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Who's Next? Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Is it too early - or already too late - to begin drawing lessons from 'the Long War'? That phrase, coined in 2002 and, by 2005, being championed by Centcom Commander General... ...
Obama Administration Accused Again of Concealing Bush-Era Crimes
Matt Renner, Truthout: "On January 21, Obama signed an executive order instructing all federal agencies and departments to 'adopt a presumption in favor' of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and... ...
How Cheney’s radical acts in the White House still threaten our democracy
AlterNet by David Swanson 09/09/09 Nixon never kept as much of our government secret as Bush-Cheney did, and when push came to shove, he gave up some of his secrets and left town. Nixon’s former... ...
Obama’s war speech: An unconvincing flop
AntiWar.Com by Justin Raimondo 12/02/09 After 92 days of waiting for the Word from on high, the nation received its marching orders from our commander-in-chief — and it was a flop of major proportions.... ...
Bush's Third Term? You're Living It
Afghanistan for Dummies By Ray McGovern I'm going to ask for my money back. I've seen this Afghanistan movie before. The first time, Vietnam was in the title. http://www.informa tionclearinghouse.info/art icle23410.htm   Bush's.. . ...
Obama’s new euphemism
CounterPunch by Joanne Mariner 07/14/09 In a high-profile national security speech he gave in May, President Obama asserted that the military prison at Guantanamo held some number of terrorism suspects... ...
Detainees from 20+ nations still at Gitmo
Agence France-Presse 06/30/09 A pproximately 229 detainees from ‘about two dozen countries’ are still held in Guantanamo, according to the latest Pentagon figures, provided to AFP. Of the... ...
White House Drafts Indefinite Detention Order
Dafna Linzer and Peter Finn, ProPublica and The Washington Post: "The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, is drafting an executive order that... ...
Government run amok
Foundation for Economic Education by Sheldon Richman 05/15/09 The ‘federal’ government, particularly the executive branch, can do almost anything it wants. The limits are few, and those that... ...
The torture commission trap
Not the better part of valor The Jurist by Marjorie Cohn 04/23/09 Ultimately , it is up to Obama to fulfill his constitutional duty to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed. As he seems inclined... ...