Thursday, December 27, 2007 – by Al Jazeera
After the BBC censored this clip and then reinstated it, then some of them now claiming they NEVER censored it, the mystery DEEPENS. With Benazir Bhutto assassinated the motive arises in that she quit ...
Posted Tuesday, May 3rd 2011 at 9:27PM
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Its interesting how the swill that we are fed in this country that is passed off as "news" is exposed as nothing but a bunch of fairy tales when you apply critical thinking or consume foreign news sources. If you want anything remotely resembling tr ...
Posted Saturday, April 2nd 2011 at 12:56PM
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Noam Chomsky lectures on nation’s problems
Kristian Smith, Student Life Editor
Topics presented to packed crowd included role of government, public relations
Renowned linguist, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky spoke to a packe ...
Posted Saturday, January 29th 2011 at 11:32AM
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"Like all Republicans, likely GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is all for abruptly slashing federal spending. But unlike most high-profile conservatives, he seems to be aware that slashing outlays during an economic downturn will cost jobs."
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Posted Saturday, January 22nd 2011 at 2:07PM
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"Last week we saw a white Catholic male Republican judge (John Roll) murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress (Gabriele Giffords), who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year-old Mexican-American gay ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 8:38PM
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This article is by William J. Broad, John Markoff and David E. Sanger.
The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fu ...
Posted Sunday, January 16th 2011 at 1:40PM
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Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) will be leading off the reading of the Constitution to start the 112th congress and the GOP’s control of it. The republicans and their tea party base have been screaming about the Constitution ever since Obama ...
Posted Thursday, January 6th 2011 at 12:54PM
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Anyone who doesn't believe that the US is an incipient fascist state needs only to consult the latest assault on civil liberty by Fox News (sic). Instead of informing citizens, Fox News (sic) informs on citizens. Jason Ditz reports (antiwar.com D ...
Posted Saturday, January 1st 2011 at 11:21AM
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Last night, the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart skewered Republicans for killing deficit neutral legislation to provide health care to the 9/11 first responders and emergency workers who suffered illnesses from working at Ground Zero. He also mocked the c ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 1:13PM
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By LARRY DAVID
Published: December 20, 2010
THERE is a God! It passed! The Bush tax cuts have been extended two years for the upper bracketeers, of which I am a proud member, thank you very much. I’m the last person in the world I’d want to b ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 12:40PM
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By Ishmael Reed, The New York Times
18 December 10
ot all of my white teachers viewed me as a discipline problem. To the annoyance of my fellow students, one teacher selected me regularly to lead assembly programs. A high school teacher insist ...
Posted Sunday, December 19th 2010 at 10:37AM
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Grover Norquist, one of the darlings of the extreme rightwing, Gingrich/Bush/McCain branch of the Republican party, once said, "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown ...
Posted Sunday, December 12th 2010 at 2:58PM
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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Tuesday that if Democrats cede ground on the tax package now, it will come back to haunt them in the 112th Congress, adding that he will do "anything and everything" to stop the recently-reached deal be ...
Posted Tuesday, December 7th 2010 at 7:58PM
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Maybe the government would earn more of our trust if it leveled with us more and invaded our privacy less.
Judging by the press accounts, Washington is still buzzing over WikiLeaks’ release of classified U.S. government information, with both Re ...
Posted Saturday, December 4th 2010 at 3:35PM
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President Obama's discussion Tuesday with leaders of both parties about the expiring Bush tax cuts comes at a time when a growing chorus of progressives and other reasonable-minded Americans have been ramping up pressure on the White House to allow t ...
Posted Wednesday, December 1st 2010 at 3:39PM
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By PETER BAKER
WASHINGTON — President Obama announced a two-year pay freeze for civilian federal workers on Monday as he sought to address concerns over sky-high deficit spending and appeal to Republican leaders to find a common approach to restor ...
Posted Monday, November 29th 2010 at 6:11PM
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Motor Trend magazine named the Chevy Volt its 2011 Car of the Year. This choice--not surprisingly--failed to sit well with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. "Of all the cars in the world, the Chevrolet Volt is the Car of the Year?" scoffed Limba ...
Posted Friday, November 26th 2010 at 4:52PM
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The Israelis, who have long been targets of terror for decades before 911, and haven’t had an incident of terrorism in the air in many years, don’t do the invasive techniques the US government now subjects its people to. To wit:
“A leading ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 7:39PM
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From the Huffington Post:
When Torya Blanchard was a child, she was caught shoplifting from a local store on the eve of a family trip to Paris. Given the timing of the transgression, her immediate grounding was all the more painful. Only good gir ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 6:02PM
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Republicans in Congress are pushing to continue Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans, at the same time that they’re opposing extending unemployment insurance for people struggling to find work. Democrats have started to talk tough, ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 2:20PM
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William Greider | November 10, 2010
Given the election results, the question Barack Obama has to decide for himself is whether he really wants to be president in the fullest sense. Not a moderator for earnest policy discussions. Not the national che ...
Posted Monday, November 15th 2010 at 7:59PM
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"Yesterday, a damaged and contrite Barack Obama held a White House press conference and took ownership of Tuesday's devastating election results. With the exception of a handful of issues, Obama extended a cooperative hand to the newly emboldened GOP ...
Posted Thursday, November 4th 2010 at 5:46PM
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When you go to the polls, remember; the current situation did not start with this president.
Don't believe the hype...
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Posted Tuesday, November 2nd 2010 at 1:37PM
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WASHINGTON— Nearly 20 years after Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Justice Thomas’s wife has called Ms. Hill, seeking an apology.
In a voice mail message left ...
Posted Tuesday, October 19th 2010 at 11:07PM
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As I am sure brother Jamal (yes, I'm bringing you into this) will explain, applied mathematics is but one way the engineer validates his theories. Previously we saw the physical properties of woman. This time, we see the applied mathematics of woma ...
Posted Tuesday, October 19th 2010 at 6:05PM
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