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It’s not just Bushie loyalists and Republicans who are gunning for more money to be poured (out of taxpayers’ pockets) into the Iraq war chest.  Take Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), who is aiming to double Bush’s proposed $12 billion in funding for the rapid production of mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles—a proposition which, Scheer argues, is about much more than the security of U.S. troops.

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]]> 2007-09-25T22:48:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070917_giving_and_taking/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070917_giving_and_taking/ book, charity, clinton, democracy, democrats, government, hedges, immigration, mexico, nafta, poverty, taxes, welfare, Columns, Chris Hedges' Columns

Bill Clinton has written a new book about charity, a fitting subject for a president who betrayed the poor and led his party into the arms of corporate America.

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]]> 2007-09-17T12:09:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070904_scheer_sept_5_why_is_this_man_smiling/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070904_scheer_sept_5_why_is_this_man_smiling/ basra, gao, shiite, sunni, Columns, Robert Scheer's Columns

It’s enough to make one a libertarian, Robert Scheer argues, as the federal budget is hijacked by a bloated military-industrial complex wallowing in post-9/11 greed.  As the president smiles, the failures of this American experiment in imperialism become all the more costly and apparent.

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]]> 2007-09-04T22:53:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070903_the_next_quagmire/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070903_the_next_quagmire/ diplomacy, empathy, foreign policy, hedges, iran, media, mideast, quagmire, Columns, Chris Hedges' Columns

By all indications, the United States is about to attack Iran. Expect a regional catastrophe to follow, propelled by impotent diplomacy and inane media.

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]]> 2007-09-03T12:20:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070828_a_legacy_of_legitimizing_torture/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070828_a_legacy_of_legitimizing_torture/ ashcroft, bybee, geneva convention, patriot act, torture, Columns, Robert Scheer's Columns

President Bush lamented Alberto Gonzales’ resignation and insisted that the “good name” of the attorney general had been besmirched for partisan purposes. Good name? Robert Scheer reviews the highlights (or, rather, the low points) of Gonzales’ tenure and looks at the troubling legacy he leaves behind.

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]]> 2007-08-29T02:04:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070821_the_real_iraq_progress_report/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070821_the_real_iraq_progress_report/ clinton, democrat, pollack, progress report, pundit, scheer, Columns, Robert Scheer's Columns

The recent parade of political tourists to Iraq, during which easily impressed pundits and members of Congress came to be dazzled by the wonders of the troop surge, probably ensures that this murderous adventure will continue well into the next presidency—even if the Democrats win.     

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]]> 2007-08-22T00:40:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070820_starving_gaza/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070820_starving_gaza/ abbas, bosnia, ghetto, hedges, palestinians, peace, Columns, Chris Hedges' Columns

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel and the U.S. are making a ghetto out of Gaza, hoping that cutting the territory off from the rest of the world will weaken democratically elected Hamas. They are wrong, and the innocent people of the Gaza Strip are paying the price.

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]]> 2007-08-20T15:35:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070814_hillary_pushes_the_button/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070814_hillary_pushes_the_button/ clinton, cold war, defense, hillary, margaret thatcher, nuclear weapons, obama, scheer, senator, Columns, Robert Scheer's Columns

What in the world was Sen. Hillary Clinton thinking when she attacked Sen. Barack Obama for ruling out the use of nuclear weapons in going after Osama bin Laden? And why aren’t her supporters more concerned about yet another egregious example of Clinton’s consistent backing for the mindless militarism that is dragging this nation to ruin?

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]]> 2007-08-15T02:56:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070807_robert_scheer_august_8_a_bomb/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070807_robert_scheer_august_8_a_bomb/ atomic bomb, eisenhower, hiroshima, japan, nagasaki, scheer, truman, world war ii, Columns, Robert Scheer's Columns

During a week of mayhem in Iraq, in which terrorists have rightly been condemned for targeting schoolchildren, it is sobering to recall that this week is also the 62nd anniversary of a U.S. attack that deliberately took the lives of thousands of children on their way to school in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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]]> 2007-08-07T23:16:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070806_beyond_disaster/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070806_beyond_disaster/ civil war, disaster, hedges, mideast, neocons, quagmire, withdrawal, Columns, Chris Hedges' Columns

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Mideast observer warns that the situation in Iraq is about to get much, much worse, whether we stay or leave.

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