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Shared Complicity: The Tragedy of the Pelosi/CIA Affair

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One might hope Barack Obama, who was not even serving in the federal government for much of the Bush-era crimes, would serve to try and protect himself - and his agenda - from the consequences of Democratic Party acquiescence to the Bush Administration, but the prospects do not look good.

While no doubt a significant improvement to Bush, to date, he has served to perpetuate many of the significant and unpleasant tenets of the last eight years: rendition, the perpetuation of discrimination against gays in the military, government censorshipescalations of violence and military spending, gifts to Wall Street, and so on.

And now we see the great flaw of our political system. The two parties share much of the same policies.  And now they both must face the wrath of an angry public that opposes
virtually all of these horrific policies.

The new era of change is upon us; a new party is in charge.  But, to
channel George Orwell, it is simply hard too tell the pigs apart from the humans.

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Michael Corcoran is a freelance writer based in Boston who has been published by The Boston Globe, The Nation, Common Dreams, Alternet, CBSNews.com, Campus Progress, Blast Magazine, and Extra!. His work, focusing largely on foreign policy, the (more...)
 
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