Today's
Stories
July 9 - 11, 2010
Joanne Mariner
The Worst Supreme Court Decision of the Term
Rannie Amiri Business as Usual: Behind Turkey and Israel's Not-So-Secret Meeting
James Ridgeway
Congress and the Oil Spill: Hot Rhetoric, Hollow Reform
John Ross
Drug Cartels Win Mexico's Super Sunday Elections
Julie Hilden
Elena Kagan and the 1st Amendment
Laura Flanders
Who Fights and Why: Winter Bone, War and the Economic Crisis
July 8, 2010
Carl Ginsburg
Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
Paul Craig Roberts
Hillary Clinton's Latest Lies
Patrick Cockburn
The Chronic Failure of Israeli Leadership
Brian Cloughley
Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban
Sakura Saunders
Mining Through Roots
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Jump Starting the First Amendment
Eric Walberg
Wooing the West: US / Russian Relations
Chris Genovali /
Elizabeth Farries Popping Grizzlies
Harry Browne
The Best Teams Got There and I Hope Catalunya Wins
Robert Bloom
A Presidential Tour Guide to Israel (Formerly Palestine)
Website of the Day
Mearsheimer: "No Accountability for Israel on Any Issue"
July 7, 2010
Anthony DiMaggio
Child Poverty: Forgotten Casualties of the Recession
Patrick Cockburn
No Woodshed for Netanyahu
Dean Baker
The Party of Unemployment
Gareth Porter / Ahmad Walid Fazly
"I Saw Them Taking the Bullets Out of the Body of My Daughter"
Nadia Hijab
Addressing the Settlements
Marjorie Cohn
Losing Afghanistan
William Blum
Some Thoughts on "Patriotism" Written on July 4th
Peter Gelderloos
Supporting the Prisoners of the G20 Police State
Carla Blank
When Kabuki is Not Kabuki
John Grant
Long Wars, Violence and Change in America
Website of the Day
Police State Canada
July 6, 2010
Mike Whitney
Red Flags for the Economy
Bill Hatch
Water, Extinction and Power Politics in California
Gary Leupp
Petraeus, Palin, Boot and the Power of Israel
Yvonne Ridley
Why Tony Blair is the Most Useless Peace Envoy on the Planet
Gareth Porter
How the IAEA's Heinonen Pushed Dubious Iran Nuclear Intel
P. Sainath
India Goes on Strike
Mark Weisbrot
Widening Rifts in Latin America
Harry Browne
World Cup:
Four Games, Four Lessons
Missy Beattie
Where the Hell is the Peace Movement?
Dave Lindorff
Missing the Target
Website of the Day
"We are the Accusers--Not the Accused"
July 5, 2010
Alan Farago
The Chinese Boy and the Bicycle
Uri Avnery
Commissions and Omissions
Felice Pace America's Energy Future: Countdown to Failure?
Ron Jacobs
Relaxing the Rules of Engagement
Dave Lindorff
Afghan War Funding
Linn Washington
The President's House in Philly
Steven Higgs
Autism's Generation Gap
Martha Rosenberg
The Telfon Chicken Don
Linh Dinh
Earthbound: a Nice Set of Wheels ... and Wings?
Al Krebs
21st Century Populist Declaration of Independence
Website of the Day
Contra-COIN
July 2 -4, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
The Not-So-Secret Agents
Russell Mokhiber
The Case Against Kenneth Feinberg
Vijay Prashad
A Disaster Foretold: BP, Obama and the Gulf
Rannie Amiri
Israel Eyes Lebanon's Offshore Gas Reserves
Peter Lee
Chinese Blowback From Iran Sanctions?
Ralph Nader
Tyranny of the Merchant Class
Dean Baker
Cut Social Security to Fund the War?
Jonathan Cook
Jerusalem Expulsions
Matt Shultz
Inside Torontanamo: My Experience Inside the G20 Detention Facility
David Ker Thomson
Defeat: Toronto is the World
Steven Higgs
Welcome to Toxic Valley
Saul Landau
A Tale of Two Extraditions
Ramzy Baroud
Millennium Goals Revisited
John Stanton
General Petraeus' Magic Bag
David Michael Green
Living the Regressive Dream
Kent Paterson
Manufacturing a Border Crisis
Steven Sherman
A New System of Racial Control
David Macaray
Race to the Bottom
John Ross
Left Writers as Endangered Species
Shamus Cooke
The People v. the Banks:
Stimulus or Austerity?
