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Fighting Back with a Nixon Money Bomb Fighting Back with a Nixon Money Bomb

Today, on the anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation, activists are running a money bomb campaign to raise money for candidates to oust incumbents in both parties that have sol...

Aug 8, 2008 / Ari Melber

China Won’t Turn the Other Cheek China Won’t Turn the Other Cheek

  Joey Cheek is someone who actually believes in the Olympic ideal, thequaint notion that sports could be used as a force for good, to raiseawareness, understanding and even ...

Aug 7, 2008 / Dave Zirin

Nuclear Power/Racial Power? Surrender! Nuclear Power/Racial Power? Surrender!

August 6 marks the anniversary of the US bombing of Hiroshima – which makes it a day to consider power and vulnerability. Johnathan Schell, writing in Yes Magazine, reflects ...

Aug 6, 2008 / Laura Flanders

Lynching Advocate Toby Keith: Obama Acts White To Win Lynching Advocate Toby Keith: Obama Acts White To Win

Last week, I reported for the Huffington Post that country singer Toby Keith had performed a pro-lynching anthem on the Colbert Report, and would be playing the same song soon on ...

Aug 5, 2008 / Max Blumenthal

McCain Lunges for the Jugular McCain Lunges for the Jugular

All agree that this is (or should be) the year of the Democrats. But with candidate Barack Obama still leading, on average, in national polls by only about two to five percentage ...

Jul 29, 2008 / TomDispatch

Fox News Attacked by Rapper, Blackroots & Colbert (Updated) Fox News Attacked by Rapper, Blackroots & Colbert (Updated)

It might be Fox News' worst nightmare: liberal bloggers and black hip hop. The rapper with the #1 album in the country is waging war on Fox News, in a new campaign backed by black...

Jul 24, 2008 / Ari Melber

Vanity Fair Misses the Point Vanity Fair Misses the Point

Vanity Fair has released a cartoon cover online in response to the New Yorker's swipe at the media coverage of the Obamas. The fake Vanity Fair cover shows John McCain, in a walker...

Jul 23, 2008 / Laura Flanders

Time Corrects Clinton Netroots Story Time Corrects Clinton Netroots Story

In response to my Nation pieces and a request from Markos Moulitsas, today Time issued a correction to its article about Netroots Nation: The original version of this story said t...

Jul 22, 2008 / Ari Melber

Creeping Militarism? Creeping Militarism?

A strange week of war. Israeli historian Benny Morris placed a bloodcurdling and bizarre op-ed in the New York Times, insisting that only an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear faci...

Jul 21, 2008 / TomDispatch

Netroots Summit Grapples with Bipartisan Attacks on Rule of Law Netroots Summit Grapples with Bipartisan Attacks on Rule of Law

Politicians, legal experts and progressive activists grappled with Republican abuses of power at the third annual netroots convention on Friday, debating how an Obama Administratio...

Jul 18, 2008 / Ari Melber

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