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E.J. Dionne
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By Reese Erlich — Award-winning journalist Reese Erlich discovers that everyday Iranians favor talks between America and Tehran, but most think the negotiations will amount to little more than window dressing.
Posted on Dec 19, 2006
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By Paul Cummins — We’re never going to make any progress reforming the nation’s most dysfunctional school systems unless we first address the segregation that partitions our communities.
Posted on Dec 19, 2006
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By Jabari Asim — Despite their courage and achievements in the Revolutionary War, blacks usually went unnoticed. Now, finally, one such man receives some recognition.
Posted on Dec 18, 2006
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Froma Harrop —
Staving off global warming will depend on our willingness to take the long view and adopt the radically earth-friendly policies that are needed.
Posted on Dec 18, 2006
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It’s shocking how quickly the “real America,” as described by political pollsters, morphed from Bush/Cheney country to Stewart/Colbert country.
Posted on Dec 18, 2006
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AP / Khalil Hamra
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By Chris Hedges — The N.Y. Times’ former Middle East bureau chief, writing about Israel’s unrelenting attack on the Gaza Strip, argues: “It is a sad commentary on the gutlessness of the American press and timidity of the Democratic opposition that most Americans are not aware of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis they bear so much responsibility in creating.”
Above: Water mixes with blood in a street of a northern Gaza Strip town after an Israeli tank shelling in November.
Posted on Dec 18, 2006
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Courtesy of the ACLU of Southern California
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Truthdig tips its hat to the Navy lawyer who on Dec. 11 won a major ACLU award for his successful defense in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the U.S. Supreme Court case that dashed Bush administration efforts to try terror suspects in special military courts.
Posted on Dec 16, 2006
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By Andy Borowitz — The political satirist reports on the latest startling revelation to emerge from the camp of a politician whose demeanor ranges from “dour” to “very dour.”
Posted on Dec 16, 2006
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Believe it or not, winning the war in Iraq was never the Bush administration’s highest priority. Saving its tax cuts was more important. That was once spoken of as a moral problem. Now, it’s a practical barrier to a successful outcome.
Posted on Dec 15, 2006
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From Kucinich.us
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By Joshua Scheer — Twenty-eight years ago today, 31-year-old Dennis Kucinich, then the youngest-ever mayor of a major American city, famously pushed Cleveland into economic default rather than capitulate to the demands of a group of bankers eager to gobble up the city’s power plant. Today, as Kucinich kicks off his White House bid, he speaks to Truthdig about a stand of integrity that nearly cost him his political career, but which has striking relevance in the current political landscape—where such integrity seems in short supply.
Posted on Dec 14, 2006
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By Ellen Goodman — Why not let those most affected by our disastrous foreign policy vote on whether U.S. forces stay or go?
Posted on Dec 13, 2006
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By Marie Cocco — Al Gore says he is not planning to run, but there he is, pitching the release of his global-warming documentary with all the vigor of a man whose sights are set on the White House.
Posted on Dec 13, 2006
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By Joe Conason — What deserves far greater attention in the Iraq Study Group report is its conclusion that there is no military solution to the American dilemma in Iraq, and that the only way out is negotiation.
Posted on Dec 13, 2006
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The students who are suing the producers of the Borat movie shouldn’t be so worried about their reputations. After all, look at Mel Gibson.
Posted on Dec 13, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — Truthdig’s editor enters the mind of Donald Rumsfeld, who journeyed to Iraq recently to bid farewell to the troops, but ended up repeating the lies that put them at risk.
Posted on Dec 12, 2006
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