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Is Bagram Obama's New Secret Prison?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Geneva Conventions, Us Constitution, World, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, President Obama, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Guantanamo, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, World News, Rendition, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Bush Administration, U.S. Court of Appeals, Enemy Combatants, Bagram, CIA Rendition, Bagram Detainees, Cia, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Breaking Politics News, New York Times, Bagram Habeas Corpus, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Leon Panetta, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The Obama administration is following Bush's lead by unilaterally rewriting the Geneva Conventions, presumably to allow it to continue exploiting prisoners of war for their supposed intelligence value.

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Kanye West, Joe Wilson Need a Day with My Mother-in-Law

Michelle Lamar | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living

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Michelle Lamar

Joe Wilson and Kanye West need a day or two with my mother-in-law, because she is one of the classiest ladies I've ever met.

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Glenn Beck's Crazy 9/12 Tea Party Had Nothing to do With 9/11

Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Politics News, Tea Party, 9/12, 912 Project, 2001, 9/11 Anniversary, September 11, 9/11, Fox News, 9-12-Project, Glenn Beck, 9/12 Tea Party March, 9/12 March on Washington, Glenn Beck 9-12, Glenn Beck 9/12, Teabaggers, Media News
Rachel Sklar

Beck wants this country to return to the values it held on 9/12/2001. As someone who was in New York on 9/11 (and 9/12) I remember those values being terror and a profound grief.

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Reporting on 'Lies' and 'Liars' ...

J. Richard Stevens | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Politics News, Public Discourse, Healthcare, Sarah Palin, Politics, Barack Obama, Media News
J. Richard Stevens

If I say that a statement is a "lie," does that mean that I have now accused every person who passes along the statement of lying? Where is the space for misunderstanding? Ignorance? Faulty logic?

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"Taxpayer March" - Real Outrage or McCain-Palin White Angst II?

Brian Ross | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tea Party Movement, Gop, Joe the Plumber, John McCain, President Obama, Taxpayer March, Politics, Media, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Republican, Politics News, Senator McCain, Media Circus, White Angst, Joe Wilson, Fox News, Right-Wing Media, Republicans, Jerry Springer, Americanists, Politics News
Brian Ross

The GOP machine politicos who are organizing them want us to see a country in outrage against our black, liberal, socialist president.

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A National Failure - Our Health Care Conversation

Landon Ross | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Health Care Reform, Politics, Barack Obama, Democrats, Republicans, Health Insurance, Congress, Politics News, Economy, Politics News
Landon Ross

The weeks of attention that cable news spent discussing death-panels, and birthers, and tea-parties, should go down in our history as one of the low points of American journalism.

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Health Care Reform: Still An Original And Simple Proposal

Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: University of Chicago Medical Center, Senator Max Baucus, Dr. Paul Toffel, Usc, Gang of Six, Health Insurance, Senate Finance Commitee, Healthcare, Insurance Companies, Obama Health Care, Health Insurance Industry, Insurance Industry, Politics News, Universal Health Care, Health Care, Geico, Warren Buffett, Los Angeles Times, Health Care Reform, University of Chicago, Health Action, Keck School of Medicine, Paul Toffel, Politics News
Dr. Paul Toffel

Whose plan gets my nod, for bipartisan reality and feasibility, to save and improve our unique, innovative American health care system and not saddle our country with unsustainable debt? I vote for Senator Max Baucus.

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Who will be the Killer D's

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Health Insurance Plan, Congress, Public Option, President Obama, Health Insurance Industry, Obama Bipartisanship, Medicare for All, Obama, Ted Kennedy, Joe the Nerd, Politics News, Obama Speech, Private Health Insurance, Republican, Joe, Medicare, Bipartisanship, Health Care, Obama Public Option, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

Obama created the space for the Democrats to work. He outlined a lot of stuff, but did not get specific in the semantics. He opened up the lane once again for prima donna Congresspeople to drive in for the layup.

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No Escape From Guantanamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, War on Terror, Ghaleb Al-Bihani, 9/11 Anniversary, President Obama, Judge James Robertson, 9/11, Guantanamo, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Taliban, Judge Ellen Huvelle, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Kandahar, Mohammed Al-Adahi, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Gladys Kessler, Advocacy, Closing Guantanamo, World, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Task Force, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Salim Hamdan, Yemeni Detainees Guantanamo, US District Court, Kuwaiti Detainees Guantanamo, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Bush Administration, Judge Richard Leon, Adham Mohammed Ali Awad, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Tora Bora, Al-Farouq, Cuba, Guantanamo Files, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners.

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Republicans Heckle Obama for Providing Health Care, but Cheer Bush for Making War

Peter Daou | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama, Health Care, Politics News, Politics News
Peter Daou

Perhaps the anti-reform forces will manage to thwart a bill, but I doubt it. This speech marks the beginning of Obama's end game, and look for him to build momentum in the coming days.

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It Could Have Been Worse

Saul Segan | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

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Saul Segan

As printed, the President's speech to USA students at the advent of this new school year seemed benign enough.

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Spanish Judge Resumes Torture Case Against Six Senior Bush Lawyers

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Douglas Feith, Philippe Sands, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Spain, Bush Prosecutions, David Addington, John Yoo, Justice Department, Eric Holder, World News, Office of Legal Counsel, Politics News, Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon, Bush Administration Torture, Jay Bybee, Sami El-Leithi, Jamil El-Banna, Omar Deghayes, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, William J. Haynes II, Alberto Gonzales, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.

