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Ear to the Ground: Syria on the Verge of Civil War

A/V Booth: Documentary Connects Shootings to Economic Struggle

Arts and Culture: Baltimore: The City That Bleeds

A/V Booth: The Pepper Shot Heard ’Round the Web

Ear to the Ground: ACLU Cites Abuses, Demands L.A. County Sheriff Step Down

Ear to the Ground: Police Respond With Aggression to Wall Street Protests

Reports: Yes to Violence, No to Sex

Ear to the Ground: 500 Dead in Nigerian Postelection Violence

Ear to the Ground: Postelection Violence Rocks Nigeria

Ear to the Ground: China on U.S. Human Rights Scolding: Look Who’s Talking

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Suspects Ethnic Massacre in Ivory Coast

Cartoons: Nothing to See

Reports: Obama Backs Down From Gun Control Showdown

Ear to the Ground: ‘Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand’

Reports: Real Hope Is About Doing Something

Arts and Culture: Top Court Mulls Video Game Violence

Reports: Wisdom of the Terrorist’s Son

Arts and Culture: Video Games Are Good for Your Brain

Reports: Sept. 11: A Day Without War

Reports: Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful

Cartoons: Bloody Mexico

Ear to the Ground: SCOTUS, Guns and the Second Amendment

Ear to the Ground: Hundreds Busted at the G-20

Ear to the Ground: Kyrgyzstan Violence Kills Dozens

Ear to the Ground: Thai Government Rejects Mediation

Ear to the Ground: Kanellos the Protest Dog

Ear to the Ground: 23,000 Reported Dead in Mexico Drug War

Reports: There Are Crazies on One Side

Cartoons: Health Care Violence

Reports: How Long Can GOP Leaders Ignore Tea Party Death Threats?

Ear to the Ground: Latest Violence in Mexico: Just in Time for Spring Break

Ear to the Ground: Mexican Reporters Run for Cover

Cartoons: Damn Yankees

Ear to the Ground: Starbucks in Gun Activist Crossfire

A/V Booth: The ‘Cross-Dressing Cannibals’ of Liberia

Ear to the Ground: Italian Town Aims Wrath at Migrant Workers

A/V Booth: AK-47s for All

Ear to the Ground: A Return to War?

Ear to the Ground: 2009 Less Bloody Than 2008 for Iraqi Civilians

Ear to the Ground: The Real Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call New Orleans

Ear to the Ground: Baghdad Shaken by Worst Attack in Two Years

Ear to the Ground: Widespread Rape, 157 Dead in Guinea ‘Hell’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Commander ‘Frustrated’ by Training Pace in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Polls Close in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Putin’s Pecs and Political Roid Rage

Ear to the Ground: The Right’s Trouble With Violence

Ear to the Ground: 10 Reported Killed in Streets of Tehran

Reports: Guns and the Link We Won’t Admit

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Matthew Shepard Act

Ear to the Ground: Iraqi Death Toll Tops 87,000 Since 2005

Ear to the Ground: Female Soldiers Battle Sexual Violence

Reports: Columbine Questions We Still Don’t Ponder

Cartoons: The War at Home

Cartoons: Gun Violence 2009

Cartoons: NRA Stays on Message [A Cartoon From Canada]

Cartoons: NRA Discipline

Ear to the Ground: G-20 vs. 6 Billion

Reports: Drugs, Guns and Reality

Ear to the Ground: Israeli Soldiers Tell of Their Army’s Crimes in Gaza

Reports: Walk Away, Rihanna—You’re a Role Model

Reports: We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction

A/V Booth: Are Video Games Violent Enough?

