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The US War on Yugoslavia: Ten Years Later

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Serbia, Bill Clinton, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Slobodan Milosovic, Nato, Ibrahim Rugova, Bush Administration, Obama, Osce, 1973 War Powers Act, Rambouillet, Kla, World News
Stephen Zunes

For many Democrats, the 1999 U.S-led war in Yugoslavia was a "good" war, in contrast to the "bad" war in Iraq. But it was still an unnecessary and illegal war, with political consequences that are far from settled.

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Death at Guantanamo Hovers Over Obama's Middle East Visit

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Force Feeding, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, President Obama, Guantanamo, Obama Middle East Policy, Taliban, Obama Mideast Trip, Barack Obama, Politics News, Politics, Death at Guantanamo, Obama Middle East Trip, Bush Administration, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Obama Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Muhammad Salih, Guantanamo Suicides, President Bush, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

A death at Guantánamo is always felt keenly in the Muslim world, and is also uncomfortable for the Obama administration, which claims that it is running a "humane" facility.

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Cheney, Selling Cheney

Rick Horowitz | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cheney and Obama Administration, Bush Administration, George Tenet, Richard Clarke, Cheney and Torture, Cheney Book Deal, Richard Cheney, Abu Ghraib, Cheney and Interrogation, Dick Cheney, Obama Administration, Cheney Memoirs, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

You can't turn on your TV these days without seeing the former veep with his latest account of what they did back when they were in charge, why they did it and how wonderfully it all worked. What's up with that?

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Why No Investigation?

Naomi Wolf | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Torture Photos, Antonio Taguba, Torture, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Naomi Wolf

Why are the Congressional leadership of both parties bizarrely silent now, when the American people are demanding an investigation and prosecution of the crimes represented in the abuse photos?

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Richard Clarke Slams Cheney, Rice: "The Trauma Of 9/11 Is No Excuse"

Washington Post | Richard A. Clarke | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Richard Clarke, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, 9/11, Iraq, Torture, Richard Clarke and Dick Cheney, Politics News

Top officials from the Bush administration have hit upon a revealing new theme as they retrospectively justify their national security policies. Call ...

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Think Again: Dick Cheney's Post Presidency

Eric Alterman | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Robert Kuttner, Vice President, Karl Rove, Barton Gellman, Bush Administration, George W. Bush, President Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Torture, Media News
Eric Alterman

Crossposted with the Center for American Progress Eric Alterman, Danielle Ivory Former President George W. Bush recently mused with the press about...

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Picking on Pelosi

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Colin Powell, John Boehner, Dick Morris, Rnc, Donald Rumsfeld, CIA Torture, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Steve King, Bush Administration, Bush Administration Torture, Mike Huckabee, Cia, Nancy Pelosi, Waterboarding, Pussy Galore, Newt Gingrich, Torture Memos, Gop, Politics News
John Wellington Ennis

For all of the suspicion and projection upon her, Speaker Pelosi is really like a mom making her kids behave politely at a fancy restaurant.

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Dick Cheney Actively Seeking Book Deal On Bush Years

New York Times | Jim Rutenberg and Motoko Rich | Posted 06.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Bush Administration, Books, Cheney Book Deal, Cheney Book, Dick Cheney, Media News

WASHINGTON -- With his sustained blitz of television appearances and speeches, former Vice President Dick Cheney has established himself as perhaps th...

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Three Uneasy Questions About Torture

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Otto Kerner Jr., CIA Torture, Bush Administration, Barack Obama, Truth Commission, Obama Guantanamo, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again?

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Economic Good News and Bad News

Mike Lux | Posted 06.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Bush Administration, Economy, Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, George W. Bush, Business News
Mike Lux

Given how awful things were on January 20, the President deserves a great deal of credit for keeping our entire economic system from sliding into another Great Depression.

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Who Is This "Dick Cheeny" Guy and Why Should I Care What He Thinks?

David Rees | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Guantanamo, Bush Administration, Cheney, Cheeny, Gitmo, Guantanamo Detainees, Cheney Speech, Dick Cheney, Comedy News
David Rees

As far as I could tell, his speech was actually some weird kind of mouth-yoga where you keep returning to "9/11" position every thirty seconds.

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My Message To Obama: Great Speech, But No Military Commissions and No "Preventive Detention"

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, US Supreme Court, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, David Addington, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Politics, Guantanamo Uighurs, Bush Administration, Obama Guantanamo, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, Waterboarding, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Look at the sentence, "Hold[ing] individuals to keep them from carrying out an act of war," replace "an act of war" with "any crime," and you will realize why the proposed policy is so terrifying.

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Who Is Dick Cheney? Questions and Answers

Steven Weber | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Steven Weber

The stark contrast between Dick Cheney and President Obama bespeaks the contrast in devotion to this country and its citizens.

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Build More Autos Overseas: Marginalize More U.S. Families

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business

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Leo W. Gerard

As I toured the U.S. last week on the 11-state, 32-city "Keep it Made in America" bus tour. I talked to unemployed manufacturing workers who are desperate.

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Seven and Half Months--Seven and a Half Years

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Richard Clarke, Condoleezza Rice, Waterboarding, John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney, Torture, Osama Bin Laden, 9/11, George Bush, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

The slimy bastards of the Bush Administration contributed to the deaths of more Americans at the hands of a foreign power than any President in the history of the United States.

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Holy Crap: Donald Rumsfeld's Crusade Memos

Disgrasian | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Pentagon, US Military, Department of Defense, Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Holy Wars, Pentagon Propaganda, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Military, Donald Rumsfeld Crusade Memos, Religion and Politics, Crusades, Iraq, Separation of Church and State, Politics News
Disgrasian

They used to put Scripture like this on t-shirts in my Southern Baptist youth group, to get us kids pumped about spending the first week of summer, the first taste of freedom...quietly studying the Bible.

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It's Official: Bush Admin Saw Iraq As Religious War

Jon Soltz | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Religion, Bush Administration, Department of Defense, Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, Colin Powell, Judaism, President Obama, Holy-Wars, Donald Rumsfeld, Religious Freedom, Christianity, President Bush, Politics News
Jon Soltz

As someone who still has friends over in Iraq and Afghanistan, it boils my blood to think that insurgents and terrorists now have something else to show around as "proof" that America is "fighting a war on Islam."

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The Faux MB Environmental Scandal That Wasn't

Josh Dorner | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Endangerment-Finding, Epa, Jake Tapper, John Barrasso, Shawne Mcgibbon, Peter Orszag, Omb, Bush Administration, Small Business Administration, Mercatus Center, Koch Industries, Media Criticism, ABC News, Ap, Global Warming, Green News
Josh Dorner

Rather than being some shadowy "White House document" objecting to those overzealous greens at the EPA, it could have been written by almost anyone within the vast federal bureaucracy.

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Right-Wing Distractions

The Progress Report | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Radical Right, Pelosi, Bush Administration, Graham, Torture, Politics News
The Progress Report

The same conservatives railing that Pelosi should have loudly objected to the program also defended the president's absolute right to order abusive interrogations, with or without congressional approval.

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Love Your Neighbor, Love the Earth

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Vieques, Puerto Rican, Compensatory Damages, Toxic Metals, Compensation, Health, Government, Puerto Rican Island, US Navy, Bush Administration, Contaminants, Target Range, Justice Department, Protest, Justice, Sovereign Immunity, Advocacy, Green Living, Green News
Jim Wallis

We cannot claim to care for the poor while we turn our backs on our role in the destruction of the most basic resources our neighbors need for survival.

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Why Obama Must Truly Hate Bush

Steve Benen | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, CIA Interrogations, Bush Administration Torture, Obama Torture Photos, Torture Photos, Obama Torture Prosecutions, Obama Torture Memos, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogations, Obama Torture, Torture, Politics News
Steve Benen

It's a real shame Bush and Cheney screwed up so spectacularly, and ignored the law so systematically, that it's interfering with Obama's desire to govern. But Obama signed up for this gig.

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Lindsey Graham: Bush Administration Saw Law As 'Nicety We Could Not Afford' (VIDEO)

Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lindsey Graham Video, Video, Bush Administration, Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham Law Nicety Video, Politics News

The Hill flags this interesting line from Senator Lindsey Graham about the way the Bush administration viewed the rule of law. During a hearing on th...

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The Omnipresent President

James Moeller | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Obama Administration, Bush Administration, Media, First Hundred Days, Obama Media, Barack Obama, Politics News
James Moeller

Why does it seem as if Obama is everywhere all the time, if he's really not?

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Cheney and Torture: The Buck Stops...Where?

Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.12.2009 | Style

Read More: Cheney And "Face the Nation", George Bush, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Cheney and Torture, George W. Bush, Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer, Richard Cheney, Dick Cheney, Style News
Rick Horowitz

On those questions, Cheney leaves us -- yet again -- in the dark. But we're certainly free to wonder: What did George Bush know, and how well did he know it?

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Sam Stein

Bush Failure To Disclose Waterboarding Appears To Violate Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Disclosure Congress, Pelosi Torture, Torture Timeline, Congress Democrats Torture, Bush Torture, Torture Memos, Politics News

The furor over when and whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed about the use of waterboarding has distracted attention from what is, perhaps, ...

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