Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Turning a Blind Eye to Bahrain's Abuse

By Lawrence Davidson
May 11, 2011

If you want to see how an ostensibly religious regime can be corrupted into something close to fascism, just take a look at contemporary Bahrain.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The War Against Taxing the Rich

By Michael Winship
May 10, 2011

Nothing is certain but death and taxes, it used to be said, but in the madcap times we live in, even they're up for grabs.

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Declaring Victory Over Osama

By Ivan Eland
May 10, 2011

Although the Obama administration has said that the killing of Osama bin Laden is not a V-E or V-J day — which brought a return to normal times after World War II ended — perhaps it should be.

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Attacks on Israeli Critics Escalate

By Danny Schechter
May 10, 2011

First, it was Helen Thomas.

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Monday, May 09, 2011

Post-Bin Laden Peace Hopes Dim

By Gareth Porter
May 9, 2011

President Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations with the Taliban for peace in Afghanistan.

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US Policy Still Misreads the Middle East

By Lawrence Davidson
May 9, 2011

Last week, I was in Egypt, a country presently moved by an optimism that reflects a high state of political consciousness.

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Sunday, May 08, 2011

The Anti-War Message of Mother's Day

By Gary G. Kohls
May 8, 2011

In 1870 – five years after the American Civil War ended – the disastrous long-term human and economic consequences of the conflict were becoming increasingly apparent, especially to the mothers of the sons and the wives of the husbands who had seen their patriotic men march off to that “inglorious” war and had come home dead or wounded.

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Saturday, May 07, 2011

The Curious Bush/Bin Laden Symbiosis

By Robert Parry
May 7, 2011

Since Osama bin Laden’s killing on May 1, it has become shockingly clear that the terrorist leader did not spend most of the last decade on the run or hiding in caves. He was holed up in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad enjoying the comforts of family life with his twenty-something-year-old latest wife.

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America's Need for a 'Public Good'

By the Rev. Howard Bess
May 7, 2011

The United States was never meant to be a Christian nation. Instead, the Founders envisioned a secular state in which religion would be pursued with complete freedom, but they also understood the need for the young nation to have a moral compass.

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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Politics of Revenge and Submission

By Phil Rockstroh
May 5, 2011

Osama bin Laden is dead. And so is the U.S. republic. We had to destroy our freedoms in order to save them.

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What Has Bin Laden's Killing Wrought?

By Ray McGovern
May 5, 2011

As America’s morbid celebrations over the killing of Osama bin Laden begin to fade, we are left with a new landscape of risks – and opportunities – created by his slaying at the hands of a U.S. Special Forces team at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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Wednesday, May 04, 2011

From 'Birtherism' to Bin Laden

By Michael Winship
May 4, 2011

This has been the kind of week that makes news junkies wig out in a frenzy of adrenalin and information overload while driving to distraction people who try to write weekly pieces like this one.

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