| July 1 |
- The Obama campaign’s past two weeks
- It matters what Obama says and what tactics he uses in his attempt to win the election.
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| July 2 |
- The right’s game-playing with “dual loyalty” and “anti-Semitism” accusations
- Those who seek war with Iran endlessly exploit “dual loyalty” claims in order to promote their political agenda, while screaming “anti-Semitism” at political opponents who make the same claim.
- Obama advisor Greg Craig: Adding insult to injury
- The campaign’s claim that Obama supported the FISA compromise to avoid “expiration of FISA” is factually false and, even when corrected, makes no sense.
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| July 3 |
- The Al-Haramain ruling and the current Congress
- Another federal court’s ruling reveals how false and extreme is the case for warrantless eavesdropping and telecom immunity.
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| July 5 |
- The political establishment and telecom immunity — why it matters
- Congress this week will take another major step toward creating a two-tiered system of justice whereby the elite have license to break laws — exactly what the Founders warned against.
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| July 7 |
- Beltway myth: “The left-wing base” vs. “the American people” on Iraq
- Mara Liasson falsely claims that “the American people” only want to leave Iraq when “conditions on the ground” permit it.
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| July 8 |
- Aug. 8, 1974 vs. July 9, 2008
- Almost 35 years ago, a U.S. president was forced to resign due to lawbreaking and surveillance abuses. This week, the U.S. Congress will act to cover up and protect far worse lawbreaking.
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| July 9 |
- Today’s coverup of surveillance crimes and Barack Obama
- The Democratic nominee’s support for this bill speaks volumes about what he is and isn’t.
- Congress votes to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, legalize warrantless eavesdropping
- Yet again, George Bush and Dick Cheney get everything they want from the Democratic-led Congress, this time to put a permanent, and harmless, end to their illegal spying scandal.
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| July 10 |
- Democrats’ strategy: Strength through bowing
- Yet again, Democrats, in their never-ending quest to avoid looking “weak,” engage in the precise behavior that guarantees that perception
- Interview with ACLU re: constitutional challenge to new FISA law
- Jameel Jaffer, the Director of the ACLU National Security Project, explains why the new FISA law violates the 4th Amendment and is even broader than the President’s illegal NSA program
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| July 12 |
- Torture and the rule of law
- Those who have sanctioned or been indifferent to Bush lawbreaking have no grounds to feign outrage over the latest torture revelations
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| July 14 |
- Accountability Now and Strange Bedfellows: The strategy and rationale
- A new campaign devoted to civil liberties, core Constitution protections and the rule of law is designed to change the incentive scheme of the Beltway establishment.
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| July 15 |
- The motivation for blocking investigations into Bush lawbreaking
- Key congressional Democrats were aware and tacitly supportive of Bush’s illegal interrogation and surveillance programs, a key motive in why they helped prevent accountability.
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| July 16 |
- Tom Friedman doesn’t understand why America is unpopular in the world
- The same foreign policy expert who justified the attack on Iraq with “Suck. On. This” scornfully dismisses worldwide discontent with the U.S.
- Al-Marri and the power to imprison U.S. citizens without charges
- Tuesday’s ruling by a right-wing appellate court further institutionalizes definitively un-American powers.
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| July 18 |
- The right-wing understanding of Government
- A former White House aide and current CEO of Freedom’s Watch thinks that the President is the “client” of the Attorney General
- Bob Barr endorses Accountability Now/Strange Bedfellows coalition
- The widespread agreement between important factions of citizens on the Left and Right illustrates important facts about how our political establishment operates
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| July 19 |
- Political harmony v. the rule of law: an easy choice for the political establishment
- The belief that high government officials should be exempt from the rule of law is pervasive across the political class
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| July 20 |
- The AT&T Convention in Denver
- Corporate sponsorship of the Democratic National Convention produces some lovely products for delegates and media stars
- Rendering public opinion irrelevant
- How are views that are held by large majorities of Americans on key policy issues rendered forbidden in our political discourse?
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| July 21 |
- McCain campaign adopts Bush’s respect for free expression
- The Rove operative at the center of Bush’s dissent-suppressive advance team is now doing the same for McCain.
- Leaders of the free world
- A formal report from the House of Commons concludes that it “can no longer rely on assurances from a U.S. administration that purports to uphold the civil and political standards of behavior.”
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| July 22 |
- The honorable centrist Joe Lieberman
- Even after John McCain was forced to repudiate pastor John Hagee’s views as “deeply offensive and indefensible,” the Connecticut senator will share a stage with Hagee and speak to his group.
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| July 24 |
- Who is doing real journalism?
- Because the institutions that are designed to check the government have been failing so profoundly, the ACLU and similar groups have been forced to step into that role.
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| July 25 |
- The parade of “shrill, unserious extremists” on display at today’s impeachment hearings
- In the Beltway world, those who believe in open government and accountability for lawbreaking by political leaders are demonized and marginalized.
- Debut of Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald: An interview with Dan Ellsberg
- We speak with the hero of the Pentagon Papers case about that controversy and what lessons can be drawn for our current political climate.
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| July 28 |
- The Washington Post editorial page’s latest rule of law sermon
- Those who have sanctioned some of the most extreme acts of illegality and human rights abuses continue to condemn other countries for less egregious acts.
- Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald: Interview with David Sirota
- Can the extreme dissatisfaction among the citizenry be channeled into genuine political change?
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| July 29 |
- Things I learned today about democracy
- Challenging incumbents in elections is deeply anti-democratic. Only an ideologically dogmatic purist — a Stalinist, basically — would do something like that.
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| July 30 |
- Those privacy-hating Chinese communist tyrants
- GOP senators protest China’s surveillance of foreigners’ e-mail and telephone communications. And they do it with a straight face.
- Salon Radio: Tim Shorrock
- The “Spies for Hire” author explains why outsourcing America’s intelligence activities is a very bad idea.
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| July 31 |
- Karl Rove’s media birds chirp about Obama’s “arrogance”
- The press’s personality-obsessed coverage of elections is as predictable as it is destructive and depressing.
- A federal court rejects Bush’s “executive privilege” claims
- A Bush-appointed judge rules that the president’s top aides do not have absolute immunity from responding to congressional subpoenas.
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