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By Stan Goff — The family of slain NFL-player-turned-Army-Ranger Pat Tillman may have been irreligious, but does that mean they’re not entitled to the truth about the fratricide that killed their son? New Truthdig contributor Stan Goff, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who has written extensively on the topic, probes for the truth.
Posted on Jul 28, 2006
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By Marie Cocco — The American middle class is in a free fall. But if Congress and the White House were to acknowledge the problem, then they might have to do something about it.
Posted on Jul 26, 2006
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From Harper's Bazaar
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“How did this fixation on celebrity babies, this upbeat bump beat, happen just as we are being told that parenthood is onerous and grueling and that parents are overworked and overwhelmed?”
Posted on Jul 26, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — The Middle East crisis is a big story, and the media know what to do with a big story: hammer at it nonstop, drench it in fear, report just a little bit of what’s going on and be sure never to let facts get in the way.
Posted on Jul 26, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — By saying that the Israel-Lebanon crisis simply represents the “birth pangs of a new Middle East,” Condoleezza Rice underscored the Bush administration’s blindness to the disastrous effects its foreign policy has wrought.
Posted on Jul 25, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — “Think about the potential Democratic candidates. Every single one of them needs spine, needs political courage. What Moyers can do is not only show them what it looks like and indeed what it is, but also how people respond to it.”
Posted on Jul 24, 2006
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By Marie Cocco — It was more important for Bush to veto a bill on stem cell research than it was to push for a halt to the slaughter claiming actual human lives in the Middle East.
Posted on Jul 24, 2006
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By Jabari Asim — Even as the notion of responsibility becomes less and less relevant among black American youths, people like Bill Cosby and the actor who plays Gordon on “Sesame Street” are asking the tough questions necessary for any reversal of the trend.
Posted on Jul 24, 2006
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By Andy Borowitz — As the crisis in the Middle East takes on graver proportions by the day, George W. Bush is gearing up for yet another retreat to his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Satirist Andy Borowitz reports that the Vacationer in Chief is determined to have fun, or “Hezbollah will have hell to pay.”
Posted on Jul 22, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — George Bush at the G8, Katherine Harris in Florida, Joe Lieberman in Connecticut, Ralph Reed in Georgia, and good old Tom DeLay in the grand state of Texas ... so bad they’re almost funny.
Posted on Jul 20, 2006
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By Ellen Goodman — The columnist says Bush’s veto of the stem cell bill has set him apart from his colleagues in the GOP and put him squarely in the ranks of the loony right. She also takes on a range of other “wedge issues” that have proved so divisive as to end up dividing even the staunchest conservatives.
Posted on Jul 20, 2006
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By Joe Conason — The recent bloodshed in Israel, Lebanon and Iraq is a tough lesson in “what happens when the leadership of ‘the indispensable nation’ takes a mental vacation.”
Posted on Jul 19, 2006
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Courtesy Rep. Dennis Kucinich
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Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced a resolution Wednesday that calls on President Bush to appeal to all sides for a cessation of hostilities in the Israeli-Lebanon conflict and to commit the United States to multiparty negotiations, along with support for an international peacekeeping mission during the talks.
Also, read the speech that Rep. Kucinich delivered on the House floor on Tuesday that warned of “mutually assured destruction” if saner heads do not soon prevail in the Middle East.
Posted on Jul 18, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — In the midst of a Middle Eastern crisis that threatens to destabilize the entire region and perhaps beyond, it was unnerving that what most seemed to interest President Bush at the G8 summit is that China is a long flight from western Russia.
Posted on Jul 18, 2006
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By Tom Hayden — The veteran social activist, drawing upon his own rude political awakening to the realities of Israeli and Middle East politics during the 1980s, warns that the Israel lobby in the U.S. aims to ?roll back the clock? and ?change the map? of the region and that its neoconservative supporters will probably try to use the current Middle East crisis to ignite a larger war against Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran.
Posted on Jul 18, 2006
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Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
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