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Obama-Republican Alliance on War?
DAVID SWANSON Swanson just wrote the piece “The New War Congress, An Obama-Republican War Alliance?” which states: “The [House] Armed Services Committee is likely to be a hotbed of military expansionism. Incoming Chairman McKeon wants Afghan War commander General David Petraeus to testify in December (even before he becomes chairman) on the Obama administration’s upcoming…
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NATO and Afghanistan
NIR ROSEN Rosen is author of the new book Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim World. He said today: “Obama has set an arbitrary deadline of 2014, but his generals are doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. There is no evidence of progress on any front…
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Terrorism Cases: Guilty Until Proven Guilty
KAREN GREENBERG Greenberg is executive director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University Law School. She just wrote the piece “Guilty Until Proven Guilty: Threatening the Presumption of Innocence” about Wednesday’s acquittal of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani on all but one of more than 280 counts by a jury in a federal…
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Terrorism Cases: Guilty Until Proven Guilty
KAREN GREENBERG Greenberg is executive director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University Law School. She just wrote the piece “Guilty Until Proven Guilty: Threatening the Presumption of Innocence” about Wednesday’s acquittal of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani on all but one of more than 280 counts by a jury in a federal…
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Federal Reserve and Unemployment
MARK WEISBROT Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He said today: “While America is suffering through its worst spell of unemployment since the Great Depression, some Republicans in Congress actually want to change the law so the Fed can’t legally pursue full employment as it is supposed to do now.…
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Federal Reserve and Unemployment
MARK WEISBROT Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He said today: “While America is suffering through its worst spell of unemployment since the Great Depression, some Republicans in Congress actually want to change the law so the Fed can’t legally pursue full employment as it is supposed to do now.…
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Left-Right Alliance on Cutting Military Budget
Conetta is co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives at the Commonwealth Institute. He said today: “Earlier this year the president established a bipartisan National Commission for Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and asked it to recommend a plan for bringing the federal deficit into primary balance in 2015. … “The defense budget has been responsible…
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Left-Right Alliance on Cutting Military Budget
MarketWatch is reporting: “Illinois Democrat Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who is a member of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, on Tuesday offered up her own proposals for budget cutting that relies on defense spending cuts and corporate and estate tax hikes.” CARL CONETTA Conetta is co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives at…
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Afghanistan Policy: Fueling War
JEREMY SCAHILL Available for a limited number of interviews, Scahill is recently back from Afghanistan and just wrote the piece “Killing Reconciliation.” Scahill states that while the Obama administration says it is backing a strategy of reconciliation with the Taliban, night raids by U.S. Special Operations are killing that reconciliation. Scahill is author of Blackwater:…
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The Battle for Social Security
NANCY ALTMAN Altman is co-chair of the Strengthen Social Security Campaign, a coalition of over 215 national and state organizations representing more than 50 million Americans. She said today: “An angry electorate last week expressed its frustration with a Washington political class that does not appear to be listening. Now, the Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs’ Social…