Left, Right & Center: Obama-Geithner Revolt, Sarah Palin, Health Care Update

Huff Radio, 11.20.2009

For the first time, Obama's approval ratings are below 50 percent and calls for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's resignation are growing louder.

Sarah Palin and Her Lies (And Her Fans Who Attack Her Critics)

Bella DePaulo, 11.20.2009

Author of "Singled Out" and the "Living Single" blog

I've been blogging since June of 2006 and have not avoided controversial issues or people. But something I recently posted at Psychology Today, "Sarah...

Friday Talking Points [102] -- Harry Reid's Glacial Progress Grinds On

Chris Weigant, 11.20.2009

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

Our illustrious (cough, cough) White House press corps showed it could get to the bottom of a story with impressively journalistic and probative skill...

Slow And Steady As We "Race To The Top"

David Segal, 11.20.2009

Rhode Island State Rep.

No education reform is comprehensive that does not entail progressive taxation, a stronger labor movement, and environmental and social justice more broadly.

Obama's Asia Trip: Post-Mortem

John Feffer, 11.20.2009

Co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus

Critics of the Obama administration were delighted at the images from the president's recent trip to Asia. There was the deep bow before the emperor A...

Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 11.20.2009

Editors of Simple Intelligence

The Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Increased Tension Over Iran's Program SI Analysis: After an IAEA report suggests that Iran's rece...

Obama Must Dump The Bums In Treasury, End The Wars And Start Leading

Dave Lindorff, 11.20.2009

Veteran investigative journalist

The problem with these stimulus programs is that they are inefficient ways to create and preserve jobs. This has to be the lamest economic thinking since Hoover started tightening the screws at the onset of the Great Depression.

A Palin/Beck Ticket In 2012? The Mind Reels

Glynnis MacNicol, 11.20.2009

Senior Editor, Mediaite.com

Obviously, unless sometime between now and 2012 there occurs a rip in the space-time continuum and the country slips into an alternate reality, Sar...

Peace In Arabic

David Suissa, 11.20.2009

founder of OLAM magazine, weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Jewish Journal

His words didn't smell like propaganda or activism. He spoke for moderate Palestinians like himself, and he spoke from his heart, not from talking points.

Irrational Exuberance in Anti-Obama Hatred

Aaron Keyak, 11.20.2009

Press Secretary, National Jewish Democratic Council

The use of swastikas, photos of dead Holocaust victims, and anti-Semitic epithets should have no place in any event or venue sponsored or promoted on either side of the partisan divide.

From Camp David to Darfur, With 17 Camels

John Prendergast, 11.20.2009

Co-Founder of the ENOUGH Project

Two nights ago I went to listen to William Ury, the famous Harvard negotiation specialist and co-author of Getting to Yes. At one point in the speech,...

How the Media's Proud Know-Nothingism Helped Create the American Idiocracy

David Sirota, 11.20.2009

Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist

Bad decision after bad decision after bad decision really has suggested that the last decade has seen the ascension of a full-fledged Idiocracy.

True Patriots Are Not Silent. They Speak Out.

Russell Simmons, 11.20.2009

Founder of GlobalGrind.com

We need more people to speak out and to stand publicly with President Obama. Millions who voted are now way too silent, too passive and too willing to be patient with injustice.

Senator Lugar's Call to Recognize Honduran Election

Mark Weisbrot, 11.20.2009

Co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, D.C.

This is not surprising, Lugar has been with his party leadership on this all along, including his letter in July that got the State Department to writ...

Weekly Mulch: No Treaty in Copenhagen?

The Media Consortium, 11.20.2009

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger Last weekend in Singapore, President Barack Obama acknowledged that a comprehensive international climate d...

Finding an End to a Costly War

Peter Lems, 11.20.2009

Program Director, American Friends Service Committee

The cost of war in in dollars alone requires a choice not only to stop sending troops but also to withdraw all U.S. military forces and invest in civilian-led development of Afghanistan's devastated communities.

Obama's Mideast Failure: It's The Lobby, Stupid

MJ Rosenberg, 11.20.2009

Senior Fellow Media Matters Action Network

The reason the United States continues to fail on the Israeli-Palestinian track is because of the power of the pro-Israel lobby -- not just AIPAC, but its friends and followers -- in Washington.

The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't)

Tom Engelhardt, 11.20.2009

Editor of TomDispatch.com

While we don't know what exactly is going through Obama's mind, or just when or in what form he will address us on his plan for the war in Afghanistan, we do know something about what his conclusions are likely to be.

Palestine 1001 Nights

Jamal Dajani, 11.20.2009

Senior Director and Producer of Mosaic News, Link TV

If Hamas is no longer Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority is no longer an authority, what options do the Palestinians have?

Teabaggers and Boomers Don't Matter

Mike Papantonio, 11.20.2009

Senior partner of Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner & Proctor

The next time you see a picture of a tea party protest, look closely and try to identify anyone in that crowd under the age of 30. If you identify as...

Better Start Learning Chinese

Shawn Amos, 11.20.2009

Pop Culture Pundit and Host of 'Retro Minute'

I was watching Obama speak to those Shanghai students during his big Asia trip, and suddenly I remembered my '80s high school Spanish class. My teache...