The easiest campaign promise??

Both War Party candidates (Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama) have stumbled all over themselves -- and each other -- to promise the government of Israel  they won't let Iran produce a nuclear bomb. Unless they begin to believe their own propaganda as Kennedy did (which...

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Deep Thoughts From The Guardian

Will the Republicans ban sex in 2010 [sic]? Why did those "government-hating," "market-worshipping" Republicans "sacrifice all the workers and retirees"? Why mustn't we despise our corrupt, corporatist governments? Read The Guardian and find out! Well, OK, just read...

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Less Hawkish in the Hawkeye State?

The Ames Straw Poll, which actually has some predictive value, gave noninterventionists some reasons to smile. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas placed second with 28 percent, just behind Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota (29 percent). After finishing third with 14 percent,...

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Dubya was right??

From film-maker Oliver Stone's interview with former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, we discover: Oliver Stone: "Were there any eye-to-eye moments with President Bush that day, that night?" Nestor Kirchner: "...I said that a solution to the...

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Ominous in Afghanistan

The most ominous thing about Obama in Afghanistan is that Bush at least did us the courtesy of lying about Iraq as if "we the people" actually mattered. --Serious Soundbytes

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WHICH ‘safe haven,’ Mr. Obama?

If things run on schedule, Mr. Obama will announce tomorrow that he and his organization will be sending approximately 34,000 more U.S. troops to harass and sometimes kill men, women and children (as "collateral damage") in Afghanistan.  And then he has to sell...

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You and Whose Army?

I'm no scholar on Honduras, to say the least, so I'll assume the basic facts regarding recent events are in accord with this opinion piece calling for ousted President Manuel Zelaya's reinstatement: Zelaya's fatal mistake was in organizing a de facto referendum to...

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