San Diegan With Extremist Right-Wing Agenda Runs His Own Private CIA
Former Contras Founder Pushes Right-Wing Agenda While Contracting With American Agencies Editor: San Diegan and former spook for the CIA,…
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“We are in a war” says New Hampshire Tea Party Activist Just Elected GOP State Leader
Frank Gormlie January 24, 2011 0 Comments on “We are in a war” says New Hampshire Tea Party Activist Just Elected GOP State Leader
Something happened over this weekend at the other end of the country that gives us a preview of how the…
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Tagged: GOP, Tea Party
There’s no arguing about the Mt. Soledad cross with a true believer
Source January 22, 2011 23 Comments on There’s no arguing about the Mt. Soledad cross with a true believer
by Ed Decker / San Diego CityBeat / Originally published Jan. 19, 2011 “The 20-year legal fight over the cross…
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The real reasons Keith Olbermann quit MSNBC
MSNBC’s liberal crusader abruptly resigned on air Friday, ending a provocative eight-year run.
By Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast / January 22, 2011
[To view Keith Olbermann’s last goodbye on msnbc, go inside to clink on link for the video.]
Keith Olbermann, the liberal crusader whose combative style put him increasingly at odds with his network bosses, resigned abruptly from MSNBC Friday.
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Republican National Committee staffers flustered by strange requests from new chairman Reince Priebus
Dixon Guizot January 20, 2011 13 Comments on Republican National Committee staffers flustered by strange requests from new chairman Reince Priebus
Editor: Here’s the latest from our chief satirist Shane Finneran and his ongoing research into the strange doings of Republican politicians.
Employees at RNC headquarters expressed bewilderment after receiving an expansive, 286-page document outlining the needs and demands of incoming Chairman Reince Priebus.
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America’s “most racist sheriff” – Joe Arpaio – to speak in San Diego amidst tightened security
Staff January 20, 2011 3 Comments on America’s “most racist sheriff” – Joe Arpaio – to speak in San Diego amidst tightened security
Security is added for tonight’s event with the controversial sheriff at the Mission Valley Marriott
Sheriff Joe Arpaio – whom some call “America’s most racist cop” – is set to speak tonight, Thursday, Jan. 20th, at the Mission Valley Marriott. Protesters are planning a large-scale event to greet him.
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Workplace discrimination claims at an all-time high
Retaliation claims surpassed race as the most frequently filed charge. By Doug Sherwin / The Daily Transcript / January 19, 2011…
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Nearly Half of Americans Under 65 Have Preexisting Conditions, GOP Risks Them For Healthcare Repeal
Source January 19, 2011 0 Comments on Nearly Half of Americans Under 65 Have Preexisting Conditions, GOP Risks Them For Healthcare Repeal
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet / Jan. 18, 2011 Before the health care bill banned it, Americans with “preexisting…
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Protest vs billionaire Koch Bros – tea party funders – in Palm Spring Jan. 30th
Source January 18, 2011 6 Comments on Protest vs billionaire Koch Bros – tea party funders – in Palm Spring Jan. 30th
Increasingly, Democrats, liberals and progressives are coming to understand that the Koch brothers, a secretive right-wing billionaire family that pours limitless money into virtually every destructive anti-democratic initiative affecting tens of millions of Americans, are “Public Enemy Number One.”
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The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse
Source January 17, 2011 1 Comment on The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse
Edited by Marjorie Cohn Just published by NYU Press Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several…
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Hard-pressed States Move to Suppress Labor-Unions
By Steve Greenhouse / The New York Times / January 3, 2011 Faced with growing budget deficits and restive taxpayers,…
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Chalmers Johnson: The Guns of August
By Chalmers Johnson / Tom Dispatch / August 17, 2010
In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published a book about the start of World War I and called it The Guns of August. It went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. She was, of course, looking back at events that had occurred almost 50 years earlier and had at her disposal documents and information not available to participants. They were acting, as Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara put it, in the fog of war.
So where are we this August of 2010, with guns blazing in one war in Afghanistan even as we try to extricate ourselves from another in Iraq?
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