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Support Our Troops: Boycott the Israeli Occupation
I don't know about all you commiepinkos, but I believe we should Support Our Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. General Petraeus, Admiral Mullen and Vice President Biden say that …

Senate Unveils Its Financial Crisis Fix
Washington - Eighteen months after Wall Street's brush with apocalypse, the Senate on Monday began to rewrite the nation's financial regulatory rules with the introduction of a sweeping bill …

Why Punish Iran for What Israel Has Already Done?
As the Western powers continue to criticize Iran for its nuclear enrichment program, and while they try to pressure Russia and China to impose stiffer economic sanctions, maybe it …

Control of Public Media as a Social Justice Issue
Media justice organizers at the Center for Media Justice (CMJ) and MAG-Net have recently produced a brilliant campaign plan (“The Campaign for universal broadband”) to win three policies crucial …

Eugene Robinson | Katrina’s Toxic Legacy Lives
Washington - The Obama administration is making a big health care mistake. I'm not talking about the final push for comprehensive reform legislation, which is righteous and necessary. I …

Sweatshops Won’t Save Haiti
The United Nations will host a Haiti donors' conference at the end of March. This conference will be quite different from last year's event, of course, coming as it …

Health Care 2010 and 1994, and the Political Lessons of History
Health care reform is necessary, and House Democrats should vote for it because it's best for the nation.

New Data Shows Loan Modification Logjam Continues
New data released Friday shows that the story for the government’s foreclosure prevention program remains the same: Mortgage servicers have delivered relatively few permanent modifications, and hundreds of thousands …

The Great White Whale in San Francisco Bay or How the “Lively Arts” Became “the Media“
[This essay appears in the March 2010 issue of Lapham's Quarterly and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.]

Pelosi Under Pressure From Progressives on Public Option
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists that the public option is dead, but progressive organizations are mounting an aggressive campaign to resurrect it as Democratic lawmakers gear up to pass …