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Embattled State Department inspector general resignsBy Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy NewspapersPosted on Friday, December 7, 2007 WASHINGTON — Embattled State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard submitted his resignation Friday, forced out for allegedly impeding ongoing criminal investigations into the … Continue reading →

The central problem is most likely that they don’t want to save the world. Roger Baker Thanks Roger for posting this article. The Planet will probably change and survive, as it has for Billions of years. The Question is, what … Continue reading →

Settlement for Torture of 4 Men by PoliceBy MONICA DAVEY and CATRIN EINHORN, December 8, 2007 CHICAGO, Dec. 7 — The City of Chicago is preparing to pay nearly $20 million to four men who were once sent to death … Continue reading →

Geopolitical Diary: Questions Raised by the NIEDecember 04, 2007 03 00 GMT The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate released on Monday — the little bombshell that says Iran has had its nuclear weapons program on hold since 2003 — raises two … Continue reading →

Bush Doesn’t Recall CIA Tape Destruction: Congressional Democrats Call for Justice Department InvestigationBy PAMELA HESS,AP, Posted: 2007-12-07 21:34:55 WASHINGTON (Dec. 7) – Congressional Democrats Friday demanded a full Justice Department investigation into whether the CIA obstructed justice by destroying videotapes … Continue reading →

Justice Dept. Numbers Show Prison TrendsBy SOLOMON MOORE, Published: December 6, 2007 About one in every 31 adults in the United States was in prison, in jail or on supervised release at the end of last year, the Department of … Continue reading →

Chesa Boudin: Venezuelan Democratic Process Is WorkingWritten by Katie Halper, Thursday, 06 December 2007Source: AlterNet Last Sunday, Venezuelans voted against reforms put forth by President Hugo Chavez. The vote against Chavez’s proposals for constitutional reform was surprising and extremely close, … Continue reading →

Nobel winners: ‘drop charges against San Francisco 8’Author: Marilyn BechtelPeople’s Weekly World Newspaper, 12/06/07 12:32 SAN FRANCISCO -­ A statement issued last week by Nobel Peace Prize laureates including South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has galvanized attention on a long-simmering … Continue reading →

CIA Destroyed Tapes of InterrogationsBy MARK MAZZETTI,The New York TimesPosted: 2007-12-06 20:59:12 WASHINGTON (Dec. 6) – The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Al Qaeda operatives in the agency’s custody, a … Continue reading →

Let us kill all the teddy bears: Note to radical Muslims: I’ve now named my favorite coffee mug ‘Muhammad.’ Hope that helpsBy Mark Morford, SF Gate ColumnistWednesday, December 5, 2007 Here’s what I like to do every time I see … Continue reading →

‘Cleveland Five’ fight for their jobsBy J.R. Munoz-McNally, jmcnally@statesville.comWednesday, December 5, 2007 Robert Whiteside is a workingman’s workingman. But exactly eight months ago, he found himself among the ranks of the unemployed. The father of three, Statesville resident, erstwhile employee … Continue reading →

We the ParanoidBy Eugene Robinson 12/05/07 “Washington Post” — – – 12/04/07 — – We Americans like to think of ourselves as strong, rugged and supremely confident — a nation of Marlboro Men and Marlboro Women, minus the cigarettes and … Continue reading →