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Mr. President, Republicans are Sensing Victory, Because You Won't Fight

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, President Obama, Obama Bipartisanship, Obama, Obama Public Option, Health Insurance Industry, Ted Kennedy, Joe the Nerd, Private Health Insurance, Politics News, Medicare for All, Republican, Bipartisanship, Public Option, Medicare, Health Care, Public Health Insurance Plan, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

We need to see President Obama's teeth Wednesday night. I want to know that there is some steel behind the cool facade.

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The Simplest Thing

Mike Lux | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, 2009 Obama Administration, Politics News, Medicare, Public Option, Barack Obama, Politics News
Mike Lux

Health care reform will live or die on whether the White House, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid can figure out a way around the massive barrier in the middle of the road, the public option.

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Jason Linkins

Canadians Defend Their Health Care System In Video

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

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One of the unfortunate side-effects of the often confused health care reform discourse is the way so many perfectly nice health care systems that oper...

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Who Are the Two Syrians Released From Guantanamo to Portugal?

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, World, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Review Task Force, Farouq Saif, Muhammed Khan Tumani, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Fbi, Camp X-Ray, FBI Guantanamo, US Congress, Taliban, Justice Department, Barack Obama, World News, Al Qaeda, Politics News, Kandahar, Enemy Combatants, Abdul Nasir Al-Tumani, Moammar Dokhan, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Portugal Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Bay, Mohammed Al-Tumani, The Guantanamo Files, Portugal, Syria, Camp Delta, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Their stories, as revealed in publicly available documents from Guantánamo, reveal that neither man had any connection whatsoever to international terrorism.

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Health Care Reform & Abortion: Separating Fact From Fiction

Rachel Laser | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Edward Kennedy, Abortion, Progressives, Health Care, Culture Program, Health Care Reform, Third Way, Barack Obama, Politics News
Rachel Laser

Our careful read of the current health care reform bills reveals that the legislation successfully strikes a delicate moral balance. While the proposal is indeed in many regards "abortion neutral," it arguably does moreto expand options for pro-life Americans than for pro-choice Americans.

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Obama Losing Support Among Democrats

John Zogby | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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John Zogby

Obama is now firmly between a rock and a hard place. Liberal Democrats want a strong health care reform bill with a public option. Republicans and more conservative Democrats disagree.

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Don't Worry, Get Angry: Hillary's Health Care Travesty

Linda Keenan | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Baldie's Blog, Cancer, Medical Bankruptcy, Hillary St. Pierre, President Obama, Lymphoma, Obama's Mother, Politics News, Health Care Debate, Denial of Care, Cobra, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Insurance, New York Times, Universal Health Care, Health Care Reform, Nicholas Kristof, Crohn's Disease, Health Care Crisis, Politics News
Linda Keenan

Seventy-eight percent of the people who had to file for medical-related bankruptcy actually had health insurance. Hillary St. Pierre, a spunky 27-year-old mother, is a case in point.

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Ted Kennedy's Legacy: "It's Wrong to Have Hungry Children"

Judi Jennings | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Appalachia, Politics News, Hunger, Poverty, Activism, Kentucky, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Judi Jennings

If children were hungry or ill, Ted Kennedy wanted to know. And he wanted to do something about it.

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An Unrivaled Ally in the Fight Against AIDS

Kevin Robert Frost | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Politics News, Edward Kennedy, Senator Edward Kennedy, Foundation for AIDS Research, Amfar, Ted Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Kevin Robert Frost

What was clear to me in my meeting with Ted Kennedy was how much he genuinely cared about fighting -- and winning -- our battle against the AIDS epidemic.

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Malice, Blowback, and the "Yeah, So?" Gambit

Eric Lurio | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Breaking Politics News, Mitt Romney Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, US Senate, Politics News, Ted Kennedy Successor, Ted Kennedy Senate, Ted Kennedy Senate Seat, Ted Kennedy Dead, Massachusetts, Politics News
Eric Lurio

Kennedy's last public act before he died was to write the Massachusetts Democratic leadership and plead for the law that forbids a governor from appointing a senator's successor, be changed.

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I Want You to Sell Your Body!

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Rush Limbaugh, Joe the Nerd Ferraro, Obama, Health Insurance, Power, Election, Barack Obama, Obama Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Politics News, Joe the Nerd, Michael Smerconish Obama Interview, Health Care, Michael Smerconish, Talk Radio, Right Wing Radio, Health Care Reform, Executive Power, Joe Ferraro, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

We grouse about Congress people prostituting themselves all the time. If we believe in health care, we may have to do the same, as it were.

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Do Successful Politicians Have More Daughters?

Auren Hoffman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women and Politics, Politics News, Presidential Election, Politics News
Auren Hoffman

Maybe politicians with daughters are better at empathizing with the people.

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An Open Letter to Warren Buffett on Health Care: We Need You!

Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: University of Chicago Medical Center, Dr. Paul Toffel, Usc, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Insurance Companies, Obama Health Care, Health Insurance Industry, Insurance Industry, Politics News, Universal Health Care, National Debt, Health Care, Geico, Warren Buffett, Los Angeles Times, Health Care Reform, University of Chicago, Health Action, Keck School of Medicine, Paul Toffel, Politics News
Dr. Paul Toffel

Mr. Buffett, you're not in the health insurance market, but this might be the opportunity to bring your successful Berkshire companies to the table, to help solve the major issue of our time.

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