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Our war-loving Foreign Policy Community hasn’t gone anywhere
Glenn Greenwald
The belief that Iraq taught America's "experts" a lesson about anything is wrong.
Bagram: The sham of closing Guantanamo
Glenn Greenwald
Who knew that the evils of Gitmo could be so easily fixed with just a little change of scenery?
How one becomes “crazy” in Washington culture
Glenn Greenwald
Politico points to Jim McDermott and David Bonior as the Left's "crackpots" because they tried to stop the war.
What they’re saying: Today’s big CIA/torture report
Vincent Rossmeier
Government officials brace as long-anticipated report on torture is finally set to be released
Has Obama lost the trust of progressives, as Krugman says?
Glenn Greenwald
Paul Krugman says "yes." Is the health care fight an opportunity to change who wins in Washington?
The opposite of the Nuremberg defense
Daphne Eviatar
If the Attorney General investigates torture, he will be forced to focus on those giving orders, not following them
Let’s talk about tasers
America's torture problem is bigger than waterboarding or Gitmo or the CIA
Tortured logic
Attorney General Holder is going to prosecute those who tortured -- but only if they didn't do it right
Blog News
Glenn Greenwald
We've arranged a team of guest-bloggers that will provide much provocative and fulfilling commentary.
Obama’s press conference: Reviews are in
Vincent Rossmeier
"Cerebral," "small," "impressive," "too tidy" -- we survey the pundits
The Holder trial balloon: Abu Ghraib redux
Glenn Greenwald
Arguably, prosecuting low-level torturers while shielding powerful policy makers would be worse than doing nothing.
What if the Uighurs were Christian rather than Muslim?
Glenn Greenwald
Violent clashes in China underscore an ugly reality of the War on Terror.
Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without charges
Glenn Greenwald
TPM calls it "the latest installment in the Obama administration's tendency to mimic the Bushies" in War on Terror.
A right-wing writer on how to be a real man
Glenn Greenwald
The mentality behind our wars and related policies is as grotesque and twisted as ever.
Facts and myths about Obama’s preventive detention proposal
Glenn Greenwald
Is a system of indefinite detention with no charges a standard or radical idea?
Wild Dick Cheney at the Neocon Corral
Joan Walsh
The way the media cover the ex-veep, you'd never know his torture views were rejected by his colleagues and party
Obama’s civil liberties speech
Glenn Greenwald
As usual, Obama effectively defended various ideals while advocating policies that contradict them
Playing the Pelosi card
Gene Lyons
What? CIA operatives concealed the truth about torture from a San Francisco liberal? No!
The day the bloggers won
Eric Boehlert
With no traditional-media allies or lobbying money, the netroots was able to alter the debate about wiretapping in the 2008 campaign. Leading the charge: Salon's Glenn Greenwald.
Salon Radio: Eric Boehlert’s new book about political blogs
Glenn Greenwald
How has the advent of blogs changed politics and journalism?
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?
The massive expansion of America’s “Hard Left”
Glenn Greenwald
Establishment pundits depict every idea they dislike as "partisan" because that's the only way they can understand the world.
The NYT’s definition of blinding American exceptionalism
Glenn Greenwald
How we talk about the actions of other countries reveals the extent to which we exempt ourselves from our ostensible standards.
SCOTUS pick politics: Bring the crazy!
Joan Walsh
White men are a little overanxious about Obama's next move, as I experienced on "Hardball."
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