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Liberals Need to Take Obama’s Civil Liberties Record Seriously

by Erik Kain on November 8, 2011

Liberals defend Obama on his political victories at home and abroad, but they should focus more on his Bush-era national security policies and other broken promises. In 2008, during the aftershocks of the housing market and financial collapse and the fall of Lehman Brothers, and amidst the  increasingly frightening din of anti-Obama sentiment that was [...]



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Frightening Revelations About the US Government’s Secret ‘Kill List’

by Erik Kain on October 6, 2011

When Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen and radical Muslim, was killed by US special ops in Yemen recently many Americans assumed the kill was authorized by president Obama. This was either praised as bold foreign policy or decried as a bridge too far depending on where you turned. But the story might actually be much [...]



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Ron Paul Condemns Assassination of al-Awlaki

by Erik Kain on September 30, 2011

I’m not surprised that Congressman Ron Paul of Texas has condemned the US Government’s assassination of American citizen and Islamic radical, Anwar al-Awlaki. This fits his general anti-interventionist framework. What amuses me is the headline at MSNBC where it’s being reported: Notice the scare quotes around the word assassinating. Because, you know, when the US [...]



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The US Assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki and the Blurring of Bright Lines

by Erik Kain on September 30, 2011

Adam Serwer has some good background on the case of Al-Qaeda-linked radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki who has reportedly been killed by US special ops in Yemen. As Kevin Drum notes, this is the first US citizen assassinated abroad by the US government, and the second killed in the war on terror. The Bush administration killed [...]



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