McCain Strikes a Pose McCain Strikes a Pose
How can John McCain make himself more exciting to voters? He needs to team up with Madonna!
Jul 8, 2008 / YouTube
“Obvious That We Would Have To Leave” “Obvious That We Would Have To Leave”
So said McCain: Question: "What would or should we do if, in the post-June 30th period, a so-called sovereign Iraqi government asks us to leave, even if we are unhappy about the ...
Jul 8, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Raging Against Rising Internet Repression Raging Against Rising Internet Repression
More than 200 bloggers, human rights activists, writers, journalists, hackers and IT experts have joined the fight against censorship on the web.
Jul 8, 2008 / Feature / Antony Loewenstein
The Problem with Power The Problem with Power
In the latest issue of Time magazine, Samantha Power -- the author of A Problem from Hell and a former adviser to Barack Obama -- proposes a radical solution for the crisis in Zim...
Jul 8, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Two McCains The Two McCains
On fiscal policy, there is a war for McCain's soul. Mark Thoma gives a run-down of the "budget balancing, tax-cutting tap dance."
Will we get fooled again?
Jul 8, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Contractor Hustle The Contractor Hustle
A few weeks ago I attended a briefing with Sen. Dorgan on contractor waste, fraud and abuse in Iraq. It's kind of weird. It's an open secret. The newspapers report on it. The Amer...
Jul 8, 2008 / Chris Hayes
The Iraqi Oil Ministry’s New Fave Five The Iraqi Oil Ministry’s New Fave Five
Mainstream media should consider these leads as they change gears from no-comment to hot-pursuit when it comes to the story of Iraq's most sought after commodity.
Jul 7, 2008 / Nick Turse
Iraq Reconstruction Corruption, Part 7 Iraq Reconstruction Corruption, Part 7
In January, Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, a Green Beret, was electrocuted when he stepped into a shower at his barracks in Baghdad. He wasn't the first. In all, 13 Americans have died...
Jul 7, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Canada’s War Resisters Canada’s War Resisters
American military defectors are waging a campaign to achieve political asylum in Canada. As the threat of deportation grows, the fate of hundreds of former soldiers and their famil...
Jul 7, 2008 / Feature / Will Di Novi
The Afghan Pipeline You Don’t Know About The Afghan Pipeline You Don’t Know About
…and speaking of oil, just when we were barely getting used to Big Oil and Iraq hitting the front pages of American newspapers in tandem, here comes Afghanistan! Who now re...
Jul 7, 2008 / TomDispatch