Links: U.S. Politics & Government

• Heather, Saxby Chambliss Thinks The Iranian People Don't Remember the 1953 CIA Coup, Video Cafe, Crooks & Liars, 19 June 2009.


• Gary Kamiya, Night of the living neocons, Salon.com, 18 June 2009.
  
  "The shameless fools whose Iraq folly empowered Iran's hard-liners are back, smearing Obama as an appeaser."


• Rajiv Chandrasekaran, U.S. Pursues a New Way To Rebuild in Afghanistan, The Washington Post, 19 June 2009.


• John R. MacArthur, Obama a Very Smooth Liar, CommonDreams.org, 17 June 2009.


• Justin Raimondo, The New Neocons: The left wing of the War Party raises its ugly head, AntiWar.com, 13 May 2009.


• Chris Floyd, A Brand New Day -- Yea, Verily, Morning in America!, Empire Burlesque, 23 June 2009.


• Arthur Silber, Obama's Obscene Speech in Cairo: Lies in the Service of Death, Once Upon a Time..., 08 June 2009.


• Chris Floyd, Speech Therapy: Pretty Words in Cairo Hide Brutal Realities of Power, Empire Burlesque, 04 June 2009.


• Chris Floyd, Death of the Republic, Part CLXVIII, Empire Burlesque, 01 June 2009.


• Sean Wilentz, How Bush Destroyed the Republican Party, Rolling Stone, 04 Sept 2008.


• Matt Taibbi, It's a Class War, Stupid, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2008.


• Glenn Greenwald, Noted Obama admirer lambasts him on civil liberties, secrecy, Salon.com, 23 June 2009.


• Megan Slack (ProPublica), White House Drafts Executive Order To Allow Indefinite Detention Of Terror Suspects, The Huffington Post, 26 June 2009.
  
  Ari Melber, Obama Courts Disaster With New Detention Plan, The Huffington Post, 26 June 2009.
  
  Dafna Linzer and Peter Finn, White House Weighs Order on Detention: Officials: Move Would Reassert Power To Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely, The Washington Post, 27 June 2009.
  
  * Glenn Greenwald, Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without charges, Salon.com, 27 June 2009.


• Michael O'Brien, Obama issues signing statement on $106B war bill, The Hill, 26 June 2009.
  
  Lila Shapiro, Obama Issues Signing Statement On War Spending Bill, The Huffington Post, 27 June 2009.


• Todd S. Purdum, It Came from Wasilla, Vanity Fair, vanityfair.com, August 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, The suppressed fact: Deaths by U.S. torture, Salon.com, 30 June 2009.


• Mark Leibovich, Who Can Possibly Govern California?, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 05 July 2009.


• Jason Leopold, Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion, t r u t h o u t, truthout.org, 03 July 2009.


• Michael Lind, All sides blame McNamara for Vietnam, Salon.com, 07 July 2009.


• Theresa Amato, Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny, AlterNet, AlterNet.org, 07 June 2009.
  
  An excerpt from the book:
  Theresa Amato. Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny. New York: The New Press, 2009.
  (publisher; Amazon.com.)


• Turning The Camera Around: Health Care Stakeholders, NPR, NPR.org, 09 July 2009.
  
  Peter Overby and Andrea Seabrook, Need For Campaign Cash Opens Door For Lobbyists, NPR, NPR.org, 09 July 2009.


• Joe Conason, The losers who gave us Sarah Palin, Salon, Salon.com, 10 July 2009.
  
  Peggy Noonan, A Farewell to Harms, The Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com, 10 July 2009.


• Will Bunch, Robert McNamara and America's Tragic Memory Loss, The Huffington Post, 06 July 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, The new Report on illegal spying is not a real investigation, Salon.com, 11 July 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, Our political class in a nutshell, Salon.com, 11 July 2009.


• Frank Rich, She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 12 July 2009.


• Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Obama: Regime Rotation, The Cutting Edge, 26 January 2009.


• Frank Rich, They Got Some ’Splainin’ to Do, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 19 July 2009.


• Sam Tanenhaus, Conservatism Is Dead: An intellectual autopsy of the movement, The New Republic, 18 February 2009.


• Michael Bronner, Hussam Mohammed Amin: Former Iraqi Weapons Monitor Describes U.S. Abuse For First Time, The Huffington Post, 23 July 2009.
  
  The illegal mistreatment (i.e., torture) of prisoners in Iraq was standard U.S. policy of Bush/Cheney. And the Obama administrtion is looking the other way.
  
  William Rivers Pitt, Worst Case Scenario, t r u t h o u t, 21 July 2009.


• Mark Mazzetti and David Johnston, Bush Weighed Using Military in U.S. Arrests, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 24 July 2009.
  
  Glenn Greenwald, The Cheney plan to deploy the U.S. military on U.S. soil, Salon.com, 25 July 2009.


• Bernard Chazelle, How to Argue Against Torture, The Smirking Chimp, 24 July 2009.


• Jeremy Scahill, Feingold: White House is Whistling Past Afghan Graveyard, The Nation, 24 July 2009.


• UAVs: The Future of Warfare in America, Truthdig, truthdig.com, 23 July 2009.


• digby, We're Just Different, Hullabaloo, 30 July 2009.
  
  "There has to be a reason that the US, of all the industrialized nations, the richest country in the world, is so hostile to social welfare programs. There are a lot of contributing factors, not the least of which is our vaunted individualism. But one of the fundamental reasons America is so resistant to programs that provide for the common good is that there is a long tradition of rejecting any proposal that taxes white people to pay for programs that benefit non-whites." - digby
  
  Joan Walsh, Is GOP using race to block Obama agenda? Ya think?, Salon.com, 30 July 2009.
  
  digby, Southern Strategery, Hullabaloo, 26 November 2003.
  
  Christopher Caldwell, The Southern Captivity of the GOP, The Atlantic, June 1998.


• David Bromwich, The Character of Barack Obama, The Huffington Post, 04 August 2009.


• Thomas B. Edsall, For The Modern GOP, It's A Return To The "White Voter Strategy", The Huffington Post, 04 August 2009.


• Francis Schaeffer, Right-Wing Turncoat Gives the Inside Scoop on Why Conservatives Are Rampaging Town Halls, AlterNet, AlterNet.org, 07 August 2009.


• Sara Robinson, Fascist America: Are We There Yet?, Orcinus , 07 August 2009.
  
  Also published at AlterNet: Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?, 07 August 2009.
  
  Amanda Marcotte, Let’s hope Sara’s completely wrong about this, pandagon.net, 07 August 2009.