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The Archives -- 2008

 

August 5, 2008

 

Anthrax Update. Glenn Greenwald: Vital Unresolved Anthrax Questions and ABC News. Salon.com.  Also James Gordon Meek: FBI Was Told to Blame Anthrax on Al Qaeda by White House Officials, New York Daily News .

Bush Above the Law. Glenn Greenwald: A Federal Court Rejects Bush's "Executive Privilege" Claims. Salon.com.

China/Olympics. David Glenn Cox: Be Careful What You Wish For. Daily Kos.

Civil Liberties/Domestic Spying. Glenn Greenwald: Things I Learned Today About Democracy. Salon.com.  Also Nick Juliano: Watchdog: Bush Turning Intelligence Agencies on Americans. Raw Story.

Civil Rights.  Sean Gonsalves:  Banned in the USA?, Common Dreams.

Corporations.  Barbara L. Minton:  Crisis Looms as Corporations Seize Control of Commodities. NaturalNews.com via Common Dreams.

Corruption.  Bill Moyers and Michael Winship:  The Wave of  "Capitol Crimes" Continues, The Smirking Chimp.

Democrats.  Steven Rosenfeld: Can Obama Turn the Democratic Party Upside Down...,   Alternet.

Economy.  William Greider:  America's Economic Free Fall,  AlterNet.

Economy. Robert MacMillan: Hundreds of Banks Will Fail, Roubini Tells Barron's, Reuters.

Election 2008.  Ira Chernus:  Will the Big Winner of 2008 Once Again Be a Conservative Culture-Wars Narrative?,   TomDispatch.

Election 2008.  Allan Uthman:  Top 10 Idiocies of the General Election...So Far, The Smirking Chimp.

Election 2008.  David Michael Green:  Barackis Dukakis?  McCain Slings from the Sewer While Obama Says Little, The Smirking Chimp.

Election 2008.  Guy Reel:  McCain Unhinged: The Must Issue for the Obama Campaign,  Common Dreams.

Election 2008/Republicans. Digby: On Dogwhistles . Digby Blog.  Also Sam Stein: Gergen: McCain Using Code Words To Attack Obama As "Uppity".  Huffington Post. And Plaid Adder: McCain's Mad Men. Democratic Underground.

Electoral Fraud. Larisa Alexandrovna: Documents Show Georgia Secretary of State Knew of Diebold Patch. Raw Story. 

Energy.  Environmental News Service: Solar Power Breakthrough Stores Energy for Later Use,  ENS.

 

Energy.  Bruce Molhoit: Nukes Can't Work, Sen. McCain,  Philadelphia Daily News.

Environment.  Al Meyerhoff:  The Loss of Billions of Bees Raises Questions About Our Pesticide Controls, Los Angeles Times.

Fascism in America. Tim Rutten: The Putsch That Imperiled America. Los Angeles Times.  Also Sherwood Ross: Has America Become Fascist?.  After Downing Street.

Foreign Relations.  John Shattuck:  How the US Can Get its Groove Back, Boston Globe.

Global Warming.  Johann Hari: The WMD That Really Should be Worrying Us...,  The Independent (UK).

Impeachment.  John W. Dean:  Kucinich's Impeachment Resolution, the Parallel to Nixon, and Why Even Nixon's Defenders Finally Abandoned Him, Findlaw via The Smirking Chimp.

Impeachment. Dave Lindorff: Friday’s House Judiciary Hearing on Impeachment: A Victory and a Challenge. Common Dreams.

Infrastructure Repairs. Eric Lotke: Collapsing Bridges, Sinking Levees. It's (Past) Time to Invest. truthout.

International Law.  David Swanson: Prosecuting Bush and Cheney, Smirking Chimp.

Iran. Think Progress: To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them . Think Progress.   Also  Mark Karlin: Corporate Media Ignores White House Planning of "False Flag" Operations to Trigger War with Iran, BuzzFlash.

Iran. Juan Cole: Why Bush Folded on Iran. Salon.com. 

