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Consider This Before You Vote For Republicans.
Environment
- TransCanada Inspector: Keystone XL Pipeline is Not Safe (1/3/2012)
- Marching Off
the Cliff (12/6/2011)
- World
is Nearing the Climate Point of No Return, IEA Says (11/9/2011)
- If
Tar Sands Happen: It's Game Over For The Climate (8/30/2011)
- Why Climate Change is so Threatening to Right Wing Ideologues ( 3/9/2011)
- Money Pollution: The US Chamber of Commerce Darkens the Skies (2/22/2011)
- NOAA reports 2010 Hottest Year on Record so far (9/15/2010)
- Stupid goes viral: The Climate Zombies of the new GOP
- Creeping Climate Change Becomes Deadly Obvious (8/15/2010)
- Our Plunder of Nature will End Up Killing Capitalism: Joe Bageant (7/11/2010)
- Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come (6/22/2010)
- National Academy of Sciences urges strong action to cut greenhouse gases (5/19/2010)
- Gooey Black Corporate Greed (5/4/2010)
- What Conservatives are saying about the Gulf Oil Disaster (5/1/2010)
- Republicans blocked Climate Change action with Immigration
- The Climate Killers (Rolling Stone 1/6/2010)
Economy
- The Perils of 2012: When Austerity Bites Back (Joseph Stiglitz) 1/13/2012.
- Austerity For Dummies (1/9/2012)
- Keynes
Was Right: Paul Krugman (12/29/2011)
- The
Shocking Truth About The Crackdown on Occupy (11/25/2011)
- Protest
Changes the Austerity Debate (11/2/2011)
- Wall
Street is Leaning Hard on the Supercomittee to make Cuts
(10/25/2011)
- How
We Can Make The Free Market Work For The 99%: Dean Baker
(10/13/2011)
- What
the New Deal Accomplished (10/13/2011)
- How Washington Could Create Jobs Right Now (8/20/2011)
- The
Hidden Casualty of the Debt Deal
- Republicans have no idea what they're Doing(8/13/2011)
- The
Centrist Cop-out: Paul Krugman (7/29/11)
- A
Cult of Centrism, Poisoning the American Political System: Paul
Krugman (8/2/2011)
- Where's
the Outrage ? (Matt Taibbi)
- Debt
Ceiling Holy War: Why Do 'Conservatives' Have
Unshakable Faith in Ideas That Are Totally, Demonstratively
False (7/18/2011)
- What Obama Wants: Paul Krugman (7/8/2011)
- Sign Senator Sanders Petition: We Will Not Balance the Budget on the Backs of Working Families
- GOP
Mind Games, Job Killing Edition (6/23/2011)
- Making
the US Economy Scream (6/3/2011)
- WHY Austerity Can't Reduce The Deficit (5/19/2011)
- Corporate Corruption is Out of Control (5/5/2011)
- Republican Cuts can Shut Down the Economy (3/6/2011)
- Why Americans Are Fed Lies: Robert Reich (3/31/2011)
- Shock Doctrine, USA: Paul Krugman
- $1.2 Trillion For National Security (3/1/2011)
- Wall Street Wins Big in the Deficit Battle (2/18/2011)
- How to Get America Back to Full Employment (2/4/2011)
- The Great Deficit Con (1/15/2011)
- The New Voodoo: Paul Krugman (12/30/2010)
- Why The Tax Deal Is an Abomination. Robert Reich (12/08/2010)
- The Hijacked Commission (11/20/2010)
- Krugman: There Will Be Blood (11/21/2010)
- America's Two Economies (11/5/2010)
- Taking America Back to the Gilded Age (11/5/2010)
- Paul Krugman: Be Very Afraid (10/29/2010)
- Voters Wrong About Major Economic, Fiscal Facts (Poll) (10/29/2010) See Media.
