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Night of the living neocons
Gary Kamiya
The shameless fools whose Iraq folly empowered Iran's hard-liners are back, smearing Obama as an appeaser
House Democrats prioritize loyalty to the president over their own judgment
Glenn Greenwald
A primary criticism of the GOP Congress was excessive loyalty to the president. Has that changed in the Obama era?
Here is secrecy creep in action
Glenn Greenwald
The Obama rationale for covering-up torture photos is predictably leading to suppression in other areas.
Neo-Nazis are in the Army now
Matt Kennard
Why the U.S. military is ignoring its own regulations and permitting white supremacists to join its ranks.
The soldier blood on Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham’s hands
Glenn Greenwald
Those who most frequently invoke The Troops to justify their policy views are the ones who care least about them.
Should the U.S. also suppress evidence of civilian deaths in Afghanistan?
Glenn Greenwald
Reports of civilian deaths inflame anti-American sentiment at least as much as torture photos.
The CIA’s secret history of psychological torture
Alfred McCoy
Throughout the Cold War, the agency outsourced abuse to other nations. Will Obama put us back on this path?
Defeat of Graham-Lieberman and the ongoing war on transparency
Glenn Greenwald
Arguments for suppressing torture photos are grounded in the worst aspects of the Bush/Cheney mindset.
Underestimating Hillary
Sarah Hepola
How Clinton went from controversial runner-up to feminist superhero
ABC News’ interview with Lakhdar Boumediene and our current policies
Glenn Greenwald
What we can learn from the case of an innocent man imprisoned and brutalized for 8 years at Guantanamo.
The NYT’s nice, new euphemism for torture
Glenn Greenwald
What happened at Guantanamo was just some "intense interrogation."
Fellow conservatives, admit it: Obama gave a great speech
David Horowitz
In front of the whole Muslim world, he defended Israel and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. What's not to like?
Are House Democrats about to block Obama’s new secrecy law?
Glenn Greenwald
Defeat of the Graham-Lieberman amendment would be an important blow against secrecy and presidential power abuses.
No shoes thrown at Obama
Mike Madden
In Cairo, the president reaches out to the Muslim world with mild criticism and a gentle defense of the U.S.
Obama addresses the Muslim world
Alex Koppelman
From Cairo, the president talks relations between the U.S. and Muslims, says "easier to start wars than end them"
Obama’s Cairo mission: Don’t be Bush
Gary Kamiya
Five disastrous Middle East policies that the president must show he's rejected.
“This cycle of suspicion and discord must end”
Salon Staff
The full text of President Obama's speech at Cairo University
Obama, Muslim-world rock star
Juan Cole
They like him, they really like him! Well, maybe not so much in Egypt. But they're willing to give him a chance.
Bush is gone, but Halliburton rolls on
Pratap Chatterjee
Dick Cheney's former company spun off KBR in 2007 -- yet paid a huge fine for the military contractor 3 months ago.
Suppressed images don’t show rape, official says
Mark Benjamin
The Pentagon says no sexual abuse, no Abu Ghraib photos among those held back in ACLU suit.
GM’s “humbling” moment
Andrew Leonard
Bankruptcy and government ownership is a bummer and may not even work, but hey, it could be worse
Deadly heat
Katharine Mieszkowski
A controversial report from Kofi Annan's group says global warming is killing hundreds of thousands a year.
“New” Abu Ghraib photos aren’t new
Alex Koppelman
Salon published many of the shocking images now being discussed in news reports three years ago.
U.N. calls U.S. human rights record “deplorable”
Mark Benjamin
A new report suggests the U.S. may have committed war crimes -- and endorses the formation of a truth commission.
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