Saturday, February 27, 2010

Vermonters Take on Nuclear Power

By Charlotte Dennett
February 28, 2010

A driving snowstorm could not keep Vermonters away from the statehouse in Montpelier as the Vermont Senate convened a historic debate and then voted on the future of the state’s aging nuclear power plant.

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Ahmadinejad Won, Get Over It!

By Robert Parry
February 27, 2010

Many in the West may agree that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an unpleasant politician with a rhetorical tendency to bluster about Iran’s power and to foolishly question the historical accuracy of the Holocaust, but that doesn’t answer the crucial question of whether he was democratically reelected.

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Friday, February 26, 2010

Two Legal Foes Back Gay Marriage

By Michael Winship
February 26, 2010

Watching this week's "health summit" in Washington, with both sides barely repressing the urge to turn the Blair House event into the Potomac version of mixed martial arts cage fighting, was discouraging.

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Iran Captures a 'Good' Terrorist

By Ray McGovern
February 26, 2010

The Iranian government is celebrating the capture of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of a violent group called Jundallah (Arabic for Soldiers of God), which Tehran says is a terrorist organization supported by the United States, Great Britain and Israel.

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Iraqi View of 'Hurt Locker,' 'Avatar'

By Mamoon Alabbasi
February 26, 2010

James Cameron's "Avatar" and Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" had battled for best film and best director at the BAFTA awards.

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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Parallels of Conquest, Past and Present

By Douglas Valentine
February 25, 2010

After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror’s army buried its fallen comrades, but left the corpses of the English defenders to rot in the fields.

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Al Haig's Foreign Policy Blunders

By Melvin A. Goodman
February 25, 2010

The obituaries in the mainstream media failed to capture the full extent of the controversy and confrontation that marked Gen. Alexander M. Haig's political career in the White House during the Nixon administration and the State Department during the Reagan administration.

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Monday, February 22, 2010

BBC Depicts US/UK Torture Tolerance

By Richard L. Fricker
February 22, 2010

If you’ve never heard of Craig Murray, then you have an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with the remarkable story of this flawed whistleblower by listening to "A Murder in Samarkand" on BBC’s Radio Four, an adaptation of Murray’s book about his years as British Ambassador to Uzbekistan.

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Sunday, February 21, 2010

New Grist for Hype on Iran

By Ray McGovern
February 21, 2010

Here we go again. A report issued by the new Director General of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano, injected new adrenalin into those arguing that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon.

Al Haig & a 'Green Light' to Chaos

By Robert Parry
February 21, 2010 (Originally published in 1996)

In summer 1980, Iraq's wily president Saddam Hussein saw opportunities in the chaos sweeping the Persian Gulf.

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