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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 10:44 AM

    Here's What Needs To Happen...

    ...to bring the full sordid ugliness of this let-bygones-be-bygones attitude full circle: the survivors of those who were punished by the Nuremberg Trials should sue the United States for falsely accusing and punishing their (fathers or mothers or grandparents or whomever). I'd love to hear what our Beltway pundits have to say about that.

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