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School board votes to strip much-maligned policy from classes.
Posted on Jan 4, 2006
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It is the 11th state to do so, but users can still be prosecuted under federal law. more
Posted on Jan 4, 2006
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Intensifying U.S. air raids in Iraq keep down American casualties but take the lives of many Iraqi civilians. Full story.
Posted on Jan 4, 2006
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Pope Benedict XVI, in his World Day of Peace speech Jan. 1, had more than a few choice words for world leaders who use lies to incite their citizens towards violence. more (hat tip: Stephen Rivers)
Posted on Jan 3, 2006
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A former NSA agent tells Democracy Now! that he will testify to Congress about Bush’s “unlawful and unconstitutional” spy program. Story.
Posted on Jan 3, 2006
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Lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud, agreeing to cooperate in a corruption investigation that could rock the Republican congressional leadership. Story.
Posted on Jan 3, 2006
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The father of a soldier killed in Iraq calls his son’s death “wasted in a belief that democracy would grow simply by removing a dictator--a careless misunderstanding of what democracy requires.” Read the column
Posted on Jan 2, 2006
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Just four years after defaulting on more than $100 billion in debt, Argentina is expected to completely re-pay its debt to the International Monetary Fund and strengthen its alliance with Venezuela’s populist leader, Hugo Chavez. Read the story.
Posted on Jan 2, 2006
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The same Pentagon contractor that paid Iraqi newspapers to print pro-U.S. stories written by American soldiers masquerading as indepenent journalists has also been “compensating Sunni religious scholars in Iraq in return for assistance with its propaganda work,” according to the New York Times.
Posted on Jan 2, 2006
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The president attempts to explain how his 2004 claim that “a wiretap requires court orders” squares with his warrantless surveillance program. Times reporter Eric Licthblau calls Bush’s comments “at odds” with those of his senior aides.
Posted on Jan 1, 2006
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Two of Bush’s most senior advisors made an emergency visit in 2004 to a hospitalized John Ashcroft to get him to override his deputy and sign off on a continued warrantless domestic surveillance program. Read the story
Posted on Jan 1, 2006
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A maverick U.S. Army major finds that some of his Iraqi counterparts have fewer scruples about going “over the line” while interrogating suspected insurgents. U.S. News & World Report has the story.
Posted on Jan 1, 2006
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New details of the sordid ties between Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff. Read the full story.
Posted on Dec 31, 2005
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In negotiating with a second wave of sexual abuse victims, the Catholic Church has “reverted to the bare-knuckles tactics it had long used to silence or marginalize them,” critics tell the New York Times, “largely because public attention to the scandals had abated.” Read the story.
Posted on Dec 31, 2005
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As Daily Kos puts it, “The British government is trying to prevent the publication of memos which detail how information procured by torture in Uzbekistan is being used by the US and the UK.” The Independent has the story.
Posted on Dec 30, 2005
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Why is Samuel Alito expected to sail through Senate confirmation when his views are so outrageous? The Associated Press reports that he defended domestic wiretap protections when he worked for the Reagan Justice Department.
Posted on Dec 23, 2005
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The Los Angeles Times’ Kenneth Turan says “Munich” is a movie that demands to be seen as much for its place in the world as for whether it succeeds. He calls it “… the most questioning, provocative film [Spielberg’s] ever made.”
Posted on Dec 23, 2005
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The threat of a filibuster holds up as Republicans fail to get enough votes to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) tried to force the measure through Congress as part of a must-have defense spending bill. See our coverage to find out what was at stake: Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) filed a report after the House passed the measure earlier this week. See the related story by Robert Collier and the photo essay by Deddeda Stemler to learn more.
Posted on Dec 21, 2005
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For the Bush White House, the good news from Iraq just never stops. But the joy that President Bush has expressed over the country’s latest election, though more restrained than his infamous ”Mission Accomplished” speech, will similarly come back to haunt him.
Posted on Dec 20, 2005
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It’s good to know that some of our judges are standing up to the fundamentalists. A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled today that a public school district can’t require the inclusion of “intelligent design” in biology classes as an alternative to evolution. See story.
Posted on Dec 20, 2005
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The more we learn of the Bush administration’s pervasive outsourcing of torture, the more sensible it seems as a policy. Evidently, our intelligence people, tainted as they are by the squeamish morality of Western civilization, are just not fully up to the task of getting prisoners to tell us what the administration wants us to hear.
Posted on Dec 14, 2005
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“There is no U.S. footprint” is the proud boast of one of the Pentagon’s propaganda contractors, and it prompts the questions: Why not? What are they ashamed of? One thing is that most of us in this democracy did not know we were paying for this vast official propaganda operation until we read it in Jeff Gerth’s excellent investigative piece in The New York Times. A truly free press is our most valuable export, and its reputation should not be undermined by the Bushies’ addiction to government propaganda.
Posted on Dec 12, 2005
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Newsroom Carnage Continues at The Washington Post
