Saturday, July 04, 2009

Declaration of Indictment

By David Swanson
July 4, 2009

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 2009
The unanimous Declaration of the fifty united States of America

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Wealth Inequality Destroys US Ideals

By Don Monkerud
July 4, 2009

In June 2009, the U.S. economy saw its second steepest decline in 27 years. New jobless claims increased, business inventories fell and exports plunged as bad economic news persisted.

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Friday, July 03, 2009

Bush-Cheney Linked to CIA Leak Case

By Jason Leopold
July 3, 2009

In early fall 2003, as the scandal over leaking a covert CIA officer’s identity was exploding, President George W. Bush claimed not to know anything about the leak and called on anyone in his administration who had knowledge to come “forward with the information so we can find out whether or not these allegations are true.”

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A Buy-Democracy Independence Day

By Graham Rankin
July 3, 2009

The recession is making clearer every day, especially with the latest job loss figures of almost half a million in the US in June alone, how difficult rebuilding Western manufacturing industry is going to be. It would be bad enough in a boom, but in a bust when weaker sales can drive even big firms under, we need to look long and hard at consumerism itself.

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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Coast-to-Coast Political Gridlock

By Michael Winship
July 2, 2009

California should just be done with it and rename the entire state "Neverland Ranch."

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FBI Ignored Bush-Hussein Ties

By Robert Parry
July 2, 2009

The FBI has released reports on 20 interviews and five conversations conducted with Iraq’s deposed dictator Saddam Hussein before he was put to death, but none of the disclosed Q and A deals with the role of the Reagan administration in delivering key components for Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons in the 1980s.

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The Bible's Odd Idea of Marriage

By the Rev. Howard Bess
July 2, 2009

“Marriage is a cultural thing.” So began a very good sermon that I recently heard by the Rev. Diane O’Connell at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Who Sits at the Health-Reform Table?

By Tom Klammer
July 1, 2009

President Obama held a town hall on Health Care Reform last week, broadcast nationwide on ABC with Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer. Once again, even though a majority of the public and now even a majority of doctors in the US favor a single-payer system, single payer was still off the table.

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America's Matrix

By Robert Parry
July 1, 1009 (Originally posted June 2, 2003)

“The Matrix” and its sequel, “The Matrix Reloaded,” offer a useful analogy for anyone trying to make sense of the chasm that has opened between what’s real and what Americans perceive is real.

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Iraq: A Bitter Strategic Failure

By Robert Parry
July 1, 2009

President Barack Obama and Iraqi leaders may try to sugarcoat the bitter pill for the United States by talking up the achievements of the six-year occupation, but the public celebrations by Iraqis marking the American pullout from Iraq’s cities tell the painful story of a U.S. strategic failure.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Key Bush Torture Lawyers Still at Work

By David Swanson
June 30, 2009

We've heard of John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales, and maybe even Jay Bybee. Some of us recall John Ashcroft, Michael Mukasey and even David Addington. Michael Haynes, Stephen Bradbury, and Douglas Feith occasionally make the news.

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Monday, June 29, 2009

Obama's 'Realism' on Iran

By Ivan Eland
June 30, 2009

Barack Obama’s reaction to the mass protests and violence in Iran shows he is following through on his pledge to be more like George H.W. Bush rather than his son, George W. Bush.

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Obama's Torture Hypocrisy

By Jason Leopold
June 29, 2009

President Barack Obama just announced that the U.S. government "must stand against torture wherever it takes place," but it’s clear that his pledge does not apply to torture committed by officials from the Bush administration.

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Giving Diplomacy a Chance

By Haviland Smith
June 29, 2009

Since the Second World War, the Republicans have said consistently that the Democrats’ main foreign policy problem is that they are either unable or unwilling to successfully and purposefully project American power abroad.

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Obama's Troubling Caution on Torture

By Diana Gibson and Ray McGovern
June 29, 2009

Anniversaries can be important. Last Friday marked the 22nd anniversary of the U.N. Convention against Torture, ratified and signed under President Reagan.

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Obama, They Want You to Fail

By Robert Parry
June 29, 2009

After last year’s elections, a Democratic operative told me that if the Democrats got to 59 seats in the Senate, it would be easy to peel off one or two Republicans to pass key legislation like serious health care reform. I was left wondering what political planet he'd been living on for the past three decades.

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WP's Connolly Back, on Health Reform

By Robert Parry
June 29, 2009

Ceci Connolly, the Washington Post reporter whose snide (and erroneous) coverage of Al Gore’s 2000 campaign contributed to George W. Bush becoming President, is back with more snarky coverage of “liberal activists” pushing for a “public option” on health-care reform.

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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Waking Up Is Hard to Do

By Pablo Ouziel
June 28, 2009

We wake up in the morning to hear and watch the newest tragedy that has swept the world¹s media attention.

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