All Views Articles for 2008-04-30

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Thom Hartmann
Interview With Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman
I interviewed former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman for an hour yesterday in the second hour of my radio program on Air America. These are blockbuster allegations of election fraud against Rove and...
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Chalmers Johnson
A Litany of Horrors
America's University of Imperialism
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Stephen Zunes
The Clinton Smear Campaign Against Obama
Unable to find much that Barack Obama himself has said or believes that is particularly alien to the thinking and values of most Americans, Hillary Clinton and her supporters in the media have chosen...
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Paul Campos
A Nation of Hysterics
Lenore Skenazy, a columnist for The New York Sun , caused quite a stir earlier this month when she wrote about letting her 9-year-old son take a subway and bus by himself across Manhattan. The boy...
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Susan Walsh and Wilhelmina Pelegrina
Wealthy Nations Fuelling Unrest
A UN official accuses a government of a "crime against humanity." The government representative shoots back angrily that the policy will not change. The issue erupting so intensely is not ethnic...
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Robert Scheer
No Country for Old Men
Would President John McCain forget who made that 3 a.m. call to the special White House phone? I suspect that his aides would not just let him nod off back to sleep, even if they were intimidated by...
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Barbara Ehrenreich
Truckers Take Their Case to the Capitol
Truckers live in an alternative dimension, at least so I conclude when trying to figure out how to meet up with the convoy of trucks coming into to DC to protest high diesel fuel prices on Monday. JB...
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Leonard Pitts Jr.
Where Is Justice?
I want you to tell me how I can trust the justice system. Mister Attorney General, the question is for you. And you too, Ms. Police Officer, Madame District Attorney and Mr. Judge. It is also for you...
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Cecile Richards
Message to McCain: Prevention Works
A tried and true tactic of the far right is to inject abortion into the presidential campaign as a divisive tactic. Their goal is twofold: to obscure the broader issue of reproductive and preventive...
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Peter Cole
Longshore Union Strikes Against War
On Thursday, May Day, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union will declare an eight-hour strike to protest the war in Iraq. Since the ILWU controls every port along the U.S. Pacific Coast,...
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Ted Rall
Arrest Bush: Bush Confesses to Waterboarding. Call D.C. Cops!
"Why are we talking about this in the White House?" John Ashcroft nervously asked his fellow members of the National Security Council's Principals Committee. (The Principals were Vice President Dick...
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Pat LaMarche
Cartoon Hero Will Save the Day
"There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!" - Wally Cox, the voice of NBC's Underdog That's what the 20th century cartoon hero said every time his girlfriend, journalist cartoon character, Sweet...
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Charlie Cray
War Profiteers: The Bush Baghdad Bubble
Just as the blind devotion to deregulation of the financial markets can be blamed for much of the current meltdown on Wall Street, the war profiteers have enjoyed a Baghdad Bubble as a result of the...
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Stephen Mathis
Protect America, Not Just George Bush
As house Republicans now push for a vote on the Senate's revision of the Protect America Act, one key point has been lost in the debate: The Senate version of the legislation would do more to protect...
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