Alexander Cockburn

The F Word: Accepting Defeat in Iraq

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laura Flanders

Better we come to grips with defeat than concede that a lawless operation in some way won and made the U.S. stronger. It didn't.

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Palin the Frontierswoman?

Victoria Rosner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Victoria Rosner

Many see Palin as a frontierswoman-- a throwback to bygone Americans, those women who helped their men win the West (or in this case, the North).

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