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Cheney on Iraq: “We did exactly the right thing”
Alex Koppelman
In a wide-ranging interview, the vice-president maintains Iraqi civilian deaths were worth it, talks up administration "successes" and says he doesn't believe his poll numbers.
To Hillary, with love
Mike Madden
Hillary Clinton's Senate confirmation hearing to become Barack Obama's secretary of state turns into a group hug.
Neoconservatism dies in Gaza
Juan Cole
The recent Israeli offensive has put the final nail in the coffin of the Bush administration's Middle East fantasy.
W. and the damage done
Vincent Rossmeier, Gabriel Winant
President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.
Orwell, blinding tribalism, selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza
Glenn Greenwald
Extreme emotional and cultural identification with one side leads people to believe that X is good when done by them and evil when done to them.
Torture prosecutions finally begin in the U.S.
Glenn Greenwald
The Bush DOJ is actually demanding a 147 year sentence for a Liberian political official who ordered torture inside Liberia.
Blago’s bold Burris move
Joan Walsh
The indicted Illinois governor picks an African-American elder statesman -- and Rep. Bobby Rush says Democrats must support him. Updated: Obama opposes Burris pick.
Politico reviews the year in American “political journalism”
Glenn Greenwald
Its list of the top 10 "political scoops" of 2008 says far more about the state of our political press than they could have possibly imagined
War as a “bad acid trip”
Andrew O'Hehir
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman talks about his extraordinary animated documentary "Waltz With Bashir," a trip down the nightmarish rabbit hole of memory.
Goodbye to Guant
Stacy Sullivan
With just four weeks till Obama's inauguration, the Bush administration's military commissions are supposed to be history. So why does the government act like they'll continue past January 20?
SaladShooters and real bullets
Nick Turse
Many makers of familiar products used to make weapons for the U.S. military. In tough times, the practice could be making a comeback.
Obama’s Afghan headache
Masha Hamilton
An epidemic of kidnapping adds to the downward spiral of violence the president-elect's team will soon confront in Afghanistan.
Senate report links Bush to detainee homicides; media yawns
Glenn Greenwald
While the media fixates on the low-level, ultimately irrelevant crimes of Rod Blagojevich, a Senate report all but declares Bush and Rumsfeld to be war criminals
President Obama’s first 100 days
Thomas Schaller
He will inherit the kind of problems that few new presidents have had to face. Where should he start?
Does Obama understand his biggest foreign-policy challenge?
Juan Cole
The president-elect wants to work with the Pakistani government to "stamp out" terror. It's not nearly that simple.
Lying to the mother of a dead soldier
Mark Benjamin
Col. Sean MacFarland, who told Jean Feggins her son was killed by enemy action, is the same officer who may have covered up her son's death by
friendly fire.
Why do Feinstein and Wyden sound much different on the torture issue now?
Glenn Greenwald
The two Senators spent the year emphatically insisting that the CIA's interrogators comply with the Army Field Manual. With Democrats in control, they're not so emphatic any longer
Pirates don’t like loud noises
Vincent Rossmeier
Nick Davis says he can scare off the pirates plaguing the coast of Africa without firing a shot. So far, so good -- except for that little incident last week.
So what’s in this for Hillary?
Mike Madden
Taking charge of the State Department will give Clinton more power than hanging around the Senate -- even if she does have a history with her new boss.
What’s Obama going to tell Gates about Iraq?
Alex Koppelman
The president-elect gives conflicting signals about what the military's mission will be once he takes over.
NBC and McCaffrey’s coordinated responses to the NYT story
Glenn Greenwald
Emails obtained between NBC executives and the retired General further underscore NBC's gross indifference to journalistic ethics.
The ongoing disgrace of NBC News and Brian Williams
Glenn Greenwald
Another story from the NYT further exposes the corruption of NBC's reliance on Gen. Barry McCaffrey as an "independent military analyst."
Not everything is peachy at Gates’ Pentagon
Gabriel Winant
The DOD has redefined combat-related disabilities, and seriously wounded vets are losing benefits.
Why Obama should end the “war on terror”
Gary Kamiya
Bush's infantile response to 9/11 has harmed our national interests for too long. It's time to declare it dead.
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