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ProgressiveDem: Monthly Archives for January 2009

Obama Administration Plan to Follow Bushite Script With No Tough Regulations on Bailout Billions

Obama's Late Holiday Gifts to the American People: 3 Lobbyists and 2 Tax Cheats

Economic and Tax Injustice Make The Rich Richer While The Rest of America Struggles

Changes in Iraq; Provincial Elections See Calm, Determined Voters

GOP, US Chamber of Commerce, and Other Big Business Groups Push Stimulus Money For Foreign Companies

"Check It Out" for January 29th

DOD's Gates Becomes Major Personnel Issue For Obama Administration

CIA, Like Every Federal Department and Agency Under Bush, Needs Thorough Housecleaning

FBI Knew About Mortgage Fraud Early But Had No Cooperation From Bushite Regulatory Agencies

Recent Statements Prove Tim Geithner is the Wrong Man for Treasury

Soldiers' Suicides Highest In Almost 30 Years

Annual Gathering of Self-Important World Figures in Davos Site of Diplomatic Incident

US Economy Shrinking Rapidly While Job Losses Mount

"Check It Out" for January 29th

Cardinal Mahony of LA Subject of Grand Jury Investigation Regarding Cover-Up of Clergy Pedophilia

Iraq Will Not Grant US War Profiteer, Blackwater, An Operating License

Another Lobbyist Tapped to be in Obama Administration; Where's The Change?

Israel Air Strike Destroyed American International School, a Pro-West institution in Gaza

After Obama Concessions House Passed Stimulus Bill Without a Single GOP Member's Vote

US Infrastructure Gets Another D In American Society of Civil Engineers 2009 Report

"Check It Out" for January 28th

Federal Bank Bailout Recipients Lobby Against Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, and Working Americans

Geithner Begins With Hypocrisy While Rest of Obama's Economic Team Favoring Wall St. Over Main St

Will Justice Dept Prosecute Company Execs Who Shipped Tainted Product That Killed Consumers

"Paulson & Preps" Wells Fargo Bailout Monies Used To Help Create Shaky Monopoly

ACLU Asks Obama Administration To Release Bush Regime Memos on Torture and Spying on Americans

"Check It Out" Day 7

The Employee Free Choice Act is a Human Right

"Change We Can't Believe In" Tim Geithner's Chief of Staff Recent Lobbyist for Goldman Sachs

Why is Obama Caving to Repugs on Stimulus Bill?

Obama's UN Ambassador, Susan Rice, Signals Era of Collaboration and Cooperation

President Obama Gives First TV Interview to Al Arabiya

8 Years of GOP and Bushite Economic Policies = Deep Recession and Potential Depression

Community Banks Are Angry At Failed GOP Giveaways To Big Banks

"Check It Out" Day 6

Ban US Torture by Proxy

American Forces Killing Civilians in Afghanistan Causes Increasing Afghan Anger

Obama Begins to Reverse and Repair Bush's Awful Auto Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Damage

What Do The Afghan People Want Obama To Do?

Obama Begins To Undo Bush's Terrible Legacy

No Affordable Health Care When Your Job Vanishes

Not Everyone is Enamored With Holbrooke as Special Envoy

Obama Plans Regulatory Changes To Financial System That Helped Cause Economic Catastrophe

"Check It Out" for Day 4

Obama To End Bush's "Gag Rule" Regarding Women's Reproductive Rights

KBR Committed Negligent Homicide; Will They Be Held Accountable?

Economic Straight Talk Missing From Inaugural Speech

A Victory for Workers Rights and Opportunity in the Workplace

"Check It Out"

NSA Under Hayden Feloniously Spied on Amercans' Communications, Especially Journalists

"Paulson & Perps" TARP is a Proven Disaster; Time To Temporarily Nationalize Major Insolvent Banks

UN Special Torture Rapporteur; US Has Obligation To Hold Bush and Rumsfeld Accountable For Torture

Obama Administration Left Gigantic Mess by the Criminal Bush Regime

FL, TX, La and NC, and Mid-Atlantic Coastal States All Vulnerable To Rise in Sea Level

Another GOP and Bush Economic Performance Number: 5,000 Microsoft Employees To Be Laid Off

"Check It Out"

Real Diplomacy Begins: Obama Administration Willing to Talk to Iran Without Preconditions

Situation May Be Changing at Gitmo

Inauguration of President Obama a Special Day in History

A Prayerful Petition For Our Nation and the Next President

Bush, "Paulson & Perps" and Bailout Recipients All Scammed American Taxpayers

"Check It Out"

Another Bush Legacy: Majorities in 19 of 21 Large Countries View US Unfavorably

Obama Administration Legally Obligated to Investigate and Prosecute Bush Torture Authorization

Gaza Cease-Fire Allows Discovery of Appalling Death and Destruction

In Remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 80th Anniversary of His Birth 1929-1968

American Leaders Should Take to Heart Martin Luther King's Warning About American Militarism

Secrecy Under Bush Regime About War Profiteering and Fraud by Military Contractors

Number of Major Corps Facing Insolvency Dwarfed By Small and Mid-Size Businesses Closing Doors

Tim Kaine, A Republican-Lite Elephant In Charge of the DNC's China Shop

Sloppy Reporting and Right Wing Nuts Create Lie About Recent FISA Court Ruling

Democrats and Labor Needs To Speak With One Voice and Pass Medicare for All

"Check It Out"

GOP Senators Snub Barack Obama's Bipartisanship Efforts On Stimulus Bill

Ignoring Bush and GOP Crimes Is Not Obama's Decision To Make

"Check It Out"

Shinseki Faces Horrific Mess Created by the GOP and Bushites at Veterans Affairs

"Paulson & Perps" Bailout Giveaway Used To Create Banking Monopoly

Israel Military Going Berserk in Gaza?

GOP Anti-Common Good Lemmings Still Give Worst President Ever a 75% Approval Rating

Perhaps Obama Should Re-Think Geithner as Treasury Secretary

Newly Elected House Democrat Takes on Fed Vice-Chair About Bailout Secrecy

US Government Flunks New Report Card on Tobacco Related Diseases and Illnesses

Pass the Pepto Before I Vomit; Obama Breaking Bread With Neo-Cons and Liars

"Check It Out"

Olmert's Claim He Instructed Bush on UN Vote Another Disgrace To US Foreign Policy Under Dubya'

Fraud By War Profiteering Bush Cronies Continues

GOP, Big Business, Chambers of Commerce Hate Unions and Workers Rights

Rationing Seniors Health Care So Greedy, For Profit, Private Health Insurance Companies Make More $$$$$

CA High School Students Put Civics Into Action

"Check It Out" New Feature for 2009

Medical Clinics in Gaza Run By Humanitarian Organizations Attacked

You and President-elect Obama Should Check These Out

Bagram, the other Guantanamo, Needs Closing Too

Bush Admits Authorizing Torture and Now Flunky DNI Defender, Mike McConnell, to "Counsel" Obama

GOP and Bush Tie Anti-Union Clauses To Auto Industry Loans

Main Stream Media Fails To Cover Gaza Conflict From The Ground

"Paulson & Perps" Friends Fill Out Two Pages and Get TARP Money With No Strings Attached

Spot On, Straight Talk Articles That Deserve Your Attention and President-elect Obama's Too

Obama's Excellent Secretary of Labor Pick Hilda Solis Gives Labor One Chair at the Table

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