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January 22, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
Another Real Estate Crisis is About to Hit
January 21, 2009
Gabriel Kolko
Understanding Gaza
Harry Browne
Obama's Work Ethic
Michael Colby
Ready. Aim. Organize.
Lawrence R. Velvel
Investing with Madoff: My Experience
Audrey Stewart
Starting Over in Gaza
Wajahat Ali
Obama and the Muslims
Binoy Kampmark
The Marketing of Hope
David Kεr Thomson
Abolition
John Ross
In My Own Bones
Allan Nairn
Killer in Chief: Will This President Murder Civilians?
Sheldon Richman
The Peaceful Transfer of Violent Power
Website of the Day
Globistan
January 20, 2009
Chuck Spinney
Hosing Obama Israeli Style
Kathy Kelly
The Strongest Weapon of All
Raymond Deane
The EU, Gaza and the Lisbon Treaty
Ralph Nader
State Terrorism Against Gaza
Audrey Stewart
Why I am in Gaza
Jonathan Cook
Israel's Doctrine of Destruction
Harvey Wasserman
A Ten-Point Solar Agenda for Obama
Christopher Ketcham
Inauguration Ad Nauseam
Robert Jensen
A Citizen's Oath of Office
Dave Lindorff
Commie Chorus on the Mall: This Land Really is Made for You and Me
David Macaray
SAG Watches It All Slip Away
January 19, 2009
Kevin Alexander Gray
Time for an New Divestment Campaign
Uri Avnery
The Boss Has Gone Mad
Kathy Kelly
Respite in Gaza
Mike Whitney
What Obama Left Out of His Economic Recovery Plan
Lawrence R. Velvel
Investing with Bernie Madoff
Mats Svensson
For Fatima in Gaza
Harry Browne
Obama's Bard:
Springsteen's Working on a Dream
Norman Solomon
The Return of Triangulation
Jeffrey Sommers
The Baltic Riots: Really Existing Thatcherism
Kenneth Libby
Manipulating MLK Day
Peter Ewart
Robbie Burns, Mackenzie and Gaza
Bob Sommer
"The Fierce Urgency of Now"
Website of the Day
Death of a Whaler
January 16-18, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
Hail to the Chief
Caoimhe Butterly
Terribly Bloodied, Still Breathing
Audrey Stewart /
Kathy Kelly
Suddenly Bombs Started Falling: Report from Gaza
Jeffrey St. Clair
High Plains Grifter: Geo. W. Bush, a Concise Biography
Ellen Cantarow
I Could Not Save a Single Child
Neve Gordon
How to Sell "Ethical" Warfare
Vijay Prashad
An African-American in Gaza
Jonathan Cook
Israeli Attack Injures 1.5 Million Gazans
Rannie Amiri
The UN in Israel's Crosshairs
Andy Worthington
Guantánamo's Forgotten Child
Joshua Frank
Forecasting Obama
Dave Lindorff
Prosecuting Bush and Cheney
Brian Cloughley
Who Runs America?
Belén Fernández
Changing the Equation
Missy Beattie
Peace and Justice Denied
Fred Gardner
Growing Pot for Research
George Ciccariello-Maher
"Oakland is Closed!"
John V. Whitbeck
Democracy Not Partition
Stephen Fleischman
Card Check
Mischa Gaus
Medicare for All! Tackling Union Opposition to Single-Payer
Saul Landau
The End of the Affair
Norm Kent
Perils of the Grow House
Alejandro López
Give Bush the Shoe! (and Send Us the Photo)
David Yearsley
The Glory That Was Dresden
James McEnteer
Doin' the Time Warp Again
Lorenzo Wolff
An Album That Lives Up to Its Cover
Kim Nicolini
Patti Smith's Dream of Life
Poets' Basement
Three Financial Poems by Brian J. Foley
Website of the Day
Lancet: Medical Conditions in Gaza
January 15, 2009
Pam Martens
Wall Street Powerhouses Invested Alongside Madoff
Karl Grossman
Obama and the Military - Industrial - Scientific Complex
M. Shahid Alam
Gaza's Shattered Mirror
Jules Rabin
Gaza Besieged, Gaza Mauled
Alan Farago
The Nail-Gun Bailout
Ron Jacobs
The State of Black America: From Oscar Grant to Barack Obama
Timothy Seidel
Just Violence in Gaza? The Calculus of Proportionality
George Ochenski
Why No Montana Wilderness?
