..an open letter from Michael Moore

By Michael Moore

Dear President Obama,

I understand you may be looking to replace Rahm Emanuel as your chief of staff.

The Economic Elite vs. the People of the USA: Part VI

by David DeGraw

Throughout this report, I have presented statistical and fact-based evidence to demonstrate that a strategic attack has been launched against 99% of Americans. Despite the efforts of the mainstream media and most current politicians, awareness of this reality is spreading throughout the United States.

And they didn't put up the GO HOME GRINGO signs either!

South American Continent Unites Without America

A regional summit of the leaders of Latin American and Caribbean countries took place in Mexico’s Cancun. Cuba’s new leader, Raul Castro, participated in the forum for the first time.

By Mike Whitney

Japan should not allow itself to be publicly humiliated by the world's biggest human rights abuser.

By John Pilger

I phoned Rami Elhanan the other day. We had not spoken for six years and much has happened in Israel and Palestine. Rami is an Israeli graphic designer who lives with his family in Jerusalem. His father survived Auschwitz. His grandparents and six aunts and uncles perished in the Holocaust. Whenever I am asked about heroes, I say Rami and his wife Nurit without hesitation.

MJ Rosenberg

Just what is it with the Israeli government and J Street? Hardly a week passes without either an Israeli government official -- or one of their allies in the United States -- blasting the one year old pro-Israel, pro-peace lobby.

Judge rules Oklahoma abortion law unconstitutional

By BARBARA HOBEROCK

The New American Martyr

By: Sorcha Faal

His name, Joe Stack, is as American as mom and apple pie, but his mission yesterday, when he crashed his plane into the Echelon Federal Building in Austin, Texas, was to strike a blow for freedom for his fellow citizens, who unlike him had forgotten that death really holds no fear for those fighting tyrants.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for a world free of nuclear arms saying that the era of such weapons is over.

By RussiaToday & Dennis Kucinich.

Afghanistan, Jobs and Health Care, All big issues in America. And one man with strong opinions on all of them is U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich

(That leaves out the UK, the USA, Zionist Israel, and emasculated Arab nations wearing their USA lapel pin flags)

(What if all Arab-Persian-Islam nations stood together and told the USA-UK -- HELL NO! No more war in our part of the world?)

Just one look at the map will tell you...something ominous is brewing. Iran is completely surrounded by elements of the evil empire. Iran is on a hit list. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the empire has drawn up a hit list after which several countries, one after the other, have been ravaged after a plethora of lies and deception. No doubt this hit list was drawn up in Tel Aviv.

A Personal Account

by Azita Ebrahimi

I went to Iran, the country of my birth, in November of 2009 and stayed there for two months after being away for 30 years. I had left Iran right before 1979 revolution that overthrew the Shah. Before I left for my visit back to Iran, I was feeling very agitated and depressed about the way things are here in the USA, and I felt like I needed to get away for a while. My trip to Iran was a pleasant, interesting, and eye-opening trip, but at times I felt strongly the gloomy atmosphere that was overshadowing the country of my birth.

by David Michael Green

The layers of the American political pathology are so multiple and so deep, it's sometimes hard to know where to start.

by: William Rivers Pitt

In my last article, I made the following observation regarding the challenges President Obama faced on the eve of his Wednesday evening State of the Union address: "The American people, well-trained in the art of short-term memory loss, have come to the conclusion that everything happening now is Obama's fault, and the polls reflect this without dispute. One speech on Wednesday night won't fix all that ails us, but if Mr. Obama doesn't hit precisely the right notes in the delivery, his second year could come to make his first year seem like a Cape Cod clambake by comparison."

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez announced on Monday, January 25, that the Venezuelan government will forgive any Venezuelan debts held by Haiti.

By: Sorcha Faal

Shocking reports circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that President Obama placed an “urgent” call to Prime Minister Putin on Tuesday wherein he “pleaded” for Russia to withdrawal its objections to removing Afghanistan’s top Taliban leadership from the United Nations list of the World’s most wanted terrorists that the United States, under former President Bush, had ordered to be put on this list in the first place after their, the Americans, being attacked on September 11, 2001.