Iran.  Chris Hedges: A War of Self-Destruction, TruthDig.com.

Iraq Occupation. Bennett Kelley: Bush Reveals True Reason for War in Push for Iraqi Agreement. Democratic Underground.  Also Jason Linkins: Rice Adviser: Iraq Invasion Was "F*cking Stupid".  The Huffington Post.

Iraq Occupation. Robert Dreyfuss: Iraq on the Edge. The Nation.  Also David Swanson: The Two Facts War Supporters Are Least Likely to Know. After Downing Street.

Iraq Occupation. Juan Cole: Forget the Surge -- Violence Is Down in Iraq Because Ethnic Cleansing Was Brutally Effective. AlterNet.  Also Patrick Cockburn: Who's Really Running Iraq?: Home Truths You'll Never Read in the Press, CounterPunch.

John McCain.  Jonathan Alter: Where Have You Gone, John?,  Newsweek.

John McCain. Billmon: The Great White Hope. Daily Kos.  Also Josh Marshall: How Low Can He Go?.  Talking Points Memo.  And John Hellemann: The Low-Road Warrior . New York Magazine.

John McCain.  Joseph A. Palermo:  John McCain: the "Great White Hope," The Huffington Post.

John McCain.  Brent Budowsky:  McCain, Media Allies Play the Uppity Black Card..  The Smirking Chimp.

John McCain.  Bob Burnett:  The Trash Talk Express, The Smirking Chimp.

John McCain. Jonathan Alter: Where Have You Gone, John?, Newsweek.

John McCain.  Sridhar Pappu:  Maverick McCain Turns Mean, The Washington Independent.

John McCain/Religion.  Matt Taibbi:  McCain Doesn't Have a Prayer, AlterNet.

Media.  Robert Parry:  Big Media Hectors Obama on 'Surge,'  consortiumnews.com.

Media/Barack Obama.  Robert Parry:  Washington Post Calls Out 'Uppity' Obama,  The Smirking Chimp.

Media/Election 2008.  Glenn Greenwald:  Karl Rove's Media Birds Chirp About Obama's 'Arrogance'. Salon.com via Common Dreams.

Barack Obama.  Glenn Hurowitz: It's Time for Obama to Get Tough, Alternet.

Barack Obama/John McCain. Bob Herbert: Running While Black. The New York Times.

Religion.  Nathan Schneider:  Despite Overwhelming Evidence, Creationists Cling to Unreality, AlterNet.

Republicans.  Brian Morton:  The Next Republican Administration. The Smirking Chimp.

Republicans/Birth Control. Boston Globe Editorial: A New Attack on Birth Control. Boston Globe.

Right Wing.  Joshua Holland:  Did Right-Wing Shock Jocks Motivate Knoxville Killer?, AlterNet.

Terrorism. Rand Corporation: How Terrorist Groups End: Implications for Countering al Qa'ida. Rand Corporation.

Torture/Military Tribunals. Ronald Dworkin: Why It Was a Great Victory. New York Review of Books.  Also Alan Brinkley: Review of Jane Mayer's "The Dark Side" . The New York Times.

Torture. Eugene Robinson: A Torture Paper Trail . Washington Post.  Also Digby: The Power of Sustained Memory. Digby Blog

 

 

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July 29, 2008

 

Bush Crimes. Sherwood Ross: Some 140 Federal and State Attorneys Could Prosecute Bush for Murder   True Blue Liberal.

The Crisis/Above the Law.  Jane Mayer: The Battle for a Country's Soul, The New York Review of Books.

Dissent.  Robert Parry:  The Endless Smearing of Joe Wilson, The Smirking Chimp.

Domestic Spying. Tim Shorrock: Exposing Bush's Historic Abuse of Power. Salon.com.

Downing Street Memos. Meteor Blades: Blast from the Past: Downing Street Memo: July 23, 2002. Daily Kos.

Economy.  Paul Krugman: Another Temporary Fix, New York Times.  Also, Carolyn Lochhead: Concern Grows Over a Fiscal Crisis for U.S. San Francisco Chronicle.

