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Allow Jackson Family to Grieve before Media Circus continues Freak Show

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Precsription Drugs, Live Aid, 911, Plastic Surgeries, Paparazzi, Addiction, Freak Show, Muhammed Ali, Martin Luther King. Jr, Guinness Book of World Records, Journalism, Paris, Jackie Robinson, Thriller, TRhe Civil Rights Movement, Taking Heads, We Are the World, Cable News, Fred Astaire, Mtv, James Brown, Fifteen Minutes of Fame, Van Halen, Network News, Memorial Service, Billie Jean, Areosmith, The Staples Center, Media Circus, Celebrity Worship, Gossip, Rumors, The King of Pop, Reverand Al Sharpton, Traveling Doctors, Disco Sucks, Politics News
Francesca Biller-Safran

From the very instant we learned of Michael Jackson's death, and before he was finally allowed to rest in peace, if only for a brief moment, the leer...

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Immigration Detainee's Death Causes Controversy

The New York Times | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Immigration Death, America, Pakistan, 9/11, Immigration, Deportation, World Trade Center, Immigration Reform, Green Card, Visa, Prison, Jail, Immigrant, September 11th, Immigration Policy, Ahmad Tanveer, Politics News

When the 43-year-old man died in a New Jersey immigration jail in 2005, the very fact seemed to fall into a black hole. Although a fellow inmate scraw...

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On (Public) Death and Dying

Christal Smith | Posted 07.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 9/11, Michael Jackson, 9/11 Widows, Celebrity, Dying, Death, Entertainment News
Christal Smith

Perhaps we find that immersing ourselves in the deaths of others is cathartic

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Supreme Court Will Not Hear 9/11 Victims Claims Vs. Saudi Arabia

AP | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Federal Insurance Co. v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Pentagon, President Barack Obama, Terrorism, 9/11, King Abdullah, Obama, Saudi Arabia, War on Terror, September 11, Terror, Al Qaeda, Supreme Court, World Trade Center, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has refused to allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to pursue lawsuits against Saudi Arabia and four of its prin...

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The Meaning of Treason

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communists, Nazis, Torture, Treason, Hannity, Cheney, 9/11, Rebecca West, Limbaugh, Beck, Bush, Politics News
Ariel Gonzalez

I first read Rebecca West's Meaning of Treason in the 1990s. At the time I was more interested in the looping grace of West's sentences than in h...

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The WTC Site: A look ahead

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 06.25.2009 | New York

Read More: 9/11, Wtc, World Trade Center, 911, New York-New York, New York News
Steve Rosenbaum

For most New Yorkers the current World Trade Center site generates a stream of complex emotions. Anger, Fear, Sadness, and mostly a strange nosta...

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U.S. Launches Complaint at WTO Over Chinese Export Curbs While Giving OPEC/Saudi Arabia a Free Pass

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.25.2009 | Business

Read More: President Obama, 9/11, European Union, China, Opec, Justice Department, Federal Trade Commision, World Trade Organization, European Trade Commisioner Baroness Ashton, Financial TImes, Saudi Arabia, Oil, New York Times, President Bush, 2003 Joint Congressional Inquiry, Prince Bandar, Sovereign Immunity, Department of Energy, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Though Obama has enough on his plate, if time and energy can be directed at China because of export trade constraints, then certainly action against the OPEC cartel is long overdue.

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Intelligence Bureaucracy, Not Clinton 'Wall,' Caused Intelligence Failures, Says Declassified 9/11 Commission Report

Frank Naif | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Intelligence, Right Wing Media, Joe Scarborough, Central Intelligence Agency, Conservatives, Cia, Counterterrorism, 9/11, Fbi, 9/11 Commission, Right Wing, Declassified Documents, State Department, Politics News
Frank Naif

Different parts of the government had important clues about the 9/11 attacks well in advance, but didn't share them with intelligence or law enforcement units that could have acted on them.

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Glenn Beck's Warped Hijacking of "9/12 America"

Will Bunch | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Barack-Obama-Birth-Certificate-Controversy, 2nd Amendment, Glenn Beck Fox News, 9/11, Glenn Beck, Frank Rich, 9/11 Families, 9/11 Victims, Barack Obama, Fox News Channel, Media News
Will Bunch

Beck promised a project that would be dedicated to America's "eternal principles" -- but the only eternal principle that Glenn Beck really holds is "Glenn Beck."

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Be an Ex-President Without Being President First!

Dave Astor | Posted 06.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Supreme Court, White House, Gop, Election Fraud 2004, Al Gore, Newspapers, President Obama, Free World, George W. Bush, Time-Space Continuum, 9/11, Iraq, GOP Shenanigans, War and Peace, Star Trek, John Kerrey, Failing Newspapers, Election Fraud 2000, Iran, First Lady, Former Presidents, Ohio, Iran Election, All the News That's Fit to Print, Rip Van Winkle, President Bush, President Clinton, Bill Clinton, Florida, Michelle Obama, Washington Irving, Ex-Presidents, Election Fraud, Hypnosis, White House Vegetable Garden, Democrats, Bully Pulpit, Barack Obama, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Mainstream Media, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Tolstoy, Ahmadinejad, The Obamas, Iraq War, Republicans, Huffington Post, Comedy News
Dave Astor

There's the Star Trek solution of changing the time-space continuum, but I'm hesitant to recommend that because of the damage it might do to the Obamas' new White House vegetable garden.

