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The imperial vice presidency
Sidney Blumenthal
New details about his secret mission to expand the power of the president show that Cheney, at the end of his career, refuses to loosen his grip.
Standards of American justice under George W. Bush
Glenn Greenwald
A New York Times Op-Ed by a U.S. military prosecutor seeking to defend the humane conditions at Guant
That hot new neoconservative philosopher named Plato
Alex Koppelman
The author of a new book about Plato's "Republic" explains how ancient Greek philosophy became dangerous in the hands of the Bush administration.
Everyone we fight in Iraq is now “al-Qaida”
Glenn Greenwald
A change in the way the Bush administration and military commanders refer to "the enemy" in Iraq has been almost immediately adopted by the media.
Whither Guant
Tim Grieve
The White House is said to be close to a decision to close the facility, but Dick Cheney has other ideas.
Get your cheap cocaine at the globalization candy store
Andrew Leonard
The efficiencies delivered by global markets aren't limited to cheap TVs and blue jeans. Heroin and coke are also priced to move.
The CIA’s torture teachers
Mark Benjamin
Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics -- likely with the approval of the Bush White House.
Imperial presidency declared null and void
Sidney Blumenthal
Bush may ignore the 4th Circuit's stinging rebuke of his war paradigm. But his policies are losing the cloak of legality.
The NYT on the administration’s “debate” over whether to attack Iran
Glenn Greenwald
A front-page article examining the possibility of a new war includes some questionable facts and excludes some relevant ones.
More warnings about a U.S.-Iran war
Glenn Greenwald
A leading British journalist warns of the imminent dangers caused by what he calls "the neoconservative ideologues who still run the Bush Administration".
Bush’s blank check
Robert Dreyfuss
Do we really need to spend more than a trillion dollars a year to defeat small groups of terrorist fanatics?
Reporting for duty, sir
Tim Grieve
Guess which member of the Bush family is serving "on the front lines" in the war on terror?
“The Sopranos” goes dark
Heather Havrilesky
David Chase gives fans the finale they deserve -- one they can argue about for years to come.
Better to be Hamlet than President George
Peter Birkenhead
Doubt is a virtue, JFK told students 45 years ago. Without it we have the tragic bluster and empty optimism of political culture today.
Charges against teen detained at Guant
Alex Koppelman
Judge orders charges dropped, saying the military tribunal has no legal jurisdiction.
The corporate takeover of U.S. intelligence
Tim Shorrock
The U.S. government now outsources a vast portion of its spying operations to private firms -- with zero public accountability.
Words in a time of war
Mark Danner
President Bush has delivered some of the most rhetorically unstable statements of this era -- creating a world where power determines reality and words follow meekly behind.
After everything we did for them
Glenn Greenwald
Tony Blair argues that Iraqis should be grateful for the invasion and occupation and asks: "Why should anyone feel angry about us?"
At West Point, Cheney defends the war on terror
Salon Staff
In a commencement speech Saturday, Vice President Dick Cheney warned graduates that they face an enemy who abhors America, and spoke out on behalf of administration policies.
A three-way presidential candidate catfight
Alex Koppelman
McCain, Romney and Obama exchange a series of increasingly nasty press releases about Obama's vote on the Iraq supplemental funding bill.
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