Tom Dispatch posted 2009-04-16 20:28:16 Tomgram: William Astore, Déjà Vu All Over Again in Afghanistan It didn’t take long. Only 11 days after Barack Obama entered the Oval Office, a Newsweek cover story proclaimed the Afghan War “Obama’s Vietnam.” And there wasn’t even a question mark. As John Barry and Evan Thomas wrote grimly in [...]
Archive for April 17th, 2009
17 Apr
Role of Bush NSA Plan Under Review
Obama Administration Faces Privacy, Security Challenges in Defending Cyberspace By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 17, 2009 The Bush administration planned last year to direct the National Security Agency, which specializes in spying electronically on foreign adversaries, to take the techniques it has employed to defend military computer networks and use them [...]
17 Apr
TAXES
thinkprogress.org Getting What We Pay For: On Wednesday, April 15, conservative organizations casted “tea party” gatherings as “anti-tax rallies” that were “part of a larger grassroots movement against government spending.” Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and Fox Business Network prodigiously promoted the gatherings, as essentially every right-wing organization — Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions for [...]
17 Apr
Tea Baggers Against Obama
thinkprogress.org RADICAL RIGHT While Americans across the country prepare to pay their taxes today, many right-wing activists plan to spend the day dressed in colonial tri-corner hats as they wave tea bags in the air. Conservatives are calling for these “tea party” protests, allegedly modeled on the Boston Tea Party, to oppose President Obama and [...]
