http://talknation.org Tue, 27 May 2008 20:59:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've had concerns about Hillary's candidacy for a long time but they have varied in intensity and focus over time. My main initial concern was that I really didn't want a legacy President but that she was vastly more qualified for the job than just about anyone else and ... http://talknation.org/2008/05/27/how-hillary-lost-me-for-good/ GritTV interview with Kevin Phillips. http://talknation.org/2008/05/14/grittv-a-great-source-of-progressive-news-and-views/ Probably the best article I've read on the situation in Iraq and it comes from a Canadian publication, Macleans. Free of spin and ideology the author speaks from direct experience outside the protective bubble of US propaganda but also outside of the internal American political debate as well. ... http://talknation.org/2007/09/20/george-bush-the-new-saddam/ But what's really true is that, like Jane Smiley, I too have seen this coming. The behavior of today's Republican Party is a direct outgrowth of its historical political posturing and policy-making. I think for me that awareness came the day my father, a lifelong Republican and ... http://talknation.org/2007/09/13/todays-republican-party-in-a-nutshell/ A few weeks ago 7 soldiers, mostly sergeants, serving in Iraq wrote a scathing Op-Ed for the NYTimes voicing their frustrations with the mission, the failure of leadership and the desperate condition of our military in Iraq. Their voices mostly disappeared into the ether, with little or no mention ... http://talknation.org/2007/09/12/seven-soldiers/ Riverbend is alive and well and now in Syria, having successfully escaped the surging hell that was her home city in Baghdad. She's been offline for about 4 months since announcing that they would be leaving Iraq and her latest entry explains the difficulties they encountered in just getting ... http://talknation.org/2007/09/06/sometimes-they-get-out-alive/ No, I don't mean George Bush, Dick Cheney or their gang of thugs though lord knows they are criminals too. I'm referring to the excellent Wesley Clark Op-Ed piece in today's NYTimes that spells out, in ways even a fifth grader can understand (at least one who attends a ... http://talknation.org/2007/08/08/they-are-criminals-treat-them-as-such/ What? You don't remember that headline from today's Denver Post? That's because the actual headline was "Capitol gunman's notes bizarre" The article goes on to say In his writings, Snyder had a preoccupation with abortion. In one entry, he said it was his responsibility as sovereign ruler to stop ... http://talknation.org/2007/08/04/radical-christian-terrorist-killed-trying-to-assassinate-colorado-governor/ Bruce Fein of the American Enterprise Institute is no liberal, he's as conservative as they come and I likely disagree with him 80% of the time on 80% of the issues, but he loves his Constitution and this thoughtful, engaging discussion between Bruce Fein, Bill Moyers and The Nation's John ... http://talknation.org/2007/07/15/watch-this-again-and-again/ Make no mistake about it, this is a direct result not only of illegal invasion and occupation but of the bush/cheney policies that took us there and the insanity of politicians like Lindsey Graham and John McCain and all the other Republican candidates for the nomination in 2008. From the first ... http://talknation.org/2007/07/15/what-our-government-has-done-to-our-troops/