Election Fraud/Election 2008. Steven Rosenfeld: Three States Accused of Illegally Purging Voter Lists. AlterNet.  Also Brad Friedman: Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not "Take the Fall" for Election Fraud in Ohio Says Attorney . Brad Blog, and Greg Palast; Obama Doesn't Sweat. He Should., Greg Palast Blog.

Fascism.  Robert Parry:  Gitmo 'Justice' for US Citizens?, The Smirking Chimp.

Global Warming.  Dave Lindorff: We're a Nation of Lemmings, The Smirking Chimp.  

Impeachment. Glenn Greenwald: The Parade of "Shrill, Unserious Extremists" on Display at Today's Impeachment Hearings. Salon.com.  Also John W. Dean: Congressman Kucinich's Impeachment Resolution, the Parallel to Nixon, and Why Even Nixon's Defenders Finally Abandoned Him, FindLaw.

Impeachment.  David Swanson:  Congress Hears Ringing Call for Impeachment, The Smirking Chimp.

Intelligence/Domestic Spying. Chalmers Johnson: The Military-Industrial Complex: It's Much Later Than You Think, Tom Dispatch.

Internet. Kevin Parkinson: Death of Free Internet Is Imminent: Canada Will Become Test Case. Information Clearing House.

Iran/Fascism in America. Digby: Don't You Dare. Digby Blog.  Also Gary Leupp: War With Iran? State Department Realists vs. Cheney's Ultras, CounterPunch.

 Iraq Occupation. Gareth Porter: You Need Uncle Sam, Iraq Told, Asia Times.

John McCain. Earl G.: The Top Ten Conservative Idiots, Democratic Underground.

John McCain.  David Michael Green:  McCain Melts Down {Ronald McDonald Rejects VP Offer), The Smirking Chimp.

John McCain/Foreign Policy.  Bill Gallagher:  Obama Should Question McCain's Inept Foreign Policy Judgments, Niagara Falls Reporter.

John McCain/Internet.  Mark Morford:  John McCain, Please Log On. San Francisco Chronicle via Common Dreams.

John McCain/Iraq Occupation. Greg Sargent: Critic or Cheerleader: The Definitive McCain Iraq Timeline. Talking Points Memo Election Central.  Also Matt Taibbi: McCain Doesn't Have a Prayer, AlterNet.

John McCain. Digby: Codpiece Delusion. Digby Blog.  Also Carolyn Lochhead: It's 1980 All Over Again. San Francisco Chronicle.

John McCain/Media.  Jamison Foser:  Carrying McCain's Water Is Heavy Lifting, Media Matters.

Media.  Eric Boehlert:  The AP Has a Ron Fournier Problem, The Smirking Chimp.

Media/Censorship.  Michael Kamber and Tim Arango: 4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images, The New York Times.

Middle East.  Eric Margolis:  Why We Should Pay Attention:  The Facts About the Mideast Nuclear Scare, The Smirking Chimp.

Moral Issues.  David Swanson:  American Samaritans, The Smirking Chimp.

Nuclear Waste. Dr. Doug Rokke: 6700 Tons of Radioactive Debris Shipped From Kuwait to Idaho. OpEdNews.

Barack Obama. Frank Rich: How Obama Became Acting President, New York Times.

Barack Obama.  Joe Bageant:  Life in the Post Political Age, The Smirking Chimp.

Barack Obama/FISA Bill. John W. Dean: Barack Obama and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments. FindLaw.  Also Robert Scheer: Obama on the Brink. Truthdig.

Right Wing.  Dave Johnson:  "Who Sent You?" -- The Coming Attack on Obama.  The Smirking Chimp.

Russia. Charley Reese: Pull the Plug on the War State, Antiwar.

Sex Education/Bush Policies.  Sarah Wildman:  The Global War on Sex Education, The Guardian/UK via Common Dreams.

Terrorism.  Dave Lindorff:  Mukasey's Excellent Idea:  War All the Time, Enemy Combatants Everywhere, The Smirking Chimp.

