Saturday, June 19, 2010

Christians and the Environment

By Rev. Howard Bess
June 19, 2010

With few exceptions Christians are keeping their mouths shut about the impending disaster that we and our world face. Collectively, we have created a life-style that cannot be sustained on the globe on which we live.

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US Soldier Alleges '360' Firing in Iraq

By Ralph Lopez
June 19, 2010

If even a small fraction of what former Bravo Company 2-16 soldier Ethan McCord is saying is true, that orders were given at a battalion level in Iraq for "360 rotational fire" against civilians in order to "kill every motherfucker in the street," upon being hit by an IED, then Congress must investigate.

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Friday, June 18, 2010

The Challenge of Being Miley

By Michael Winship
June 18, 2010

Amidst all the news of petrochemical malfeasance in the Gulf - and thank you Rep. Joe Barton, pride of Texas, for your apology to BP, demonstrating everything that's wrong with a Congress jammed too snugly in the pocket of big business - I watched teen sensation Miley Cyrus on David Letterman Thursday night.

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Witness: US Agent Aimed at Mexican

By Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss
June 18, 2010

An eyewitness to the June 7 shooting death of a 14-year-old Mexican youth said a U.S. Border Patrol agent took aim at the boy for several seconds after the boy emerged from behind a pillar of a bridge on the Juarez side of the border near El Paso, Texas.

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

The Tricky October Surprise Report

By Robert Parry
June 17, 2010

A congressional report on a turning point of modern U.S. political history – whether candidate Ronald Reagan struck a treacherous deal with Iranian radicals to help win the White House in 1980 – was written haphazardly and deceptively, including an apparently false claim that Reagan’s innocence was approved unanimously by a House task force.

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

How US Media Botched Iran's Election

By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
June 17, 2010

Foreign Policy's seven-part series, "Misreading Tehran," is, for the most part, a disappointing example of the phenomenon it purports to explain -- inaccurate interpretations of Iranian politics surrounding the Islamic Republic's June 12, 2009, presidential election. Such misinterpretation has had a deeply corrosive effect on the debate about America's Iran policy.

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Zionism and a Dreamscape of Ghosts

By Phil Rockstroh
June 16, 2010

Although my mother fled Nazi Germany, as a child, on a Kindertransport, with a few family valuables sown into her clothing, and I was brought up on the myths and hagiography of the Zionist state, I, over time, came to recognize the folly of the whole colonialist enterprise — the folly of ethnic exclusion and expulsion, the inherent tragedy of nationalism based on the delusion of religious birthright.

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Cable News and the Real World

By Danny Schechter
June 16, 2010

Somehow, I can’t escape CNN.

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Prudhoe Bay, BP's Other Ticking Bomb

By Jason Leopold
June 16, 2010

Nearly 5,000 miles from the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, BP and its culture of cost-cutting are contributing to another environmental mess in the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska’s north shore, according to internal BP documents and more than a dozen employees interviewed over the past month.

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Wikileak Case Echoes Pentagon Papers

By Coleen Rowley and Robert Parry
June 15, 2010

Almost four decades after Defense Department insider Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers – thus exposing the lies that led the United States into the Vietnam War – another courageous “national security leaker” has stepped forward and now is facing retaliation similar to what the U.S. government tried to inflict on Ellsberg.

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The Gaza Ghetto

By Alvaro Vargas Llosa
June 15, 2010

I arrived in Gaza just hours after Israel’s May 31 commando raid on the flotilla led by Turkish activists. I wanted to gauge the effects of the blockade maintained by Israel since 2007, when Hamas took over all of Gaza’s institutions, and of Israel’s 2008-09 military offensive to stop Hamas rocket barrages.

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Witnesses of Border Killing Dispersed

By Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss
June 15, 2010

At dusk on June 7, Bobbie McDow and her husband were heading south across the busy Paso Del Norte foot-bridge, which connects El Paso, Texas, to Juarez, Mexico. In the sweltering heat, McDow asked her husband if they could pause for a moment so she could catch her breath.

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Monday, June 14, 2010

WPost, NYT Show Tough-Guy Swagger

By Robert Parry
June 14, 2010

When Americans wonder how their country has ended up in so many pointless and seemingly endless conflicts around the world, like the meandering Afghan War and the bloody mess in Iraq, a good place to start would be the “prestige” newspapers, the Washington Post and the New York Times.

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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Eyewitness Contests Israeli Account

By Jesse Strauss and Dennis Bernstein
June 13, 2010

Fatima Mohammadi was on board the Mava Marmara on May 31 when it was attacked in international waters by Israeli commandos who killed nine activists and wounded many more in stopping the Turkish-flagged ship from running the Gaza blockade.

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