Obama/Emanuel Blunder on KSM Trial

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The defining personality of the George W. Bush administration was his Vice President, Dick Cheney. And the man who enabled Cheney and built out the architecture of “the dark side” of a nightmarish purgatory beyond American or international law was his chief of staff David Addington.

No Green Economy Without a Serious US Manufacturing Policy

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I just did this interesting interview with media investor Leo Hindery who also chairs the Economic Growth/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation. Hindery spoke yesterday at a forum sponsored by the Center for American Progress and Apollo Alliance titled “”Picking a Winner: How to Make the U.S.

Armenian Genocide Resolution Passes Committee; Turkey Recalls Ambassador

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(Photo Credit: Ucumari’s Photostream) Turkey – a country that President Obama visited on his first overseas tour and referred to as a nation with which the United States enjoys a “model partnership” has recalled its Ambassador to Washington Namik Tan after the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed House Resolution 252 labeling Turkey’s massacre of Armenian…

Guest Post by Anya Landau French: In The Washington Post – Why U.S. Policy Isn’t Affecting Cuba

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(Photo by Anya Landau French, of a Havana art fair where private Cuban entrepreneurs can earn hard currency income selling to foreign tourists) Anya Landau French directs the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative.This post originally appeared at The Havana Note.

It’s Not about Islam & Judaism, It’s About Anti-Colonialism, Territory, Liberation, and Lives

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This is a guest note by journalist and Middle East and Islamic issues expert Nir Rosen. On Sunday, February 28th the New York Times published an outrageous oped by Efraim Karsh full of lies, distortions and mistakes. Karsh describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an urgent foreign policy matter for the United States.

Eric Massa, Joe Lieberman, and Keith Ellison

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I am not a single issue guy — and despite my differences with Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) on health care and his general applause for the next and next next wars America chooses, he did a great thing by introducing legislation today to repeal the embedded bigotry in our national military forces of Don’t Ask…

Guest Post by Tom Garofalo: With Allies Like This…

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(Photo Credit: Stewf’s Photostream) This post, which originally appeared at The Havana Note, is a guest note by Tom Garofalo, a consultant for the New America Foundation/U.S-Cuba Policy Initiative. Israel’s controversial Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman suggested a not-so-novel approach to the problem of Iran’s nuclear ambitions recently.