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New E-Mails Detail Rove’s Role in Attorney Firings
Internal e-mails released Tuesday show that Karl Rove and other senior Bush aides played an “earlier and more active role” in the 2006 U.S. attorney firing scandal than previously revealed… Read more »
Russia to Strengthen Presence In Abkhazia
Russia has announced it will spend half a billion dollars upgrading its military presence—reinforcing bases, strengthening borders—in Abkhazia, the breakaway region of Georgia that, along with South Ossetia, was a… Read more »
Interrogation Inc.
For two psychologists with no hands-on experience in interrogation and no expertise on al-Qaida, it seems far-fetched that the U.S. government would entrust the capacity to develop the country’s most… Read more »
Letting the Banking Rats Out of the Bag
“Was there some sort of ghost that performed these actions?” New York federal Judge Jed S. Rakoff demanded to know Monday in rejecting a deal that would let Bank of… Read more »
Media Meltdown in a Time of Crisis, Part 1
Amy Goodman and Robert Scheer discuss the present and future of media with the global economic crisis, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the health care debate raging on… Read more »
Clinton Offers $17M in U.S. Aid to Combat Sex Crimes in Congo
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton witnessed the horrific living conditions that many Congolese women and children are enduring in their embattled country on Tuesday and was attentive to their stories… Read more »
‘Daily Show’: Stokin’ the Fear at Crazytown Hall Meetings
There’s a whole lot of Baracknophobia going on when it comes to some folks’ worries about health care reform, but how much of it is based on valid concern and… Read more »
‘Colbert Report’: Euphemisms for Euthanasia
What exactly do those dastardly Democrats mean when they talk about “community standards” vis-à-vis health care reform? Only one thing, of course—death panels! But hold on, Mr. Gingrich and Mme… Read more »
Another Deadly Day in Baghdad
On Tuesday, eight people were killed and many more wounded in a series of blasts in Baghdad’s Ameen neighborhood—just a day after 52 died and 250 were injured in explosions… Read more »
Obama Jumps Into Health Care Fray
So far, we’ve had the angry protests, the scuffles at suddenly volatile town hall meetings, and no resolution of the health care reform argument from our elected leaders, but President… Read more »
