Stephen Collinson, Agence France Presse. October 20, 2009. Washington spent several days pressuring Afghan President Hamid Karzai to enter a second round of voting following his fraud-tainted election win.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: World. October 16, 2009. The "McCain Conference on Ethics and Military Leadership" appears to be ahead of the senator when it comes to the U.S. use of mercenaries.
ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. September 23, 2009. Sarah Palin, Joe Lieberman, Bill Kristol and others want to pressure the president into escalation in Afghanistan.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. September 10, 2009. At a joint session of Congress that rang like town halls, Obama comes out swinging for progressive ideals; yet his stance on the public option still is unclear.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: Politics. September 4, 2009. At an Arizona town-hall meeting on health-care reform, Sen. John McCain endorsed the "death to Grandma" lie.
AKMuckraker, The Mudflats AlterNet: PEEK. August 31, 2009. From the day she was nominated until the day she resigned, watching Sarah Palin was like watching a slow motion film clip of the Hindenburg.
Agence France Presse August 6, 2009. Four U.S. senators, including two Republicans, in a letter Thursday urged Barack Obama to ensure that September 11 terror suspects are tried in a special military court and not in civilian courts on U.S. soil.
Melissa McEwan, Comment Is Free AlterNet: PEEK. July 7, 2009. Palin is cut from the same cloth as our former president, who was similarly ridiculed and rejected by conservative leaders early on.
Jasmin Ramsey, PULSE AlterNet: PEEK. June 30, 2009. Most stories show Mousavi supporters at their heart, but the question of who truly represents the majority has yet to be answered.
Suman Raghunathan, New America Media. June 29, 2009. It's “Game On!” for many reform advocates. But the various sides have already started spelling out what they will and will not accept.
Leslie Savan, The Nation. June 22, 2009. The Iran protests have thrown Republican ideologues into such a tizzy of circular logic that they're stepping on their own propaganda.
Matthew Duss, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. June 15, 2009. "It's obvious that this was a rigged election," McCain told a correspondent for Fox & Friends.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: PEEK. June 10, 2009. A new lawsuit reveals that the notorious mercenary firm is working, under a different name, for the International Republican Institute in Iraq.
Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post. May 26, 2009. Obama doesn't lack leadership or nerve, which makes his dithering on the financial crisis and straddling on torture all the more bewildering.
Meredith McGehee, Campaign Legal Center Blog. April 30, 2009. It’s been seven years since the McCain-Feingold bill was passed, yet the measure is still the subject of a massive amount of disinformation.
Scott Horton, The Daily Beast. April 28, 2009. Obama insists America must "look forward" on the question of torture and accountability, but we're far from closure.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. April 25, 2009. Senator John McCain, Republican and full-tilt asshole, again distances himself from his daughter Meghan McCain.
ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 21, 2009. The hawkish Connecticut Senator still refuses to call waterboarding torture.
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. March 30, 2009. In his latest love letter to Obama, Boot calls his Afghanistan plan "all that supporters of the war effort could have asked for."
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 11, 2009. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee cleared Hilda Solis' nomination as Secretary of Labor today.
