| November 1 |
- Obama's latest use of "secrecy" to shield presidential lawbreaking
- What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness -- Bush's NSA program -- is now deemed a vital state secret.
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| November 2 |
- Ongoing U.S. efforts to protect and coddle Israel
- An Israeli columnist issues a scathing indictment of Israel and calls on the U.S. to apply pressure.
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| November 3 |
- A court decision that reflects what type of country the U.S. is
- Even when government officials purposely subject an innocent person to brutal torture, they enjoy full immunity.
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| November 4 |
- Extreme unintended irony from a WH official
- An Obama aide anonymously accuses Anthony Weiner of being a coward and not "manning-up."
- Stephanopoulos and Ledeen: together in the most accountability-free profession
- Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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| November 5 |
- Criminal convictions of 22 CIA agents in Italy
- The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
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| November 6 |
- Pulsating diversity of views on the Post Op-Ed page
- One of the leaders of The Liberal Media is a leading outlet for right-wing advocacy.
- A media orgy of rumors, speculation and falsehoods
- Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
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| November 8 |
- Is using aid to Israel as leverage becoming a mainstream idea?
- Two establishment columnists raise what has long been a taboo topic when it comes to Israel.
- The universality of extremists
- Iranian "hard-liners" sound just like America's neocons when opposing negotiations.
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| November 9 |
- Can attacks on a military base constitute "terrorism"?
- If attacks on soldiers now qualify, how is it possible to exclude many American actions?
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| November 10 |
- Salon Radio: Rep. Jerry Nadler on State Secrets Act
- The key House subcommittee chairman calls state secrets privilege "the greatest threat to liberty in this country"
- Denying responsibility for the wars one cheers on
- The NYT columnist who has supported four wars on Muslims in six years decries the Islamic disregard for human life
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| November 11 |
- Newspaper punished for criticizing Iraqi leader
- The increasingly autocratic behavior of Maliki highlights the folly of "spreading freedom" through occupations
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| November 12 |
- What do these religiously motivated terrorist acts tell us?
- Why are we so selective about lessons we draw from religious extremism?
- The sleazy advocacy of a leading "liberal hawk"
- Peter Galbraith's vast, undisclosed financial interests in the policies he spent years advocating as an "expert."
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| November 13 |
- Detainees to get the "state-always-wins" system of "justice"
- Obama's announcement to try 9/11 defendants would be commendable if it applied to all, rather than some, detainees.
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| November 14 |
- The new WH counsel and "Scooter Libby justice"
- Robert Bauer's passionate call for a pardon of his fellow Washington lawyer sheds light on his thinking.
- The Right's textbook "surrender to terrorists"
- "We're too scared to have real trials in our country" is a level of cowardice unmatched in the world.
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| November 16 |
- Ex-Islamic radicals on what motivates -- and impedes -- extremism
- Why are such glaring truths about the effects of our policies continuously ignored?
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| November 17 |
- CNN on our new "huge, huge bomb" to use against Iran
- What could possibly lead Iran to want to hide their nuclear facilities?
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| November 18 |
- The Weekly Standard's ACLU smear indicts only itself
- Neoconservative contempt for the Constitution is not only un-American; it is al-Qaida's greatest ally
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| November 19 |
- The administration guts its own argument for 9/11 trials
- If some detainees get military commissions or indefinite detention, how can 9/11 trials be justified?
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| November 20 |
- The Washington establishment suffers a serious defeat
- Approval of the Paul/Grayson bill to audit the Fed is both rare and important in several ways
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| November 21 |
- Rule-of-law extremism engulfs primitive Eastern Europe
- Why would the new President of Lithuania demand investigations of CIA black sites in her country?
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