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Despite Obama's Bombast, Iran's Nuclear Plant is Legal »
Posted by: hyperbola 1 month, 4 weeks ago in Political Opinion
It was very much a moment of high drama. Barack Obama, fresh from his history-making stint hosting the UN security council, took a break from ...
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WaPo’s Social Media Guidelines Paint Staff Into Virtual Corner; Full Text of Guidelines »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 month, 4 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Post journalists must refrain from writing, tweeting or posting anything—including photographs or video—that could be perceived as reflecting political, racial, sexist, religious or ...
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Should any Iraq lessons be applied to Iran? - Glenn Greenwald »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 4 weeks ago in Political Opinion
The claims about Iran raise more questions than they answer. Virtually none is being asked by America's media.
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Shouldn't the American media infuse ...Read (158) | Share | Discuss (56) | Read Full Story at salon.com
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Americans' continued love affair with the John Roberts Court. - By Dahlia Lithwick »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 4 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Next week, the Supreme Court will begin its 2009 term, secure in the knowledge that it remains almost completely misunderstood by the American public.
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YouTube - Rachel Maddow: The Truth About The Lies About Acorn »
Posted by: berkeley 2 months ago in Political Opinion
Rachel Maddow: The Truth About The Lies About Acorn - 09/24/09
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But seriously, folks: Obama death panels? »
Posted by: Progressive 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
So now Sarah Palin alleges that President Obama's "death panels" might have killed Trig had they been in place. "Where to start?" wonders Joan ...
(read more)Read (904) | Share | Discuss (126) | Read Full Story at salon.com
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Alexander Cockburn: The Biden and Clinton Mutinies »
Posted by: berkeley 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
The Biden and Clinton "foreign" policy is: 1) to recreate the same old Cold War (with a new appendage, the US versus Iran nuclear confrontation ...
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Germany Plunges EU Into Crisis »
Posted by: berkeley 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Yet the EU constists of 27 disparate, often squabbling, member nations. What has been the driving force behind the evolution of a seemingly simple backyard ...
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The Large Picture Blog: Solar Eclipses Viewed From Space »
Posted by: berkeley 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. The shadow of the Moon can be seen darkening part of Earth. This shadow ...
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Celebrating Cronkite while ignoring what he did »
Posted by: tehranchik 4 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
In the hours and hours of preening, ponderous, self-serving media tributes to Walter Cronkite, here is a clip you won't see, in which Cronkite ...
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Torture Timeline UPDATED »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months ago in Political News
"The president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people, shut the door, and said, 'I want you to find whether Iraq ...
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Jordan's King Abdullah II Says Bush Tortured »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months ago in Political News
The king gets to the nub of the matter: these were "illegal means of treating detainees." And the king of Jordan knows a great deal ...
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Harman, AIPAC and NSA Wiretaps - Are Members of Congress Being Blackmailed? »
Posted by: hyperbola 7 months ago in Political News
For some time now, many Americans have wondered how Congress, the elected body that the nation’s Founding Fathers saw as the bulwark of liberty ...
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Will anything about the U.S. torture scandal ever scandalize us again? - By Dahlia Lithwick »
Posted by: berkeley 7 months ago in Political News
In April of 2004, the world first learned that American soldiers in Iraq had abused detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison. Images first revealed on ...
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May It Please the Court »
Posted by: berkeley 7 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
A wonderfully illustrated essay on law.
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