Saturday, May 01, 2010

How Rev. Moon's 'Snakes' Infested US

By Robert Parry
May 1, 2010

As an investigative journalist, I’m not much for catchy political metaphors, but the revelation that snakes and rodents are infesting the Washington Times building as the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s newspaper sinks into a financial swamp does have some poetic justice about it.

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Friday, April 30, 2010

Sniffing Out Tea Party Corporatism

By Michael Winship
April 30, 2010

I first became aware of Jim Hightower more than 20 years ago, during the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. The Democrats were nominating Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis to run for president against Reagan's vice president, George H.W. Bush, and at the time Dukakis looked like he had a pretty good chance at the White House.

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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Arizona Law Recalls Past US Racism

By Marjorie Cohn
April 29, 2010

The conservative “states’ rights” mantra sweeping the United States has led to one of the most egregious wrongs in recent U.S. history. New legislation in Arizona requires law enforcement officers to stop everyone whom they have “reasonable suspicion” to believe is an undocumented immigrant and arrest these people if they fail to produce their papers.

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

When Regulation Isn't Enough

By Jay Diamond
April 28, 2010

Back in 1999 on a radio program I had in NYC at the time, I was stridently critical of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which was euphemistically called "The Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999" and was pushed by today’s Teabagging maestro, Dick Armey.

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The Risks in Obama's Mideast Policy

By Ivan Eland
April 27, 2010

The Obama administration is eager to solve the Israeli-Palestinian problem — both to make the President seem less naïve for having believed he could broker the chronic dispute quickly and to lessen the motivation for radical Islamists that attack the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.

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Monday, April 26, 2010

Is Iran Really a Threat?

By Ray McGovern
April 26, 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said publicly that Iran “doesn't directly threaten the United States.” Her momentary lapse came while answering a question at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, on Feb. 14.

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