Goodnight, Baghdad

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Tuesday December 05, 2006 · 10:09 PM PST

2006/12/05 · 22:09

Tomorrow the Baker Commission is scheduled to release its long-awaited report on Iraq. Will it have much effect on U.S. policy towards Iraq? Only if it contains no illusions about a U.S. "victory" in that benighted country but insteads positions us for a quick withdrawal. Both morally and strategically, withdrawal is the only viable option at this point, and any policy debate should be centered around this cold hard fact.

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Monday November 13, 2006 · 8:35 PM PST

2006/11/13 · 20:35

Today in Washington, there was an official ground-breaking ceremony for a statue honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Washington Mall. The newscasts focused on King's famous 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech, in which he movingly spoke of his belief that full racial integration could be achieved in America. The speech is an iconic moment for baby boomers, and for the Establishment. King's speech spoke to us as we like to be believe we are, a just, democratic nation, guilty of missteps at times, but ultimately the "good guys," inhabiting a shiny city on a hill. Read More

Over There

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Friday October 27, 2006 · 8:13 PM PDT

2006/10/27 · 20:13

Several conservative columnists, including one in today's Wall Street Journal, who have interviewed President Bush lately have come away with strong impressions on how Bush really feels about the war in Iraq, why he apparently decided to invade Iraq back in 2003, and the depressing news that under Bush Americans may be in Iraq forever, or at least until a new commander in chief occupies the Oval Office. Read More

Dadaism

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Monday October 16, 2006 · 10:39 PM PDT

2006/10/16 · 22:39

A new movie provides a compelling glimpse into the reign of terror that was Idi Amin's Uganda in the 1970s and, even more importantly (even if unintentionally on the part of the filmmakers), serves as a powerful indictment of the state of American politics today. Read More

Switch Hitters

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Friday October 06, 2006 · 9:57 PM PDT

2006/10/06 · 21:57

One week into the Foley scandal, it's clear that the expanding scandal, and the country's reaction, says volumes about the state of politics in America today. The era of Republican dominance may be approaching a much-deserved end.

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Thursday September 07, 2006 · 10:06 PM PDT

2006/09/07 · 22:06

In today's Wall Street Journal, Newt Gingrich compares Bush to Lincoln, and the current international situation with the Civil War, World War II, and, World War III. At first glance, this sounds like another cluster bomb in the ongoing right-wing propaganda campaign to drum up dwindling uspport for the war in Iraq. A closer, reading, however, may be that the right wing, through Gingrich, is beginning to signal the end is near for the U.S. in Iraq. Read More

Like That Spanish Civil War

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Monday August 21, 2006 · 9:06 PM PDT

2006/08/21 · 21:06

With the Iranians expected to tell President Bush to go pound sand tomorrow in their response to Washington's "proposals" to resolve the growing crisis over Iran's nucelar program,the stage could be set for a military confrontation with the Islamic Republic sometime down the road. Did Washington see Israel's recent campaign against Hezbullah in Lebanon as a real-world test case for its intended strategy to bring down the Iranian government? If so, the U.S. could be on the brink of the greatest geopolitical disaster in its history. Read More

A Majority of 1

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Wednesday August 16, 2006 · 6:38 PM PDT

2006/08/16 · 18:38

Right now, Sen. Lieberman is on the political ropes. But as Harold MacMillan once observed, a week is a long time in politics. And five months is an eternity. It's just possible that come next January Joe Lieberman will emerge as the most important man in Washington, at least temporarily. Here's a scenario, out of the political science fiction files: Read More

Bare Minimum

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Wednesday August 02, 2006 · 8:09 PM PDT

2006/08/02 · 20:09

With a new effort by "moderate" Republicans to push through a modest hike in the minimum wage in the vain attempt to separate themselves from their far-Right fellow travelers, the economic/commentariat industrial complex status quo machine that maintains our inequitable socioeconomic system is once again kicking into gear. Raising the minimum wage to a level that working people in our country can actually live on is presented as the greatest threat to the American way of life since child labor laws. I say let's challenge the capitali sts to put their comfortable mouths where the real lack of money is.

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Tuesday July 18, 2006 · 11:56 AM PDT

2006/07/18 · 11:56

The mainstream press, especially conservative commentators, would have you believe the antiwar primary challenge to Sen. Lieberman is the greatest assault on democracy since women got the right to vote. In actuality, single-issue challenges have a long history in America, indeed, our current political landscape was, to a large extent, shaped by a successful challenger to an entrenched Republican incumbent in New Jersey way way back in 1978, when disco, detente, and Jimmy Carter reigned supreme. Read More

The Devil and Ann Coulter

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Wednesday June 14, 2006 · 9:46 PM PDT

2006/06/14 · 21:46

Finally had a chance to skim through Ann Coulter's latest thesis nailed to the front door of public debate, "Godless." Skimming is the best way to go through this work, Coulter hurls insults at all liberals believe in in and presses our hot buttons like a participant in a behavorial experiment by Stanley Milgram. In just one example, in the space of little over a page she manages to dis the Episcopalian Church, Broadway choreographers, and anyone who believes there just might be an element of scientic fact behind evolution. Read More

Jane Jacobs, R.I.P.

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Wednesday April 26, 2006 · 9:07 PM PDT

2006/04/26 · 21:07

The name Jane Jacobs may not mean anything to non-New Yorkers, (or even to many younger New Yorkers) but if it hadn't been for her, potentially new York as we know it would not exist today, and instead of the Village we would have a multi-lane highway running through lower Manhattan. Jane Jacobs loved New York and she loved diversity and she possessed the courage to stand up to the most powerful men in New York of her time, including the Zeus-like Robert Moses, and lead an activist revolt against the paving of New York. Later in the decade, as the Vietnam War raged, she and her husband removed their two sons from the draft line of fire by relocating to Canada, where she supported the separatist movement in Quebec. Jane Jacobs was an original, an intellectual (who never had a college degree), an author, an activist,a leader, a free thinker, who took on the powers-that-be and often prevailed, making her an inspiration to activists today.

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