Viewpoints, January 15, 2010

Spotlight
He's the President, Not America's 'Daddy'
by Gene Healy
Viewpoints
666 to 1: The US Military Against al-Qaeda  by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt
Experts on Afghanistan Doubt Survey on Foreign Occupation: Results Are Impossible  by Ryan Grim
For Israel, a Reckoning  by John Pilger
Is Obama a Republican?  by Steve Chapman
Holbrooke: Not Hostage to Pakistan  by Robert Dreyfuss
Why Whole-Body Imaging Won't Work  by Becky Akers

Viewpoints, January 14, 2010

Spotlight
George W.
Obama

by Nat Hentoff
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The Neo-Wilsonian Worldview  by Jack Hunter
Iran Hawks Ignore Ongoing Negotiations in Bid for Confrontation  by Ali Gharib
Eight Years of Guantánamo: What's Changed?  by Frida Berrigan
Terrorized by the Media  by Gene Lyons
The Cover-Ups Continue  by Melvin A. Goodman
The Backfiring of the Surveillance State  by Glenn Greenwald

Viewpoints, January 13, 2010

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The COIN Myth, Part II: The Search for Human Intelligence  by Jeff Huber
Secret Police: Can Personal Privacy Survive the Digital Revolution?  by Brian Doherty
Need for Presidents to 'Look Tough' Isn't Getting US Anywhere  by William Pfaff
Iran, 1979 and 2010
by Dilip Hiro and Tom Engelhardt
Obama's Alternate Universe
by Scott Ritter
American Values v. Abdulmutallab
by James S. Brady and Richard A. Rossman

Viewpoints, January 12, 2010

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Too Many Dots, Too Many Enemies  by Jon Basil Utley
Left and Right Against the Empire  by David Spero
Appeals Court Extends President's Wartime Powers, Limits Gitmo Prisoners' Rights  by Andy Worthington
Will's Testament  by W. James Antle III
Yemen: The Backstory  by Stephen Zunes
The Radicalization of CIA Assassin Humam al-Balawi  by Juan Cole

 CNN, Shocked: There Are No US Troops in Haiti!
 Sen. Dorgan Raised the Issue of War Profiteering


Viewpoints, January 11, 2010

I Coulda Been A ContendaJustin Raimondo on his life as a politician
Who Would Jesus Shoot?Charles Peña on a clueless gun company
Mayor of the North Pole...is what Karzai might as well be, says Jeff Huber
Spotlight
Old Threat Rings True Today
by Eric Margolis
Viewpoints
Making Sense of the New CIA Battlefield in Afghanistan  by Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
The Quiet American  by Uri Avnery
Obama's Yemeni Odyssey Targets China  by M.K. Bhadrakumar
The COIN Myth  by Jeff Huber
Overspent and Overextended
by Doug Bandow
Helen Asks Why  by Ray McGovern