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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 18, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 18, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on May 16, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 7, 2013
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In these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder’s thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning.
Posted on May 5, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 5, 2013
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Alice Bag (CC-BY)
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It’s hard not to imagine a genuine punk rocker gagging a little bit on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition “PUNK: Chaos to Couture.”
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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Politico’s piece on New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson implied she was a “bitchy woman character”; fossil fuels may never be depleted and this could be the best and worst thing to happen; meanwhile, violence is less rampant on YouTube than on television programs. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Barbara Bush’s surprising advice to son Jeb and Congress tries to fix air travel delays caused by the sequester.
Posted on Apr 25, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
What must the others in the Middle East theater of the American Empire think of a great city in total lockdown from an attack by primitive explosives when Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis and Yemenis experience far greater casualties and terror attacks several times a week?
Posted on Apr 25, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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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.
Posted on Apr 19, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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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
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By David Sirota — 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.
Posted on Apr 19, 2013
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By Juan Cole — Between about 1 p.m. and 2:40 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, the CNN news team was at the worst I’ve ever seen it.
Posted on Apr 18, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — 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.
Posted on Apr 18, 2013
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Reading mass media news articles is unhealthy and causes unhappiness, so stop it; Americans want to know more about socialism, as evidenced by Merriam-Webster’s two most searched entries in 2012; meanwhile the Swedes were dissatisfied with gendered pronouns and have officially incorporated a third, gender-neutral one into their language. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Apr 15, 2013
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Danny Birchall (CC-BY)
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By Joe Conason — Amid all the suffocating claptrap celebrating Margaret Thatcher in the media, only the British themselves seem able to provide a refreshing hit of brisk reality.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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By Lois Beckett, ProPublica —
Republicans want to use data to make predictions about individual voters, and they may contract with a “data warehousing” company used by Wal-Mart and Apple.
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Apr 7, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: How the media cover—and promote—war, Robert Scheer defends the messenger, AP disappears ‘illegal’ immigrants, and America’s office slaves, otherwise known as interns, rise up.
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: How the media cover—and promote—war, Robert Scheer defends the messenger, AP disappears “illegal” immigrants, and America’s office slaves, otherwise known as interns, rise up.
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — For all of the strident attacks on Stockman’s column, I have yet to read a serious critique of his most brazen claim.
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — The journalists, pundits and academics who sold us the Iraq War remain firmly ensconced in their positions of privilege and power, and these self-defined liberals stand ready to sell us out again.
Posted on Mar 31, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Anthony Lewis, the former New York Times reporter and columnist who died Monday at the age of 86, shaped the American conscience on a broad range of issues, from civil liberties and civil rights to war and diplomacy, for almost 50 years.
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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George W. Bush’s paintings do not reveal anything about the Iraq War, despite our wishing that they did; absurdly, the main argument against gay marriage is the state’s supposed need to regulate procreation; meanwhile, the entire Senate voted against Social Security cuts and the media said nothing. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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By Paul Cummins and Ray Reisler —
If income divide is at the root of current public education deficits, that chasm must be narrowed by reducing the factors that perpetuate poverty.
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
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By Chris Hedges — If any single day marks the fall of broadcast reporting, it’s when Phil Donahue was banished in 2003 for telling the truth about the coming war in Iraq.
Posted on Mar 24, 2013
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Flickr / Susan E Adams (CC-BY-SA)
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A number of tea partyers are under the delusion that Fox News, the right-wing’s treasured network for all things skewed and biased toward conservatives, is making a hard turn to the left.
Posted on Mar 24, 2013
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AP/Aleppo Media Center
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the American war machine might be revving up for another strike, this time in Syria.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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Rand Paul (CC-BY-SA)
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Libertarians, whom the Republican National Committee has largely shut out, assumed a more energetic role at CPAC this year, using the failed election as evidence that the GOP should return to their philosophy’s ideals.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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In the aftermath of its slanted coverage of the Steubenville rape trial verdict Sunday, CNN has faced enormous criticism for focusing on the convicted rapists rather than the 16-year-old victim.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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Although polls show a majority of Americans now believe the invasion of Iraq 10 years ago was a mistake, Eric Bolling expressed the opposite sentiment.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is a war criminal, the liberal filmmaker and activist contends.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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