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Wall Street Is More of a Threat to Obama's Domestic Agenda than Afghanistan

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Bill Clinton, Pecora Commission, Treasury Department, Sec, Joseph P. Kennedy, President Barack Obama, Cdos, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Larry Summers, Federal Reserve, Credit Default Swaps, Newt Gingrich, Fdr, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Vietnam, Tim Geithner, Vice President Dick Cheney, Afghanistan, Timothy Geithner, Bear Stearns, Lyndon Johnson, Alan Greenspan, Securities and Exchange Commission, Too Big to Fail, President George W. Bush, Blue Dog Democrats, World News
Joseph A. Palermo

Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."

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Reaction to President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is Another "Teaching Moment"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, President Obama, John Bolton, Ruth Marcus, President Barack Obama, G. Gordon Liddy, Iraq, Militarism, USS Abraham Lincoln, Nobel Peace Prize, Chris Matthews, Dick Cheney, Unilateralism, Jim Lehrer, David Brooks, Newshour, President George W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, Obama Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Peace, Obama's Nobel Prize, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Are we incapable of recognizing the simple fact that it is much better for America to have a president who is admired and respected in the world than one who is despised and feared?

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It's the Balance of Power, Stupid!

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Geo-Politics, Winston Churchill, Empire, Ahmadinejad, Afghanistan, Recognition Lag, Balance of Power, President Obama, Iran, Iraq, NeoCon Foreign Policy, Karzai, President George W. Bush, British Empire, Obama Foreign Policy, World News
Leon T. Hadar

The U.S.' clout may be slipping in the global arena. And yet no one wants to admit it. A failure to do so led to the end of the British Empire, and could mean the same for the U.S.

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Glenn Beck vs. Van Jones: McCarthyism Enters the 21st Century

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Michelle Bachmann, President Barack Obama, The New Republic, Roger Ailes, Glenn Beck Show, Van Jones, Fox News, Green Jobs, James Leon Holmes, Arkansas Right to Life, Joseph McCarthy, Mccarthyism, Glenn Beck, Council of Conservative Citizens, President George W. Bush, John Mcwhorter, Republican Echo Chamber, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

If you serve a right-wing Republican president you can write or say anything you want. But if you serve a liberal Democratic president, like the "pinks" who fell to McCarthyism, you can be taken down.

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Ridge Says Bushies Exploited Terror Threats for Political Purposes. No S**t, Sherlock

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Ashcroft, Tom Ridge, Terror Threat, 9-11 Attacks, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, Andy Card, Alberto Gonzales, Frances Townsend, President George W. Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

The Ridge revelation is a huge story, but not a surprising one. Anyone with half a brain knew that the Bushies waged their own terror campaign for political advantage leading up to the 2004 election.

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The Republican "Do Not Resuscitate" Plan to Let Medicare Die

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Social Security, Death Panels, Medicare Part D, President Barack Obama, Congress, Medicaid, Democrats, Organizing for America, Senior Citizens, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Medicare, Socialist, Republicans, Health Care, President George W. Bush, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

This is philosophical warfare, and for the Republicans, Medicare is an appropriate casualty.

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Financial Reforms: Is Europe Hypocritical?

Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Regulatory Institutions, London, G20 Summit, Regulatory System, European Parliament, G20 CommuniquéS, Hedge Funds, Ratings Agencies, Stimulus Package, President Sarkozy, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Wall Street, Tax Havens, Short Sales, " Council of Ministers, European Central Bank, Stress Tests, TARP Money, European Union, United States, Credit Cards, Oecd, France, Transparency, European Summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Regulations on Compensation, Regulatory Reform, Sec, “Locusts”, President George W. Bush, Business News
Georges Ugeux

European bank losses were as high as the U.S. They used the same compensation system, and their fragmented and ineffective regulatory system shares responsibility for the crisis.

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Gates Grounds the Airborne White Elephant Laser

Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Airborne Laser, Robert Gates, Center for Defense Information, Missile Defense, President Obama, Pork Barrel Spending, Boeing Company, President George W. Bush, Rep. Ellen Tauscher, Boeing 747, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

Now reporting to President Obama, who favors weapons programs that are effective and affordable, Gates is finally free to say that many of these programs don't work.