Todd Chretien
Taking a Stand for Justice in Oakland
Bob Fitrakis /
Harvey Wasserman
Obama's Marijuana Prohibition Acid Test
Website of the Day
Uranium Watch
January 14, 2009
Henry A. Giroux
Killing Children With Impunity
Kathy Kelly
Cease Fire, Cease Siege
Franklin Lamb
A Second Front? Hezbollah Militants Chafe as Gaza Burns
Mike Whitney
The Big Contraction: Why the Stimulus Alone Won't Work
Paul Craig Roberts
The Humiliation of America
Glen Ford
Sullying Dr. King's Legacy: the Congressional Black Caucus and Israel
Aditya Chakrabortty
The End of Property Porn
Dave Lindorff
Fattening the Rats: Feeding at the Bailout Trough
Jonathan Cook
Israel Bars Arab Parties From Elections
David Swanson
Conyers Explains Why He Didn't Push Impeachment
Martha Rosenberg
Fragile: Handle with Risperdal
Website of the Day
Report of a Red Cross Worker in Gaza
January 13, 2009
Norman Finkelstein
The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza
Jonathan Cook
Is Israel Using Experimental Weapons in Gaza?
Michael Neumann
Hamas and Gaza: Slave Revolts and Passionate Evasions
Coleen Rowley /
William John Cox
No Victors in the War on Dissent
Robert Sandels
Cuba and the Obama Administration: Subversion Through Trade?
Saul Landau
The Changeling:
an Obama Nightmare
David Swanson
What to Ask Eric Holder
Wajahat Ali
Waltzing with War Crimes
Sam Bahour
No Other Option? A View From the West Bank
Stanley Heller
Why It's Useless to Lobby Congress on Gaza
Robert Jensen
Beyond Grief and Rage
Robin Mittenthal
Eating Away at the Land That Feeds Us
Website of the Day
The 50 Most Loathsome People in America
January 12, 2009
Uri Avnery
The Blood-Stained Monster Enters Gaza
Paul Craig Roberts
Our Collapsing Economy
Mike Whitney
Israel's Moral and Political Insanity
Ewa Jasiewicz
Oh, Quiet Night: Only Six Homes Were Bombed
Bill Quigley
A Day in Gaza
Dave Lindorff
From Vietnam to Gaza
Bill and Kathleen Christison
Blowback From a Tragic Error: a Message to Barack Obama
Jonathan Cook
Israel Ponders the Third Stage
Andy Worthington
Seven Years of Guantánamo
Kara N. Tina
Oakland on Fire
Brenda Norrell
Palestinians and American Indians:
Russell Means Breaks the Silence on Obama
Nour Kharma
A Plea From a Teen in Gaza: "Will I Die, Too?"
Website of the Day
The Villages Group: an Antiwar Alliance in Sderot
January 9/11, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
Israel's Onslaught on Gaza: Criminal, for Sure; But Also Stupid
Kathy Kelly
Tunnel Vision: Report from Arish, Egypt
Bill Quigley
Report From Rafah:
Doctors Stopped at the Border
George Ciccariello-Maher
Oakland's Not for Burning?
Elaine C. Hagopian
Gaza: History Matters
Mike Roselle
Drowning in a Toxic River: What Can be Done to Save Appalachia?
Steve Hendricks
The Torturer-Elect?
Gary Leupp
Revisiting the Tale of Samson
Jonathan Cook
Outcry Over Israel's War Crimes
Karim Makdisi
The Ceasefire Plan: the UN Finally Acts, But Does It Mean Anything?
