Saturday, December 20, 2008

Obama Triangulates His 'Base'

By Brent Budowsky
December 20, 2008

Many of the cable-television Democrats are smirking, chortling and smiling as they say how clever it was for Barack Obama to name Rick Warren to give the Inaugural invocation.

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Bush's Blind Eye to Afghan Corruption

By Michael Winship
December 20, 2008

Just when you’ve finally gotten your mind around the enormous $700 billion financial bailout – even if none of us are really sure where all that money’s going – there comes an even greater, breathtaking price tag.

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Friday, December 19, 2008

Deterring Torture Through the Law

By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern
December 19, 2008

“First, let’s kill all the lawyers” may have made sense in that Shakespearian scene, but there is a far simpler solution to the legal ambiguities regarding what to do now about the torture approved by the administration of George W. Bush. Perhaps this variant: First, let’s have the lawyers review their notes from Criminal Justice 101.

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CIA Warned Condi on Niger Claim

By Jason Leopold
December 19, 2008

A high-ranking CIA official warned Condoleezza Rice in September 2002 that allegations about Iraq seeking yellowcake uranium from Niger were untrue and that she, as national security adviser, should stop President George W. Bush from citing the claim in making his case against Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to new evidence released by a House committee.

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Obama v. Washington Mythmaking

By Robert Parry
December 18, 2008

Over the years, Washington has evolved into a city of deceptions where semantics cloud reality and where a hazy mix of lies, half-truths and mythology can combine to unleash the devastating military might of the United States for no good reason.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Secrecy Worsens Wall Street Mess

By Brent Budowsky
December 17, 2008

The public is angry – and that anger is rising.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Cheney Admits Detainee-Abuse Role

By Jason Leopold
December 16, 2008

Vice President Dick Cheney said for the first time Monday that he helped get the “process cleared” for the brutal interrogation program of suspected terrorists.

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Monday, December 15, 2008

Bush's Misguided Offensive Strategies

By Ivan Eland
December 16, 2008

General David Petraeus, the former military commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and author of the military’s most recent counterinsurgency manual, learned the lessons of the successful British counterinsurgency experience in Malaya in the 1950s.

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The Dilemma That Is Gaza

By Morgan Strong
December 15, 2008

Gaza was and is an anomaly, a piece of land left over from the calamity of history, created it seems in a moment of distraction.

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Obama and US-Russia Tensions

By Consortiumnews.com
December 14, 2008

With U.S.-Russian relations already at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War, President-elect Barack Obama has picked two key foreign policy officials who are likely to continue the Bush administration’s confrontational policies that have aggravated Russia and disrupted European security alignments and transatlantic relations.

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