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White House/Eric Draper
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Although it’s true that people tend to feel better about presidents the further removed they are from office, not every president is George W. Bush.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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AP/J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — What the Chinese have demonstrated is that in the modern world, to the conquerors do not go the spoils.
Posted on Jun 3, 2013
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White House (Archive)
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By Joe Conason — Not so fast, please: There are a few salient questions that George W. Bush (or at least his library) ought to address before the rehabilitation begins.
Posted on May 2, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — “Ultimately, the success of the nation depends on the character of its citizens.” So said George W. Bush in his speech at the dedication of his presidential library in Texas last week.
Posted on May 1, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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Seeking to clarify his “red line” position on the Syrian government’s possible use of chemical weapons, President Obama said Tuesday that he would consider a “range of options,” but he also urged patience.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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AP/Ricardo Mazalan
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The president failed the first time he promised to close America’s island gulag, but heading into the fourth month of a hunger strike by prisoners there, Obama renewed his commitment Tuesday to shuttering the facility.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — In retrospect, George W. Bush’s legacy doesn’t look as bad as it did when he left office. It looks worse.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Apr 18, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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Giacomo Carena (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Consider the plethora of blood-soaked little anniversaries that Americans could observe, if they cared to, from a decade-plus of the former Global War on Terror.
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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AP/Emilio Morenatti
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Of the 1.5 million Iraqi refugees who have fled the country, only about 80,000, or 5 percent, have been resettled here in the U.S.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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Exothermic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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By Dahr Jamail, TomDispatch —
According to the Bush administration, the siege of Fallujah was carried out in the name of fighting something called “terrorism.” And yet, from the point of view of the Iraqis I was observing at such close quarters, the terror was strictly American. But governments are rarely referred to in the same terms.
Posted on Mar 27, 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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AP/Hadi Mizban
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Nearly 10 years to the day after the start of the Iraq War, some 19 car bombs and a shooting in the country’s capital left 57 people dead, almost 200 wounded and many more wondering whether they’ll ever feel safe again.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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The Iraq War has killed at least 189,000 people to date, including a minimum of 123,000 civilians, and could cost taxpayers a total of $4 trillion as interest accrues on money borrowed to fund the invasion and subsequent occupation.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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AP/Ric Francis
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By Robert Scheer — A majority of Americans now believe the Iraq War was a mistake, but memories fade. Most 18-29-year-olds say sending U.S. troops to Vietnam was not a mistake.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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U.S. Army/Spc. Michael J. MacLeod
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By Col. Ann Wright — A decade ago, I resigned my post in opposition to President George W. Bush’s war on Iraq.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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The broadcaster points out that President Obama, just like George W. Bush, is pushing his nominees through the revolving door between regulatory agencies and the banks they’re supposed to oversee.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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YouTube/thealmost
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A short film about the Iraq invasion explores how the horror and threat that were forced upon the American people and the world were generated from within the White House, not by Iraq and Afghanistan.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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AP/J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — It is bizarre that Chuck Hagel, a war hero with a long record of sensible views on the deployment of military power, gets blocked as the president’s nominee to run the Pentagon, while Jack Lew, steeped in Wall Street greed, sails through as Treasury secretary.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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By William Pfaff — In 2009, the former head of the international law department of Israel’s military establishment, Daniel Reisner, said that “International law progresses through violations. We invented the targeted assassination thesis and we had to push it.”
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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Screenshot via The Smoking Gun
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The trove includes sensitive correspondence from both former presidents, cellphone numbers, home addresses, family pictures, health information about George H.W. Bush and self-portraits drawn by George W. Bush of the ex-president showering and bathing.
Posted on Feb 8, 2013
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The FDA has approved the use of autonomous telemedicine robots in U.S. hospitals; although President Obama’s second term inaugural speech was inclusive and liberal, it failed to mention the growing crisis of inequality our nation faces; meanwhile, a new book details the scandalous antics of hard-partying authors. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Feb 8, 2013
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Open Society Foundations
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The U.S. counterterrorism practice known as extraordinary rendition, in which officials quietly transport suspects to secret prisons around the globe for detention that can lead to torture, involved the participation of more than 50 national governments, an Open Society Foundations report released Tuesday says.
Posted on Feb 6, 2013
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swanksalot (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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After losing $41 billion over the last five years, the inspector general of the USPS has warned that America’s postal service will go out of business this year unless Congress acts to save it.
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
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U.S. Army/Sgt. Matthew C. Moeller
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By William Pfaff — Not all of the world—certainly not the Islamic world—wants America’s version of global security, which has required repeated American military interventions abroad, provoking guerrilla and terrorist resistance.
Posted on Jan 8, 2013
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (CC BY 2.0)
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As the larger part of American culture seems ready to surrender its claim to privacy without question, organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation are riding like Paul Revere through the digital Massachusetts night.
Posted on Dec 29, 2012
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TheeErin (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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On Friday, Congress extended through 2017 a bill that grants the government power to monitor Americans without a warrant and accepted none of the proposals to ensure protections to privacy and civil liberties.
Posted on Dec 29, 2012
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DoD/D. Myles Cullen
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By Joe Conason — If Chuck Hagel is nominated by President Obama to serve as secretary of defense, there will be at least three compelling arguments in his favor.
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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DonkeyHotey (CC BY 2.0)
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By Jeremiah Goulka, TomDispatch —
Do any of the GOP’s proposals exhibit a willingness to make the kind of changes it will need to attract members of the growing groups that it has spent years antagonizing, such as Hispanics, Asian Americans, unmarried women, secular whites, and others? You’ve heard the expression “putting lipstick on a pig,” haven’t you?
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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albertogp123 (CC BY 2.0)
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A high school history textbook taught America’s millennial generation that the threat of terrorism “can be eliminated, the Patriot Act was uncontroversial and Iraq had weapons of mass destruction,” reports The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf.
Posted on Nov 17, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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By David Sirota — When it comes to tax policy, Mitt Romney is not merely a spinner, an equivocator or a run-of-the-mill dissembler. He’s a liar.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Mitt Romney claims to disagree with President Obama on many aspects of foreign policy. We’re still waiting to hear what those differences might be.
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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Ralph Nader famously argues against choosing between the lesser of two evils, but did you know that between the current president and the last, he might consider the lesser evil to be George W. Bush?
Posted on Sep 28, 2012
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Ian Masters has one hell of an interview with Lawrence Wilkerson, who does not hold back. For instance, he says Condoleezza Rice, who is speaking Wednesday in Tampa, is a perfect mascot for the billionaires “raping and pillaging not only America, but the rest of the world with their predatory form of capitalism.”
Posted on Aug 29, 2012
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By Joe Conason — Defending himself against the perception that he has no significant foreign policy experience, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan has drawn fresh attention to one of the most controversial acts of the past decade.
Posted on Aug 24, 2012
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