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Nation Books author Jeremy Scahill discusses the private mercenary contractor and the September 2007 Nisour Square massacre, links 30-year CIA veteran J. Cofer Black to Blackwater's private intelligence initiative and questions the future of the nation-state.
Watch Scahill interview Democrats on the war and Obama's foreign policy team at the Democratic National Convention.
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Apocalypse Later
By John Feffer
From a future date in 2016, Feffer looks back at his predictions of 2008 and how they all went wrong: a President Obama didn't radically change the world. Instead, he chose the apocalypse of the middle path—too little, too late. More |
By John S. Friedman (The Huffington Post)
Friedman traces seven legal complaints and accusations of wrongdoing against Florida's Vern Buchanan from his former employees, including violating campaign contribution laws, having death threats made against resisters and using undocumented immigrants in his home and businesses. More
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| NEW THIS WEEK FROM NATION INSTITUTE WRITERS |
By Lewis Lapham (Harper's)
Institute Fellow Lewis Lapham takes an ironic look at the hoopla around Tim Russert's death and finds that the secret to a $5 million dollar-salary (rather than good journalism) is to butter them up. More
Posted SEP 01 08
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By Sarah Blustain (The New Republic)
Blustain traces the history of McCain's meandering, contradictory views on abortion and shatters the notion that McCain is anything but pro-life. More
Posted AUG 27 08
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By Deborah Stone (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The Nation Books author talks about altruism, the price-of-gas election and the questions that the candidates should be asking the American people. More
Posted AUG 11 08
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By Jeremy Scahill (The Guardian)
Despite reports that the company is leaving the mercenary business, Blackwater's future is secure. From its private intelligence initiative to its $15 billion contract to fight terrorists with drug ties, Blackwater is here to stay. More
Posted JUL 23 08
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By Tim Shorrock (Salon)
Shorrock uncovers the "black programs" used to collect unprecedented, private financial and other information about millions of Americans since September 11. More
Posted JUL 23 08
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By Ari Berman (The Nation)
McCain's coziness with lawmakers and lobbyists is threatening to undo his maverick mystique—so he's trying to hide it. But Berman's investigation of McCain's ties to the Reform Institute reveals that he remains as entangled as ever. More
Posted JUL 14 08
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By Nomi Prins (Mother Jones)
Wall Street insider Nomi Prins points a finger at Congress, who paved the way for the subprime mortgage crisis through deregulation. Also see her accompanying timeline, Where Credit is Due. More
Posted JUL 07 08
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By Gabriel Thompson (The Nation)
At lunch time in New York City, the city's poor and elite meet when delivery people hand hedge fund CEOs their lunch. Thompson investigates the political ties of some of the city's richest men, and traces their effects to union-less security guards and delivery men. More
Posted JUN 30 08
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By Joshua Hammer (The New York Review of Books)
Hammer leads us through the world of Zimbabwean politics: from the dictator who won't relinquish power, to the challenger who he had beaten up last year and the South African president who continues to support the failing government. More
Posted JUN 26 08
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By Mark Engler (Dollars and Sense)
The Nation Books author takes on Thomas Friedman's confused logic and often objectionable opinions about globalization in his article about how these arguments are crumbling in the face of challenges from social movements. More
Posted JUN 26 08
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