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That Was No Small War in Georgia -- It Was the Beginning of the End of the American Empire By Mark Ames, Radar The war in Georgia will be remembered as the place where the American Empire fell on its face. Read more »   Bondage, Cum Shots, Violence -- Sexist Ad Trends That Refuse to Die By Alex Leo, Huffington Post The advertising world continues to use stereotypes and violence to prey on our most vile desires. Read more »   Bush Ditches His Ranch for Ritzier Digs in Dallas By Leslie Savan, TheNation.com From cowboy to cowed boy, W. crawls outta Crawford for yet another image re-do. Read more »   Bush Tries to Whitewash History; Portrays Himself as a Victim By Matthew Yglesias, The American Prospect Even after all this time, Bush views the Iraq War with regret not over anything he did, but rather, over something that was done to him. Read more »   Let the Banks Fail: Why a Few of the Financial Giants Should Crash By Joshua Holland, AlterNet The finance industry still owns mountains of bad paper and must absorb these losses -- or else we'll face a very long recession. Read more »   Lessons from an Emergency Room Nightmare By Harold Pollack, The American Prospect Several people made mistakes in my wife's care. The worst and most deadly mistake was ours. Read more »   Racial Extremists Are Infiltrating the Military for the Chance to 'Kill a Brown' By David Holthouse, Intelligence Report New evidence suggests that white supremacists are taking advantage of lowered recruiting standards to enter the armed services. Read more »   Why Atheism May Be the Best Way to Understand God By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet Only a lack of belief in God offers the possibility of increasing our understanding of him or her. Read more »   Did America Get Punk'd on the Bailout? By David Sirota, Campaign for America's Future The answer is yes ... now here's what to do about it. Read more »   It's Official: Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq By Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch Iraq's parliament came to a major agreement recently: all 150,000 troops are to withdraw from cities by June. Read more »   Read more »

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