb. 13, 2012
• "Fukushima reactor readings raise reheating concern," Guardian/UK, Feb. 12, 2012
• "The Mystery of Exploding Pig Poop," by Tom Philpott, Mother Jones, Feb. 9, 2012
• "The seed emergency: The threat to food and democracy," by Vandana Shiva, Al Jazeera English, Feb. 6, 2012
• "Fracking Perils," by Daphne Wysham, Other Words, Feb. 6, 2012
• "Josh Fox Responds to His Arrest on Capitol Hill: "The Truth That Fracking Contaminates Groundwater Is Out"," by Josh Fox, Truthout, Feb. 1, 2012
• "At Hearing on "Fracking," Capitol Police Arrest Director of "Gasland"," by Sari Gelzer, Truthout, Feb. 1, 2012
• "West Africa oil boom overlooks tattered environmental safety net," by Christiane Badgley, Center for Public Integrity, Jan. 19, 2012
• "EPA board rejects appeal of Shell Arctic permit," Associated Press, Jan. 12, 2012
• "How Genetically Modified Foods Could Affect Our Health in Unexpected Ways," by Ari LeVaux, AlterNet, Jan. 11, 2012
• "Danger Waters: The Three Top Hot Spots of Potential Conflict in the Geo-Energy Era," by Tom Engelhardt & Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch, Jan. 10, 2012
• "US to Protect Grand Canyon From Uranium Mining," Common Dreams, Jan. 9, 2012
• "Fracking Nonsense: The Job Myth of Gas Drilling," by Helene Jorgensen, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Jan. 8, 2012
• "Official: 4 Ohio fracking wells cannot open in wake of quake," CNN, Jan. 1, 2012

Media Issues

• "Meet the New York Times’ New Israel-Palestine News Chief," by Alison Weir, Counterpunch, Feb. 21, 2012
• "Bill Keller’s Latest Petulant Attack on Julian Assange & WikiLeaks," by Kevin Gosztola, Firedoglake, Feb. 20, 2012
• "U.S. media takes the lead on Iran," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Feb. 14, 2012
• "Why the "Liberal" Media Leaves Hawkish Foreign Policy Unchallenged," by Gregory Harms, Truthout, Feb. 4, 2012
• "A Push for Privacy in the Wake of the Carrier IQ Controversy," by Josh Levy, Save the Internet, Jan. 31, 2012
• "The End of Privacy," by Kevin Drum, Mother Jones, Jan. 27, 2012
• "Adding It Up: Press Freedom, Democratic Health and Public Media Funding," by Josh Stearns, Save the News, Jan. 26, 2012
• "Can Politico Sink Any Lower?," by Russell Mokhiber, Counterpunch, Jan. 20, 2012
• "Google Search Is Dead (As We Know It)," by Carl Franzen, Talking Points Memo, Jan. 13, 2012
• "Arthur Brisbane and selective stenography," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Jan. 13, 2012
• "The New York Times public editor's very public utterance," by Clay Shirky, Guardian/UK, Jan. 12, 2012
• "The News Networks' SOPA Blackout," by Josh Levy, Save the Internet, Jan. 9, 2012

