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From Enron to Exxon
feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/353718908/24931
2008-08-02

Economic Realities vs. Fantasy Politics
www.alternet.org/workplace/91927/?page=entire
2008-07-22

Ever Deeper Into Debt
www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/business/20debt.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=s
2008-07-20

The Last Road Trip
www.theoildrum.com/node/4230
2008-07-17

Al Gore's Challenge to Repower America
blog.algore.com/2008/07/a_generational_challenge_to_re.html
2008-07-17

The Eagle and the Dragon
www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2008/06/28/sm_amer
2008-07-02

Travel advisory for Bush et al.
http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=597957fd-6bbf-4d02-b29f-3dbd35176038
2008-06-19

John McCain: Tech Illiterate
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/11/134456/659/888/534064
2008-06-11

Bob Dylan Endorses Obama (?)
abcnews.go.com/print?id=5014367
2008-06-07

McClellan's 'Matrix' Moment
www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-dery7-2008jun07,0,7
2008-06-07

The Liberal Imagination of Frederick Douglass
www.theamericanscholar.org/sp08/douglass-bromell.html
2008-05-17

Why Nick Bostrom Hopes SETI Finds Nothing
www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20569/
2008-05-17

Defining Moment for Climate Change —Bill McKibben
www.tomdispatch.com/post/174930/bill_mckibben_the_defining_moment_fo
2008-05-11

America Out of Gas: Portrait of an Oil-Addicted Former Superpower
www.tomdispatch.com/post/174929/michael_klare_america_out_of_gas
2008-05-08

Adolph Reed on Barack Obama
www.progressive.org/mag_reed0508
2008-05-02

Students Confront Ashcroft on Torture
www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/23/04046/3938/224/501151
2008-04-22

12 Reasons to Get Out of Iraq
www.tomdispatch.com/post/174921/12_reasons_to_get_out_of_iraq
2008-04-20

Great American Hypocrites
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/13/14556/2176/360/494929
2008-04-18

Obama Orange Juice Watch ... Day Whatever
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/14/53340/7701/29/495268
2008-04-14

Looking for Good Economic News
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/14/974/36460/1002/495304
2008-04-14

Embarrassed Bush Administration Disowns Basra Operation
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41804
2008-03-31

The Three-Decade Recession
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-costanza10mar10,0,5582409,print.s
2008-03-10

Iraq: The Calm Before the Conflagration
www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080225_the_calm_before_the_conflagrat
2008-02-25

The Chicken Doves
www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18349197/the_chicken_doves
2008-02-21

Winning the War on Democracy?
www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/012010.php
2008-02-18

Taking Obama Seriously (Anthony Barnett)
opendemocracy.net/article/taking_obama_seriously
2008-02-06

McCain, Iraq and the Democrats
www.alternet.org/election08/75845/?page=entire
2008-02-04

Chalmers Johnson on Military Keynesianism: 'How to Sink America"
www.tomdispatch.com/post/174884/chalmers_johnson_how_to_sink_america
2008-01-22

Mike Huckabee's Bill of Spites
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/16/53526/7779/681/437656
2008-01-17

CSI Iraq: The Corpse on the Gurney
www.tomdispatch.com/post/174882/csi_iraq
2008-01-17

Charlie Wilson's War —'treason against reason'
www.cinematical.com/2007/12/21/review-charlie-wilsons-war-jamess-take/
2007-12-21

Romney: Some Beliefs are More Equal than Others
www.juancole.com/2007/12/romney-some-beliefs-are-more-equal-than.htm
2007-12-07

Stopping the war against Iran ... before it starts
www.truthdig.com/report/print/20071207_calling_on_congress_to_stop_a
2007-12-07

Bush's Humiliating Zero-Sum Game with Iran
www.tomdispatch.com/post/174871/dilip_hiro_bush_s_losing_iranian_han
2007-12-06

Bush's Neo-Imperialist War
www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=bushs_neoimperialist_war
2007-10-22

America's "Cold Civil War"
www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/our-cold-civil-war_b_6738
2007-10-06

Justifying Hiroshima: Ken Burns, "Saving Lives," and Atomic Crimes
www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=201&ItemID=13942
2007-10-06

Mystic Nights: The Making of Dylan's Blonde on Blonde
www.oxfordamericanmag.com/content.cfm?ArticleID=254&Entry=Extras
2007-10-03

The Myth of AQI
www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2007/0710.tilghman.html
2007-10-01

