U.S. Politics

"2 South Carolina Republicans Apologize for Reference to Jews," The New York Times, Oct. 20, 2009

"Labor's Love Lost: Is the Battle for EFCA a Quixotic Crusade?," by Max Fraser, New Labor Forum, Oct. 20, 2009

"Bush appointee: GOP lawmakers siding with 'professional bigots,'" Raw Story, Oct. 20, 2009

"Fighting the Last War: Can the Democrats Avoid a Populist Health Care Rebellion?," by Kevin Zeese, Counterpunch, Oct. 20, 2009

"Insurers Argue for Public Option," by Dean Baker, Truthout, Oct. 19, 2009

"In health care overhaul effort, millions are being spent to influence Congress," Kansas City Star, Oct. 18, 2009

"So Much for Transparency: Small Group Now Leads Closed Negotiations on Health-Care Bill," Washington Post, Oct. 18, 2009

"The Politics of the Public Option," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, Oct. 16, 2009

"The ACORN Standard," by Jeremy Scahill, The Nation, Oct. 14, 2009

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Economy

"One in six Americans in poverty, new study finds," Associated Press, Oct. 20, 2009

"How Moody's sold its ratings -- and sold out investors," McClatchy Newspapers, Oct. 18, 2009

"The Banks Are Not All Right," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, Oct. 18, 2009

"Foreclosures Force Ex-Homeowners to Turn to Shelters," The New York Times, Oct. 18, 2009

"Outrage at Socialism for the Rich," by Mark Shields, Creators Syndicate, Oct. 17, 2009

"The Great Marginalization II: Where $18 an Hour is Too Much," by Carl Ginsburg, Counterpunch, Oct. 16-19, 2009

"Barney Frank and the Planet of the Banks," by Ralph Nader, Common Dreams, Oct. 16, 2009

"The Housing Hangover," by Tim Fernholz, The American Prospect, Oct. 16, 2009

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Bush Accountability

"CIA Efforts to Keep Torture Secrets Suffer a Key Loss in British High Court," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Oct. 19, 2009

"Bybee Avoids Judicial Complaint," by Scott Horton, Harper's, Oct. 15, 2009

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International Affairs

"The Urgent Need to Demilitarize the National Security State," by Melvin A. Goodman, Truthout, Oct. 20, 2009

"A Rumsfeld-era reminder about what causes Terrorism," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Oct. 20, 2009

"Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World," by Tom Engelhardt, The Nation, Oct. 19, 2009

"Iran Blames U.S. and Britain in Attack," The New York Times, Oct. 19, 2009

"US condemns Iran bombing; denies involvement," Agence France Presse, Oct. 18, 2009

"Despite promises to Obama, construction continues in dozens of W. Bank settlements," Haaretz/Israel, Oct. 18, 2009

"Iran suicide bombing kills Revolutionary Guard commanders: Tehran blames US and Britain," Guardian/UK, Oct. 18, 2009

"US-Iran: Congress Begins Pressing Sanctions Legislation," by Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, Oct. 16, 2009

"Cindy McCain Bankrolled Conference That Called for Ban on Mercenaries," by Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports, Oct. 16, 2009

"American Jews Rethink Israel," by Adam Horowitz & Philip Weiss, The Nation, Oct. 14, 2009

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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

"Afghanistan: anatomy of an election disaster," Guardian/UK, Oct. 20, 2009

"Throttling Back on Afghanistan," by Jeff Huber, Antiwar.com, Oct. 20, 2009

"CNN Poll: Will Afghanistan turn into another Vietnam?," CNN, Oct. 19, 2009

"Audit Pushes Karzai Below 50 Percent in Afghan Vote," The New York Times, Oct. 19, 2009

"Decision on Afghan Troops May Wait," The New york Times, Oct. 18, 2009

"David Rohde's insights into what motivates the Taliban," by Glenn Greenweald, Salon, Oct. 18, 2009

"War next door creates havoc in Pakistan," by Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun/Canada, Oct. 18, 2009

"Same old mistakes in new Afghan war," Guardian/UK, Oct. 18, 2009

"Karzai balking at deal to end Afghan election dispute," McClatchy Newspapers, Oct. 17, 2009

"Afghan economy stumbles amid election uncertainty," McClatchy Newspapers, Oct. 16, 2009

"McChrystal's 40,000 Troop Hoax," by Robert Naiman, Truthout, Oct. 15, 2009

"Karzai Aide Says Afghan Runoff Vote Is Likely," The New York Times, Oct. 15, 2009

"$400 per gallon gas to drive debate over cost of war in Afghanistan," The Hill, Oct. 15, 2009

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Civil Liberties/ Human Rights

"UK: Secret files reveal covert network run by nuclear police," Guardian/UK, Oct. 20, 2009

"Justices to Decide on U.S. Release of Detainees," The New York Times, Oct. 20, 2009

"'War on Terror' II," by Julian Sanchez, The Nation, Oct. 19, 2009

"Obama's commendable change in federal drug enforcement policy," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Oct. 19, 2009

"British High Court rejects U.S./British cover-up of torture evidence," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Oct. 17, 2009

"White House 'Ordered' Lawmakers to Amend FOIA in Order to Conceal Torture Photos" by Jason Leopold, Truthout, Oct. 17, 2009

"UK to appeal order demanding publication of US torture docs," Agence France Presse, Oct. 17, 2009

"Binyam Mohamed: Judges overrule attempt to suppress torture evidence," Guardian/UK, Oct., 16, 2009

"Resisting Injustice in Guantánamo: The Story of Fayiz Al-Kandari," by Andy Worthington, Truthout, Oct., 16, 2009

"Obama Renews Bush's 9/11 State of Emergency," by Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg, Common Dreams, Oct., 16, 2009

"Obama's Guantánamo, counterterror policies similar to Bush's?," Christian Science Monitor, Oct., 15, 2009

"Democrats Take a Pass on Civil-Liberties Reform," by Adam Serwer, The American Prospect, Oct., 14, 2009

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Environment and Sustainability

"US gives Shell green light for offshore oil drilling in the Arctic," Guardian/UK, Oct. 20, 2009

"Report looks at hidden health costs of energy production," McClatchy Newspapers, Oct. 19, 2009

"Oil prices hit high but report warns of supply crunch," Guardian/UK, Oct. 19, 2009

"Politicians Have Failed in Efforts to Stave Off Climate Change, Now It's Up to Us," by Bill McKibben, Mother Jones, Oct. 17, 2009

"Corporations Badmouth Public Water," by Patti Lynn, Common Dreams, Oct. 16, 2009

"Is the climate bill being fossil/nuked?," by Harvey Wasserman, Free Press, Oct. 14, 2009

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Media Issues

"AT&T Boss Asks Employees to Fake It," by Timothy Karr, Save the Internet, Oct. 20, 2009

"Report Urges Broad Actions to Preserve Journalism," Associated Press, Oct. 20, 2009

"Knowing Thyself," by digby, Hullabaloo, Oct. 18, 2009

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Activism

"US Chamber of Commerce falls victim to 'fraud' over climate hoax," Guardian/UK, Oct. 19, 2009

"Antiwar protest draws hundreds from NE region," Boston Globe, Oct. 18, 2009

"In Oregon, an eight-year antiwar protest," Los Angeles Times, Oct. 18, 2009

"UK: Hundreds of Climate Change Protesters Clash with Police After Early Arrests Fail to Stop Demonstration," Daily Mail/UK, Oct. 17, 2009

"CodePink Founder Jodie Evans Challenges Obama Up Close and Personal on His Afghanistan Policy," by Don Hazen, AlterNet, Oct. 17, 2009

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