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November 21st, 2008
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November 21st, 2008
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November 21st, 2008
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November 21st, 2008
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November 21st, 2008Is It OK To Be Liberal Again, Instead of Progressive?
November 21st, 2008If the conservative era is over, can liberals come out of their defensive crouch and call themselves liberals again, instead of progressives?
In the last two decades, Democratic politicians, including Barack Obama, have abandoned the term "liberal" for "progressive." The theory was that Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush -- and Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Pat Buchanan -- had succeeded in equating "liberal" in the public mind with weakness on defense, softness on crime, and "redistribution" of Joe the Plumber's hard-earned money to the collective bogey evoked by a former Texas rock band's clever name: Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Dope.
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Friday: 3 GIs, 3 Iraqis Killed; 20 Iraqis Wounded
November 21st, 2008
Excerpt: Although the prayer day tends to be relatively peaceful, a massive demonstration took place in Baghdad at the behest of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Across Iraq, three people were killed and another 20 were wounded, mostly in Baghdad. Three U.S. servicemembers died in three separate incidents as well. Also, the U.S. military reported that a group of Iraqi soldiers donated money to victims of recent U.S. wildfires.
Stop Hillary!
November 21st, 2008
Excerpt: We had a breather during the final stretch of the presidential election campaign, but the way is now cleared for a renewal of the propaganda campaign urging war with Iran. The latest salvo: a UN report claiming Iran plans on building 3,000 new centrifuges, and headlines are screaming -- in the West, at any rate -- that Iran will have enough uranium to build a nuclear bomb by sometime next year. Is this true?
Intelligence Analysts See Multi-Polar, Risky World By 2025
November 21st, 2008
Excerpt: While the United States will remain the world's single most powerful country in 2025, it will be less dominant and more constrained in its freedom of action -- even in the military sphere -- than it is now, according to a major new report released here Thursday by the government's National Intelligence council (NIC).
Greybeards Urge Overhaul of Global Governance
November 21st, 2008
Excerpt: Capping a nearly two-year consultation involving dozens of US and international leaders, a new report by three US think tanks is calling on President-elect Barack Obama and other leaders to implement sweeping reforms in global governance to more effectively tackle shared regional and global threats over the next half century.
How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama
November 21st, 2008
Excerpt: In a previous article, Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, examined the reasons why Barack Obama must stick to his election promise to close the "War on Terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, focusing on the Bush administration's callous disregard for domestic and international laws, its pursuit of unfettered executive power, the disturbing effects of its policy of offering bounty payments for al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects, the equally disturbing ramifications of its refusal to screen prisoners according to the Geneva Conventions, and the corrupt tribunals established at Guantanamo to rubber-stamp the prisoners' designation as "enemy combatants." This second article examines how Barack Obama's promise to close the prison can be fulfilled.
Learning from John McCain’s Mistakes: Supporting Aggression in the Caucasus
November 21st, 2008
Excerpt:
John McCain's defeat has set off a scramble to control the Republican Party's ideological soul. The GOP should learn from Sen. McCain's mistakes. Despite his reputation as a foreign policy guru, his neoconservative instincts invariably led him astray. His embarrassing embrace of Georgia's unstable Mikheil Saakashvili highlighted McCain's poor judgment, though the Republican Party's problem runs far deeper than policy toward any particular country.
Stuff Happens: The Pentagon’s Argument of Last Resort on Iraq
November 21st, 2008
Excerpt: It's the ultimate argument, the final bastion against withdrawal, and over these last years, the Bush administration has made sure it would have plenty of heft. Ironically, its strength lies in the fact that it has nothing to do with the vicissitudes of Iraqi politics, the relative power of Shiites or Sunnis, the influence of Iran, or even the riptides of war. It really doesn't matter what Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki or oppositional cleric Muqtada al-Sadr think about it. In fact, it's an argument that has nothing to do with Iraq and everything to do with us, with the American way of war (and life), which makes it almost unassailable.
Stop Hillary!
November 21st, 2008
Excerpt: We had a breather during the final stretch of the presidential election campaign, but the way is now cleared for a renewal of the propaganda campaign urging war with Iran. The latest salvo: a UN report claiming Iran plans on building 3,000 new centrifuges, and headlines are screaming -- in the West, at any rate -- that Iran will have enough uranium to build a nuclear bomb by sometime next year. Is this true?