Rannie Amiri
Livni's Big Lie
Peter Morici
In the Jaws of a Depression
Peter Montague
Can Chemicals be Regulated?
Ralph Nader
Move Fast to Restore the Rule of Law
Andy Worthington
The Dying Days of the Guantánamo Trials
Nadia Hijab
A Music School Silenced in Gaza
Dan Bacher
Unholy Alliance:
Nature Conservancy Backs Schwarzenegger's Big Ditch
Catherine Fenton
The American Peace Movement and Israel
David Macaray
Wal-Mart Caught Stealing
Valia Kaimaki
Why Greek Youths Took to the Streets
Richard Morse
Haiti's Gas Gang
David Yearsley
To Gotham City with Dexter Gordon
Charles R. Larson
The Horror, the Horror
Richard Rhames
Gaza and the Goon Squad Meet the Wizard
Stephen Martin
Meltdown Memo to Come?
Lorenzo Wolff
What They Sing About When They Sing About Love
Poets' Basement
Anderson, Beatty and Valentine
Website of the Weekend
Gaza Protest
January 8, 2009
Jean Bricmont /
Diana Johnstone
Gaza Seen From Paris
Franklin Lamb
How Dershowitz Misstates, Misrepresents and Misapplies the Law
Paul Craig Roberts
The Difficulty of Being an Informed American
Kevin Alexander Gray
Give Burris His Seat
Chris Floyd
The Enduring Priorities in Obama's Time of Change
Ewa Jasiewicz
Riding on Fire in Gaza
Steve Conn
Sanjay Gupta and Obama
Harvey Wasserman
Kill the Nuclear Stimulus!
Wayne S. Smith
An Opening to Cuba?
Linda Mamoun
Re-settling Gaza: the Real Goal of the Israeli Invasion?
Adam Turl
Unions and Young Workers
Chris Papaleonardos
Mourning Maria Dimitriadi
Website of the Day
On the Wing
January 7, 2009
Saree Makdisi
What Kind of Security Will This Barbarism Bring Israel?
Franklin Lamb
Bend Over Professor Dershowitz, It's Time for Your Check Up
William Blum
America's Other Glorious War
Belén Fernández
The Trauma Vortex: Israel's Monopoly on Psychological Suffering
Lawrence Davidson
What is New About Gaza?
Allan Nairn
Adm. Dennis Blair and the Church Killings in East Timor
Jonathan Cook
What is Israel's Objective?
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
Watching the War on BBC
Deepak Tripathi
Bush, as He Leaves
Cal Winslow
Now is the Hour to Defend Democracy in the Labor Movement!
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
To Students Planning Careers: Be Mindful
Dr. Hannah Safran
No More Recycled Military Solutions
Website of the Day
CNN: Israel Broke the Ceasefire First
January 6, 2009
Pam Martens
It's All One Big Lie
Victoria Buch
Real Estate War in Gaza: the History and "Morals" of Ethnic Cleansing
Neve Gordon
Israel's New War Ethic
Tami Sarfatti /
Yonatan Mendel
What Silence Says:
Gaza is Still Waiting on Obama
Mike Whitney
The Gaza Bloodbath
Alan Farago
After the Fall
Gary Leupp
A Hamas Coup d'Etat in 2007?
Larry Everest
Silent Partner: the US-Backed War on Gaza
Ron Jacobs
The New Iraqi Sovereignty
David Macaray
Union-Busting is Alive and Well
Stephanie Basile
Where's Anna's Money?
Stacey Warde
An Uncle's Unrest
Website of the Day
Israeli Refusenik on Gaza
January 5, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
Will There be a Recovery?
