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By Michael Hudson
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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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By Joe Conason — An interview with Thomas Pickering, the distinguished American diplomat who oversaw the State Department’s Benghazi review board and has found himself a target of Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the excitable partisan who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Timothy Murphy —
Last Friday marked the 100th day of the detainees’ hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. I am not a Guantanamo detainee, but I too began a water-only hunger fast.
Posted on May 22, 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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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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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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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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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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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 Christie Thompson, ProPublica —
Many public health experts say the administration deserves credit for increasing access to drug treatment. But others say despite an increase in funding for rehab, the administration has continued to push programs and policies built to punish drug users.
Posted on May 12, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The political response to the Boston Marathon bombings suggests that we live in an age of shrink-wrapped, prepackaged opinions. When something new comes along, we hasten to squeeze it into whatever frameworks we were carrying around with us a day, a month or a year before.
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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If convicted, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face the death penalty.
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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By Bill Blum — Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been denied his Miranda rights and should he be charged as an enemy combatant?
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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Journalist Mike Whitney praised the Truthdig editor in chief for being “the only voice on the left” to defend former Reagan budget director David Stockman against an “army of toffeenose pundits” who failed to honor the essential truth of Stockman’s controversial New York Times op-ed.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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“Some people do need killing,” the “Real Time” host said on his HBO program Friday. “It’s like what I say about the death penalty: Let’s just kill the right people.”
Posted on Mar 10, 2013
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By Tracy Bloom — The confirmation of John Brennan, the man tapped by President Obama to head the Central Intelligence Agency, appeared to be a slam dunk. That is, until Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., took to the Senate floor to begin a lengthy filibuster of Brennan’s nomination that served as a scathing indictment of the Obama administration’s targeted killings policy.
Posted on Mar 9, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 9, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a new poll reveals the early favorite for the 2016 presidential race and a possible culprit is named in Los Angelenos’ apathy toward this week’s mayoral election.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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On “The Daily Show” on Wednesday night, host Jon Stewart applauded the efforts of Sen. Rand Paul’s epic “old-school style” filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan to head the Central Intelligence Agency.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the White House weighing in on whether cellphones should be locked and Democratic lawmakers plan to introduce legislation to raise the minimum wage.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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By Cora Currier, ProPublica —
Although Obama administration officials have framed the drone program as targeting particular members of Al Qaeda, attacks against unknown militants reportedly may account for the majority of strikes.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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By Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica —
After eight years of tightened access to government records under the Bush administration, open-government advocates were hopeful when Barack Obama promised greater transparency. Four years later, did the president keep his promise?
Posted on Feb 11, 2013
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By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica —
The NRA has already begun to lobby on Capitol Hill to counter the Obama administration’s sweeping gun control proposals. To get a sense of what the the gun lobby group might do, it’s helpful to look at how it scored a victory during the last major federal initiative to tighten gun control.
Posted on Jan 24, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Michelle Obama’s social media foray and word on Karl Rove’s future at Fox News.
Posted on Jan 17, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
While the Obama administration is pledging to try to curb the wholesale spread of ever more powerful weaponry at home, what is it doing about the same issue abroad where it has so much more power to pursue the agenda it prefers?
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including some good news for George H.W. Bush and Justice Clarence Thomas breaks his silence in the Supreme Court.
Posted on Jan 14, 2013
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By Bill Blum — According to the Obama administration, there is nothing the president can do on his own to raise the ceiling or maneuver around it. As much as some of us may disagree, Obama is correct. Here’s why.
Posted on Jan 13, 2013
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The White House’s responses to several petitions by various states to secede from the rest of the country and another one that sought to build a Death Star by 2016 carried the same answer, but in radically different tones.
Posted on Jan 13, 2013
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By Cora Currier, ProPublica —
You might have heard about the “kill list.” You’ve certainly heard about drones. But the details of the U.S. campaign against militants in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia—a centerpiece of the Obama administration’s national security approach—remain shrouded in secrecy. Here’s a guide to what we know—and what we don’t know.
Posted on Jan 13, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including AIG’s decision on whether to join a lawsuit against the government over the financial crisis bailout and the White House’s response to a petition to deport Piers Morgan.
Posted on Jan 9, 2013
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By Tracy Bloom — Despite its vitriolic activities and protests that are political in nature, the hate group Westboro Baptist Church has somehow managed to keep its IRS tax-exempt status. But after its publicly announced plans to picket the funerals of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, tens of thousands of people have signed petitions hoping to change that.
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is reportedly now President Obama’s top choice to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state after Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration for the top diplomat position late last week.
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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A petition on the White House’s We the People site calling to secure funding and resources for the creation of a Death Star has gotten the 25,000 signatures it needs to elicit a response from the Obama administration.
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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The New Yorker’s David Remnick says the answer to that question, based on the secretary of state’s appearance at the annual Saban Forum over the weekend, is yes, “she’s running.”
Posted on Dec 3, 2012
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By Ralph Nader —
Barack Obama, former president of the Harvard Law Review and a constitutional law lecturer, should go back and review his course work. He seems to have declined to comport his presidency to the rule of law.
Posted on Dec 1, 2012
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By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica —
When the Obama administration temporarily banned BP from federal contracts Wednesday, it pointed to BP’s “lack of business integrity” and conduct relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill. The sanction, however, has been years in the making.
Posted on Nov 29, 2012
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“The federal government experimented with indefinite detention of United States citizens during World War II, a mistake we now recognize as a betrayal of our core values,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Wednesday as she introduced an amendment to end the provision. “Let’s not repeat it.”
Posted on Nov 29, 2012
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By Robert Reich — If “pragmatic deal maker,” as The Wall Street Journal describes Geithner, means someone who believes any deal with Republicans is better than no deal, and deficit reduction is more important than job creation, we could be in for a difficult December.
Posted on Nov 27, 2012
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By Dina Temple-Raston —
Mark Bowden’s “The Finish” reveals something you might not have known about the plan to kill Osama bin Laden: The Obama administration had considered a third option for taking out the al-Qaida leader—a sniper drone still under development.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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A handwritten note from Fox News President Roger Ailes to George W. Bush’s secretary of state in 2005 reveals that the man who runs the cable news channel that touts itself as “fair and balanced” offered to help the administration.
Posted on Nov 1, 2012
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The “conventional wars” the U.S. is waging may be winding down, but the implementation of a new phase in drone attacks means that the war on terror is far from over.
Posted on Oct 25, 2012
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Photographs of a dead sperm whale and a cache of emails obtained by Greenpeace show how officials in the Obama administration attempted to suppress knowledge of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout’s impact on wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted on Oct 24, 2012
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Ten civilians were slain in Yemen over the weekend by the Obama administration’s unmanned drones, weapons that have killed 29 people in a little over a week and nearly 200 this year. But you won’t hear about them or the government’s unofficial war in Yemen at the Democratic National Convention this week.
Posted on Sep 6, 2012
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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 an update on the messy voter purge in Florida and a “death panel” revival of sorts.
Posted on Jun 26, 2012
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A document from President Obama’s free trade negotiations that was leaked Wednesday morning revealed an administration proposal to allow multinational corporations doing business in the United States to police themselves via an international tribunal staffed by lawyers on the companies’ payroll. The scheme obliterates a 2008 promise by Obama to do just the opposite.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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