Ten easy steps to fascism
Sure, this article in The Guardian has a provocative title. Read it with an open mind. They were not figuring …
How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran
A fascinating story. We hear so much about intelligence failures and foul-ups, but by their nature, we hear little about the …
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The Highwaymen
By Daniel Schulman with James Ridgeway The deal to privatize the Toll Road had been almost a year in the …
The Side Effects of Truth
By Michael Scherer , for Mother Jones In August 2004, Graham told his supervisors that, in light of his research, …
Car bomb kills 9 U.S. soldiers in Iraq
BAGHDAD – Nine U.S. soldiers were killed and 20 were wounded Monday in a suicide car bombing against a patrol …
The Plot Against the First Amendment
by Scott Horton, Harper’s “In June, a case is slated to go to trial in Northern Virginia that will mark …
How fortunate, how fragile, and how insignificant we are
STEPHEN MCGINTY, writing for The Scotsman IT IS called the “Blue Marble”. The image of Earth, reduced to a child’s …
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50% Good News Is the Bad News in Russian Radio
By ANDREW E. KRAMER Published: April 22, 2007 MOSCOW, April 21 — At their first meeting with journalists since taking …
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‘Devastating’ Moyers Probe of Press and Iraq Coming
By Greg Mitchell NEW YORK The most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in …
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Federal Database Exposes Social Security Numbers
by Ron Nixon, NYT Published: April 20, 2007 WASHINGTON, April 20 — The Social Security numbers of tens of thousands …
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The gender genie
Here’s an interesting tool that attempts to determine the gender of a writer based on keywords and style. I tried …
’08 Candidate Ron Paul: A Study in Contrasts
By: Josh Kraushaar April 18, 2007 04:29 PM EST Listening to presidential candidate Ron Paul, it’s sometimes hard to tell …
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