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By Robert Scheer — While Bush was distracted with Iraq, the patrons of terrorism were very much in business back where the 9/11 attack was hatched, turning Afghanistan into a narco-state that provides a lucrative source of cash for the “evildoers” Bush forgot about.
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By Robert Scheer — Bill Clinton doesn’t seem to know the difference between getting mothers and their children off the welfare rolls and getting them out of poverty.
Posted on Aug 29, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — Democrats must transcend all their intraparty squabbles over the war in Iraq and focus on the obligation of politicians to be honest with the public.
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By Robert Scheer — Investigators have known for a decade about terrorist plots to bring down passenger jets with liquid explosives. So why, all of a sudden, did Bush ban most liquids on flights?
Posted on Aug 15, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — A new book by the former co-chairs of the 9/11 commission tells the inside story of how the White House has systematically endeavored to squelch any real examination of the enemy whose actions kicked off the so-called war on terror.
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By Robert Scheer — The Jewish state’s die-hard supporters in the White House, Congress and the media seem unable to understand that Israel will never be able to bomb its way to security.
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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 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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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.”
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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 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.
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By Chris Hedges — The former Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times and author of the bestseller “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” argues in this Truthdig column that the bloodshed now engulfing Lebanon and Israel will only worsen as long as extremists on both sides continue to indulge in “collective necrophilia.”
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By Robert Scheer — Truthdig’s editor in chief argues that President Bush could defuse the nuclear standoff with North Korea by coddling its attention-starved leader—similar to what Nixon did with China. “Hell, Bush might even empathize with Kim’s desire to escape from the shadow of a father from whom he inherited his crown.”
Posted on Jul 11, 2006
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From jay-z.net
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By Jabari Asim — With the superstar rapper (above) boycotting the vaunted champagne company for publicly insulting him, might this be an opportunity to encourage the hip-hop and liquor industries to stop pushing alcohol on kids?
Posted on Jul 7, 2006
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‘Losing’ the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1
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