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Thursday, November 05, 2009
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- “GM’s Money Trees”: Displacement of Rural Brazilians Highlights Consequences of “Cap and Trade” System
- Italian Prosecutor in Case Against CIA Operatives Hails Convictions for ’03 Kidnapping of Egyptian Cleric
- As Massey Energy Blasts West Virginia’s Coal River Mountain, a Debate on Mountaintop Removal Mining
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
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- Election Day 2009: GOPers Sweep Governor Races; Bloomberg Wins Tight NYC Mayoral Race; Dems Take House Seats; Maine Repeals Gay Marriage
- Low Road to High Finance: McClatchy Expose Reveals How Goldman Sachs Sold Off Billions in Mortgage Securities After Anticipating Housing Collapse
- Blueberry Farming Giant Found to Use Child Labor at Michigan Fields
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
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- Appeals Court Rules in Maher Arar Case: Innocent Victims of Extraordinary Rendition Cannot Sue in US Courts
- Israeli Activists Criticize US House for Considering Resolution Condemning Goldstone Report on Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
- “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama”: New Documentary on Barack Obama’s Historic Presidential Run
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The Tortured Logic Continues
“Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year.
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The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent
U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Chancellor Keesling died in Iraq on June 19, 2009, from “a non-combat related incident,” according to the Pentagon. Keesling had killed himself.
Filed under Weekly Column
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Trick or Treat for Climate Change
Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are stepping up the pressure by staging elaborate stunts.
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Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country
Lt. Dan Choi doesn’t want to lie. Choi, an Iraq war veteran and a graduate of West Point, declared last March 19 on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “I am gay.” Under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” regulations, those three words are enough to get Choi kicked out of the military.
Filed under Weekly Column
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Watch What You Tweet
A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home—all for using Twitter.
Filed under Weekly Column
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Christian Parenti responds to Kevin Bales
Journalist Christian Parenti responds to our interview with Kevin Bales, founder of Free The Slaves
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Podcasting & Torrents
Tuesday, July 6, 2004
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Judge Grants Pakistani Immigrant Faisal Ulvie Green Card After Narrowly Avoiding Deportation
A New York judge granted Pakistani immigrant Faisal Ulvie a green card last week after his post-911 detention followed by his two-year battle to stay in the U.S. with his American wife and their children.
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Kerry Picks Edwards as Running Mate
After much speculation, Sen. John Kerry has selected Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina to be his vice presidential running mate. We speak with The Nation correspondent John Nichols about the selection. [includes rush transcript]
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Saddam in the Dock: Counsel Denied, Hearing Censored, Calls Bush "Criminal"
We speak with Saddam Hussein’s lawyer Curtis Doebbler about the controversial pretrial hearing last week and political analyst Sam Husseini discusses how the only people granted the opportunity to clearly condemn U.S. policy in the Middle East are criminals themselves. [includes rush transcript]
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Nadia McCaffrey on Her Son's Death in Iraq: "We Cannot Ignore Anymore What Is Going On In Iraq...I am Speaking as a Mother and as a Human Being"
Two weeks after her son, Patrick, was shot dead in an ambush in Iraq, Nadia McCaffrey joins us to discuss Patrick’s last days in Iraq, his disillusionment with the occupation and requesting the media photograph his returning casket. [includes rush transcript]
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Embedded Filmmaker Who Shot "Fahrenheit 9/11" Footage Describes Young U.S. GIs Committing Abuses
Swedish-Iraqi filmmaker Urban Hamid, who was embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq for two and a half months, describes how young, American soldiers are driven to abusing and humiliating Iraqi detainees. [includes rush transcript]
