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• Erik Prince, Blackwater, CIA, and the law

  
  Later On — Authority: 159
  Several commentators believe that Prince, in the Vanity Fair article , is setting up a graymail defense. Check these out: Scahill: Prince Is Conducting Graymail – Marcy Wheeler Erik Prince’s Brushback Pitch – Spencer Ackerman
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• Graymail

  
  The Impolitic — Authority: 137
  Ive long been fascinated by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, partly because hes so reclusive and partly because their training grounds were nearby the last place I lived. And of course because of Blackwaters involvement with the Bush administration. It appears that was more than just a business arrangement. As it turns ...
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• Right Wing Gun Group Puts “ObamaCare” in Its Crosshairs

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 422
  Right-wingers depicted health care reform as a front for various dastardly goals, which include everything from killing off grannies and unborn babies to ushering in a socialist state. Now, one radical gun rights group sees yet another hidden agenda behind the reform effort: The health care legislation, they say, ...
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• Rumsfeld’s Office Rejects White House Explanation of Obama’s Criticism

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 505
  A spokesman for Donald Rumsfeld fired back at the White House Friday for suggesting that the former secretary of defense was off base in his criticism of President Obamas claim that he inherited a war in Afghanistan that was neglected by the Bush administration.
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• States Work to Salvage the Lost Years

  
  unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — Authority: 129
  The Bush years—a seemingly endless era in which those concerned about the planets fate found themselves arguing with a table, to appropriate the words of a silver-tongued Massachusetts congressman —arent typically remembered for good efforts to combat global warming. But a new report by Environment America—" ...
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• CNN Poll: Majority Now Sees Afghan Conflict As Obama’s War

  
  The Plum Line — Authority: 771
  Some interesting new polling from CNN just landed in the old inbox, and it makes it pretty clear that, from the public’s perspective at least, Afghanistan is now Obama’s War. First, the topline: CNN finds that Obama’s approval rating has slipped below 50% for the first time. It’s now at 48%, versus 50% who ...
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• The Surge We Need At Home

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  merica is a mess. Unemployment is over 10 percent, while the effective unemployment rate—which also includes the underemployed—is more like 19.2 percent. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tony Blair

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 143
  by Matthew Carr, Dissident Voice , December 3, 2009 At some point in the New Year Tony Blair will appear before the Chilcot Inquiry established by the British government to assess the historical ‘lessons’ of the Iraq war. Few individuals bear more responsibility for the invasion and its calamitous aftermath ...
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• The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tony Blair

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  by Matthew Carr, Dissident Voice ,  December 3, 2009 At some point in the New Year Tony Blair will appear before the Chilcot Inquiry established by the British government to assess the historical ‘lessons’ of the Iraq war. Few individuals bear more responsibility for the invasion and its calamitous aftermath ...
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• Is there a new Pakistan policy or not?

  
  The Cable — Authority: 678
  In his landmark strategy speech Tuesday, President Obamastressed the importance of Pakistan to the success of the fight againstterrorism and extremism in South Asia, but he didnt offer many details. Onereason could be that there are no new concrete deliverables or changes inapproach related to Pakistan to announce, ...
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• What the Afghan policy rollout tells us about Obamas domestic agenda

  
  Shadow Government — Authority: 645
  By Peter Feaver The post-Afghan-announcement spin has been almost as interesting as theannouncement itself. Over on our sister blog, Tom Ricks raps my knuckles for finding fault with Obamas rhetoric and assures us that the speech waslikely effective with its intended audience: Obama supporters. Color me "still ...
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• War tax appears dead

  
  Planet Washington — Authority: 431
  Forget the idea of a special tax to pay for the Afghanistan war troop buildup. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday all but killed the idea, which has been pushed by House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wisc. "I am not in support of the proposal of Mr. Obey," she told her weekly news conference. The ...
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• Erik Prince and Blackwater

  
  Later On — Authority: 159
  Erik Prince seems to be in trouble . Good.
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• Using Photos of Abu Zubaydah’s Torture to Intimidate and Threaten Other Prisoners

  
  Later On — Authority: 159
  Jeff Kaye at Firedoglake : The set-up of Abu Zubaydah as an Al Qaeda bigwig may have been meant, among other things, for use in intimidation and torture of other prisoners. Andy Worthington recounts how a prisoner captured with Zubaydah, Omar Gharmesh, reported to another prisoner in Syria’s infamous Palestine ...
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• America’s growing acceptance of torture

  
  Later On — Authority: 159
  Very, very sad development. Glenn Greenwald : Ronald Reagan, May 20, 1988, transmitting the Convention Against Torture to the Senate for ratification : The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of the Convention. . . . Ratification of the Convention by the United States will ...
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• Gainor Column: The Apocalypse, Space Aliens, Vampires and Unbiased Journalists

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  The imminent end of the world. Aliens (the ones from space, not the illegal kind). Witches and warlocks. Those are some of things Americans believe in.  Unbiased journalism? Not so much. That’s what the polling tells us. A 2008 Harris Poll reinforced that belief. More Americans believe in ghosts (44 percent),…
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• Sensenbrenner’s hypocrisy and a SwiftHack science update

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 604
  Allow me to present you with two quotes from Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), one from March 2007 and one from December 2009: [T]he Administration is allegedly curbing Federal scientists from presenting scientific findings that are at odds with its policies. Before we start screaming “McCarthyism,” we ...
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• Iran, the Greens, and the ex-Bushman: With Washington Friends Like These, Who Needs….?

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 570
  Staff and readers of EA have had a full and frank discussion in recent weeks on the Green Movement and how it is viewed by the US. It’s helpful to get a timely reminder today that, while that discussion might have been heated at points, at least it has been amongst people who have had a long-standing interest in ...
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• Righting the Wrongs of the Bush Years

  
  unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — Authority: 129
  The Bush Years: Sounds like an afternoon special, right? Unfortunately it was a reality we remember all too well. As President Bush prepared to leave office, his cronies at EPA pushed for a slew of bad rulemakings that favored polluters at the cost of public health and the environment. This came as no surprise back ...
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• What is Obamas real Exit Strategy for Afghanistan? And why it matters to India

  
  Shadow Government — Authority: 645
  By Daniel Twining  One way to judge President Obamas speech announcing(another) new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan is by how it fares amongthose on the front lines. As one senior officialin Kabul puts it in todays WallStreet Journal Asia , "We couldnt solve the Afghanistan problem in eightyears, but ...
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