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- The GOP's White Supremacy
by Paul Jenkins 
"All of this stupidity, and hatred, is a symptom of the larger problem for the Republican Party: it is utterly unrepresentative of America in the 21st century. Its Congressional representation is nearly uniformly white, and overwhelmingly male."
- What's Next on Gaza/Israel and Why Americans Should Care
by Daniel Levy
"For many people, what happened today between Gaza and Israel may have all too familiar a ring to it - Israel warns and then retaliates to an alleged or real Palestinian escalation of violence, there is Arab condemnation and international exasperation, eventually things de-escalate but according to Israel's timetable as the U.S. prevents effective early international mediation, and we're back to where we started -- with the addition of more blood and death (many innocent, some less so), more wounded and more shattered families."
- Palestine's Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood
by Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative
- Obama Going Easy on Bush? Say It Ain't So
by Lee Camp
"George W. Bush invades a sovereign country while lying to the American people and the United Nations. He breaks the Geneva Conventions, illegally wiretaps American citizens, and commits treason by allowing or encouraging the outing of a CIA agent (among other extra curricular activities). Result: nothing more than shitty approval ratings."
- Israel, Stop! Just. Stop.
by Lorelei Kelly
"The line of self-control and the awareness of the obligation to protect the lives of the innocent in Gaza must be toed even now, precisely because Israel's strength is almost limitless. Israel must constantly check to see when its force has crossed the line of legitimate and effective response, whose goal is deterrence and a restoration of the cease-fire, and from what point it is once again trapped in the usual spiral of violence."
- Did Israel Use Disproportionate Force?
by Lionel Beehner
"Hence, Israel now finds itself in the awkward yet familiar position of defending its actions. A state is legally allowed to unilaterally defend itself and right a wrong provided the response is proportional to the injury suffered and is immediate, necessary, refrains from targeting civilians, and requires only enough force to reinstate the status quo ante. Also implied in this argument is the right of Israel to prevent Hamas from carrying out future cross-border attacks."
- Understanding the Gaza Catastrophe
by Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories
"For eighteen months the entire 1.5 million people of Gaza experienced a punishing blockade imposed by Israel, and a variety of traumatizing challenges to the normalcy of daily life."
- Israel is illegally using U.S. weapons in its attack on Gaza
by Joe Parko
- Obama's Silence on Gaza Atrocities is Deafening
by Allen L Roland
- Is McCain a War Criminal Who Has Served His Time?
Bomb, bomb Hanoi
by Tom Robbins
"By the time McCain's Navy fighter plane was shot down while on a bombing run over Hanoi on October 26, 1967, Pentagon officials were already convinced that bombing wasn't having much effect on North Vietnam's war-making ability."
- What helped the rise of Hamas? U.S., Israel policies, turns out
by Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers
'Hamas is stronger than ever, and Israel's air strikes risk bolstering it further, according to current and former U.S. officials, diplomats and analysts."
- Cheney's Legacy of Deception
by ROBERT SCHEER
"Nothing, not his suspect role in the Enron debacle, which foretold the economic meltdown, or his office's fabrication of the false reasons for invading Iraq, has ever been seriously investigated, because of White House stonewalling. Nor will the new president, committed as he is to nonpartisanship, be likely to open up Cheney's can of worms."
- Why Israel Is Bombing Gaza
by Ephraim Sneh
"In January 2006, rule over Gaza passed to the Hamas government under Ismail Haniyeh. Instead of bringing investors to Gaza, the Hamas government brought the guerrilla-warfare trainers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard."
- Why I Am a Socialist
by Chris Hedges
"The corporate forces that are looting the Treasury and have plunged us into a depression will not be contained by the two main political parties. The Democratic and Republican parties have become little more than squalid clubs of privilege and wealth, whores to money and corporate interests, hostage to a massive arms industry, and so adept at deception and self-delusion they no longer know truth from lies."
- The Last Road Trip
Freakishly cheap gas? Nation broke? Just hit the road
by Mark Morford
"It is the frightening rule du jour: the cheaper gas gets right now, the more completely screwed you know we are. At the same time, a cheap tank of gas is one of the few strokes of fiscal relief we have right now, a tiny reprieve from the brutal economic turmoil. What a thing."
- Israel's Looming Catastrophe
by Robert Parry
'"For the past three decades, Israel has charted a course that invites its own destruction by relying on two risky propositions: first, that it could extend its security perimeter beyond the reach of a devastating missile attack, and second, that it could permanently control the political debate inside its crucial ally, the United States."
- White House Email Trail Grows Cold with Death of Bush IT Expert
by Rebecca Abrahams
- Bin Laden's New Weapon of Mass Destruction
by Robert L. Borosage
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