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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 […]
The Panetta/ Pakistan War of Words
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has caused a stir by warning US ally Pakistan that Washington’s ‘patience is wearing thin’ with the support for the […]
The Great Wall of . . . Arizona (Miller)
Todd Miller writes at Tomdispatch.com Bringing the Battlefield to the Border The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in Arizona By Todd Miller […]
Syria and the Rise of the Death Squad
The fresh Baath massacre of non-combatants, in Qubair on Wednesday, is being assiduously covered up by the government of dictator Bashar al-Assad, who is preventing […]
100 Dead in Fresh Syrian Massacre
Activists accused the Syrian Baath Party of committing yet another massacre on Wednesday, this time at Qubair in Hama Province. Around 100 are said to […]
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