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Should We Kill Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?

According to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, more than 70 percent of Americans support the death penalty for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev if he is found guilty of perpetrating the Boston Marathon bombing.

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Today’s Bomber

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Bringing the Gold

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Interrogation

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Congress’ Best Side

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Chechnya Expert

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Boston’s Message

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Terrorists Are Not Madmen

This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Terrorism expert Audrey Kurth Cronin says terrorists are surprisingly logical. Also: Islamophobia in the USA, Bradley Manning’s secret trial, and Congress wants to share your Internet secrets.

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Terrorists Are Not Madmen

This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Terrorism expert Audrey Kurth Cronin says terrorists are surprisingly logical. Also: Islamophobia in the U.S.A., Bradley Manning’s secret trial, and Congress wants to share your Internet secrets.

Posted on Apr 19, 2013 READ MORE



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Catastrophe and the Value of Silence

After an explosion like those in Boston, it is indeed hard to hear one’s own internal monologue, much less meditate on such horrific events.

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In the Tank

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And He Is Us

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Marathon Aftermath

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Giffords ‘Furious’ Over Gun Vote, Stewart Mocks ‘Human Centipede’ CNN, and More

A look at the day’s political happenings, including a setback for privacy rights advocates and the bizarre connection between the alleged sender of ricin-laced letters and one of the targets.

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Boston Marathon Man

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Peace Activists and Patriots at the Boston Marathon Bombing

Monday was Patriots’ Day in Massachusetts, celebrating the day the American Revolutionary War began in 1775, at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. It is also the day of the annual Boston Marathon, which will now, sadly, go down in history as yet another episode of senseless mass violence.

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To Boston, With Love

Boston is tough and sentimental, traditional and forward-looking, working class and wealthy, parochial and global, warm and reserved, reform-minded and un-reformable, restrained and boisterous, superstitious and free-thinking, very new and very old.

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The Disuniting of America

We come together as Americans when confronting common disasters and common threats, such as occurred in Boston on Monday, but we continue to split apart economically.

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A Lesson in Empathy From Glenn Greenwald

“I’m up for us ‘All Being Bostonians Today’. But then can we all be Yemenis tomorrow & Pakistanis the day after?” Greenwald’s Guardian colleague Gary Younge wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

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Race for Terror

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Boston Tragedy

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Unpatriots Day

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Boston Marathon Bombing

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No Arrests, No Responsibility Determined in Boston Attacks (Video)

Law enforcement agencies are scrambling to figure out who carried out the Boston Marathon blasts. So far there have been no arrests, no credible claims of responsibility and little information from authorities about who might have planted the explosive devices.

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Obama Addresses Nation After Boston Bombings

The president stopped short of calling the blasts at the marathon terror attacks during his prepared remarks, but CNN is reporting that federal investigators have classified them that way.

Posted on Apr 15, 2013 READ MORE



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Dramatic Video Reveals Full Terror of Boston Marathon Bombings

The Boston Globe has just released a chilling video that captures the extent of the horror of the Boston Marathon explosions Monday afternoon, including the sounds of both blasts being detonated and the screams and shouts of the panicked crowd in the aftermath.

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Boston Marathon Blasts: Police Find More Explosive Devices

Officials also said during a news conference that a third incident has been reported at the JFK Library in Boston.

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Deaths, Injuries Reported After Explosions at Boston Marathon (Video)

“Somebody’s leg flew by my head,” one spectator told the Boston Herald. “I gave my belt to stop the blood.”

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Video: Explosions Strike Boston Marathon on Patriots’ Day

“There are a lot of people down,” a runner told The Associated Press, after two blasts brought a traumatic end to the world’s oldest annual marathon.

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AP/Charles Krupa

Storm Dumps 2 Feet of Snow in Some New England Towns

A huge winter storm has savaged America’s populous Northeast, leading to flight cancellations, declarations of emergency in six states, power outages affecting more than 650,000 people and at least seven deaths.

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Flu Rears Its Ugly, Epidemic Head

Flu is leading the winter sickness season as three trends stand out: The illness is striking early, a new norovirus is surging and health care professionals are witnessing the worst whooping cough outbreak in 60 years.

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Boston Mayor to Chick-fil-A: Take a Hike!

Tom Menino is choosing civil rights over fast food. Boston’s mayor is aiming to block Chick-fil-A’s attempt to expand to his city because the restaurant chain’s CEO opposes same-sex marriage.

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A Paul Revere Primer With Sarah Palin

Does it matter if Sarah Palin has a different, special take on the story of Paul Revere, hero of the American Revolution? Or here’s another question: Could she be right? On “Fox News Sunday,” Palin was ready with her comebacks to critics accusing her of revisionist history.

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Obama Gives Mass. Governor Patrick a Boost

With less than three weeks left before the midterm elections, President Obama is making the rounds in support of Democratic allies such as Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, whom Obama praised in a Boston appearance Saturday while ... (continued)

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AP / Reed Saxon

The War of the McCourts

The story of Frank and Jamie McCourt, who turned the Dodgers into their own piggy bank, lived a life of mortgaged royalty and then decided to destroy one another, is like something out of Tom Wolfe.

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End of the Line for a Political Legend?

A couple of dynamic upstarts are campaigning to keep Tom Menino from serving 20 years as Boston’s mayor.

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Axis of Obstinacy: Israel Rebukes Diplomat for Challenging Settlements

A leaked memo from Israel’s consul general in Boston, Nadav Tamir, has Israel’s extremist foreign minister calling for the diplomat’s resignation. Tamir wrote in an internal document that his government’s settlement policy has led to “the feeling in Washington that Obama has to deal with obstinacy from the governments of Iran, North Korea and Israel.”

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He Was Always Such a Nice Boy

Often, relatives and acquaintances of the suspect in a notorious case express shock and disbelief when the crime and the alleged perpetrator become publicly linked. The man accused of being the “Craigslist killer,” 23-year-old Philip Markoff, is among those who made a positive impression in better times.

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