The Age of Irresponsibility: How Bush has created a moral vacuum in Iraq
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20892483/site/newsweek/page/0/
2007-09-20

'A coup has occurred' —Daniel Ellsberg
www.consortiumnews.com/2007/092607a.html
2007-09-20

Oil and Betrayal in Iraq
www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1315
2007-09-19

The Anti-China Propaganda Orgy
www.netcrucible.com/blog/2007/08/26/anti-china-propaganda-orgy/
2007-09-12

Empire of Stupidity, or Seven Years in Hell
www.tomdispatch.com/post/174832/empire_of_stupidity
2007-09-04

The Waning Power of the War Myth
www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/08/28/war_myth/index_np.html
2007-08-28

Benchmarking Iraq for Disaster
www.tomdispatch.com/post/174827/michael_schwartz_benchmarking_iraq_f
2007-08-01

Dead Bees and Impotent Turkeys: How Efficiency Maximizes Disaster
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174826/chip_ward_how_efficiency_maximizes_c
2007-07-29

Free Speech Is Alive and Well in Venezeula (Greg Grandin)
www.alternet.org/story/54645/
2007-06-22

American Exceptionalism by another name
www.tpmcafe.com/blog/bookclub/2007/jun/19/american_exceptionalism_by_any_other_name
2007-06-20

The Gates Inheritance
www.tomdispatch.com/post/174812/roger_morris_the_gates_inheritance
2007-06-19

Virginia Tech Massacre in Global Context
www.tomdispatch.com/indexprint.mhtml?pid=189301
2007-04-24

Bush's "near dictatorial powers" vs. the Constitution
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/12/weekly_standard/index.htm
2007-04-12

Imperial Ambitions on Naked Display
www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1078&I
2007-03-19

The Politics of Naming in Iraq and Darfur: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency
www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n05/print/mamd01_.html
2007-03-08

What We Know About Waste and War in Iraq
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=171859
2007-03-06

Whitewashing the Slave Trade: An Amazing disGrace
www.counterpunch.org/linebaugh02282007.html
2007-02-28

Bush arms al-Qaeda factions against Iran
www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1048&I
2007-02-26

Donald Rumsfeld's Long March, by Roger Morris (must read!)
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=165669
2007-02-13

Over the Cliff with George and Dick?
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=164164
2007-02-08

Art Panic Hits Boston!
www.counterpunch.com/warfield02012007.html
2007-02-01

The Iran clock is ticking
www.consortiumnews.com/2007/013107.html
2007-01-31

Our Supreme General Has Spoken
glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2007/01/our-supreme-general-has-spoken.h
2007-01-25

LBJ 1967 - GWB 2007: Plus ça change ...
www.attytood.com/2007/01/eday_it_was_40_years_ago_today.html
2007-01-10

Claiming the Prize: Bush Surge Aimed at Securing Iraqi Oil
www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=989&It
2007-01-09

'Dead Men Walking' - Iraq and the Military-Industrial Complex
militaryweek.com/columns/withoutreservation.php?id=49
2007-01-06

Keith Olbermann vs. Bush's Iraq 'Sacrifice'
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16442767/
2007-01-02

Decline of the American Empire
world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/35356
2006-12-15

War Without End
www.tomdispatch.com/indexprint.mhtml?pid=147614
2006-12-13

The Tom Friedman disease
glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/12/tom-friedman-disease-consumes.html
2006-12-01

The Indictment of George W. Bush
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=142875
2006-11-27

Plebiscite on an Outlaw Empire
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=138154
2006-11-08

Truths of a Lost War
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=132603
2006-10-26

Muhammad's Sword (Uri Avnery on the Pope, on Islam)
usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/35750
2006-09-26

Darfur and the 'useful idiots'
www.swans.com/library/art12/desk041.html
2006-09-25

Bush and the "Islamic Fascist" Bogeyman
www.juancole.com/2006/09/bush-turns-to-fear-mongering-creation.html
2006-09-06

7 Facts Making Sense of the Iraq Disaster (Michael Schwartz)
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=114108
2006-08-20

Bush, "Islamic Fascism" and Lebanon
www.juancole.com/2006/08/bush-islamic-fascism-and-christians-of.html
2006-08-08

"You are terrorists, we are virtuous" (Yitzhak Laor on Israel/Leb
www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n16/print/laor01_.html
2006-08-03

Air War, Barbarity, and the Middle East
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=106273
2006-07-28

Lebanon: Bush Administration's Grand Strategy and the Birth Pangs of T
www.juancole.com/2006/07/war-on-lebanon-planned-for-at-least.html
2006-07-22

