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Aziz Huq, The Nation: "President-elect Obama's first appointments to the Justice, State and Defense Departments mark no radical change. Rather, they return to a centrist consensus familiar from the Clinton years. But pragmatic incrementalism and studied bipartisanship will do little to undo the centerpiece of the Bush/Cheney era's legacy. At its heart, that regime was intent on forcing the Constitution into a new mold of executive dominance."

http://www.truthout.org/122408E



The Root of Our Evils?

Philosopher Frederic Worms, writing in Liberation, and sociologist Eric Pineault, writing for La Presse, look for the deep source of our current ills and arrive at interestingly similar conclusions.

http://www.truthout.org/122408F



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