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Amitai Etzioni: Bush Waves a White Flag
President Bush has surrendered the rationalization that he used for seven years as a fig leaf to cover his limp Foreign Policy. By removing North Korea from the list of terrorist supporting states and by lifting sanctions imposed on it for decades... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Countdown: McStrategy Of the Week
Keith reports on the latest talking points to come out of the McCain campaign which of course are being mindlessly repeated by his surrogates like Karl Rove and Sam Brownback. Chris Hayes of The... Full Article At EveryZing - 2008 Presidential Election
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Damn us all and our party if we let this go
It is no secret that public discourse in this country has become very shrill. Blogs on the left regularly feature vulgar diatribes against the right. Some on the right do the same. Keith Olbermann tells the President to "shut the hell up" on his... Full Article At Redstate
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House panel seeks Bush transcript in CIA leak case (AP)
AP - A House panel on Friday subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey for transcripts of a prosecutor's interviews with President Bush and Vice President Cheney during the federal probe into the leak of a ... Full Article At Yahoo! News - Politics
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Iran Remembers U.S. Downing Of Civilian Plane
On Wednesday, Iran observed the 20th anniversary of a U.S. attack against a civilian airbus carrying 290 people, with citizens releasing doves into the air and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterating the government's long-held claim that the attack was intentional. Iran's official state... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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John McQuaid: How Three Americans Ended Up Hostages in Colombia
Colombia's audacious rescue of hostages held by the FARC , including American contractors Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell, adds an extra bang to the July 4 holiday. But we shouldn't forget the alarming backstory leading up to their captivity, which reveals a lot about the failings... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Mullen Warns Against Attack on Iran; Iraq arrests Governor of Maysan
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen appeared to warn Israel on Wednesday against an attack on Iran. He said at news conference, "Opening up a third front right now would be extremely stressful on us . . . This is a very... Full Article At Informed Comment (Juan Cole)
CIA Vet: Next President May Have To Scrap Agency
Over the last several months, there has been a gradual, but unrelenting, outing of the highest level U.S. government involvement in the sordid business of torture. CIA Director Michael V. Hayden admitted, in his February testimony before Congress, that the... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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ACLU Asks Federal Court To Reinstate Extraordinary Rendition Lawsuit Against Boeing Subsidiary
The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a brief asking a federal appeals court to reinstate a lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan for its role in the CIA's "extraordinary rendition... Full Article At ACLU
US Using Communist Torture Techniques At Guantanamo
The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of "coercive management techniques" for possible use on prisoners, including "sleep deprivation," "prolonged constraint," and "exposure." What the trainers did not... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Liars ...
Storied CIA vet Milt Bearden The administration's claims of having "saved thousands of Americans" can be dismissed out of hand because credible evidence has never been offered -- not even an authoritative leak of any major terrorist operation interdicted... Full Article At Talking Points Memo
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Philly Inquirer: No 4th For You, America is Evil, WOT is a 'Scam'
You know, I was wondering when this was going to happen, when someone in the MSM would say Bush has ruined July Fourth? The Philadelphia Inquirer didn't disappoint by wallowing in the worst example of blame-America-above-all as well as the most extreme case of BDS that I've seen outside the... Full Article At Newsbusters
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Andy Worthington: Guantanamo Trials: Another Torture Victim Charged
The wheels of injustice grind so slowly at Guantánamo that it's probably a coincidence that charges were announced against another alleged terrorist just hours after the details were revealed of how comprehensively the government had been ridiculed for its "War on Terror" detention policy in... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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David Misch: Torture Plagiarism
The news that the CIA based many of its "enhanced" interrogation techniques on torture inflicted on our servicemen by the Chinese during the Korean War brings dishonor and shame to our nation. It's one thing to use Chinese toys to bring our children... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Torture vs Intelligence
Now we have confirmation that the US has adopted torture techniques used by the Chinese Communists in the 1950s, it may be worth listening to Milt Bearden: Operationally, the torture story has already had a chilling effect in keeping CIA... Full Article At The Daily Dish
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How Bush, Cheney and McCain Let bin Laden Escape
If Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) believes his prediction of a terrorist attack within a year, he is admitting the Bush-McCain policies have created these dangers and we should answer him with this: It all began when the ... Full Article At The Hill - Pundit Blog
McCain Advocates a New Go-Get-'Em Spy Agency
But his plan, a slap at the CIA, could create a whole new set of problems.... Full Article At U.S. News & World Report
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Brazil's Low Expectations
The NYT reports that Brazil anticipates average growth in the range of 3 percent to 4 percent over the decade from 2010-2020, but that a shortage of skilled workers may make this target unobtainable. While it will obviously be worse for Brazil if it doesn't hit this target than if it does, but... Full Article At The American Prospect - Beat the Press
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I’ve Just Learned To Turn It Off
Infighting between the Bush administration and the CIA plus Pervez Musharraf’s reluctance to confront Al Qaeda equals more Qaeda presence in Pakistan even as they’re leaving Afghanistan. [New... Full Article At Wonkette
Will George W. Bush Assassination Cover-Up Movie Ever Be Released?
The Los Angeles Times reports that Oliver Stone is still working on his terrible W biopic, which will include his signature “twist ending” in which the hero is assassinated by the CIA. This movie is a guaranteed epic tragedy of Shakespearean proportions... Full Article At Wonkette