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President Obama and Counter-Terrorism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Here are the good, the bad and the ugly things in President Obama’s important speech on counter-terrorism Thursday, and in the off-stage steps he has […]
Obama: US will Continue its Targeted Killing with Drones (Woods)
Chris Woods writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Barack Obama has made it clear that the US will continue with its controversial targeted killing […]
Big Oil’s Hit Men have a Contract to Whack the Earth (Engelhardt)
Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious […]
Sen. Inhofe: “When a Disaster Occurs in America… Everyone … wants to pour Money on’em”
From last fall: Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma argues against relief aid for Hurricane Sandy, in part because working on it in the Senate would […]
Rafsanjani’s Exclusion from Iran’s Presidential Race a Sign of Creeping Totalitarianism
Iran’s Guardian Council startled that country when it announced that Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president (1989-1997) who was among the founders of the Islamic […]
Dear Oklahoma: We Feel for you, we love you, but do us some favors
The immense, mindless violence of a tornado hitting a small Oklahoma town, turning houses into splinters and crushing people under rubble, including children, has rightfully […]
PBS and the Koch Brother Scandal (plus “Koch Brothers Exposed”)
PBS declined to show “Citizen Koch, a documentary about the Wisconsin public union issue, treating the influence of the dirty energy magnates who are destroying […]
Israel, Syria, Trade Fire, Threats in Golan Heights
The Increasingly desperate Baath regime in Syria appears to be seeking skirmishes with Israel as a way of shoring up its nationalist credentials. If the […]
Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria (Cole @ Truthdig)
My column is out at Truthdig, looking at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s muscular new role in the Eastern Mediterranean and Syria: Excerpt: “Even as Damascus […]
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