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Jul 25 2008
On Winning and Losing Wars
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By Sheldon Richman   

The campaign of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain has already gotten tedious. In a campaign appearance the other day, he said in his characteristically sanctimonious way, “I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.”

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Tags:  Sheldon Richman John McCain Republican presidential Rachel Maddow
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Jul 21 2008
The Most Important Vote You Will Ever Cast
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By Rosemarie Jackowski   

Come November some will head for the hills. Some will head for the polls. Some have already decided to sit this one out. Most will cast uninformed votes. A few will break the mold. They have done their homework. They will vote for peace and justice.


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Tags:  Rosemarie Jackowski Bush Indictment McCain Obama Attorney General US Court
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Jul 21 2008
America's turning red, white and Green
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By Don Williams   

The Great Miss Tipping Point waltzes onstage, two steps forward, one back, two more forward. Resplendent in shimmering green she pirouettes, spinning en pointe, then takes a quick bow to acknowledge applause. It’s an insouciant gesture, as if she’s appeared on cue rather than 30 years behind schedule. She’s creating quite a stir.

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Tags:  Don Williams CO2 Tipping Point
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Jul 21 2008
McCain's Utter Cluelessness on the Economy
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By MWC NEWS   
Frank Rich has a scorching op-ed in the New York Times today that lays bare McCain's utter incoherence on the economy. McCain has switched his views on the Bush tax cuts (used to oppose, now supports), how Americans have fared under Bush (he changed his tune on this during a 24 hour period), offshore drilling, and the mortgage bailouts (the Times described his reversal here as a "pivot").

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Tags:  Chris Edelson Bush tax McCain US Economy
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Jul 16 2008
The Fourth Circuit's Ominous Decision
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By MWC NEWS   

Led by conservative judges, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has just affirmed the Bush administration’s “enemy combatant” doctrine, a doctrine that allows President Bush and his military forces to designate anyone anywhere in the world as an “enemy combatant” in the so-called war on terrorism and treat him accordingly. While the case that the Court was deciding involved a foreigner, Ali al-Marri, the Court’s reasoning applies to American citizens as well.

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Tags:  Jacob G. Hornberger Ali al-Marri Fourth Circuit Ominous Decision Enemy combatant
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Jul 14 2008
Fannie Mae Fiasco
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By Don Williams   

This is not the icing on the cake of the Bush Administration. That’s still to come.

Rather, the sticky mess we’re mired in–as Feds ponder ingredients of their soon-to-come Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout on top of the IndyMac fiasco, second largest bank failure in American history, not to mention the Bear Stearns bailout–is only the latest layer in a tall leaning cake historians will someday deconstruct like archaeologists at a dig to try and figure out how we could’ve allowed such a chef as George W. Bush in the kitchen to begin with.

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Tags:  Don Williams Freddie Mac IndyMac Fannie Mae Bear Stearns
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Jul 13 2008
On drug wars and opium fueled insurgencies
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By MWC NEWS   

ISLAMABAD JULY 13/08 - Over the past few days the Americans have hit the Pakistanis at the border and are increasing threats of hot pursuit. Some of the peace deals between frontier forces and militant groups are holding. In other areas, the Taliban have besieged Pakistani troops, kidnapped soldiers and others, and killed them in ambushes.

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Tags:  Justin Podur Drug wars Opium Insurgencies
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Jul 10 2008
The Lesson from Obama's Cowardly Flip-Flop
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By MWC NEWS   

Those who think that the election of Barack Obama will save the nation from its many foreign-policy/civil-liberties woes got smashed and dashed with a cold dose of reality. Flip-flopping in the finest political tradition, Obama voted in favor of President Bush’s wiretap/immunity bill, after promising to filibuster it before he secured the Democratic Party nomination.

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Tags:  Jacob G. Hornberger Barack Obama wiretap immunity bill Glenn Greenwald
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