Saturday, May 09, 2009

Cheney Learned Iran-Contra Lessons

By Jonathan Schwarz
May 9, 2009

In a new article by Stephen "W.W. Beauchamp" Hayes, former Vice President Cheney gripes extensively about the Obama administration. It's exactly what you'd expect.

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Friday, May 08, 2009

Republicans Play a New Fear Card

By Sherwood Ross
May 9, 2009

The mean-spirited attitude of Republican politicians over repatriating Guantanamo’s remaining 241 inmates in the U.S. reflects both their irrational fears and loss of moral compass.

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'Central Front' in the Health-Care War

By Margaret Flowers, M.D.
May 9, 2009

On May 5, eight health-care advocates, including myself and two other physicians, stood up to Sen. Max Baucus and the Senate Finance Committee during a “public roundtable discussion” with a simple question: Will you allow an advocate for a single-payer national health plan to have a seat at the table?

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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Torture? Rudman to the Rescue

By Ray McGovern
May 6, 2009

The announcement in mid-March that CIA Director Leon Panetta had picked former Sen. Warren Rudman to act as CIA “liaison” with the Senate Intelligence Committee during its “review” of interrogation and detention practices has drawn virtually no criticism from the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM).

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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

The Need to Hold the GOP Accountable

By Robert Parry
May 5, 2009

Perhaps it was the image of Jeb Bush expounding on the future of the Republican Party or Condoleezza Rice channeling her inner Richard Nixon with the imperial logic that “by definition, if it was authorized by the President, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.”

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Monday, May 04, 2009

Can the Neocons Jump to the Dems?

By Ivan Eland
May 4, 2009

Neoconservatives used the Republican Party as a vehicle to promote and employ their policies of muscular nation-building overseas.

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The Iraq War's Other Contractors

By Carol Burke
May 4, 2009

The most impressive contracting effort of the Iraq War to date is not the shoveling of treasure to Halliburton, but rather the low-profile hiring of over 100,000 Sons of Iraq over the last two years to guard the towns, neighborhoods and highways of Iraq.

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'One More Bubble!'

By Robert Parry
May 4, 2009

When I took an editing job at Bloomberg News in March 2000, my arrival coincided with the bursting of the Internet bubble. As once-hot IPOs tanked and the Nasdaq crashed. I would joke to other editors that what the U.S. economy needed was “to build a better bubble.”

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