AltWeeklies Wire
Afghanistan: Obama's Vietnam?new
Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires. Can President Obama buck the trend?
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Paul Rosenberg |
08-11-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Stanley McChrystal, Rachel Maddow
Undoing the New Deal?new
The dismantling of Social Security and Medicare was Obama's campaign promise nobody heard, and until recently, change was only at a snails pace. That's destined to change with a recent decision by the House of Representatives.
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Paul Rosenberg |
07-09-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Social Security
Afghanistan: Obama’s Vietnam?new
While Bush never listened to those who disagreed with him politically, Obama seems to have made a fetish of the opposite: on the issue of Afghanistan, he has listened almost exclusively to Bush holdovers in the military, from Defense Secretary Gates on down, while tuning out those whose diverse alternative approaches have much more support in his political base.
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Paul Rosenberg |
04-04-2009 |
War
Tags: Afghanistan, international
Busted: America's Right-wing Heroes Mything In Action
Greenwald explores how GOP mythmakers and a compliant, sometimes worshipful media combine to inflate all-too-human right-wing leaders into heroic cultural icons, following the model of pill-popping, draft-dodging adulterer John Wayne, while Democrats are demonized as weak and hapless losers, and substantive issues disappear from view.
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Paul Rosenberg |
04-04-2008 |
Nonfiction
Mything In Action: An Interview with Glenn Greenwald
Author Glenn Greenwald answers some key questions exploring themes in his forthcoming book, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling The Big Myths of Republican Politics.
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Paul Rosenberg |
04-04-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Hanging the Messenger
How Viacom killed Dan Rather and the story of Bush's National Guard service.
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Paul Rosenberg |
01-16-2008 |
Media
LA County Fed Forms Partnership With Shanghai Unions
It's the first formal relationship between a U.S. central labor council and their equivalent in China.
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Paul Rosenberg |
07-12-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Worst President Ever: Here's Why
Greenwald's thesis, simply put, is that Bush's simplistic good vs. evil dualism is fundamentally at odds with America's political traditions.
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Paul Rosenberg |
07-12-2007 |
Nonfiction
Scooting On Justice: Bush Lets Loyal Crook Walk
President Bush's commutation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr.'s 30-month prison sentence for perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI drew sharp criticisms from across the political spectrum.
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Paul Rosenberg |
07-12-2007 |
Commentary
DOJ Attorney Admits Going Too Far
Voter suppression "guerilla war" is big picture behind the US Attorney scandal.
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Paul Rosenberg |
06-01-2007 |
Politics
Under Fire: Three More Scandals Appear as U.S. Attorneys Story Unfolds
What's striking is how partisan loyalty connects the U.S. Attorneys scandal with other mega-scandals plaguing the Republican Party.
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Paul Rosenberg |
03-21-2007 |
Politics
Healing or Hiding?
The real legacy of Gerald R. Ford.
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Paul Rosenberg |
12-29-2006 |
Commentary
GOP Swept Away
Democrats scored a sweeping national victory Nov. 7, gaining about 30 seats in the House and six in the Senate.
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Paul Rosenberg |
11-08-2006 |
Politics
Clean Air Plan Puts Pressure on Ports
The AQMD aims for 50 percent smog cuts by 2020.
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Paul Rosenberg |
10-25-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Voters And Non-Voters
If California's non-voters made their voices heard, state policies could be dramatically reoriented in a more progressive direction, according to a new report.
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Paul Rosenberg |
10-25-2006 |
Politics
