Today's Stories

October 12, 2010

Ralph Nader
Tricks and Traps in the Fine Print

October 11, 2010

Michael Hudson
Why the U.S. Has Launched a New Financial World World War

Bill Quigley
A Million Haitians Slowly Dying

Linn Washington
American Justice on Trial

Paul Krassner
Eat, Pray, Be Disappointed: an Open Letter to Obama

Jonathan Cook
Israel's Other "Peace" Plan

Cal Winslow
Big Money, the Big Lie and Fear

Sherry Wolf
Why are Liberals Building the Right?

Peter Stone Brown
Brother Solomon Burke

David Michael Green
How Do You Take Your Tea?

Jayne Lyn Stahl
Disclose This

Website of the Day
"Seize the Jail! Tear It Down!!"

October 8 - 10, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
The Soros Syndrome

Paul Craig Roberts
America's Third World Economy

Alain Gresh
What Does a "One State Solution" Really Mean?

Patrick Cockburn
Is Pakistan Falling Apart?

Rannie Amiri
An Evaporating Palestine

Conn Hallinan
Ecuador: Coup or Riot?

Ramzy Baroud
Dying to Win

Saul Landau
Harboring Terrorists

Sam Smith
What's Missing in the Talk About Education Reform

Yvonne Ridley
On the Road to Damascus, Thinking of Monty Python

Ellen Brown
Foreclosuregate: a Massive Fraud

Santwana Dasgupta
A View From the Top of the World

David Macaray Labor Secretaries: Frances and Elaine

Gerald E. Scorse
Tax System Favors Wealth Over Work

Tony Newman
The Perils of Prohibition

David Ker Thomson
Soundtrack for a Beating

Christopher Brauchli
Authentic Dishonesty: Newt and Dinesh Save America!

Jon Mitchell
Oliver North, Ospreys and Agent Orange

Kevin Zeese
The Longest War

Steven Best
Rethinking Revolution

Missy Beattie
Invasion of the Blood-Sucking Bedbugs

Binoy Kampmark
England's Football Inc.

Charles R. Larson
Egypt's Camus?

Kim Nicolini
"Social Network:" Narcissism and Claustrophobia Among the Techno-Elites

Dave Marsh
"American Idiot:" Finally, a Musical That Rocks

David Yearsley
The Dark Side of Musical Enlightenment

Poets' Basement
Three by Peter Branson

Website of the Weekend
Help the Great Michael Fracasso Revolutionize the Music Industry

October 7, 2010

Franklin Lamb
Bracing for Israel's Next Attack on Lebanon

Dean Baker
Currency Wars and Accounting Identities

John Ross
The Torture Bandwagon

Ron Jacobs
A History of Repression

Harvey Wasserman
A Solar Victory and a Military Defeat

Stanley Heller
Timidity on the Mall

Gamal Nkrumah
The Greening of Al Qaeda?

John Blair
Big Coal's Revolving Door in Indiana

Charles R. Larson
What Do Conservatives Read? Questions for the Supreme Court

Website of the Day
The Palestine Chronicle Needs Your Help!

October 6, 2010

Bill Quigley /
Rachel Meeropol
Pennsylvania Has Been Monitoring You!

Jonathan Cook
The Dangers of Recognition

Jeffrey Sommers
Latvia's "Mandate" for Neoliberal Austerity

Jayne Lyn Stahl
Passing the Peace Pipe Instead

Tanya Golash-Boza
Immigration Policy Enforcement and the War on Terror

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
When They Call You "Illegal:" Words, Names and Meg Whitman

Guy Bouthillier
Trudeau's Darkest Hour: Forty Years After Canada's War Measures Act

Alvaro Huerta
The People Who Make Your Garden Grow

Don Monkerud
Republicans at War with America

Website of the Day
Only Lazy Ranchers Blame Wolves

October 5, 2010

Stewart J. Lawrence
Obama Reneges on Key Agreement with Immigration Advocates

Ghania Mouffok Rape City? The Women of Hassi Messaoud

Neve Gordon
Untenurable: the Firing of Ariella Azoulay

Ralph Nader
Rowing for the Planet: Roz Savage Goes Solo

Mark Schuller
Unstable Foundations: Human Rights and Haiti's 1.5 Million Displaced People

David Macaray
Big Leg Up for Labor in Delta Battle

Julie Hilden
The French Criminal Defamation Conviction of Google and Its CEO

Richard Anderson-Connolly
A Voter's Manifesto

Ahmad Barqawi
Confiscating Childhood in the Occupied Territories

John Halle
Heads Up for the Greens

Website of the Day
Busted for Growing Too Many Veggies!

