10 January 2007
Mr. President, surge this
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David Swanson
Here's a statement that's blasphemy both in the peace movement and in the halls of the warmongers:

Whether we escalate the war or not is unimportant. 

Here's the situation we're in.  President Bush and his gang...
10 January 2007
The headless Horseman of the Apocalypse
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Norman Solomon
President Bush may be a headless horseman. But the biggest problem is what he rode in on.

Martin Luther King Jr. had a good name for it 40 years ago. “The madness of militarism.”

We can blame Bush all we...
10 January 2007
A different story
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Robert Koehler
Back to Saddam one last time, and his trial and death, and the strong possibility - indeed, the common-sense conclusion - that part of the point of the charade was to silence him.

Why else try him only for his earliest crimes...
05 January 2007
Celebrity carnage
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Robert Koehler
"He spent the rest of the day working to pull the dead bodies of his family from the rubble of his home, finally reaching his dead son at 4:00 p.m."

- Human Rights Watch, in a 2003 report on the U.S. air war in Iraq and the...
05 January 2007
Gerald Ford's failure of nerve
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Paul Loeb
Compared with Nixon and the Republicans who followed him, Gerald Ford looks like the embodiment of Main Street decency and prudence. Ford’s judgment seems even better when we learn that he told Bob Woodward that the Iraq war was “a big...
05 January 2007
Democrats' open-mic press conferences
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David Swanson
Unlike the previous majority party in Congress, the Democrats who take power today know their weaknesses.  They know they're not very good at the whole press conference thing where you're supposed to stand there and say something people...

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