Saturday, January 30, 2010

America's Sorry History with Haiti

By Lisa Pease
January 30, 2010

With all the talk of America taking charge of Haiti for a while, it would be prudent for us to take a step back and review the history of our various interventions in Haiti, and the outcomes of those efforts.

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Friday, January 29, 2010

Remembering Howard Zinn

By Daniel Ellsberg
January 29, 2010

On Wednesday morning, before I learned that my friend Howard Zinn had died, I was being interviewed by the Boston Phoenix, in connection with the February release of a documentary in which he is featured prominently.

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Howard Zinn's 'War on Terror' Critique

By Sherwood Ross
January 29, 2010

The “largest lie,” wrote historian Howard Zinn who died Wednesday at age 87, is that “everything the United States does is to be pardoned because we are engaged in a ‘war on terrorism.’”

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

What's Wrong with US Intell Agencies

By Melvin A. Goodman
January 28, 2010

It is time for serious soul-searching regarding the role of the CIA and the intelligence community. Last month's operational and intelligence failures led to the deaths of seven CIA officers in Afghanistan and might have resulted in nearly 300 deaths on a Northwest Airlines plane headed for Detroit.

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Obama Ignores Key Afghan Warning

By Ray McGovern
January 27, 2010

Nothing highlights President Barack Obama’s abject surrender to Gen. David Petraeus on the “way forward” in Afghanistan more than two cables U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry sent to Washington on Nov. 6 and 9, 2009, the texts of which were released by the New York Times.

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A Hockey Mom for Truth

By Lynne Gillooly
January 27, 2010

As a concerned citizen, mother of four, small-business owner and a hockey mom (with no lipstick), I have studied politics and specifically talk radio for 12 years. It started when the Right impeached President Clinton.

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The Supreme Court's Partisanship

By Robert Parry
January 27, 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that lets corporations spend all they want to punish political enemies and reward political friends is a reminder that the panel’s Republican majority has become one more potent weapon in the Right’s already intimidating arsenal.

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Bush Silences a Dangerous Witness

By Robert Parry
January 26, 2010 (Originally published December 30, 2006)

The hanging of Saddam Hussein was supposed to be – as the New York Times observed – the “triumphal bookend” to George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. If all had gone as planned, Bush might have staged another celebration as he did after the end of “major combat,” posing under the “Mission Accomplished” banner on May 1, 2003.

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Shiite Power Play Threatens Iraq Quiet

By Ivan Eland
January 26, 2010

Since taking office, Barack Obama has had to deal with an economy in free-fall, a political crisis over health-care “reform,” and a rising Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. So far, Iraq has been quiet enough that many in the media and public have redirected their attention to the wars du jour of Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia.

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

First, Fire All the Financial Failures

By Mark Ames
January 24, 2010

If President Obama wants to really understand why he got his ass handed to him in the Massachusetts Senate race — a defeat as shocking and strange as if Joe Lieberman was elected president of Iran — he might want to read one of the thousands of economic horror stories happening around the country every day, stories that have put most Americans in a very foul, desperate mood.

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