Saturday, October 09, 2010

Islamophobia's Scholarly Godfather

Nabil Al-Khowaiter
October 9, 2010

While it may appear that Islamophobia is a new phenomenon in America – the result of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington – its roots can be traced back to the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, followed by the Arab oil embargo and a quadrupling of gas pump prices.

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Friday, October 08, 2010

Obama's Mission Impossible

By Danny Schechter
October 8, 2010

With the midterm election less than a month away and the economic crisis unabated, the Obama Administration may be at a crossroads.

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Thursday, October 07, 2010

A Long History of America's Dark Side

By Peter Dale Scott and Robert Parry
October 7, 2010

There is a dark -- seldom acknowledged -- thread that runs through U.S. military doctrine, dating back to the early days of the Republic.

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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Indian Genocide and Republican Power

By Thomas J. DiLorenzo
October 7, 2010

The real culture of violence in the American West of the latter half of the 19th Century sprang from the U.S. government’s policies toward the Plains Indians. It is untrue that white European settlers were always at war with Indians, as popular folklore contends.

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What a GOP Majority Would Mean

By Don Monkerud
October 6, 2010

Under the Republican Party's blueprint for America, BP will no longer be required to clean up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; the F.D.A. will not restrict the new diabetes drug Avandia just because it's unsafe; and donors will be allowed to keep their contributions to political campaigns secret.

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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Petraeus's New Afghan War Ploy

By Ivan Eland
October 5, 2010

Although David Petraeus, the top American commander in Afghanistan, recently peddled the notion that senior Taliban chieftains had made contact with senior Afghan government officials about the possibility of starting reconciliation talks, such talk of peace in our time is likely to be hype.

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An Inside Look at the Afghan Debacle

By Melvin A. Goodman
October 5, 2010

Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars offers a disturbing account of President Barack Obama's lack of leadership and the flawed decision-making practices of his national security team.

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Monday, October 04, 2010

The Bigot Whisperers of the Right

By Phil Rockstroh
October 4, 2010

I was born, at slightly past the midpoint of the 20th Century, in the Deep South city of Birmingham, Alabama -- "The Heart of Dixie."

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The Enduring Battle with Chaos

By the Rev. Howard Bess
October 4, 2010

In the Sixth Century B.C.E., amid the power of the Babylonian empire – with a group of defeated Israelites living there in exile – the questions of how the earth began and how it might end were not subjects of speculation or interest, for Babylonians or Israelites.

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Sunday, October 03, 2010

A Gentle March for American Unity

By Danny Schechter
October 3, 2010

I have been marching on Washington — and covering marches for more years that I can remember. As a kid, I was part of the original March on Washington back in ’63. It was for jobs and freedom.

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Guatemala: A Test Tube of Repression

By Robert Parry
October 3, 2010

Last week’s grotesque revelation about American public health doctors infecting nearly 700 Guatemalans with venereal disease to test penicillin from 1946-48 marked just the start of the U.S. government’s post-World War II abuse of that Central American country.

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