Tag: bush

Ear to the Ground: U.K. Ambassador Details Rush to Iraq War

Ear to the Ground: Report: Obama to Expand Afghan War by 50 Percent

Reports: Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize

Cartoons: Beautiful Steamer

Reports: Obama’s Third Way in Afghanistan

Arts and Culture: The Guantanamo Lawyers: Shipwrecked

Reports: Battlefield in the War of Ideas

Reports: Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

Reports: The Afghanistan Speech Obama Should Give (but Won’t)

Reports: GOP Obstruction Goes Unnoticed—and Unpunished

Reports: The Demilitarization of the White House

Reports: A Disappointing Year With Obama

Reports: When a Time Bomb Is Ticking

Reports: What Option for Afghan Women?

Reports: 2009 Elections Don’t Foretell a Thing

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton vs. George W. Bush

Reports: A Record You Can Believe In

Reports: Opium, Rape and the American Way

Reports: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?

Reports: Afghan Poppy Trade Blurs All the Lines

Reports: TARP on Steroids

Ear to the Ground: Tony Blair Isn’t Conservative Enough to Be President of Europe

A/V Booth: One Step Closer to Mars

Reports: Can’t Split the Difference in Afghanistan

Reports: The Country That Cries Wolf

Ear to the Ground: ‘Get Motivated’ With George W. Bush

Reports: GOP Civil War Flares in New York

Ear to the Ground: White House Lawyer in Trouble for Doing His Job

Reports: A Nobel for Defeating Cheneyism

Ear to the Ground: Why Stop at a Web Site When You Can Redesign the Whole Party?

Reports: Bribe, Vote, Repeat

Reports: Why Do Conservatives Hate America?

Reports: Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan

A/V Booth: Tortured Law

Reports: Meltdown After the Meltdown

Ear to the Ground: Tony Blair, President of Europe?

Reports: Put a Sock in it, Stan

Reports: Celebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia

Reports: War Kills Off Great Reform Movements

Reports: Pox Americana: The Real Cost of Bailing Out Wall Street

Truthdig Podcast: The Torture Memos

Reports: Who’s in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military?

Reports: Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma

Reports: Washington Plays the Idiot With Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: Can America Have Too Much Cheney?

Ear to the Ground: Terror Alerts Stuck on Yellow

Reports: Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Could Get Much Worse if Tolerated

Reports: A Puzzling, Dangerous U.S. Policy Comes to an End

Reports: A Clunker, Not a Cadillac

Reports: It Came From Afghanistan

Reports: Selective Deficit Disorder

Reports: Jimmy Carter Is Right

Reports: Why We Fight the Tire War With China

Reports: Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

Reports: Wilson and Our National Character

Reports: We’ve Seen This Trigger Before

Reports: No Way to Treat a President

Reports: A Perfect Storm of Idiocy

Reports: From ‘Do No Harm’ to Torture

Reports: Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party With a Movement

Cartoons: Shoe Fly Shoe

Reports: Cheney Plays to His Crowd

Ear to the Ground: Red Sox’s Schilling Pitches for Kennedy’s Seat

Reports: Why We Must Stay in Afghanistan

Reports: The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

Reports: Victory at the Cost of Sanity in Obama’s Forever War

Reports: Law, Not Torture, Protects National Security

Reports: Only One U.S. Official Has Taken an Honorable Stand on Torture

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Chimes In on Interrogation

Reports: We Need to Know What Was Done in Our Name

Reports: Obama’s Invisible Achievement

Reports: Reality Is Its Own Caricature for U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan

A/V Booth: Barney Frank’s Town Hall Throwdown

Reports: The Politics of the Jackboot

Cartoons: Have a Nice Day

Ear to the Ground: The Pentagon Can’t Stop Baghdad Bombs

Ear to the Ground: The Right’s Trouble With Violence

Reports: You Can’t Blame Obama for American Stubbornness

Reports: How Bad Things Might Have Been

Reports: Bush’s Pioneering Sadists: A Tale From the ‘War on Terror’ Dark Side

Reports: Education ‘Miracles’ Don’t Survive Scrutiny

Ear to the Ground: What Do Billie Jean King and Bob Dole’s Running Mate Have in Common?

Ear to the Ground: New E-Mails Detail Rove’s Role in Attorney Firings

Reports: There’s a Solution in Afghanistan—but Not the Way We’re Headed

Reports: Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

Reports: Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America’s Dirty Work

Reports: The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd

Reports: Playing Politics With a Ghost

Ear to the Ground: Counterterrorism Chief Says Bullets Alone Won’t Do the Job

Reports: Read My Lips: We Need to Raise Taxes

Reports: A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House

Reports: So Much for the Promised Land

Reports: Health Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists

Ear to the Ground: New Light on Rove’s Role in U.S. Attorney Scandal

Reports: ‘Colorful’ Leaders Could Learn From Boring Brown

Reports: Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups

Ear to the Ground: American News Ticker Goes Dark in Havana

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Treats Refugees Like Terrorists

