Briarpatch Magazine » foreign policy http://briarpatchmagazine.com Fiercely independent (and often irreverent) news & views. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:36:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Scahill on Obama’s foreign policy trajectory http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/11/20/scahill-on-obamas-foreign-policy-trajectory/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/11/20/scahill-on-obamas-foreign-policy-trajectory/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:35:46 +0000 dave http://briarpatchmagazine.com/?p=745 Alternet article: This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House. 2. Scahill and Mother Jones' s David Corn on Democracy Now: Agents of Change or Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons? A Discussion about Barack Obama’s Advisers and Transition Team
"I think . . . this is the precise moment when this kind of journalism matters, when we have to remind people of the history and the previous policies implemented by the people that are at the center of Obama’s foreign policy team right now, because we’re going to be living with these people for the next four years running the show. And I think it’s incredibly important to be all over this right now, before they’re named."
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