Saturday, May 30, 2009

Taking a Troubling Measure of Torture

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
May 30, 2009

In all the recent debate over torture, many of our Beltway pundits and politicians have twisted themselves into verbal contortions to avoid using the word at all.

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Friday, May 29, 2009

'Scaredy-Cat Nation' Risks US Security

By Robert Parry
May 29, 2009

Some Americans may think they’re looking tough by refusing to allow any Guantanamo Bay detainees to enter the United States, whether as prisoners to face trial or as people who were incorrectly swept up – like the Chinese Uighurs – and have been deemed no threat to U.S. security.

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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Colin Powell: No Good Samaritan

By Ray McGovern
May 28, 2009

Watching retired Gen. Colin Powell cite Jesus's parable of the Good Samaritan during Sunday’s Memorial Day ceremonies on the Mall in Washington, it struck me that Powell was giving hypocrisy a bad name.

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Fear Trumps Reason on Guantanamo

By Ivan Eland
May 28, 2009

Unfortunately, politicians claim they don’t read opinion polls, while scrutinizing them even more closely than options for their next junket. This has been most evident recently in the civil liberties arena.

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Top Ten Ideas to Obama's Outreach

By David Swanson
May 28, 2009

You might want to hurry because the open government is about to close. Participation in the "Brainstorming" phase 1 of President Obama's online Open Government Initiative only lasts from May 21st to May 28th.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The Audacity of Hopelessness

By Phil Rockstroh
May 27, 2009

From time to time, events unfold that are so large in scope, so all-encompassing in their implications that one's initial response is muted by an inability to categorize it all within the realm of experience.

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Obama Caves to 'Scaredy-Cat Nation'

By Robert Parry
May 27, 2009

A paradox of the modern United States is that it wields unprecedented military power in the world yet its people are constantly kept frightened about unlikely foreign dangers. Its politics, too, are dominated by fear.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

America's 'Emerging Church'

By the Rev. Howard Bess
May 26, 2009

In the last half of the 20th century, Evangelicalism swept the American religious scene.

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The War on the Public Health Option

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
May 26, 1009

In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told a local AFL-CIO meeting, “I am a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.”

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Monday, May 25, 2009

Colin Powell Skates on Torture

By Robert Parry
May 25, 2009

There is no one, it seems, that the U.S. mainstream news media loves more than Colin Powell, a “moderate” Republican who gives a careerist journalist the chance to do some smart positioning in the “center.” But the truth about this retired four-star general is that he is the ultimate careerist.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Think Who Might Be 45th President

By David Swanson
May 24, 2009

The United States has had 44 presidents and nobody knows who the 45th will be.

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After the Parades and the Picnics

By Johann Christoph Arnold
May 24, 2009

Everybody loves a long weekend. But this year's Memorial Day ought to be a lot more meaningful to all of us. We need to see it as a chance to pray for lasting peace and for our President, that he may lead our country to a new vision.

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