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Book news and media campaign coverage
Glenn Greenwald
New examples of the media dynamic examined in "Great American Hypocrites" emerge literally on a daily basis.
Lee Hamilton is backing Obama
Alex Koppelman
The 9/11 Commission co-chairman describes Barack Obama as "pragmatic, visionary and tough."
Terror and loathing
Laura Miller
Martin Amis may not know much about Islam and 9/11, but he knows what he hates.
Why al-Maliki attacked Basra
Juan Cole
The three reasons the Iraqi prime minister launched his ill-fated assault on the Sadrists of southern Iraq.
The John McCain “centrism” fallacy
Glenn Greenwald
Just as they did with Rudy Giuliani, journalists are depicting McCain as a "centrist" despite his having foreign policy views as militaristic and extremist as one can get in the mainstream.
Americans in Green Zone under siege
Dieter Bednarz
Fighting between militants and the Iraqi government has threatened what was once the best-secured district in Baghdad.
Bush and McCain’s shared foreign policy approach
Glenn Greenwald
David Brooks depicts McCain's foreign policy address as exactly what it is not: A departure from the Bush-Cheney model.
Taking stock of the war on terror
Mark Danner
Not only has America not defeated al-Qaida -- but now terrorism has gone viral.
“We have been told to fight the Americans”
Alex Koppelman
A cease-fire with one of the most important Shiite clerics in Iraq seems ready to unravel.
Clinton: Wright “would not have been my pastor”
Alex Koppelman
Hillary Clinton speaks out on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and the Obama campaign isn't happy.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn’t the problem
Gary Kamiya
The hysteria over Obama's former pastor's attacks on America shows we're still in thrall to knee-jerk patriotism.
Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link
Glenn Greenwald
Still more media stars admit there is a pervasive pro-McCain double standard in their coverage.
Various items
Glenn Greenwald
McCain's unexamined ties to religious extremists. Looking back at the media's Iraq failures. More media celebrations of their friend, John McCain.
Writing through the rubble
Salon Staff
While clouds of destruction hang over Iraq, a set of new books sheds light on how America bungled the war, and on the hope that lingers in small Iraqi towns.
Bomb, bomb Iran?
Joe Conason
John McCain's gaffe about an Iran-al-Qaida connection revealed how he and his hard-line allies are itching to target the mullahs next.
Infighting over Iraq continues at Pentagon
Alex Koppelman
A new Los Angeles Times report explores a divide over troop levels.
The media’s special relationship with John McCain
Glenn Greenwald
By anointing the war lover to be both serious and tough on national security, the press all but suppresses the most important debates the country needs.
McCain’s repeated “slips of the tongue” on Iran and al-Qaida
Glenn Greenwald
Joe Klein and the rest of the media excuse McCain's false statements about Iran as a "slip of the tongue" -- even though he repeated it three times.
Hillary Clinton’s long strange journey on Iraq
Joan Walsh
On this sad fifth anniversary, I can't help wishing she'd been bolder in admitting her mistake in voting to authorize Bush's war.
McCain claims al-Qaida, Iran link
Alex Koppelman
John McCain claims, on multiple occasions, that Shiite Iran is training Sunni al-Qaida.
Five years of Iraq lies
Juan Cole
How President Bush and his advisors have spent each year of the war peddling mendacious tales about a mission accomplished.
Of war and cancer
Gary Kamiya
Five years after Bush invaded Iraq, anti-Americanism has metastasized. But we can still beat it.
John McCain runs for George Bush’s third term
Juan Cole
Based on his policies and the company he keeps, this year's Republican presidential candidate sounds a lot like the guy who ran in 2000 and 2004.
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