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Archive: Aug 2009

Six Questions for Derek S. Jeffreys, Author of Spirituality and the Ethics of Torture

While a great volume of material has been published about torture from a political or legal perspective, there have been relatively few publications addressing the spiritual and moral dimensions of…

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Your Tax Dollars At Work

Federal prosecutors in Arizona have struck against a new menace that threatens the safety of the community. They brought charges against Walt Stanton, a divinity student at Claremont School of…

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Health Care’s Army of Lobbyists: Six for every member of Congress

From Bloomberg: If there is any doubt that President Barack Obama’s plan to overhaul U.S. health care is the hottest topic in Congress, just ask the 3,300 lobbyists who have…

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Karl Rove’s Convenient Memory Lapses

The human memory is an amazing engine, but Karl Rove’s is something truly extraordinary. Consider Rove’s last brush with the law—in connection with the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie…

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Inside the World of Dusty Foggo

Dusty Foggo, the man at the heart of a scandal that took down a number of senior CIA figures close to former director Porter Goss, had a reputation as a…

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A Political Fragging

Documents released from the House Judiciary Committee’s two year investigation into the U.S. attorney’s scandal reveal that New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias was fired at the insistence of Karl…

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From Harper’s:Frederick Kaufman on Bill Gates and the world’s hunger From “Let them eat cash: Can Bill Gates turn hunger into profit?” by Frederick Kaufman in the June 2009 Harper’s.…

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Transparently Phony

From ProPublica: Back in July, a software company named Smartronix landed an $18 million contract to build a Web site where taxpayers could easily track billions in federal stimulus money.…

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Ghosting Sarah Palin’s Facebook Page

From Gawker: Just before midnight, a “note” was posted on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page titled, “Concerning the “Death Panels.” Predictably, the media latched onto it and reported her thoughts. However,…

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There Is a God: Santorum mulling presidential bid

From Politico: Add former Sen. Rick Santorum to the list of potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates. POLITICO has learned Santorum will visit first-in-the-nation Iowa this fall for a series of…

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The Geneva Conventions at Sixty

The Geneva Conventions can be dated back to the start of the movement in 1864, but the current version was signed on August 12, 1949, which means that today the…

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During one of his testimonies before a Congressional committee he even talked about the future being something like the Star Trek holodeck. His clichés and commentary was that of a…

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Afghanistan: More American aid money headed down the drain

“The United States will not meet its goals in Afghanistan without a major increase in planned spending on development and civilian reconstruction next year, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul has…

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Reader Replies on Anne Wexler: She was best since sliced bread (and probably a virgin as well)

A reader did not care for the item I posted a few days ago about Anne Wexler, the former Eugene McCarthy activist turned Fortune 500 lobbyist. (My item cited a…

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Trickle Down Recovery

From the Washington Post: The pile of economic data indicating that the worst of the recession is over just keeps growing. In the past few weeks, the government has reported…

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Renditions, Obama Style

Raymond Azar is a 45-year-old Lebanese construction manager who traveled to Kabul in April to meet with one of his clients, the U.S. Government. He wound up being seized by…

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Dr. Quake’s machine, the Heliscope Single Molecule Sequencer, can decode or sequence a human genome in four weeks with a staff of three people. The machine is made by a…

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Special Prosecutor on the Horizon?

Last night I discussed the latest reports about the pending appointment of a torture special prosecutor with Keith Olbermann. Here’s the video: Visit msnbc.com for…

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Weekly Review

Caught in the Web, 1860. With Congress in recess, opponents of and advocates for health-care reform stepped up their media campaigns. Angry citizens, led by industry front groups, former “Swift…

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From the May 2004 Harper’s: Richard N. Rosenfeld on the case for abolishing the Senate From “What Democracy? The case for abolishing the United States Senate,” by Richard N. Rosenfeld…

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Anne Wexler: Burger Queen

Michael Kinsley has a good piece in the Washington Post today about the recently departed Anne Wexler, whose death has been widely mourned in Washington media circles. Wexler started out…

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Fredo’s New Job

It’s taken more than two years, but Alberto Gonzales has finally found a job. On August 31, he starts teaching a political science class at Texas Tech University in Lubbock…

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Where In The World Is Your Member of Congress?

It’s going to be roughly 100 degrees today in Washington, but fortunately numerous members of Congress won’t have to suffer through the heat because they’re out of town on all-expense…

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I’ll Tase You, Bro’

From the Greensboro News-Record: A Homeland Security ban against using Tasers on immigration detainees could get in the way of a 287(g) compact between federal authorities and the Guilford County…

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Hugo – Demain, dès l’aube

Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne, Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m’attends. J’irai par la forêt, j’irai par la montagne. Je ne puis demeurer loin…

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Camus – The Fall

Il fut un temps où j’ignorais, à chaque minute, comment je pourrais atteindre la suivante. Oui, on peut faire la guerre en ce monde, singer l’amour, torturer son semblable, parader…

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From the July Harper’s: Ken Silverstein on the labor movement From “Labor’s Last Stand: The corporate campaign to kill the Employee Free Choice Act,” by Ken Silverstein in the July…

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