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Richard Couto

Misleadership Triumphant

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Review Essay Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush by Robert Draper; Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency by Lou Dubose and Jack Bernstein Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy by Andrew Cockburn. When George W. Bush became president, an Australian friend wrote to me, perplexed. She asked, “How…

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Noblesse N’oblige Pas: President Bush And The Ethic Of Privilege A Review Of The President Of Good And Evil By Peter Singer

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Conservative commentators howled when, in 1998, Princeton University named Peter Singer DeCamp Professor in its Center for Human Values. This bioethicist takes nothing as sacred or tabooed-not the distinction of humans and animals or the sacredness of all forms of human life. He examines our assumptions about such matters and disturbs their unchallenged roots. Singer…

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The Incidental Liberation of Iraq

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No one in Iraq or the U.S. believes that the primary intention of U.S. military action in Iraq was liberation. Yet, citizens of both nations need to unite to make it happen—Iraqis as an opportunity to avoid neo-colonization and achieve some form of just and democratic self-rule and the U.S. as reparations for a misguided…

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