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Apparently, the U.S. government didn't have enough Goldman Sachs executives in key financial and regulatory positions, so the following happened this week:
[updated below -- Update IIÂ (Obama's prior NIEÂ statement)]
Regarding Barack Obama's statements about Iran yesterday during his ABC News interview, Charles Davis makes an excellent...
The disparity is stark between the actual importance of the Inaugural invocation and the anger triggered by Obama's choice of Rick Warren to deliver it. Obviously, the...
The Atlantic's Ross Douthat has a post today -- "Thinking About Torture" -- which, he acknowledges quite remarkably, is the first time he has "written anything substantial, ever, about America's...
(updated below - Update II)
The New York Times's David Barstow, whose excellent and aggressive journalism led to the uncovering last April of the Pentagon's domestic propaganda program...
Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh -- who was one of the most vocal cheerleaders for the invasion of Iraq, talks excitedly about punishing, and even bombing, Iran, and is now demanding full-scale escalation in Afghanistan -- was on Fox News yesterday and...
(updated below - Update II - Update III)
Tom Friedman, The New York Times, today:
Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced -- I assume anyone who shoots up innocent people is.
Tom Friedman, The Charlie Rose Show, May 30,...
Earlier this week, Kevin Drum said that "nine times out of ten" Obama's policies are "pretty much what expected is in the area of detainee and civil liberties issues." Similarly, Andrew Sullivan cited "accountability for war crimes and civil...
(updated below)
Britain is currently engulfed by a probing, controversial investigation into how their Government came to support the invasion of Iraq, replete with evidence that much of what was said at the time by both British and American...
(updated below - Update II)
John Bolton is the prototypical right-wing pseudo-tough-guy: cheering on every war he can find without ever getting near any of them. And as usual for this strain of play-acting, chest-beating warrior, all of the...
Reading Glenn Greenwald is depressing. It means having to re-evaluate that which you think America stands for and having to come to the conclusion that the people running our government are out to commit the greatest sham in the history of mankind. The only solace one can take reading his posts are that someone out there isn't being fooled.
