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Taiwan unveils hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers Taiwanese researchers said Friday they have developed hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers, in a development that could boost the island's efforts to become a player in green technologies. [...] October 2, 2009 06:11 AM Internet

US Navy creates command to maintain cyber supremacy The US Navy announced it was consolidating intelligence gathering and other data capabilities under a single command in a bid to maintain an increasingly challenged US military supremacy in... October 2, 2009 03:56 AM Internet

Google adds options as search engine race continues Google on Thursday rolled out search engine refinements as Microsoft strives to lure people to Bing and Twitter heightens appetites for real-time updates and news. [...] October 1, 2009 07:33 PM Internet

US to add up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that her department has received the green light to hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts over the next three years. [...] October 1, 2009 07:06 PM Internet

US launch for Relaxnews Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Relaxnews announced the US launch on Thursday of the newswire dedicated to leisure and lifestyle news. [...] October 1, 2009 06:08 PM Internet

Amazon settles suit over deleted Orwell books Amazon.com has settled a lawsuit that sprang from a Big Brother-like move of deleting books by George Orwell from its Kindle electronic readers as a quick fix for copyright concerns. The... October 1, 2009 05:45 PM Internet

Twitter testing tool to organize tweets Twitter on Thursday began letting a small number of users test a "Lists" feature for dividing maelstroms of tweets into manageable sub-categories. "The idea is to allow people to create lists of... October 1, 2009 05:04 PM Internet

Juvenile behind Facebook poll on whether to kill Obama The US Secret Service said Thursday that a juvenile was behind a Facebook poll asking whether US President Barack Obama should be assassinated and no charges will be brought in the case. [...] October 1, 2009 04:57 PM Internet

LA Times, Washington Post end syndication service The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post are ending their nearly 50-year-old syndication service in the latest shakeup in the US newspaper industry. The Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News... October 1, 2009 04:10 PM Internet

EU launches free satnav system The European Union on Thursday launched a free satellite navigation system with increased accuracy for drivers, hikers and boat owners, but also for use on farms and roadworks. [...] October 1, 2009 03:41 PM Internet

Cars may one day mimic fish to avoid collisions Engineers in Japan say they are a step closer to developing technology they hope will cut the risk of car crashes -- by mimicking the behaviour of fish. [...] October 1, 2009 10:05 AM Internet

NBA prohibits use of Twitter, Facebook during games The National Basketball Association is initiating new social media guidelines for its players, banning the use of web sites like Twitter and Facebook during games. [...] October 1, 2009 01:34 AM Internet

Google gadget lets websites go multilingual Google on Wednesday released free software that lets website operators automatically translate online pages into any of 51 languages. A "translator gadget" powered by Google Translate offers to... September 30, 2009 11:49 PM Internet

NY Times planning local editions for other US cities The New York Times plans to roll out local editions in Chicago and other major US cities, the newspaper said Wednesday, in addition to a San Francisco edition it intends to launch later this year.... September 30, 2009 11:31 PM Internet

Most Americans dislike behavioral advertising: survey Privacy advocates have long criticized behavioral advertising and a new survey suggests that contrary to the claims of marketers, most Americans don't like it either. The survey of 1,000 adult... September 30, 2009 11:10 PM Internet

Microsoft dodges $388 mln hit in patent case A US judge has ruled that Microsoft does not have to pay a record-setting 388 million dollars in damages, saying a jury came to the wrong decision in the patent case. [...] September 30, 2009 06:53 PM Internet

Facebook warns of phony friends asking for cash Facebook wants its members to be on guard for an old scam taking on new life in the world's largest online social-networking community. [...] September 30, 2009 05:49 PM Internet

Terminate prostitute site, British minister tells Arnie A senior British politician Wednesday called on actor-turned-California-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to shut down a website which allows men to rate prostitutes. Harriet Harman, the deputy... September 30, 2009 05:23 PM Internet