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President's Intelligence Oversight Board Remains Empty

Secrecy News | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, White House, Intelligence Advisory Board, Barack Obama, Piab, President Obama, Executive Branch, J. Michael McConnell, President's Intelligence Advisory Board, President George W. Bush, Politics News

President Obama has still not appointed anyone to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), Secrecy News has learned....

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Republicans Gone Wild!

Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Maher, P.J. ORourke, Willow Palin, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Sonia Sotomayor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Michelle Malkin, President George W. Bush, Chris Matthews, Sarah Palin, Bristol Pailin, David Letterman, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

The right-wing attack machine is in high-gear, throwing all sorts of inflammatory rhetoric around like it was the '08 campaign all over again.

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The Difference Between Bush's "Freedom Agenda" and Obama's "Support for Human Rights"

Neil Hicks | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Egypt, Iran, Cairo Speech, President Obama, Middle East, u.s. Foreign Policy, Freedom Agenda, Saudi Arabia, President George W. Bush, Human Rights Promotion, World News, Politics News
Neil Hicks

President Obama's strength is that he does not need to engage in the abrasive and divisive rhetoric of the Bush administration to get the attention of the region's autocratic governments.

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Book: Bush Needed Condi To Explain Biden's "Articulate" Gaffe

Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Richard Wolffe, Clean-and-Articulate, Richard Wolffe Renegade, Joe Biden, President George W. Bush, Politics News

Did George W. Bush really summon his African-American secretary of state for a lesson on junior-high-level racial politics? So reports Newsweek's Ric...

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Bible Quotes on "Worldwide Intelligence Updates?"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Draper, Jesse Helms, John Bolton, Isaiah, Ayatollah Khomeini, Donald Rumsfeld, Monica Goodling, World Intelligence Updates, War in Iraq, Major General Glen Shaffer, Right-Wing Christians, David Kuo, Bible Quotes, Iraq and Bible Quotes, Bible Quotes for President Bush, Gq Magazine, Lieutenant General William Boykin, Church and State, Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, Christianity, Bible Quotes on World Intelligence Updates, President George W. Bush, Christian Fundamentalism, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Bush proved that the blurring of the line that separates Church and State is not only unconstitutional, it is also wholly dysfunctional.

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Missing Bush E-Mails Won't Be Released, Court Says

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Emails Court, White House Office of Administration, Bush Emails, Missing Bush Emails, Bush, President George W. Bush, Transparency, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the office that has records about millions of possibly missing e-mails from the Bush Whi...

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Impeach Bybee: The Growing Movement to Unseat Bush Torture Lawyer Turned Federal Judge

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, Bruce Ackerman, Jerrold Nadler, President Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Habeus Corpus, Democratic Party, Steven Bradbury, Barack Obama, Office of Legal Counsel, Judge Jay Bybee, Center for Constitutional Rights, Jay Bybee, Jan Schakowsky, Bob Fertik, Michael Ratner, New York Times, David Swanson, Alberto Gonzales, President George W. Bush, Torture Memos, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

The UN has indicated that Obama's refusal to prosecute torturers may be a violation of International law.

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So What If Obama Bowed? HALAS!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.13.2009 | World

Read More: Jews, Saudi King Abduallah, President Obama, Obama Bow, President Barack Obama, King Abdullah, Obama Adullah, Obama, World, Jewish, Barack Obama, Seder, Muslim, G-20 Summit, Arab, Saudi Arabia, President Bush, Nato Summit, President George W. Bush, Patrick J. Buchanan, World News, Nato, Passover Seder, Passover, Islam, Pat Buchanan, Ozzy Osbourne, Muslim World, Christianity, Glenn Beck, Judaism, World News
Yvonne R. Davis

The President is speaking a language of acceptance and outreach to the Muslim world that is quite sincere.

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Afghanistan: Where Empires (US, USSR) Go To Die

Tomdispatch.com | By Tom Engelhardt | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

Read More: Jihad, Kabul, Bush Administration, Pakistan, President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Ussr, Russia, Afghanistan, United States, Empires, President George W. Bush, Mujahideen, Week in Review, World News

It is now a commonplace -- as a lead article in the New York Times's Week in Review pointed out recently -- that Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empi...

