Showdown at the
Congressional Corral

'Idiot liberals' versus welfare-state liberals on the war The recent confrontation between Tina Richards, the mother of a GI home from Iraq, and Rep. David Obey (D-Wisc.), the powerful head of the House Appropriations Committee, over the Democratic leadership's...

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Is the Media Sabotaging the AIPAC Spy Trial?

The Associated Press reported a major victory for defendants in the AIPAC espionage trial on April 17, 2007: "Prosecutors suffered a setback yesterday in their case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the 1917 Espionage Act when a federal...

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Crisis Mode Grips World Bank Headquarters

There is a crisis atmosphere at World Bank headquarters here in Washington, with dozens of emergency staff meetings, more calls for the embattled president Paul Wolfowitz to step down, and clearer displays of rebellion inside the Bank. Bank sources speaking to IPS on...

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Saturday: 4 GIs, 1 Pole, 43 Iraqis Killed

Updated at 11:10 p.m. EDT, April, 21, 2008 Saturday was unusually quiet in Iraq. Only 43 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead and 17 were wounded. One Polish soldier and three GIs and a Marine were also reported killed, while four Poles and eight Americans were...

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Getting Out With Some Dignity

There’s a certain charm in hearing a politician tell the truth, but in political terms Majority Leader Harry Reid put his foot in it when he said in public that he told President Bush in private that "this war is lost" and that the "surge"...

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Ethanol: A Threat to National Security?

In his State of the Union Address this year, the Commander in Chief of the War on Terror asked the newly-elected Democrat-controlled Congress to join him "in pursuing a great goal." To effect regime change in Iran, thereby delivering "a decisive blow to...

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