Laura Flanders, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. July 24, 2008. If Vanity Fair wanted to flip the New Yorker cover on the GOP, they'd have to portray the media's lies about the candidate. Not the true stuff.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 24, 2008. Obama is showing sound thinking on Iraq, so why does he continue to talk abou tescalating the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan?
Jonathan Singer, MyDD.com AlterNet: PEEK. July 24, 2008. "Politics is about building coalitions, and there is no one single path to success that runs only through the support of White voters in America."
Chris Toensing, Caterwaul Quarterly. July 23, 2008. With neither a Democratic or Republican president likely to withdraw anytime soon, Iraq is poised to be a campaign issue four years from now.
Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog AlterNet: PEEK. July 23, 2008. Progressives see McCain as dead in the water, but the optics are quite different in NixonLand.
Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. July 23, 2008. John McCain and the White House have been clearly dismayed and embarrassed by Iraqi govt. support for Obama's withdrawal plan.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 22, 2008. ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org Members To Deliver More Than 600,000 petition signatures to FOX headquarters in Manhattan.
Jason Linkins, Huffington Post AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 21, 2008. NYT didn't publish McCain's op-ed, but since "he wants the attention, let's give it to him."
dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Election 2008. July 21, 2008. The Right's reaction to Maliki's recent agreement with Obama's plan for withdrawal is a good example of what happens when things don't go their way.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. July 21, 2008. James Dobson reconsiders the ‘circumstances,’ goes back on his word and warms up to McCain.
Matt Stoller, Open Left AlterNet: Video. July 21, 2008. McCain's latest ad blames Obama for rising gas prices and claims drilling is the answer. Both those assertions are false.
Amanda, Think Progress AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 21, 2008. The White House doesn't want to hear what the Iraqi leader has to say about Obama's redeployment plan.
Tom Hayden, Huffington Post. July 19, 2008. In a stunning breakthrough for Obama, Iraq's prime minister endorsed the Dem candidate's timeline for withdrawing combat troops from Iraq.
Roberto Lovato, Of America. July 19, 2008. As Obama prepares for his world tour, we must prepare to ask him the tough questions about imperialism and the U.S. global military machine.
