Saturday, May 15, 2010

Kagan's Dubious Stand on Civil Rights

By Marjorie Cohn
May 15, 2010

After President Obama nominated Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, he made a statement that implied she would follow in the footsteps of Justice Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights giant and first black Supreme Court justice.

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Chevron's 'Crude' War on Free Speech

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
May 15, 2010

Even as headlines and broadcast news are dominated by BP's fire-ravaged, sunken offshore rig and the ruptured well gushing a reported 210,000 gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico, there's another important story involving Big Oil and pollution - one that shatters not only the environment but the essential First Amendment right of journalists to tell truth and shame the devil.

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Friday, May 14, 2010

The Return of Madcap Capitalism

By Robert Parry
May 14, 2010

For much of the post-World War II era, there was a broad consensus that well-regulated capitalism – paired with an effective public sector – was the economic model that worked best, especially compared with the Soviet Union’s heavy-handed central planning or the madcap capitalism that had led to the Great Depression.

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Thursday, May 13, 2010

The Historical Challenge of Rabbi Jesus

By the Rev. Howard Bess
May 13, 2010

Today’s New Testament scholars have lively arguments among themselves; but they have a near unanimous opinion about one thing: Jesus was a Jewish rabbi.

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Tea Party Crazy Has a History

By William Blum
May 12, 2010

If you shake your head and roll your eyes at the nonsense coming out of the Teabagger followers of Sarah “Africa is a country” Palin and other intellectual giants like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh ...

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The Danger of Israeli Nuke Hypocrisy

By Robert Parry
May 12, 2010

The United States finds itself in the curious position of going to the mat on behalf of Israel’s top security concern – preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb – while Israel and its supporters continue to insist that U.S. officials maintain Israel’s decades-old “ambiguity” about whether or not it possesses a nuclear arsenal of its own.

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Iraq's Divided Future

By Ivan Eland
May 11, 2010

Recently, Massoud Barzani, president of the northern Kurdish region in Iraq, bluntly declared that the American visions of a strongly unified Iraq were “bird dreams and wishes.” Barzani then proceeded to heighten pressure for greater decentralization of the country and expanded Kurdish control over oil.

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Monday, May 10, 2010

Condi: The Queen of No Soul

By Sebastian Doggart
May 10, 2010

Two events, both of which feature a public figure named 2005’s “most powerful woman in the world,” may go down as the most bizarre of the year.

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Diminishing Supreme Court Justice

By Marjorie Cohn
May 10, 2010

As the Rehnquist court continued to eviscerate the right of the people to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens filed principled and courageous dissents.

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WPost's Ignatius Still Fawns Over CIA

By Melvin A. Goodman
May 10, 2010

David Ignatius, the Washington Post's self-appointed apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency, has struck again.

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