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By Chalmers Johnson
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Sen. John McCain’s hypocrisy on “secret emails” and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s revelation about the scary way a GOP-controlled Senate would act.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including President Obama’s poll numbers take a dive amid controversies plaguing his administration and a new report says Virginia’s Republican governor is using taxpayer dollars for personal expenses.
Posted on Jun 17, 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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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on May 5, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 4, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on May 1, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 1, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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Vladdo, Semana, Colombia, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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MSNBC host Chris Hayes explained on his program Thursday how the Bush administration—and specifically the former vice president’s son-in-law—played a critical role in defeating regulations that would have strengthened federal oversight of chemical plants like the one that exploded and killed 15 people in West, Texas, last week.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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A month after penning a scathing open letter condemning the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq, anti-war activist Tomas Young is making yet another powerful statement.
Posted on Apr 25, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including an ex-Mitt Romney intern is arrested on suspicion of sexually extorting women and Mark Sanford debates a cardboard cutout of Nancy Pelosi.
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Apr 18, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why Dick Cheney says the U.S. is in “deep do do” and Bernie Sanders and Grover Norquist spar over President Obama’s awful budget.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 25, 2013
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Copyright Eugene Richards, from War Is Personal
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — When he dies this spring, Iraq War veteran Tomas Young will have spent his final years struggling to expose the guilt of those who make a holiday of the deaths and suffering of the powerless.
Posted on Mar 23, 2013
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Nation writer Jeremy Scahill ripped into Republicans and Democrats on the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, claiming that both parties are to blame for the war during a recent appearance on MSNBC.
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Tomas Young was in the fifth day of his first deployment to Iraq when he was struck by a sniper’s bullet in Baghdad’s Sadr City.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is a war criminal, the liberal filmmaker and activist contends.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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White House/Karen Ballard
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“Making up a reason to invade a country is the easy part,” the former vice president said, according to a satirical story in The New Yorker. “Sticking to a pretend story for ten years—that is the stuff of valor.”
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Reuters editor is indicted on suspicion of aiding hackers and Barack Obama wants Democratic lawmakers to know he’s not Dick Cheney.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Chris Christie being omitted from a major conservative event and Stephen Colbert breaks character to make his first political endorsement.
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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By Joe Conason — No doubt President Obama was deeply stung over the weekend to hear Dick Cheney criticize his new national security team.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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If it’s a case of hypocrisy involving a Fox News personality, Jon Stewart is on the case.
Posted on Aug 7, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including how you can be the first to find out Romney’s VP pick and Liz Cheney comes to Sarah Palin’s defense.
Posted on Jul 31, 2012
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Welcome to 2008, Dick Cheney. The former vice president told ABC News on Sunday that John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate was a “mistake,” echoing what many knew in the run-up to the election four years ago.
Posted on Jul 30, 2012
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Photo by The Agency (CC-BY-SA)
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the buzz surrounding Romney’s latest VP candidate, the bill for Sheriff Arpaio’s birther investigation and a look at how much gas might cost around Election Day.
Posted on Jun 22, 2012
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david drexler (CC BY 2.0)
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By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch —
In the way he has engaged in the geopolitics of oil as part of an American struggle for dominance among the major powers, President Obama’s global energy policies bear an eerie likeness to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s.
Posted on Jun 21, 2012
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Tony Fischer Photography (CC BY 2.0)
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
He has few constraints. No one can stop him or countermand his orders. He has a bevy of lawyers at his beck and call to explain the “legality” of his actions. And if he cares to, he can send a robot assassin to kill you, whoever you are, no matter where you may be on planet Earth.
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Living in stressful urban settings affects health negatively; K-Pop floods the Japanese entertainment market; and “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” may have caused the American Civil War. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Sep 18, 2011
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Flickr / asterix611
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Seven years into the Soviet Union’s fatal adventure in Afghanistan, U.S. President Ronald Reagan stood before the international community in West Berlin and demanded that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev tear down the wall that separated East Germany from the West. (more)
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By John Dean — As I mentioned to friends when I started reading Dick Cheney’s memoir, I was doing it so others would not have to. And, as a precaution, I did it alone in case my head exploded. It did not. This book is a bomb, but not the exploding kind.
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
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AP / Lawrence Jackson
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney launched his memoir this week, and on Tuesday, Lawrence Wilkerson, our Truthdigger of the Week, said he would be willing to testify in criminal court against Cheney should the opportunity ever arise.
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Bush White House / Paul Morse
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By Eugene Robinson — Thank you, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, for emerging from your secure, undisclosed locations to remind us how we got into this mess: It didn’t happen by accident.
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AP / Ed Zurga
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By Robert Scheer — Behold this unctuous knave, a disgrace to his nation as few before him, yet boasting unvarnished virtue.
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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By Amy Goodman — “When one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it,” wrote Joseph Goebbels, Germany’s Reich minister of propaganda, in 1941. Former Vice President Dick Cheney seems to have taken the famous Nazi’s advice in his new book, “In My Time.”
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke confirmed the obvious in a news conference this week: The federal debt limit and the summer scuffle over what to do about it strained the nation’s economy. But he failed to mention how the Fed might assist in the creation of jobs for down-and-out Americans. Elsewhere, presidential candidate Rick Perry surged ahead in the polls and the reading public braced for the release of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s memoir. (more)
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Flickr / stevendamron
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Essayist, Yale English professor and TomDispatch contributor David Bromwich takes a careful accounting of the “sacked” and “saved” members of the Obama administration in an attempt to reveal the similarities between his presidency and George W. Bush’s. (more)
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U.S. Marine Corps / Lance Cpl. Adam J. Root
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By Amy Goodman — “War is a racket,” wrote retired U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, in 1935. That statement, which is also the title of his short book on war profiteering, rings true today.
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