Palin’s Pet Has Taliban Ties? Palin’s Pet Has Taliban Ties?
One week before Election Day, the special election to fill a vacant House seat in New York's North Country is heating up. It's a three-way split, pitting a Republican, a Democrat, ...
Oct 29, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Bombings in Baghdad Threaten DC’s Security. Bombings in Baghdad Threaten DC’s Security.
"Deadliest bombs since '07 shatter Iraqi Complexes. Key Government Sites. Synchronized car blast kill more than 130 -- Security issue." So reads the headline in ...
Oct 26, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Health Care Hoax Worse Than Balloon Boy Health Care Hoax Worse Than Balloon Boy
An attention grab that held millions of Americans transfixed. A story that seemed to be about life in the balance. It dominated the airwaves, the social networks, held Americans in...
Oct 20, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Geithner’s All Ears for the Debt Cartel Geithner’s All Ears for the Debt Cartel
Months ago, a former chief economist at the IMF called it mind control. Talking to Simon Johnson of the Atlantic Monthly, he explained that one of the most alarming truths laid b...
Oct 13, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Punch in the Streets, Not in the Suites at G-20 Punch in the Streets, Not in the Suites at G-20
The G20 summit wrapped up in Pittsburgh Friday with pledges but little punch. Except in the streets. On climate change, world leaders vowed "strong action" and...
Sep 29, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
OOPS! The ACORN Ban Could Snag Lockheed & Catholic Charities OOPS! The ACORN Ban Could Snag Lockheed & Catholic Charities
Continuing the GOP's attack on the poor people's organizing group ACORN, the House and Senate -- by wide margins -- have voted to bar ACORN from receiving federal funding...
Sep 25, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Wangari Maathai: A US Resource War? Wangari Maathai: A US Resource War?
Wangari Maathai makes the relationship between needs and wars so clear that even the Nobel committee (which awarded her the peace prize in '04) got it. Violent di...
Sep 24, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Where’s the Norma Rae of Healthcare? Where’s the Norma Rae of Healthcare?
Crystal Lee Sutton died last week. You might know her by her "other" name. It was Sutton's story that inspired the film Norma Rae, starring Sally Field who won an...
Sep 17, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Will Drones Make General Atomics the next Blackwater? Will Drones Make General Atomics the next Blackwater?
A US drone firing missiles into a village in northern Pakistan killed at least 19 people over the weekend. The targets were militants, said the US military. The victims i...
Aug 26, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
MSNBC & FOX: Posing Divided, United They Stand MSNBC & FOX: Posing Divided, United They Stand
There are days when one's reminded why one works in independent media. August 1st was one of those days, when the New York Times ran a front page media story th...
Aug 4, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders