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A Model for Universal Health Care Coverage

Gavin Newsom | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Our experience in San Francisco is proving what most Americans already know -- it is much less expensive to keep people well than it is to treat their sickness.

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Judge Orders Release from Guantanamo of Al-Qaeda Torture Victim

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Taliban, US District Court, Justice Department, Abdul Rahim Janko, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, World News, Dick Cheney, Al Qaeda, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Judge Richard Leon, Sami Al-Haj, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Seton Hall Law School, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, Adel Hamad, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Gladys Kessler, Syria, Torture, Advocacy, World News

In over three years of researching and reporting about the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, I learned that many of the men were "Mickey Mouse" prisoners, with no connection to terrorism whatsoever.

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Federal Benefits, OK. But Still No Gays in the Military. Why Not?

Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gays in the Military, Politics News, fora.tv, Gay Rights, Jason Bellini, Blaise Zerega, The Daily Beast, Barack Obama, Politics News

This provocative video report suggests that there has been some horse trading between gay rights groups and Capitol Hill

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Empty Evidence: The Stories of the Saudis Released From Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Khalid Saad Mohammed, War on Terror, Terrorism, Pakistan, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Justice Department, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Abdul Aziz Al-Noofayee, Politics News, Politics, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Saudi Arabia, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Gladys Kessler, Advocacy, Closing Guantanamo, World, World News, Politics News

Khalid Saad Mohammed seized from a hospital in Pakistan and sold to the U.S. military. But the authorities in GITMO had never managed to build up a credible case against him.

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MSNBC Upset Uighurs Enjoying Themselves After Gitmo Release (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Msnbc, Video, Guantanamo Bay, Media Criticism, Gitmo, Uighurs, China, Politics News

You know, I've wracked my memory and have largely been unable to come up with one significant example of MSNBC's dayside coverage devoting any real de...

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Painting Their Fingernails Green: Power of Youth Vote in Iran

Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: Politics News, fora.tv, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran Demonstrations, Iran Election, Ahmandinejad, Iran, Hooman Majd, World News

What has changed in Tehran over the past four years to create a situation where a relatively moderate reformer candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, can challenge an incumbent hardliner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

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Media Gives Hate-Mongering White Supremacist Airtime, Facetime and Helpful PR

Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media

This is unbelievable. In last night's "NBC Nightly News," Pete Williams had a segment on the Holocaust Museum shooter, James von Brunn, and they prese...

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Racism And Other Paranoid Delusions

Rob Warmowski | Posted 07.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Politics News, Racism, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Paranoia, Home News

The dissatisfaction of disenfranchised Americans has often taken the form of grandiose paranoia, but that reliable pastime seems to have reached unpre...

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Who Are the Four Guantanamo Uighurs Sent to Bermuda?

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Palau, United Kingdom, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Abdul Semet, US District Court, Justice Department, Abdul Nasser, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Politics, Bermuda, Guantanamo Uighurs, Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Guantanamo Bay, Huzaifa Parhat, Jalal Jalaladin, China, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News

The Uighurs should never have been held at all; the Pentagon was only interested in them because of the intelligence they might have provided about the activities of the Chinese government.

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James Von Brunn Apparently Part Of Obama "Birther" Movement

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitic Activity, Politics News, Birther Community, White Supremacist Holocaust Shooting, White Supremacist, Von Brunn, Von Brunn Holocaust Museum, Report Anti-Semitism, Von Brunn Birther, Holocaust Museum, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Van Brunn, James W. Von Brunn, Dhs Report, Politics News

Among the myriad of disturbing qualities of James Von Brunn, the 88-year-old man who shot and killed a security officer inside the Holocaust Museum on...

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The Free Market's Marked Men, From The Niger Delta To The Amazon

Amy Goodman | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Niger Delta, Alien Tort Claims Act, Wiwa v. Shell, Lima, World, World News, Environment, Politics News, Oil Spills, Peru, Peruvian Jungle Interethnic Development Association, Shareholders, Corporate Crime, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Amazon, Human Rights, Alberto Pizango, U.S./Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, Chevron, Africa, Royal Dutch Shell, Oil, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Pollution, Shell Oil, Center for Constitutional Rights, Rainforests, Ken Wiwa, Alan Garcia, Ecuador, Oil Companies, Genocide, Green News, Breaking Politics News, Ogoni, Ptpa, Aidesep, World News

Ken Saro-Wiwa's family and others just won a landmark settlement in U.S. federal court, ending a 13-year battle with Shell Oil. Alberto Pizango's ordeal is just beginning.

