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Top Ten Most Popular Informed Comment Postings, 2012
It has been an incredible year, with the Republican presidential primary, the mass shootings in Aurora, Wisconsin and at Newtown, Mass.; the attack on the […]
7 Ways States have Undermined Gun Control Laws (Lee)
Suevon Lee writes at ProPublica: Friday’s deadly rampage at a Connecticut elementary school marked the 13th mass shooting in the United States this year. Among […]
As Jews, with our own Painful History of Oppression… [South African Jewish Statement on Palestinians]
I got this by email and thought it worth sharing. It further makes the point, signalled by Peter Beinart and others, that the Likud, Israel […]
How America is Filling up itself and the World With Guns
The American obsession with guns and violence is not unique, but it is distinctive. The US ranks 12th in the world for rate of firearm-related […]
What Happens in Langley Doesn’t Stay in Langley Anymore: How our Spies Came out of the Shadows (Engelhardt)
Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: Weren’t those the greatest of days if you were in the American spy game? Governments went down in Guatemala and […]
Let’s also Remember the 176 children Killed by US Drones
The US government continues to rain drones down on the tribal belt of Pakistan. While the Washington narrative is that these drones are precision machines […]
Top Ten Threats to the Legitimacy of Egypt’s new Constitution
Early returns from the Egyptian provinces that voted in a two-stage referendum on Saturday suggest that the draft constitution garnered some 56% of the vote. […]
European Human Rights Court finds CIA Guilty of Torture
For the first time, the European Court of Human Rights has found the US Central Intelligence Agency guilty of torturing and sodomizing an innocent man. […]
Firearms used in 300,000 crimes a year in US (Poster)
reprint edn. Some 300,000 violent crimes are committed each year in the US with the aid of a firearm.. One of the arguments for not […]
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