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By Anna Badkhen
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by Juan Cole
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By Bill Boyarsky — Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. both understood the relationship between war abroad and poverty at home—an insight, says Boyarsky, that the nation sorely needs right now.
Posted on Aug 14, 2007
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Karl Rove set out to build an eternal Republican majority. In the end, he managed two terms for a mediocre president.
Posted on Aug 14, 2007
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By Eugene Robinson — Buh-bye, Karl Rove. On your way out of the White House, don’t let the screen door hit you where the dog should have bit you.
Posted on Aug 14, 2007
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Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive and author of “You Have No Rights,” explains how our president became a “medieval king,” and why your civil liberties are in greater danger than ever.
Posted on Aug 14, 2007
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By Kasia Anderson — In what may have been one of the most controversial (and contradictory) missteps made yet in this pre-election season, Hillary Clinton refused, however ambiguously, to rule out using nuclear weapons to combat terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Though the media at large barely registered her comment, it wasn’t lost on Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who takes Clinton to task in an exclusive interview with Truthdig.
Posted on Aug 11, 2007
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Patrick Cockburn —
British forces face a major dip in morale as they prepare to leave Basra—an exit viewed by some as a retreat from a situation that’s become more chaotic and dangerous than it was before. The Independent’s Patrick Cockburn apparently agrees, arguing that the British troops “wholly failed” in their “least successful military campaign since Suez in 1956.”
Posted on Aug 10, 2007
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By Robert Fisk — True, the U.S. may be able to “spread democracy” to other nations throughout the world, but, as The Independent’s Robert Fisk points out, that doesn’t mean that the U.S. can control how those nations exercise their democratic rights. Take Lebanon, for example, where, Fisk wryly notes, “The Arabs have, once more, followed democracy and voted for the wrong man.”
Posted on Aug 10, 2007
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Some lawmakers were furious over the administration’s actions regarding a surveillance bill, but in the end members of the majority party in Congress caved in under political pressure.
Posted on Aug 10, 2007
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By Eugene Robinson — You might have thought that now isn’t the most opportune time for the elected leaders of both the United States and Iraq to pack up and head to the beach, ranch or villa for a nice, long vacation. Silly you.
Posted on Aug 10, 2007
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By Ellen Goodman — Yes, there are women bloggers out there—a lot of them, in fact. But when it comes to who gets heard and who sets the agenda, the netroots feel like a “new boys’ club.”
Posted on Aug 8, 2007
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By Joe Conason — Listening to the Republican candidates for president warn against “socialized medicine,” you might believe that national health insurance is really a plot to institute Soviet rule in the United States.
Posted on Aug 8, 2007
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Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges talks about his landmark article in The Nation magazine, “The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness,” the result of seven months of interviews with troops about their experiences in Iraq.
Posted on Aug 8, 2007
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By Robert Scheer — During a week of mayhem in Iraq, in which terrorists have rightly been condemned for targeting schoolchildren, it is sobering to recall that this week is also the 62nd anniversary of a U.S. attack that deliberately took the lives of thousands of children on their way to school in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Posted on Aug 7, 2007
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By Amy Goodman — The FCC is providing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for local noncommercial radio. With tycoons like Rupert Murdoch snatching up more trophies for his media empire, local alternatives are needed now more than ever.
Posted on Aug 7, 2007
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By Eugene Robinson — It wasn’t so long ago that thinking the government was reading your mail, listening to your phone calls, tracking your movements and snapping photos along the way meant you were just paranoid. Ah, the good old days.
Posted on Aug 7, 2007
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Greenland’s Great Melt Is Pinned On Climate Change
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