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Cheney’s Version of Iraq Accomplishment Tainted
Cheney’s Mission AccomplishedBy Juan Cole / March 17, 2009 Dick Cheney: “I guess my general sense of where we are with respect to Iraq and at the end of now, what, nearly six years, is that we’ve accomplished nearly everything … Continue reading
Seattle P-I Becoming First Internet Only Newspaper
Roger Oglesby, right, of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, announced the paper’s final print edition. Photo: Dan DeLong/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, via Associated Press.Seattle Paper Shifts Entirely to the WebBy William Yardley and Richard Pérez-Peña / March 16, 2009 SEATTLE — The Seattle Post-Intelligencer … Continue reading
Why Did A.I.G. Pay Goldman Sachs $12.9 Billion?
Hong Kong AIG building. Photo: Chow Meisy.The Gift That Keeps on GivingMarch 16, 2009 After four bailouts totaling some $170 billion, the American International Group has finally answered some of the questions about where the money went. Unfortunately, the answers … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank Bailouts, Corporate Corruption, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Bailout
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Economy : Long Shot Your Best Bet
Getting Randomly Picked To Make Half-Court Shots Now Best Way To Earn Living WASHINGTON — A new study released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Tuesday confirmed that the most dependable source of income for American workers in the … Continue reading
Seth Meyers: US SNL Government Propagandist
Pop Goes the Culture: Live from New York … It’s the Same Old PropagandaBy Lord Baltimore / March 15, 2009 Studio 8H in New York City’s Rockefeller Center is not only the two-floor sound stage from which Saturday Night Live … Continue reading
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Tagged Existential Angst, Journalism, Mainstream Media, Propaganda
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More About MRSA and Agribusiness
This is a follow-up to an article we posted a few days ago. The big news here is the potential connection between the development of debilitating (even deadly) antibiotic-resistant pathogens and the use of antibiotics in animal feed. Let’s press … Continue reading
Rachel Maddow and the Irresistible Rise of Sarcastic News
The Sarcastic Times. . . For Rachel Maddow and the other ironic anchors, absurdity is serious stuff What has caused sarcastic news to flower? For starters, today’s bloggers and YouTube snidesters see parody as information and information as parody. By … Continue reading
Ritter: Obama Needs to Learn the Truth About Iran
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, doing his best impersonation of a Bond villain, tours a Russian facility last summer that produces advanced surface-to-air missiles. AP pool photo / Aleksey Nikolskyi.A Lesson in International Gamesmanship: Barack Obama, Meet Team BBy Scott Ritter … Continue reading
Richard L. Scott: Healthcare Enemy Number One
See also Dr. Stephen R. Keister’s remarks below about Richard L. Scott. All of this is rather enlightening to say the least. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog Former Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. co-founder Richard Scott is now chairman of Solantic, … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Republican
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Eliminating the Taliban Threat: Not Achievable
How to Leave AfghanistanBy Leslie H. Gelb / March 12, 2009 ONLY if our troop levels hit 100,000 and fighting floods over into Taliban havens in Pakistan will Washington be likely to look hard at the alternative policy for Afghanistan … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Obama Administration, U.S. Foreign Policy, War on Terror
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The Explosion at the Shrine of Rahman Baba
The explosion badly damaged Rahman Baba’s Shrine. AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad.Uprooting Flowers on Pakistan’s FrontierBy James Caron / March 14, 2009 Some time before dawn on the 5th of this month, there was an explosion in the main building at the … Continue reading
MRSA: A Potential Cost of Industrial Agriculture
One of the many industrial hog farms outside Camden, Ind. Photo: Nicholas D. Kristof/The New York Times.Our Pigs, Our Food, Our HealthBy Nicholas D. Kristof / March 11, 2009 The late Tom Anderson, the family doctor in this little farm … Continue reading
