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By Joe Conason — If the New York mayor only read the fine news service that carries his name he could not claim that “It was not the banks that created the mortgage crisis.”
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David Goehring (CC-BY)
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The Rolling Stone scribe has christened Tuesday’s mayor-on-mayor action, during which former New York boss Ed Koch and current Mayor Michael Bloomberg mixed it up over the financial crisis and Occupy Wall Street, Bloomberg’s “Marie Antoinette moment.” (more)
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Mike Shane
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Truthdig contributor Madison Shockley reports that the author and political consultant was arrested after leaving a Huffington Post event in lower Manhattan honoring New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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Neon Tommy / Didi Beck (CC-BY-SA)
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Whereas protesters occupying Wall Street depend on a McDonald’s to relieve themselves, their counterparts in Los Angeles have port-a-potties. Whereas New York’s billionaire mayor and pepper-spraying police appear to have sided with the 1 percent, the L.A. City Council voted unanimously ... (more)
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By Amy Goodman — The Occupy Wall Street protest grows daily, spreading to cities across the United States. The response by the New York Police Department has been brutal.
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Sunny Ripert (CC-BY-SA)
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Truthdig contributor Christopher Ketcham was born in New York and he has watched it turn into America’s “most unequal city,” what he calls “a banana republic without the death squads.” And that’s not just his opinion—facts and figures trace the cultural decline of America’s original metropolis.
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_PaulS_ (CC-BY)
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Who’s in charge? What are the protesters’ demands? How big is the movement? How can I get involved? Answers to these and other basic questions about the ongoing occupation of Wall Street are offered by The Nation magazine’s Nathan Schneider. (more)
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AP / Louis Lanzano
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By Chris Hedges — Those on the streets around Wall Street are the physical embodiment of hope.
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AP / John Minchillo
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By Amy Goodman — If 2,000 tea party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.
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Flickr / BKLYN guy (CC-BY)
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Attorneys general from California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington have all come out in support of the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit to block AT&T from acquiring T-Mobile.
Posted on Sep 17, 2011
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AP / Jin Lee
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New York and Washington, D.C., police officers are ramping up security measures Friday in response to what intelligence officials are calling a specific, credible terrorist threat planned for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
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AP / Suzanne Plunkett
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By Deanne Stillman — On the day the towers fell, furies flew out of the hole in the ground and like all restless spirits, they headed west. I did not realize it at the time, of course, but did have the sense a few days after the dust began to settle at Ground Zero that things had shifted, a feeling that we all had, as if the world itself had gone off its axis.
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By Amy Goodman — The body bag marked “Victim 0001” on Sept. 11, 2001, contained the corpse of Father Mychal Judge, a Catholic chaplain with the Fire Department of New York.
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Michele Bachmann’s press secretary said the candidate was obviously speaking in jest when she attributed the recent earthquake and storm afflicting the East to an angry God. Well, as long as she was only joking about events that killed at least 35 people. ....
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Flickr / World Economic Forum
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In the long wake of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, New York state has scrapped a controversial $27 million deal between Rupert Murdoch’s Wireless Generation subsidiary and the state’s Education Department. (more)
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Manny Francisco, Cagle Cartoons, Manila, The Phillippines —
Posted on Aug 27, 2011
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AP / Steve Helber
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A magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook the East Coast on Tuesday afternoon. The epicenter was in Virginia but shaking was felt as far away as New York, Ohio and the Carolinas. Updated
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World Trade Organization (CC-BY-ND)
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Prosecutors have filed to dismiss all charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, writing that his alleged victim “has not been truthful on matters great and small.” Strauss-Kahn was accused—and virtually convicted by many news reports—of attempted rape in May.
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World Trade Organization (CC-BY-ND)
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Multiple sources are reporting that at a hearing Tuesday prosecutors are likely to drop some or all of the charges against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is accused of attempting to rape a maid at a New York hotel. (more)
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AP / Julie Jacobson
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By Christopher Ketcham — It is clear that nowhere in American commercial life, save perhaps the graveyard, is there a space not polluted by electronic voices.
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Flickr / badjonni
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Documents taken from Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound indicate that the head of al-Qaida was plotting an attack to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The records contained names of possible operatives, but little else that was useful, according to Siobhan Gorman of The Wall Street Journal.
