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RedditNeo-conservatives are finding a new control tower in the McCain campaign, with General David Petraeus and much of the Pentagon as close allies. The most important issue for the dominant elite is winning the Iraq War [or at least not losing it], deepening the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, continuing to threaten Iran, and organize a new global power structure around the assumptions of the war on terrorism.
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GOP Mocks Public Service
Peter Dreier & John Atlas: When the GOP mocks community organizers, it denigrates a tradition of collective self-help that's made America a more humane country.
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Palin Pundit Hypocrisy
The Daily Show : Jon Stewart exposes the shameless GOP double-speak in the wake of the Palin selection
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Sarah Palin's Shotgun Politics
Gary Younge: The vile politics of the party of abstinence stepped up to suffocate Bristol Palin in its embrace.
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Sarah Palin's Frontier Justice
Patricia J. Williams: Her appeal to a certain sector of the electorate lies in her willingness to take the law in her own hands--and use public power as a personal weapon.
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Alaska's Windfall Profits
Robert Scheer: Why is it a good thing for Alaskans to get a cut of exorbitant oil company profits, but not the rest of us, if we are all part of one nation?
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The Problem Is Empire
Tom Hayden: The challenge to the peace movement is not to liberalize the empire; the task is to peacefully and steadily bring it to an end--and make democracy safe for the world.
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Juno From Juneau
Max Blumenthal: A startling look at the GOP's reaction to the unwanted pregnancy of Sarah Palin's daughter.
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The Problem Is Empire
Tom Hayden: The challenge to the peace movement is not to liberalize the empire; the task is to peacefully and steadily bring it to an end--and make democracy safe for the world.
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Peace Voters Face New Challenges
Tom Hayden: It was a barely good week for the antiwar movement in Denver; peace voters face huge challenges in the election season ahead.
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Warning to Obama on the New Cold War
Tom Hayden: McCain and the neocons are heating up a conflict in the Caucasus; it's up to the peace movement to keep Obama from signing on.
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The Defunding of the Peace Movement
Tom Hayden: If millions are to be spent on an anti-Iraq, anti-McCain message, the money will come from the Obama campaign or not at all.
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Obama From the Agora
Tom Hayden: Assessing Barack Obama's mythic destiny: will he become more Athenian than Spartan?
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Maliki's Obama Endorsement
Tom Hayden: In a huge setback for John McCain and the Bush Administration, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki endorses Barack Obama's timeline for withdrawal--and the presumptive Democratic nominee could reap a windfall.
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Obama, Iraq and Afghanistan
Tom Hayden: Obama's plan to de-escalate the war in Iraq only to ramp up another in Afghanistan just might work. It could also entrap the US in an even wider quagmire.
As Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton head towards a close finish, the looming question may be how the Democratic Party handles Michigan and Florida. It could doom the party if those bogus primaries are included in the Clinton tally.
The only solution, as Steve Cobble has suggested, is to demand that Howard Dean and the Democratic National Committee pay if necessary for the Michigan and Florida races to be reset, in May or June.
It was the decision of Dean and the DNC to set the rules that Michigan and Florida refused to obey, and it is for Dean and the DNC to refuse to ratify elections that were held in defiance of those rules. If the original Michigan and Florida outcomes are simply rejected by the convention, those voters will claim disenfranchisement.
Therefore the caucus and primaries will have to take place again if necessary. The Democrats cannot nominate a candidate against McCain on the basis of contaminated and illegitimate votes.
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