U.S. Politics

"A State Democratic Party Tells Congress: Reject More War Spending," by John Nichols, The Nation, June 15, 2010

"Obama's Treasury Dept Working To Defeat Derivatives Proposal 'Of Utmost Importance' To Reforming Wall Street," by Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim, Huffington Post, June 14, 2010

"The Obama Presidency: Possibility or Peril?," by Ari Berman, The Nation, June 14, 2010

"A Lobbying Tempest Engulfs Financial Overhaul," Associated Press, June 14, 2010

"The Supreme Court Says NO to the People - Again," by Michael Winship, Truthout, June 12, 2010

"Environmentalists give Barack Obama a pass on oil spill," by Josh Gerstein, Politico, June 12, 2010

"Arizona: Rushing Toward the Wrong Side of History," by Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Truthout, June 12, 2010

"Obama overlooked key points in giving OK to offshore drilling," McClatchy Newspapers, June 11, 2010

"White House Comments on Lincoln Victory Sets Off Firestorm With Labor," by E.J. Dionne, Truthout, June 10, 2010

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Economy

"The Next Housing Crisis," by Mike Whitney, Counterpunch, June 15, 2010

"Compromise weakens ratings agency revamp," McClatchy Newspapers, Counterpunch, June 15, 2010

"Amid Unemployment Crisis, Senate Gridlock Leaves Jobs Bill in Limbo," Washington Independent, June 15, 2010

"'Free-Market Fundamentalism' Is an Invention of Progressives," by Dean Baker, Truthout, June 14, 2010

"Out of Work, Sleeping in the Fields: The People of the Central Valley," by David Bacon, Truthout, June 13, 2010

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Bush Accountability

"Bush admin lawyer urges court to toss torture suit," San Francisco Chronicle, June 14, 2010

"Why We Can't Just 'Look Forward,'" by Joe Conason, TruthDig, June 9, 2010

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International Affairs

"Three American girls are left fatherless by Jerusalem killing," by Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, June 15, 2010

"Call the Politburo, We're in Trouble: Entering the Soviet Era in America," by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, June 15, 2010

"Democratic Party Defends Israeli Attack," by Stephen Zunes, Antiwar.com, June 15, 2010

"Who is Afraid of a Real Inquiry?," by Uri Avnery, Counterpunch, June 14, 2010

"Stealth Superpower," by John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, June 14, 2010

"The Next Power Triangle," by Stephen Kinzer, The American Prospect, June 14, 2010

"Children Carry Guns for a U.S. Ally, Somalia," The New York Times, June 13, 2010

"Joe Biden: In Israel's Service," by Jeffrey Blankfort, Counterpunch, June 11-13, 2010

"Government Deploys Drones to Patrol US-Mexico Border," by Mike Ludwig, Truthout, June 11, 2010

"Private Contractors and Covert Wars in Latin America," by Cyril Mychalejko, Upside Down World, June 10, 2010

"Israel's Gift to Iran's Hard-Liners," by Juan Cole, TruthDig, June 10, 2010

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"Postwar" Occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan

"Trillion-Dollar War," by Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, June 15, 2010

"Timing of Leak of Afghan Mineral Wealth Evokes Scepticism," by Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, June 14, 2010

"False Advertising About the Iraq Surge," by John Agnew & Claudio Guler, Truthout, June 13, 2010

"McChrystal Faces 'Iraq 2006 Moment' in Coming Months," by Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service, June 13, 2010

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Civil Liberties/ Human Rights

"Torture News: Anti-Gitmo Protesters Acquitted; RCMP to Investigate U.S. Officials on Arar Rendition," by Jeffrey Kaye, Invictus, June 15, 2010

"RCMP goes global with Maher Arar torture probe," Toronto Star/Canada, June 14, 2010

"Wanted by the US: WikiLeaks founder keeps his head down," Sydney Morning Herald/Australia, June 14, 2010

"The U.S. wins the right to abduct innocent people with impunity," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, June 14, 2010

"El Paso 'Cat and Mouse' Turns Fatal," by Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss, Consortium News, June 12, 2010

"Suspected Wikileaks Source Described Crisis of Conscience Leading to Leaks," by Kevin Poulsen & Kim Zetter, Wired, June 10, 2010

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Environment and Sustainability

"Obama will order BP to hand over control of oil spill damage claims," Guardian/UK, June 15, 2010

"Panel Sharply Raises Estimate of Oil Spilling Into the Gulf," The New York Times, June 15, 2010

"BP E-mails Show Decisions Pre-Blast to Save 'Lots of Time' and Money," by Marian Wang, ProPublica, June 15, 2010

"BP oil spill may not be capped until Christmas, expert warns," Guardian/UK, June 14, 2010

"The Inside Story of How Obama Let the World's Most Dangerous Oil Company Spiral out of Control," by Amy Goodman and Tim Dickinson, Democracy Now!, June 12, 2010

"Privacy in Peril: Lawyers, Nations Clamor for Google Wi-Fi Data," by David Kravets, Wired, June 11, 2010

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Media

"The media's understanding of its role," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, June 15, 2010

"Israeli Raid Coverage: American Media Failure Again," by Linn Washington, Jr., Counterpunch, June 15, 2010

"Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: On the Actual Ideology of the American Press," by Jay Rosen, PressThink, June 14, 2010

"Journalistic balance at the expense of truth," by Glenn Greenwald, Salon, June 11, 2010

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Activism

"Sierra Club: Pro-Corporate, Anti-Grass Roots," by Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake, June 15, 2010

"ACORN Vindicated of Wrongdoing by the Congressional Watchdog Office," by John Atlas, Huffington Post, June 15, 2010

"'Alternative summits' embody a grass-roots strategy for change," by Antonia Zerbisias, Toronto Star/Canada, June 14, 2010

"D.C. judge acquits 27 Guantanamo protesters - including 4 from Pioneer Valley - of charges from Capitol Hill protest," MassLive, June 14, 2010

"Hunger strikers' American dreams," Guardian/UK, June 11, 2010

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