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Flickr / Marion Doss
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A U.S.-based human rights group published a report Tuesday calling on foreign governments to prosecute George W. Bush and some of his chief officials in light of a growing body of evidence of war crimes. (more)
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Flickr / Ella's Dad
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Following the legalization of gay marriage in New York last month, people using religion to justify their bigotry have cried loud and hard about the chaos that’s sure to descend upon the U.S. for the defilement of what they call one of Christianity’s most sacred institutions. Fortunately, some of the Bible’s more intellectually honest students are speaking up. (more)
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Would you believe Pat Robertson made a reference to the biblical cautionary tale about the city of Sodom while discussing the recent passage of legislation allowing gay marriage in New York state? And also, God’s going to destroy America on account of same. The end.
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Flickr / mediacutts
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Same-sex couples suffered a bitter legislative defeat in Rhode Island on Wednesday night when a bill allowing only civil unions—but not marriage—passed the state Senate, less than one week after New York granted gays and lesbians the right to marry. (more)
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey
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This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: Argentina’s bloody past and New York’s historic gay marriage moment. Also, actor and activist Mike Farrell talks about death penalty injustice. Plus, Robert and Peter Scheer celebrate (sort of) Justice Scalia.
Posted on Jun 29, 2011
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This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: Argentina’s bloody past and New York’s historic gay marriage moment. Also, actor and activist Mike Farrell talks about death penalty injustice. Plus, Robert and Peter Scheer celebrate (sort of) Justice Scalia. Update: Full transcript.
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AP / Louis Lanzano
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By Larry Gross — New York’s action last week signifies more than just one more state added to the list of those permitting same-sex marriage.
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Flickr / David CC-BY-NC-ND
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By Larry Gross — Among the many landmarks of the turbulent decade of the 1960s, few have achieved the fame and symbolic resonance of events that began as a fairly routine example of police harassment on a hot June night in 1969.
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Flickr / wallyg
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Language protecting New York churches, synagogues and other religious institutions from lawsuit and penalty upon refusal to perform same-sex marriages was one of the key amendments that won Republican support for Friday’s historic gay rights legislation. (more)
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AP / Mike Groll
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After weeks of heavy campaigning by supporters and opponents, and after days with the vote hanging in the balance, the New York Senate finally passed a bill making same-sex marriage legal in the Empire State.
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White House / Pete Souza
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While asking wealthy New York gays for their money at a fundraiser Thursday, the president gave a big thumbs-up to the state’s lawmakers who are toiling to legalize gay marriage. He failed to mention, however, that he still opposes gay marriage. (more)
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Flickr / DJOtaku
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Anthony Weiner was forced to the bench in the congressional arena earlier this week, but he appears to have a more lucrative and less prudish opportunity to get back in the fight, this time for pornography mogul, free speech advocate and hammerer of sexual hypocrites Larry Flynt. (more)
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a special trip to Albany on Thursday to try to persuade GOP state senators to vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage, but by the end of the business day the issue was still undecided. Above, state Sen. Mark Grisanti, potentially a key political figure in the matter.
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AP / Richard Drew
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Rep. Anthony Weiner followed the political playbook closely in dealing with his own sexting scandal: First, deny all wrongdoing. If that doesn’t work, start making vague concessions and/or backroom deals. Next, hold news conference, apologize completely and go to rehab.
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Larry Wright, Cagle Cartoons, The Detroit News —
Posted on Jun 14, 2011
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Flickr / Step It Up 2007
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Following U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s tearful televised admission Monday that he sent lewd photographs to several women over the Internet, top Democrats in Congress are seeking to put as much daylight as possible between themselves and their colleague from New York. (more)
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jun 7, 2011
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AP via The Washington Post
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Another high-profile politician has learned about the perils of conducting a career—or, in this case, extracurricular activities—with the aid of modern technology. Yes, Rep. Anthony Weiner did send that risqué tweet, he admitted Monday, and it wasn’t the only one.
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By Joe Conason — Still spinning in the vortex of the May 24 tornado in New York’s 26th Congressional District, Republican leaders insist that Democrat Kathy Hochul’s upset victory on their party’s turf was meaningless.
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Matthew Reichbach (CC-BY)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — When will Republicans realize that the anti-government cries they think they hear from “the people” are the voices of no more than 20 percent to 25 percent of the electorate who constitute the die-hard conservative core?
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By Eugene Robinson — What concentrates the minds of GOP strategists and candidates—or ought to—is the spectacle unfolding in New York’s 26th Congressional District near Buffalo.
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By Richard Reeves — The French and American television coverage of Dominique Strauss-Kahn is not going to elevate either of two proud cultures.
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico —
Posted on May 23, 2011
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AP / Frank Franklin II
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This week we celebrate New York’s attorney general for refusing to let Wall Street off the hook. (More, including honorable mentions, after the jump).
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By William Pfaff — What can only seem the irresistible self-destruction of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has already produced fundamental and irreversible consequences in France and Europe.
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