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Signature Gathering Reform: The Most Critical and Immediate Fix to Direct Democracy

Kristina Wilfore | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Referendum, Politics News, Ballot, Signature-Gatherers, Politics, Ballot Initiative, Ballot Reform, Ballot Problems, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, Politics News

Only by implementing solutions to the problems that exist will states be able to provide people with a ballot measure process that works for voters instead of against them.

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Predictable Chaos as Guantanamo Trials Resume

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, David Hicks, President Obama, 9/11, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, World News, Politics News, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Lt. Rich Federico, Col. Morris Davis, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Bay, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, World, Human Rights First, Walid Bin Attash, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, Mohammed Kamin, Salim Hamdan, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Capt. John Murphy, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Federal Court, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News

With no visible progress this was another dismal outing for the Commissions, and another warning for the Obama administration that any kind of revival of the wretched trial system will remain fraught with insoluble problems.

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Patrick Murphy Defends Obama, Vows DADT Repeal

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Politics News, Dadt, Barack Obama, Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, Patrick Murphy, Politics News

Last week, we noted that Pennsylvania Representative and Iraq War veteran Patrick Murphy had assumed the role of chief sponsor for the Military Readin...

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Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Preventive Detention, Mohamed Jawad, David Kris, Department of Defense, War on Terror, Harsh Interrogations, President Obama, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, John Hutson, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Sen. Carl Levin, Robert Gates, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, World, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, House Committee on the Judiciary, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Capt. John Murphy, George Toscas, Federal Court, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Torture, Politics News

Lt. Col. Vandeveld said, "I simply could not in good conscience continue to work for an ad-hoc, hastily created apparatus whose evident resort to expediency and ethical compromise were so contrary to my own."

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John Ensign Scandal Escalates: "It's Not Good"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, John Ensign, Ensign, John Ensign Mistress, Cindy Hampton, Ensign Mistress, Ensign Mistress Laywer, Ensign Mistress Letter, Ensign Mistress Payment, Politics News

For a long while, the inspiring tale of Mark Sanford's Latin American jaunt on or near "the sex line" had gripped America with its romantic melodrama....

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Military Commissions: Government Flounders, As Admiral Hutson Nails Problems

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Preventive Detention, Department of Defense, David Kris, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Senate Armed Services Committee, US District Court, Justice Department, John Hutson, Barack Obama, World News, Military Commissions, Politics News, Enemy Combatants, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Bay, Federal Court, William J. Haynes II, Politics News

A legal quagmire that lacks legitimacy and maintains key policies of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" is almost too awful to contemplate.

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Palin Hit With Another Ethics Complaint

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin Press Conference, Palin Wasilla, Palin Resigns, John McCain, Sara Palin Scandal, McCain Palin, Governor Palin Resigns, Housegate, Palin Iceberg Scandal, Sarah Palin Resigns, Sarah Palin Resignation, Sarah Palin, Iquitarod, Governor Palin, Palin Federal Investigation, Politics News, Sara Palin Quits, Palin Scandal, Palin House, Iceberg Scandal, Palin Resignation, Governor of Alaska, Palin, Palin Sports Complex, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Palin Speech, Palin Housegate, Palin Rumors, Palin Ethics, Palin Ethics Complaints, Palin Ethics Charges, Politics News

In the wake of Governor Palin stepping down from her job, new allegations have surfaced today in Alaska charging Palin with additional violations of the Alaska Executive Ethics Act.

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The Real Story Behind Palin's Bombshell

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 08.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Palin Resignation, Palin Iceberg Scandal, Sarah Palin Press Conference, Sarah Palin Resigning, Sarah Palin Resign, Iceberg Scandal, Governor Palin Resigns, Palin, Governor Palin, Politics News, Sean Parnell, Sarah Palin Resignation, Sarah Palin Resigns as Governor, Sara Palin, Governor of Alaska, Sara Palin Resigns, Sarah Palin Governor, Palin Resigning, Sarah Palin Stepping Down, Sarah Palin Resigns, Palin Resigns as Governor, Lt. Governor Sean Parnell, Palin Resign, Palin Resignation Video, Sarah Palin Steps Down, Palin Resigns, Sarah Palin Resigned, Sarah Palin Alaska, Parnell, Sarah Palin, Why Is Sarah Palin Resigning, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Palin Stepping Down, Sarah Palin Quits, Politics News

Some pundits have said that Palin's resignation is out of character. Hardly. Don't forget that she resigned from her last statewide office. Sarah Palin is a quitter.

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President Obama's Clear Abuse Of Power Cited By...Senator Obama

Rob Warmowski | Posted 07.28.2009 | Home

Read More: War Spending Bill, Politics News, US Foreign Policy, Iraq, Afghanistan, President Obama, 106b War Spending Bill, 106 Billion Dollars, Signing Statements, Abuse of Power, Executive Power, Executive Branch, Home News

Those who sought legal idealism from the Obama administration won't be getting it, and those who saw a bloated, creeping Executive branch under Bush/Cheney have not, after all, voted in a choirboy.

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Release of 'Holy Grail' Torture Document To Be Delayed

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Torture Report, Cheney Torture, Torture, Dick Cheney Torture, Holy Grail Torture Report, CIA Torture, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics News

About a month and half ago, we made note of the way the stars seemed to be aligning for the release of ex-CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's class...

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Never Forget: The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Geneva Conventions, Preventive Detention, President Obama, George W. Bush, Navi Pillay, United Nations, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Eric Holder, Judge John D. Bates, World News, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Politics, UN Convention Against Torture, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, ACLU Torture, Mohamed Et Al v Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., Bagram Torture, Closing Guantanamo, World, Terrorism, CIA Torture, US District Court, Justice Department, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Judge Richard Leon, Abou Elkassim Britel, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Waterboarding, Torture, Politics News

Sadly, our celebrity-obsessed world is unlikely to pay much attention to the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, as the death of Michael Jackson dominates headlines.

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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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