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Why Is Failed Iraq Neocon Dan Senor Dictating Romney’s Foreign Policy?

by Wayne Barrett | Oct 15, 2012 | Foreign Policy, Politics

The explanation for Mitt Romney’s Middle East madness is hiding in plain sight. Dan Senor has become Romney’s “lead” advisor on the region, matching one blank slate with another. Senor’s only real foreign policy experience is his 15 months in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 as “senior adviser” to Paul Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), the […]

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Educating Dan Senor

by WS Editors | Oct 15, 2012 | Media, Politics

The New York Times list of “well-known and polarizing figures in public education” on the board of the new advocacy group StudentsFirstNY includes: former D.C. School Superintendent Michelle Rhee; former New York School Superintendent Joel Klein (now working for Rupert Murdoch); Eva S. Moskowitz, who now runs a charter-school chain; former Mayor Ed Koch, and “venture […]

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Senor 2.0 and PNAC 2.0

by WS Editors | Oct 15, 2012 | Foreign Policy, Politics

By the time Barack Obama was elected in 2008, the Project for a New American Century’s brand was a liability. The neocon organization had promoted the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2006, with both wars up and running, PNAC founder William Kristol left it to his deputy director Ellen Bork to turn off the […]

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Genetically Modified Mitt

by WS Editors | Oct 1, 2012 | Environment, Politics

Investigative reporter Wayne Barrett has documented so many Mitt Romney–Monsanto connections that he concludes, “If Romney is elected, this bête noire of environmentalists will have a very old friend in a very high place.” Barrett, a Nation Institute Fellow, reports in the September 13 issue of The Nation that Bain Capital helped transform Monsanto from a […]

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Why Is Romney Still in the Race?

by WS Editors | Oct 1, 2012 | Economy, Politics

One month before the election, most polls have the president leading by a narrow popular-vote margin, which the Romney campaign seems incapable of closing. And Obama’s lead in high-population states provides an advantage over a challenger whose support lies in the South, Midwest, and inland West, where lower population is equated with lower electoral votes. […]

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Bad Faith Documentary

Bad Faith

“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns

Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones

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“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024”Variety

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