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12 February 2009
Truth and healing
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Robert Koehler
Can we find ideas — political ideas — big enough to be worthy of this moment?

You know, before the cynicism and the disappointment and the recession and the dumbed-down media and, oh yeah, the regrouping Republicans, conspire...
10 February 2009
The problem with truth, reconciliation, and commissions
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David Swanson
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has now joined House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers in proposing some sort of "truth and reconciliation" commission for the crimes of Bush and Cheney, as if Bush and Cheney have...
08 February 2009
Abandoning torture, but what about war?
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David Swanson
If we can move beyond torture, do we not have a responsibility also to think for a moment about the obvious fact that torture is not the cruelest thing we do? Torture offends us, in part, because the torturer is not at risk, but neither...
07 February 2009
Keeping the Bush era viable
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Robert Koehler
Rest assured, there are powerful interests that will not put up with an Obama presidency if it’s about even half the changes it threatens — I mean, promises — to make.

Watch them circle, yipping at his integrity. “Obama’s...
27 January 2009
Holding Rove in inherent contempt
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David Swanson
The world may learn next week what inherent contempt means. (It's not just a feeling in your gut.)

John Conyers just subpoenaed Karl Rove to appear February 2nd, and nobody seems terribly confident he'll show.

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27 January 2009
44 years later, LBJ's ghost hovers over the 44th president
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Norman Solomon
A few days after the inauguration, in a piece celebrating the arrival of the Obama administration, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote that the new president has clearly signaled: “No more crazy wars.”

I wish....

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