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How to Push Obama

By John Nichols, in the January 2009 issue
The way to influence him is to speak to America.

The Great Recession

January 2009 Issue
The economists were the second to last ones to figure out we’re in a recession. The last one was George Bush himself, but he doesn’t care. He’s been phoning in his job for months now anyway.

Bill McKibben Interview

By Diane Silver, January 2009 Issue
“In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities,” says the environmentalist. “We’re the first people with no real practical need for each other.”
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Don’t Give the Banks Another $350 Billion

By Matthew Rothschild, January 13, 2009
“We all have a huge stake in stopping this heist,” as Naomi Klein says.

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Ishmael Beah

My guest today is Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.
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International community must stop Gaza war

January 5th, 2009
It is imposing an intolerable price on civilians, killing more than 500, many of them innocent children, injuring 2,700 people and making daily life, which was already dire, all but impossible.

The Senate is coming to its senses on Burris

By Kevin Alexander Gray, January 8, 2009
This isn’t about Burris. And it shouldn’t even be about Blagojevich. It should be about the erosion of due process in America.

Obama, Congress must repeal Medicaid rule change

By Mike Ervin, January 5, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama and the new Democratic Congress must repeal a terrible rule change that the Bush administration imposed while packing up.
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Green jobs should top our economic recovery list

January 7th, 2009
The beauty of green jobs is that they are not only ecologically sound, but they are also economically prudent.
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Israel's Gigantic Blunder

January 2nd, 2009
Tomorrow, It may be faced with a uniformly fundamentalist Arab world, Hamas multiplied by a thousand.

Bush Blasé About Israeli Brutality

By Matthew Rothschild, January 6, 2009
Casual and condescending at the same time, Bush closes his eyes to the suffering of Palestinians.
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Abbie Pickett

A 2006 interview with Abbie Pickett, who served with the Army National Guard in Iraq. We discuss her tour of duty, sexual harassment in the military, and how to deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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2008’s Best Progressive Films/ Filmmakers

By Ed Rampell, December 31, 2008
The PROGIE NOMINEES ARE For best picture: "Milk," "Che," "Battle in Seattle," "The Visitor," "Waltz with Bashir," and "Wendy and Lucy." For best actor...
   
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DAILY DOSE OF DURST George Bush asked why the financial meltdown had to come on his watch, and nobody yelled “because of your financial policies.” You know, it's good to be king, but then again, it's bad to be king, too.
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January 13, 1964 Strategic Air Command B-52 carrying nuclear weapons crashes near Cumberland, Maryland
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