Friday, February 05, 2010

Lobbyists Ply GOP, Dem 'Retreats'

By Michael Winship
February 5, 2010

George Washington's birthday is approaching and with it will come the attendant mythology, hatchet and cherry tree, wooden teeth, throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac River - or the Rappahannock.

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Thursday, February 04, 2010

An Edgy 'Edge of Darkness'

By Lisa Pease
February 4, 2010

While it’s certainly not going to win any awards, I recommend seeing “Edge of Darkness,” starring Mel Gibson, in his first onscreen role in many years.

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Why Obama Dodges CIA Reform

By Melvin A. Goodman
February 4, 2010

New presidents (and President Barack Obama is no exception) fall in love with three Washington institutions: the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency and Camp David.

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

The Right Gets Itself 'Wired'

By Robert Parry
February 3, 2010

In past years when I talked to American progressives about the growing media imbalance – as the Right gained dominance in books, magazines, newspapers, talk radio and cable TV – a typical response was, “well, the Left is stronger on the Internet.” But now even that advantage is disappearing, as should have been expected.

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Obama's Budget Ducks Pentagon Cuts

By Ivan Eland
February 2, 2010

The results of the special election for the Massachusetts Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy reverberated like a “shot heard ’round the world” — or at least one heard ’round Washington.

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Monday, February 01, 2010

Answering Obama on Health Care

By Kevin Zeese
February 1, 2010

Last Friday – when President Barack Obama vanquished the entire Republican Caucus in question time in Baltimore – he said:

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Vietnam Replay on Afghan 'Defectors'

By Douglas Valentine
February 1, 2010

After waging an eight-year “dirty war” against the Taliban, the U.S. government is acknowledging that the “insurgent” enemy is part of the “fabric” of Afghan society and is encouraging low- and mid-level Taliban defectors to switch sides.

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

America's Sad History with Haiti, Part 2

By Lisa Pease
February 1, 2010

The Haitians have a saying in their native créole language: Piti, piti, wazo fe nich li. “Little by little, the bird builds its nest.”

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Accountability Again Put on Hold

By David Swanson
January 31, 2010

No one disputes that Jay Bybee's name is at the bottom of memos that were, and to some extent still are, treated as laws which legalized aggressive war at the pleasure of a President and a variety of acts of torture.

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Yoo, Bybee Get Pass on Torture Memo

By Jason Leopold
January 31, 2010

A long-awaited Justice Department watchdog report has backed off an earlier recommendation that two former senior officials – John Yoo and Jay Bybee – face disciplinary action for providing George W. Bush’s White House with legal advice that opened the door to torturing “war on terror” detainees, according to published reports.

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Howard Zinn and Other Heroes

By William Loren Katz
January 31, 2010

In less than a year the battle for truth has lost three of its most innovative and stalwart voices, historians John Hope Franklin, Ivan Van Sertima and Howard Zinn.

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