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Bizarre, Apparently Jihadist Slaying in London (Video)

Oklahoma Needs Help, Not Ideology

Hell on Earth for Greeks

Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits

Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

Fish Migration Reveals Ocean Warming
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

Benghazi: Dissecting Congressional Follies, Media Coverage and ‘Cover-Up’ Charges
By Joe Conason

Oklahoma Needs Help, Not Ideology
By E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Not-So-Happy Swedes Riot in Stockholm

Bizarre, Apparently Jihadist Slaying in London (Video)

Lawmaker Gives Atheist ‘Prayer,’ Glenn Beck’s Latest Controversial Comment, and More

U.S. Admits Drones Killed 4 Americans

Hell on Earth for Greeks

Apple Bullies the U.S. Government for Lower Taxes

Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

Scahill on Obama’s Admitted Killings of Americans

Eric Holder Should Resign Over Spying, Editor of The Progressive Says

Watch: Sen. Warren Grills Jack Lew on Too Big to Fail Banks

A Call to Action
By James Cromwell

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

Daily Rituals
By Gabriel Thompson

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone

By D. D. Guttenplan
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Playing President

By Robert Scheer
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Tag: Fired

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Applebee’s Fires Waitress After Pastor’s ‘God’ Tip

A waitress claims she was fired by Applebee’s after posting a note online from a pastor who refused to leave a tip, writing on the credit card receipt instead that “I give God 10% Why do you get 18.”

Posted on Jan 31, 2013 READ MORE

discourse.net

Being popular and Internet-savvy, writer Dan Froomkin surely holds a place in today’s struggling newspaper business that’s secure. At least that’s what you’d think. Instead, The Washington Post has fired him. The move removes one of the only mainstream commentators to criticize Barack Obama from the left.

Posted on Jun 19, 2009 READ MORE | 51 COMMENTS

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Only in America. Seriously.

A fifth-grade teacher is out of a job after leading a class through an art museum in Dallas. One of her students saw nude art; the student’s parent complained; the teacher is suspended.
Even crazier: Local TV stations are blacking out Greek sculpture genitalia during newscasts.

Posted on Oct 2, 2006 READ MORE | 16 COMMENTS

The Water Torture--Facsimile of a woodcut in J. Damhoudre's "Praxis Rerum Criminalium:"

CIA Blogger Fired for Anti-Torture Post

Christine Axsmith, a software contractor for the CIA, was fired when she posted a blog entry to the agency’s closed network stating her opposition to torture. The post started like this: “Waterboarding is Torture and Torture is Wrong.” Such a sad confirmation of our government’s dismal human rights policies that so obvious a statement qualifies as grounds for termination.

Posted on Jul 21, 2006 READ MORE | 5 COMMENTS

Courtest 20th Century Fox

For Interns, Blogging Brings Perils, Profits

On the eve of the premiere of the underling-dishes-all movie “The Devil Wears Prada,” the N.Y. Time surveys the landscape of interns whose work-related blogs have brought them both pay and pink slips.

Posted on May 26, 2006 READ MORE | 2 COMMENTS

Fired CIA Officer Was Top NSC Director

The CIA officer reportedly fired for leaking classified intelligence information is Mary O. McCarthy, who until 2001 was senior director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council.

Posted on Apr 22, 2006 READ MORE | 2 COMMENTS

From crooksandliars.com

Report: CIA Agent Fired for Leaking

The CIA has fired an agent who allegedly leaked information about secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe to The Washington Post, reports MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. Fox News has more.

Posted on Apr 21, 2006 READ MORE

From crooksandliars.com

Anti-Rumsfeld General: Questioning Command Healthy For Democracy

Major Gen. John Batiste (ret), who has called for Rumsfeld’s resignation, tells Katie Couric: “I think there’s a lot of people now starting to ask questions, and I think that’s healthy in a democracy.” He also says the book “Cobra II” gets the Iraq War story right.