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Reporter Who Brought Down the 'Runaway General' Dead at 33

The Terror Con

Nate Silver vs. Politico: It's on Again

The Making of a Global Security State

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REPORTS

Greenland’s Great Melt Is Pinned On Climate Change
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

The U.S. Military and the Unraveling of Africa
By Nick Turse, TomDispatch

Bank of America Lied to Homeowners and Rewarded Foreclosures, Ex-Employees Say
By Paul Kiel, ProPublica

The Making of a Global Security State
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

Ear to the ground

Google Fights For Transparency in FISA Court

U.S. and Taliban Announce Direct Negotiations

Reporter Who Brought Down the ‘Runaway General’ Dead at 33

Nate Silver vs. Politico: It’s on Again

IRS Conspiracy Theory Debunked, Rand Paul Answers Cheney Criticism, and More

Bill Ayers: Try Obama, Bush for War Crimes

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GOP Congressman: Abortions Should Be Banned Because Male Fetuses Masturbate

The Campaign to Ignore Sarah Palin

Did Progress Leave Christians Behind?

Watch: Rick Perry Blunders Jab at Obama’s Benghazi Reaction

Arts & Culture

Ernest Hemingway: Dud KGB Spy?

The Joy of Singing Out of the Spotlight
By Richard Schickel

Let Nicholas Kristof Damage Your Mind

The Unwinding
By Marc Fisher

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The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

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Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

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Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known

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Tag: Nazi

Memo to Pundits and Pols: No More Holocaust Comparisons

That’s the advice of a Washington Post reporter, who says that no one should ever compare anything to the Nazis, Hitler or the Holocaust. Even if you’re talking, as Sen. Dick Durbin recently was, about the prisoner mistreatment scandal at Gitmo, it will always backfire. Other examples:

FreeRepublic.com and Accuracy in Media pull the “Anne Frank card” on the N.Y. Times.

CNN Host Glenn Beck uses a Holocaust comparison for the N.Y. Times, too.

Posted on Jul 5, 2006 READ MORE

From MediaMatters

CNN Host Compares Gore to Hitler

“Headline News” host Glenn Beck said Al Gore’s story-telling methods in his global warming movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” were like those of Hitler. “Hitler said a little bit of truth,” Beck said, “and then he mixed in ‘and it’s the Jews’ fault.’ ”

Posted on Jun 10, 2006 READ MORE | 14 COMMENTS

Will Racism Bring Violence to World Cup?

Soccer fans mocked with monkey noises and spit on Nigerian forward Adebowale Ogungbure as he left a soccer field in Germany in late March. It sounds like a story from another decade, but this type of violent racism might just destroy this year’s World Cup. The NYT offers a must-read piece about the recent surge in racist sentiment among European soccer fans.

Posted on Jun 3, 2006 READ MORE | 2 COMMENTS

From crooksandliars.com

Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore to Nazi Propagandist

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 READ MORE | 5 COMMENTS

In Defense of Free Thought

By Robert Scheer —

On Monday an Austrian court sentenced crackpot British historian David Irving to three years’ imprisonment for having denied the Holocaust 17 years ago. Directly on the heels of rioting sparked by the Muhammad cartoons, the ruling has exposed a longstanding double standard in the West about who is entitled to free speech and why.