Independent UK. May 9, 2008. The Iraqi Defense Ministry claims Washington's prime target, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been arrested, but the White House is skeptical.
Andy Worthington's Blog. May 9, 2008. The release of al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj last week made headlines. But few have mentioned the others prisoners freed from Guantánamo.
Truthdig. May 9, 2008. The conflict between popularly chosen delegates and powerful, unelected "superdelegates" may seriously wound the Democratic Party.
AlterNet. May 9, 2008. Home mortgage deductions and other bennies for homeowners are supposed to help the middle class, but they're actually burying it.
AlterNet. May 9, 2008. New study says New York's cannabis crackdown is both racist and fraudulent -- and that more have been arrested under Bloomberg than Giuliani.
AlterNet. May 9, 2008. In his new book, E&P editor Greg Mitchell offers a stinging indictment of the media's complicity with Washington's war-marketing machine.
Christian Science Monitor. May 8, 2008. Utah and Arizona have mostly ignored the FLDS since the infamous 1953 raid of Short Creek. Now, political pressure may force them to crack down.
Natural News. May 8, 2008. Tuscon residents may soon be drinking treated wastewater as part of a growing national trend to offset diminishing freshwater sources.
King Features Syndicate. May 8, 2008. The Bush administration has engaged in assault, intimidation, and imprisonment to limit the ability of journalists to do their jobs.
IPS News. May 8, 2008. "The argument that Iraq should use its oil revenues to pay the U.S. sounds like the ultimate proof that we invaded Iraq for mercenary reasons."
AlterNet. May 8, 2008. The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will help ex-soldiers to register and vote, yet it won't allow registration drives on VA facilities.
Metropolitan Books. May 8, 2008. Judging by the Pentagon's own accounting, the army, navy, air force and marines have been very hungry -- and they've been chowing down.
Foreign Policy. May 8, 2008. Politicians have long clung to the notion that free nations breed happy people. Now, a new 'science of happiness' turns that equation on its head.
AlterNet. May 8, 2008. The frenzy around Israel Independence Day is an attempt to freeze history in 1948 when public support of Israel was unequivocal.
Christian Science Monitor. May 8, 2008. New lines of tiny PCs are small enough to fit in your purse and affordable enough for students in around the world.
Earth Island Journal. May 7, 2008. The food safety regulations established in response to the spinach E. coli outbreak are threatening environmentally friendly farming practices.
Consenting Adult. May 6, 2008. Young@heart, a film about a choir of elders whose repertoire includes the Ramones and the Clash, proves that rock n' roll will never die.
Democracy Now!. May 6, 2008. Unlike Clinton or Obama, Dr. Rocky White, an Evangelical from a conservative background, is promoting a single-payer health care system.
Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. May 6, 2008. How much higher can executive pay rise? Corporate shareholders may not have the patience to wait and see.
IPS News. May 6, 2008. Two new ICG reports show that, at best, the "surge" was a temporary solution and that, in Iraq, "underlying issues will again come to the fore."
RH Reality Check. May 6, 2008. Birth control is the best way to lower the abortion rate. So why are anti-choicers rallying against it and claiming that "the pill kills babies"?
Ig Publishing. May 6, 2008. On TV and the radio, conservative pundits infuse violence into their arguments, destroying our precious culture of civil debate.
Women's eNews. May 5, 2008. Child care is a long-neglected political issue. But this Mother's Day, a handful of advocates are putting it back on the radar screen.
AlterNet. May 5, 2008. Vermont activists entered General Dynamics and locked themselves together in the firm's lobby to protest the company's war profiteering.
Asia Times. May 5, 2008. While U.S. casualties continue to mount -- and many Iraqi troops lay down their arms -- the Mahdi Army is waging a war of survival.
AlterNet. May 5, 2008. The unsolved murder of Estelle Richardson in her prison cell haunts the nation's top private prison litigator as he vies for a judgeship.
Center for Media and Democracy. May 5, 2008. The Pentagon pundit scandal was not only a corrupt marriage of propaganda and corporate lobbying -- it was completely illegal.
The New York Times. May 5, 2008. If the hypocrisy whipped up over Jeremiah Wright proves anything, it's that this nation's candid conversation on race has yet to begin.
AlterNet. May 5, 2008. Morgan Simon of the Responsible Endowment Coalition is helping student activists across the U.S. leverage their school endowments.
The Nation. May 4, 2008. Guantánamo can be treated as a punch line because Americans see it as an abstract issue rather than a real place with real prisoners.
Christian Science Monitor. May 3, 2008. Reports of the Iraqi Army's performance range from good, with British military officers describing it as an "unmitigated disaster at every level."
AlterNet. May 3, 2008. Much of our food supply is based on entrepreneurial gambling that relies on chemical pesticides and fertilizers to make huge profits.
In These Times. May 2, 2008. When Adbusters found its spoof ads banned by the corporate media, the question of the right to communicate came into play.
Independent UK. May 2, 2008. The killing of three U.S. soldiers in Baghdad raised the number killed in April to 47, reversing a trend towards lower American casualties.
The Blowfish Blog. May 2, 2008. Our culture still ignores the full spectrum of sexual orientation -- and the shifts that many of us make over that spectrum throughout our lives.
The Nation. May 2, 2008. In the face of raw, media-driven misogyny, Clinton resorts to playing the race card and loses some women's support in the process.
AlterNet. May 2, 2008. Mike Connery on why progressive leaders should stop lamenting 'youth apathy' and start engaging the most diverse, tolerant, generation in history.
Truthdig. May 2, 2008. With American fast food readily available to U.S. troops, their expanding waistlines make a good metaphor for the general engorgement of the war.
AlterNet. May 2, 2008. He doesn't care if we're in Iraq for a hundred years, but when it comes to the veterans who've served over there, the senator is AWOL.
Drug War Chronicle. May 1, 2008. A North Dakota man with an interest in herbalism and spirituality faces years in prison for $32 worth of salvia leaves he bought on eBay.
The Nation. May 1, 2008. A serious debate focused about torture, wiretapping, food prices, world hunger... oh, wait. That's the kind of fairy tale they don't do at Disney.
North American Congress on Latin America. May 1, 2008. With the most annual rainfall of any region in the world, the water crisis in Latin America is particularly perplexing.
Politico. May 1, 2008. If there's one thing Hollywood heavy-hitters excel at, it's shamelessly manipulating audiences. Why don't politicians take advantage of their talents?
King Features Syndicate. May 1, 2008. If our government and large food and energy interests don't change direction, the food riots in distant lands will soon be coming to their doors.
AlterNet. May 1, 2008. Phil Donahue's documentary Body of War offers a chilling view of how the lies that led us to war changed the life of one Iraq veteran.
Huffington Post. May 1, 2008. If we refused to cash our checks, the value of the dollars in our pockets would go up by more than the face value of the stimulus refund.
Nerve.com. May 1, 2008. For an institution associated with a 50 percent failure rate and bad sex, marriage still has surprisingly many takers -- not me.