Sousan Hammad
Phoning Home to Gaza
Wajahat Ali
Flying While Brown
Mats Svensson
Longing in Gaza
Jen Marlowe
Abeer's Baby
Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Gaza Phone Tag
Brian Cloughley
Israel is Immune From Criticism
Faheem Hussain
Gaza and India: a View From Pakistan
William Cook
Consider the Realities of Gaza
Dr. Trudy Bond
The Madness Among Us
Christopher Ketcham
The Revenge of the Blogger at the National Press Club: a Rotten Washington Interlude
Steve Early
Who Rules SEIU?
Dave Lindorff
When It Comes to Terrorism and POW Cases, Equal Justice Under Law is a Joke
Website of the Day
The Endangered Fish of the Colorado River Basin
January 2 - 4, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
Diary of 2008: an Incredible, Hope-Filled Year
Uri Avnery
Molten Lead in Gaza
Jonathan Cook
The Real Goal of the Gaza Assault
Paul Craig Roberts
Whatever Happened to Western Morality?
Brian Eno
Stealing Gaza: an Experiment in Provocation
Ralph Nader
America Must Stop Shirking Its Responsibility on Gaza
Omar Barghouti
UN Complicity in Israel's Massacre in Gaza
Graham Usher
Where Pakistan's Generals and the ISI Draw Their Lines
P. Sainath
The Economy is Worse Than It Appears
Belén Fernández
Pardon Our Dust: Israel's PR Campaign for Gaza
Deb Reich
Shiv'a in Gaza, December 2008
Gary Leupp
Defacing Mr. Jefferson's Wall: Preachers and the Inauguration
Michael Yates
Top Chef or Top Wage Thief? Tom Colicchio and the Economics of Restaurants
Joanne Mariner
How to Close Guantánamo
Seth Sandronsky
Funding the Israeli Military: the US Pipeline
Cynthia McKinney
We Lived to Tell the Story
Sonja Karkar
Israel's Dogs of War
Deepak Tripathi
Gaza in Perspective
Robert Fantina
Obama, Afghanistan and Israel
John Ross
The Year No One Can Remember
Norm Kent
The Heat on Duval Street: Why Head Shop Raids are Unfair and Unjust
Larry Portis
Syria and the Arab Barbie Doll--Before the Deluge
Richard Rhames
Is Conscience Dead?
Dee C. Lubell
We Come From the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright
David Yearsley
A Gay German at the Courts of the Medici and Hanover, and of Course the BBC
Lorenzo Wolff
Joe Ely, the Fighting Rooster of Rock
Marc Catone
Looting Lennon's Legacy
Poets' Basement
Five Poems by
Grzegorz Wróblewski
Website of the Weekend
Earth in High Rez
January 1, 2008
Jennifer Loewenstein
If Hamas Did Not Exist
Oren Ben-Dor
The Self-Defense of Suicide
Wajahat Ali
The U.S. Response to the Gaza Crisis: Unfair and Unbalanced
Saul Landau
In Cuba No One Man Could Steal $50 Billion From Other People
David Michael Green
What to Expect While We're Expecting
Website of the Day
Morbid Anatomy
December 31, 2008
Pam Martens
Wall Street's Collapse and the Ownership Society
Neve Gordon /
Jeff Halper
Where's the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?
Ted Honderich
The First Casualty of Israel's War
Brian Cloughley
Five Little Girls on a Sofa: Gaza's One-Sided Images
Ron Jacobs
What is Hamas, Really?
Vijay Prashad
Hot Rod and His Sikh Warrior:
Blago's Indian Connections
Franklin Lamb
Mr. Mubarak, Tear Down That Wall!
Mike Whitney
My Brilliant Career
David Macaray
What Really Killed the Auto Bailout
Richard Thieme
The Betrayal of the Commons
Mary Lynn Cramer
Who Wins What in Gaza?
Stephen Lendman
The Troubling Case of the Fort Dix Five
Worthy Group of the Day
Western Shoshone Defense Project
December 30, 2008
Paul Craig Roberts
May We No Longer Be Silent
Tariq Ali
The Gaza Ghetto and Western Cant
Robert Bryce
The $775,000-a-Year GI
Jonathan Cook
Electioneering with Bombs
Gary Leupp
The Fishbarrel War
Dave Lindorff
Tough Guys Don't Walk: Will Cheney Seek a Pardon?