October 4, 2010

Pam Martens
Inside the Flash Crash Report

Stephen Soldz
Guatemalan Research Horrors and US Hypocrisy

Jonathan Cook
Obama's Cave-In to Israel

Mark Weisbrot
Target: Ecuador

Conn Hallinan
Bedding Down With the Devil in Indonesia

Fred Gardner
Non-Psychoactive Pot?

Cpt. Paul Watson
Dying to Amuse Us: Where Do Captive Dolphins Go?

Sarah Knopp
The Suicide of Rigoberto Ruelas

Website of the Day
The Death of Aseel Ashleh

October 1 - 3, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
Obama's Dud Svengali

Ray McGovern
Obama's Men

George Ciccariello-Maher
Ecuador Between Three Wagers

Michael Hudson
"A Financial Coup d'Etat"

Franklin C. Spinney
The Pentagon Game

Wajahat Ali
A Foreclosure Story

Saul Landau
The Nuclear Gang Rides On

Ramzy Baroud
Farewell to Arms

Rannie Amiri
Hariri's House of Cards

Bruce McEwen
When Life Isn't a Video Game

Dave Lindorff
Now the Government is X-Raying You While You Drive

William Blum
In Struggle With the American Mind

David Swanson
The Book the Pentagon Burned

Sherry Wolf
Who Killed Tyler Clementi?

Lawrence Davidson
Overcoming AIPAC is Not Enough

Tanya Golash-Boza
Legalize Them All!

John Severino
The Struggle for Lieu Lieu

Missy Beattie
Politicians and the Prosperity Gospel

Belén Fernandez
How Israel Battles "Barbs of Criticism"

Binoy Kampmark
Miliband and Labor's Conundrum

Mohamed Abdel-Baky
The Coffee Incident: Nasser's Strange Death, 40 Years Later

Elvis Mendéz /
Jeff Napolitano
Marching Off a Cliff on October 2?

David Ker Thomson
We're in For It Now

Charles R. Larson
America's Self-Inflicted Wounds

David Yearsley
Marsalis and His Men

Poets' Basement
Crittenden, Boyce and Gaffney

Website of the Weekend
The Religious Knowledge Quiz

September 30, 2010

Franklin C. Spinney
Peace Process to Nowhere

David Macaray
Teamsters Organize Legal Marijuana Growers

Susan Galleymore
Dumping the Navy Way

Michael D. Yates
Fear and Loathing at Saint Vincent College

Russell Mokhiber
The Grunt Work of Democracy

Eric Walberg
The New Turkey / Russia Axis

Mark Weisbrot
Venezuela's Elections: Why They're Not a Game-Changer

Charles R. Larson
From Il to Un

Website of the Day
Return of the Art Student Spies?

September 29, 2010

Dean Baker
Foreclosure Funny Business

Michael Hudson
America's China Bashing

Martha Rosenberg
Frankensalmon and the FDA

Brian Ehrenpreis
Holbrooke's Hypocrisy on Drones

Michael Winship
Ireland Hits the Skids

George Lakey
"Why Did You Go to Jail?"

Patrick Bond
South Africa is Dead in the Water

Sheldon Richman
The Anti-Anti-Authoritarians

Website of the Day
Socialist Contingent on Oct. 2

September 28, 2010

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh & Karla Hansen
Why Doesn't the US Talk to Iran?

Jonathan Cook
Reasoning Against Peace

Julie Hilden
Is Powell's Bookstore a Criminal Pornographer?

Russell Mokhiber
Massey My Masta

David Macaray
HBO Limited

Stewart J. Lawrence Voice for Immigrants Wins Historic Seat

Brian McKenna
Muckrake Your Town

Laura Flanders
Is the Drug War a Class War?

Linh Dinh
Welcome to the Recovery

Bouthaina Shaaban
You Only Get the Truth From Former Officials

Website of the Day
Committee to Stop FBI Repression

September 27, 2010

Pam Martens
Scientists, Secrets and Wall Street's Lost $4 Trillion

Ron Jacobs
The FBI Raids in Context

Patrick Irelan
The Redistribution of Wealth: Steal From the Poor, Give to the Rich

Greg Moses
How ICE Illegally Deprived Saad Nabeel of His Freshman Year

Dave Lindorff
Spreading Democracy in Afghanistan: One Journalist Arrest at a Time

Jayne Lyn Stahl Ahmadinejad Steals the Show, But Citigroup is the Real Culprit

Uri Avnery
Gandhi's Wisdom: Reflections of a Professional Grumbler

George Wuerthner Wolf Restoration: a Challenge to the Old Guard

James McEnteer
Chile: Miner Problems, Major Paralysis

David Michael Green The Dismantling of Civil Society

Website of the Day
Scrambled Eggs: "Organic" Factory Farms?

