U.S. Politics

"Ill Fares the Land," by Tony Judt, New York Review of Books, Apr. 29, 2010

"What Happened to the Employee Free Choice Act?," by Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake, Apr. 13, 2010

"The case against Elena Kagan," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Apr. 13, 2010

"Where Your Taxes Go: The Pentagon's Escalating Share," by Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch, Apr. 13, 2010

"Anti-Government Extremists: On the Rise and On the March," by Evan Thomas & Eve Conant, Newsweek, Apr. 13, 2010

"GOP warns Obama Supreme Court filibuster possible," McClatchy Newspapers, Apr. 11, 2010

"Tax Day and America's Wars : What the Mayor of One Community Hard Hit by War Spending Is Doing," by Tom Engelhardt & Jo Comerford, TomDispatch, Apr. 11, 2010

"Obama Killed The Johnsen Nomination, Not Ben Nelson Nor The GOP," by bmaz, Firedoglake, Apr. 11, 2010

"Justice Stevens retirement portends long, hot political summer," Christian Science Monitor, Apr. 11, 2010

"A 'Tea'-chable Moment?," by Andrew Stelzer, Truthout, Apr. 11, 2010

"Obama Administration Missed Chance To Get Tougher On Unsafe Mines," by Dan Froomkin, Huffington Post, Apr. 9, 2010

"Justice Stevens' retirement and Elena Kagan," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Apr. 9, 2010

"Power Struggle: Inside The Battle For The Soul Of The Democratic Party," by Ryan Grim and Arthur Delaney, Huffington Post, Apr. 8, 2010

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Economy

"Big Banks Rebel Against Push to Help Struggling Homeowners," Wall Street Journal, Apr. 13, 2010

"Attack Wall Street, not social security," by Dean Baker, Guardian/UK, Apr. 12, 2010

"Is the Fed Helping the Big Banks to Cook Their Books?," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, Apr. 12, 2010

"Robert Rubin: Amoral, Blundering ... And Still Influential in Washington," by R.J. Eskow, Blog for Our Future, Apr. 12, 2010

"The Cover-Up," by James Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Apr. 12, 2010

"Missing Lesson From the Mine Tragedy: Union-Busting = Death," by Art Levine, AlterNet, Apr. 12, 2010

"The Future of American Jobs," by Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog, Apr. 12, 2010

"Black Jobless Rate Nearly Double US Average," by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout, Apr. 12, 2010

"The Preposterous Reality: 25 Hedge Fund Managers Are Worth 680,000 Teachers (Who Teach 13 Million Students)," by Les Leopold, AlterNet, Apr. 10, 2010

"The Looming European Debt Wars," by Michael Hudson, Counterpunch, Apr. 9-11, 2010

"The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going," ProPublica, Apr. 9, 2010

"Major US Banks Masked Risk Levels: Report," Reuters, Apr. 9, 2010

"Jobs We Can Believe In," by Deepak Bhargava, Huffington Post, Apr. 8, 2010

"Today's Other America," by Sasha Abramsky, The American Prospect, Apr. 8, 2010

"Financial Reform Bids Collapse Into Farce," by Andrew Cockburn, Counterpunch, Apr. 8, 2010

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Bush Accountability

"Ex-Bush Official Willing to Testify Bush, Cheney Knew Gitmo Prisoners Innocent," by Jason Leopold, Truthout, Apr. 9, 2010

"George W. Bush 'knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent,'" Times Online/UK, Apr. 9, 2010

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International Affairs

"Left & Right: Prospects for Peace," The American Conservative, May, 1, 2010

"Lieberman: Not enough votes in Senate to ratify new START treaty," The Hill, Apr. 11, 2010

"Iranian Anger Rises Over Obama's Revised Nuclear Policy," The New York Times, Apr. 11, 2010

"Declassified Document: Kissinger Blocked U.S. Proteston South American Assassinations," by Jeff Kaye, Apr. 11, 2010

"Kissinger Rescinded Warning Against Condor Assassinations," by Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, Apr. 10, 2010

"Why Netanyahu Canceled His DC Visit, and Why the GOP Is Applauding," by Daniel Levy, Huffington Post, Apr. 9, 2010

"The great US foreign policy flaw: ailure to recognize why national self-determination is important," by Mark Weisbrot, Guardian/UK, Apr. 8, 2010

