In These Times Tag Archive

Sabotaging Peace with Iran

The Obama administration deserves great credit for its role in negotiating the historic November 2013 accord with Iran, which lifts some...

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The War That Wasn’t

An amazing thing happened on the way to another war in the Middle East. The American people said no. We were told the same things that have...

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Drone Justice is Blind

For the first time in history, the United States government has proclaimed its legal right to assassinate any person, anywhere on the...

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In Questioning Brennan, Intelligence Committee Showed Little

In 1976, followIng revelations of CIA abuses during the Nixon Administration (including spying on domestic dissidents), Congress created...

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‘A Giant Sucking Sound’

Presidential contenders Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have been spending a lot of time in Ohio, promising the swing-state voters they’ll...

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Legislate First, Ask Questions Never

The comments that Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) made in August about legitimate rape helped expose a sad truth about modern-day Washington,...

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Making Obama’s Kill List

in 1995 Albie Sachs, then a member of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, helped abolish capital punishment, explaining that his goal...

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The U.S. Department of Double Standards

On April 21, The New York Times reported that Wal-Mart de Mexico paid $24 million in bribes to local land use officials in...

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Ron Paul’s Common Sense

It is worth listening to the GOP primary debates to hear Ron Paul give an honest assessment of our foreign policy. At the February 22...

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A Broken Writ, a Kangaroo Court

On New Year’s Eve, President Barack Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which authorizes the indefinite...

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