Recommended Articles of the Week

January 6, 2009

 

Above the Law.  Scott Horton:  'Reasonable Minds Can Differ,' Harper's Magazine.

Afghanistan. Robert Fisk: Why Does the U.S. Think It Can Win in Afghanistan?. Independent (U.K.).

Automakers Bailout. Peter Whoriskey: UAW's Sacrifices Look to Some Like Surrender. Washington Post.

Beyond the Law. Glenn Greenwald: If Criminal Penalties Are Removed, What Will Deter Lawbreaking by Political Officials?. Salon.com. 

G. W.   Bush.  Cindy Sheehan: I Don't Know What His Beef Is. Democratic Underground. 

Bush Legacy. Digby: Long Run Fantasy. Digby Blog. Also, Mitchell Bard: The Start of Bush's Effort to Revise History, Huffington Post. And Michael Goodwin: English-Challenged George Bush Speaks With Forked Tongue, New York Daily News.

Bush/Obama Transition. Tim Dickinson: Bush's Final F.U., Rolling Stone.

Bush Administration.  Joseph Stiglitz:  The Seven Deadly Deficits:  What the Bush Years Really Cost Us, AlterNet.

Dick Cheney. Robert Parry: Cheney's Shocking Admissions on How Close He Came to Nearly Destroying the Country, AlterNet.

Dick Cheney Crimes. Murray Waas: Cheney's Admissions to the CIA Leak Prosecutor and FBI. Crooks and Liars.  Also Robert Scheer: Cheney Wielded the War to Deceive. San Francisco Chronicle.  And Greg Miller: Cheney Was Key in Clearing CIA Interrogation Tactics. Los Angeles Times. 

Dick Cheney Crimes. Dahlia Lithwick: Open and Shut Cases. Slate.  Also Glenn Greenwald: Cheney Says Top Congressional Democrats Complicit in Spying . Salon.com.

Civil Liberties. Glenn Greenwald: Another Brutal Year for Liberty. Salon.com. 

Economic Crisis.  Mike Whitney:  Higher Wages or Bubblenomics:  What's it gonna be?, The Smirking Chimp.

Economic Crisis. Chris Hedges: Why I Am a Socialist. Truthdig.com.   Also, Richard Wolff: The Crisis in Capitalism and a Socialist Response, Socialist Aotearoa.

Economic Meltdown. Michael Lind: The Economic Civil War. Salon.com.  Also David Sirota: Did America Get Punk'd on the Bailout?, AlterNet.

Economy. Paul Krugman: The Madoff Economy . The New York Times.  Also Jim Kuntsler: Forecast for 2009. Kuntsler Blog.  And Robert Borosage/Eric Lotke: A New New Deal?, The Nation.

Financial Bailout. Mike Madden: Dude, Where's My $700 Billion?. Salon.com.  Also Frank Rich: Who Wants to Kick a Millionaire?. The New York Times.

Gaza War. Juan Cole: Gaza 2008: Micro-Wars and Macro-Wars, Juan Cole Blog. Also Jonathan Freedland: Israel Has Plenty of Tactics for War, But None for Peace, Guardian (U.K.).

Gaza War. Barak Ravid: IAF [Israel Air Force] Strike Followed Months of Planning, Haaretz (Israel). Also Chris Hedges: Israel's "Crime Against Humanity," Truthdig.

Gaza War. Gideon Levy: The Neighborhood Bully Strikes Again, Haaretz. Also Uri Avnery: A Congress of Peace Seekers, Scoop (N.Z.).

Gaza War.  Gideon Levy: And There Lie the Bodies, Haaretz.

Global Warming. Gwynne Dyer: Four Truths About Climate Change We Can't Ignore. CounterCurrents.  Also Bill McKibben: The Most Important Number on Earth. Mother Jones.

Health Issues/Bush Administration. dday: Midnight Riders. Digby Blog. 

Iraq Occupation.  Dave McGill: U.S. Already Reneging on Withdrawal Agreement. The Daily Crock.  Also Think Progress: Gaffney: 4000 Americans Had to Die in Iraq. Think Progress.

Israel/Gaza. Glenn Greenwald: Marty Peretz and the American Political Consensus on Israel . Salon.com.  Also Glenn Greenwald: George Washington's Warnings and U.S. Policy Towards Israel . Salon.com.

Israel/Gaza. Bill Van Auken: Washington Bears Guilt for Gaza War Crimes. World Socialist Web Site.  Add: Also Warren Strobel: What Helped the Rise of Hamas? U.S., Israel Policies, Turns Out, McClatchy Newspapers. And Warren Strobel: Israel, U.S., Arab Nations Discuss International Force for Gaza, McClatchy Newspapers.

Liberalism.  Intrepid Liberal Journal:  Reclaiming the Word 'Liberal' in the Age of Obama, The Smirking Chimp.

Middle East.  Chris Hedges:  Party to Murder, TruthDig.com via CommonDreams.org.

Mortgage Meltdown. Jo Becker/Sheryl Gay Stolberg/Stephen Labaton: White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire. The New York Times. 

Neo Conservatives.  Robert Parry: Pity the Poor Neocons, The Smirking Chimp.

Barack Obama. Glenn Greenwald: How New Is Obama's New Politics?. Salon.com.   Also Paul Krugman: Barack Be Good. The New York Times. 

Racism/Katrina. A.C. Thompson: Katrina's Hidden Race War . The Nation. 

Republicans. dday: The Dead-End Kids . Digby Blog. 

Torture. Glenn Greenwald: Senate Reports Links Bush to Detainee Homicides; Media Yawns. Salon.com.   Also Glenn Greenwald: Torture Prosecutions Finally Begin in the U.S.. Salon.com. 