Missy Beattie
The Karaoke Played On
Paul Watson
On Interpol's List
Norman Solomon
Bastion of Bluster: Unanimous Conformity in the Senate
Sherwood Ross
Cowardice, American-Style
Ben Hillier
United Against Us, Divided Among Themselves
Binoy Kampmark
The Israel Lobby in San Francisco
Christopher Brauchli
Arizona: Sins of the Father
Cal Winslow
Huge Hospital Elections Set
Maria Páez Victor
Canada's Autocratic Farce
Winslow Myers
Questioning War, Answering Peace
Greg Moses
American Hindoonomics
Stephen Martin
A Drill Too Far
Charles R. Larson
With Elvis in Mexico
David Yearsley
Anna and the Glass Ceiling
Poets' Basement
Cirino & Moser
Website of the Weekend
Well, Well, Well
July 1, 2010
Conn Hallinan
Guns of August in the Middle East?
William R. Polk
Afghanistan Sitrep
Bill Quigley /
Alex Tuscano
BP and Bhopal: Double Standards
Nadia Hijab
America's Credibility Gap
Arman Grigorian
Genocide Recognition, But at What Cost?
Russell Mokhiber
The Rape of Appalachia
Harry Browne
World Cup:
What's in a Team?
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Banner Drop Crime
Website of the Day
One Nation, Under Surveillance
June 30, 2010
Julien Mercille
Why Afghanistan's Poppies Aren't the Problem
Ellen Brown
Who Will Pay: Wall Street or Main Street?
Alan Farago
BP's Temple of Doom
Dave Lindorff
The Politics of Death: Throwing Mumia Under the Bus
Ralph Nader
36 Questions for Elena Kagan
Joe Shansky
The Coup is Not Complete
Ron Jacobs
Video Gamers and the Future of Labor Rights
Winslow Myers
Fighting for the Freedom to Dissent
Billy Wharton
Going Horizontal at the US Social Forum
Shepherd Bliss
The No Blow Movement
Website of the Day
Last and Proud of It
June 29, 2010
Jules Boykoff
The World Cup and the Politics of Immigration
Dean Baker
Is Advice From the IMF Better Than Advice From a Drunk on the Street?
Sheldon Richman
Endless Occupation?
Nadia Hijab
A Better Blockade?
George Ciccariello-Maher
Chronicle of a Riot Foretold
David Macaray
Giving Laws the Finger
Jeanine Molloff
The Cops' War on Videos of Cops
Brian Horejsi
The Fate of Alberta's Grizzly Bears
Helen Redmond
Scare Tactics, Spin and Health Care
John Grant
Holding America's Soldiers Accountable
Website of the Day
Why McChrystral was Really Fired
June 28, 2010
Eamonn McCann
The Bloody Sunday Report: How the Higher-Ups Got Off the Hook
Frank Menetrez Elena Kagan's Harvard
David Ker Thomson
Toronto: Still Free, Barely Holding On
Mark Weisbrot
Can't Get No Stimulation
Bill Quigley
Honduras, After Democracy
Jonathan Cook
Plan Lieberman: Blueprint for a Purely Jewish State
Alan Farago
Environmental Catastrophe Fatigue
Damien Millet /
Eric Toussaint
Vain and Void in Toronto
Harry Browne
World Cup:
For Love and Money
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Emergency War Supplemental Explained
Dr. Susan Block
Hillbilly Rebel Women v. Corporate Murderers
Website of the Day
Trying to Film BP HQ
June 25 - 27, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obama a Huge Favor
Winslow T. Wheeler
General Petraeus and His Senate Vassals
Michael Hudson
Europe's Fiscal Dystopia: the "New Austerity" Road
Noor Elashi
The Holy Land Foundation Case:
Defending My Father ... and the Constitution
Patrick Cockburn
Putting Petraeus in Perspective
Jonathan Cook
Gaza Starves More Slowly
John Ross
An Uprising of Bones
Darwin Bond-Graham
Capital Speaks: How Big Foundations and Wall Street Elites are Legitimating Their Plans to Balance the Budget
Paul Fitzgerald /
Elizabeth Gould
Afghanistan, the Saudi Arabia of Lithium?
