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....
23 January 2009
Dangerous executive orders
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David Swanson
The Center for Constitutional Rights has expressed concern that President Obama's executive order banning torture may contain a loophole. But no president has any right to declare torture legal or illegal, with or without loopholes. And...
22 January 2009
Childish things
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Robert Koehler
No matter how much celebrity they try to infuse him with, Barack Obama remains, somehow, as unassuming — so it appears — as that picture of him, which made the rounds on the Internet a few months ago, wiping his own table at a fast-food...
20 January 2009
The moral dead zone
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Robert Koehler
“Mr. Ban said too many people had died and there had been too much civilian suffering.”

That almost bears repeating, but I won’t because I don’t believe it. Too many? In the moral dead zone of the human heart, perennially...

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