Saturday, May 29, 2010

Time to Turn to Jeb?

By Robert Parry
May 29, 2010

In watching TV news accounts of the recent American disasters – a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a fatal mine explosion in West Virginia, continuing economic fallout from Wall Street excesses, worsening fears about the impact of the massive U.S. debt – I was struck by the absence of one name: George W. Bush.

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Even Kissinger Finally 'Gets It'

By Winslow Myers
May 29, 2010

One of the most fascinating phenomena in the lives of public servants is the difference between what they permit themselves to say while in harness and what they can safely say after they retire.

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Memorial Daze: Quandary of Empire

By Philip A Ferruggio
May 29, 2010

Hitler’s German army invaded and occupied Poland. Many soldiers were killed. The Japanese invaded and occupied Nanking and Shanghai. They had many soldiers killed. The same for the British when they occupied India and Palestine.

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Friday, May 28, 2010

The Ethnic Mix that Launched America

By William Loren Katz
May 28, 2010

For generations, bashing immigrants has been a favorite political tactic of American xenophobes and white racists when they need to augment their time-honored way of rallying their backers – by picking on blacks and other people of color.

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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Memorial Day's Troubling Message

By Gary G. Kohls
May 27, 2010

During my rural Minnesota growing up years, I rarely missed a Memorial Day parade or the traditional civic service honoring the war dead that followed the parade.

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Rep. Obey Ducks War Challenge

By Ray McGovern
May 27, 2010

“We can sit, frozen in our own indifference, as President Roosevelt once said…” That’s what you said Wednesday in connection with saving teachers’ jobs. Sadly, it also applies — in spades — to saving lives in an unnecessary war.

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NYT's Friedman Rejects Iran Nuke Deal

By Robert Parry
May 27, 2010

Washington’s new “group think” on Iran – that the only possible approach is a heightened confrontation followed by “regime change” – is being shaped by the same opinion leaders who charted the way into the bloody disaster in Iraq and paid no career price.

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Covert US Military Strategy on Iran

By Robert Parry
May 25, 2010

Hawks in the United States and Israel appear set on “regime change” in Iran, pursuing a game plan similar to the run-up to war in Iraq, ratcheting up tensions while frustrating opportunities for a peaceful settlement.

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Why NATO Expansion Is a Mistake

By Ivan Eland
May 25, 2010

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright recently led a panel of experts in coming up with a report, “NATO 2020,” which will be used to draft a replacement for NATO’s current strategic concept, adopted in 1999.

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Behind the Texas Textbook Massacre

By Rosemarie Jackowski
May 23, 2010

The missing part of the news report about the Texas textbook fiasco is that this is not new news. History textbooks used in most U.S. schools have been suspect for decades.

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Un-gagging the Whistleblowers

By Coleen Rowley and Tom Devine
May 23, 2010

One month before 9/11, instructors at a Minnesota flight school call the FBI. Among other suspicious happenings, the most unusual "student" they have ever encountered just plopped down thousands in cash to learn to fly a 747, claiming his only purpose was "ego-boosting."

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