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Rep. Edwards to Insist on Robust Public Option

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Real News - By Paul Jay - Sep. 08 (News Report) - (video)

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Did Bernanke save the world?

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Real News - By Robert Pollin - Aug. 31 (Special Report) - President Obama has re-nominated Ben Bernanke to sit as Chairman of the Federal Reserve for another four-year term. Most of the media has praised Bernanke for his handling of the current economic crisis, Obama himself suggests that Bernanke helped save the US from another Great Depression. Economist Robert Pollin points out that Bernanke, as the top bank regulator in the country, played a central role in the creation of the crisis. But more importantly, according to Pollin, is that we review the Fed as a whole, and not just the individual who heads it up.

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McGovern: 'Downing Street' (Part 2)

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Aug. 10 (News Report) - McGovern: 'Downing Street' (Part 2) By TheRealNews.com August 10, 2009 The leak of the Downing Street Minutes – written in July 2002 and disclosed three years later – was an “incredible” public service by a brave British truth-teller exposing how the Bush administration “fixed” the intelligence to justify invading Iraq, says former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

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McGovern on 'Downing Street Minutes'

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Aug. 10 (Opinion) - Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern recalls the remarkable case of the Downing Street Minutes, the documentary proof of President George W. Bush’s willful misuse of intelligence to justify an aggressive war in Iraq -- and the unwillingness of the major U.S. news media to do much with the evidence.

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US Confronts the Russia-Iran Alliance

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Pepe Escobar - Aug. 05 (News Analysis) - While the Bush and now Obama administrations have sought to pressure Iran on its nuclear program, Tehran has been building up a stronger relationship with its historic adversary, Russia, and with other countries outside the U.S. orbit, like Venezuela.

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Wall St. Rally Masks Deeper Problems

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Paul Jay, Richard Wolff - Jul. 28 (News Analysis) - Wolff says the improved corporate balance sheets have resulted more from laying off workers and reducing costs than in selling more products and raising revenues. Workers have been forced to make concessions, but that decreases chances for a healthy recovery, he says.

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Network - Does U.S. poll rule out fraud in Iran?

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Real News - Jun. 18 (News Analysis) - Western media, along with thousands of Iranians protesting around the world, have formed a rough consensus over the six days since Iran's Presidential Election that Ahmadinejad's victory was the result of widespread fraud. However, a recent Op-Ed in the Washington Post references a rare public opinion poll in suggesting that the election may indeed have been fair. While there is not enough information to determine whether or not the election was rigged, this poll certainly doesn't rule out the possibility. If only because the poll's authors concluded prior to the election that the very same data predicted a relatively close vote. Yet today, those same authors are claiming that their figures demonstrate the validity of Ahmadinejad's landslide victory.

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Iran's Struggle Among the Elites

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Pepe Escobar - Jun. 15 (News Analysis) - 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 hardliners in the Revolutionary Guard and related militias.

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Keeping Single-Payer Off the Table

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - May. 29 (News Report) - Baucus, a major recipient of campaign donations from the health industry, also acknowledges that the industry is upset with even a having a public insurance option as part of the reform package. Baucus calls this a “hot button” and says it may have to be “sculpted” to meet the industry’s concerns.

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The Fight for a Public Health Option

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Paul Jay, Roger Hickey - May. 19 (News Report) - With a “single-payer” health insurance plan off the table in the U.S. Congress, the battle now centers on whether the insurance industry will succeed in killing even a public health plan as an option for Americans.

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A 'Psychic Thrill' for US Empire

Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Bruce Fein, Paul Jay - May. 17 (Opinion) - The United States began as a Republic seeking to avoid foreign entangling alliances, but the nation has been tempted over the past two centuries into becoming an Empire. Bruce Fein, who worked in Ronald Reagan’s adminstration, says the momentum toward Empire has accelerated over the past few decades as the United States established more and more overseas military bases and Americans were sold on the quixotic notion that they could shield themselves from risk.