Andrea Peacock
The Miron Brothers: From Vietnam to Libby
Ralph Nader
Losing It at the Airport Checkpoint
M. Shahid Alam
Getting Out of Palestine
Kathy Kelly /
Dan Pearson
Killing Civilians, Ducking Blame
Russell Mokhiber
Revoking BP's Charter
Ramzy Baroud
Righting a Perpetual Wrong
Rannie Amiri
Netanyahu Plays the Vuvuzela
David Rosen
The New Abortion Wars
Linn Washington
Racism in the Courts
Margaret Kimberley
The Death of Black Politics
Anthony DiMaggio
No Repeal of Whaling Ban: US Says It's a Major Loss--For Whales!
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots:
High Times Puts on a White Coat
Mark Weisbrot
Distorting Chavez
Christopher Brauchli
Overthrowing Darwin: the Texas / Russia Axis
Adam Engel
The System and the Drug War
Ananya Mukherjee-Reed
Toronto: Fake Lakes vs. Real People
Julie Hilden
Can the Internet End Libel Laws?
David Ker Thomson
Shock and Awe From Ottawa
Saul Landau
Fidel Advises Obama?
Judith Bello
Can Iraq Form a Government?
Trond Andresen
What If the Greeks Did This?
Don North
El Salvador:
a President Without a Party, a Party Without a President
Patrick Bond
What South Africa Really Lost at the World Cup
Missy Beattie
No Shelter From the Storm
Stuart Jeanne Bramhall
Targeting Women
Whitney Cole /
Alexander Brockweh
Revisiting Guazapa
Charles R. Larson
No Room With a View
David Yearsley
Three Cheers for Renée Fleming
Kim Nicolini
Heavy Metal in Baghdad:
Iraqi Power Chords
Paul Krassner
Why Firing the General Was an Act of God
Poets' Basement
Henson, Mahagin and Valentine
Website of the Weekend
Why the Taliban is Winning
June 24, 2010
Gareth Porter
Why McChrystal Did Obama a Big Favor
Anne McClintock
Militarizing the Gulf Oil Crisis
Paul Craig Roberts
Is Petraeus McChrystal's Replacement or Obama's?
Mike Whitney
Time for a Second Stimulus
Alan Farago
The Forty Year War on the Environment
S. Eben Kirksey
Neglecting Indonesia:
President Obama, What Would Your Mother Say?
John Halle
Economic War on the "Lesser People"
Harry Browne
World Cup: Workers and Players
John Grant
The Sociopathic General
Website of the Day
Leave BP Alone!
June 23, 2010
Kathy Kelly
Witnessing Against Torture
Deepak Tripathi
The Obama-McChyrstal Showdown
Dave Lindorff
The Oil Industry's Go-To Judge Comes Through
Sheldon Richman
Did the CIA Conduct Medical Experiments on Detainees?
Laura Carlsen
Lethal Force on the Border
Conn Hallinan
Turkey, the US and Empire's Twilight
Jayne Lyn Stahl
The McChrystal Shield
Susan Galleymore
Protesting Israel at the Oakland Docks
Björn Kumm
A Grand Day for Monarchism
John Holt
A Biologist With Courage and Vision
Website of the Day
Grayson Unleashed
June 22, 2010
Uri Avnery
When Force Doesn't Work
Lawrence S. Wittner
Iran, BP and the CIA
Dean Baker
The Social Security Fixation
Ludwig Watzal
An Israel Beyond Zionism?
Rick Kuhn
Why Money Doesn't Make the World Go Round
Martha Rosenberg
Why You Should Care About the University of Miami NIH Scandal
James Ridgeway /
Jean Casella
The Ordeal of the Angola Three's Albert Woodfox
Russell Mokhiber
Capito, Cash and Capitulation
Yvonne Ridley
US Fear Factory Kills Free Speech
Shamus Cooke
Why the Oil Spill Will Change Nothing
Website of the Day
Kagan Wins; Constitution Looses
June 21, 2010
Joshua Brollier /
Kathy Kelly
Is Pakistan Unraveling?
Vijay Praahad
Global Bonapartism
Ralph Nader
Festering Corruption
Ronnie Cummins
Generation Monsanto
Mark Weisbrot
The Brazilian Presidential Elections
Jayne Lyn Stahl
The Real Shakedown
Harry Browne
World Cup:
Anti-Imperialism 101
Tom Turnipseed
Peculiar Politics in South Carolina
Thomas H. Naylor
Vermont and Israel: Silence of the Liberals
Website of the Day
If Army Ads Had Health Warnings
June 18 - 20, 2010
Alexander Cockburn
He Should Have Kept His Mouth Shut
Dean Baker
Bad Parallels: US and Greece
Rannie Amiri
Better Never Than Late
Richard Ward
Louisiana Story: the Sequel
Saul Landau
The Flotilla Fiasco
Ramzy Baroud
What Ankara Knows
Martine Bulard
Sayonara, America?