Torture.  Sean Gonsalves:  The Gulag Americano. Common Dreams.

Torture. Spencer Ackerman: New Torture Memo Shields Interrogators. Washington Independent.  Also Jason Leopold: Secret "Torture Memo" Gave Legal Cover to Interrogators Who Acted in "Good Faith". OpEdNews.

Torture.  Michael Winship:  The Torturing Company We Keep, Consortium News.

U.S. and China. G. Asgar Mitha: The Empire and China. Countercurrents.

War Crimes.  Liliana Segura:  Iraqi Vets Testify to War Atrocities, Vow to Fight and Resist Bush Policy, AlterNet.

 

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July 22, 2008

 

Afghanistan. dday: Whither Afghanistan? . Digby Blog.   Also Tom Hayden: Obama Wants to Shrink One War, But Expand Two Others. AlterNet.  Also Juan Cole: Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan: A Friendly Critique. Juan Cole Blog.

Bush Administration/Above the Law.  Eric Umansky:  The Dark Side:  Jane Mayer on How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals,  AlterNet.

Bush Beyond the Law. Glenn Greenwald: Political Harmony v. the Rule of Law: An Easy Choice for the Political, Salon.

Bush Crimes/Democrats. Glenn Greenwald: The Motivation for Blocking Investigations Into Bush Lawbreaking. Salon.com.   Also Carrie Johnson: Administration Wanted Loyalist [Yoo] As Justice Dept. Legal Adviser. Washington Post.

Dick Cheney. James Gerstenzang: Report Links Cheney Office, Oil Giant to Global Warming Policy Shift. Los Angeles Times.  Also T.D. Allman: The Curse of Dick Cheney. Rolling Stone.

Civil Liberties. Glenn Greenwald: Accountability Now and Strange Bedfellows: The Strategy and Rationale. Salon.com.  Also Glenn Greenwald: Al-Marri and the Power to Imprison U.S. Citizens Without Charges. Salon.com.

Corruption.  Bill Moyers and Michael Winship:  Mother's Milk of Politics Turns Sour, The Smirking Chimp.

Corruption/Hypocrisy.  Robert Scheer:  The Real Legacy of the "Reagan Revolution," Truthdig.

The Crisis/Economic Justice.  Olga Bonfiglio: You Say You Want a Revolution? CommonDreams.

Economy. F. William Engdahl: The Financial Tsunami: The Next Big Wave Is Breaking. Online Journal.  Also Robert Freeman: Why the Economy Is Gloomier Than We Are. Common Dreams.

Economy. Martin Weiss: Fannie Mae Collapsing! Paulson, Bernanke in Despair!. Money and Markets. Also Walter Brasch: It's Still the Economy, Stupid . Online Journal.

Economy.  Kevin Phillips:  Lies, Damn Lies and Government Inflation Statistics. The Huffington Post.

Election Fraud. Brad Friedman: Ohio Attorney Files to Lift Stay on '04 Election Case, Cites Allegations, Evidence of Massive Fraud by a Number of GOP Operatives. Brad Blog.  Also Larisa Alexandrovna/Muriel Kane: GOP Cyber-Security Expert Suggests Diebold Tampered With 2002 Election [in Georgia]. Raw Story.

Election Fraud. Michael Collins: Election Fraud and Tyranny, Part 2. Scoop.

Energy.  Al Gore:  A Generational Challenge to Repower America. The Huffington Post via Common Dreams.

Energy/Al Gore. David Stout: Gore Calls for Carbon-Free Electric Power [by 2018]. The New York Times.

Impeachment. Maya Schenwar: Interview With Rep. Dennis Kucinich. truthout.

Iran.  Tom Engelhardt:  Reality Bites Back:  Why the U.S. Won't Attack Iran. TomDispatch via The Smirking Chimp.

Iraq Occupation/Election 2008.  Lawrence Korb: Contrasting Goals in Iraq, Boston Globe.  Also Leonard Doyle: Bush to Hasten Iraq Troop Withdrawal in Bid to Help McCain Win White House. Independent (U.K.).

