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Pragmatist Timothy Geithner Named Treasury Head

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Nov 25, 2008 1,266 related
        

Treasury Secretary Choice Signals Dramatic Switch from Bush Era By naming Timothy F. Geithner as Treasury Secretary, Obama signals a preference for can-do, hands-on approaches. Perhaps one of Obama’s first changes will be the...

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Could Obama Pull a JFK in office?

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Nov 24, 2008 1 related
        

BARACK OBAMA ENTHUSIASTS who were angered by the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff, are hoping Obama will "pull a JFK" and work around Emanuel—a hawkish advocate for Israel—and those powerful pro-Israel families in...

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Digby asks a question about Spiky

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Nov 24, 2008
        

On Obama's trial balloon for a 9/11 Commission-style, "modified limited hangout" approach to the problem of holding torturers accountable, even if not criminally culpable, Digby compares an earlier story from Salon's Mark...

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A My Lai a Month

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Nov 24, 2008
        

Nick Turse is the associate editor and research director of Tomdispatch.com. They were instead the result of command policies that turned wide swaths of the Mekong Delta into "free-fire zones" in a relentless effort to achieve...

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Read All About It - How Obama is Setting the Literary Agenda

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Nov 22, 2008
        

Like his revolutionary predecessor, Tom Paine, Barack Obama is changing the American literary landscape, in three ways, says Robert McCrum Every political earthquake has its literary aftershocks. The godfather of political...

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Journalists shouldn't

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Nov 21, 2008 1 related
        

Syrian propaganda is behind stories of Lebanese terror in Syria, and some journalists are playing along, writes Hussain Abdul-Hussain* Seymour Hersh, investigative reporter with The New Yorker, concluded a two-week trip to...

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Bush Spy Revelations Anticipated When Obama Is Sworn In

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Nov 21, 2008
        

Privacy Advocates Expect Whistleblowers to Share Warrantless Wiretap Info After Inauguration Day By Ryan Singel. When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, Americans... might finally learn the full extent of...

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The Kennedy myth

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Nov 20, 2008 2 related
        

I was not a rebellious youngster. I accepted my parents’ values and their rules, and pretty much toed the line. My one area of rebellion was, looking back, a rather bizarre one: I refused to buy into the Kennedy mythology....

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US planning Velvet Revolution in Iran?

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Nov 19, 2008 484 related
        

The US opened an office of Iranian affairs in the State Department - overseen by Elizabeth Cheney, the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney - and tasked the unit with drawing up plans to overthrow the Iranian government. The...

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A My Lai a Month

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Nov 18, 2008 1 related
        

By the mid-1960s, the Mekong Delta, with its verdant paddies and canal-side hamlets, was the rice bowl of South Vietnam and home to nearly 6 million Vietnamese. It was also one of the most important revolutionary strongholds...

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