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Obama: Radical or Rhetoric? * Rule of Law * Climate Change
If observers want to criticize the president, they should instead challenge his derogation in practice of the same values he professes in his lofty speeches. The President’s first term unfortunately witnessed a continued extension of the Bush-Cheney legacy, and he seems no more inclined than his neo-con predecessors to heed longstanding constitutional limits on executive…
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Obama: I Have a Drone vs MLK: I have a Dream
While many are drawing parallels between Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama, some activists and analysts state that many of Obama’s policies run totally counter to King’s activism.
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Aaron Swartz: Scientific Legacy “Locked up by a Handful of For-Profit Corporations”
Glenn Greenwald recently wrote: “A petition on the White House’s website to fire U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz quickly exceeded the 25,000 signatures needed to compel a reply.” Yesterday, Ortiz finally addressed the case
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court Orders Arrest of Sitting Prime Minister as Protests Continue
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Internet Activist Swartz’s Death a Product of “Prosecutorial Overreach”
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Haiti, Three Years After Earthquake: Building Back Better Requires Local Participation
“This is what building back better looks like.”
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Beyond the Obama-Karzai Spin: * Oil * Warlords * Real Security
“ISAF troops conducting live ordinance test unaware they are on a natural gas field and that a Taliban attack had just occurred. On road from Khoja Gogardak, Sheberghan city, Jowzan Province, Afghanistan.”
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Lew: More Wall Street Connections at Treasury
C-SPAN reports: “Pres. Obama is expected to announce at 1:30pm (ET) that he will nominate Jack Lew to be the next treasury secretary. Lew is the current White House chief of staff and would replace Timothy Geithner in the position.”
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Record Temps: Concrete Solutions
AP reports: “America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012. … Breaking temperature records by an entire degree is unprecedented, scientists say. Normally, records are broken by a tenth of a degree or so.”
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Kristol Attacks Hagel for Saying Iraq War about Oil, with Amusing Results
Politico reports: “In the weeks since Election Day — as Mitt Romney faded into obscurity, John Boehner lost control of the House GOP and tea partiers turned on one another — Bill Kristol has been busy charting the future of the Republican Party. …