Quit Buying Bombs or We're Done

By Ron Paul:

Perpetual War, Perpetual Spending

By Jim Hightower

ACORN helps the poor become political and economic players. That's why the money powers unleashed right-wing politics to go after ACORN with a blood lust.

Think humans are born selfish? Think again. Dacher Keltner reveals the compassionate side to human nature.

You can call me names but history knows I am a hero

Whenever there is injustice, there are people fighting it with every possible means. We have seen it so many times before: the oppressed rise up, the oppressor dehumanizes them calling them such names as "terrorists", "saboteurs", "death loving" extremists... It is only normal that the oppressor will always lie to justify his actions and its crimes.

By Helen Thomas

-- No one in the Obama administration is going to acknowledge that our foreign policy in the Middle East has alienated many Arabs.

By Fidel Castro Ruz

TWO days ago, at almost six o’clock in the evening Cuban time and when, given its geographical location, night had already fallen in Haiti, television stations began to broadcast the news that a violent earthquake – measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale – had severely struck Port-au-Prince. The seismic phenomenon originated from a tectonic fault located in the sea just 15 kilometers from the Haitian capital, a city where 80% of the population inhabit fragile homes built of adobe and mud.

Ten Things the U.S. Can and Should Do For Haiti

By BILL QUIGLEY

One. Allow all Haitians in the US to work.

By Alan Hart

In their refusal to ask the question of why, really, Muslims are being radicalized, President Obama and Prime Minister Brown are no different from their immediate predecessors.

When George “Dubya” Bush and Tony Blair ruled the world and were pressing ahead with their “war on terrorism”, I used to ask this question: Are they ignorant of history and don’t know what they are doing and therefore stupid, or do they and/or some of the powerful vested interests which pull their strings want a Clash of Civilizations, Judeo-Christian v Islamic?

It's refreshing to see at least ONE conservative that stands several heads taller than the rest of the conservatives when it comes to FACTS and TRUTH!

by Amanda Terkel

According to Paul, Cheney "had his eight years and he’s caused a lot of trouble for our country and he perpetuated a war in Iraq that was unnecessary and wrong-headed."

This is what Think Tank brainiacs and universities once produced--- in hopes of saving mankind from mankinds cruelty, wars, and destruction.

Those Think Tanks were subverted covertly to propaganda machinery for corporations, business, and republiCONs.

Israel, by Bertrand Russell

Can Obama Face the \'Unspeakable\'?

By Lisa Pease

If there’s one book I wish President Obama would read over the holidays, it is JFK and the Unspeakable.

By Jim Hightower

I was working on my list of New Year\'s resolutions when it occurred to me that some of the people running our country could benefit from my suggestions.

Lyndon LaRouche

With U.S. President Obama reduced to banging on doors to meet with the Chinese at Copenhagen, American statesman Lyndon LaRouche assessed that he is now seen as a total failure by his British controllers, making him expendable to them. For that reason, LaRouche called for Obama\'s security screen to be intensified, for the very worst thing now would be the assassination of the President. This is very real danger, LaRouche said, citing the lifting of Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi\'s security screen for an attack.

by Brian T.

I do a lot of reading and usually not much fiction; this holiday season gives me a special chance to catch up. I\'m working on Why We Can\'t Wait by Martin Luther King. I first read this book as a kid of about 11 or 12 yrs old. In this book which is only about 150 pages and is considered a classic, Martin Luther King explains why the civil rights movement could not wait.

How to make the most incredible edible lingerie for XXXmas

Michele Thompson

Looking for an ooey, gooey, sweet and sexy way to treat your lover this XXXmas Day? How about a luscious piece of caramel lingerie? Just in time for the day of lust and romance, you can whet your lover’s appetite –- or give him the ultimate after-dinner dessert –- with indulgent edible lingerie that you made yourself. Better than a four-course meal and so much easier to make, caramel lingerie will sweeten your evening and heat up your romance. Here’s how to make edible lingerie:

Taking on Corporate \'Centrists\' (puppets, sellouts) Like Lieberman

By David Sirota, AlterNet. Posted December 19, 2009.

Dean\'s attacks on the Lieberman-gutted health insurance \"reform\" bill are creating the political space for the final version to be better and more progressive.

By Scott Thill

Tired of getting pushed around by faceless big business? Here are 10 ways to push back!