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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

"Iraq Vets: Coverage of Atrocities Is Too Little, Too Late," by Dahr Jamail, Truthout, Apr. 13, 2010

"War Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan," by Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, Apr. 13, 2010

"More cause and effect in the War against Terrorists," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Apr. 12, 2010

"Behind the Afghan Fraud: 'We Have Shot an Astounding Number of People,'" by Conn Hallinan, Counterpunch, Apr. 12, 2010

"Afghan fury after US troops kill four civilians," Agence France Presse, Apr. 12, 2010

" Ignorance of Afghan Society Led to Botched Raids," by Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service, Apr. 12, 2010

"Civilians Killed as U.S. Troops Fire on Afghan Bus," The New York Times, Apr. 12, 2010

"US Military Still Lying About Special Forces Night Raid in Afghanistan," by Robert Naiman, Common Dreams, Apr. 11, 2010

"Behind the Afghan Fraud," by Conn Hallinan, Antiwar.com, Apr. 10, 2010

"The Cover-Ups That Exploded," by Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch, Apr. 9-11, 2010

"'Two, Three, Many Afghanistans,'" by MichaelT. Klare, The Nation, Apr. 7, 2010

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Civil Liberties/ Human Rights

"Guantanamo Detainee Ordered Freed," by William Fisher, Inter Press Service, Apr. 13, 2010

"New Clues Emerge in Post-Katrina Vigilante Shooting at Algiers Point," ProPublica, Apr. 12, 2010

"The 'Obama doctrine': kill, don't detain," by Asim Qureshi, Guardian/UK, Apr. 11, 2010

"Silent Coup: How the CIA is Welcoming Itself Back Onto American University Campuses," by David Price, Counterpunch, Apr. 9-11, 2010

"Civil Liberties Groups Oppose Obama's Plan to Close Gitmo, Absent Serious Changes," by Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, Apr. 8, 2010

"Subverting Freedom: Bush's Ongoing Legacy of Secrecy," by James Bovard, Counterpunch, Apr. 8, 2010

"A presidential death warrant," by Paul Woodward, War in Context, Apr. 8, 2010

"New Orleans Cop Explains How Police Gunned Down Unarmed Civilians In Post-Katrina Incident," by Justin Elliott, Talking Points Memo, Apr. 8, 2010

"The Long Torture of NYC/Manhattan Prisoner, Syed Fahad Hashmi," by Jeff Kaye, Invictus, Apr. 8, 2010

"The Surveillance Regime," The Nation editorial, Apr. 7, 2010

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Environment and Sustainability

"Patents Trump Public Interest in Monsanto's Ag Empire," Reuters, Apr. 13, 2010

"Shell fights shareholders' campaign for oil sands review," Guardian/UK, Apr. 12, 2010

"Tax Day Prompts Rethinking on Climate Policy," by Robert J. Shapiro, Huffington Post, Apr. 12, 2010

"Corporate Protection at the EPA," by Dr. Evaggelos Vallianato, Truthout, Apr. 10, 2010

"Is This Factory Farming's Tobacco Moment?," by Will Allen and Ronnie Cummins, Common Dreams, Apr. 10, 2010

"Oil drilling prompts Al Gore's first public split on climate with President Obama," The Hill, Apr. 8, 2010

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Media

"The Future of Journalism Is Written in Neon," by Bill Boyarsky, TruthDig, Apr. 13, 2010

"The Battle for Net Neutrality: Corporate Takeover or Opportunity?," by Megan Tady, Women's International Perspective, Apr. 11, 2010

"The Courts Can't Take Away Our Internet," by Megan Tady, Save the Internet, Apr. 6, 2010

"How Wikileaks shone light on world's darkest secrets," Independent/UK, Apr. 8, 2010

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Activism

"SNCC at 50," by Corey D.B. Walker, Counterpunch, Apr. 13, 2010

"Protest Publix," by Peter Rothberg, The Nation, Apr. 10, 2010

"12-Year-Old War Peace Activist (and Her Mother) Arrested for Trespassing at Sen. Tom Harkin's Office," Associated Press, Apr. 9, 2010

"More Banker Outrage: Protesters Plan Marches on Wall Street Banks," ABC News, Apr. 9, 2010

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