16 May 2008
The penta-pundits
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Robert Koehler
Well, why shouldn’t the Pentagon put its four-stars on the tube to ladle out patriotic talking points to the American public like mess hall stew?

There’s a straightforward quasi-honesty to government-managed news, which only...
15 May 2008
Edwards just put Obama over the top
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David Swanson
John Edwards just endorsed Barack Obama. If Edwards' 19 delegates take his advice and vote for Obama, then Obama now has 1,620 pledged delegates to Clinton's 1,441. There are 189 delegates left to be pledged in remaining states. Clinton...
14 May 2008
A fire-breather in Congress
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David Swanson
Rep. Robert Wexler (Dem., Florida) has written a book, soon to be released, that is as different from most congress members' books as Wexler is from most congress members. He's titled it "Fire-Breathing Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (...
14 May 2008
Did the Limbaugh effect also flip Michigan?
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Paul Loeb
With Hillary Clinton rejecting the compromise that Michigan Democratic leaders just crafted, the Democratic Rules Committee has a dilemma. Clinton keeps demanding that Michigan's delegates be apportioned according to the January 15 vote,...
09 May 2008
Apology denied
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Robert Koehler
“I want you to feel that Iraqi life is precious,” he told them.

Well, that’s not going to happen. Here, at the level of basic humanity, the occupation of Iraq — indeed, the entire Bush administration — begins to unravel. We...
08 May 2008
Obama’s clarifying win: the fly on the wall is the wall
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Norman Solomon
Barack Obama’s triumph on May 6 was a victory over a wall that pretends to be a fly on the wall.

For a long time, the nation’s body politic has been shoved up against that wall -- known as the news media.

Despite...

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