By Ray McGovern
August 26, 2010
Just back from Afghanistan, Marine Commandant, Gen. James Conway held a news conference to add his voice to the Pentagon campaign to disparage the July 2011 date President Barack Obama set for U.S. troops to begin leaving Afghanistan.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Karl Rove Exploits Corporate Money
By Kevin Zeese
August 26, 2010
In the last week Democrats were gloating about how little money the Republican Party had in its campaign coffers. The Republican National Committee has just over $5 million in the bank for the final stretch of the 2010 midterm election campaign and is carrying over $2 million in debt.
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August 26, 2010
In the last week Democrats were gloating about how little money the Republican Party had in its campaign coffers. The Republican National Committee has just over $5 million in the bank for the final stretch of the 2010 midterm election campaign and is carrying over $2 million in debt.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
At War with American Workers
By Michael Winship
August 25, 2010
August 25, 2010
Among the many TV ad jingles sadly cluttering my brain since childhood (although useful in trivia contests) is the one that went, "The finest apples from Apple Land/Make Mott's Apple Sauce taste grand!"
Twisting Palestinian Arms for Peace
By Lawrence Davidson
August 25, 2010
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has announced that direct "negotiations" between Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas will begin on Sept. 2. It is reported that Abbas agreed to these talks only after heavy pressure from both the United States and the European Union.
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August 25, 2010
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has announced that direct "negotiations" between Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas will begin on Sept. 2. It is reported that Abbas agreed to these talks only after heavy pressure from both the United States and the European Union.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Christian Nationalism's War with Islam
By Rev. Howard Bess
August 24, 2010
August 24, 2010
An underlying issue in the dispute over a proposed Islamic center near the site of 9/11’s Ground Zero is the emergence of Christian nationalism, which embraces a vision of the world in which every knee bows and every tongue confesses that Christ is Lord.
Making a 'Mosque' a 'Wedge' Issue
By Ivan Eland
August 24, 2010
The American media, and to a lesser extent the world media, focus on symbolism at the expense of underlying reality. And sometimes they can’t even make sense of the symbolism.
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August 24, 2010
The American media, and to a lesser extent the world media, focus on symbolism at the expense of underlying reality. And sometimes they can’t even make sense of the symbolism.
Read on.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Turning Iraqi Cities into Slums
Fiddling While the US Economy Burns
By Danny Schechter
August 23, 2010
We know we live in hard times that are on the verge of getting harder with 500,000 new claims for unemployment last week, a recent record.
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August 23, 2010
We know we live in hard times that are on the verge of getting harder with 500,000 new claims for unemployment last week, a recent record.
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Transocean Questioned on Burma Deal
By Thomas Maung Shwe
August 20, 2010
U.S.-Swiss drilling company Tranoscean has admitted it is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury over its “operations in Myanmar [Burma]”. The probe comes amid intense public scrutiny since its rig blew up in the Gulf of Mexico.
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August 20, 2010
U.S.-Swiss drilling company Tranoscean has admitted it is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury over its “operations in Myanmar [Burma]”. The probe comes amid intense public scrutiny since its rig blew up in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Spinning the US Failure in Iraq
By Robert Parry
August 20, 2010
When I watched the last U.S. combat battalions leave Iraq on Wednesday night, I couldn’t help but recall the scene when the last Soviet troops departed Afghanistan on Feb. 15, 1989. In both cases, the two governments soft-pedaled the hard truth about the strategic defeats that the withdrawals represented.
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August 20, 2010
When I watched the last U.S. combat battalions leave Iraq on Wednesday night, I couldn’t help but recall the scene when the last Soviet troops departed Afghanistan on Feb. 15, 1989. In both cases, the two governments soft-pedaled the hard truth about the strategic defeats that the withdrawals represented.
Read on.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tea Partiers' Historical Fictions
By Jada Thacker
August 18, 2010
Today’s adherents to the Tea Party movement claim to share common cause with American “Sons of Liberty” rowdies who, on Dec. 16, 1773, dumped about 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.
