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You Always Knew it, but Now . . .
There are so many open secrets in our corporatocracy. But precisely because they are the open secrets of powerful multi-billion-dollar concerns with phalanxes of attorneys, […]
The Kierkegaardian Presidency: or the Teleological Suspension of the Ethical (van Buren)
Peter van Buren writes at Tomdispatch.com: Leaking War How Obama’s Targeted Killings, Leaks, and the Everything-Is-Classified State Have Fused By Peter Van Buren White is […]
Libya’s Problems will be Solved by more Democracy, not Less (Hilsum)
Lindsey Hilsum writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Attacks on both the US and UK delegations in Benghazi, fighting in Kufra, the detention […]
Planned Israeli Detention Camps for Africans Draw Human Rights Protests
An Israeli law allowing the arrest and detention of illegal immigrants for up to 3 years without trial has been denounced as contrary to basic […]
83 Dead in Syrian Military Repression
Some 83 Syrians, most of them non-combatants, were killed on Saturday by the Syrian military. In Deraa, the small town in the south of the […]
What Americans Sorely Need (Mark Twain Poster)
Faux News & Patriotism (Jamiol Cartoon)
Courtesy Paul Jamiol
Thugs Attack Women Demonstrators in Cairo – Whodunit?
Discontent, disturbance and legal failures in Palestine, Tunisia and Turkey (Fitzgibbon)
Will Fitzgibbon writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism It has been a big week for the NGO heavy-hitters. Three separate investigations in three different […]
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