Brian McKenna
Ted Downing and Troublemaker Anthropology
John Walsh
The End of the Green Party
Ramzy Baroud
Gaza and the World
Bob Sommer
The Education of David Frost
Worthy Activist of the Day
Support Marie Mason
December 29, 2008
Jennifer Loewenstein
Israel's Attempted Endgame in Gaza
Neve Gordon
What, Exactly, is Israel's Mission?
Joshua Frank
Obama and the "Special Relationship"
George Salzman /
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
The War Against Palestine: Exception From Humanity
Norman Solomon
A Hundred Eyes for an Eye
Ewa Jasiewicz
Gaza Today: "This is Just the Beginning"
Rob Larson
The Banks Laugh All the Way to the Bank
Kenneth Libby
Arne Duncan's Dark Years in Chicago
Robert Weissman
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
Elsa Johnson
High Noon at Black Mesa: Bush's Farewell Gift to Peabody Coal
Nicola Nasser
Resolution 1850: Bush's Parting Gift
Belén Fernández
Hanukkah Games
Worthy Group of the Day
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
December 26-28, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
The Medusa's Head
Dr Eyad Al Serraj
The Boming of Gaza: "An Earthquake on Top of Your Head"
Jeffrey St. Clair
Cancerous Air
Bradley Simpson
Obama's New Intel Chief, Dennis Blair, Ran Interference for Indonesia's Butchers
Ralph Nader
Government Without Laws
Gary Leupp
Obama and the Graveyard of Empires
Ellen Cantarow
Richard Falk, Israel and the NYT
Matt Landon
The Great Coal Ash Flood: a Report From Swan Pond Road
David Macaray
SAG's Terrible Dilemma
Patrick Bond
End of Neoliberalism? Sorry, Not Yet
Norm Kent
Invoking Bigotry: Obama and Rick Warren
Brian T. Ketcham
Fuel Efficiency is Easy--Just Don't Let Detroit Tell You How to Do It
Rannie Amiri
War Clouds Over Gaza
Larry Portis
Changing the Ethnic Vocabulary
Richard Rhames
Welcome to Soup Kitchen America
Stephen Lendman
29 Red Flags: Early Suspicions About Bernard Madoff
James L. Secor
Unheralded Coup
Ramzy Baroud
Iraq, the Plot Thickens
Harold Pinter
Art, Truth and Politics: the Nobel Lecture
Cpt. Paul Watson
Tracking the Cetacean Death Star
Howard Lisnoff
Nixon's Cambodian Shock Treatment
Michael Dee
The Bill of Rights, Killed in Action by the War on Drugs
Steve Conn
Eight Predictions for 2009
Poets' Basement
Valentine, Kaung, Moser and Graham
Worthy Group of the Weekend
United Mountain Defense
December 25, 2008
Judy Gumbo Albert
What Were Those 1960s Terrorists Thinking, Anyway?
Rev. William E. Alberts
The Sole of Christmas
Hannah Mermelstein
Caution: Settlers Ahead
Worthy Group of the Day
Citizens' Coal Council
December 24, 2008
Bill Quigley
Five Bailout Lessons From Katrina
Saul Landau
Then and Now: Venezuela and Cuba, 1960-2008
Sam Smith
Evangelism and Politics
Brian Cloughley
Torture, Slaughter and Lies
John Ross
Where's al-Zaidi's Pulitzer?
Eric Walberg
Cold War Shivers
Norm Kent
What Will Obama Do About Marijuana?
Stephen Martin
Reasons for Cheerfulness
Worthy Group of the Day
Collateral Repair Project
December 23, 2008
Michael Hudson
The Ponzi Paradigm
Michael Yates
The Tombstone Economy
Chuck Spinney
The New York Times Flames Out in Defense Dogfight
Vijay Prashad
India's Reckless Road to Washington, Through Tel Aviv
Brian Horejsi
Interior Decorating: Obama, Salazar and the Future of America's Public Lands
David Macaray
Obama's Best Pick?
