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Guantanamo Defendant Calls Trial a ‘Sham’
This April 24, 2007 file photo shows a Joint Task Force guard (L) at Camp #1 inside the detainee center at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, as he talks with a detainee who has had his identity … Continue reading
Manning Marable : African American Peacemakers
Dr. Manning Marable.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and the Struggle against Racism, Inequality and Warby Manning Marable [The following was first delivered as a speech at the University of Illinois at Chicago, sponsored by the Great Cities Institute … Continue reading
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Paying to Repair It for Decades to Come
Iraq and the US economy: ills feeding off each otherBy Joseph E. Stiglitz / April 11, 2008 Some say there are two issues in the coming American elections: the Iraq war and the economy. On days when the war seems … Continue reading
Olbermann : Some Telling Commentary on the State of the Military in Iraq
No end in sight on Iraq?By Thorne Dreyer / April 10, 2008 / The Rag Blog Below is video from Keith Olbermann’s Countdown from this evening, April 10, 2008. It features snippets from President Bush’s speech on Iraq with the … Continue reading
Junior’s Reality Is One We Don’t Comprehend
I’m through with masking the truth. It is time to publicise in vivid red, white, and blue the horrible consequences of this illegal, immoral, unconscionable war in the Middle East. When you finally become sick enough of seeing these graphic, … Continue reading
Subjecting Iraqi Women to Medieval Mores
Hidden: The surge is spreading power to gunmen who prefer their women veiledWathiq Khuzaie / Getty Images Sacrificed to the SurgeBy Silvia Spring and Larry Kaplow / April 14, 2008 Tribal fighters have cut down Iraq’s violence. But they’re subjecting … Continue reading
Petraeus’ Testimony : Everything His President Wants to Hear
General Betray Us? Nahhh…..By Robert Scheer / April 9, 2008General Betray Us? Of course he has. MoveOn.org can hardly be expected to recycle its slogan from last September, when Gen. David Petraeus testified in support of escalating the U.S. war … Continue reading
Bush’s War : Now Available in the Comfort of Your Home
Frontline presents revealing behind-the-scenes view of Bush’s War. By Jim Retherford / April 9, 2008 / The Rag Blog Anyone who has followed the downward spiraling debacle of BushAdministration Middle East policy may have wished, as I have, to havebeen … Continue reading
M. Dowd on Petraeus, Crocker : Cauldron Still Bubbles
Gen. David Petraeus, left, and Ambassador Ryan Crocker appear in Congress to report on the Iraq war. Toil and TroubleBy Maureen Dowd / April 9, 2008 Washington — Maybe it was because I was sitting in the back of the … Continue reading
Surge. Pause. Surge. Pause. (Moan.)
Petraeus’ Call for a Pause is Really Just “Stay the Course 2.0”By Arianna Huffington / April 7, 2008 Have you heard the news? “The Surge” is about to end. The next phase of our 100 Year War is “The Pause.” … Continue reading
To Gratify One Man’s Stunted Imagination
CAROLINE ARNOLD: Soldiers in modern wars all die in vainBy Caroline Arnold / April 6, 2008 Benjamin Franklin may or may not have said it, but it’s a suggestive metaphor for a dilemma of democracy, as well as for our … Continue reading
