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And that’s the News

It’s the natural way of things people. There’s an arc. This is not “the bald face of imperialism.”

Should old acquaintances be forgot…

Happy New Year everyone!

“this is a farewell kiss, you dog”

This is the summation of the Bush pResidency. It should be the closing frames of any montage historical look back. I wonder if we will hear more from the journalist who threw the shoes than his predecessor, the Tiananmen Square tank man.

Pushing Forward Back.

Defending Obama’s Foreign Policy
Comment
By Tom Hayden
September 29, 2008
It is as if frustration with Obama is greater than anything some people on the left feel towards McCain. I feel their pain, but let me offer this formula: no candidate will move further left than their base demands and public opinion allows.

I personally wish he hadn’t, but [...]

Joe Biden was right, and John McCain was wrong.

Strip of Iraq ‘on the Verge of Exploding’
Kurds Extend Role Beyond Autonomous Borders, Angering Arabs
By Amit R. Paley
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, September 13, 2008; A01

JALAWLA, Iraq — Kurdish leaders have expanded their authority over a roughly 300-mile-long swath of territory beyond the borders of their autonomous region in northern Iraq, stationing thousands of soldiers in [...]