Neil Watkins /
Sarah Anderson
Ecuador's Conscientious Default
David Michael Green
Hey, Reagan Democrats! Now Do You Get It?
Worthy Group of the Day
Focus on the Corporation
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January 22, 2009
A Brief Oral History
The Democrats on Israel
By ADRIANA KOJEVE
"Israel continues to show admirable restraint in dealing with her hostile neighbors, even in the face of increasing rocket attacks, kidnappings, and threats to her people. I support her actions in defense of her people, and I pray for a swift and just conclusion to the fighting."
-- Jerrold Nadler, DEMOCRAT, July 13, 2006.
"There are no quick solutions for the difficulties we face today, but we know that we have to stand with democracies and free peoples against the threat of nihilism and extremism. That is why we stand with Israel because it is a beacon of democracy in the region; that is why we stand with Israel because its very existence is a defiant affront to anti-Semitism; that is why we stand with Israel because in defeating terror because Israel's cause is our cause. And that is why we stand with Israel because of our shared values and our shared belief in the dignity of men and women and the right to live without fear or oppression."
-- Hillary Clinton, DEMOCRAT, February 1, 2007.
"Those who threaten Israel threaten us; Israel has always faced these threats on the frontlines and I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel’s security. That starts with insuring Israel’s qualitative military advantage. I will insure that Israel can defend itself from any threat from Gaza to Tehran. Defense cooperation, defense cooperation between the United States and Israel is a model of success and it must be deepened. As President I will implement a memorandum of understanding that provides $30 billion in assistance to Israel over the next decade, investments to Israel’s security that will not be tied to any other nation."
-- Barack Obama, DEMOCRAT, June 4, 2008.
"Israel has taken actions to defend itself and its people in an effort to restore security in the region. It is in everyone’s interest, particularly the innocent lives at risk on both sides of the border, that Hamas bring an end to its aggression, recognize its neighbor’s right to exist, and work toward mutual peace and security"
-- Benjamin Cardin, DEMOCRAT, December 29, 2008.
“Israel, like every other nation, has a right to defend itself; I find it naive and unrealistic that some say Israel should ‘sit down and talk’ to Hamas, a group sworn to Israel’s annihilation, that broke the recent ceasefire by flinging missiles at Israeli cities. The Palestinian people must realize that Israel is here to stay and that no amount of violence, which Hamas seeks to undertake, will change that fact.”
-- Charles Schumer, DEMOCRAT, December 30, 2008.
“Over the past few days, I have closely monitored the current escalation of violence in Israel and Gaza. I hope and pray for a peaceful solution for both sides and I strongly condemn Hamas for breaking the current ceasefire. I believe the Israeli people, under constant attack from the Palestinian territories, have a right to protect themselves and I stand with them as they fight to defend the basic rights of humanity.
I traveled to Israel in 2007 and I discovered firsthand what I had always known to be true – Israel is an extraordinary democracy blessed with very courageous citizens who refuse to live their lives in fear. New Yorkers have experienced the horror of terrorism; we must not and will not let senseless acts of terror undermine our commitment and resolve to fight for democratic principles both at home and around the world.”
-- David Patterson, DEMOCRAT, December 31, 2008.
"Israel has commendably made strenuous efforts to minimize harm to civilians, while Hamas has needlessly imperiled innocent Palestinians in Gaza by conducting its military operations from within heavily populated civilian areas. I support the efforts of Israel and others to improve access to humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. Along with my colleagues, I hope for a quick resolution to this crisis and for a future without rockets falling on Isra."
-- Jerrold Nadler, DEMOCRAT, January 9, 2009.
Adriana Kojeve is a music and cultural critic living in New York City. She can reached akojeve@gmail.com.
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