Bombing Iran and Other Fantasies of American Power
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=81770
2006-05-04

Who Are You Calling an Immigrant?
www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060502_tom_hayden_immigrant/
2006-05-02

Hostile Takeover
http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/29387
2006-05-01

Are you a Player or a Worker?
prairieweather.typepad.com/the_scribe/2006/01/12206_players_a.html
2006-04-30

History Ambushes the Bush Administration
www.tomdispatch.com/indexprint.mhtml?pid=77789
2006-04-15

Civil War? What Civil War? (Juan Cole on Iraq)
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/03/23/civil_war/print.html
2006-03-23

The disintegration of Iraqi sovereignty
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=66969
2006-03-09

War of the QuailHawks
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=61927
2006-02-21

Eduardo Galeano, The Second Founding of Bolivia
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/galeano170206.html
2006-02-17

The "War on Terror" as an Indian War
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=50043
2006-01-19

What Is an Antiwar Movement?
www.counterpunch.org/jw01142006.html
2006-01-16

Harold Bloom on the debasement of American democracy
books.guardian.co.uk/departments/classics/story/0,6000,1669276,00.ht
2005-12-17

Shattering Iraq - The reality of civil war
nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/1209nj1.htm
2005-12-09

An American Tipping Point? Losing the Fear Factor
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=38464
2005-11-20

Three days that transformed America
www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051117-090928-6137r
2005-11-18

Bush at Bay
www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20051023-1042
2005-10-24

Cheney's 'cabal' and US foreign policy
news.ft.com/cms/s/afdb7b0c-40f3-11da-b3f9-00000e2511c8.html
2005-10-20

The Most Important Criminal Case in American History
www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/the-most-important-crimin_b_9183.ht
2005-10-20

What America Needs Now: A Prophetic Social Movement that Speaks Moral Truth
www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?page_id=27
2005-10-19

Juan Cole argues with Bush on the "Global War on Terror"
www.juancole.com/2005/10/arguing-with-bush-and-gwot-bush.html
2005-10-07

Like a rotten pumpkin ...
www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/29/181822/366
2005-09-30

Bill Bennett & GOP vs. Public Education
www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/10/1/105329/697
2005-09-30

Iraq: The Case for Immediate Withdrawal
www.tomdispatch.com/indexprint.mhtml?pid=23549
2005-09-22

The Uses of Disaster - by Rebecca Solnit
www.harpers.org/TheUsesOfDisaster.html
2005-09-09

"Gone with the Water" - National Geographic predicted New Orleans
www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/
2005-09-04

Iraq in America
www.tomdispatch.com/indexprint.mhtml?pid=19806
2005-09-04

New Orleans and Iraq
www.juancole.com/2005/08/new-orleans-and-iraq-nabil-tikriti.html
2005-08-31

Vietnam and Iraq: The Heartland Experience
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=16068
2005-08-23

Jefferson Would Have Stood With Cindy Sheehan
www.commondreams.org/views05/0815-21.htm
2005-08-15

Cindy Sheehan's War
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=12740
2005-08-14

"Honorable Marine's" Aunt Says He Died in Dishonorable War
www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/12364399.htm?template=contentModules/p
2005-08-12

The "Downing Street Memo", the Press and the War
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=7114
2005-07-19

Tangled Up in Bob
www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050425&s=yaffe
2005-04-07

"It is about hierarchy, power and control. It is not about life."
www.juancole.com/2005/04/tragic-death-and-other-tragic-deaths-i.html
2005-04-01

Republicans Gone Wild (the Schiavo case)
www.buzzflash.com/carpenter/05/03/pmc05002.html
2005-03-22

Thinking of Jackasses: The grand delusions of the Democratic Party
www.powells.com/review/2005_03_15.html?printer=1
2005-03-15

Attacking Iran: Sounds Crazy, But...
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=2230
2005-03-01

Potemkin World… or the President in the Zone
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2222
2005-02-27

Advice for the Democrats
www.empirenotes.org/january05.html#27jan051
2005-01-27

The Speech Bush Should Have Given
www.juancole.com/2005/01/speech-bush-should-have-given-this-is.html
2005-01-26

Jesus to the Rescue?
www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050207&s=pollitt
2005-01-20

Rahul Mahajan: "Against the Cult of MLK"
www.empirenotes.org/january05.html#18jan052
2005-01-18

Egomaniacal America and the Asian Tsunami
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2121
2005-01-12