Reports: The Attack of the 1-Percenters

Ear to the Ground: Obama Boosts America’s Public Image

Reports: U.S. Foreign Wars Not Going According to Plan

Ear to the Ground: Obama Met With Health Execs and Lobbyists

Reports: Take Politics Out of Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: The Bush Baby Boom

Reports: Support Iran Protesters Without Meddling

Reports: Obama’s Aces in the Hole

Reports: Opinions Walter Cronkite Never Aired

Ear to the Ground: Detainees vs. Bush

Reports: Stains From the Bush Era Won’t Fade

Reports: Obama’s Court Votes May Return to Haunt Him

Reports: ‘Government Sachs’ Strikes Gold ... Again

Ear to the Ground: Confirmation Remarks Worth Revisiting

Ear to the Ground: Bush’s Wiretaps Now Even More Warrantless

Reports: Sotomayor’s Critics Are the Real Radicals

Ear to the Ground: Cheney’s CIA Cover-Up

Ear to the Ground: Basis of Domestic Surveillance Was ‘Flawed,’ Report Finds

Ear to the Ground: Gonzales’ New Gig

Reports: So This Is What Victory Looks Like?

Reports: The Root of Madoff’s Evil

Reports: U.S. Troops Leave Iraqi Cities, but Unsettled Issues Remain

Reports: Iraq Has Another One of Its Famous Turning Points

Reports: A Settlement Stalemate With No End in Sight

Ear to the Ground: More Ex-Detainees Allege Abuse

Reports: Foreclosure Fiasco

Reports: Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age

Reports: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

Reports: Daring to Dream

Reports: The War Between Civilizations That Never Was

Ear to the Ground: A Big Brother World

Ear to the Ground: Bush Gets Ballpark Honor

Reports: The American Empire Is Bankrupt

Reports: A Republican to Save Us

Reports: Being Obama Matters

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. Lawyers Opposed Torture but Saw It as Legal

Arts and Culture: Susie Linfield on How to Think About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Reports: Whither the Sacred Campaign Promise?

Reports: Obama’s Cairo Speech: Significant, Eloquent—and Perhaps Just the Beginning

Reports: What Rhetoric Won’t Cure

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Reports: War Is Sin

Ear to the Ground: Bush Defends Torture

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

Reports: Fessing Up Has Lost Its Shock Value

Reports: The West’s Reckless Approach to Relations With Russia

A/V Booth: Defending John Yoo

Reports: Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil

Reports: ‘Clean’ Energy and Poisoned Water

Reports: Obama and the Limits of Mastery

Reports: Packing Heat in the Parks

Reports: In Praise of Empathy

A/V Booth: Hannity and Ventura Step Into the Ring

Reports: A Truth Commission Beckons

Ear to the Ground: Torture on Obama’s Watch

Ear to the Ground: The Fierce Urgency of Whenever

Ear to the Ground: Again With the Military Tribunals

Reports: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling

Ear to the Ground: Obama Reneges on Torture Photo Release

Reports: Pelosi the Enabler

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Sticks By Her Waterboarding Denial

Ear to the Ground: What Did Pelosi Know?

Ear to the Ground: Bush Lawyers Likely in the Clear

Reports: Democracy at Gunpoint Guarantees U.S. Defeat

Reports: British Government Gives Iraq Story a Final Spin

Arts and Culture: Lou Cannon on Ronald Reagan

Ear to the Ground: One If by Land, Two If by Flee

Reports: Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the ’70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation

Reports: Look to the Law—Not to Whether Torture ‘Works’

Ear to the Ground: Joe Wilson Wants Dick Cheney to Let It All Hang Out

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Release More Torture Photos

Arts and Culture: Eve Pell on America’s Culture of Punishment

Reports: Torture Is a Crime, and Crimes Demand Prosecution

Reports: Reagan and Nixon Greeted Despots, Too

Ear to the Ground: Torture’s Paradigm Shift

Reports: Thievery Under the TARP

Reports: Torturers Should Be Punished

Reports: When Fascism Came to America

Ear to the Ground: Obama: Justice Could Prosecute Torture Lawyers

Reports: Bybee Must Go

Ear to the Ground: On Handshakes Past and Present

Reports: Where’s Rev. Wright When You Need Him?

Ear to the Ground: American Journalist Gets 8-Year Jail Sentence in Iran

Ear to the Ground: Obama Seeks ‘New Beginning’ With Cuba

A/V Booth: Armitage on Torture, ‘AWOL’ Congress

Ear to the Ground: A Decision Not to Prosecute

Reports: Don’t Underestimate the Tea-Baggers

Reports: Delusions of Omnipotence

Ear to the Ground: DoJ Releases Bush-Era Torture Memos

Reports: Tea and Ignorance

Reports: The Obama Doctrine

Reports: Armey’s Tea Party Army

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Opening More Commerce Channels With Cuba

Ear to the Ground: Clarence Thomas on Rights, Miraculous Dishwashers

Reports: Getting to Zero Starts With One Man

Reports: Torture Is a Crime That Must Be Punished

Arts and Culture: Susan Jacoby on William Goetzmann’s ‘Beyond the Revolution’

Reports: The Father of Guantanamo

Reports: Taliban, the Sequel

Ear to the Ground: Shoe-Thrower Catches a Break

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