Google inviting testers to ride its Wave Google on Wednesday began inviting people to test ride a new Wave messaging platform that merges email, online chat, social networking and "wiki" style collaboration. [...] September 30, 2009 05:00 PM Internet

Internet, dissidents under watch for China's National Day Internet users in China have found more and more online roadblocks and dissidents have reported increased surveillance as the authorities nervously prepare to celebrate 60 years of communist rule.... September 30, 2009 04:11 PM Internet High court to decide if war memorial violates Constitution A war memorial erected in the shape of a cross was covered by plywood The cross is located on government property Justices will decide whether the display violates the First Amendment It's "sort of odd that it just happens to be in that shape," said an ACLU attorney Wall Street Titans Use Aliases to Foreclose on Families While Partnering With a Federal Agency By PAM MARTENS A federal agency tasked with expanding the American dream of home ownership and affordable housing free from discrimination to people of modest means has been quietly moving a chunk of that role to Wall Street since 2002.  In a stealth partial privatization, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) farmed out its mandate of working with single family homeowners in trouble on their mortgages to the industry most responsible for separating people from their savings and creating an unprecedented wealth gap that renders millions unable to pay those mortgages. This industry also ranks as one of the most storied industries in terms of race discrimination.   Rounding out its dubious housing credentials, Wall Street is now on life support courtesy of the public purse known as TARP as a result of issuing trillions of dollars in miss-rated housing bonds and housing-related derivatives, many of which were nothing more than algorithmic concepts wrapped in a high priced legal opinion.  It’s difficult to imagine a more problematic resume for the new housing czars. To what degree this surreptitious program has contributed to putting children and families out on the street during one of the worst economic slumps since the ’30s  should be on a Congressional short list for investigation.  HUD’s demand for confidentiality from all bidders and announcement of winning bids to parties known only as “the winning bidder”  deserves its own investigation in terms of obfuscating the public’s right to know and the ability of the press to properly fulfill its function in a free society.  Despite three days of emails and phone calls to HUD officials, they have refused to provide the names of the winning bidders or the firms that teamed as co-bidders with the winning party.  Obtaining this information independently has been akin to extracting a painful splinter wearing a blindfold and oven mitts.  That a taxpayer-supported Federal agency conducts a competitive bid program of over $2 billion and then refuses to announce the names of the winning bidders is beyond contempt for the American people.  If the Obama administration does not quickly purge this Bush mindset from these Federal agencies, he is inviting a massive backlash in the midterm elections. Obliterating the Bill of Rights How the Feds Imprison the Innocent Authors of serious books seldom have cause to celebrate, but Larry Stratton and I have two reasons to pop the champagne.  Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, has announced a second printing of the second edition of The Tyranny of Good Intentions, and the noted civil libertarian and defense attorney, Harvey Silverglate, has just published a book covering many of the same legal cases and vetting our conclusion that in the United States every American is in grave danger from unscrupulous prosecutors who target the innocent. For two decades I have been attempting to make Americans aware that the danger to their liberty comes not from foreign adversaries, terrorists, or criminals,  but from prosecutors, who have destroyed law as a shield of the innocent and turned law into a weapon against the innocent. The Tyranny of Good Intentions  (the publisher’s title) documents how the legal principles that protect our civil liberties were eroded by prosecutors even before the Bush regime obliterated what remained of the Bill of Rights. The struggle has been uphill, because neither the right-wing nor the left-wing is emotionally content with the facts that Stratton and I present. Conservatives tend to see civil liberties as liberal coddling devices for criminals and, today, for terrorists.  Predisposed to “law and order,” conservatives align with police and prosecutors.  They object to accounts of police misbehavior and prosecutorial abuse as propaganda in behalf of the criminal class. The left-wing tends to see law as a tool of oppression that “the rich” use to control the lower classes, and liberals fret that “the rich” get off by hiring good lawyers, while the poor and minorities are ground under. Defense attorneys, a group that also increasingly consists of former federal prosecutors, as Silverglate accurately reports, have lost confidence that it is possible to defend a client from a federal prosecution and see their role, not as the defense, but as negotiators of a plea bargain that reduces the charges and prison time of the defendant, no matter how innocent.  This is the way America works today.  Just as state and local police cannot stand up to the FBI, elected state and local officials are powerless in the face of their pursuit by corrupt federal prosecutors. Today's Stories October 5, 2009 Pam Martens Wall Street Titans Use Aliases to Foreclose on Families While Partnering with a Federal Agency October 2-4, 2009 Alexander Cockburn Geezer Renditions Saul Landau News From Raul Castro Diana Johnstone After the German Elections: Is SocialismReally Dead in Europe? Greg Moses Cramming for the Downside William Blum The Fall of the Berlin Wall: Another Cold War Myth Brian Cloughley Iran's Nuclear Program: Where's the Proof? Russell Mokhiber Welcome Back, Michael Moore John Ross Chomsky in Mexico Ellen Brown IMF Catapults From Shunned Agency to Global Central Bank David Ker Thomson Cop Shocks David Macaray The Audacity of Toyota Gary Engler Unions in a Rut Robert Fantina Meet the New Boss (Same as the Old Boss) Lisa Stolarski / Naomi Archer Pittsburgh: Still a (Coal) Company Town Anthony Papa Here is Your Chance to Help End the Failed War on Drugs Joe Allen The Good Wife: Bad View of a Corrupt System Harry Browne Tarantino Scalps His Audience Ron Jacobs Collective Fiction Charles R. Larson Cultural Warriors: Austrialian Aboriginal Art Triennial David Yearsley Hanns Eisler's Great National Anthem for East Germany is Available: Make It America's Poets' Basement Taylor, Gardner and Landau Website of the Weekend Wrongful Convictions of Youth October 1, 2009 Andy Worthington A Truly Shocking Gitmo Story Carl Ginsburg The Great Marginalization Mary Lynn Cramer Seniors on the Chopping Block Col. Douglas Macgregor The Bog of History in Afghanistan Brian M. Downing The Paradox of Financial Disorder John V. Walsh Mao's China at 60 Ramzy Baroud The Big Diversion Norman Solomon Starting Another Year of War in Afghanistan Dan Bacher Undamming the Klamath Brenda Norrell Lazy Journalists are the Darlings of the Corporations Website of the Day Neoliberalism as Water Balloon September 30, 2009 Vijay Prashad McChrystal's Afghan Desolation Gareth Porter U.S. Story on Iran Nuke Facility Doesn't Add Up Andy Thayer The Fiasco Behind Chicago's Olympics Bid Paul Craig Roberts Another War in the Works Dean Baker Medicare Buy-In: What's Wrong With Giving People a Choice? Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada Mission Impossible Laura Flanders Punch in the Streets, But Not in the Suites Dave Lindorff The Baucus Excuse Seumas Milne Why British Workers Are Angry Martha Rosenberg What Integrity Means to Pfizer Website of the Day Why You Should Boycott Hyatt Hotels September 29, 2009 Marshall Auerback A Neoliberal Hijacking Alan Farago Recovery Without Feeling Jeff Sher Shopping for Health Care Bruce Jackson 60 Minutes and the General Gareth Porter Fears of Defeat in Afghanistan Jonathan Cook Palestinians in the Israeli Army Bouthaina Shaaban Arabs in the International Balance Dave Lindorff Looking Under the TARP Stephen Soldz Spreading Hysteria About Swine Flu "Hysteria" Sara Mann The Party of No Meets the Island of No Website of the Day Cosmos, Autotuned September 28, 2009 Laura Carlsen The Sound and Fury of the Honduran Coup Anthony DiMaggio The U.S., Iran and Nuclear Terror Paul Craig Roberts More Lies, More Deceptions Neve Gordon On Palestinian Civil Disobedience Bill Quigley Street Report From the G20 Harvey Wasserman Obama's LBJ Moment Nicola Nasser Stuck Between Two Failures Ben Rosenfeld Murder in New Orleans: Remembering Kirsten Brydum Website of the Day The Short March September 25-7, 2009 Alexander Cockburn The Ruin of His Presidency Daniel Wolff Speculating on Education Rev. William E. Alberts How "White Magic" Makes the Ism of Race Disappear Mike Roselle Send Lawyers, Guns and Money Saul Landau Covert Memories From Miami Eshan Azari Why Afghan Intellectuals Live in National Despair Winslow T. Wheeler The Pentagon Feedlot Robert Jensen Is Obama a Socialist? Jonathan Cook Sleeping with the Enemy Nelson P Valdés Cuba, Hurricanes and the Internet David Michael Green Dumping Dubya Ramzy Baroud The Goldstone Report and Israeli Impunity John V. Whitbeck The Partition Straightjacket Andy Worthington Gitmo Trial Delayed ... Again David Ker Thomson The Lady Vanishes Seth Sandronsky Obama and Race Management Jim Goodman Why are Farmers Afraid of Michael Pollen? Charles R. Larson From Oppression to Opportunity David Yearsley Froberger's Travels Kim Nicolini Hardcore Capitalism Lorenzo Wolff Transparent Pink Website of the Weekend An Emergency Appeal in the Fight Against Big Coal September 24, 2009 Steven Higgs Even in Indiana, Doctors Support National Health Insurance Christopher Brauchli Death Pays Marshall Auerback The Shortfall at the FDIC Stephanie Westbrook Italy's Fallen Soldiers Nadia Hijab Know Your Dictator Sen. Russell Feingold Fixing the Patriot Act, Restoring the Constitution David Macaray Goodbye "Norma Rae" Binoy Kampmark Curry Bashings in Oz Joe Allen Dancing With the Hammer Website of the Day The Most Corrupt Members of Congress September 23, 2009 Paul Craig Roberts The Economy is a Lie, Too Gabriel Kolko The United States in Afghanistan: Eight Years Later Uri Avnery The Waldorf-Astoria Summit Shamus Cooke The First Shots of the Trade War Missy Beattie The Sound of Money Gareth Porter Taliban Rising Mark Weisbrot How Much Repression Will Hillary Clinton Support in Honduras? Dr. Susan Block The Murder of Annie Le Norm Kent Pot and the Right to Pursue Happiness Richard Neville Apocalypse Porno Website of the Day In Carver Country September 22, 2009 Franklin C. SpinneyThe Huge Hole in Gen. McChrystal's Afghan Counterinsurgency Strategy Russell Mokhiber Who's the Pimp? Greg Grandin Zelaya's Brazilian Gambit Nikolas Kozloff Salvaging Democracy in Honduras Will Be Tricky John Ross Mexico Convulsed by Paranoia Ron Jacobs Gen. McChrystal's Salespitch Tariq Ali The Afghan Folly Dave Lindorff NYT Trashes Single-Payer Harvey Wasserman Tom Friedman's Idiocy Atomique