April 2009 Index
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- The Upside of Swine Flu: Sarah Palin Joins Twitter
- Condoleezza Rice: It Wasn't Torture (Because the President Ordered It)
- UPDATED: Miss California Says NOM on Same-Sex Marriage
- Obama Press Conference: Nailing Torture, Trashing the Pakistani Government
- Video and Transcript: President Obama "Day 100" Press Conference (29 April)
- Swine Flu Latest: Winnie-the-Pooh Offers Advice
- Videos: Swine Flu (and The Daily Show) Bringing You "The Last 100 Days"
- Video: Who Brought Us Swine Flu? Illegal Alien Terrorist Mexicans
- Video: Senator Arlen Specter Switches to Democrats from Republicans
- Video: US Public Diplomacy, Elizabeth Cheney, and the Denial of Torture
- Gaza: Where's the Reconstruction Money?
- Scott Lucas on BBC Radio: How Is Obama Doing?
- How Swine Flu Started: Nationalised Medicine, Poor People, Democrats
- Video and Transcript: President Obama at St. Louis Town Hall Meeting (29 April)
- Flashback: The Bush Administration Knew It was Torture
- Enduring America Special: Why Torture Matters
- Why Torture Matters: Who Ordered the Torture of Abu Zubaydah?
- Why Torture Matters: If Everyone Knew, Who's to Blame?
- Why Torture Matters: The Banality of Bush White House Evil
- Egypt: Security, Threats, and Politics
- Beyond Roxana Saberi: Javed Iqbal Jailed in US for Al-Manar News Broadcasts
- Beyond Roxana Saberi: The Arrest of Esha Momeni in Iran
- Reading Mahmoud in Tehran: Ahmadinejad Engages (and Wins) in US Television Interview
- Video and Transcript: Iran's Ahmadinejad on ABC's This Week (26 April)
- Living the Bubble Life in Miami
- Video: Waterboarding Fox's Sean Hannity for Charity - Will You Help?
- Video: Hillary Clinton in Baghdad
- Scott Lucas on Press TV: Will Israel Attack Iran?
- "Pain" And "Suffering" As Distinct Concepts: The Waterboarding Memo Set To Music
- Saturday Special: Is Barack Obama Another JFK?
- Latest from Iraq: When Violence Goes Beyond "Violent Semi-Peace"
- Discovering How the US Became a "Torturing Democracy"
- Death and Deprivation for Sri Lanka's Tamils: Has Anyone Noticed?
- Video: Corporal Rick Reyes on Afghanistan and "Creating Enemies Out of Civilians"
- Fox News Anchor: "We Do Not F****** Torture!"
- Israel's Emerging Statesmen: Avigdor Lieberman and Natan Sharansky
- Scott Lucas in The Guardian: Obama Administration's Battle over Iran and Israel
- Meet Your Next President of Texas: Mr Chuck Norris
- Israel-Palestine: The Political Wreck on Netanyahu's Economic Track
- Taking a Poke at Power: A Libertas Special Analysis
- Durban II: The Conference Against Racism Gives Way to Israel Against Iran
- Text: Hillary Clinton Remarks to House Foreign Affairs Committee (22 April 2009)
- Video: Hillary Clinton Says "Existential Threat" in Pakistan (22 April 2009)
- Culture Wars Warning: First Same-Sex Marriage, Then Polygamy
- UPDATED Video and Full Transcript: Ahmadinejad Speech, Delegate Walkout at Durban Conference
- Senate Armed Service Committee Report: Bush and Co. Authorised Torture
- Roxana Saberi Update: Positive Signs Despite a Hopeless TV Interview
- The Daily Show and Karl Rove: "Oh, No, Our Torture Techniques Have Been Ruined"
- Video and Analysis of Obama Torture Statement: Let's Blame the Lawyers?
- Israel-Palestine: Obama Invites Netanyahu, Abbas, Mubarak to US
- Analysis: Today's Elections in South Africa
- More Twitter Diplomacy
- Palestine: The Acceptable Taking of an Innocent Life
- UPDATE: Taking Apart the Bushmen's Defence of Torture
- Video: Dick Cheney's Fox News Interview and the Defense of Torture
- Durban II: Boycotts and Politics Take over Conference against Racism
- Video: Obama Speech to CIA Employees (20 April)
- Winning the Culture Wars (Part 2): Stephen Colbert Parts the Gathering Storm
- Winning the Culture Wars: How the "Gathering Storm" over Same-Sex Marriage was Defeated
- Video: Obama Closing Remarks at Summit of the Americas (19 April)
- Video and Transcript: President Obama's Remarks at the Summit of the Americas (17 April)
- Pakistan: Who's in Charge? (Clue from Washington: General Kiyani)
- War on Terror Watch: Putting Away the "Torture is Effective" Argument
- Roxana Saberi/Hossein Derakhshan Update: Ahmadinejad Intervenes in Court Cases
- Quote of the Day: Hillary Clinton on the New Relationship with Latin America
- Venezuela Update: Ohmigod, Obama Shook Chavez's Hand! He Took His Book!
- Somalia: Toxic Waste and Piracy
- Analysis: Iran Jails Journalist Saberi for 8 Years on Espionage Charges
- Enduring America at the British Association for American Studies Conference
- Somalia: From Pirate War to Land War?
- One-Sentence Movie Reviews: In the Loop
- The Torture Memos: A Quick Response to George W. Bush's Officials
- Israel-Palestine: What Has Happened to George Mitchell's Talks?
- Crisis in Guatemala?