September 24 - 26, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
Masturbating on the Edge of the Apocalypse

Paul Craig Roberts
The Collapse of Western Morality

Ishmael Reed
Being Black and "Difficult" in Hollywood: an Interview with Lou Gossett, Jr.

Patrick Cockburn
After the Flood: Six Million Pakistanis Have Lost Everything

Ralph Nader
A Ten Percent Shift? Craven Republicans and Spineless Democrats

Anthony DiMaggio
Are Government Workers Overpaid?

Julien Brygo
Glasgow's Two Nations

Rune Engelbreth Larsen
The Danish Cartoon Affair: How and Why It All Began

Gary Leupp
The Handwriting is on the Wall

Norman Solomon
Higher Consciousness Won't Save Us

Shir Hever
Why Does Israel Still Occupy Palestinians?

Ramzy Baroud
Why Mitchell Said "No" to Hamas

M. Shahid Alam
Zionist Dialectics

David Rosen /
Bruce Kushnick
Cheap Date: the Comcast / NBC Merger

Rannie Amiri
A Blurred Line in Bahrain

Russell Mokhiber
True Majority and Pepsi: Dancing with the Liquid Candy Queen

David Macaray
High Noon for California Nurses

Missy Beattie
Anything Can Happen

Rich Wiles
Ramadan in Aida Camp

David Model
Pragmatic Idealism: Rationalizing Foreign Policy

Harvey Wasserman
Another Feeble-Headed Nuke Drops Dead

Jeff Deasy
The FDA and Frankenfoods

Laura Flanders
Running for the Exits

Jesse Strauss
Lessons From Arizona

Tom Stephens
The Structural Readjustment of Detroit

Binoy Kampmark Going Mad in Delhi

Stephen Martin
Money, Inc.

Charles R. Larson
Red Capitalism in Vietnam

David Yearsley
Jewels of Silent Film Music

Poets' Basement
Davies and Chaet

Website of the Weekend
How to Lose a Million Jobs

September 23, 2010

Doug Peacock
Global Warming, Killer Bears?

Dana Frank
Repression's Reward in Honduras?

Mark Weisbrot
The Rightwing Upsurge in the U.S.: Less Than Meets the Eye?

John LaForge
The End of Combat My Eye

Martha Rosenberg Animal Experimentation Funny? Yes, Says This Researcher

Jay Arena
Return to Iberville: Birthplace of Jazz, Graveyard of Public Housing?

Alvaro Huerta
The Curious Case of Latino Republicans

James Rothenberg Managed Misconceptions

Website of the Day
FBI Tailed Iowa Groups

September 22, 2010

Conn Hallinan
The Real Merchants of Death

Joanne Mariner
When Machines Kill

Jonathan Cook
Locking Up Activists

Ron Jacobs
New Orleans After the Press Went Home

Jonathan M. Feldman
Why the Swedish Left Lost

Shamus Cooke
The Bi-Partisan Attack on Public Workers

Michael Winship
Where's Ed Newman When You Need Him?

Anthony Papa
Rejecting Paris

Website of the Day
Hollywood Through Yul Brynner's Camera

September 21, 2010

John Ross
The Next Mexican Revolution

Dean Baker
The Terrible Tale of TARP

Steve Breyman
The Myth That Kills

Robert Bryce
The Real Problems With Wind Energy

Yvonne Ridley
Condemned by Their Silence

Jesse Strauss
Fallout From the Mesherle Verdict

Bouthaina Shaaban
Democracy in Arab Eyes

Binoy Kampmark
Switzerland and the Criminal Mind

Website of the Day
Revisiting the Black Panthers

September 20, 2010

Michael Hudson
Where is the World Economy Headed?

