Condi Rice

Militarization of the Mothers: You've Come a Long Way, Baby, from Mother's Day for Peace

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Mother's Day for Peace, Atrocity Prevention Board, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Most Powerful Women, Condoleezza Rice, Humanitarian Intervention, Libya, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mothers Day, Secretary of State, Condi Rice, Madeleine Albright, Julia Ward Howe, Video, Politics News
Coleen Rowley

Feminist war hawks don't want to talk about the women and children victims of war--or even count them--any more than their male counterparts.

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Condi Rice Walks The Line On Race In Katrina In New Memoir

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.24.2011

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said President George W. Bush had a "race problem" during Hurricane Katrina, but she defended him against h...

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Why Amnesty International is a Shadow of its Old Self

Anthony Amore | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Alex Neve, Colin Powell, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Amnesty International, Condi Rice, Canada, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Anthony Amore

Alex Neve, the Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, is calling for the Canadian government to arrest former President George W. Bush whe...

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Afghan War at 10, 9/11 at 10+: Did Osama bin Laden Win After All?

William Bradley | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Condi Rice, Navy SEAL, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Al Gore, Iraq, Osama Bin Laden, Gary Hart, Stanley McChrystal, Iran, Taliban, Israel, World News
William Bradley

Osama bin Laden may be the man who crashed the world. With a great deal of help from not unpredictable actions on the part of his enemies.

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'My Darling Black African Woman': Gaddafi Kept Scrapbook Of Condoleezza Rice

MSNBC.com | Posted 10.25.2011

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The ransacking of Moammar Gadhafi's compound is turning up some bizarre loot. Following on from the Libyan leader's eccentric fashion accessories and ...

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Republicans: Announce Already! You Can't Beat Somebody with Nobody!

Robert Guttman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Huntsman, Lindsay Graham, Mike Huckabee, Jim Demint, George Pataki, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Condi Rice, Barack Obama, Michele Bachmann, Politics News
Robert Guttman

Every day that passes without an announced GOP presidential candidate debating the issues with the president makes Barack Obama look like a two term president. You can't beat somebody with nobody!

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Reading the Pictures: Condi: I'm Innocent

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Shaw

2010-10-14-Picture6.jpgHere we get the set-up for Rice's new public persona, as well as the narrative she will use over the next few weeks on the talk show circuit to strangle and drown her membership in BushCo.

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Gary Hart's New Memoir Shows the Continuity in Contemporary History

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Barry Goldwater, George Bush, Walter Mondale, Jerry Brown, John McCain, Gary Hart, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, George Mcgovern, Newt Gingrich, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, Vietnam War, Iraq War, Gulf War, Cold War, Russia, Mikhail Gorbachev, Condi Rice, Books News
William Bradley

Reading the book I'm struck by the threads of continuity running from 1970 to 2010. America was in a state of imperial overstretch, riven by a foolish war and roiled by divisive politics. And Hart has had a unique vantage point throughout.

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A Question for the GOP & Tea Partiers: Should We Abolish (or Severely Weaken) the FDA?

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul, Betsy Mccaughey, John Boehner, Healthcare Reform, Tea Partiers, Republicans, Food and Drug Administration, Newt Gingrich, Carly Fiorina, Condi Rice, Sarah Palin, Nikki Haley, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Paul Abrams

If congressional Republicans opposed the PPCA (i.e., health care reform) because it is an imposition on liberty and the free market, what must they think about the powers of the FDA, which regulates 30% of the economy?

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24: Down for the Count?

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Condi Rice, Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jack Bauer, Cherry Jones, David Palmer, Katee Sackhoff, Battlestar Galactica, Carlos Bernard, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Guantanamo Bay, Dennis Haysbert, Gary Hart, Torture, Rush Limbaugh, 9/11, 24, Lost, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Entertainment News
William Bradley

During the course of the Winter Olympics, 24 lost some two million viewers per episode which haven't returned. The show is in its eighth and final season.

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Meg Whitman's Whoppers

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Condi Rice, Meg Whitman, California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goldman Sachs, Steve Poizner, Illegal Immigration, Arizona, Tom McClintock, Jerry Brown, Offshore Oil Drilling, Mitt Romney, Climate Change, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, Mike Murphy, Newt Gingrich, John McCain, Barack Obama, Los Angeles News
William Bradley

As someone with no experience in public affairs prior to being talked into running for governor by her business mentor, Mitt Romney, Meg Whitman is totally dependent on a coterie of lobbyists and consultants.

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The Ghost(s): Of Tony Blair, Roman Polanski, and A War on Terror

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Bradley

Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer is one of the best films I've seen in recent years. Yet it seems unlikely, at least in America, to break out beyond the art house hit status.

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The New Female Supreme Court Justice: 50, Single, Childless, Ivy League Educated

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, ABC Nightline, Sandra Day O'Connor, Condi Rice, Elena Kagan, President Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Sophia A. Nelson

It struck me as I was thinking about the last two Supreme Court nominees offered by President Obama, that we may be seeing a pattern. Single, well educated ivy-league women, with no children.

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Knowing Know-It-Alls

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Michael Sigman

The know-it-alls in our lives have read and listened to the entire Western Canon yet still find the time to go to every new restaurant, club and museum exhibit.

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Condoleezza Rice's Smoking Gun

Sebastian Doggart | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sebastian Doggart

When I began investigating Condoleezza Rice four years ago, I had no idea she was complicit in torture.

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If "We the People" Can't Agree on "Our" President, Is there Any Hope for Us?

Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christine Pelosi

A ratings chase and a revenue chase combine to coarsen the debate. This is our new reality -- and some days it looks so ugly one could reasonably turn away from civic life. But we don't.

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Sam Stein Discusses Cheney 2012, Condoleeza Rice's Afghanistan Comments On Rachel Maddow Show (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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Huff TV

Huffington Post political reporter Sam Stein weighs in on Condoleeza Rice's comments on Afghanistan during an appearance Tuesday evening on The Rachel...

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Condi Stumbles Again

Blaise Zerega | Posted 05.25.2011

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Blaise Zerega

Under questioning by Leon Wieseltier, Rice clumsily debunks her "Nixon/Frost moment," and addresses the grilling about torture she received from Stanford University students.

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Cheney in 2012? It's Cheney in 2010

Matt Littman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Matt Littman

There are those who write that Dick Cheney should have run for President in 2008. There are those, on this Web site in particular, who say he should ...

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Condi Rice's Tortured Macaca Moment

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ari Melber

Rice's recent incident shows the prospects for what we might call a substantive Macaca Moment -- using YouTube and citizen media to scrutinize our leaders on the issues, not gaffes.

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Misha Lerner, 4th-Grader, Questions Condoleezza Rice on Waterboarding (VIDEO)

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stirred controversy last week when, under questioning from students at Stanford University, she insisted th...

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Reading The Pictures: Condi ... Beyond The Fourth Grade

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Shaw

2009-05-04-rice_shaw.jpg The Secretary of State was always bumbling over herself to find the right "diplomatic" words, but with her guard down she was suddenly perfectly articulate.

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Torture? What About the Crime of Waging Aggressive War?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

In addition to investigating torture as a war crime it is imperative that we also examine the lies and deceit that led the United States to try to remake the politics of the Middle East.

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Condoleezza Rice To Meet With Publishers About Memoirs

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be meeting with publishers later this month to discuss three book projects, including a memo...

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Rice Gives Teary-Eyed Goodbye To State Department

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Capping four years as the Bush administration's top diplomat, a teary-eyed Condoleezza Rice bade a spirited farewell Friday to an a...

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