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Tempest In A Tea Party Pot

Arnold Hamilton - February 7, 2011 4

Editor’s Note: A state Senate committee on Monday took the first step toward neutering the State Board of Education, endorsing SB 718 by a...

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH I had never seen anything like it. I sat in the movie theater holding my breath as Marlon Brando wielded the stick of butter. For the sake of families who might be reading, I’ll say no more, except that Last Tango in Paris was, depending on your perspective, either a very sexy […]

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Uncle Sam’s Egypt, Uncle Sam’s Problem

Arnold Hamilton - February 4, 2011 0

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The career profiles of the man Obama sent to Egypt, and of Mubarak’s pick as his vice president give a useful mini-portrait of U.S.-Egyptian realities, shorn of happy talk about democracy and the will of the people. The 72-year-old Frank Wisner is a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and a senior fixer […]

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CIA and Israeli Intelligence Take Out Iranian Nuke Centrifuges

Arnold Hamilton - February 3, 2011 2

BY BOB NICHOLS Iran's publicly avowed goal, stated worldwide, is to go into the uranium fuel rod business, not build nuclear weapons. That is reflected...

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ElBaradei A Bad Guy? Don’t Listen To American Right

Arnold Hamilton - February 3, 2011 0

BY JOE CONASON To his fellow Egyptians and to most observers across the world, Mohamed ElBaradei looks like a hero – an international diplomat who might well have lived out his days in the comforts of Geneva and New York, but returned home to provide leadership despite serious personal peril. But to leading figures on […]