- Tea Parties, Violence, and Politics (And, Yes, This is a Serious Post)
- Iran: The Dangers of the Roxana Saberi Espionage Trial
- Text and Analysis of Obama Statement: 4 Torture Memos Released, No Prosecutions of Interrogators
- Bush-Cheney Official Armitage on Torture: "Maybe I Should Have Quit"
- Global Post: 10 Facts on Mexico's "Lightning War"
- The "Lightning War" and US-Mexico Relations
- Somalia: "Why We Don't Condemn Our Pirates"
- A Grand Republican Teabagging: The Day After
- Enduring America: Your #1 Site for Republican Teabagging (with Updates!)
- After the Rescue: What Now with Somalia?
- Combating Somali Piracy: How Many People Can We Afford To Kill?
- Laila el-Haddad: Stranded as a Palestinian
- Republican Teabagging: What It REALLY Means
- US-Iran Engagement: Washington to Drop Nuclear Precondition on Talks?
- Espionage Trial of Iranian-American Journalist Begins in Tehran
- President-is-a-Muslim Coverup: CNN Replaces "Obama Bow" with White House Dog
- Pakistan: Government Approves Sharia Law in Northwest Province
- Gaza War: How the US Re-Armed Israel
- Afghanistan Exclusive: US Talking to Insurgent Leader Hektamayar
- UPDATE: General Odierno Backs Down on Obama's Iraq Plans?
- Video and Transcript: General Odierno on CNN's State of the Union
- Israel-Palestine: The Dance Resumes as Abbas Calls Netanyahu
- Shirvin Zeinalzadeh: The Possibilities of US-Iran Talks
- Obama v. The Military (Part 441): Odierno Launches an Offensive from Iraq
- Rabble-Rouser on Fire: Glenn Beck, Tom Paine, and Obama's Pearl Harbor/9-11 Fascism
- Are Americans Turning Socialist?
- Don’t Blink: Obama Administration Funds the Civil War in Palestine
- US Politics: Republican Teabagging Revolution Begins
- Fox News Exclusive: "Mister Rogers" Ruined US Children
- Torture News: CIA Director Shipped to Kabul in Hazing Ritual
- Five US Soldiers Killed in Iraq Suicide Bombing
- Video and Transcript: Guantánamo Lawyers Facing US Jail Time?
- Latest Video: Do We Care about the Obama Bow?
- Exclusive: A Turkish "Vacation", a US Envoy, and an Israel-Syria Settlement
- Scott Lucas in The Guardian: Petraeus v. Obama
- Iran's Pride: Ahmadinejad Speech on Nuclear Programme
- Muammer Qaddafi and the "Assassination Plot" against Barack Obama
- Pakistan: Leading Cleric Pulls Out of Peace Deal
- You Think Blackwater was Scary? Wait til You Meet Northrop Grumman
- The Engagement is Official: US, Iran in Nuclear Talks
- Obama Bows Down to Saudi King! The Controversy Continues....
- A Beginners' Guide to Engagement with Iran
- Here Comes The Obama Dictatorship....
- Mr Obama's War: Pakistan Pushes Back at US Envoy Holbrooke
- Analysis: Obama Talks with Iraq Prime Minister Al-Maliki
- Video and Transcript: President Obama's Town Hall Meeting in Turkey
- Obama to Visit Israel, West Bank in June; Showdown with Netanyahu?
- Video and Transcript: President Obama in Iraq
- Muntazar Al-Zaidi: Shoe-Throwing Sentence Reduced to One Year
- Sarah Palin: I Can See North Korea (and Military $$$$) From My House
- Turkey, We Need You: Obama's Ankara Speech
- Afghanistan: The Problem of Military-Led Development
- Open Thread for Comments: Obama's Ankara Speech
- Iran: No Giving Up the Nuclear Program. No Way.
- Video and Transcript: Obama Speech in Turkey
- Pakistan: Who’s Calling Who A Failed State?
- Iraq: At Least 32 Killed, 124 Wounded in Baghdad Bombings
- US Army Intelligence: We're Losing In Afghanistan (and Al Qa'eda is Not Reason Number One)
- The American People Speak: Bomb North Korea
- Obama 'Bowing Down' to Saudi King? But Conservapedia Fails To Deliver.
- Scowcroft In Turkey: Did Someone Talk About 'Hate'?
- Obama in Europe Day Six: Prague
- Obama Is The Anti-Christ. Definitely.
- Petraeus v. Obama (Part 158): Israel and Iran
- Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwean Prisons: Death Camps!
- NATO Summit: Day 2
- Saturday Contribution To Britain's Anti-Terror Campaign
- The Evaluation of the Local Elections in Turkey: Towards a More Cooperative Government?
- Palinwatch: Scientology, van Susteren Harming 2012 Hopes
- Petraeus V Obama: It Ain't Over
- NATO Summit: The Latest From Strasbourg
- US Rethinks Af-Pak Strategy As Strikes Widen
- Bagram Inmates To Challenge Detention
- EA's Canuckistan in The Guardian: State-sanctioned Snitching
- Bruce Schneier's Fourth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest
- Michael Cohen on The Trouble with Counter-Insurgency
- Anglo-American Gift Wars 2: The Return Visit
- Enduring America: Lost in Cornwall?
- Stephen Colbert: Why Glenn Beck Should Lead Our Revolution
- Engagement Dance: The US-Iran Meeting on Afghanistan
- UPDATE: Miss Universe Disappears in Guantanamo Bay!
- Iraq Update: US Awakening Ally Arrested for “Terrorism”, Siege Continues
- Playing for Time: Clinton-Obama and the Hague Conference on Afghanistan
- Israeli Strike on Sudan: Hamas Wins, Darfur Loses