Iraq Occupation/Barack Obama. Juan Cole: Obama in Iraq; Der Spiegel Proves al-Maliki Story Correct, Juan Cole Blog.

John McCain.  Johann Hari:  We Have Everything to Fear From McCain. The Independent/UK via Common Dreams.

John McCain/Economy. Jonathan Chait: The Illusionist. The New Republic.  Also David Corn: Foreclosure Phil. Mother Jones.  And Dean Baker: Drilling Without Oil, Tax Cuts Without Growth . truthout. 

Media.  Eric Boehlert: Obama and McCain Coverage: "Nuts" or a "Disgrace"?, Smirking Chimp.

Media.  Chris Hedges:  So Goes the Newsroom, the Empire and the World, TruthDig.com.

Middle East. Glenn Greenwald: Rending Public Opinion Irrelevant, Salon. Also Rabbi Michael Lerner: My Talk with the Saudis, OpEdNews.

Military.  William Astore:  Having the "Best Military" Is Not Always a Good Thing, Tomdispatch.com.

Economic Justice.  Matt Taibbi: Economic Realities are Killing our Era of Fantasy Politics, RollingStone.com.

NeoCons.  Siv O'Neall: Are Americans a Superior Breed of People?,  Axis of Logic.

Barack Obama.  George Lakoff:  The Mind and the Obama Magic, The Huffington Post via Common Dreams.

Barack Obama/Foreign Policy. Barack Obama: Vision for an Effective Foreign and Military Policy: The Complete Text. American Politics Journal.  Also [Full Text of an Earlier, Different Speech by Obama on Foreign Policy]. Talking Points Memo.  And Roberto Lovato: As Obama Heads to Middle East and Europe, Let's Talk About U.S. Imperialism.  AlterNet.

Obama/McCain/Economy.  Frank Rich: It's the Economic Stupidity, Stupid, New York Times.  Also Paul Krugman: L-ish Economic Prospects  . The New York Times.

Right Wing.  Eric Lotke:  Downsizing Government to Death. Los Angeles Times via Common Dreams.

Karl Rove. Empty Wheel (Marcy Wheeler): Fitzgerald Learned Rove Was Trying to Fire Him in 2005 ­ While Rove Was Still Under Investigation. Firedoglake.

Terrorism/U.S. As Empire. Steve Weissman: Bring Me the Head of Osama bin Laden. truthout.

Torture. dday: This Week in Torture: The Village Speaks. Digby Blog.

Torture.  Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern:  "Justifying" Torture: Two big Lies, Consortiumnews.com.

War Crimes. Scott Shane: Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of C.I.A. Torture of Qaeda Captives . The New York Times.

War Crimes.  Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith:  Nine Reasons to Investigate War Crimes Now, The Nation.
 

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July 8 - 15, 2008

 

Above the Law.  Robert Parry:  Bush's "Wonderland" Logic. The Smirking Chimp.

Bush Administration.  Brad Reed:  The 10 Most Awesomenly Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency. AlterNet.

Bush Administration/Media.  Jason Miller:  The Toddler King's In sufferable Reign is Doomed. The Smirking Chimp.

Dick Cheney/Environment. Juliet Eilperin: Cheney Aides Altered CDC Testimony, Agency Official Says. Washington Post.  Also Juliet Eilperin: EPA Seeks Comment on Emissions Rules, Then Discredits Effort. Washington Post. 

Conservatives/G.W. Bush. Jon Carroll: [Bush: Protector of Mammon]. San Francisco Chronicle. 

Corruption/Economic Justice.  Michael Fox:  Petrofraud and the New Depression. The Smirking Chimp.

The Crisis.  Chris Hedges:  Surviving the Fourth of July,  TruthDig.com via Common Dreams.

The Crisis.  Naomi Klein:  Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion, The Nation.

Democrats/FISA Law. Glenn Greenwald: The Obama Campaign's Past Two Weeks. Salon.com.  Also Glenn Greenwald: Democrats' Strategy: Strength Through Bowing . Salon.com. 

