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Topic: US Politics

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Politic: Who are the real "crazies" in our political culture?
Posted by: IT
Is everyone outside of the two-party mainstream crazy, or sick lunatics? By Glenn Greenwald \| Salon May, 28 2010 One of the favorite self-affirming pastimes of establishment Democratic and Republican pundits is to mock anyone and everyone outside of the two-party mainstream as crazy, sick lunatics. That serves to bolster the two political parties as the sole arbiters of what is acceptable: anyone who meaningfully deviates from their orthodoxies are, by definition, fringe, crazy losers.
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Politic: The Results Are In: Americans Are Now More Closely Aligned With Progressive Ideas Than at Any Time in Memory
Posted by: IT
	On issue after issue, significant majorities of Americans favor progressive solutions to the nation's problems and reject the right's worldview. By Joshua Holland \| AlterNet May 30, 2009 On issue after substantive issue, significant majorities of Americans favor progressive solutions to the nation's problems and reject the right's worldview. That's true whether the issue at hand is taxes, war and peace, the role of government in the economy, health care, and on and on.
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Rights & Liberties: Why the Pentagon Is Probably Lying About its Supressed Sodomy and Rape Photos
Posted by: IT
This is probably exactly what the photos show, because it happened. The same-sex crimes against detainees have been documented. By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet. Posted May 30, 2009 The Telegraph of London broke the news -- because the U.S. press is in a drugged stupor - -- that the photos President Barack Obama is refusing to release of detainee abuse depict, among other sexual tortures, an American soldier raping a female detainee and a male translator raping a male prisoner.
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Foreign Policy: Now I Understand Why They Hate Us
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	How a middle-class white guy came to accept the evil embedded in American political and military might. By David Hilfiker \| AlterNet January 12, 2009 Shortly after the attacks of 9/11, many American voices raised the question, "Why do they hate us?" The "they," in this case, was Muslim fundamentalists, but the same question could have been asked of South American peasants, of the people of Iraq or Iran, of the poor of India or Indonesia, or, indeed, of the poor anywhere.
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Politic: Bush Disapproval Ratings Reach All Time High
Posted by: IT
Bush is now more unpopular than Nixon was when he resigned from office during Watergate. By a lot. By Steve Benen \| Washington Monthly November 10, 2008 In general, I don't report much on the George W. Bush's approval ratings, in part because they've become rather predictable. "He's very unpopular," I can hear you saying. "We get it."
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Politic: GOP to Public: 'We're Utterly Lost, Do You Have Suggestions?'
Posted by: IT
	It's an unusual concession, isn't it? By Steve Benen \| Washington Monthly November 7, 2008 Given this week's results, it stands to reason that those in positions of power in the Republican Party are in a tough spot. Worse, they have to figure out a way forward without any real ideas or policy solutions that Americans might like.
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Politic: Republican Fears of an Obama Landslide Victory Unleash Civil War within the Party
Posted by: IT
Senior Republicans believe Barack Obama will have more political power than any president in a generation. By Tim Shipman \| The Telegraph (UK) October 26, 2008 Aides to George W.Bush, former Reagan White House staff and friends of John McCain have all told The Sunday Telegraph that they not only expect to lose on November 4, but also believe that Mr Obama is poised to win a crushing mandate.
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Politic: McCain and Bush: Unconcerned with the Needs of Ordinary Americans
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	McCain is not a perfect replica of George W. Bush. But neither man seems to have any sense of how we actually live or what we need from government. By Robert Scheer \| Truthdig. October 8, 2008 I am not a conventionally religious man, or even a very superstitious one, but I do wish George Bush would stop asking God to bless America.
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Politic: The U.S.'s Inhospitable Immigration Policies May End Up Costing Taxpayers Billions
Posted by: IT
What's another $154 billion of taxpayers' money? By Frank Sharry \| AmericasVoiceOnline October 15, 2008 And we thought the bank bailout was expensive.
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Foreign Policy: Chomsky: "If the U.S. Carries Out Terrorism, It Did Not Happen"
Posted by: IT
	In an exclusive interview, Noam Chomksy weighs in on the financial collapse, the election and the power of U.S. propaganda. By Subrata Ghoshroy \| AlterNet October 3, 2008 Part Two of Subrata Ghoshroy's exclusive interview with Noam Chomksy takes on the United State's capacity for revisionist history and propaganda, from Ronald Reagan's supposed commitment to free markets, to American terrorist actions in Latin America in the 1980s, to the bankrupt rationale for Clinton's intervention in Bosnia.
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