Joseph Cirincione, Foreign Policy. July 24, 2008. Bucking the wishes of top Pentagon officials, Bush is pushing one of the largest military buildups in history.
Chris Toensing, Caterwaul Quarterly. July 23, 2008. With neither a Democratic or Republican president likely to withdraw anytime soon, Iraq is poised to be a campaign issue four years from now.
Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. July 23, 2008. John McCain and the White House have been clearly dismayed and embarrassed by Iraqi govt. support for Obama's withdrawal plan.
Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog AlterNet: PEEK. July 22, 2008. Lanny Davis is off the reservation. Except to the extent that he's on it. Well, not exactly on it ... more like near it.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. July 22, 2008. Rove is spearheading the $500 million "partisan institute and think tank."
dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Election 2008. July 21, 2008. The Right's reaction to Maliki's recent agreement with Obama's plan for withdrawal is a good example of what happens when things don't go their way.
Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. July 21, 2008. Talks with Iran about its nuclear program fail. Which isn't a surprise, given that the U.S. "senior diplomatic official" didn't speak.
Amanda, Think Progress AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 21, 2008. The White House doesn't want to hear what the Iraqi leader has to say about Obama's redeployment plan.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. July 21, 2008. Bush has set about destroying the decades-old lenders for good, plunging his knife into the backs of programs that helped normal Americans.
Satyam, Think Progress AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 18, 2008. Bush spoke today with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki about bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq.
Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. July 18, 2008. Benny Morris, a leading figure among Israel's "New Historians" movement, believes an Israeli attack is imminent.
Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. July 17, 2008. The White House buried a report which detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, fires, disease, and smog.
Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. July 16, 2008. Also: is the Bush administration considering the first diplomatic outpost in Iran in nearly 30 years?
Faiz Shakir, The Progress Report. July 15, 2008. Conservatives are preying on concern over gas prices by propagating false myths that drilling for oil off our coasts will lower the cost of gas.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: Video. July 14, 2008. McSame: South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford can't name a single thing McCain would do differently.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: PEEK. July 14, 2008. Lobbyist Stephen P. Payne, a new rising star of pay-to-play politics, makes Jack Abramoff look like a piker.
Ismael Hossein-zadeh, Middle East Online. July 14, 2008. Bush and his allies want the focus to be on OPEC, not the instability his foreign policy has wrought.
