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Battle of the Hawks
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080506_robert_scheer_may_7_here_come_the_hawks/In the increasingly unlikely event of a McCain-Clinton election, folks who care about the peace issue would have serious reason to worry. Both of these candidates are inveterate hawks, and what we would be up against is a choice between the neoconservatives and the neoliberals as to who could be more adventurous in getting us into unjustifiable foreign wars. …
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Another Reason Not to Vote for McCain
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20080506_another_reason_not_to_vote_for_john_mccain/The Democrats have been worried about unifying their party, so it’s odd that John McCain would pick this moment to give them another reason to band together. If elected, McCain said Tuesday, he would think of conservative Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito “as the model for my own nominees” to the Supreme Court. …
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Free SUV
http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/20080707_free_suv/July 4, 2008 Biofuels Blamed in Global Food Crisis July 1, 2008 Happy Oil Dependence Day July 1, 2008 Georgia Cops to Charge for Their Trouble June 30, 2008 Politicizing the Polar Bear June 30, 2008 A Venezuelan’s Perspective on Campaign ’08
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Truthdig - Reports
http://truthdig.com/reportWhen President Bush took to the podium on July 4 to speak at a naturalization ceremony at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello home, there were some in the crowd besides those gathered to be sworn in as American citizens. READ THE WHOLE ITEM
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Christopher Hitchens Undergoes Waterboarding….. for Research
http://www.thelangreport.com/featured/christopher-hitchens-u...m not going to be able to catch my breath again…lately I’ve been having this feeling of waking up feeling smothered, trying to push everything off my face. It takes only seventeen seconds to impact the life of an innocent man. Waterboarding Christopher Hitchens - When Christopher Hitchens agreed to be waterboarded, he might have thought he’d last longer than 17 seconds, but, as the columnist put it, “everything completely goes on you when you’re breathing water.” READ THE WHOLE ITEM
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Christopher Hitchens Undergoes Waterboarding….. for Research
http://www.thelangreport.com/featured/christopher-hitchens-u...m not going to be able to catch my breath again…lately I’ve been having this feeling of waking up feeling smothered, trying to push everything off my face. It takes only seventeen seconds to impact the life of an innocent man. Waterboarding Christopher Hitchens - When Christopher Hitchens agreed to be waterboarded, he might have thought he’d last longer than 17 seconds, but, as the columnist put it, “everything completely goes on you when you’re breathing water.
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Christopher Hitchens Undergoes Waterboarding….. for Research
http://www.thelangreport.com/featured/christopher-hitchens-u...m not going to be able to catch my breath again…lately I’ve been having this feeling of waking up feeling smothered, trying to push everything off my face. It takes only seventeen seconds to impact the life of an innocent man. Waterboarding Christopher Hitchens - When Christopher Hitchens agreed to be waterboarded, he might have thought he’d last longer than 17 seconds, but, as the columnist put it, “everything completely goes on you when you’re breathing water.
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John McCain, Jet Pilot
http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/john-mccain-jet-...Okay. Maybe General Wesley Clark is wrong. Maybe John McCain riding in a fighter jet and being shot down should be at the top of his resume. Maybe we should place his time as a POW right up there, too. The constant torture, the suffering, the brutality of his sadistic guards. Okay.
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Truthdig - Reports
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Irony
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South American Food Crisis
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http://truthdig.com/reportWes Clark on McCain’s Heroism
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