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NATO Upsets Russia Over Georgia

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By William F. Engdahl - May. 14 (News Report) - Economist and author William F. Engdahl says the military maneuvers inside Georgia underscore continued tensions between Russia and the NATO, which has expanded eastward to Russia’s borders since the end of the Cold War.

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US Pakistan policy is floundering

Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Real News - By Aijaz Ahmad - May. 13 (Interview) - US must work with regional states and pull out of Afghanistan to find Pakistan solution

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Autos at a Dangerous Crossroads

Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Richard Wolff - May. 04 (News Analysis) - The automobile industry is at a crossroads that may demand a more daring direction than the current course being set by the corporations and the Obama administration.

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The Great Autoworkers' Gamble

Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - May. 03 (News Analysis) - New School economist Richard Wolff says the proposed restructuring is a bigger gamble for autoworkers who have agreed to trade their health care funds for risky shares in the revamped companies.

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Obama's Shaky Ground on Torture

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - May. 01 (News Analysis) - 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” detainees, but says the President now has no real choice but to support prosecution for these openly acknowledged criminal acts.

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What makes Barack run?

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Real News - By Pepe Escobar - Apr. 30 (Opinion) - It may be impossible to judge the 1461 days of a US Presidency based only on the first 100. Pepe Escobar argues at least a pattern may be discerned. President Obama remains hugely popular - but the man, cool, calm and collected, may be more exciting than his policies. Ever the consensus builder, the pragmatist President will need to take more risks if he wants to accomplish real change, as well as being regarded by the majority of the population as The Fixer. So far, on the financial crisis and on the torture controversy - two key themes of his first 100 days - he was not as daring as he was expected to be.

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The Plight of the New World Order (Part 1)

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Pepe Escobar - Apr. 18 (News Analysis) - While the Obama administration sees glimmers of economic hope, the challenge of the financial crisis continues to reverberate around the world.

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Eight years of failed policy in Afghanistan

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Real News - By Jonathan S. Landay - Apr. 07 (Interview) - Jonathan S. Landay has been reporting on Afghanistan for 23 years. Now that the U.S. Administration plans a new surge into the country, Landay says that in Afghanistan, "there's a great deal of apprehension." Landay says he believes that, "most Afghans don't want the Taliban back, at least not the way they ran the country in the 1990s. And yet, because of the fact that these last eight years have been squandered by the previous administration, and because of its misguided policies towards Pakistan, and because of Pakistan's policies, people are very much sitting on the fence in Afghanistan. He says this is, "because they're not convinced anymore that the United States is there to "rebuild" their country, they are convinced that the U.S. is there to occupy their country as part of a war against Islam."

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The rights of women in Afghanistan

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Real News - Apr. 06 (Interview) - Mavis Leno of Feminist Majority on the need for Obama to focus on the rights of Afghan women

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Iraqi Army Turns on 'Sons of Iraq'

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Leila Fadel - Mar. 30 (News Report) - The U.S.-backed Iraqi government has struck against the “Sons of Iraq,” Sunni paramilitary fighters who have taken U.S. money to turn against al-Qaeda in Iraq and who now believe they are being betrayed as the Americans prepare to withdraw.

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Israeli Labour Party Joins with Likud

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - Mar. 27 (News Report) - A divided Israeli Labour Party agreed to join the rightist coalition of Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, allowing Ehud Barak to stay on as Defense Minister.

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Baghdad in a time of cholera

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Real News - By Matthew Schofield - Mar. 25 (Interview) - Baghdad's drinking water is so polluted that an outbreak of cholera is expected

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Israeli Troops Admit Gaza Abuses

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Phyllis Bennis - Mar. 22 (News Analysis) - A furor has arisen over new admissions from Israeli soldiers that they operated with loose rules of engagement in shooting targets, including civilians, inside Gaza during the recent war there.

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The Taliban Riddle

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Pepe Escobar - Mar. 06 (News Analysis) - The Obama administration is fed up with the corrupt, ineffective Afghan President Hamid Karzai and is increasingly tired of his counterpart in Pakistan, the inept President Asif Zardari, who keeps making concessionary deals with the Taliban.

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