Vijay Prashad Is Anything Better Than Nothing? Kareem Shora After the CIA Torture Report Website of the Day Did a State Dept Official Sell Nuclear Secrets? September 21, 2009 JoAnn Wypijewski Will Trumka or the Steelworkers Push Labor Into Battle? Carl Finamore Backstage at the AFL-CIO Convention Uri Avnery Sliming Goldstone and His Report Nikolas Kozloff Joe Wilson's Immigration Hypocrisy Paul Simpson, M.D. Why Your Doctor May Have PTSD Alan Nasser New Deal Liberalism Writes Its Obituary Ray McGovern CIA Torturers Running Scared Dave Lindorff Thoughts on Saving an Old Barn Lina Thorne Women, War and Afghanistan Jeb Sprague Confronting the G20 Website of the Day Petition: Save the Yellowstone Grizzly September 18-20, 2009 Alexander Cockburn When Gossip Came Back and Our Modern Age was Born Russell Mokhiber Meet the Real Death Panels Mike Whitney The Post-Bubble Malaise David Michael Green Can America be Salvaged? Jonathan Cook Boycott Derails Jerusalem Rail Line Nadia Hijab Sinking the Goldstone Report Mark Weisbrot Recession, Recovery and Reform: Will Anything Change? Michael Winship Let's Make a Deal, Beltway Edition Michael Leonardi The Nuclear Dump in the Mediterranean Sea Andy Worthington The Kuwaiti Who Met Bin Laden Fred Gardner The Prohibitionists' Manifesto David Macaray What Happens in Congress Stays in Congress David Rosen System Failure and the Garrido Case Jason Mark Hacking the Sky Mike Ferner In Praise of Senator Baucus Farzana Versey The Great Indian Rope Trick Ron Jacobs Dr. Guillotin and Dr. Faustus: an Interview with Marc Estrin elin o'Hara slavick Flags for Hiroshima: Artist's Statement Gilad Aztmon Vengeance, Barbarism and Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds David Yearsley Mendelssohn as Organ Maestro Charles R. Larson Darkness, Dignity and Hope in Liberia Lorenzo Wolff Dialing Up The Clash Website of the Weekend Meet Your Conservative Movement September 17, 2009 Joshua Frank Max Baucus: the Slick Swindler Brenda Norrell Cry Me a River: Uranium and Genocide in Indian Country Robert Weissman The Financial Crisis, One Year Later Pam Martens The Filmmakers vs. the Capitalists Franklin Lamb Palestinian Camps Are Ready to Erupt Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada Cuban Five: An Insult to Humanity Jed Bickman Drone War Over Pakistan Alan Farago The Mayor of Coconut Creek Gets Butterflies Website of the Day C.R.O.C. September 16, 2009 Ray McGovern Torture and Accountability Stephen Green America's Strange Health Care Debate Andy Worthington Is Bagram Obama's New Secret Prison? Dean Baker Short Sellers: the Unsung Heroes of the Financial Crisis Anthony DiMaggio Killing the Messenger Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada Cuban Five: The Unheard Call Benjamin Dangl Justice Follows Direct Action Robin Willoughby The World Seed Conference: Good for Farmers? Eric Walberg EuroPeace, the Sounds of Silence James Ridgeway Bring That "Boy" Down Website of the Day Baucus' Bogus Bill September 15, 2009 Mike Whitney The Real Lesson of Lehman's Fall Mutadhar al-Zaidi The Story of My Shoe Marshall Auerback Government Spending is the Solution--Not the Problem Afshin Rattansi The Deal That Led to the Srebrenica Massacre: Former UN Spokeswoman Fingers Holbrooke and the Clinton Administration Jonathan Cook How US Tax Breaks Fund Israeli Settlers Gareth Porter: Niger Redux? IAEA Conceals Evidence Iran Nuke Docs Were Forged Dave Lindorff Congress Needs More Catcalls Winslow T. Wheeler Obama and Pentagon Pork Franklin Spinney Bin Laden's Latest Message and the Nuttiness of the War on Terror Karen Korenoski / Michael Yates Up in Wood Smoke: Boulder's Dirty Little Secret David Macaray Government Cheese Susie Day President Mao-bama's Little Red Primer Website of the Day The Cotton Pickin' Truth: the Persistance of Slavery in Mississippi September 14, 2009 Paul Craig Roberts The Health Care Deceit M. G. Piety The Danes Do It (Health Care) Better Shamus Cooke Wall Street Under Obama: Bigger and Riskier Bouthaina Shaaban Three Faces and a Homeland Alvaro Huerta In Defense of the Undocumented: Immigrants and Health Care John Ross Mexico Loses Its History Harvey Wasserman The Supreme Court and Corporate Money Adam Federman The Plight of the Bumblebee Stephen Fleischman The Federal Twist Robert Jensen Can Journalism Schools be Relevant in a World on the Brink? Website of the Day The Origin of Sex Offender Registries September 11-13, 2009 Alexander Cockburn Obama's Big Speech: Math Trumps Rhetoric JoAnn Wypijewski Trumka Takes Over AFL-CIO Carl Ginsburg The Patient as Profit Center Leonard Peltier I am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now Franklin Lamb Ted Kennedy's Changing Take on Israel Benjamin Dangl Throwing Bullets at Failed Policies Mike Whitney How to Fight Deflation John Berger In Search of Antonello Saul Landau Watergate and Modern Scandals Russell Mokhiber Disgraceful Democrats Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada Pryor's Judgment Felice Pace NPR's Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Gaza Jordan Flaherty The Battle Over Discriminatory Housing Laws in New Orleans Ron Jacobs It's Time to be Impolite About Afghanistan David Macaray The Utility of Boycotts David Correia Welcome to the Business-Friendly Carpenter's Union Robert Bryce Wind Turbines and Bird Kills Christopher Brauchli Defenders of the Classroom Paul Krassner Aha! A Few Words About the 9/11 Truth Movement Charles R. Larson Deracination Kim Nicolini "Extract:" An Exercise in Economic Realism David Yearsley Tall Buildings: the Sound and the Silence Lorenzo Wolff In Defense of the One Hit Wonder Poets' Basement McEnteer and Corseri Website of the Weekend Pizarchik: the Wrong Choice September 10, 2009 Joshua Frank Inside Hanford's B Reactor: a Tour of the World's Most Toxic Nuclear Site Dean Baker Bernanke's Bad Money Brian M. Downing The State of U.S. National Security Franklin C. Spinney Portrait of an Afghan Firefight: Up Close and Personal Andy Worthington No Escape From Guantánamo Chase Madar Samantha Power and the Weaponization of Human Rights Farzana Versey A Tale of Two Slums Ronnie Cummins Whole Foods, Fair Trade and Organics Binoy Kampmark Health Care, Obama and the System Timothy Lebrón The Conservative Case for Health Care Reform Charles R. Larson A Solution to the Health Care Dilemma Website of the Day The Debtor's Revolt Begins! September 9, 2009 Richard Neville Trigger-Happy in Afghanistan Melissa Checker Double Jeopardy: Carbon Offsets and Human Rights Abuses Nadia Hijab Settling for ... Settlements? Robert Weissman The Stakes at the Supreme Court Jonathan Cook Israeli Arabs Call for General Strike Russell Mokhiber Pollan, Mackey, Whole Foods and Single Payer James Ridgeway The Dotty Factor: Will Demented Geezers Wreck the Economy? Richard W. Behan Obama's Imperative in Afghanistan James McEnteer The Photo and the Secretary: How to Appall Robert Gates Martha Rosenberg Hatchery Horrors Website of the Day Belmondo Verité September 8, 2009 Henry A. Giroux The Corporate Stranglehold on Education Stephen Soldz Psychologist Accused of War Crimes Opposes Investigations John Ross Rituals of the Absurd Jeff Leys Health Care vs. Warfare: the Future of the Afghan War Mike Whitney Ashcroft: Repugnant to the Constitution Shamus Cooke Obama's Empty Labor Day Speech Ellen Brown Did Lehman Brothers Fall or Was It Pushed? Norman Solomon Men With Guns: In Kabul and Washington Deepak Tripathi The Axis of Evil and the Great Satan Laray Polk Personality Cults, Indoctrination and Inculcation Charles R. Larson Just Who Does He