| October 1 |
- Post editors should read their own columnists
- A righteous attack on "Polanski apologists" ignores that two of its leading members are at the Washington Post.
- Georgia/Russia: how our political discourse works
- A new investigative report from the EU reaches conclusions squarely at odds with the dominant claims last year.
- Salon Radio: Patriot Act and FISA reforms
- Is there any chance Congress will fix the abuses they enabled with past legislation?
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| October 2 |
- Iran: More accomplished in one day of negotiations than in 8 years of threats
- Iran's concessions underscore the factual distortions in America's media discussions
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| October 4 |
- The sources used by the Liberal Media
- The Sunday news shows create intense cognitive dissonance: A debt-crippled nation debating whom to attack next
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| October 6 |
- The joint Post/Obama defense of the Patriot Act and FISA
- A prime example of stenographic journalism claims, and disproves, Obama is abandoning the Bush terrorism approach
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| October 7 |
- The suffocatingly narrow Afghanistan "debate"
- The supposed "costs" of leaving Afghanistan are endlessly highlighted, but the costs from staying are ignored.
- The still-missing central fact in the Iran drama
- The American media repeatedly asserts that Iran found out it got caught "red-handed." There's no evidence of that.
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| October 8 |
- A historian's account of Democrats and Bush-era war crimes
- If the goal of Democrats had been to protect and suppress Bush-era war crimes, how could they have done any better?
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| October 9 |
- Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
- A story that at first seems like an Onion gag continues to feel that way upon further reflection.
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| October 10 |
- On the government's owners
- A leading progressive economist and a Democratic Congresswoman examine who controls our political system.
- Accusing Obama critics of "standing with the terrorists"
- Is there a patriotic duty to join a "national celebration" over Obama?
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| October 11 |
- Salon Radio: Jonathan Weiler on authoritarianism in American politics
- What role does the authoritarian mindset play in shaping America's political character?
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| October 12 |
- Gay issues, the "fringe left" and the liberal veal pen
- The conflicts emerging over Obama's inaction on gay equality repeat themselves in most other areas
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| October 13 |
- Democrats and Afghanistan: what's at stake
- There's a reason those who benefit most from perpetual war are so aggressively pressuring Obama to escalate.
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| October 14 |
- How to avoid the GOP's mistakes during the Bush years?
- "The left has held Obama's feet to the fire way more than the right ever did to Bush": is that a good thing?
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| October 15 |
- A perfect logo
- The new organization from Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol nicely expresses what they are.
- GOP House members call for investigation of Muslim political activity
- This foul witch hunt may be the most despicable domestic political event of the year.
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| October 16 |
- Another Goldman executive named to key government post as its profits skyrocket
- A Goldman executive today becomes key enforcement official, joining a long list of his colleagues in key posts.
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| October 17 |
- British High Court rejects U.S./British cover-up of torture evidence
- The British are poised to reveal the brutal torture to which Binyam Mohamed was subjected.
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| October 18 |
- David Rohde's insights into what motivates the Taliban
- Seven months of captivity reveal how U.S. "anti-terrorism" actions fuel extremism and anti-American hatred.
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| October 19 |
- Obama's commendable change in federal drug enforcement policy
- New medical marijuana policy reflects sea change, both domestic and international, in drug policy.
- David Rohde on the "why do they hate us?" question
- A new poll shows substantial support for bombing and invading Iran.
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| October 20 |
- A Rumsfeld-era reminder about what causes Terrorism
- We can't combat Terrorism by sending our military into Muslim countries. Doing that only exacerbates the problem.
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| October 22 |
- A large majority of Americans once again stand with the terrorists
- 61 percent say Obama didn't deserve the Peace Prize, a view the DNC depicted as unpatriotic and terrorist-like
- What "controlling the media" really means
- The same media whining over criticisms of Fox was happy to be bullied and controlled by the Bush administration.
- The Congress today had five minutes of worthwhile dialogue
- Rep. Alan Grayson tries to explain the U.S. Constitution to House Republicans
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| October 23 |
- The unconstitutionality of the congressional GOP's ACORN obsession
- The Supreme Court, more than 60 years ago, ruled such attacks "were too dangerous to liberty to exist"
- Tucker Carlson and the right's perpetual self-victimhood
- Complaints that the media has been "silent" about Obama's "attacks" on Fox are the opposite of reality
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| October 24 |
- The Washington Post's 2002 "reporting" on Iran
- Anonymous sources. Scary war-fueling claims. One-sided accounts. Sound familiar?
- Benjamin Netanyahu's definition of "war crimes"
- The Prime Minister says Hamas is guilty for denying Red Cross access to prisoners: exactly what the U.S. did.
- "America's Priorities," by the Beltway elite
- Endless war in Afghanistan is an absolute necessity. Health care for Americans is a luxury that can wait.
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| October 26 |
- NYT condemns what it calls "Obama's cover-up"
- A leading pro-Obama outlet says he "has clung to Bush's expansive claims of national security and executive power."
- Calling for greater religious strife with Islam
- Who exactly are the belligerent parties here? Who is actually at war with "the Western way of reason"?
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| October 27 |
- Former Marine captain resigns in protest of Afghanistan war
- Top civilian in southern province argues we're exacerbating the problem we're supposedly there to solve
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| October 28 |
- The universality of war propaganda
- A soldier with the Russian army in Afghanistan recounts what they believed about their mission
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| October 29 |
- Joe Lieberman, Evan Bayh and Afghanistan
- What motivates Senators to serve the health insurance industry? Is our foreign policy in need of radical overhaul?
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| October 30 |
- "What journalists are supposed to do"
- David Brooks passes on the claims of his invisible friends and insists this is the crux of journalistic virtue.
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