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Jail Time for Tenet?
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago on AntiWar.com
Excerpt: President George W. Bush used to complain that being president was "hard work," but he has gotten over that. Now he says it "has been...

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Pakistani Soldiers’ Killings Likely to Raise Tensions
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago on AntiWar.com
Excerpt: The killings Tuesday night by US warplanes of 11 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers at or near a checkpoint along the Afghan border is...

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War and the Common Good
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago on AntiWar.com
Excerpt: We are used to hearing discussion of political issues boiled down to a conflict between the individual and the greater good. Nearly...

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Russian billionaire purchasing European and US bank shares
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago on AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth
At one level, this is good news because the more the financial interests merge, the closer the ties between Russia and the West become. In t...

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McCain was for Jimmy Carter and Zbig Brzezinski before he was against them
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago on AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth


We’ll be having an online chat tomorrow with Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO)
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago on AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth
At around 2:15PM Eastern tomorrow, Thursday, we'll be holding an online chat with Democratic Congresswoman Diana DeGette of Colorado. She's been a leader on stem cell resear...

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Merrill Lynch CEO can shove it
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago on AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth
Listening to anyone on Wall Street get on their high horse and complain about regulation really shows why that bunch needs to be firmly swatt...

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WSJ/NBC poll: Change trumps Experience with voters
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago on AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth
WSJ:54% said the statement that “This is a time when it is important to look for a person who will bring greater changes to the current poli...

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We’re #30, we’re #30 - let’s go health care!
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago on AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth
I hope that we're at least ahead of Tonga, Mongolia and other famous Coalition of the Willing countries. Either way, obviously we're just fine...

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Is it “playing the age card” if McCain is actually too old to be president?
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago on AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth
There seems to be an unexplored aspect to this media debate as to whether Obama is "playing the age card" against McCain. Namely, maybe McCain is too ...

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McCain’s has a lobbyist in charge of VP search, and a top adviser who presided over thousands of lay-offs at HP
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago on AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth
From the Obama campaign:"We don't need any lectures from a campaign that waited fifteen months to purge the lobbyists from their staff, and ...

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Kerry as Obama’s VP?
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago on AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth
I rarely cross-post, but then I rarely get the chance to sit down one-on-one with Senator John Kerry. I interviewed him today live as part of...

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