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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.
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.
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