In November 2008, then President George W. Bush and then Puppet Nouri al-Maliki negotiated an unprecedented, unconstitutional treaty to "legalize" three more years of war in a manner not unlike the "legalization" of invasions, detentions,...
30 July 2009
Before I know it I’m sucked into the New York Times story and I haven’t had my Prozac or anything.
Through the miracle of language, here we are, walking with U.S. troops on patrol through the streets of Mosul, and by the time...
Through the miracle of language, here we are, walking with U.S. troops on patrol through the streets of Mosul, and by the time...
29 July 2009
If you support a healthcare bill with a public option in it, chances are many single-payer advocates don’t trust you. If you supported that same bill in exactly the same way and also advocated leaving in it the language that allows states...
26 July 2009
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has called on Attorney
General Eric Holder to open a criminal investigation into the misdeeds
of former president George W. Bush and former vice president Richard B.
Cheney.
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22 July 2009
This moment, in which the Attorney General of the United States claims to be considering the possibility of allowing our laws against torture to be enforced seems a good one in which to reveal that I have seen over 1,200 torture photos and...
21 July 2009
Media eulogies for Walter Cronkite -- including from progressive commentators -- rarely talk about his coverage of the Vietnam War before 1968. This obit omit is essential to the myth of Cronkite as a courageous truth-teller.
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