James Zogby - Progressive Democrats of America
From the day the first batch of Wikileaks appeared in the international press, the Israelis were crowing "this is good for us". Seizing on documents demonstrating that some Arab leaders bear ill-will toward Iran, the Israeli spin machine went into action. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that "Our region ...
- Brookings Institute
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Chris Hellman - National Priorities Project
Earlier today, the 18 members of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform voted to approve the final version of the proposal issued by the Commission's Co-Chairs, Sen. Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles. The vote was 11-7, short of the 14 votes which, according to the panel's rules, ...
Norman Solomon - Progressive Democrats of America
Compared to the kind of secret cables that WikiLeaks has just shared with the world, everyday public statements from government officials are exercises in make-believe. In a democracy, people have a right to know what their government is actually doing. In a pseudo-democracy, a bunch of fairy tales from high ...
David Swanson - TomDispatch
These last years of blissful peace have left Republican Congressman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, soon to be the new chair of the House Armed Services Committee, in a true panic. How, he wonders, will a starved military ever get the necessary money for the weapons it needs to keep us ...
- Sky Valley Chronicle
(NATIONAL) -- It may not be a great holiday season for some 5 million out of work Americans - and their spouses and children - who's unemployment benefits are about to run out.
Scott Merzbach - Amherst Bulletin
Town Meeting has endorsed an ongoing public dialogue about how Amherst tax dollars are being used to fund wars overseas, even as a student representative from the University of Massachusetts told the assembly the measure goes too far. At the final session of fall Town Meeting Nov. 10, the _Resolution ...
Elbert Ventura - Progressive Fix
'Tis the season for deficit commissions. The past week has brought not one, not two, but three stabs at solving America's looming fiscal crisis. And just yesterday, the Brookings Institution hosted a panel discussion on "The Politics of Entitlement Reform and the Budget Deficit," featuring a murderers' row of budget ...
Karen J. Greenberg - TomDispatch
The presumption of innocence may be slowly dying in the courtrooms where our terror trials are being held, as Karen Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU Law School and author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days, points out in today's post. ...
