Oct 13 2012
Were Obama my perfect candidate, then most of the prior administration would be rotting away in Guantanamo, a latter-day Spandau prison under UN jurisdiction. What was left of the Grand Old Party would be its ridiculous, remnant wackadoodle tea party born-again John Birchers and a handful of secessionists still itching to fight …
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Oct 12 2012
Overwrought empire: The discrediting of US military power By Tom Engelhardt, 12 Oct 2012 10:50 Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the 20th century. You could say that we experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism – think of it as the real “American Century” – from World War I to …
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Oct 02 2012
A Letter to Mitt Romney from Samantha… By Samantha K., Dear Governor Romney, I’ll be honest with you – you never had a chance of getting my vote. Not because I am a victim who is dependent upon the system, but because I am an informed woman with a grasp on economics, and I’m …
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Sep 29 2012
Bibi’s Crazy UN Speech By Justin Raimondo, September 28, 2012 It’s no wonder the Israeli Foreign Ministry initially held back from releasing a transcript of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly: Bibi’s wackiness doesn’t bear close scrutiny. Perhaps “wacky” isn’t quite the right word for his 40-minute peroration, during which …
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Sep 28 2012
Why ‘they’ still don’t hate ‘us’ By Mark LeVine, 26 Sep 2012 08:07 I knew the title to my second book would be Why They Don’t Hate Us before the last embers of what had been the World Trade Center had cooled. Life in New York City was just beginning to reanimate after two …
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Sep 23 2012
Don’t let extremists determine we are in a ‘clash of civilizations’ By Khaled Diab, Sep.23, 2012 11:35 AM Karl Marx once said that history repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce. The riots and Iranian fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie which forced the British-Kashmiri author into hiding for 13 years, …
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Sep 23 2012
The persecution of John Kiriakou By Peter Van Buren, 23 Sep 2012 12:35 Here is what military briefers like to call BLUF, the Bottom Line Up Front: no one except John Kiriakou is being held accountable for America’s torture policy. And John Kiriakou didn’t torture anyone, he just blew the whistle on it. A …
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