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Fresh Ideas for a Tired Crusade
by Timothy Egan
The travel writer and public television host, Rick Steves, is a certain kind of innocent abroad — benignly suburban to the core, with a bit of a paunch and the ever-quizzical look of someone who would try raw squid for breakfast and not complain about it. | After decades, bill to regulate tobacco as a 'drug' may become law
by Raw Story
The Food and Drug Administration may finally bring tobacco into its fold.A long-stalled bill vehemently opposed by the tobacco industry is set to move forward in Congress, which would grant the FDA power to regulate cigarette additives. It would not, however, allow the FDA to ban nicotine. | Obama formally wins most Texas delegates
by AP
Sen. Barack Obama has won the overall delegate race in Texas thanks to a strong showing in Democratic county conventions this past weekend.Obama picked up seven of nine outstanding delegates, giving him a total of 99 Texas delegates to the party's national convention this summer. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the other two, giving her a total of 94 Texas delegates, according to an analysis of returns by The Associated Press. | Obama is the change that America has tried to hide
by Alice Walker
I have come home from a long stay in Mexico to find - because of the presidential campaign, and especially because of the Obama-Clinton race for the Democratic nomination - a new country existing alongside the old. On any given day we, collectively, become the goddess of the three directions and can look back into the past, look at ourselves just where we are, and take a glance, as well, into the future. It is a space with which I am familiar. | When Obama Channels Reagan
by Margaret Kimberley
No I don't like Hillary Clinton. I feel forced to say that because hard core Obama fans, who can't bear to think outside the Barack box, always make the Hillary love accusation when their idol is criticized.Over the weekend Obama had this to say about his foreign policy. "The truth is that my foreign policy is actually a return to the traditional bipartisan realistic policy of George Bush's father, of John F. Kennedy, of, in some ways, Ronald Reagan...." | Truth is the First Casualty. Logic is the Second. The Democratic Party is the Third.
by RJ Eskow
For politicians who see campaigns as a war for personal gain, truth is always the first casualty. Reality is nothing but a tool to be bent and distorted to the candidate's will, regardless of the long-term costs to that candidate's party, her nation, or the values she claims to represent. | New Report: The Race Chasm and the Clinton Firewall
by David Sirota
In my newspaper column on Friday, I touched on a little-explored phenomenon in the 2008 presidential race. Amid all the punditry and intricate television graphics showing delegate counts and precinct voting trends, almost no one has bothered to look at the overwhelming dynamic that deals with race. Specifically, while Barack Obama has won states with both almost no black population and and very large black populations, he has had trouble winning states with a modestly sized black populations. How pronounced is this trend? I answer that question in a new In These Times investigation about what I call the Race Chasm -- a trend that has been almost completely missed by the media. You can find the piece here, or at the backup location here (In These Times servers crashed from traffic to the piece this morning). This chasm is the key pillar of Hillary Clinton's much-vaunted "firewall." | Spies R' Us
by Allison Kilkenny
A corporation is a group of people, who gather together in order to perform a task otherwise too risky or too expensive for an individual to accomplish. Way back in the days of silly mustaches, entrepreneurs had to gain the government's permission to incorporate, and since governments are built and sustained on public finances, corporations were originally created to serve the public. Historically, citizens had a say in every aspect of corporations, including how large they grew, and how long they operated. | Bush-Clinton 2008
by Michael Collins
The 2008 presidential primary has been a close race. It should be over by now except for the shouting. There is "virtually no chance" that Hillary Clinton can claim the delegates needed for nomination. We should be witnessing Barack Obama's triumphal march to the Democratic convention in August. | Tomgram: Nick Turse on Weaponizing the Pentagon's Cyborg Insects - A Futuristic Nightmare That Just Might Come True
by Tom Engelhardt
We at Tomdispatch love anniversaries. So how could we have forgotten DARPA's for so many months? This very year, the Pentagon's research outfit, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), turns 50 old. Happy birthday, DARPA! You were born as a response to the Soviet Union's launching of the first earth-girdling satellite, Sputnik, which gave Americans a mighty shock. To prevent another "technological surprise" by the Soviets -- or anybody else, anytime, ever -- the agency has grown into the Pentagon's good right arm, always there to reach into the future and grab another wild idea for weaponization. Each year, DARPA now spends about $3 billion on a two-fold mission: "to prevent technological surprise for us and to create technological surprise for our adversaries." | Fed Up: Why The Bush-Paulson Financial Reform Plan is Bogus
by Danny Schechter
President Bush has finally heard those of us who have been railing for financial reform, and putting Wall Street under what the Jamaicans once called "Heavy Manners," a set of rules and regulations aimed at trying to stabilize the volatile markets and curb avaricious banks who have managed in less than a decade to bring a house of cards down upon themselves and the rest of us. | You're Two
by David Swanson
Dear Wesley,You're two today and you're napping. If you're dreaming, they're probably happy dreams. You're almost always happy awake. Whatever your worst dreams are, they're probably not worse than what I fear may become of this world and your future in it. You've spent your first two years and the nine months before that in a loving family in a beautiful town in a very wealthy country that has shared a little of that wealth with us, though not with everyone. | Former spy gives US intel D+ in exploiting open info
by Nick Juliano
The US intelligence community is slowly coming to the realization that most of its vital information does not have to be stolen from a secret vault in an enemy country but is available by surfing the Web.Since 9/11, the exploitation of so-called "open-source intelligence," has increased among intelligence agencies, but many obstacles remain. Primary among those is a bureaucratic culture in which analysts dismiss documents not marked "classified" or "eyes only." USA Today reports that this intelligence, known within the intel community as OSINT, is becoming a fixture among the Intelligence Community. | The US Attorney who wasn't fired: How Bush pick helped prosecute top Democrat-backed judge
by Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane
Since the deregulations of the Reagan era, the electoral strategy of the Republican Party and the interests of the corporate lobby have become intimately entwined.Karl Rove – President George W. Bush’s former Deputy Chief of Staff and campaign maestro – capitalized on this alliance in Texas in the early 1990's, when he made campaigning against "activist judges" a cornerstone of Republican victories. He then applied the same technique in Alabama, where he and Republican consultant William Canary began systematically working in 1994 to elect pro-business judges. |
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