The tank crew that killed this Reuters camraman earlier this year has been acquitted of any wrongdoing. In other words, any journalist covering the Israeli army’s actions should be prepared to die.
In other news, as Ehud Olmert’s administration collapses, he’s desperately looking for some kind of legacy other than massive corruption, broken promises, and [...]

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Not that there was much doubt, but more explosive evidence just released today confirms it again.  Bush took us to war so that his friends in the oil business could get their hands on some light, sweet crude:
“Bush administration officials knew that a Texas oil company with close ties to President Bush was planning [...]

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Already, pundits and political scientists have begun to parse exactly how the junior Democratic Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, managed one of the greatest upsets in the history of US presidential politics to win the nomination. There will be county-by-county delegate maps and charts and timelines. The truth of exactly what caused the [...]

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Peace, Not Appeasement.  Maybe that should have been the title of Jimmy Carter’s book from last year.  There has been a lot of discussion in recent days about President Bush’s inflammatory and ill-advised remarks to the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week, when he said that negotiating with adversaries like Hamas, Iran, or Syria would be [...]

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It’s beyond time to change course in the Iraq debacle.
John McCain and George W. Bush made the biggest mistake in American history by starting this war, and we’ve seen the results.  Nothing good at all has come out of the neo-con Republican plot to lie to us about WMD and then keep sending more and [...]

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