democracynow.org - 11/20/2008
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As speculations abound over who President-elect Barack Obama will name to key cabinet positions, we look at some of the central figures advising Obama, many of whom are leading candidates for posts in the next administration. We speak with Jeremy Scahill, author of the new piece "This Is Change? ...
alternet.org - 11/21/2008
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alternet.org —
Click here to view this guide as a
single page. U.S. policy is not about one individual,
and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his ...
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This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to ...
alternet.org - 11/20/2008
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alternet.org —
U.S. policy is not about one individual, and
no matter how much faith people place in President-elect
Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realities ...
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This is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/14/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Politico has a good rundown of all the
Clintonites that have been invited into Obama's government. Money
quote: "Obama is showing great good sense in making use of their experience," said William Galston, a former Clinton domestic policy adviser ...
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"Clintonites Are Everywhere"
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David Corn on the Obama transition team: And then there’s—you know, just in terms of looking at how this bunch may be different than the Bush bunch, which isn’t hard to do, Sarah Sewall is leading the transition’s national security team. She works at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. And one of her specialties is the ethics of fighting terrorism. Just think about that for a moment. The ethics of fighting terrorism? That’s probably nothing that got a lot of attention in, say, Dick Cheney’s office. Heck, it hadn’t gotten a whole ...
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