Saturday, May 22, 2010

Rand Paul Exposes the Real Tea Party

By Robert Parry
May 22, 2010

In its first year of existence, the Tea Party movement made clear what it was angry about: the first black American President, health-care reform, taxes, deficit spending, “lib-rhuls,” socialists, Hitler, emergency “bailouts” to stave off a new Great Depression, and – in general – Big Government.

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Friday, May 21, 2010

Dirty Linen Gets Intel Chief Fired

By Ray McGovern
May 22, 2010

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of how 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab soiled his underpants with a makeshift bomb over Detroit last Christmas hung out so much dirty linen on the crowded clothes line of the U.S. intelligence community that it was an easy call to get rid of Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair.

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Politics Needing a Swift Kick

By Michael Winship
May 21, 2010

There's a story about a member of the British House of Commons who was stopped in the halls of Parliament by a constituent, an elderly pensioner. The little old man had a specific concern about his fellow senior citizens that he hoped the politician could solve.

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Campaign 2010: Where to Put Blame

By Robert Parry
May 20, 2010

Perhaps the biggest political question in 2010 is whether the American people will blame the nation’s mess on the long-term impact of Ronald Reagan’s “government is the problem” ideology (and on his successors from the Bush Family) – or on Barack Obama for not solving enough of the problems in less than two years.

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

US/Israel Challenged on Iran

By Ray McGovern
May 19, 2010

The times may be a-changin’ – at least a bit – with the United States and Israel no longer able to dictate to the rest of the world how crises in the Middle East must be handled, though the new reality has been slow to dawn on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her neocon friends in Congress and the U.S. media.

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Resolving the Miranda Dilemma

By Coleen Rowley
May 18, 2010

One spring morning in the mid 1990s, a man whose last name was Liberatore rang a doorbell, pretending to be a delivery person.

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Is Obama Making Terror Risk Worse?

By Ivan Eland
May 18, 2010

To smooth over the stormy relationship with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, President Barack Obama is throwing out the red carpet in Washington, D.C., for Karzai and his entourage.

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Monday, May 17, 2010

Itching to Fight Another Muslim Enemy

By Robert Parry
May 17, 2010

If you read the major American newspapers or watch the propaganda on cable TV, it’s pretty clear that the U.S. foreign policy Establishment is again spoiling for a fight, this time in Iran.

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