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Colbert on Romney (Meet the Press, Video)
Comedian Stephen Colbert appeared on “Meet the Press” on Sunday to assess GOP standard bearer Mitt Romney: “A shambling mound of weakness” until the debate; […]
The Republican Assault on Minority Voting Rights (Goulka)
Jeremiah Goulka writes at Tomdispatch.com Of Republicans and Race Cards: Why I Used to Believe That Voter ID Laws Really Were Just Common Sense Democrats […]
Pakistan: Imran Khan’s march brings global attention to CIA drone strikes (Ross)
Alice K. Ross writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: US peace activists joined politicians, lawyers and the world’s press on Sunday as they attempted […]
Turkey Slams UN on Syria, Implies NATO should Act; Syria bans Turkish Airlines
Tensions between Turkey and Syria are at an all-time high, with the two countries trading occasional light artillery barrages at the border and massing tanks […]
Conservative Media Spin Biden-Ryan Debate (Young Turks)
The Young Turks program on Current TV discusses the conservative spinning of the Biden-Ryan debate. No, CNN, Ryan did not win the debate (you over-represented […]
On Libya, Biden Let Ryan Get Away with Murder (Smith)
Fact-Check: Is Obama’s Foreign Policy “Unraveling”? by Christopher C. Smith In Thursday night’s vice-presidential debate, Paul Ryan claimed that the recent terrorist attack on the […]
US Classifies Torture Testimonies of accused al-Qaeda Prisoners (Currier)
Still Classified: Terror Suspects’ Own Accounts of Their Abuse by Cora Currier, writing at ProPublica In a motion unsealed last week, the government proposed new […]
A Post-Mortem on Muslim Rage: What did the reaction to the Islamophobic Trailer Really Tell Us? (Abootalebi)
Ali R. Abootalebi writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Today’s journalism and social media, with their increasingly short news cycles, are good at […]
The Shameful Politicization of the Benghazi Consulate Attack
The Tea Party Congress, having, with Paul Ryan’s leadership, deeply cut funds for embassy security, held a hearing on Wednesday on the circumstances of the […]
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