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AlterNet: Top Ten Middle East Policy Challenges for the US in 2008
This is as good a list you will find. MBPosted by Michael Butler, Monday, December 31, 2007
Voices - ITALIAN SAYS 9-11 SOLVED
from William AltmillerPosted by Michael Butler, Monday, December 31, 2007
Los Angeles Times: Bush’s best-laid plans
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, December 31, 2007AlterNet: Hillary’s Final Strategy: Be Afraid
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, December 31, 2007Pakistan in a Vortex
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, December 31, 2007Hillary Signals Free Pass for Bush
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, December 31, 2007NYT Op-Ed (Krugman): The Great Divide
"On economics, there's no common ground."Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, December 31, 2007
NYT Op-Ed (Cohen): On America’s Watch
"The Bhutto family never got the protection it sought."Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, December 31, 2007
NYT Editorial: Looking at America
The Times laments the state of the nation and..."hope[s] that this time, unlike 2004, American voters will have the wisdom to grant the awesome powers of the presidency to someone who has the integrity, principle and decency to use them honorably."Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, December 31, 2007
NYT: U.S. Experts Criticize Bhutto Post-Mortem
"Leading American experts in forensic pathology this weekend deplored the failure of Pakistani officials to order an autopsy of Benazir Bhutto, saying that the standard medical procedure was a crucial part of any credible investigation of a murder...Proper examination of the autopsy material, the clothing Ms. Bhutto wore when she was killed and the debris in the area surrounding the explosion could also help determine which extremist group made a bomb or fired a bullet, if either caused her death. Ms. Bhutto’s case recalls that of President John F. Kennedy, who was slain in 1963. Controversy still swirls around the assassination, in part because of a flawed autopsy." Now THERE'S a comparison you don't see every day! Yet what is amazing is how many similarities there are between the two assassinations: open car, an initial "lone" assassin theory, mishandling of the body/autopsy, "clean-up" of the evidence before an investigation...Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, December 31, 2007
NYT: New Questions Arise in Killing of Ex-Premier
"New details of Benazir Bhutto’s final moments, including indications that her doctors felt pressured to conform to government accounts of her death, fueled the arguments over her assassination on Sunday and added to the pressure on Pakistan’s leaders to accept an international inquiry."Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, December 31, 2007
NYT: After the Pain of a Son’s Death, a Shared Mission in Politics
Next in a continuing in-depth series on the candidates.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, December 31, 2007
NYT: In the Fight Over Piracy, a Rare Stand for Privacy
"The record industry got a surprise when it subpoenaed the University of Oregon in September, asking it to identify 17 students who had made available songs from Journey, the Cars, Dire Straits, Sting and Madonna on a file-sharing network. The surprise was not that 20-year-olds listen to Sting. It was that the university fought back. Represented by the state’s attorney general, Hardy Myers, the university filed a blistering motion to quash the subpoena, accusing the industry of misleading the judge, violating student privacy laws and engaging in questionable investigative practices." Bravo!!!Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, December 31, 2007
David Sirota: Gauging the Fear Inside the Palace Walls
go to blog post"A pretty reliable gauge of Establishment fear is how far away from factual reality its chief spokesmen stray at election time. With economic populism now driving both the Democratic and Republican presidential contests, professional political pontificators in Washington are attacking candidates for being crazed and angry - when in fact their own rhetoric shows it is the pundits who are the angriest of all. An uprising is on - one against the hostile takeover of our government by Big Money interests. And inside the walls of the Washington palace, the elite are freaking out" - Sirota on Daily Kos
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, December 31, 2007
Bipartisan Group Eyes Independent Bid
The best news I have heard in a long time. MBPosted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 30, 2007
AP: Record Data Breaches in 2007
"The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn't expected to turn around anytime soon as hackers stay a step ahead of security and laptops disappear with sensitive information....[One] group lists more than 79 million records reported compromised in the United States through Dec. 18. That's a nearly fourfold increase from the nearly 20 million records reported in all of 2006. Another group...estimates more than 162 million records compromised through Dec. 21 — both in the U.S. and overseas, unlike the other group's U.S.-only list. Attrition reported 49 million last year."Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 30, 2007
MB-Civic Special Original Reporting: Where Was the Media?
Civic editor Ian Alteman reports on a VERY strange incident this week in NYC.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 30, 2007
NYT Guest Op-Ed: How a ‘Wisp of a Girl’ Conquered Pakistan
"Despite her many flaws, Benazir Bhutto touched people's lives."Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 30, 2007
NYT Guest Op-Ed: Forgotten Step Toward Freedom
"The bicentennial of the end of the slave trade into the United States."Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 30, 2007
NYT Guest Op-Ed: Humanizing the Revolution
"Venezuela's students have broken with radical tradition."Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 30, 2007
NYT Editorial: Immigration and the Candidates
"Even by the low standards of presidential campaigns, the issue of immigration has been badly served in the 2008 race. Candidates — and by this we mean the Republicans, mostly — have been striking poses and offering prescriptions that sound tough but will solve nothing. They have distorted or disowned their pasts and attacked one another ferociously, but over appearances, not ideas — over who can claim to be the authentic scourge of illegal immigrants, and who is the Lou-Dobbs-Come-Lately. Voters deserve much better than what these candidates have given them. The Democrats have done better, though they have not always responded with the courage and specifics this difficult issue demands."Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 30, 2007
NYT: The Free Market: A False Idol After All?
"As the world gets complicated, regulation finds some new fans from an unlikely quarter."Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 30, 2007
NYT: The Times Adds an Op-Ed Columnist
Talk about inviting the fox into the henhouse!! What happened - did the NYT decide it was becoming too liberal?Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 30, 2007
NYT Book in Review: “Liberal Fascism”
"Jonah Goldberg argues that 20th-century Democrats are fascists."Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 30, 2007
Fidel Castro: Address to the Cuban National Assembly, 12/28/2007
go to speech"Money can buy everything save the soul of a people who has never gone down on its knees."
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, December 30, 2007