Activism

• "Mad, Passionate Love -- and Violence: Occupy Heads into the Spring," by Tom Engelhardt & Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch, Feb. 21, 2012
• "Who’s really violent? Tips for controlling the narrative," by George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence, Feb. 21, 2012
• "Greenpeace activists scale National Gallery's roof," BBC News/UK, Feb. 21, 2012
• "Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, Feb. 13, 2012
• "Occupy Has Raised Class Consciousness: Now What?," by Rose Aguilar, Truthout, Feb. 13, 2012
• "Interview With Chris Hedges About Black Bloc," by J.A. Myerson, Truthout, Feb. 9, 2012
• "Hedges' Hypocrisies: The Surgeons of Occupy," by Peter Gelderloos, Counterpunch, Feb. 9, 2012
• "Activists and Anarchists Speak for Themselves at Occupy Oakland," by Susie Cagle, Truthout, Feb. 8, 2012
• "A Bustle in Hedges’ Row," by Randall Amster, Counterpunch, Feb. 8, 2012
• "The Cancer in Occupy," by Chris Hedges, TruthDig, Feb. 6, 2012
• "The battle for McPherson Square," by Jefferson Morley, Salon, Feb. 5, 2012
• "For OWS, a Confrontation Within the Confrontation," TruthDig, Feb. 4, 2012
• "Occupy Wall Street: 'There's a militant animosity bred by direct action'," Guardian/UK, Feb. 3, 2012
• "ILWU’s Militant Defense of West Coast Turf Pays Off With Longview Victory," by Mike Elk, In These Times, Feb. 3, 2012
• "Occupy Oakland: Are We Being Childish?," by Osha Neumann, Counterpunch, Feb. 3, 2012
• "Anonymous hacks lawyers for Marine accused of Iraq massacre," by Eleanor Mills, CNet, Feb. 3, 2012
• "Oakland, Non-Violence and The Future of Occupy," by Stephen Said, The Progressive, Feb. 2, 2012
• "Good Protesters, Bad Protesters and Nonviolence," by Rebecca Burns, In These Times, Feb. 1, 2012
• "What Does the Activism Surrounding SOPA Reveal About the Future of Online Organizing?," by Rose Aguilar, Truthout, Feb. 1, 2012
• "Occupy Oakland's Black Panther Roots," by Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones, Feb. 1, 2012
• "Is Anonymous our future?," by Nathan Schneider, Waging Nonviolence, Jan. 31, 2012
• "Why OWS Needs to Denounce Violent Tactics on Display at Occupy Oakland," by Tina Dupuy, AlterNet, Jan. 31, 2012
• "Occupy Oakland and State Repression: Militancy and Counter-Insurgency," by Mike King, Counterpunch, Jan. 31, 2012
• "Occupy D.C.: A peek inside the ‘Tent of Dreams’," by Katie Rogers, Washington Post, Jan. 30, 2012
• "Community Organizations Use Language of Occupy to Criticize Foreclosure Settlement," by Allison Kilkenny, In These Times, Jan. 24, 2012
• "At Davos, a Big Issue Is the Have-Lots vs. the Have-Nots," The New York Times, Jan. 24, 2012
• "Why Don't We Pay People Enough? 8 Facts About America's Struggling Working People," by Bill Quigley, AlterNet, Jan. 23, 2012
• "Shale-Shocked: Fracking Gets Its Own Occupy Movement," by Nick Turse & Ellen Kantarow, TomDispatch, Jan. 22, 2012
• "As Occupy Wall Street Has Changed Protest Dynamics, Vibrant Groups Like United Students Against Sweatshops Are Back in the Forefront," by Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet, Jan. 15, 2012
• "Successful Defense of Poor, Black Tenant in Landlord's Shooting Shows Strength of Unlikely Coalitions," by Carl Finamore, Truthout, Jan. 14, 2012
• "'We're Not Broke': The Movement That Helped Spark Occupy Wall Street," by Allison Kilkenny, The Nation, Jan. 13, 2012
• "Why Now? What's Next? Naomi Klein and Yotam Marom in Conversation About Occupy Wall Street," by Naomi Klein & Yotam Marom, The Nation, Jan. 9, 2012
• "Remembering the Fight and Spirit of 'Bread and Roses': 100 Years Since Lawrence Textile Worker Strikes," by John de Graaf & David Batker, Common Dreams, Jan. 9, 2012
• "Remembering Another Occupy: Anniversary of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike Wave," by Don Fitz, Counterpunch, Jan. 2, 2012
• "How Will the Occupy Movement Evolve?," by Maria Armoudian, Truthout, Jan. 2, 2012

Related Links:

• Full-length Counterpoint interview with Aron Gupta, conducted by Scott Harris, Oct. 31, 2011 (20:14)
• "It's a Tremor, Not a Quake. Yet." www.huffingtonpost.com, Oct. 12, 2011
• Between The Lines' Coverage of Occupy Wall Street, compilation of interviews and transcripts on Occupy Wall Street movement
• "Ellen Brown: Finance Capital vs. Public Banking," Global Research TV, Oct. 2, 2011
• OccupyWallSt.org Main site for Occupy Wall Street in New York City
• OccupyTogether.org Compilation of other Occupy groups nationwide, includes advice on nonviolent organizing, how to follow on Twitter and Facebook. This site was started Friday, Sept. 23, 2011 and has grown practically overnight. Follow on Facebook: OccupyTogether and Twitter @OccupyTogether
• LiveStream: Occupy Wall Street Live stream video coverage from independent journalists on the ground in New York City
• Livestream: Occupy the World: streaming video coverage from independent journalists on the ground at nonviolent protests around the world

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