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From Guantanamo to the South Pacific: Is This a Joke?

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: War on Terror, World, Afghanistan, Palau, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, World News, Guantanamo Uighurs, Politics News, Albania, Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, China, Closing Guantanamo, World News

Could there be an answer to the Obama administration's Uighur problem?

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The Flow-Chart Fallacy

Max Stier | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Federal Workforce, Politics News, Partnership for Public Service, Federal Government, President Obama, President Obama Administration, Restructuring, Max Stier, Mergers, Politics News

Do reorganizations make government work better? The results have been mixed.

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Palin Lifts From Gingrich in Anchorage Speech

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Palin, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin Plagiarizes, Palin Veto Override, Barack Obama, Politics News, Obama Stimulus Plan, Sarah Palin Plagiarism, Economic Stimulus Package, Michael Reagan, Sarah Palin Plagiarized Speech, Sarah Palin, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Plagiarizes Newt Gingrich, Palin Stimulus, Alaska, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

Much of Sarah Palin's speech delivered in Anchorage on Wednesday was lifted from an article written four years ago by Newt Gingrich and Craig Shirley.

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Death at Guantanamo Hovers Over Obama's Middle East Visit

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

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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The Secret Superdelegate War Revealed

Erik Ose | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taylor Marsh, Democratic Convention Watch, Harold Ickes, HuffPost Election Analysis, President Obama, Democratic Party, Secretary of State Clinton, Presidential Campaign, Arianna Huffington, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News, HuffPost Election Reaction, 2008, Obama Presidency, Obama 2008, Superdelegates, Tim Pawlenty, Superdelegate Transparency Project, Election Analysis, Obama President, Offthebus, Tom Ridge, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Voters for Obama, Election Results, Jeremiah Wright, 2008 Election, Brian Williams, Barack Obama, Puma, Jennifer Nix, Barack Obama 2008, Presidential Results, Election Reaction, NObama Democrats, Obama Egypt, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Presidential Election, Mike Easley, Politics News

It was one year ago today that Hillary Clinton announced plans to suspend her campaign for the Democratic nomination, and urged her supporters to unite behind Barack Obama.

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Confessing Error: Some People Do Prefer Defeat to Victory

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Cable News Ratings, George Bush, Msnbc, Cable News, Foxnews, Cnn, Barack Obama, Politics News, Democrats, Young Democrats, Republicans, Media News

Fox is gaining, CNN is wilting. Why is this happening when the country still seems about 58-42 in favor of Obama? My best guess is the passion of those who detest Democrats, liberals, and in particular, Barack Obama.

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The Difference That Difference Makes

Marie Wilson | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Politics News, Women, Diversity, Sonia Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Politics News

When we think of the increasingly complex decisions this Supreme Court will tackle, do we not want the most varied group possible lending their diversity of thought and perspective?

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Pinocchio in Drag: Sarah Palin's Latest Lies

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Palin continues to maneuver herself, haphazardly as it may be, into a run for the presidency in 2012. Through it all she continues to delve in a disturbing duplicity, spewing lies and half-truths.

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Report on Cheney Shows Why We Need The Truth

Jon Soltz | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Politics News, Vice President Dick Cheney, General David Petraeus, President Obama, Truth Commission, Dick Cheney Torture, Torture Memos, World News, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

Did Dick Cheney knowingly send intelligence officials to Congress to mislead them about the use of waterboarding? Did the Vice President himself?

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George Tiller's Clinic To Reopen, 'Resume Normal Operations' [UPDATED]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kansas Doctor, George Tiller, Politics News, Doctor George Tiller, Abortion, Abortion Murder, Anti-Abortion, Kansas Abortion, Politics News

UPDATE: The Wichita Eagle is reporting that Tiller's clinic will not be resuming operations on Monday, "countermand[ing] a statement by longtime clini...

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Free The Guantanamo Uighurs!

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Us Constitution, Judge Judith Rogers, War on Terror, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Nimbyism, Justice Department, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Politics, Guantanamo Uighurs, Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, China, Elena Kagan, Advocacy, Closing Guantanamo, World News

Obama needs to find the courage to resist the shrill opportunism of some of his least principled colleagues, and to order the Uighurs' release into the United States.

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Abolish Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

Blaise Zerega | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aspen Institute, Abraham Lincoln, Supreme Court, Politics News, Aspen Ideas Festival, fora.tv, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

As the rhetoric escalates over President Obama's nomination of judge Sonia Sotomayor, the confirmation process promises to reveal both the good and ba...

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