By Ann Wright
September 17, 2010
Bradley Manning is accused of telling the truth.
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Friday, September 17, 2010
Lee Hamilton, the Un-Wise Man
By Robert Parry
September 17, 2010
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius has become the latest voice of influence to sing the praises of former Rep. Lee Hamilton, who is almost universally hailed in U.S. power circles as a modern-day Wise Man, a Democratic centrist who shuns partisanship and puts love of country over politics.
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September 17, 2010
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius has become the latest voice of influence to sing the praises of former Rep. Lee Hamilton, who is almost universally hailed in U.S. power circles as a modern-day Wise Man, a Democratic centrist who shuns partisanship and puts love of country over politics.
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Nixon's Vengeful War on Marijuana
By William John Cox
September 16, 2010
September 16, 2010
In 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed Pennsylvania Gov. Raymond P. Shafer to chair a national commission to report on the effects of marijuana and other drugs and recommend appropriate drug policies. Though Shafer was a former prosecutor and was known as a "law and order" governor, he did not give Nixon the alarmist findings that the President wanted.
The Great Muslim Scare
By Lawrence Davidson
September 16, 2010
In 1951, American working-class intellectual Eric Hoffer described those he called the “true believers,” people who start out alienated from their present conditions and suffering feelings of insecurity and uncertainty about the direction of their lives and communities.
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September 16, 2010
In 1951, American working-class intellectual Eric Hoffer described those he called the “true believers,” people who start out alienated from their present conditions and suffering feelings of insecurity and uncertainty about the direction of their lives and communities.
Read on.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
America's Decoupling from Reality
By Robert Parry
September 15, 2010
September 15, 2010
As Election Day 2010 approaches – as the United States wallows in the swamps of war, recession and environmental degradation – the consequences of the nation’s three-decade-old decoupling from reality are becoming painfully obvious.
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Great Britain's Brave New World
By Danny Schechter
September 14, 2010
London looks pretty much like it did the last time I was here except for all the closed stores and businesses I passed on the way to the War and Media Conference that brought me here.
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September 14, 2010
London looks pretty much like it did the last time I was here except for all the closed stores and businesses I passed on the way to the War and Media Conference that brought me here.
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GOP Leaders Embrace Ugly Intolerance
By Michael Winship
September 14, 2010
Gentlemen, start your defibrillators. To baby boomers like me it gives the heart a bit of jolt to realize that 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the presidential campaign between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.
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September 14, 2010
Gentlemen, start your defibrillators. To baby boomers like me it gives the heart a bit of jolt to realize that 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the presidential campaign between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.
Read on.
Rory Kennedy's "The Fence"
Has US Empire Benefited the World?
By Ivan Eland
September 14, 2010
In a recent column, Thomas Friedman, probably the most influential “internationalist” — read: proponent of U.S. interventionism in faraway places — has finally discovered that the United States must soon turn inward and put domestic economic growth first because of its massive public debt, huge federal budget deficit, and looming fiscal crisis caused by a dramatic automatic escalation in entitlements spending.
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September 14, 2010
In a recent column, Thomas Friedman, probably the most influential “internationalist” — read: proponent of U.S. interventionism in faraway places — has finally discovered that the United States must soon turn inward and put domestic economic growth first because of its massive public debt, huge federal budget deficit, and looming fiscal crisis caused by a dramatic automatic escalation in entitlements spending.
Read on.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Marijuana 'Prohibition' on CA's Ballot
By Kevin Zeese
September 13, 2010
Since the founding of the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973, 15 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana.
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September 13, 2010
Since the founding of the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973, 15 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana.
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
US Hypocrisy Hobbles Human Rights
By Lawrence Davidson
September 12, 2010
On Aug. 23, Israel’s most prestigious human rights organization, B’Tselem released a short report on the condition of water supplies in the Gaza Strip.
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September 12, 2010
On Aug. 23, Israel’s most prestigious human rights organization, B’Tselem released a short report on the condition of water supplies in the Gaza Strip.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Would Jesus Hate Muslims?