Torture.  A New York Times Editorial:  The Torture Report, The New York Times.

War Crimes.  Majorie Cohn:  Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes, CommonDreams.org.

War Crimes.  Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith:  Will War Crimes Be Outed?. The Nation via CommonDreams.org.

War Crimes. Glenn Greenwald: Demands for War Crimes Prosecutions Are Now Growing in the Mainstream. Salon.com.   Also Glenn Greenwald: Prostitution v. War Crimes: The Real Moral Offense. Salon.com. 

War Crimes. Jonathan Tepperman: The Noose Tightens . Newsweek.  Also Glenn Greenwald: Committing War Crimes for the "Right Reasons". Salon.com.  And Mike Ferner: It's Not About Them, It's About Us: Why We Must Prosecute Bush and His Administration for War Crimes. Atlantic Free Press.

 

 

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December 16, 2008

 

Afghanistan. Norman Solomon: The Silent Winter of Escalation.  truthout.  Also dday: Whistling Past the Graveyard of Empires. Digby Blog. 

Anthrax Attack. James Gordon Meeks: FBI Was Told to Blame Anthrax Scare on Al Qaida by White House Officials. New York Daily News. 

Auto Bailout/Unions. Steve Benen: "A First Shot Against Organized Labor". Washington Monthly.   Also Countdown: GOP: "Action Alert - Auto Bailout" . The News Hole. 

Auto Bailout/Unions. Jim Puzzanghera: Auto Bailout's Death Seen as a Republican Blow at Unions, Los Angeles Times. Also Digby: Block Heads, Digby Blog.

George Bush/Lies.  David Michael Green: Tales from the Planet Bizarre, Episode 473: Still Lying, Still Allowed to Lie,  The Smirking Chimp.

 

Bush Administration/Torture.  Scott Horton: The Torture Presidency, Harpers.

 

Bush Administration.  Paul Harris: Bush Sneaks Through Host of Laws to Undermine Obama, The Guardian/UK.

Bush Administration/Obama. Paul Harris: Bush Sneaks Through Host of Laws to Undermine Obama, The Observer (U.K.).

Censorship/Civil Liberties. McCamy Taylor: Iowa Man Faces 20 Years in Jail for COMIC BOOKS! It's a Crumb Nightmare Come True!. Democratic Underground. 

Domestic Spying. Hilzoy: Whistleblowers, Washington Monthly.

Economic Crisis/Union Workers. David Bacon: "Somebody Has to Respond" . truthout. 

Economic Crisis/Capitalism. Joseph Stiglitz: Capitalist Fools. Vanity Fair. 

Education.  Chris Hedges:  The Best and the Brightest Have Led America Off a Cliff,  AlterNet.

Electoral Theft. Robert Parry: A Time Machine to Save America. Consortium News. 

Elections/Media.  Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Brooks Jackson:  Our Disinformed Electorate,  FactCheck.org.

Environment/Right Wing.  Janet Smith:  Environmental Progress Is a Cause for Right-Wing Paranoia, AlterNet.

Financial Meltdown/Liberals. David Sirota: We Told You So. David Sirota Blog. Also Paul Farrell: Wall Street's "Disaster Capitalism for Dummies", Market Watch.

Global Warming.  David Adam:  Too Late?  Why Scientists Say We Should Expect the Worst, The Guardian/UK.

Global Warming.  George Monbiot:  Cyberspace Has Buried Its Head in a Cesspit of Climate Change Gibberish, The Guardian/UK.

Greece Crisis. Nikos Raptis: Greek Teenagers, Z Magazine.

Iraq Occupation. Patrick Cockburn: Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq: It's All Spelled Out in Unpublicized Agreement. CounterPunch. 

Iraq Occupation. James Glanz/T. Christian Miller: Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders, New York Times. 

Media.  Davis Swanson: Bush Comparison Seen As Unfair to Dogs, The Smirking Chimp.

Media/Blagojevich. Jamison Foser: Media Pick Up Where They Left Off Eight Years Ago. Media Matters.  Also Frank Rich: Two Cheers for Rod Blagojevich, New York Times.

Mombai/Terrorism. Arundhati Roy: 9 Is Not 11. Tom Dispatch. 

Barack Obama. Christopher Hayes: The Pragmatist, The Nation. Also Digby: Pragmatic Idealism, Digby Blog.

Barack Obama. Chris Floyd: Continuity Error: Guts, Goo and Obama's Imperial Dream, Empire Burlesque.

Obama Administration/Economic Justice.  David Morris: What is Obama's Big Think?, AlterNet.

Religion.  Bill Berkowitz:  No Retreat, No Surrender:  The Future for the Religious Right, The Smirking Chimp.

Religion.  Larry Beinhart:  The God Series:  Because Religion Is the Battleground of the 21st Century,  The Huffington Post.

Republicans.  Robert Scheer:  Republicans Bring Socialism to America, TruthDig. 

Torture. Mark Benjamin: Report: Torture Started With Bush. Salon.com.  Also Joby Warrick/Karen De Young: Report on Detainee Abuse Blames Top Bush Officials. Washington Post.

U.S. as Empire.  Mark Ames:  That Was No Small War in Georgia -- It Was the Beginning of the End of the American Empire, AlterNet.

U.S. Politics/Media. Bill Moyers/Glenn Greenwald: [Interview with Greenwald], PBS. Also Glenn Greenwald: Some Observations on This Week's Television Appearances, Salon.

War Crimes.  Eugene Robinson:  A Whitewash for Blackwater?, The Washington Post via CommonDreams.org.

 

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