Saturday, January 16, 2010

Global Cooling? The Jellyfish Answer

By Michael Winship
January 16, 2010

There are certain newspaper headlines that catch your eye and stop you in your tracks.

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Friday, January 15, 2010

Lessons from America's Lost Decade

By Robert Parry
January 15, 2010

As the United States takes the measure of Barack Obama’s first year in the White House and looks beyond to what could be a difficult new decade, it might be useful to first stop and extract some lessons from the 2000s, which proved to be a lost economic decade for many Americans.

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

How Not to Counter Terrorism

By Coleen Rowley and Other Intelligence Veterans
January 14, 2010 (Originally Published June 18, 2007)

Given the effort that many of us have put into suggestions for reform, how satisfying it would be, were we able to report that appropriate correctives have been introduced to make us safer.

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Haiti and America's Historic Debt

By Robert Parry
January 13, 2010

Announcing emergency help for Haiti after a devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake, President Barack Obama noted America’s historic ties to the impoverished Caribbean nation, but few Americans understand how important Haiti’s contribution to U.S. history was.

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Cheney's Attack Shields Failures

By Ivan Eland
January 12, 2010

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been railing against President Barack Obama for being weak-kneed on terrorism and failing to interdict the BVD bomber’s recent attempt to blow up a plane.

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Monday, January 11, 2010

Asking Europe for America's Answers

By David Swanson
January 12, 2010

Whenever I write about U.S. politics, people ask me "Don't you have any good news?" ... But I do have good news, boatloads of good news, if Americans want to hear it.

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Do Republicans Deserve a Reward?

By Robert Parry
January 11, 2010

These days, I rarely open an e-mailed article from someone on the Left that doesn’t denounce President Barack Obama as a sell-out, a corporate tool, a coward or worse – with similar assessments applied to the Democratic leadership in Congress.

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Obama Picks CIA Insider for Inquiry

By Melvin A. Goodman
January 11, 2010

The Obama administration quietly announced Friday the appointment of John McLaughlin, former deputy CIA director, to head the internal investigation of the intelligence failures that led to the Christmas Day attempted bombing of a Delta airliner headed for Detroit as well as the events leading to the shootings at Fort Hood in November.

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