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NYT Blog: Why I’m Afraid of the Clintons
An admittedly backhanded - but nevertheless powerful - compliment.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, February 29, 2008
NYT Guest Op-Ed: Russia’s Last Hope
"Is Medvedev a Putin pawn or his own man?"Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, February 29, 2008
NYT: U.S. Imprisons One in 100 Adults, Report Finds
There are not enough words to use here: disgusting, obscene, outrageous. Between mandatory sentencing rules and unequal access to and justice under the law (read "racism and poverty"), these numbers are beyond insane. Note that 60% of all federal prisoners and 30% of all state prisoners are there for drug offenses. This means that if we eliminated mandatory sentencing for first-time drug offenders, the total number might be brought down by as much as 30% or more overall. And we call ourselves a "civilized," "First World" country?Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, February 29, 2008
BBC NEWS | Americas | US jail numbers at all-time high
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 29, 2008David Kirby: Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court – Now What? – Living on The Huffington Post
thanks Bill AltmillerPosted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 29, 2008
Visas for War Zone Translators Halted
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 29, 2008Obamanomics | Dr Obama’s patent economic medicine | Economist.com
Is Barack Obama a populist, or just pretending to be one?Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 29, 2008
Causes and Consequences of Our Foreign Policy in the Middle East What It Means for Americans
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 29, 2008The obstacles facing Clinton
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, February 29, 2008The last ‘Yes, We Can’ candidate
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, February 29, 2008Tomgram: Iraq, 2003-2008, Two Recipes for Disaster
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 28, 2008AlterNet: Missing White House Emails: Gone and Never Coming Back
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 28, 2008Truthdig – The Calm Before the Conflagration
Remember what we did in Afghanistan. This is a similar precursor. MBPosted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 28, 2008
AlterNet: The Three Trillion Dollar War
DON'T FORGET WE WERE TOLD IT WAS GOING TO COST 2 BILLION. MBPosted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 28, 2008
Truthdig – What the Times Didn’t Tell About McCain
Used to think the NYTimes would only print that which was fit to print. I am no fan of McCain but this is revealing. MBPosted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 28, 2008
CommonDreams.org » Print » The Most Wanted List: International Terrorism
I think it is good for us Americans to stop every now and then and think carefully about the reality of the "terrorism" that is constantly talked about by our leading politicians of both dominating political parties as the leading foreign policy challenge to our great nation. Taking10 minutes or so to read the following essay by Noam Chomsky will do it for today.... Dr. KhalsaPosted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 28, 2008
Iraqi Leaders Veto Law Bush Administration Hailed as Political Breakthrough
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 28, 2008Afghanistan: The Brutal and Unnecessary War the Media Aren’t Telling You About
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 28, 2008AlterNet: Gitmo Trials Rigged from the Start
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 28, 2008Obama’s October 2002 Speech: Against Going to War With Iraq
go to speechThis is the first time I've read this.... "The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not — we will not — travel down that hellish path blindly. Nor should we allow those who would march off and pay the ultimate sacrifice, who would prove the full measure of devotion with their blood, to make such an awful sacrifice in vain" - pretty good stuff
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, February 28, 2008
Donald Macintyre: To Be in Favour of Peace Is Not Anti-Israeli
go to article"Ehud Olmert has suggested publicly that the failure to negotiate a peace with the Palestinians may imperil Israel’s very existence as a Jewish state. Yet it remains hard to imagine a US politician bold enough to say the same thing without risking his own electability. To go further still, of course, and suggest limited engagement with Hamas... is beyond the pale. Yet is it really 'anti-Israel' to do so when a growing clutch of Israeli ex-generals, academics, and Israel’s most celebrated novelist Amos Oz - all serious Zionists who unlike AIPAC’s most hawkish members actually live there - also want talks with Hamas on one issue or another?" - Macintyre in The Independent/UK
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, February 28, 2008
Robert Naiman: Hillary is ‘Ready to Lie From Day 1′ About Venezuela
go to articleClinton says "But I will not be penciling in the leaders of Iran or North Korea or Venezuela or Cuba on the presidential calendar without preconditions; until we have assessed... the motivations and intentions of these dictators" .. um ... "It is the opinion of The Carter Center that the Aug. 15 [2004] vote clearly expressed the will of the Venezuelan electorate" ... Seems like there's going to be a lot of this kind of thing in the next few years regardless of who's president (although some/me hold out the hope that Obama will be different) - mab
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, February 28, 2008
ZNet: Obama’s Money Cartel [Must-Read]
How is Obama defining "lobbyist?" How is he defining "special interests?" How honest is be about where his money comes from? These are legitimate questions, particularly because he holds himself out as being so principled in these regards.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, February 28, 2008
ZNet: “Calibrating†Hope in the Effort to “Patrol the Commonsâ€: Samantha Power and the Hidden Imperial Reality of Barack Obama
Power is one of Obama's top foreign policy advisors, second only to Brzezinski himself. This is fairly eye-opening.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, February 28, 2008
NYT Guest Op-Ed (Bloomberg): I’m Not Running for President, but …
"Here's how to win my vote."Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, February 28, 2008