Reports: Bad News From America’s Top Spy

Reports: With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again

Arts and Culture: Brenda Wineapple on Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

Reports: Peace Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Reports: The Language of Death

Reports: Obama Will Back Israel

Cartoons: Blind

Arts and Culture: Andrew Nagorski on the Bolsheviks’ Crimes

Reports: Believe It or Not, 2008 Was Relatively Nonviolent

Reports: Why I Am a Socialist

Reports: Leaders Lie, Civilians Die, and Lessons of History Are Ignored

Reports: Man Is a Cruel Animal

Reports: Israel’s ‘Crime Against Humanity’

Reports: Settlement Extremists Threaten Israel’s Moral Substance

Ear to the Ground: Mexican Drug Wars Claim 5,000 Lives in 2008

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Puts Fresh Cash Into the Drug War

Reports: Chevron in the White House

Reports: Confronting the Terrorist Within

Ear to the Ground: Coordinated Attacks Kill at Least 100 in Mumbai

Ear to the Ground: How Bloody Can Bush’s Legacy Be?

Reports: Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention

Ear to the Ground: The NRA’s Activist Plant

Reports: It’s the War, Stupid

A/V Booth: The U.S. Role in Mexico’s Drug War

Ear to the Ground: Private Contractors in Iraq to Lose Immunity

Arts and Culture: Top 10 Films in Favor of Gun Control

Ear to the Ground: Mugabe Prevails in Sham Election

Reports: When Common Sense Is Unconstitutional

Ear to the Ground: Mugabe Plays Politics ... With Everything

Cartoons: The Creation

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Suggests Withdrawals

A/V Booth: Huckabee’s Major Misfire

Reports: Trading Spaces, Iraq Edition

Arts and Culture: Geoffrey Wheatcroft on ‘Muqtada’

A/V Booth: McCain’s ‘Spiritual Guide’ Has a Big Issue with Islam

Ear to the Ground: Preparations Made for Sadr City Assault

Reports: Culture of Misogyny

Ear to the Ground: Zimbabwe Election Goes to Second Round

Reports: Bush?s Parallel Universe

Reports: The Long, Sorrowful Ludlow Legacy

Reports: On Secular Fundamentalism

Ear to the Ground: Kidnappers Free Baghdad Security Spokesman

Ear to the Ground: Foreign Journalists Enter Tibet

Ear to the Ground: War’s Harsh Echo

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Calls for Tibet Investigation

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Violence on the Rise

A/V Booth: Stars Align for Anti-Hate Ad

Cartoons: Puppy Love

Ear to the Ground: Kenya Talks on Hold

Reports: The Mughniyeh Enigma

Cartoons: Reverse Psychology

Arts and Culture: Timothy Snyder on the Forgotten Holocaust

Ear to the Ground: Kenya Suffers More Killing

Reports: The Invisible War

Ear to the Ground: Surge Success at a Rate of $10 a Day

Ear to the Ground: Kenya Violence May Be Easing

Arts and Culture: Carol Brightman on the 1960s

Cartoons: A History of Violence

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court to Rule on Gun Rights

Ear to the Ground: Violence in Basra Drops 90% After British Withdrawal

Cartoons: Clean Hands

Ear to the Ground: Leading Iraqis Get Practical

Reports: Chevron’s Pipeline Is the Burmese Regime’s Lifeline

Reports: Truthdiggers of the Week: The Monks of Burma

Reports: Privatizing Murder

Ear to the Ground: Security Crew in Deadly Baghdad Shootout

Ear to the Ground: GAO Report Gives Iraq Gov’t an ‘F’

Ear to the Ground: Real-Life Violence

Ear to the Ground: Wave of Shootings in Oakland

Ear to the Ground: Sony vs. the Church of England

A/V Booth: Acceptable Violence?