Scrooge's Nightmare: 60's Morality Is Winning
people-link5.inch.com/pipermail/portside/Week-of-Mon-20041122/006880
2004-11-28

Destroying Iraq to Save It
www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-kinsley21nov21,0,20780
2004-11-21

Iraqifying the Quagmire
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2018
2004-11-20

"Moral Values" at work in Iraq
dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000126.php#more
2004-11-19

Four Times Falluja Equals?
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1999
2004-11-11

Josh Marshall assesses the election
www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/003927.php
2004-11-03

The Election Hangover of a Lifetime
www.tomdispatch.com/indexprint.mhtml?pid=1981
2004-11-03

Post-Mortem
www.citypages.com/databank/25/1248/print12626.asp
2004-11-03

Memories of Chile in the US election campaign
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=1939
2004-10-27

The White House war on science
www.oriononline.org/pages/om/04-6om/Knobloch.html
2004-10-25

Mr. Tall and Mr. Small
www.commondreams.org/views04/1001-07.htm
2004-10-01

Are We in Saidad or Baghgon?
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1839
2004-09-21

The Bush Crusade
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1781
2004-09-05

Molly Ivins on the Republican convention
www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17588
2004-09-02

The Empire that fell as it rose
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1709
2004-08-26

We're not in Lake Wobegon any more
www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/979/
2004-08-26

Green Zone Manhattan
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1574
2004-07-20

A Cut-and-Run Transition in Iraq
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1520
2004-06-29

Juan Cole on Reagan's Passing
www.juancole.com/2004_06_01_juancole_archive.html#108654049412748319
2004-06-06

Susan Sontag, Regarding the Torture of Others
www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/magazine/23PRISONS.html
2004-05-23

Chaos in Washington (Tom Englehardt)
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1441
2004-05-16

Juan Cole argues with George Bush
www.juancole.com/2004_05_01_juancole_archive.html#108426100254586428
2004-05-10

Postcards from the edge--"We have seen the pictures"
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1430
2004-05-09

Annals of National Security: Torture at Abu Ghraib
www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fact
2004-04-30

"... growing revolt against the advertising industry"
www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=40348#
2004-04-26

Custer Battles Iraqis at the Alamo
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1400
2004-04-25

The Tunnel at the End of the Light
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1362
2004-04-07

Sen. Robert Byrd calls for an Exit
www.commondreams.org/views04/0407-15.htm
2004-04-07

Report from Baghdad—Opening the Gates of Hell
www.empirenotes.org/gatesofhell.html
2004-04-07

Jonathan Schell, The Empire Backfires
www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040329&s=schell
2004-03-27

The antiwar movement is back (Tom Engelhardt)
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=1329
2004-03-22

Liars Lose—The Lessons of Regime Change in Spain
www.commondreams.org/views04/0315-13.htm
2004-03-16

Three Days in Spain
www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18122
2004-03-14

Quagmire World
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=1275
2004-02-23

The President enters Credibility Gap
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1251
2004-02-10

Arundhati Roy - The New American Century
www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20040209&s=roy
2004-02-09

How Satan Is Propping Up Bush's War on Terror
www.powells.com/review/2004_01_23.html?printer=1
2004-01-25

Shock and Sham
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1189
2004-01-17

Lost in Space, by Katha Pollitt
www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040202&s=pollitt
2004-01-15

The Limits of Predictability, by Steve Talbott
www.netfuture.org/2004/Jan0604_153.html#2
2004-01-06

Marvelous tales from our new imperial age
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1146
2003-12-22

Delusions in Baghdad, by Mark Danner (NY Rev. of Books)
www.nybooks.com/articles/16862
2003-12-18

The Morning After
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1133
2003-12-16

Amid the cheers, sobering facts
www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/12/16
2003-12-16

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1125
2003-12-11

Baker Takes the Loaf
www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=300&row=0
2003-12-08

Appointment in Samarra
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1102
2003-12-03

Bush in Baghdad + The Sorrows of Empire
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1098
2003-12-01

The US in Iraq: Morality or Self-Interest?
www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1092487,00.html
2003-11-25

Cowboys From Hell (Tom Engelhardt)
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1079
2003-11-20

Chalmers Johnson, Hawks Come Home to Roost
theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,7757853,00.html
2003-11-18

Operation "Iron Hammer" and American war crimes
www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1066
2003-11-14

Keystone Kolonialists, by Matt Bivens
www.thenation.com/outrage/index.mhtml?pid=1063
2003-11-12