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Archive: May 2009

Biopork: New DHS Appointee Ties to Congressman John Murtha

“The Obama administration’s controversial pick to be the Department of Homeland Security’s geek-in-chief is either a leading authority on the deadliest terror threats — or a biowar chicken little, dangerously…

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Congressman Conyers’ Super Bowl

From the Detroit News : Rep. John Conyers’ campaign committee spent nearly $46,000 on travel and transportation during the first three months of 2009, a figure far higher than his…

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The Enemies of All Humankind

Barack Obama appears to be in something of a quandary over the torture issue. On the one hand, he and his senior advisors clearly seem to recognize what the law…

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Win One for the Gipper!

It would be hard to pick the stupidest meme floating among the Beltway stenographic pool, but it might just be the claim that the demand for accountability for torture comes…

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Repeal the USA Patriot Act

WRAL in Raleigh, North Carolina, reports: Around 10 p.m. on March 5, Lundeby said, armed FBI agents along with three local law enforcement officers stormed her home looking for her…

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Gauguin Did It

You know Vincent Van Gogh, that Dutch painter who passed much of his life in the French Midi painting sunflowers, crows, and starry nights? He was prone to fits of…

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A Talk with Condi’s Interrogators

On April 27, Condoleezza Rice went to a reception at a Stanford University dormitory, which was followed by a private dinner with some of the students. Stanford undergrads Jeremy Cohn…

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Guess Who’s Coming to the Bailout?

From the Center for Public Integrity: The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or bankrolled by banks now collecting billions…

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Jeff Sharlet on Democracy Now! Jeff Sharlet appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss his piece “Jesus Killed Mohammed” from the May issue (available only to subscribers): “Donald M. Horstman, the…

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Special Prosecutor Moves in CIA Tapes Case

Last week, President Obama comforted CIA agents by assuring them that there would be no prosecutions related to the torture program. But his words were carefully chosen. In fact, it…

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Justice Dismisses the AIPAC Case–and That’s a Good Thing

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports: Prosecutors asked a judge to drop charges against two ex-AIPAC staffers accused of passing along classified information. In a statement Friday, the acting U.S. attorney…

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From the Web “On May 15, 1943, after days crammed in a box car, Mr. Arouch– along with his parents, three younger sisters and his brother– arrived at Auschwitz. His…

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Lessons Not Learned

In a function sponsored by the New York City Bar Association last night, former Irish president Mary Robinson described a study that she and seven colleagues—prominent jurists from around the…

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The CIA’s Foggy Crystal Ball

In December 2000, the National Intelligence Board, under the authority of the CIA, released a report called “Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About The Future With Nongovernment Experts.” The experts…

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Congressman Murtha Strikes Again

From the Washington Post: The headquarters of Murtech, in a low-slung, bland building in a Glen Burnie business park, has its blinds drawn tight and few signs of life. On…

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Weekly Review

Swine flu, renamed under pork-lobby pressure to “influenza A (H1N1) virus, human,” and referred to as “killer Mexican flu” by anti-immigration activists, had infected 985 people, or 0.0000145 percent of…

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Justice in the Gutter, Continued

In “Justice in the Gutter,” I discussed the mounting evidence that a Bush political appointee had exploited his sinecure in the Office of Juvenile Justice to funnel contracts to political…

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Rice and Bellinger Push Back

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s summary of the approval process showed National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and her legal counsel John Bellinger smack in the middle of the decisions to use…

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Noted: Jeff Sharlet will appear today, May 4, on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show to discuss his piece “Jesus Killed Mohammed” from the May issue (available only to subscribers). “The team…

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The Financial Crisis, the IMF and Karl Marx

The Atlantic has a good piece in its current issue called “The Quiet Coup: How bankers took power, and how they’re impeding recovery”, written by a former IMF official named…

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Global Economic Crisis Worsens: Dolph Lundgren latest victim of free-market capitalism

The Daily Mail reports that Dolph Lundgren is struggling to “maintain his trim physique” and was “displaying a slightly rounded tummy as he holidayed in the Mexican Riviera.” Indeed, as…

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The Scapegoats

It’s typical in Beltway political discussion now to refer to demands for accountability for Bush Administration officials involved in the introduction of the torture program as “scapegoating.” This is a…

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Inside Israel’s Illegal Settlements Program

From Secrecy News: Last January 30, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz disclosed a secret Israeli government database on settlements in the occupied West Bank, and posted the Hebrew text of the…

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Good Way to Start the Week: Jack Shafer eviscerates Cokie Roberts

From Slate: Each Monday, NPR Senior News Analyst Cokie Roberts trades four minutes of on-air blather about politics, the economy, and world events with whichever unlucky Morning Edition host has…

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Whitman’s Twenty-Eight Young Men

Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome. She owns the fine house by the…

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Holmes – Life as Art

Until lately the best thing that I was able to think of in favor of civilization, apart from blind acceptance of the order of the universe, was that it made…

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Weekend Read: The Last Post

No, by The Last Post, I’m not suggesting, over this first weekend of May, that you curl up with Ford Madox Ford’s novel of that name; rather, I mean to…

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Condi’s Really Bad Day

For eight years, Condoleezza Rice dealt with the Beltway punditry and the access-craving White House press corps. The reception she got, with a handful of exceptions, was fawning. Which leaves…

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