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Moving Ideas Newsletter
January 7, 2006
12:58
Gary D. Bass says that the admission by President Bush that he personally authorized the surveillance of American citizens beyond judicial oversight raises two sets of critical questions, one dealing with whether he followed the letter of the law and the other with the quality of the judgment he exercised. Congress must now concern itself with both these areas.
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Nathan Brown and Amr Hamzawy examine the impact of the Muslim Brotherhood's strong showing in the recent Egyptian parliamentary elections on U.S. democracy efforts in the Arab world. They argue that this outcome is an opportunity for building government-opposition relations on a more democratic basis than has existed in Egypt for generations.
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Robert says that the victory of the Shiite religious bloc means the big winner in the Iraqi elections is Iran. Next stop: civil war.
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Michael L. Gross examines the arguments that Palestinians and Israelis offer when innocent lives are taken.
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Sasha Abramsky talks about disenfranchisement laws and the broken system of re-establishing voting rights.
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Aziz Huq says that Congress should ask why the president ignored laws that protect Americans from government eavesdropping. Posted on TomPaine.com.
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Although the neoconservatives have lost representation in government, it would be a mistake to think that just because of a minor embarrassment like a war gone terribly awry they have slunk into the shadows, says Michael Flynn. Flynn examines the new initiatives and new alliances of the neocons in the Middle East.
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The Hong Kong meeting of the WTO has amply illustrated how difficult it is to arrive at a consensus about the rules of free trade. The WTO, and indeed the entire concept of free trade globalization, has a communication problem, writes Laura Carlsen, reporting from Hong Kong.
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Bolivia’s social movements divide roughly into two camps on the issue of how to affect structural reforms: those who advocate that the central government should play the leading role, and those who insist that organized civil society must play that role. Raúl Zibechi interviews leading voices on both sides of this debate.
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The Bush administration's hostility toward freedom of information dates back to the days when Rumsfeld and Cheney worked for Gerald Ford, writes Bill Moyers.
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Accountability is not just a bulwark against abuse of individuals. It is essential to preserve public trust in law enforcement and to insure that limited resources remain focused on real problems.
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A failure to reauthorize the Transitional Medicaid Assistance threatens to place an unnecessary and undue burden on those families who are attempting to build their financial independence and play by the rules, writes Meredith L. King.
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Hani Shukrallah writes that parliamentary elections highlighted serious weaknesses in a political system that may be falling apart.
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Judith S. Yaphe writes that Iraqis are bargaining hard regarding the government to be formed after elections, but that is not necessarily bad news.
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Read the transcript from an online discussion with Amy Caiazza and Rita Nakashima Brock about the rift between religious women activists and feminist movements and how issues of race, ethnicity, and class both contribute to the rift and point to ways to overcome it.
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Ray McGovern says that torture helped Bush implement a policy of unchecked aggression. Torture may help McCain end it.
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The Bush administration continues to talk about applying the “Libya option” to Syria, which in theory is a good idea. The problem is the White House took the wrong lessons from Libya’s decision to renounce weapons of mass destruction and rejoin the international community, says Ronald Bruce St John.
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Mark Engler says that ending farm subsidies will increase exports from the developing world, but that won't help the world's poor. Posted on TomPaine.com.
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Bush’s false claims of “bringing democracy to Iraq” cannot be the prerequisite for ending the occupation and bringing home all the U.S. troops, say Phyllis Bennis and Erik Leaver. The invasion and occupation were and remain illegal, and it is our obligation to fight to end it now.
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Stephen Zunes says his reaction to the awarding this past weekend of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director Mohammed El-Baradei was similar to his reaction to the awarding of the 2002 prize to former President Jimmy Carter: while they have pursued a number of policies contrary to the spirit of the Nobel Peace Prize, they have also done much to make the world a safer place.
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