Ear to the Ground: Global Terrorism Surges; Iraq Leads the List

Ear to the Ground: The Blind Leaders of the U.S. and Iraq

Reports: It’s the Guns, Stupid

Reports: Politics Aside, Guns Still Kill

Cartoons: Double Standard

A/V Booth: ‘Mentally F’ed Up’ in Baghdad

Ear to the Ground: Red Cross: Iraqis Face ‘Unbearable and Unacceptable’ Suffering

A/V Booth: Symphony of Bullets

Ear to the Ground: The Quagmire Turns 4

A/V Booth: Discovery Channel Shows Off Penetrator Bomb

Reports: The Invisible City: Entering Oakland

Ear to the Ground: Attacks Kill More Than 100 Iraqi Shiites

Ear to the Ground: Deadly Week, Deadly Weekend in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Bloody Sunday

Ear to the Ground: More Evidence the Surge Isn’t Working

Ear to the Ground: Gaza Truce Collapses

Ear to the Ground: 250 Dead After Daylong Battle

Ear to the Ground: No End in Sight for Gaza Violence

Ear to the Ground: Scores Die in Baghdad Attacks

Ear to the Ground: Violence Escalates With Troop Levels in Iraq

Cartoons: Mr. Fish: Good and Evil

Ear to the Ground: Baghdad Bombings Kill at Least 95

Cartoons: Mr. Fish: Role Models

Ear to the Ground: Turning the Corner in Somalia

Ear to the Ground: Hezbollah Blocked Fatah Attacks

Ear to the Ground: Deadliest Month of the Year

Ear to the Ground: Charges Emerge From Haditha Killings

Ear to the Ground: Iraqi Bloggers Cope With the Violence

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Violence at Record Highs in All Categories

Ear to the Ground: Palestinian Factions Agree to Cease-Fire

Ear to the Ground: Study Group: Pentagon Conceals Iraq Violence

Ear to the Ground: Hillary the Panderer

Ear to the Ground: Thanksgiving Massacre in Baghdad Kills 161

Ear to the Ground: Reality TV Iraqi Style

Ear to the Ground: Renewed Violence in France

Ear to the Ground: Possible U.S. Troop Increase in Baghdad

A/V Booth: O’Reilly: Iran Helping Dems

Ear to the Ground: Colombian Wives to Gangsters: Lay Down Arms or No Sex

Ear to the Ground: Baghdad 9/13 Death Toll Nears 100

Ear to the Ground: So That’s Why the Death Toll Figure Was Low…

Ear to the Ground: Hiding in Plain Sight

Ear to the Ground: Are Bush & Co. Seeking Democracy Alternatives in Iraq?

Ear to the Ground: Greenwald: Neocon Policy, R.I.P.

Ear to the Ground: As U.S. Shifts Policing Power, Baghdad Strife Rises

Ear to the Ground: Friedman Jumps on the Antiwar Bandwagon

A/V Booth: Top Pentagon General: Civil War Possible in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: As U.S. Deaths Drop, Iraqi Deaths Rise

Ear to the Ground: A Sea Change in Bush’s Thinking on Iraq?

Ear to the Ground: Israelis and Lebanese Are Still Talking—on the Net

Ear to the Ground: Statistics Show Dramatic Decrease in U.S. Rape Cases

Ear to the Ground: Nicholas Berg’s Father on CNN: Violence Begets Violence

Ear to the Ground: As Death Stalks Iraq, Middle-Class Exodus Grows

Ear to the Ground: Votes Were Counted but Chaos Rules in Iraq

A/V Booth: Jon Stewart: ‘Holy Crap, We’re Going to War With Iran’

Ear to the Ground: Almost 50 U.S. Troops Dead in Iraq Since April 1

Ear to the Ground: Talking Sense About the Drug War

Ear to the Ground: ‘Liberated’ Iraqis Turned Into Refugees

Reports: Sam Harris: The Truthdig Interview

Reports: David Muhammad: The Truthdig Interview

Reports: David Muhammad: The Truthdig Interview

Ear to the Ground: Behind Rice Visit, a Bloody Partitioning of Iraq

Ear to the Ground: With Chaos Reigning, Bush Tells Iraqis: Build Your Government

Ear to the Ground: Violence Claims 81 Lives in Baghdad

Reports: In Full: Statement of Freed Activist

Reports: The Roots of the Iraqi Civil War

Ear to the Ground: Judge Pulls Plug on Hussein in Wake of Shouting Match

Ear to the Ground: Two Grim Assessments of Iraq’s Future

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