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How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics


Andy Worthington

Several prominent human rights and legal organizations launched a campaign in Berlin on November 10, aimed at persuading European countries to accept cleared prisoners from Guant�namo.

The Dead Core of McCain's Republican Party

Paul Jenkins | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

Now that it has thoroughly discredited the market economy it was ostensibly pushing, the Republican Party is left with no clear, logical economic agenda.

Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 08.19.2008 | Home


Judah Freed

No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.

Senator McCain, Please Define "Free Nation"

Vanessa Edwards Foster | Posted 08.14.2008 | Home


Vanessa Edwards Foster

Iraq used to hold elections -- before the American invasion. Does that mean America was an aggressor on a "free nation"? McCain's simplistic tough talk is just Bush-policy in the making.

Cashing in on the War on Terror

William Fisher | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics


William Fisher

On the day Petraeus and Crocker testify before Congress on Iraq, the ghost of Dwight D. Eisenhower will be hovering in the wings. And he won't be smiling.

Why Voters Reelect Thugs

Lionel Beehner | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics


Lionel Beehner

What's worrying is that the ensuing violence in Kenya could leave Kenyans -- and other voters in illiberal democracies -- with the impression that a closely contested race is just not worth it.