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Feeding the Cartoon Furor in Afghanistan
Feb 8, 2006 Look past the cartoons, writes Christian Parenti of The Nation. The violence in Afghanistan stems from grievances over four years of occupation by U.S. and NATO troops and ineffectual foreign aid schemes. | storyAndrew Sullivan on the Cartoon Furor
Feb 8, 2006 Sullivan, whose NY Times Magazine essay on the connection between Islam and 9/11 was perhaps the best ever mainstream treatment on the subject, now takes on the Islamic cartoon controversy | essayAlso, a German journalist talks about his mixed feelings about running the cartoons in his paperwashingtonpostcom/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/06/AR2006020601258html?referrer=emailarticle" title="Op-ed">Op-Ed .N.Y. Press Kills Cartoons; Staff Walks Out
Feb 8, 2006 The entire editorial staff of The New York Press, an alternative weekly, quits in the wake of the paper's decision not to run the controversial Muhammad cartoons. | story
Something Rotten in the State of Denmark
Feb 8, 2006Dark Matter Comes Out of the Cold
Feb 7, 2006 Scientists for the first time have something specific to say about the most voluminous and mysterious substance in the universe. | storyGoogle Blacklists BMW For Gaming Search Results
Feb 7, 2006 The search company discovered that the carmaker was playing a shell game with its Web pages to boost traffic. | storyTop Counter-Terrorism Official Removed Amid Turmoil at the CIA
Feb 7, 2006 The departure "comes at a time when the agency is bleeding top talent, robbing the CIA of institutional memory and damaging morale among case officers and analysts." | story
Sen. Specter to Gonzales: ‘That Just Defies Logic and Plain English’
Feb 7, 2006 That's the Republican chair of the Judiciary Committee reacting to the attorney general's attempts to explain how spying without warrants is, in fact, legal. Check out the AG's explanation of why Bush earlier said that spying without warrants is, in fact, illegal: "The President is not a lawyer."Official Iranian Paper to Run Holocaust Cartoons
Feb 7, 2006 The Tehran city council-owned newspaper says it is testing the West's arguments about freedom of expression. | storyMeanwhile, Four Afghans are killed in cartoon-related protests near the U.S. base in Bagram--the first time violence has been directed against America in the controversy. | storySpying Program Yields Few Suspects
Feb 7, 2006 Investigators eavesdropping on Americans in overseas calls have dismissed nearly all of them as suspects, according to the Washington Post. This is huge, because "a search cannot be judged 'reasonable' if it is based on evidence that experience shows to be unreliable."Meanwhile, feisty Russ Feingold, a Democratic senator, takes the attorney general to the cleaners for lying to him a year ago about Bush's surveillance activities. Gonzales shoots back, "I was telling the truth then. I'm telling the truth now." | story