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Is Obama covering up photos of detainee rapes?
Alex Koppelman
You shouldn't immediately trust everything you read -- at least not in the British press
“If we kill schoolgirls, you shouldn’t be surprised”
Matthias Gebauer, Shoib Najafizada
Responding to threats from the Taliban, at least 10 girls' schools have shut down in northern Afghanistan.
It’s not about me
Garrison Keillor
That's Washington's byword, where public service is all. New York is a different story.
Backlash grows against Obama’s preventive detention proposal
Glenn Greenwald
Leading opponents of Bush terrorism policies object strongly to Obama's proposal
“As president, I refuse to allow this problem to fester”
staff
President Obama gives a speech on Guantanamo Bay, torture and national security
Hailing the leader as a War President and the powers that go with it
Glenn Greenwald
Does America have any other kind of President besides War Presidents?
Republicans lose their national security edge
Vincent Rossmeier
A new poll finds that Americans no longer favor Republicans on national security issues.
Obama’s coming collision with Netanyahu
Gary Kamiya
American politicians hate to confront Israel. But here's why Obama will.
Our unending war of terror
Noam Chomsky
Bush's embrace of torture was horrific, but it was hardly the first time Americans have acted like terrorists.
Obama’s embrace of Bush terrorism policies is celebrated as “Centrism”
Glenn Greenwald
For all the flamboyant displays of opposition to Bush/Cheney policies, they remain the political and media consensus.
Notre Dame’s stand against Catholic fundamentalism
James Carroll
Ironically, those opposing Obama's appearance at the university are not going to be backed up by the Vatican.
The NYT sums up Obama’s civil liberties record in one paragraph
Glenn Greenwald
Obama "has backtracked, in substantial if often nuanced ways, from the approach to national security that he preached as a candidate."
Obama’s kinder, gentler military commissions
Glenn Greenwald
Bush critics vehemently objected to the idea of commissions generally. Will they continue to do so now that Obama supports them?
We wouldn’t want to inflame anti-American sentiment
Glenn Greenwald
Obama's excuses for covering-up torture evidence are as incoherent as they are dangerous.
They’re Obama’s wars now
Gene Lyons
George W. Bush may have started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it's up to the new president to resolve them.
Obama’s latest effort to conceal evidence of Bush era crimes
Glenn Greenwald
The President's rationale for changing his mind is as incoherent as it is reminiscent of the Bush/Cheney mindset.
Obama decides to fight release of abuse photos
Alex Koppelman
The president reportedly told his legal team to reverse an earlier decision on the grounds that the pictures would endanger American troops.
Administration could renege on release of abuse photos
Alex Koppelman
The Justice Department committed, in court, to making the pictures public, but the White House seems to be walking that back.
The hidden hand of Dick Cheney
Juan Cole
Out of office, he continues to push his tortured version of reality -- and his vision of an imperial presidency -- and there are signs he is succeeding.
Army suicides soar past 2008’s pace
Mark Benjamin
The day after the shooting at a combat stress clinic in Iraq, new data released to Salon shows soldiers committing suicide at a record-setting pace. Is combat stress the reason?
Roxana Saberi’s plight and American media propaganda
Glenn Greenwald
Abridgments of press freedom by Iran receive endless attention from the American press while far more severe abridgments by the U.S. are ignored.
A secret e-mail argument among psychologists about torture
Sheri Fink
Private messages reveal a dispute at the highest levels about the proper role of psychologists in interrogation, and whether cooperating with the Bush administration was unethical.
“Nuclear weapons are not Kalashnikovs”
Susanne Koelbl
Prior to his meeting with Obama, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari discusses his country's nuclear arsenal, failed peace talks with the Taliban and the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
The White House’s full-court press on Afghanistan and Pakistan
Alex Koppelman
Leaders from both countries, vital to the administration's counter-terror strategy, came to Washington for a series of meetings Wednesday.
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