- 300 Economists Warn About Deficit Hawks (9/16/2010)
- Listening to 'Conservatives' is making us poor (9/17/2010)
- The Great Divergence (9/3/2010)
- CEO Pay and the Great Recession (9/9/2010)
- Are We A Kleptocracy...? (9/2/2010)
- The people (R's) who want to cut public services want tax cuts for the rich (8/23/2010)
- The Republican Plan to Wreck the Economy then Blame the Dems
- America Goes Dark (8/8/2010) Paul Krugman
- GOP Economic Terrorism (7/12/2010)
- Republicans Want as Many Unemployed People as Possible, Because They Think it will get Them Elected (7/7/2010)
- Slouching Toward a Double Dip or a Lousy Recovery at Best (7/3/2010) Robert Reich
- Punishing the Jobless (Krugman) (7/4/2010)
- Sticking the Public With the Bill for the Bankers' Crisis (6/28/2010)
- Why Deficit Hawks are Killing the Recovery (5/28/2010)
- The Jobs Deficit & the Breaking Point (5/27/2010)
- America's Ten Most Corrupt Capitalists (5/13/2010)
- A Simple Way to End This Recession...Forever (5/10/2010)
- The Costs of Complexity (4/29/2010)
- Address Jobs Now and Deficits Later (2/24/2010)
- Financial Industry Heavily Backed Scott Brown (2/1/2010)
- Looting Social Security (1/5/2010) See this note.
- Lessons From America's Lost Decade (1/15/2010)
Politics
- If
It Aint Broke, Break It. (12/20/2011) Note.
- Send
In The Clueless: Paul Krugman (12/5/2011)
- Are
You Getting Robo Calls From Americans For Prosperity ?(10/17/2011)
- Corporate
Media ignores Herman Cain's Koch Connections (10/14/2011)
- GOP Hearts End-Times Insanity (8/30/2011)
- Wealthy
Elites Hold Country Hostage (8/20/2011)
- Your
Tax Dollars Used to Screw You: Meet ALEC (8/26/2011)
- The
'Super
Congress' is a Scam (8/11/2011)
- Weimar
Meets Waterloo: James Howard Kunstler (8/1/2011)
- Norway
Attacks: We Can No Longer Ignore The Far Right Threat (7/24/2011)
- The
Republican Death Wish (5/27/2011)
- The Koch Brothers are even Worse Than You Thought (4/5/2011)
- Taking Down Paul Ryan (4/6/2011)
- Why the Fate of Democracy is at Stake in Madison (3/9/2011)
- The Republicans Are Coming (2/22/2011)
- Wisconsin Power Play (2/20/2011)
- The Year of Living Dangerously: Michael Klare (1/30/2011)
- Unions are the only counterweight to Oligarchy: Krugman (2/21/2011)
- Uprising in the USA ? (2/18/2010)
- Kennedy Points Finger At Palin (1/10/2011)
- Climate of Hate: Krugman (1/10/2011)
- Stand Up Against Internet Censorship (12/7/2010)
- Corporate Power and the Decay of Our Democratic Institutions (9/13/2010)
- It's Witch-Hunt Season (8/30/2010)
- The Backlash Against Obama's Blackness (8/24/2010)
- The Great American Stupid (8/29/2010)
- Republicans are Betraying Our Grandchildren (8/2/2010)
- Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit, They Care About Screwing the Poor (7/15/2010)
- What's Wrong With Big Government ? 5/10/2010
- Conservative Republicans Want to Deprive Terrorists of All Rights — Except Right to Buy Guns (5/6/2010)
- This is Why We Need to Change Congress (4/26/2010)
- We're Living in a Kleptocracy (4/20/2010)
- 3 Toxic Ingredients for the GOP Victory Plan (4/12/2010)
- The Party of Cruelty (3/26/2010)
- The New Dumb (3/25/2010)
- Student Loans: The Right's Hidden Agenda (3/23/2010)
- Round Midnight: Tortillas and the Corporate State (2/25/2010)
- Do Republicans Deserve an Award ? (1/2010)
- US is Facing a Weimar Moment (3/16/2009)
Healthcare
- Mitt
Romney's Entitlement Plan is Crazy (11/8/11)
- Death's
Own Party (9/13/2011)
- Single
Payer Healthcare: Vermont's Gentle Revolution (5/25/2011)
- Medicare "Part E" For Everybody (12/13/2010)
- How the GOP Will Try to Kill Healthcare Overhaul (11/4/2010)
- Leading doctors call for urgent crackdown on junk food (7/11/2010)
- Healthcare Explainers (3/24/2010)
- 10 Most Outrageous Right-Wing Freakouts Over the Health Care Bill (3/23/2010)
- Pass the Bill
- What about Lieberman ? (video) Note
- Whose Team Is It, Anyway ?
