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US Documents on Iran Nukes Forged?

US-supplied "documents" from a laptop acquired in 2004 indicating a secret Iranian weapons program were probably forgeries.

Orin Kerr and the responsibility of elites for the last eight years

As the Bush administration comes to a close, one overarching question is this:  how were the transgressions and abuses of the last eight years allowed to be unleashed with so little backlash and resistance?  Just consider -- with no hyperbole -- what our Government, our countr …

Cynicism and courage

It's easy to be cynical, especially about politics. I suggest that there are several causes:

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Top Eleven Ways the Media Has Screwed Up Election Coverage

The always-thorough folks at FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) have compiled the "Top Troubling Tropes of Campaign '08," a handy (if alarming) roundup of eleven misleading, factually bankrupt themes that have dominated election coverage.

A new economics: This way happiness lies

One unintended consequence of the current global financial crisis is that it will reveal what some have known for a long time, namely that a new economics is already emerging.

Supreme Court denies Troy Anthony Davis

Just reported on CNN Headline News: The Supreme Court decides not to give Troy Anthony Davis's appeal a full hearing. This essentially terminates the stay of execution granted on Sept 23, putting his life back in the hands of Georgia.

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Minister at McCain rally: My God is Bigger Than Your God

In case you missed it over the weekend, a minister who gave the invocation at a McCain rally in Iowa couched his prayer in terms I've never heard before: God's own reputation is at stake in this election, he said, because so many Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists around the world are …

Blindfolded to Gaza

This was a routine year, another year of the occupation of which no end is in sight. From Rosh Hashana 5768 to Rosh Hashana 5769 our forces killed 584 Palestinians, 95 of them minors. Many fewer than in 2002, when 989 were killed; many more than in 2005, with 190 killed.

Virgin Galactic rejects $1 million space porn

The private company planning to take wealthy tourists to the edge of the atmosphere starting in late 2009 or early 2010 has refused a million-dollar proposal to film a sex video while the participants are floating gravity free, the company's president said.

Hey there, Joe Six-Pack

Sarah Palin et al like to call us "Joe Six-Pack," and they think we like it too. They think it sounds folksy and homey and cute.

'Coca-Cola douches' ineffective birth control measure, study finds.

This was the ignoble prize winning research this year.

Scoop: Full Interview With Sarah Palin

Q: How will you fix the economy?

Canadian scientist creates atmosphere-saving CO2 scrubbing machine

In applying the technology, Keith offers that: "A company could, in principle, contract with an oilsands plant near Fort McMurray to remove CO2 from the air and could build its air capture plant wherever it's cheapest -- China, for example -- and the same amount of CO2 would  …

Corporate welfare is a defining feature of advanced capitalism

Capitalism is a structure built by and for corporations, no one should suppose "democracy" stands in the way of this.

McCain Plays the MILF Card -- Will it Work?

There has been plenty of commentary about what Governor Sarah Palin's hotness factor brings to the McCain-Palin ticket, but thus far the RNC has kept the dialogue on a professional level. Until it was discovered yesterday that the McCain campaign owns voteforthemilf.com.

Propaganda 101: How to Decode Political Ads

The ultimate political power can be defined as the power to define - the ability to wield such hegemony over the technologies of representation that one can determine the meanings words have for others.

Kissinger's fishy diplomacy

The following are excerpts from the Newsweek's "FactChecking Debate No.

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Israel asked US for green light to bomb nuclear sites in Iran

Bush's decision to refuse to offer any support for a strike on Iran appeared to be based on two factors, the sources said.

Salon Radio: Notre Dame finance professor Richard Sheehan - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

I tend to look at everything in terms of probabilities. So, you could ask the question, what's the probability that we would have a general collapse in the financial sector? If you asked me a year ago, I would have said that probability is as close to zero as you can get.

Charges dropped against journalists arrested during RNC

This development shouldn't surprise anyone. The charges were so flimsy and frivolous that it's doubtful the authorities ever intended to pursue them in court. The arrests were clearly a tactic of diversion and intimidation to keep journalists from doing their jobs.

Only one in five trials on cancer treatment gets published

What this means is that the system is broken. Right now this figure (20% overall and only 5.9% of industry studies) means that the trials system is giving incorrect results, and billions of dollars are being wasted in the service of industry greed.

We are all Troy Anthony Davis.

If you don't know who Troy Anthony Davis is, or why he is scheduled to die on Tuesday, or why you should care, the first thing you should do is go to troyanthonydavis.org, down to the middle of the page, and watch the Le Monde interview of Troy's little sister.

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Myths of 19th Century Science: The Indo-European Invasions

"The theory of invasion is an invention. This invention is necessary because of a gratuitous assumption that the Indo-Germanic people are the purest of the modern representation of the original Aryan race. The theory is a perversion of scientific investigation.

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Palin: Obeying the Law is for Wimps

Palin has announced that her staff won't comply with subpoenas: Yes indeed, friends, dramatic proof that Sarah Palin will be Ready On Day One. It took months for Dick Cheney to start ignoring subpoenas.

Idiot steers ship of state onto financial rocks, to no one's surprise.

Two years ago I was seeding stories about the housing bubble and how it was powered by insanely leveraged credit instruments, and I was not by any means the only one.

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