An Interview With Eva Golinger

By MIKE WHITNEY

Mike Whitney: The US media is very critical of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. He\'s frequently denounced as \"anti-American\", a \"leftist strongman\", and a dictator. Can you briefly summarize some of the positive social, economic and judicial changes for which Chavez is mainly responsible?

Lib Church Shakes Up Story of Jesus\' Birth

by Tana Ganeva

\"Poor Joseph. God is a tough act to follow.\"

Receiving Brazil’s President Lula yesterday in the editing room of Die Zeit newspaper, ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stated that he agreed with his guest in his position that the international community should treat Iran like any other sovereign nation. Why does the international community apply two sets of measures in its foreign policy?

The Speech Barack Obama Won’t Deliver

As dictated to Daniel Simpson

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Dear Friends around the world, My fellow Americans.

By Amanda Mueller

The Andersons were devastated to learn their unborn child wouldn't live. Dr. Tiller showed them the compassion they so badly wished they had from their friends.

15 Women Take It Off for the Environment
by Cammy Clark

When California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the green movement needed to get sexier, this may not have been what he had in mind:



“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree”.
- Joyce Kilmer

Fifteen mature environmental activists -- age 44 to 78 -- took off their clothes for a fund-raising 2010 calendar called Women Sustaining the Earth.

Obama's Unjust Iran Policy

By Bill Christison

In this world of nation-states, Iran has at least as much right to possess nuclear weapons as the far smaller Israel.

Andrew Sullivan

It's an odd formulation in some ways as "the right" is not really a single entity. But in so far as it means the dominant mode of discourse among the institutions and blogs and magazines and newspapers and journals that support the GOP, Charles Johnson is absolutely right in my view to get off that wagon for the reasons has has stated. Read his testament. It is full of emotion, but also of honesty.

Ron Paul: Every man for himself!

It's taken a while, but America is warming to Ron Paul and his radical brand of extreme libertarianism

(He is considered radical by the incompetent politicians of the RepubliCONs and Demoncrats that want to maintain the status quo that is in their favor and beneficial to their pockets. What is radical about auditing a quasi-fed entity created by LAW? Every other Federal agency is subject to oversight, auditing, and transparency!)

By Stephen Foley

By Ben Reininga

Thanksgiving is a holiday about three things: eating, drinking, and fun. If you haven't realized that yet, you're doing it wrong. Here's how to do it right.

Tragically in many societies, we often frequently find oscillatory behavior between extremes where e.g. in Russia, the Tsar ruled a highly feudalistic society comprising a small percentage of wealthy "elites" who subjugated a vast majority of uneducated impoverished, and overworked serfs. Then came communism in which property was forcibly redistributed to the masses (really to the government), little incentive was given for hard work, and competition was killed (literally). In both cases, the vast majority of people were unhappy.

Rahm Emanuel does it for him

By Alan Hart

by Edward H. Crane

The founders envisioned a federal government constitutionally limited to defending our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. For that to happen, we must have at least one political party that strongly advocates limiting the power of government. For much of the 19th century, that party was the Democrats. For the early part of the 20th century and from the early 1960s through 1988, that party was the Republicans.

by William H. Kötke

Humans must create paradise or they cannot live on the planet Earth. Paradise here is described as a human community that lives in perpetuity and in peace on one place on the earth, over many generations. In the modern view, generated from the Alternative Culture and Cultural Creatives, we have a permaculture design in a valley that has been ecologically restored and has added additional trees in different ecological niches to create a food forest of fruits and nuts.

By Richard Owen

An Italian court sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison today for their role in the abduction of an Egyptian terrorist suspect in the first trial over “extraordinary renditions”.

By MOSHE ADLER

Ten percent of Americans are unemployed, and many doubt that President Obama's stimulus will create enough jobs to reduce this rate significantly. But given the structure of our labor force, more jobs is not necessarily what we need anyway. Our workforce includes 13.5 million people who don't belong in it at all. Permitting them not to work would free up jobs and raise the wages of millions of workers who belong in the middle class. It would also free all of us of our dependence on Wall Street.

By Gilad Atzmon

I clearly resent those who deny the genocides that are taking place in the name of the Holocaust. Palestine is one example, Iraq is another and the one that is set for Iran, is probably too scary to contemplate.