- 'Conservative' Democrats Threaten Filibuster (11/23/2009)
- Lieberman Twists The Knife (10/30/2009)
- The Insurance Industry's Deceptive Report (10/12/2009)
- Revolving Door Shuts on Public Option (10/10/2009)
- Health Insurers Threaten Rate Hikes (10/9/2009)
- Democrats Ponder Health-Care Suicide (10/4/20009)
- Journalism in the Heartland (9/30/2009)
- Baucus Scores a Big Win for Big Pharma (9/24/2009)
- Sick and Wrong: Matt Taibbi
- A Public Option would save many Billions (9/1/2009)
- Healthcare's 13 Tyrants (8/14/2009)
- "Big Government" and the Health Care Crazies (8/20/2009)
- Healthcare Reform: Sick and Wrong (8/19/2009)
- Teabaggers protesting Healthcare (8/7/2009)
- How Republicans plan to thwart Health Care Reform (8/3/2009)
- Bill Moyers: Dangerous Alliance of Health Industry and Right-Wingers Will Stop at Nothing to Derail Progressive Reforms (7/27/2009)
- Healthcare Corporate Fraud (6/25/2009)
- Move to Single-Payer is Crucial (4/10/2009)
- Media Blackout on Single-Payer Healthcare (3/6/2009)
- "Socialized" medicine: Next front in the right's "-isms" arms race
- Why Conservatives are radical on healthcare (3/8/2009)
- Health Care Now By PAUL KRUGMAN January 29, 2009
- Lobbies backing Healthcare Reform (12/3/2008)
Labor
- In Search of the Lost Battalion of America's Unemployed (4/4/2011)
- GOP's War on American Labor (3/12/2010)
- Then They Came For the Trade Unionists...(3/10/2011)
- Meet Joe Bageant
- American Jobs Plan
- GOP: 'ACTION ALERT - AUTO BAILOUT' (12/12/2008)
- Herbert Hoover time (12/12/2008)
Media
- Conservative
Message Machine In the Service of Big Oil (11/28/2011)
- Murdoch's
Other Moral Crimes (7/28/2011)
- Cut Limbaugh and Hannity (Ralph Nader 4/13/2011)
- Republicans Block Net Neutrality (3/9/2011)
- In Defense of NPR (3/11/2011)
- Republicans want to Defund Public Broadcasting. Tell them NO (2/12/2010)
- Fox Donates at least $40 million to GOP Presidential candidates (11/18/2010)
- Rich Media, Poor Democracy (11/4/2010)
- 9 Shameless Warmongers Who Call Fox News Home (9/5/2010)
- The Disappearing Intellectual (7/12/2010)
- 15,000 Progressive Activists in Detroit: Why No Media or Respect? (6/26/2010)
- Why the BP Disaster Threatens to Expose Fox News' Insanity to Its Right-Wing Audience (6/24/2010) (note)
- Are Americans as Stupid as the Media Think They Are? (3/30/2010)
- Tribune Plans Millions in Exec Bonuses while Reporting Gets Cut
- Corporate Media Love a Horserace--but They Love Gatekeeping Even More (1/13/2010)
- Who Will Win the Cable Wars? Not You. (1/4/2010)
- Mad Men 2.0 (10/5/2009)
- The Rise of Gladiator TV (10/5/2009)
- Covering the Great Recession (10/02/2009)
- Where Did We Go ? (9/30/2009)
- First They Came For Acorn (9/26/2009)
- Time to Embrace American Royalty (8/30/2009)
- Limbaugh's $400 Million Contract Is an Even Match for Clear Channel's Layoffs (5/7/2009)
- Consolidation Won't Save the Media (3/26/2009)
- How the Pentagon Owns Media (Pulitzer) (4/21/2009)
- Cable Giants Continue Hoping No One Will Notice Their Attempts to Destroy the Internet (4/21/2009)
- Media's Deliberate Stupidity (3/13/2009)
- Right Wing Media and the Politics of Vitriol (1/2009)
- Most Outrageous Comments of 2008
- Burlington Telecomm Case Study
- Media threat to Democracy
- Corporate media is the enemy of Democracy
Elections
- Republicans
Making It Harder To Vote (6/19/2011)
- Tea Party Vows to Block Campaign Finance Reform (11/4/2010) Note.
