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Human Rights, Lost History, Obama Administration, The Bush-43 Administration

The Day When War Was Outlawed

August 18, 2013

When George W. Bush launched an aggressive war on Iraq in 2003, he was violating a host of treaties and international laws, though he would face no accountability. One violated law was a U.S.-sponsored treaty, signed in 1928, that renounced war as…

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Environment, Human Rights, Lost History, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing

Reagan’s Road to Climate Perdition

August 18, 2013

From the Archive: More than a quarter century after President Reagan ordered President Carter’s solar panels removed from the White House roof, new ones are being installed, a belated nod to the foresight of one president and a rebuke to the…

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Constitution, Human Rights, Lost History, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing

How False History Props Up the Right

August 17, 2013

Exclusive: The Right’s policy nostrums are failing across the board from free-market extremism to austerity as a cure for recession to continuing the old health-care dysfunction leaving only an ideological faith that this is what the Framers wanted. But that…

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Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing

Greasing the Capitol’s Locked Gears

August 17, 2013

Even the hyper-partisan Newt Gingrich has chastised his fellow Republicans for endless negativity and lack of positive ideas. Still, as the wheels of government grind to a standstill, business lobbyists continue to grease them with lots of money, notes Michael Winship.

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Constitution, Human Rights, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration

The Permanent ‘War on Terror’

August 15, 2013

Over the past dozen years, the “war on terror” has taken a profound toll on U.S. constitutional protections and democratic principles, a process that continues despite President Obama’s promise last May that “this war like all wars must end,” as…

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Human Rights, Media, Obama Administration, Secrecy, The Bush-43 Administration

America’s Upside-Down Morality

August 15, 2013

Exclusive: Pvt. Bradley Manning has prostrated himself before his court-martial judge, apologizing for leaking documents on U.S. government wrongdoing and referencing his psychological problems as reasons for mercy. The sad spectacle underscores how upside-down American morality now is, says Robert…

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Human Rights, Obama Administration, Politics

A Method to Egypt’s Madness

August 15, 2013

The bloody assault on Egyptians protesting the ouster of democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi has the look of madness as the military pushes Islamists toward more violence but there is a sick logic if the generals see more Islamic extremism…

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Human Rights, Media, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration

Blaming Obama for Syrian Mess

August 14, 2013

Exclusive: As the Syrian civil war drags on, al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremists are emerging as the fiercest fighters in the rebel coalition and complicating how the conflict can be resolved. So, U.S. neocons are trying to pin the blame…

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Human Rights, Lost History, Media, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration

’42’ and 44

August 14, 2013

From the Archive: American rightists and many Republicans continue to treat President Obama with a personal disrespect that reeks of racism: hoisting signs about his “Kenyan birth,” laughing at him as a rodeo clown, wishing for his impeachment hostility that recalls…

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Constitution, Intelligence, Obama Administration, Politics, Secrecy, The Bush-43 Administration

How Congress Overlooked NSA Spying

August 13, 2013

Edward Snowden’s leaks about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs might have been avoided if more members of Congress had done their duty to stay informed about these classified activities, rather than get distracted by the fluff of politics, says…

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Constitution, Human Rights, Intelligence, Media, Obama Administration, Secrecy

Who Benefits from the Various ‘Wars’?

August 13, 2013

P.R. experts are skilled at framing policy debates in favorable though misleading ways, like the “war on terror” or the “war on drugs.” What gets shielded by this packaging are the unstated goals, interests and outcomes that would draw popular opposition if…

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Media, Obama Administration, The Bush-43 Administration

The ‘Do-Something’ Myth in Syria

August 12, 2013

A common refrain in Official Washington is that President Obama should have intervened militarily in Syria’s civil war and that somehow that would have solved the problem. But there’s no reason to think that U.S. meddling would do much good,…

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Human Rights, Lost History, Obama Administration, Right Wing

Struggling for Peace in Colombia

August 12, 2013

Exclusive: Normally, peace negotiators end a conflict first and then examine the war crimes later. But the long-running civil war in Colombia has such a secretive and brutal history that efforts to cease the fighting began with an investigation of the slaughter,  writes Andrés…

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Constitution, Environment, Human Rights, Obama Administration, Politics, Religion, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration

The Moral Imperative of Activism

August 12, 2013

Exclusive:  Today’s crises endless war, environmental catastrophe, desperate poverty and more can seem so daunting that they paralyze action rather than inspire activism. But the imperative to do something in the face of injustice defines one’s moral place in the…

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Human Rights, Lost History, Obama Administration, Secrecy

No Reckoning over Agent Orange

August 10, 2013

Official Washington often lectures other countries on the need for accountability, especially when governments have engaged in war crimes. Yet, one of the clearest cases of a U.S. war crime the mass spraying of Vietnam with Agent Orange has escaped…

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Lost History, Media, Obama Administration, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration

A Cold War Bias Toward Russia

August 9, 2013

President Obama and the mainstream U.S. press are blaming Russian President Putin for the breakdown in bilateral relations, but this simplistic view ignores the many U.S. government actions over the past two decades that have offended Moscow, as ex-CIA analyst Melvin…

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Human Rights, Intelligence, Lost History, Media, Obama Administration, Right Wing

How US Hubris Baited Afghan Trap

August 9, 2013

From the Archive: Even today more than two decades after the Soviet Union disappeared the Washington press corps views U.S.-Russian disputes through a one-way Cold War lens, with Moscow always at fault. But the reality is more complicated, as Robert…

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Intelligence, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing

Scoring Points Over a Terror Threat

August 9, 2013

Though it’s summer, Official Washington’s factionalism never takes a vacation. The neocons are in workaholic mode, claiming the precautionary closure of some U.S. embassies proves al-Qaeda remains a major threat, despite the fact that no terror attack has actually happened, as ex-CIA analyst Paul…

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Human Rights, Lost History, Religion

Would Jesus Drop the Nagasaki Bomb?

August 9, 2013

The second and hopefully last nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945. Among the bitter ironies of that day, the U.S. plane was flown by an all-Christian crew that picked for its target the landmark of…

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Human Rights, Intelligence, Lost History, Obama Administration, Right Wing, Secrecy

Pinning Argentine Bombing on Iran

August 8, 2013

“Defectors” are among the most unreliable intelligence sources since they have an obvious motive for discrediting their former governments, but still have been allowed outsized roles in whipping up hysteria against Iraq in 2003 and now against Iran, as Gareth…

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