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Ray McGovern | Obama Misses the Afghan Exit Ramp
Has it occurred to President Barack Obama that Gen. Stanley McChrystal might actually have wanted to be fired - and, thus, rescued from the current march of folly in …
Alexander Cockburn | Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obama a Huge Favor
Just when Barack Obama's presidency was drowning in BP's crude oil, a megalomaniacal U.S. Army general called Stanley McChrystal, commander of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, did him several …
US Congress Approves Strong Unilateral Sanctions on Iran
Washington - Escalating Washington's growing confrontation with Iran, both houses of Congress Thursday approved a sweeping unilateral sanctions package designed to pressure Tehran into curbing its nuclear programme. The …
Full Employment: The Golden Age Is in Us
The inherent right to work is one of the elemental 
privileges of a free people. —FDR, radio address, 1937
Gulf Oil Spill: Judge Won’t Budge on Deep-Water Drilling Moratorium
A federal judge said Thursday that he will not reconsider his decision to overturn a six month deep-water drilling moratorium stemming from the Gulf oil spill. That means Interior …
Troops Wonder What McChrystal Was Thinking
Kandahar, Afghanistan - Soldiers knew more than anyone else what damage had been done when news broke that their commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the U.S.-led international …
A Doctored History: An Interview With William F. Pepper
The shot fired off and it would not be long before 4,00 members of the National Guard were drafted into Memphis, Tennessee, where a dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed to …
Marion Brady | Education Reform: An Ignored Problem, and a Proposal
The “standards and accountability” education reform effort began in the 1980s at the urging of leaders of business and industry. The reform message preached by Democrats, Republicans, and the …
Lawmakers Move to Curb Risky Trading by Commercial Banks
Washington - Rushing to deliver the broad strokes of an overhaul of the financial regulatory system before leaders of the world's major economies meet in Toronto over the weekend, …
Eugene Robinson | Leave the Nation-Building to Afghans
Washington - The good news? Nobody has to pretend anymore that Gen. Stanley McChrystal knew how to fix Afghanistan within a year. The bad news? Now we're supposed to …