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Edited by Peter Davison
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By Hannah Arendt
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Iranian officials are furiously working diplomatic back channeles to open a dialogue with the U.S. (Apparently the Iranian’s president’s 18-page letter to Bush opened the floodgates.)
The significance of this? For 25 years Iran has enforced a taboo against making overtures to “The Great Satan.”
Posted on May 24, 2006
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The attorney general, in defending the NSA’s collection of millions of U.S. phone records, claims it is constitutional—but conveniently ignores the fact that it appears to be illegal.
Posted on May 24, 2006
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The study results even surprised the UCLA researchers who were running the tests.
Posted on May 24, 2006
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No, it’s not because of an image of Mohammed. Rather, an official paper published a cartoon that mocked Iran’s Azeri minority and led to riots.
Posted on May 24, 2006
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From the N.Y. Times
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Just before the start of a theater show in the East Village of New York, a woman on stage extols the virtues of London honeymoons. It’s an advertisment that is itself advertised as the first live theatrical commercial.
Are those the four horsemen of the apocalypse I see yonder?
Posted on May 24, 2006
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It’s the blackest of all comedy: The man who engineered the NSA’s domestic wiretapping program appears to be sailing toward confirmation as the nation’s next CIA chief.
Posted on May 24, 2006
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From crooksandliars.com
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Sure, it’s despicable. But it’s also a bit gratifying to see how low Big Oil has to stoop to try to squelch Al Gore’s message.
Posted on May 24, 2006
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In its annual report, Amnesty International writes that Western governments have “paralysed international institutions and squandered public resources in pursuit of narrow security interests.”
Posted on May 23, 2006
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Just as the GOP tried to pull African Americans away from the Democratic Party, so too are Democrats going after the Republicans’ base: evangelical Christians. But a Washington Post columninst asks: “What does it profit a party to gain a demographic but lose its soul?”
Earlier: The Religious Left Rises Again
Posted on May 23, 2006
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The former secretary of state says that Bush has alienated Muslims around the world with his use of Christian dogma to discuss foreign policy.
Posted on May 23, 2006
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David Scull / From The New York Times
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As Hillary Clinton gears up for a presumed White House run, Bill Clinton has told friends that his number one priority is not to cause her any trouble. The N.Y. Times explores how the former president is attempting to position a future one…
Posted on May 23, 2006
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The national unity cabinet that Iraq presented this weekend will remain impotent unless Iraq can reform its “corrupt, brutal and highly partisan security forces”—the death squads that now range the country with impunity—argues the Times’ editorial board.
Posted on May 22, 2006
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