02-20-09
- Barack's Gang:
- Who Will Be Left to Watch His Back When Obusha's Floor Drops Out? (commondreams)
- Obama's legal changes may be fewer than expected (mcclatchydc)
- Is Obama Preserving the Constitution? (smmirror)
- Barack Obama and the Imperial Presidency (firedoglake)
- Military-Industrial Complex:
- Jane Meyer: The Hard Cases (newyorker) "Will Obama institute a new kind of preventive detention for terrorist suspects?"
- Greenwald: Charlie Savage on Obama's embrace of Bush/Cheney "terrorism policies" (salon) "Is it too early to sound the alarm bells that Obama is moving much faster and more aggressively than many expected to maintain key Bush/Cheney powers?"
- Venezuela, An Imaginary Threat (guardian.co.uk) "Obama is maintaining a hostile policy towards Hugo Chávez – which will cost the US friendships elsewhere in Latin America"
- The Military's Expanding Waistline - What Will Obama Do With KBR? (tomdispatch)
- Israel/Murders in Iran: Is Israel assassinating Iran nuclear scientists? (haaretz) -- Like wet gremlins loose in the house.
- Israel/Gaza Atrocities: Once You See What Truly Happened in Gaza, It Will Change You Forever (alternet)
- Class Warfare/Economic Shakedown:
- Restoring the Rule of Law:
- War Criminals, Including Their Lawyers, Must Be Prosecuted (commondreams)
- Scott Horton: Investigating Bush's Crimes (thenation)
- Will Obama back 'truth commission' to probe Bush practices? (mcclatchydc)
- Global Warming - Time for Activism:
- A Call to Action on Global Warming From Dr. James Hansen (youtube - capitolclimateaction)
- Obama's Tar Sand Trap (guardian.co.uk) "The tar sands of Canada constitute a deadly threat to our planet. The US and Canada must agree not to develop them"
- I Hope Obama Jumps the Right Way on Canada's Tar Sands (guardian.co.uk)
- Sun-powered device uses nanotubes and nanoparticles to convert CO2 into fuel (newscientist)
- Study Uncovers Mesothelioma Link to Nanotechnology (micronanotronics)
- Snake in the Dark (apod)