Domestic Spying. Eric Lichtblau: Judge Rejects Bush's View on Wiretaps. The New York Times. Also Glenn Greenwald: The Al-Haramain Ruling and the Current Congress. Salon.com.

Economics.  E. J. Dionne: The Death of Reagonomics,  Truthout.

Economy.  Stephen Pizzo:  Freedom:  Nothing Left to Lose. The Smirking Chimp.

Economy.  Robert Freeman:  Why the Economy is Gloomier Than We Are, Common Dreams.

Election 2008/FISA Law. Kos: Clinton, Obama, and FISA . Daily Kos.  Also Ryan Singel: AT&T Whistleblower: Spy Bill Creates "Infrastructure for a Police State". Wired. 

Election 2008/McCain/Obama. Josh Marshall: Stepping Back . Talking Points Memo. 

Electoral Fraud/Republicans.   Michael Collins: Election Fraud and Tyranny, Part 1: A Review of Mark Crispin Miller's "Loser Take All", Scoop (N.Z.)  Also, Steven Rosenfeld: Republican Campaign Against Likely Democratic Voters Begins. AlterNet.

Electoral Integrity.  Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman:  Three key ways YOU can Help Protect the 2008 Election. The Smirking Chimp.

Energy Policy.  Stephen Pizzo and Jimmy Carter:  Ignored, Scorned, Belittled and ...Right. The Smirking Chimp.

Environment.  Lorna Salzman:  How the Environmental Movement Might Have Succeeded. The Smirking Chimp.

Environment.  George Monbiot:  Trawlermen Cling on as Oceans Empty of Fish - And the Ecosystem is Gasping. The Guardian/UK via Common Dreams.

Environment.  Pierre Tristam:  'American Earth' Extols Environmentalism's Legacy, The Smirking Chimp.

Environment.  Ed Naha:  Welcome to Hell. The Smirking Chimp.

FISA.  Chris Hedges:  Stop the New FISA. Los Angeles Times via Common Dreams.

FISA Law. Glenn Greenwald: Aug. 8, 1974 vs. July 9, 2008. Salon.com.  Also Glenn Greenwald: Interview With ACLU re: Constitutional Challenge to New FISA Law. Salon.com. 

Global Warming. David Perlman: Greenhouse Gases Called Threat to Pacific Life. San Francisco Chronicle.  Also Amy W: ...Bush Admin Puts Brakes on Solar Projects . BuzzFlash.

Impeachment.  Elizabeth de la Vega:  Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment:  A Three-Part Guide, The Public Record via The Smirking Chimp.

Internet.  Mark Morford:  Your are Not Reading Enough...,  San Francisco Chronicle.

Iran. Amy Goodman: Sy Hersh: Congress Is Funding Major Escalation in Secret Operations Against Iran. AlterNet.  Also Jonathan Karl: Pentagon Official Warns of Israeli Attack on Iran. ABC News. And Uzi Mahnaiami: President George W. Bush Backs Israeli Plan for Strike on Iran, Sunday Times of London (U.K.).

Iran. Uri Avnery: Why Not? [Attack Won't Happen], Scoop (N.Z.).

Iran-Contra. Robert Parry: Iran-Contra's "Lost Chapter". Consortium News.

Iraq Occupation. Robert Dreyfuss: Maliki Stunner: He Wants U.S. Pullout Timetable . The Nation.  Also James Hider: Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Demands U.S. Withdrawal Timetable. Times of London (U.K.). And Juan Cole: Saghir: Timetable Demand Not a Tactic. Juan Cole Blog. 

Iraq Occupation/Barack Obama. Juan Cole: Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan: A Friendly Critique, Juan Cole Blog.

Iraq Occupation/Public Opinion. Glenn Greenwald: Beltway Myth: "The Left-Wing Base" vs. "the American People" on Iraq. Salon.com. 

Law.  Thad Williamson:  Top Ten Things You May Have Forgotten About the Declaration of Independence. Common Dreams.

