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    Vietnam Videos and Photos Helped Stop the War

    So much for learning from our mistakes. President Obama is attempting to block the release of hundreds of photos showing US personnel abusing detainees.

    Pass of Salang – Afghanistan

    President Barack Obama is seeking to block the immediate release of hundreds of photos showing U.S. personnel allegedly abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. An Obama administration official said Wednesday that the president told [...]



    so hamas would be justified in assassinating israel’s top scientists?

    Another example of Israeli exceptionalism:

    Israel is assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists as part of its efforts to disrupt the Islamist regime’s illicit weapons program, the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday quoted Western intelligence sources as saying. … The paper also quoted United States intelligence sources as saying Israel is using sabotage, front companies and double agents to disrupt the Islamist republic’s illicit weapons program [...]



    Why Isn’t Simon Johnson the Treasury Secretary?

    This is the most succinct explanation I have come across of where we are at and of what to do with regard to the financial crisis affecting our country.  I hope Obama and Congress are listening.  From Bill Moyers Journal (you can watch the video here):

    February 13, 2009

    BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal.

    The battle is joined as they [...]



    This is Very Good News Indeed

    Wow, what can I say?  My well-deserved cynicism says this will never occur but I will gladly be wrong.

    From here:

    President Barack Obama

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will set a $500,000 annual compensation cap on Wednesday for executives at companies getting taxpayer bailouts as part of a wider process to clamp down on excessive corporate pay.

    An Obama administration official [...]



    The Campaign System is Broken and Everyone Knows It

    Political fundraising has often been viewed as a corrupting influence in politics. Now it’s increasingly being seen by politicians as a roadblock to doing their jobs well. Republican Senator George Voinovich has had enough. Will stories like his breathe new life into the reform movement?

    It is nice to see a Republican Senator admit that the campaign finance system [...]



    $25 Billion for New Signs and Renovations

    WAMU logo

    Ever since my favorite local bank, Washington Mutual (I know it is not a local bank) was taken over by JP Morgan I have been wondering about how its new overlord would handle the name of the organization.  I was thinking that it could keep the Washington Mutual name since it has for me been a good bank and therefore [...]



    Pelosi and Reid Must Go

    Just read this from Judith Shattuck, the Washington State Coordinator of the Progressive Democrats of America. Nice to be reminded there are many others that see what I see, think what I think and feel what I feel:

    My note to Pelosi ….

    Quoting: Pelosi: US must stand strongly with Israel Published: 12.28.08, 03:13 / Israel News …Speaker of the US House of [...]

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