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Reporters’ Guide to China Olympics
Posted by Barbara DiSalvia, Monday, June 30, 2008t r u t h o u t | Smart Security and the End of War
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, June 30, 2008Tomgram: The Urge to Surge
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, June 30, 2008     America Is the Rogue Nation – ICH
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, June 30, 2008Glenn Greenwald: The Baseless, and Failed, ‘Move to the Center’ Cliche
go to article"As the 2008 election approaches... the most difficult obstacle by far has been to find even a single Democratic incumbent who is vulnerable. Not only does it appear that they all are likely to be re-elected, it’s actually difficult to identify ones who have any real chance of losing. That’s how weakened the GOP brand is and how vehemently the country has rejected their ideology and politics — in every realm, including national security. So what, then, is the basis for the almost-unanimously held Beltway conventional view that Democrats generally, and Barack Obama particularly, will be politically endangered unless they adopt the Bush/Cheney approach to Terrorism and National Security, which — for some reason — is called 'moving to the Center'?" - Greenwald in Salon
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, June 30, 2008
NYT Op-Eds (3)
A law professor suggests the appointment of a civil liberties "czar" - or even cabinet-level secretary; Paul Krugman says, "Progressive activists...overwhelmingly supported Mr. Obama...even though his policy positions, particularly on health care, were often to the right of his rivals’. In effect, they convinced themselves that he was a transformational figure behind a centrist facade. They may have had it backward"; and Bill Kristol ruminates on the Declaration of Independence.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, June 30, 2008
NYT Editorial Observer: Thinking the Unthinkable: A World Without Nuclear Weapons
"Shultz, Perry, Kissinger and Nunn give the next president space."Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, June 30, 2008
Marc Ash: Congress Still Corrupt and Useless
go to article"It's often said that there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans. False. The vast majority of honest public servants in Congress are Democrats. However, it would not be safe to say that the majority of Democrats are honest public servants. About half of the Democrats and a small handful of Republicans take seriously their sworn oaths. The rest would be arrested in any other walk of life" - Ash in TruthOut
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, June 30, 2008
NYT: U.S. Advised Iraqi Ministry on Oil Deals
Surprise, surprise!Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, June 30, 2008
NYT: Falling Prices Grip Major Stock Markets Around the World
As the global crisis worsens, there's "nowhere to run."Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, June 30, 2008
NYT: China to Resume Talks With Dalai Lama
Clearly a PR gimmick to decrease global criticism over China's Tibet problem and "make nice" so the Olympics do not become a battleground.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, June 30, 2008
NYT: Group Suggests an Exchange to Trade Internet Capacity
An admittedly wild idea might have the added benefit of bringing Internet service to those who do not have it yet.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, June 30, 2008
Hanna Rosin: American Murder Mystery (in the Atlantic Monthly)
go to articleThis is a fascinating look at what happened after they knocked down all those high rise housing projects in the inner cities .. basically just whacking a big mole and creating a lot of little dispersed, smaller high crime area moles. How about a real comprehensive anti poverty program? Anyone? Bueller? - mab
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, June 30, 2008
A blind eye on soldiers’ suicides
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, June 30, 2008Let my people go, AIDS profiteers
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, June 30, 2008Pretending that Bush is not a tyrant
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, June 30, 2008Censored photos from Tibet…. very graphic please do NOT look IF queasy
Posted by Barbara DiSalvia, Sunday, June 29, 2008Los Angeles Times: Cannibal liberals
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, June 29, 2008AlterNet: Two Caliphates in Baghdad: U.S. Paying High Cost for Ignoring History’s Lessons
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, June 29, 2008t r u t h o u t | No Ice at the North Pole
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, June 29, 2008AlterNet: Real Journalists Don’t Make $5 Million a Year
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, June 29, 2008AlterNet: Progressives and Netroots Feeling Abandoned as Obama Tacks Rightward
How true! However think of the alternative! MBPosted by Michael Butler, Sunday, June 29, 2008
A Win by McCain Could Push a Split Court to Right – Washington Post 6/29/08
A victory by the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, would probably mean preserving the uneasy but roughly balanced status quo, since the justices who are considered most likely to retire are liberal. A win for his Republican counterpart, John McCain, could mean a fundamental shift to a consistently conservative majority ready to take on past court rulings on abortion rights, affirmative action and other issues important to the right.Posted by George Milman, Sunday, June 29, 2008
NYT Op-Eds (5)
Frank Rich suggests that "it’s been a Beltway axiom that Bomb in American City=G.O.P. Landslide," but fails to consider that this might be done DELIBERATELY; Thomas Friedman says, "My fellow Americans: We are a country in debt and in decline...Our political system seems incapable of producing long-range answers to big problems or big opportunities. We are the ones who need a better-functioning democracy — more than the Iraqis and Afghans. We are the ones in need of nation-building. It is our political system that is not working"; a variety of short guest pieces on "the consequences - unexpected, unnoticed, unrealized, good, bad, or indifferent - of really expensive fuel"; Nicholas Kristof suggests two possible exit strategies for Mugabe; and Maureen Dowd sows some dis-Unity.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, June 29, 2008
NYT Magazine: Can Weeds Help Solve the Climate Crisis?
"Weird changes at the grass-roots level" [N.B. Superb pun!]Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, June 29, 2008
