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Iraq's Reconstruction a Boondoggle by Design

Posted on: Jul 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Iraq's reconstruction has been a crude taxpayer rip-off -- and while $30 billion has been spent, only 30 percent of Iraqis are even aware of the rebuilding effort.

Robert Kagan: the end-goal of diplomacy is a 2,000-pound bomb

Posted on: Jul 14, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Kagan Kribs from Krauthammer (take that, New York Post!)

29-year Army vet arrested at Haynes hearing

Posted on: Jul 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Ann Wright explains why she went and how she left â€¦

Fox News hack: UN sponsors Palestinian terror!

Posted on: Jul 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Lies, and the scandal pimps who spew them.

Live from FUBAR, Iraq

Posted on: Jul 10, 2006, Source: AlterNet

They'll stand up and we'll go home. Right?

Mexico: CalderÃ³n Hasn't Won

Posted on: Jul 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Despite what you've been hearing in the mainstream media, nobody has won Mexico's presidential election yet.

Greg Palast: Felipe CalderÃ³n's new best friend

Posted on: Jul 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Reporter won't retract "Grand Theft Mexico."

Mexico update9: CalderÃ³n set to win official count by a hair; LÃ³pez Obrador demands recount

Posted on: Jul 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Charges, reports and potential challenges.

Greg Palast's conspiracism isn't helpful â€¦

Posted on: Jul 3, 2006, Source: AlterNet

There'll be enough tension and intrigue around Mexico's elections without making stuff up. <i>See also <a href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/#38478">"Bolivia voted too!"</a></i>

Bolivia voted too!

Posted on: Jul 3, 2006, Source: AlterNet

The quick-count results are in â€¦

Corporations Aren't People

Posted on: Jul 2, 2006, Source: AlterNet

As we celebrate the Fourth, isn't it time to think about spreading some democracy here at home? Here's a not-so-modest proposal to start: abolish the concept of corporate 'personhood.'

The bed-wetters of the right have become parodies of themselves

Posted on: Jul 2, 2006, Source: AlterNet

It would be funny if it werenâ€™t so scary ...

Did the Supremes usher in a new era of bloody partisan warfare?

Posted on: Jun 30, 2006, Source: AlterNet

This could get ugly.

Updated twice: Your kung fu is powerful, Mr. Frank

Posted on: Jun 29, 2006, Source: AlterNet

The Dems release an "alternative" to the GOP resolution condemning the <I>New York Times</I>.

Ten Reasons to Watch Mexico's Presidential Election

Posted on: Jun 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet

No electronic voting machines! Limits on negative campaigning! Best of all, George W. Bush hates the leading candidate.

More on elections down South â€¦

Posted on: Jun 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Buy one bonus track about the Mexican elections, get a few paragraphs about Bolivia for free!

Senior official guilty of treason?

Posted on: Jun 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet

What's good for the goose â€¦

I almost missed this Krauthammer classic!

Posted on: Jun 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Chuck has a thing for those sweaty he-men from down underâ€¦

Darth Cheney: crazy as a loon

Posted on: Jun 24, 2006, Source: AlterNet

On weakness â€¦

Are the Dems Committing Vote Fraud?

Posted on: Jun 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet

It's troubling when big-'D' Dems stand against small-'d' democracy -- but they seem to be trying to keep a peace candidate off the ballot.

Don't call them mercenaries*

Posted on: Jun 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Searching the far reaches of <i>Pax Americana</i> for some warm bodies for Iraq.

Star blogger doesn't get labor

Posted on: Jun 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Is the labor movement a single-issue organization?

The war is over!

Posted on: Jun 20, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Did we win?

Damn those soft-on-terror libs!

Posted on: Jun 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Slaying straw-menâ€¦

Breaking: Senate Republicans right about something in Iraq!

Posted on: Jun 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Also: stopped watch correct twice since this time yesterday.

Professional trolls*

Posted on: Jun 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Evidence emerges to support what many of us have long suspected.

Damn smart politics â€¦

Posted on: Jun 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Clean energy and jobs.

Americans immune to the "good news" from Iraq

Posted on: Jun 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Too many milestones by far.

Krauthammer on icky gays â€¦

Posted on: Jun 12, 2006, Source: AlterNet

In which Charles shows that he and Iranian President Mahmoud Amedinejad share some things in common after all.

On Zarqawi and milestones and turning points

Posted on: Jun 8, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Yeah, yeah ...

Myth of the Liberal Nanny State

Posted on: Jun 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Economist Dean Baker lays waste to one of the most cherished myths of conservative philosophy.

Should the School of the Americas be shut down?

Posted on: Jun 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Be careful what you wish for â€¦

What do you call two war-mongering right-wing lawyers at the bottom of the sea?

Posted on: Jun 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet

You've got to lie to get your war on ...

Updated (twice): The Washington Post's Latin American dreamland

Posted on: Jun 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Part 17,229 in the series â€¦

9/11 Conspiracies

Posted on: Jun 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet

A bonus track.

9/11: Wild Conspiracies and Rational Concerns

Posted on: Jun 4, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Even when you cut through the conspiracy theories about 9/11 and head straight for the facts, the government's version still seems fuzzy.

First we destabilized his government, then he was killed and <I>then</I> we invaded â€¦

Posted on: Jun 2, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Let's just get some things straight around here.

Are we poisoning Canada with our bilious politics?

Posted on: Jun 1, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Hey, that's my escape route!

Chavez is buying guns â€¦

Posted on: May 31, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Oh my!

<i>Washington Post</i>: Iraq's political process a success!

Posted on: May 30, 2006, Source: AlterNet

In what universe?

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