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Obama, They Want You to Fail
Consortium News - by Robert Parry - Jun. 29, 2009 (Comment)
The pattern of belligerent Republicans and timid Democrats is now repeating itself on health-care reform. Democrats first excluded from the debate the one measure that ...
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The Disappointing Leon Panetta
Consortium News - by Melvin A. Goodman - Jun. 19, 2009 (Opinion)
CIA Director Leon Panetta is continuing the culture of cover-up that has plagued the Agency for the past three decades, ever since William Casey and Robert Gates collaborated ...
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Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?
Consortium News - by Robert Parry - Jun. 3, 2009 (Opinion)
there’s a growing realization that the starting point for many of the catastrophes confronting the United States today can be traced to Reagan’s presidency. There’s also ...
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Will Obama End 'War on Drugs'?
Consortium News - by Sherwood Ross - May. 31, 2009 (Opinion)
Efforts by President Obama to put an end to the nation’s failed “War on Drugs” can’t come an hour too soon – if that’s his intent. From his actions, it’s hard to ...
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Colin Powell Skates Free on Torture
Consortium News - by Robert Parry - May. 25, 2009 (Opinion)
For a Washington press corps that has been up in arms challenging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that the CIA obscured key details of the harsh interrogations from ...
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The Risk of Letting Ukraine into NATO
Consortium News - by Ivan Eland - May. 21, 2009 (Opinion)
the admission of Ukraine is not in the interests of Russia, the United States, or, surprisingly, even the Ukraine. Along with the U.S. grab for influence over Caspian Sea oil ...
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Obama's Warfare State
Consortium News - by Sherwood Ross - May. 21, 2009 (News Analysis)
Although the United States is not in imminent danger of attack from any country, President Barack Obama’s first budget further expands the Pentagon’s already dominant ...
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Obama's Shaky Ground on Torture
Consortium News, The Real News - May. 1, 2009 (News Analysis)
(Video - streaming) Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, praises Obama for releasing four memos that laid out a detailed “manual” for abusing “war on terror” ...
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US News Media Fails America, Again
Consortium News - by Robert Parry - Apr. 13, 2009 (Opinion)
Watching Glenn Beck of Fox News rant about “progressive fascism” – and muse about armed insurrection – or listening to mainstream pundits prattle on about Barack Obama ...
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Israeli Scholar Disputes Founding Myth
Consortium News - by Morgan Strong - Apr. 12, 2009 (Special Report)
In When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?, Dr. Sand, an expert on European history at the University of Tel Aviv, says the Diaspora was largely a myth – that the Jews ...
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Key Bush Torture Lawyers Still at Work
Consortium News - by David Swanson - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
He lied to the Justice Department, claiming that a captive (Abu Zubaydah) was not cooperative in the absence of torture. He ignored warnings that all of this was illegal, but ...
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Obama's 'Realism' on Iran
Consortium News - by Ivan Eland - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
The founders also abhorred what the militarism of European monarchies had inflicted on their common citizens — high costs in blood and treasure. They realized that war, ...
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Obama's Torture Hypocrisy
Consortium News - by Jason Leopold - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
President Barack Obama just announced that the U.S. government "must stand against torture wherever it takes place," but it’s clear that his pledge does not apply to torture ...
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Why Does Our Government Still Spy On, Arrest and Persecute Dissidents?
AlterNet, Consortium News - by Emily Spence - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
there's a certain inescapable irony and disingenuous quality presented by the Western government heads who are harshly critical of the Iran crackdown on dissenting citizens ...
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Giving Diplomacy a Chance
Consortium News - by Haviland Smith - Jun. 29, 2009 (Opinion)
It seems likely this new President is going to employ the most underused tool of power projection in our national arsenal, one that has not seen the light of day for almost ...
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Obama's Troubling Caution on Torture
Consortium News, San Jose Mercury News - by Diana Gibson, Ray McGovern - Jun. 29, 2009 (Opinion)
Something evil has seeped into the soul of our nation. Those many years when we looked the other way, choosing to ignore the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody, eroded our ...
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Should the Airbus Be Grounded?
Consortium News - by William John Cox - Jun. 20, 2009 (Special Report)
Not including losses attributable to terrorism, rebellion or military action, Airbuses have been involved in 23 fatal crashes causing the deaths of 2,584 passengers, crew ...
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Iran's Struggle Among the Elites
Consortium News, The Real News - by Pepe Escobar - Jun. 15, 2009 (News Analysis)
(Audio - streaming) The political battle underway in Iran is pitting elite forces against one another, with a new powerful alliance emerging between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and military ...
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Taking a Rational Look at Iran
Consortium News - by Ivan Eland - Jun. 15, 2009 (Opinion)
Most of these faraway lands haven’t provided — or will be unlikely to provide — much of an actual threat to U.S. territory or Americans in it. But during and after the ...
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What If Ahmadinejad Really Won?
Consortium News - by Robert Parry - Jun. 15, 2009 (Opinion)
a strong case can be made that the large turnout, which was estimated at about 85 percent, was the key to a genuine landslide for Ahmadinejad, who is viewed as a friend of ...
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