John McCain.  Joe Conason:  What John McCain Didn't Learn in Vietnam. Salon.com via Common Dreams.

John McCain. Max Bergmann: 10 McCain Gaffes from This Week That Should Have Damaged His Chances. The Huffington Post. Also Steve Benen: John McCain: 61 Flip-Flops and Counting. AlterNet. 

John McCain/Social Security. Josh Marshall: McCain: Don't Get All Grammary on Me!. Talking Points Memo.  Also Bill Scher: Here's a Little Straight Talk, My Friends. John McCain Hates Social Security. Our Future.  And Frank James: McCain Campaign's New Karl Rove Look. Swamp Politics. 

John McCain/Corruption.  Bill Hare:  Phil Gramm: Corporate Prostitute in Residence,  Smirking Chimp.

Media. Bill Moyers: Is the Fourth Estate a Fifth Column? . In These Times. 

Medicare/Ted Kennedy. Paul Krugman: Kennedy's Big Day. New York Times. 

Military.  Daniel Ellsberg:  Learning From Past Disasters, Preventing Future Ones. Common Dreams.

North Korea. Mike Whitney: North Korea Smackdown: How the "Dear Leader" Blackmailed Bush. Information Clearing House.

Barack Obama/FISA.  John W. Dean:  Barack Obama and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments.  FindLaw via The Smirking Chimp.

Barack Obama. Al Giordano: Smart Dissent. NarcoSphere.  Also Naomi Klein: Obama's Chicago Boys. The Nation. 

Barack Obama. Norman Solomon: Obama and the Progressive Base. truthout. Also Paul Krugman: The Obama Agenda. The  New York Times.  Also Gail Collins: The Audacity of Listening. The New York Times. 

Barack Obama. Digby: The Lurch, Digby Blog.   Also Digby: When Centrism Is Good,  Digby Blog.

Barack Obama/Iraq Occupation.  Barack Obama: My Plan for Iraq, New York Times. Also David Swanson: Obama's Plan for Iraq, www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34753 . After Downing Street.

Oil Politics/Iraq Occupation. Bill Van Auken: Big Oil Cashes In on Iraq Slaughter. World Socialist Web Site.  Also Noam Chomsky: Bush & Cheney Always Saw Iraq as a Sweetheart Oil Deal. AlterNet.  And Andrew Kramer: U.S. Advised Iraqi Ministry on Oil Deals. The New York Times. 

Public Opinion.  Rick Shenkman:  How Ignorant Are We?  The Voters Choose...  but on the Basis of What?,  Tom Dispatch.

Russia. Stephen F. Cohen: Wrong on Russia. International Herald-Tribune via CounterCurrents.

Torture. Scott Shane: Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of C.I.A. Torture of Qaeda Captives. The New York Times.

Torture. Frank Rich: The Real-Life "24" of Summer 2008, New York Times.  Also Glenn Greenwald: Torture and the Rule of Law,  Salon.com.

Treason.  Joseph L. Galloway:  How Dare They Rip the Fourth Amendment? McClatchy Newspapers via Common Dreams.

 

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July 1, 2008

 

 

Above the Law.  David Swanson: Under Penalty of Punishment, The Smirking Chimp.

 

George W. Bush.  Ed Naha:  Not with a bang, but with a chimp, The Smirking Chimp.

Bush Above the Law/The Constitution. Digby: The Inspiration, Digby Blog.

Corporations/Supreme Court. Greg Palast: Court Rewards Exxon for Valdez Spill, Greg Palast Blog.

Crisis/Corporations.  Jon Faulkner: The Corporate Undoing of America,   The Smirking Chimp.

Democrats. Kos: 2010 Will Be Primary Season, Daily Kos.  Also Digby: Putting the Dogs Outside,.Digby Blog.  And Trapper John: What Orange to Blue Is All About, Daily Kos.

Dissent.  Matthew Smucker:  What is to be Done?  Assessing the Antiwar Movement, Common Dreams.