Think He Is? Website of the Day The President is Not a Guidance Counselor September 7, 2009 Vicente Navarro Obama's Mistakes in Health Care Reform Bouthaina Shaaban In Praise of Admiral Mullen David Macaray Obama's Labor Day Report Card Paul Craig Roberts Indefensible Nation Jonathan Cook Israeli Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews Conn Hallinan Brazil Flexes Its Muscles Walter Brasch The Origins of Labor Day, the Unknown Holiday Mark Weisbrot IMF Gives Honduran Government $175 Million Carl Finamore China's Birthday Stimulation C. G. Estabrook Advance Text of Obama's Big Speech Website of the Day One Down, 20,000 to Go September 4-6, 2009 Alexander Cockburn Deeper Into the Tunnel Carl Ginsburg Saving New Orleans' Charity Hospital Jonathan Cook The Missing Link in Israeli Organ Theft? George Wuerthner The Unintended Consequences of Wolf Hunting Marc Levy The Bling They Curse and Carry Ray McGovern Holbrooke's Afghan Benchmark Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada It Happened in Miami Joe Paff Organizing the Mission Gareth Porter Taliban's Tank-Killing Bombs Came From CIA, Not Iran Devin Beaulieu Scaremongering About Bolivia and Islam Anthony Papa Why Leslie Crocker Snyder Should Not Become New York City's New DA David Ker Thomson Love and Dekes in Utopia Don Fitz The Case of the Biodevastation 7: What the Police Won't Apologize For Lee Sustar / S. Sepehri The Fallout From Iran's Elections Jim Goodman Why Honor Organized Labor? Wajahat Ali Domestic Crusaders: Making Muslim American Theater Ron Jacobs Agitator Journalism: RememberingRamparts Helen Redmond The Lion Sleeps Tonight: the Crimes and Misdemeanors of Teddy Kennedy John V. Walsh Obama to Cindy Sheehan: Get Lost Charles R. Larson Mandanipour's Masterpiece: Censoring an Iranian Love Story Mark Scaramella Ho-Bleeping-Hum: a Few Well-Chosen Words About Valerie Plame's Book David Yearsley Cameron Carpenter's Amazing Organ Transplants Ben Sonnenberg Hooking, Breaking Friendships, Cross-Dressing and, Above All, Delphine Seyrig Poets' Basement Davies, Orloski and Bready Website of the Weekend Architectural Semiotics with Glenn Beck September 3, 2009 Marcus Rediker Inside Auburn Prison Ron Jacobs Embedded With the Taliban Mike Whitney How Bad Will It Get? Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada Untold Story of the Cuban Five: Indictment À La Carte Saul Landau Moby Dick and Asian Typhoons Anat Matar Israeli Academics Must Pay a Price to End Occupation Tanya Golash-Boza How Immigration Enforcement is Weakening National Security Dave Lindorff Which Side Are You On? Andy Worthington The Story of Gitmo's Two Syrians Website of the Day Plundering Appalachia September 2, 2009 John Ross Mexico's Plagues Vijay Prashad Hey Ram, the Things the Financial Times Group Does! Rev. Jim Rigby Why is Universal Health Care "Un-American"? Joanne Mariner What the Inspector General Found Missy Beattie Hejira: At Martha's Vineyard with Cindy Sheehan Soren Ambrose Multilateral Money Diane Farsetta Water: the Newest Wave of Corporate "Social Responsibility" Nadia Hijab Mulling Mullen's Message Shamus Cooke How to Lower the Deficit Without Killing Social Security Charles R. Larson Is Dick Cheney Running Scared? Website of the Day Inside the Egg Hatchery  September 1, 2009 Jeffrey St. Clair The Wolf at Trout Creek Paul Craig Roberts Why Not Sanctions for Israel? Mark T. Harris The Whole Foods Boycott: It's About More Than CEO Hypocrisy Dean Baker Bank Profits Are Up: Did You Hear Anyone Say, "Thank You"? Jeffrey Buchanan Ending the Human Rights Crisis in KatrinaRitaVille Robin Mittenthal A Sea of Monocrops: Old MacDonald Never Had a Farm Like This Ellen Brown Mercury Mischief Martha Rosenberg Vytorin Marketing is Back Website of the Day Crazy Town Hall Protester Interviews