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By Norman G. Finkelstein
By T.J. Stiles
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By Marie Cocco — The Iraq Study Group has offered its anticlimactic advice on the war, but how will we address that other quagmire in Cuba, where some 430 anonymous prisoners languish in limbo?
Posted on Dec 7, 2006
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By Joe Conason — If nothing else can be said for Robert Gates, he seems to have learned that the appearance of honesty is preferable to blatant attempts at deception.
Posted on Dec 7, 2006
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By Ellen Goodman — My mother died last month at 92. At the end, she had lost much of what she had. But, still, she left treasures.
Posted on Dec 6, 2006
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Image: AP; composite: Karen Spector / Truthdig
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By Joshua Scheer — Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) criticizes the leadership of his own party for announcing Tuesday that it would support a massive increase in spending for the Iraq war.
Posted on Dec 6, 2006
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The U.S. should pull nearly all combat troops out of Iraq by 2008 and push for a broad diplomatic and political solution—or face a “slide toward chaos,” according to the long-awaited Iraq Study Group’s report.
A line from the report: “U.S. forces seem to be caught in a mission that has no foreseeable end.”
Read the entire report here
Posted on Dec 6, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — The Founding Fathers won a war, but their true contribution to human history was to tackle head-on the reality that humans and their institutions can so easily become that which they despise.
Posted on Dec 5, 2006
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Sen. Barack Obama’s standing ovation at Pastor Rick Warren’s church demonstrates why the Illinois senator is one of the hottest commodities in 2008 presidential politics.
Posted on Dec 5, 2006
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By Paul Cummins — Despite our planet’s vast resources, we condemn over 20,000 children a day to miserable, preventable deaths. The escape from this tragedy begins with a fresh perspective on education.
Posted on Dec 5, 2006
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By Marie Cocco — A new study suggests Medicare will lose $30 billion in overpayments to private companies over the next five years. While Republicans made the mess, the Democrats have threatened to do little more than spray Windex on a landfill.
Posted on Dec 5, 2006
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By Jabari Asim — The recent shooting of an unarmed black man in New York is another chapter in a long and heartbreaking tradition.
Posted on Dec 5, 2006
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AP / Charlie Neibergall
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By Theodore Hamm — The pundits’ latest catchphrase is insulting to the traditions of both politicians and rock stars.
Posted on Dec 4, 2006
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AP Photo / Chris O'Meara
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By Chris Hedges — The show trial of Sami Al-Arian speaks to the government’s persecution of Muslims after 9/11, and the perils of dissent in a world gone mad with terror.
Posted on Dec 4, 2006
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This week Truthdig salutes the Rev. Joel Hunter, who recently resigned as president of the Christian Coalition because the group was unwilling to accept his agenda on global warming, poverty and AIDS. While we don’t endorse Hunter’s stand on choice and gay marriage, we admire the consistency of his pro-life position. As the pastor himself says, “unless we are caring as much for the vulnerable outside the womb as inside the womb, we’re not carrying out the full message of Jesus.”
Posted on Dec 2, 2006
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By Andy Borowitz — Just days after their hard-partying antics made headlines across Argentina, the twin daughters of President George W. Bush arrived in Iraq today, determined to continue celebrating their 25th birthday as only the Bush twins can.
Posted on Dec 2, 2006
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