Economy/Economic Justice. Michael T. Klare: Anatomy of a Price Surge, The Nation.

Electoral Integrity.  David Swanson:  Common Sense is Overrated, The Smirking Chimp.

 

Election 2008/Democrats. Digby: The Center Fetish, Digby Blog.

Energy Crisis.  Brent Budowsky:  The Next Moon Shot, The Smirking Chimp.

Environment/Bush Administration. Felicity Barr: White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail, New York Times.

Fascism.  Robert Parry:  Defending the President as Tyrant,  The Smirking Chimp.

FISA Bill. Hunter: The Democrats and FISA: Flushing The Law, Then Declaring Victory, Daily Kos. Also Lt. Col. Charlie Brown: What Warrantless Wiretapping Means to Me, Daily Kos.

Global Warming.  Mike Davis: Living on the Ice Shelf.  Humanity's Meltdown,  Common Dreams.

Global Warming. James Hansen: Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near On Global Warming,. Huffington Post.  Also  David Korten: Will the Last Superpower Recognize In Time What We Must Do to Save the Planet?, Yes Magazine via AlterNet.

Global Warming.  Steve Connor:  No Ice at the North Pole...,  The Independent (UK).

 

Iran.  Seymour Hersh: Preparing the Battlefield: The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran, The New Yorker.

Iran. Gary Leupp: Congress Rushes to Encourage Iran Attack, Dissident Voice. Also Jason Leopold: Ex-Weapons Inspector: U.S. Will Attack Iran, Scoop (N.Z.). And Yaakov Katz: Security and Defense: Not Leaving the Nuclear Threat Up in the Air, Jerusalem Post.

Iran.  Peter Beaumont (et al): Shadow of War Looms as Israel Flexes its Muscle, The Guardian (UK).

Iraq Occupation. James Glanz: Government Study Criticizes Bush Administration's Measures of Progress in Iraq, New York Times. Also, Julian Barnes: Good News and Bad in Iraq, Los Angeles Times.

Iraq Occupation. Robert Weller: U.S. Army Report Says Iraq Occupation Bungled, Associated Press via Calgary Sun.

Iraq Occupation/Media. Frank Rich: Now That We've "Won," Let's Come Home, New York Times.

Lies.  Cy Bolton.  How Does President Bush Lie?..., Los Angeles Times.

 

Military.  Alicia Morgan: Worse Than Dying -- Part II,  The Smirking Chimp.

 

Military Industrial Complex.  Robert Scheer:  Wasteful Weapons and the Politicians Who Love Them, Truthdig.

John McCain. Progressive Media USA: John McSame,. Progressive Media USA.

Barack Obama.  David Michael Green: Now Comes the Hard Part, The Smirking Chimp.

Barack Obama. RJ Eskow: The Daschleization of Barack Obama -- Or, How to Lose Your Balance By Centering Yourself, Smirking Chimp. Also Gore Vidal: Taking Back the Republic, Counter Currents.

Barack Obama. Stephen Fleischman: Which Side Are You On?,  The Smirking Chimp.

 

Oil Politics.  Mike Whitney:  Gas Pump Gouging: Don't Blame he Studies, The Smirking Chimp.

 

Oil Politics/Economy.  Eric Margolis:  Gas up while it's a bargain: Oil prices have nowhere to go but up,  The Smirking Chimp.

Oil Politics/Iraq Occupation. Bill Moyers/Michael Winship: It Was Oil, All Along, Truthout.

Politizing DoJ: Carrie Johnson: Report Says Partisanship Reigned in Justice Department Hiring Program, Washington Post.

Terrorism as GOP Tactic. Frank Rich: If Terrorists Rock the Vote in 2008, New York Times.

Torture/Iraq Occupation.  William Glaberson: Court Is Skeptical of U.S. Evidence in Guantanamo Case, New York Times.  Also,  Joseph Galloway: Gen. Taguba Knew Scandal Went to the Top, McClatchy Newspapers.

War on Terror. Mark Mazzetti/David Rohde: Amid Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan,  New York Times.