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