On a range of issues including accountability for torture, detention of terrorism suspects, and use of lethal force against civilians, there is a very real danger that the Obama administration will enshrine permanently within the law policies and practices that were widely considered extreme and unlawful during the Bush administration.
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29 July 2010
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13:59
While it’s true that WikiLeaks should have been much more careful in redacting the names of Afghan sources, watching Endless War Supporters prance around with righteous concern for Afghan lives being endangered by the leak is really too absurd to bear.
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12:37
We would all be wise to heed their warnings and drum this race-class-and-political hustler out of office before he mildly rebukes someone or something again (and then politely backs down and/or uses said rhetoric to mask the fact he isn’t really doing shit to change much of anything socially, economically or politically).
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27 July 2010
Whatever else is true, WikiLeaks has yet again proven itself to be one of the most valuable and important organizations in the world.
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22 July 2010
Did you think the health of the American economy was governed by supply and demand, overlaid with interest rates, worker productivity, and other things having to do with how well we make, distribute, buy, and sell stuff? Wrong! The American economy rises or falls based on whether or not the country’s very richest people believe they are being properly respected and made happy.
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21 July 2010
The only difference is that the Tea Party leader wrote a revolting racist screed in response to the NAACP charges and the Obama employee was revealed to have been making a plea for racial healing. Other than that, though, it’s exactly the same.
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0:46
Every issue has two sides. Some people believe that an Ivy-educated establishment striver who put Wall Street loyalists like Tim Geithner and Larry Summers in charge of the economy is really a Muslim Communist demagogue and a sleeper agent who used time-travel powers to forge his own birth announcement. Other people believe that those people’s passion might be grounded in something other than the president’s performance and policy agenda.
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15 July 2010
The reason Iceland is poised to enact an unprecedentedly potent shield for whistle blowers and other leakers is that they realized that the oozing elite corruption that led to their financial collapse was caused by rampant secrecy.
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12 July 2010
So let’s talk about the idea of an Internet kill switch in general: It’s a bad one.
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7 July 2010
I guess Romney thinks that missiles are like Irish Setters and you can just strap ‘em to the roof.