Ellen Brown
Deficit Terrorists Strike England: Is the US Next?
David Macaray
Honey, I Shrank the Labor Lobby
Stanley Heller
Grand Theft Flotilla
Paul Craig Roberts
Progressives Want "Direct Action" But a Disarmed Public
Russell Mokhiber
Spilling It on BP
M. Shahid Alam
Roger Cohen and the Motley Crew
Robert Bryce
Addicted to Prosperity
Mark Weisbrot
Economic Timidity in the Eurozone
David Michael Green
Empty Presidential Platitudes
George Wuerthner
The Perils of Collaboration
John Grant
Truth Through a Soda Straw
John Stanton
A Visit to Turkey
Christopher Brauchli
Poor Britain: BP and the English Psyche
Missy Beattie
Under the Covers With Rush and Larry
Robert Jensen
Pornography and the Military
Tanya Golash-Boza
The Carachuri-Rosendo Case
Robert Roth
Haiti Five Months After the Quake
Farzana Versey
Dangerous Liaisons
David Ker Thomson
Against Sport
Charles R. Larson
Tech Transfer: More Academic Fun
David Yearsley
Summer Nights in Emden and Uttum
Mitu Sengupta
Sex, the City and American Patriotism
Kim Nicolini
An Exercise in Vigilantism
Poets' Basement
Gibbons, Orloski and Beatty
Website of the Day
Civil Civic
June 17, 2010
John Ross
Mexico's Gaza
Gareth Porter
McChrystal's War Plan Fails
Robert Weissman
Five Questions for Tony Hayward
Farrah Hassen
AEI Does Syria: Demonization with Coffee and Croissants
Ron Jacobs
Washington's False Promise in Afghanistan
Harry Browne
World Cup: Fútbol Arte v. Anti-Fútbol
Kevin Zeese
The Holes in the Finance Bill
Harvey Wasserman
The Gusher and the Sun
Website of the Day
The Nightmare Scenario in the Gulf
June 16, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts
Helen Thomas: an Appreciation
Anthony DiMaggio
Deconstructing Obama's BP Speech
Ralph Nader
The Scourging of Helen Thomas
Robert Weissman
Closing BP's Escape Routes
Dean Baker
The Retail Sales Slump
Greg Moses
Gulf Crisis Implodes Obama Presidency
M. Kamiar
A Short History of BP
Dave Lindorff
What Kevin Neish Saw: Eyewitness to the Israeli Assault on the Mavi Marmara
Alison Weir
The NYT and the Flotilla Inquiry
Laura Flanders
The Iron Lady Meets the Pitbull in Lipstick
Misty MacDuffee / Chris Genovali
BC's Killer Whales Get Their Day in Court
Website of the Day
The Pro-Corporate Sierra Club
June 15, 2010
P. Sainath
What Bhopal Started
Jordan Flaherty
Fears of Cultural Extinction on Louisiana's Gulf Coast
Mike Whitney
The Next Housing Crisis
Patrick Cockburn / Terri Judd
The Most Dangerous Country in the World for Journalists
Fred Gardner
Helen Thomas' Watergate Scoop
Linn Washington
Israeli Raid Coverage: American Media Failure Again
Roberto Rodriguez
The Arizona Spasm
Tolu Olorunda
The Africans are Coming!
Steven Higgs
America's Worst Generation
Tom Woodbury
Montana's Frontline Against Big Oil
Prairie Miller
South of the Border
Website of the Day
The Pentagon's Afghan Mineral Hype
June 14, 2010
Diana Johnstone
Why the French Hate Noam Chomsky
Uri Avnery
Who is Afraid of a Real Inquiry?
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Iran's Presidential Election One Year Later: Why the Greens Failed
Dean Baker
In the Service of the Rich
Dave Lindorff
Going After the Wrong People: From Julian Assange to Helen Thomas
Harry Browne
World Cup:
Who Should We Root For?
Patrick Bond
World Cup, Inc.:
Red Cards for Fifa, Coke and the South African Elites
Eve Spangler
Attacking Humanitarian Aid: PR Blunder or Strategic Necessity?
David Michael Green
The Do-Nothing President
Christopher Ketcham
The Re-Education of Helen Thomas
Phyllis Pollack
Stones in Exile
Website of the Day
Video of IDF Raid: Kicks and Shots in the Head
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