Gareth Porter
Bait-and-Switch in Afghanistan

Dave Lindorff /
Linn Washington
New Tests Show Key Witnesses Lied at Mumia Abu Jamal Trial

Pam Martens
A Whistleblowing Mom and Goldman Sachs Plaintiffs Confront the Same the Reality

Ralph Nader
Safer at Most Speeds

Stephen Crawford /
Shawn Fremstad
A Better Way to Measure Poverty

Marjorie Cohn
The Persecution of Pfc. Bradley Manning

Lawrence Davidson
Martin Peretz in Love

Steve Early
Scoundrel Time at Kaiser

Jayne Lyn Stahl
The Scandal That Wasn't

Website of the Day
The Lesser Evil

September 17 - 19, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
Autumn of the Driveler

James B. Rule Elizabeth Warren's Challenge: the Banks and Their Protectors

Saul Landau /
Nelson Valdés
The Confessions of Roger Noriega

Ishmael Reed
Why Some White Progressives Make Me Sick: Black Men and the White Left

Mike Whitney
Housing: The Swelling Backlog

Diana Johnstone
Serbia Surrenders Kosovo to the EU

Rannie Amiri
The Saudi Arms Deal: Stirring Persian Gulf Waters

David Rosen
Tea Party Panic: the Fear of Sex, Race and Inter-racial "Pollution"

Ramzy Baroud
Regarding US Muslims: a Misguided Debate

Richard Phelps
Burning and Building

Sheldon Richman
They Died for Iran

Alan J. Singer
Beware the Jabberwockies

Margaret Kimberley
The Charter School Con

David Tresilian
On the Trail of "Blood Diamonds"

Missy Beattie
American Graffiti

Mark Weisbrot
The Future of the Internet

Marco Antonio Martínez García
Pollution Knows No Borders

Stewart J. Lawrence
Rolling the Dice on Immigration Reform

Linh Dinh
Kill Them: Michael Enright's America

Jim Goodman
The Food Crisis is Not About a Food Shortage

Abdel-Moneim Said An Aesthetic Desert: Egypt's Stolen Van Gogh

John Grant
The Farce That Keeps on Giving in Afghanistan

Robert Jereski
Banning Methane Mining

Billy Wharton
Street Politics on 9/11

Shahid Mahmood
The Cartoonist and the Pastor

Charles R. Larson
You Are What You Think

David Yearsley
Unexpected Encounters With Greatness

Poets' Basement
Taylor, Cirino and Crissman

Website of the Weekend
Gogol Bordello: Immigraniada

September 16, 2010

Laura Carlsen
Plan Colombia for Mexico

Alexander Cockburn
Remembering Ben Sonnenberg

Clancy Sigal
The Poor Man's Artillery: What IEDs Can Do

Gareth Porter
Blowback in Kandahar

Patrick Cockburn
Pakistan Flood Survivors Now Face Threat of Malaria

Philippe Marlière
France's Great Pension Swindle

Lawrence Davidson The Great Muslim Scare: Here Come the True Believers

John Severino
In Chile, Two Kinds of Terrorism

Website of the Day
The Gitmo 176

September 15, 2010

Mike Whitney
Doomsday for Lehman

Alan Nasser
Driving Another Nail Into the Coffin of the New Deal

Nelson P. Valdés
The Cuban Model and Castro's "Confession"

David Correia
If Only Glenn Beck Were a Cyborg: Inside the Singularity Movement

Ron Jacobs
The Dutchman and Pastor Jones

Saif Shahin
Iran: War Talk, Peace Talk

Shamus Cooke
When Corporations Own Congress

Michael Winship
Escaping Tolerance

Mohamed Abdel-Baky
Egypt Going Nuclear

Betsy Ross
No Bull

Charles R. Larson
The Politics of Onanism: the Anti-Masturbation Candidate

Website of the Day
Tools for Radicals

September 14, 2010

Kathy Kelly
Banning Slaughter

Israel Shamir /
Paul Bennett
Assange Besieged

Esam Al-Amin
Three Sides of the Qu'ran Burning Triangle

Dean Baker
Economist Failure: the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

Stewart J. Lawrence
Have Immigration Activists Won the Battle But Lost the War?

Benjamin Dangl
Chile's Ghosts

David Macaray
When the Work Breaks You Down

Sheldon Richman
Obama the Neoconservative

P. Sainath
How Right You Are, Prime Minister!

Harvey Wasserman
Is the Nuclear Renaissance Dead Yet?

Website of the Day
Unseal Nixon's Grand Jury Testimony

September 13, 2010

Michael Hudson Obama's Thatcherite Gift to the Banks

Mike Whitney
The Hyper-Inflation Mirage

Mark Weisbrot
The Venezuelan Economy: the Media Gets It Wrong Again

Michael Barker
Foundations and the Environmental Movement: an Interview with Daniel Faber

Ralph Nader
Doomsday for Democrats?

Michael Dalton
Return to the Cove of Blood: a Report From Taiji

Marjorie Cohn
Business as Usual in Iraq

Richard Trumka
How the Corporados Wrecked Retirement

Dave Lindorff
Growth Has Little to Do With Jobs or Reducing Poverty

David Michael Green
I Have a Dream

Website of the Day
The Blues Collective