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Jesse Helms, Isolationist Who Targeted Tehran, Dies

by: Leonard Doyle, The Independent UK

Giambarba Jesse Helms.
Jesse Helms.
(Art: Paul Giambarba / Truthout)

    Washington - The former US Senator Jesse Helms, a legendary isolationist and defender of "Southern values" who spent much of his life goading liberals, died yesterday.     Universally known as "Senator No" he was deeply sceptical of international cooperation and intervention. His refusal to ratify international accords, notably the Kyoto treaty on global warming, made him the bete noir of the Georgetown foreign policy establishment »

Military dead coming home.

Cause for Alarm

by: Bob Herbert, The New York Times

    Beaches, barbecues and flags as big as baseball fields. Fireworks as loud as thunder lighting the nighttime sky. Hot fun, as Sly & the Family Stone would say, in the summertime.

    Friday was the 232nd anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Celebrations were ubiquitous. HBO offered a marathon telecast of its John Adams series. Bands of wildly varying quality, from one coast to the other, let loose with "The Star-Spangled Banner," "America the Beautiful" and "The Stars and Stripes Forever." »

Obama family in Butte, Montana.

Obama Celebrates Fourth in Montana

by: Sridhar Pappu, The Washington Independent

    Presidential hopeful revisits patriotism with veterans.

    Butte, Montana - Ralph Maxwell, a former attorney and judge in North Dakota, nearly shook with anger. Wearing his World War II uniform, which he hadn't taken out of the closet since he came home to restart his life in 1945, he'd just been asked to comment on recent articles and reports where people questioned the patriotism of the presumed Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama. »

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