By Rev. Howard Bess
September 11, 2010
Early in the 21st century, America is being gripped by xenophobia, the fear of strangers or foreigners, or more broadly the fear of the unfamiliar.
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September 11, 2010
Early in the 21st century, America is being gripped by xenophobia, the fear of strangers or foreigners, or more broadly the fear of the unfamiliar.
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America's Excessive Fear of the World
By Jonathan Schwarz
September 11, 2010
The question of whether America is safer today is sort of strange, for two reasons.
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September 11, 2010
The question of whether America is safer today is sort of strange, for two reasons.
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After 9/11, Making Matters Worse
By Melvin A. Goodman
September 11, 2010
The terrorist attacks on Washington and New York City nine years ago extracted a terrible price in terms of blood and treasure. Unfortunately, the U.S. reaction to 9/11 has also extracted a terrible price with no end in sight.
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September 11, 2010
The terrorist attacks on Washington and New York City nine years ago extracted a terrible price in terms of blood and treasure. Unfortunately, the U.S. reaction to 9/11 has also extracted a terrible price with no end in sight.
Read on.
NYT Pushes Confrontation with Iran
By Robert Parry
September 11, 2010
Apparently having learned no lessons from the Iraq WMD debacle, the New York Times is pushing for a heightened confrontation with Iran, slipping into the same kind of hysteria that it and other major U.S. news organizations displayed in 2002 and 2003.
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September 11, 2010
Apparently having learned no lessons from the Iraq WMD debacle, the New York Times is pushing for a heightened confrontation with Iran, slipping into the same kind of hysteria that it and other major U.S. news organizations displayed in 2002 and 2003.
Read on.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Hillary's Imperial Dream Meets Reality
By Danny Schechter
September 10, 2010
September 10, 2010
Oh, Hamid, Oh Hillary: How your worlds converge and diverge.
Islam Basher Claims to Unmask Cleric
By Robert Parry
September 10, 2010
Last month, Steve Emerson, a propagandist with close ties to Israel’s Likud and America’s neocons, went on a national radio program and claimed that Islamic cleric Feisal Abdul Rauf would likely not “survive” Emerson’s disclosure of supposedly radical comments that Rauf made a half decade ago.
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September 10, 2010
Last month, Steve Emerson, a propagandist with close ties to Israel’s Likud and America’s neocons, went on a national radio program and claimed that Islamic cleric Feisal Abdul Rauf would likely not “survive” Emerson’s disclosure of supposedly radical comments that Rauf made a half decade ago.
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Thursday, September 09, 2010
Toning Down the 9/11 Tirades
By Michael Winship
September 9, 2010
This past Sunday was beautiful, bright and warm, not unlike the sky blue day when those two airliners hit the World Trade Center in 2001, just a mile or so from where I live. That day, a Tuesday, was a bit hotter, a bit more humid, yet just as sunny and promising.
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September 9, 2010
This past Sunday was beautiful, bright and warm, not unlike the sky blue day when those two airliners hit the World Trade Center in 2001, just a mile or so from where I live. That day, a Tuesday, was a bit hotter, a bit more humid, yet just as sunny and promising.
Read on.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
The Value of Real Journalism
By Mort Rosenblum
September 8, 2010
The University of Colorado is scrapping journalism for communications. At least, I think they are.
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September 8, 2010
The University of Colorado is scrapping journalism for communications. At least, I think they are.
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Iraq Pullout v. the Base Temptation
By Ivan Eland
September 8, 2010
As President Obama gave a self-congratulatory speech about keeping his campaign promise to remove U.S. combat forces from Iraq by the end of August, he accomplished this feat by merely redefining the mission of the 50,000 combat-trained U.S. forces remaining there to “advising and assisting” Iraqi forces.
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September 8, 2010
As President Obama gave a self-congratulatory speech about keeping his campaign promise to remove U.S. combat forces from Iraq by the end of August, he accomplished this feat by merely redefining the mission of the 50,000 combat-trained U.S. forces remaining there to “advising and assisting” Iraqi forces.
Read on.
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