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August 18, 2010
Today’s adherents to the Tea Party movement claim to share common cause with American “Sons of Liberty” rowdies who, on Dec. 16, 1773, dumped about 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.
Read on.
Do Religions Reject Gay Marriage?
By Daniel C. Maguire
August 18, 2010
Through much of history, especially prior to the Fourteenth Century, many Christians did not share the view that marriage was a reward for being heterosexual, nor that a same-sex union was objectionable.
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August 18, 2010
Through much of history, especially prior to the Fourteenth Century, many Christians did not share the view that marriage was a reward for being heterosexual, nor that a same-sex union was objectionable.
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Mosque Furor Endangers US Troops
By Robert Parry
August 18, 2010
For years, the American Right and neocons have been quick to accuse critics of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars of endangering American troops – by causing disunity, exposing counter-terror techniques, etc. – but these war enthusiasts are now the ones putting the lives of U.S. soldiers in jeopardy.
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August 18, 2010
For years, the American Right and neocons have been quick to accuse critics of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars of endangering American troops – by causing disunity, exposing counter-terror techniques, etc. – but these war enthusiasts are now the ones putting the lives of U.S. soldiers in jeopardy.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Letting the Banksters 'Settle'
By Danny Schechter
August 17, 2010
Another day, another bank in the news -- with the settlement blues.
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August 17, 2010
Another day, another bank in the news -- with the settlement blues.
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Making the US Look Small to the World
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa
August 17, 2010
New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission was right not to designate the building at 45 Park Place, two blocks from Ground Zero, a historical landmark.
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August 17, 2010
New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission was right not to designate the building at 45 Park Place, two blocks from Ground Zero, a historical landmark.
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Old-Time Bigotry Alive in America
By Michael Winship
August 17, 2010
As citizens of the nation continue through the summer, distracting themselves from difficult truths by howling at the moon and one another, I spent this past weekend in Manhattan seeing revivals of two classic period pieces of American theater.
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August 17, 2010
As citizens of the nation continue through the summer, distracting themselves from difficult truths by howling at the moon and one another, I spent this past weekend in Manhattan seeing revivals of two classic period pieces of American theater.
Read on.
The Truth about Pat Tillman's Death
By Rory O'Connor
August 17, 2010
Of the many lies George W. Bush told us about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some were larger but none worse than that told about the death of Pat Tillman.
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August 17, 2010
Of the many lies George W. Bush told us about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some were larger but none worse than that told about the death of Pat Tillman.
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Monday, August 16, 2010
Behind a Lethal Israel-Lebanon Clash
By Lawrence Davidson
August 16, 2010
August 16, 2010
On Aug. 3, violence erupted along Lebanon’s southern frontier, followed almost simultaneously by verbal assaults against Lebanon from the U.S. House of Representatives. Lebanon soon lost, at least temporarily, $100 million in U.S. military aid. What is this all about?
Read on.Sunday, August 15, 2010
How Truth Can Save Lives
By Ray McGovern
August 15, 2010
If independent-minded Web sites, like WikiLeaks or, say, Consortiumnews.com, existed 43 years ago, I might have risen to the occasion and helped save the lives of some 25,000 U.S. soldiers, and a million Vietnamese, by exposing the lies contained in just one SECRET/EYES ONLY cable from Saigon.
Read on.
August 15, 2010
If independent-minded Web sites, like WikiLeaks or, say, Consortiumnews.com, existed 43 years ago, I might have risen to the occasion and helped save the lives of some 25,000 U.S. soldiers, and a million Vietnamese, by exposing the lies contained in just one SECRET/EYES ONLY cable from Saigon.
Read on.
Friday, August 13, 2010
US Staggers Toward Dysfunction
By Danny Schechter
August 14, 2010
Financial journalist Charles Gasparino whose career trajectory took him from Newsweek to CNBC to Fox News was on with Bill O’ Reilly doing what the host of the fact-less Factor likes to do the most: promote Fox News.
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August 14, 2010
Financial journalist Charles Gasparino whose career trajectory took him from Newsweek to CNBC to Fox News was on with Bill O’ Reilly doing what the host of the fact-less Factor likes to do the most: promote Fox News.
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