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The differences remain marginal
The Obama administration is thus far continuing the outrageous spying on American citizens pursued during the Bush years (and claiming it has the right to keep the details secret). It should be condemned in the strongest possible terms: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Yes, the occupation matters, neo-cons
A senior former official in the Bush administrations writes in the Washington Post that Israel’s settlement project in the West Bank isn’t an impediment to peace and Obama shouldn’t pressure the Jewish state to stop it. And pigs might fly.
How much do we really trust the government?
With growing evidence that the Obama administration is maintaining some of the most extreme examples of Bush era illegalities, this news is ominous: The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 introduced in the Senate would allow the president to shut down private Internet networks. The legislation also calls for the government to have the authority to demand…
A constantly shaken sleep
Senior Bush administration officials will have to watch their legal back. They will be pursued for sanctioning torture. The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer on campaigning British lawyer Philippe Sands: It is hard to predict what will happen next, but, if arrest warrants are issued, the Obama Administration may be forced either to extradite the former…
Don’t think Obama doesn’t approve pounding Gaza
The latest Seymour Hersh article in the New Yorker focuses on the possible warming relationship between Syria and the West. But this paragraph stands out: The Obama transition team also helped persuade Israel to end the bombing of Gaza and to withdraw its ground troops before the Inauguration. According to the former senior intelligence official,…
The real Muslim dissident
Obama = Bush? Although it has made a break with many of George Bush’s controversial, self-declared war on terror policies and has promised to reach out to Muslims, the Obama administration has decided to back a Bush decision to deny one of Europe’s leading Muslim intellectuals entry. “Consular decisions are not subject to litigation,” Assistant…
How to create terror part 9753
Incompetence (and criminality?), according to Lawrence B. Wilkerson, chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, was the order of the day in the beginning of the “war on terror”: There are several dimensions to the debate over the U.S. prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that the media have largely missed and, thus,…
An institute to learn water-boarding
Calling US-friendly despots, torturers and liars: When a Marine helicopter bore George W. Bush away from the Capitol the afternoon of Jan. 20, the American people turned their attention, and desperate hopes, to his successor. Bush, meanwhile, moved into a new home in Dallas and took up the work of his post-presidency. He had often…