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Suburbs, Europe, Sweden, Natural Disasters, Civil Rights Act, Presidential Election 2008, President Lyndon Johnson, America, First Black President, Black History Month, New Black Panther Party, Change, Change in America, White Flight, Malcolm X, Racism, Jfk, Nigeria, Nation of Islam, Fela Kuti, R&b, Terrorism, Washington D.C., Ethnic Minorities, Black President T-Shirt, Time Magazine, American Dream, Barack Obama, Lauri Lyons, Election, Militancy, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Beatles, Democratic Nomination, Kenya, Million Man March, Minorities, President Obama, Iowa Caucus, Economic Depression, Affirmative Action, Reparations, Busing, Inauguration, Slavery, Justice, African Americans, "I Have a Dream" Speech, Yes We Can, Equality, Zimbabwe, Africa, Black President, War, Black Panther Party, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Democracy, United States, Dwayne Rodgers, France, Jim Crow, Corporate America, Segregation, Civil Rights Movement, Higher Education, Shepard Fairey, President George W. Bush, Robert Kennedy, Post-Racial, Selma Alabama, Michelle Obama, Obama Family, The Movement, Lauren Erickson, March on Washington, Flag International, Video, Politics News
Lauri Lyons

The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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The Bastard at the Wedding

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Krugman, Pakistan, Somalia, Bail Out Legislation, President Barack Obama, Guantanamo, Talf, Iraq, Afghanistan, President George W. Bush, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

The Presidency is the toughest job in the world and I think it calls for bold, strong action by Obama. I am afraid that he may be, by nature, a compromiser, and that's why I feel like the bastard at the wedding.

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Foreign Affairs And The Bush Administration: A Catastrophe At Every Turn

Antiwar.com | By Doug Bandow | Posted 02.16.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Qaida, War on Terror, Pakistan, Foreign Affairs, u.s. Foreign Policy, Bush Foreign Policy, War in Iraq, Foreign Policy, Iran, Bush Doctrine, Iraq War, Russia, Taliban, Afghanistan, Bush Mistakes, President George W. Bush, World News

President George W. Bush has been using his last weeks in office making the case that he was not a disaster as president. There's not much else for hi...

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Times' David E. Sanger: Obama Must 'Re-Balance The Portfolio' And Address Multiple Global Threats

Diane Tucker | Posted 03.09.2009 | World

Read More: David E. Sanger, War on Terror, Pakistan, Center for a New American Security, 9/11, Diane Tucker, Iraq War, The Inheritance, Bush Administration, Bush Administration Iran, Michael Beschloss, World Obama Confronts, Europe Obama, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, New York Times, Fdr, Huffington Post, Israel, President George W. Bush, Israel Gaza Operation, David Sanger, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Sanger Obama, Bush Foreign Policy, Iraq, Sanger, World News
Diane Tucker

Sanger: "The Iraq War so preoccupied the senior leadership of the United States that many greater threats were allowed to fester. President-elect Obama needs to re-balance the portfolio."

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The Final Curtain Can't Come Soon Enough

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, President of the United States, Bush Final Press Conference, President George W. Bush, George W. Bush, Politics News
Marlene H. Phillips

George W. Bush gave his final press conference yesterday. Since he set the record for fewest press conferences since the arrival of television during ...

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Just Go, Mr. Bush. Please, Just Go.

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Bush's Legacy, President George W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bush's Record, Legacy Project, Bush Legacy, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

There really is no such thing as a "legacy" for George W. Bush. The word suggests some kind of accomplishment, a bequest.

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Bush/Cheney: Dinosaurs of the Old Economy

Michelle Kraus | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Afganistan, U.S. Economy, Former President Bill Clinton, Bail Out, Acid Rain, Big Oil, Economy, Vice President Dick Cheney, Kyoto Protocol, Mortgage Crisis, Former Vice President Al Gore, Credit Crisis, Iraq, President George W. Bush, China, Politics News
Michelle Kraus

The legacy of Bush and Cheney are inextricably tied to the survival of the old fossil fuel economy. Their assignment was clear: defend and protect at ...

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President Bush, Pardon O.J. Simpson Now!

Lee Stranahan | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Pardons, O.J. Simpson, Golf, Bush Pardons, o.j. Simpson Trial, President George W. Bush, George W. Bush, Politics News
Lee Stranahan

President Bush, I realize that I may not have much pull with you right now but it seems that without Karl Rove around, you're kind of lost and sad. I ...

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