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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
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 20, 2009
A Starter Plan for Obama
A Ten-Point Solar Agenda
By HARVEY WASSERMAN
Amidst the ecstasy of the Obama Inauguration, there lurks great danger.
Merely with his swearing in, our nation has broken an epic racial barrier. We are losing our worst president and getting one who was actually elected.
But the promise of change is not change itself. Inaugurating a brilliant young leader who speaks in complete sentences can only be good. But it is a fatal delusion to think this means we have gotten where we need to go.
Here are ten early tangibles that will be accomplished ONLY if we push:
1) Revise the Corporation: Corporations have hijacked the electoral process, the legal system, the 14th Amendment, the environment. They have human rights but no human responsibilities. They must be re-chartered and made to serve the public, rather than the other way around.
2) Restore the Bill of Rights: The first ten amendments to the US Constitution comprise a great guide for guaranteeing our basic human rights and liberties. The Constitutional lawyer entering the White House understands the issues; he need to be pushed to make sure these rights are enforced, including equal justice for racial/ethnic minorities and women, and reproductive freedom.
3) US out of Iraq and Afghanistan: These wars must end. The healing---moral, spiritual, economic, and in terms of violence---can only begin when the US leaves these useless battlefields and dismantles its global network of intrusive bases.
4) Slash Military Spending: We cannot continue to spend untold billions on detrimental weaponry. A 75% cut would be a good start; 95% would be a reasonable ultimate target.
5) Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons: Atomic bombs are instruments of mass suicide and of no tangible use. Even their production and maintenance is unsustainable.
6) TOTAL conversion to renewables and efficiency: We have the technology to run this Earth COMPLETELY on Solartopian green energy, with no fossil/nuclear fuels whatsoever. This means restoration of mass transit, and NO public funding, from taxpayers or ratepayers, for new atomic reactors or coal burners.
7) End Hemp/Marijuana Prohibition: This ancient plant holds the key to bio-fuels, as well as to sustainable paper production and much more, and must be restored to full production. And prohibition of a medicinal substance used by tens of millions of citizens makes for a police state. Pot must be legal; control of other substances must shift to treatment. The prison-industrial complex is as unsustainable as is the military.
8) National Health Care: Appropriate prevention and treatment is a basic human right. We must find the way to provide it.
9) Universal Hand-Counted Paper Ballots: Electronic voting machines are the nukes of the electoral process. Universal automatic registration, handcounted paper ballots (on recycled hemp paper) and workable campaign finance regulations are essential to the future of democracy.
10) Universal Free Education: In an information age, education through a college degree is essential to a sustainable society. Our public schools from K to the BA must be funded on a level now wasted on the military.
There is of course much more. But the greatness of this moment will be measured in history only by the extent to which we actually win on tangible issues.
This brief wish list should get us going. Send us more! But above all: remember that even with Barack Obama in the White House (and George Bush OUT of it) none of them will come without our hard---hopefully joyful---work.
Harvey Wasserman, a co-founder of Musicians United
for Safe Energy, is editing the nukefree.org web site. He is the author of SOLARTOPIA!
Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030, is at www.solartopia.org.
He can be reached at: Windhw@aol.com
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