Friday, June 05, 2009

Privatizing 'Obama's War'

By Michael Winship
June 5, 2009

The sudden reappearance of former Vice President Dick Cheney over the last few months - seeming to emerge from his famous undisclosed location more frequently now than he ever did when he was in office - does not mean six more weeks of winter.

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Obama Fuzzed Up Reality in Speech

By David Swanson
June 5, 2009

President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo probably did a world of good. It was packed with noble sentiments and some truth-telling. But imagine how much more good would be done if all the best parts of it corresponded to reality.

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119 Million Americans Must Be Wrong

By Robert Parry
June 5, 2009

As the health insurance industry and its defenders in Congress lay out their case against permitting a public option in a reform bill, perhaps their most curious argument is that some 119 million Americans are ready to dump their private plans and jump to something more like Medicare – and that’s why the choice can’t be permitted.

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Thursday, June 04, 2009

Baucus Still Shuns Single-Payer Option

By David Swanson
June 4, 2009

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Montana, met Wednesday with advocates for single-payer healthcare, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and told them that he might drop criminal charges against 13 people arrested for speaking up in his hearings, but that he would not include any supporters of single-payer health coverage in any future hearings.

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?

By Robert Parry
June 3, 2009

There’s been talk that George W. Bush was so inept that he should trademark the phrase “Worst President Ever,” though some historians would bestow that title on pre-Civil War President James Buchanan. Still, a case could be made for putting Ronald Reagan in the competition.

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The Intel-Journo Alliance

By Robert Parry
June 2, 2009

Amid all the recent negatives in the worlds of intelligence and journalism, one encouraging development has been the recognition of common ground between two beleaguered groups, honest U.S. intelligence analysts and honest American journalists, two groups that previously had been on opposite sides of the secrecy divide.

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Monday, June 01, 2009

Navy Vet Honored, Foiled Israeli Attack

By Ray McGovern
June 1, 2009

What’s the difference between murder and massacre?

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Sunday, May 31, 2009

America's Political/Media Kabuki

By Robert Parry
June 1, 2009

Kabuki is defined as a highly stylized form of classical Japanese dance-drama in which actors often wear elaborate makeup and engage in precisely dictated movements, a useful metaphor for the current American political process which can’t seem to break out of old patterns even as the nation hurtles from crisis to crisis.

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Will Obama End 'War on Drugs'?

By Sherwood Ross
May 31, 2009

Efforts by President Obama to put an end to the nation’s failed “War on Drugs” can’t come an hour too soon – if that’s his intent. From his actions, it’s hard to know.

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