- Corporate Campaign Fundraising Picks Up Speed (8/2/2010)
- Welcome to the Banana Republic of the USA where we still have Enron style elections (6/7/2010)
- BlackBoxVoting to File Anti-Trust Complaint against ES&S/Diebold merger
- Lessig Levels the Citizens United Decision (2/11/2010)
- Mysterious Death of Mike Connell—Karl Rove’s Election Thief
- Diebold admits voting machine flaws (3/22/2009)
- Diebold has a "Delete" button for erasing audit logs (3/3/2009)
- The Ultimate Election
War
- US
Fears Uncoordinated Israeli Strike on Iran (10/31/11)
- US
Will Spend $700 Billion on Nuclear Weapons in the Next Decade
(10/30/2011)
- Public Says Cut Pentagon, Obama Says Increase It (2/2/2011)
- Empire: The Pentagon Can Barely Keep Track of Its Thousands of Bases (1/9/2011)
- War is a Drug (1/4/2011)
- Conservatives bang the drum for war with North Korea (11/23/2010)
- Republicans blocking Nuclear Arms reduction to Spend 85 Billion on new ones.
- Lindsey Graham: "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran" (9/21/2010)
- House Republicans Giving Green Light for Israeli Strike on Iran (7/26/2010)
- Get Serious About The Deficit and Cut Military Spending (7/27/20100
- The New Normal
- Looking For A Fight (7/25/2010) (Bruce Gagnon)
- Obama Has Kept the Machine Set On Kill (Alan Nairn)
- Obama Dominated by the Military (Seymour Hersh: 5/8/2010)
- Have A Nice World War, Folks (3/25/2010)
- Hiding War Horrors from Americans
- 2010: U.S. To Wage War Throughout The World By Rick Rozoff
- War in South America ?
- Liberal Democrats take aim at funding for war (12/4/2009)
- The Land Mines Obama Won't Touch
- Who Are the Deciders ? (10/3/2009)
- Iraq - The Incredible Shrinking Story
- U.S., NATO Poised For Most Massive War In Afghanistan's History (9/24/2009)
- Making War to Bring Peace (Noam Chomsky) 8/3/2009
- About Guantanamo (Larry Wilkerson) (3/17/2009)
- War on Drugs is a Failure (3/13/2009) See this.
International
- UNESCO,
the WHO, Then IAEA, Then The UN itself (11/2/2011)
- Why
Danes
Are So Much Happier Than Americans (10/9/2011)
- An Empire of Lies: Why Our Media Betrays Us
- US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America
- Reforming Global Finance (12/1/2008)
- The Global Crisis of Capitalism (12/11/2008)
- Regime Change in Global Finance (11/22/2008)
- Global Famine (5/2/2008)
- US Failing Foreign Aid Commitments (4/4/2008)
- What you should know about Norway (5/14/2009)
- What you should know about Finland.
- Robert Kuttner writes about Denmark
Connecticut
- Ralph
Nader Is Tired of Running for President (7/4/2011)
- Facebook
Facial Recognition Flap Gains Momentum (6/18/2011)
- Chris
Murphy Bill To End Supreme Court Immunity to Judicial Ethics Law
(2/18/2011) Note
- Democrats are not to blame (12/27/2009)
- Use Waste Heat from Power Generation ? (7/30/2009)
- Connecticut Good News