truthdig.com - 3/23/2009
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The methods used to attain what we want, we are told by reality television programs, business schools and self-help gurus, are irrelevant. Success, always defined in terms of money and power, is its own justification. Our moral collapse is as terrifying, and as dangerous, as our economic ...
commentarymagazine.com - 3/27/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
The new Afghanistan policy that President Obama unveiled
at the White House today was pretty much all...
that supporters of the war effort could have asked for, and probably pretty similar to what a President McCain would have decided on. The major ...
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A New Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
democracyarsenal.org - 3/25/2009
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democracyarsenal.org —
As the President moves to make a decision
in Afghanistan three schools of thought have emerged on...
what he should do. The President could choose to go all in. He could choose a minimalist strategy. Or he could opt for something in ...
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The Case for the Middle Path in Afghanistan
huffingtonpost.com - 3/27/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
For those of us who fought in Afghanistan
and Iraq, it was extremely important that the new...
president get the situation in Afghanistan right. Not just for America's security, but for those troops still in Afghanistan, and those heading to Afghanistan ...
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Jon Soltz: Obama Got Afghanistan/Pakistan Right
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Chris Hedges: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout
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... used corporate money and power to determine the narrow parameters of the debate in our classrooms, on the airwaves and in the halls of Congress while they looted the country. "It is especially difficult to fight against it," warned Adorno, "because those manipulative people, who actually are incapable of true experience, for that very reason manifest an unresponsiveness that associates them with certain mentally ill or psychotic characters, namely schizoids." Originally Posted on TruthDig . More News from Air America : ...
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Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for March 22nd through March 24th:
Laissez Unfair -
Wanted: A Perp Walk For Plutocrats -
Exxon Valdez: The Killing Did Not Stop in 1989 -
No More ‘Too Big to Fail’ -
When O'Reilly sends stalkers -
A Second 9/11 in Slow Motion -
I Was Followed, Harassed, and Ambushed By Bill O’Reilly’s Hooligans -
Congress Should Challenge Cheney -
Give CEO Pay ...
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