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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss Barack Obama’s announcement of the end of the decade-and-counting-long war on terror while Gitmo remains open for business. Is the Obama administration all over the map when it comes to terror?
Posted on May 24, 2013
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By Bill Blum — The president’s address Thursday left at least three core issues in the war on terror entirely unsettled: when Guantanamo will close, who will oversee future drone attacks and when surveillance of the press will end.
Posted on May 24, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on May 24, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on May 24, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on May 24, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why an Oklahoma senator thinks federal disaster relief to his state after a deadly tornado is unnecessary and John McCain gets all maverick-y again.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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The Obama administration’s unprecedented acknowledgement that four Americans were killed in U.S. drone strikes overseas—including one whose death was not previously reported—“raises more questions than it answers,” Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for The Nation and author of the new book “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield,” told “Democracy Now!” on Thursday.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on May 23, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on May 23, 2013
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By James Cromwell —
The Obama administration has passed or made use of a host of laws to infringe our civil liberties, obliterate the balance of power, legitimize a military dictatorship, and control the dissemination of truth in the name of protecting its “secrets.” Soon we will have lost our freedom, not to some foreign nation that hates it, but to our own devices.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Nearly 12 years after it was first enacted, the Authorization for Use of Military Force remains in force, giving the Obama administration and the Pentagon carte blanche to wage war, to occupy nations, to kill people with drone “signature strikes,” based not on guilt but on a remote analysis of a suspect’s “patterns of life.”
Posted on May 22, 2013
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In a letter to congressional leaders Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder formally acknowledged that four American citizens had been killed by U.S. drone strikes abroad, including al-Qaida-affiliated cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 22, 2013
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On “Democracy Now!” on Wednesday, Matt Rothschild reiterated his call for the attorney general to resign or be fired in the wake of recent revelations that the government was spying on the press and on Occupy protesters.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By William Pfaff — The bombs that ended the Boston Marathon in April were planted by young Muslims who had come to the United States as immigrants, rejected America as a civilization, and then attacked it, leaving behind a message of religious war.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford, TomDispatch —
The streets are much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. It’s 2023—and this is America 10 years after the first across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration went into effect.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a senator’s attempt to repeal the Monsanto Protection Act and the real IRS scandal that is being missed.
Posted on May 21, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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By Juan Cole — Not since the end of the Cold War in 1991 has Russia asserted itself so forcefully beyond its borders.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — The unwarranted snooping, which was revealed last week, would be troubling enough if it were an isolated incident. But it is part of a pattern that threatens to redefine investigative reporting as criminal behavior.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a GOP candidate once trying to criminalize not reporting a miscarriage to police and Bob Woodward delivers some bad news for Republicans.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on May 20, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a radio host makes shocking and incendiary remarks about Hillary Clinton and Bill Maher criticizes Republicans over the issue that he says should really be causing outrage.
Posted on May 19, 2013
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Sen. Angus King was the lone voice of sanity at a hearing where Pentagon officials said the war on terror could last up to 20 more years—or however long the president deems fit.
Posted on May 18, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 18, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on May 18, 2013
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The Obama administration is set to pull in $51 billion from student loans this year, “a sum greater than the earnings of the nation’s most profitable companies and roughly equal to the combined net income of the four largest U.S. banks by assets,” The Huffington Post reports.
Posted on May 17, 2013
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By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers —
The weekly news is like a recurring bad dream that is becoming an even worse nightmare. While the investor class cheers a rising stock market, the rest of us sink. The headline that jumped out at us this week came from Bloomberg News: “CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law.”
Posted on May 17, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the latest sign that Anthony Weiner will enter the New York City mayoral race and televangelist Pat Robertson’s dubious marital advice for women.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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By Robert Reich — The Obama White House is on the defensive and floundering: Benghazi, the IRS’ investigations of right-wing groups, the Justice Department’s snooping into journalists’ phone records, Obamacare behind schedule, the administration’s push for gun control ending in failure. Whom should the blame fall on?
Posted on May 16, 2013
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Jon Stewart tells the former Bush administration officials that no, after the atrocities they committed while in office, they don’t get to question anyone’s credibility or weigh in about President Obama’s handling of the fatal Benghazi, Libya, attacks.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — I know, I know: This “confluence” of “scandals” spells “trouble” for the Obama administration. Well, sure, this has been hell week for the president. But what spells trouble for our country is our apparent eagerness to avoid debate about discrete problems by sacrificing the particulars and the facts to the idol of political narrative.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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