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Progressive World News for America


Loan Titans Paid McCain Adviser Nearly $2 Million



Afghans Reflect on 'Peace Day'



Wetlands - Nature's 'Horizontal Levees' - Blunt Storm Damage



Oregon Tax Activist Says She Deserves to Pay More



Colombian Trade Unions Fight On



Can You Trust A Wall Street Veteran with A Wall Street Bailout?



Afghanistan Marks Peace Day with Polio Vaccinations, Ceasefire



Fury at $2.5 Billion Bonus for Lehman's New York Staff



Truth After 42 Years: Beatles Banned For Fear of Influence on Youth



In India, 'People's Car' Stirs Popular Ire



Judge Orders Cheney To Preserve Records


'Taxpayer Rip-off': Many Economists Skeptical of Bailout'



Thousands March in Sweden Against Globalization


Nader, Barr & Paul: 'Told You So'

Richard W. Behan:
The $700 Billion Wall Street Bailout: One More Weapon of Mass Deception


Chris Hedges:
Fleecing What’s Left of the Treasury


Glenn Greenwald:
Growing Right-Wing Opposition to the Paulson Plan


Harvey Wasserman:
A Towering (but Temporary) Solartopian Victory Against Nuke Power


Sean Gonsalves:
The Death of a Myth?


Bernd Debusmann:
Socialism US-Style and Ronald Reagan


Ted Morgan:
Sarah Palin and the Politics of Distraction


Leonard Pitts Jr.:
Do Yourself a Favor -- Read a Book


Stan Cox:
Keep Germ Lab Quarantined


Chip Ward:
The Evolution of John McCain


Frances Moore Lappe:
Our Next President Could Learn a Lot From Willie Nelson


Frida Berrigan:
No Recession for Arms Sales


Rick Wartzman:
The Ghosts of Tom Joad


Sunday, September 21
Glenn Greenwald:
The Complete (Though Ever-Changing) Elite Consensus Over the Financial Collapse


Larisa Alexandrovna:
Welcome to the Final Stages of the Coup...


Senator Bernie Sanders:
The Middle Class Must Not Be Forced to Bail Out Wall Street Greed


Paul Krugman:
No Deal


Joan Vennochi:
Hanging the Little Guy Out to Dry


Robert Shetterly:
Unalienable, Unavoidable, Ozymandias


Susan Van Haitsma:
Peace is not the Absence of Conflict; It's a Way Through It


Danny Schechter:
Our Financial 9/11: Can They Save the System?


Eric Margolis:
US Empire: An Orgy of Debt


John Dear:
Nonviolence in Iraq