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By Orville Schell
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Truthdig salutes the California governor and the Virgin empire founder for their leadership in the fight against global warming.
Posted on Sep 29, 2006
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Nearly 400 of the world’s leading foreign policy intellectuals contributed to a Princeton University-organized initiative that calls for a new grand strategy to address America’s national security concerns. (More after the jump…)
Posted on Sep 28, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — With a smug stroke of his pen, President Bush is set to wipe out a safeguard against illegal imprisonment that has endured as a cornerstone of legal justice since the Magna Carta.
Posted on Sep 27, 2006
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By Joe Conason — When Condoleezza Rice claimed that Bush & Co. did just as much in the run-up to 9/11 as Clinton & Co. did in the preceding eight years, it had to rank as one of the most baldfaced lies ever uttered by a Bush administration official.
Posted on Sep 27, 2006
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By Ellen Goodman — In the same week, both Hillary Clinton and President Bush were labeled the devil. Have we gotten perhaps a bit too literal in the demonization of our enemies?
Posted on Sep 27, 2006
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By Marie Cocco — The unraveling of Virginia Sen. George Allen’s reelection campaign may have begun with a single offensive remark caught on tape, but his competitor’s Lamont-style netroots insurgency is just as responsible for making the race tight.
Posted on Sep 27, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — All 16 U.S. intelligence services have concluded that Bush’s war in Iraq “has become the ‘cause celebre’ for jihadists” worldwide, but that won’t deter a president who puts no stock in intelligence.
Posted on Sep 26, 2006
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The co-founder of the trailblazing Crossroads and New Roads schools in Santa Monica grapples with a report which concludes that more students now attend de facto segregated schools than before Brown v. Board of Ed.
Posted on Sep 26, 2006
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The Texas columnist sounds off on the National Intelligence Estimate, corruption in the Education Dept. and Bush’s view of the “comma” in Iraq.
Posted on Sep 25, 2006
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By Marie Cocco — “In this political atmosphere, who could blame Hewlett-Packard for believing it could spy on reporters—or even try to intimidate them?”
Posted on Sep 25, 2006
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By Arthur Blaustein — The choices are stark, the consequences are momentous, writes a public policy professor at UC Berkeley, who argues that the November elections will be the most significant in a generation.
Posted on Sep 24, 2006
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Karen Meredith —
In honor of Gold Star Mothers Day, Truthdig brings you this letter from Gold Star mom and blogger Karen Meredith, whose son Ken died in Iraq two years ago.
Posted on Sep 24, 2006
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By Marie Cocco — If John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham are so intent on keeping Bush from legalizing torture, why did they vote to confirm Alberto Gonzales, the architect of Bush’s terror policy, as attorney general?
Posted on Sep 20, 2006
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By Joe Conason — “Clearly, Bush cannot comprehend the damage he is doing to American dignity, credibility and prestige…. His public negotiations with the dissident senators over torture techniques have created one of the worst spectacles in modern political history.”
Posted on Sep 20, 2006
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By Ellen Goodman — The sad drama of a 19-year-old whose parents allegedly attempted to force her to have an abortion refocuses the question of what, exactly, constitutes “choice.”
Posted on Sep 20, 2006
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