congratulation and hatsoff to barrack hussein obama for being the new presidentelect of the united states of america us a. his success can be considered as historical due to the fact that he is the first black president. that fact reverberates all over the usa and the world showing that the citizens of that great nation desire a change. a obama said even as we cel......
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the searing images of september 11 seven years ago have scarcely faded for many people. whether viewed in person as so many new yorkers did or on television as it seems half the world did they haunt us still. with another commemoration at hand thousands who lost friends or kin in the twin towers the pentagon or in the planes that struck those buildings and a field in pennsylvania will revisit......
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by chris toensing the nation the debate over the war in iraq follows a yellowing script the minute someone suggests that the us move to withdraw its troops war supporters cry hav oc true to form when no less a figure than iraqi prime minister nuri almaliki stated he wants a timeline for a us pullout john mccain summoned the specter of dire consequences. ive al......
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charles knight writes in october of last year a bostonarea activist called me and reported that hed recently visited an antiwar massachusetts congressperson in order to urge that more be done to get the us out of iraq quickly and completely. representative jim mcgovern ma03d had replied that he was doing what he could but was frustrated by how often colleagues retorted with......
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i was really impressed today as i drove home from minnesota and every news station on the radio from fargo to chicago talked about some iraqis dem andingrsq uo a timetable for withdrawal . finally theyre coverin the news. wisconsin public radios idea network had on some hack from the american enterprise institute rachel maddow chatted it up with russ feingold in between a......
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recently i participated in a conference call based on a report from the task force for a responsible withdrawal from iraq. the report argued that the united states can and should do the following quickly withdraw american military forces from iraq carefully pursue diplomatic remedies for the iraq crisis and generously give to help rebuild iraq in the long run. for t......
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quickly carefully and generously the necessary steps for a responsible withdrawal from iraq pdf 284 kb source the commonwealth institute the united states and the international community bear a responsibility to contribute to the alleviation of suffering and the advancement of stability and peace in iraq. it was the consensus of our expert advisory group that there is little ......
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this plan that answers a question the international press services says has never been coherently answered that is how to get the fuck out of iraq without being dicks about it was coherently answered a year and a half ago . not that it was ever some kind of big mystery.......
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daily kos democrats remember that nothing can be accomplished here is the laundry list quite lengthy and not even complete wmd or the lack of it to qualify invading iraq. mismanagement of the iraq war. a must see. insurmountable money owed to china to finance the iraq war. the cost of the iraq war. unbelievable. osama bin laden. mastermind of the 911 attacks o......
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this is a preliminary response to shai sachs outlining a progressive grand strategy part i goals and assessment full disclosure shai is a personal friend. we are very happy about his response which is in part inspired by our report finding strategy which he also reviewed because one of our goals is to stimulate discussion of grand strategy which unfortunately we ha......
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phillip carter has an excellent column in the washington post intel dump. heres a recent column military transformation is seductive. the idea that you might see through the fog of war to assess the terrain friendly forces and enemy forces on a battlefield is a powerful intoxicant that can lead to fantastic almost godlike visions of military power. those visions in......
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as someone who is both interested in progressive movements and in mindmapping and conceptmapping software this note about a new map from the progressive strategy studies project of the commonwealth institute in cambridge mass got my attention. made with the brain its a visual organization and map of the american progressive strategy within the broader context of progressive p......
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so today we finally published the progressive strategy brain psb a dynamic map that connects some 4000 entries to show the complexity of progressive strategy and politics to help progressives to become more aware of strategic considerations in order to make progressive strategy more selfreflective and ultimately more effective. we hope that over time it will contribute to the eme......
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one symptom of american exceptionalism is the degree to which its progressive left is dependent for resources on foundations. for the most part foundations are projects of the rich so why would the american left allow itself to become so dependent on the largesse of a class of people most of whom will line up against the left when the left starts winning real change yes five or ten percent o......
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yesterday mark schmitt commented at tpmcafe on two other posts one by nathan newman on campaign finance reform and another by dan cantor of the working families party on fusion voting the working families party is also included in our report on contributions to progressive strategy finding strategy . he is not just agreeing with both of them but uses his com......
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please note this summary of an interview with noam chomsky on progressive strategy has first been published at common dreams on june 29 2007. as of july 3 2007 it has received 45 comments. i hope you join the discussion at common dreams andor continue it here. to make it more userfriendly i have added more links and references. noam chomsky is one of the key figures on the americ......
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in its latest editorial get in it to win it the nation suggests that because of its vola tilityquo t the 2008 election offers perhaps the best opportunity in a generation to nominate a genuinely progressive candidate a candidate who can win next november.and thats precisely the crux of the matter a genuinely progressive candidate ... who can win. in the us of 2007 ......
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......ersation we thought that posting a summary on our blog and inviting people to comment on it would be a good idea. if you have a longer comment it might be preferable to send that to me at wbraunercomw.org so that i can post it as a separate post on the blog to keep a better overview of contributi ons.......
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