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Companies are Mining your Facebook/ Twitter Info… and Selling it (Beckett)
Lois Beckett writes at ProPublica Yesterday, we got a rare look at how information on your public social media profiles—including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn—is being […]
Real Petraeus Issue was Evaluation of Afghanistan
Maybe it is because I was brought up in part in Europe, but I just cannot understand American puritanism’s obsession with public officials’ private lives. […]
Can Afghan Troops Hold the Line as US Withdraws, and Will US Seek to Stay in Central Asia?
Aljazeera English does what so few US networks are bothering to do: It sends a correspondent to cover the take-over of forward operating bases in […]
Karl Rove’s Math that mades Republicans Feel Better until Reality Set In (Daily Show Video)
Jon Stewart skewers the fantasyland in which Fox Cable Mews guests seem to live in, in which Mitt Romney was headed for a landslide despite […]
Karl Rove’s Regret (Jamiol Cartoon)
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America’s Coming Space Wars (McCoy)
Alfred W. McCoy writes at Tomdispatch.com Beyond Bayonets and Battleships Space Warfare and the Future of U.S. Global Power It’s 2025 and an American “triple […]
Why Bill O’Reilly is Wrong about Minorities ‘Wanting Things” & the Election
Bill O’Reilly set the frame for an “angry white male” understanding of the bath Mitt Romney took at the polls Tuesday night, even before it […]
Top Ten Wish List Progressives should Press on President Obama
President Obama’s reelection should mean more to progressives than simply dodging the bullet of a Romney presidency indebted to the Tea Party. Democratic politics has […]
Combining Wind Power And Electric Vehicles In Denmark (Video)
On one of Denmark’s islands, locals are running their electric cars in some part off wind energy. This kind of arrangement is the only viable […]
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