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Patrick Fitzgerald's Private Jihad

Rory O'Connor | Posted 06.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Peter Lance Book About Patrick Fitzgerald, Patrick Fitzgerald, Judith Miller, Censorship, 9/11 Attacks, 911, CIA Leak Case, Media News
Rory O'Connor

Fitzgerald, who has too much time on his hands now that Scooter Libby has been freed and Rod Blagojevich indicted, spent much of the last year and a half attempting to kill Lance's new book.

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The Bush Hangover: Guantanamo Undercuts Our Protests of North Korea

Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: North Korea Journalists, Laura Ling, Detention, Lakhdar Boumediene, George W. Bush, 9/11, Guantanamo, Euna Lee, Republicans Torture, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Torture, North Korea, Kim Jong-Il, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

The next time you see a Republican defend torture or Guantanamo, think of what is going on in North Korea now and what Lakhdar Boumediene went through.

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Obama's Speech to Muslims: More Humility and Statesmanship in Two Hours than in the Eight Years

Andy Ostroy | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: 9/11, George Bush, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, University of Cairo, World News
Andy Ostroy

Obama's speech was designed to repair the damage caused by the Busheviks' one-stop-defaming, Axis-of-Evil mentality. No more swagger. No more cockiness. No more hate-speech.

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Bush's Excellent Speech in Cairo -- What Might Have Been

Steven Waldman | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: 9/11, Islam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Obama Cairo Speech, Terrorism, Bush, Obama Mideast Trip, World News
Steven Waldman

Obama's speech reminds us that 9/11 needn't have led to a conflict between the West and Islam. It's a reminder of the road not taken.

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Repositioning America: Obama's Cairo Speech as the Ultimate in Event Marketing

William Bradley | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Al Qaeda, George W. Bush, 9/11, Iraq, America, Dick Cheney, Iran, Jihad, Event Marketing, Muslim, Modernity, Indonesia, Guantanamo Bay, Saudi Arabia, Marshall McLuhan, Neoconservative, Islam, Bibi Netanyahu, Hosni Mubarak, Tradition, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Samuel Huntington, African American, Cairo, Israel, Afghanistan, Kenya, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Torture, Paletine, King Abdullah, Riyadh, Al Jazeera, Obama Mideast Trip, World News
William Bradley

Not only did no one throw shoes at Obama, the crowd of 3,000 in Cairo gave him a standing ovation. Watching the speech, I had the feeling that the world might be changing again.

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When Will Dick Cheney's Tower of Lies Finally Come Tumbling Down on Him?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cheney Iraq, Cheney Greta, Cheney, Cheney War, Cheney September 11, 9/11, Cheney 9/11, Cheney Torture, Dick Cheney Iraq, Bush Cheney Lies, Iraq, September 11th, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

As recently as two weeks ago, Cheney was still banging the drum about Saddam's "known ties to Mideast terrorists." His ongoing Forget Everything I Ever Told You Tour is historical revisionism at its most despicable.

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Richard Clarke Slams Cheney, Rice: "The Trauma Of 9/11 Is No Excuse"

Washington Post | Richard A. Clarke | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Richard Clarke, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, 9/11, Iraq, Torture, Richard Clarke and Dick Cheney, Politics News

Top officials from the Bush administration have hit upon a revealing new theme as they retrospectively justify their national security policies. Call ...

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Why Do So Many Republicans Hate America?

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tear Down This Wall, Meet the Press, Reagan Berlin, Ronald Reagan, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Dick Durbin, Guantanamo, 9/11, Matthew Alexander, Keith Olbermann, Lindsey Graham, Due Process, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics of Fear, Jonathan Alter, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Freedom, Hate Us for Our Freedom, General Petraeus, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Berlin, Torture, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

I say that Cheney and Gingrich don't love America because they don't seem to care about American values as they have traditionally been viewed.

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Not in My Backyard: Fear of the Guantánamo Legion of Doom

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.26.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Yucca Mountain, John McCain, Ramsi Yousef, George W. Bush, Guantanamo Detainees, 9/11, Guantanamo, Nevada, Nimbyism, Richard Reid, Nimby, Gitmo, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Shoe Bomber, Zacharias Moussaoui, Prison, Guantanamo Bay, Gop, Enhanced Interrogations, Prisons, 20/20, World Trade Center, Waterboarding, Afghanistan, Gitmo Detainees, Republican Party, Republicans, Torture, George Bush, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

Yup, that's right, the self-same prison system that has held Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Son of Sam is apparently no match for a bunch of unarmed, sensory-deprived foreigners.

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We Need a Truth Commission on Torture...with Immunity for All

Rob Diamond | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Congress, CIA Interrogations, Terrorists, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, President Obama, Truth Commission, Guantanamo, 9/11, International Law, CIA Torture, Immunity, Taliban, Abu Ghraib, Al Qaeda, Unlawful Combatants, Fifth Amendment, CIA Black Sites, Guantanamo Bay, Justice, Torture, Politics News
Rob Diamond

Ask any member of the United States Armed Forces to show you their military identification card, and you will notice on the front of that ID, at the b...

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Cheney Should Remember -- Really Remember -- Our Fallen Troops

David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military, Memorial Day, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Iraq War, War Casualties, George W. Bush, 9/11, Iraq, Military Families, Afghanistan War, Dick Cheney, Politics News
David Quigg

If today were any day other than Memorial Day, I wouldn't make it to the end of this sentence without flinging some heartfelt insult at Dick Cheney.

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The Full Cheney: Our Phantom of the Obama Opera

Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Sherman Yellen

Having helped in his own small way to lose the election to Obama by the very contrast of crazy Dick to sane Barack, Cheney is now determined to set fire to the Obama administration.

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Jason Linkins

Liz Cheney Accuses Obama Of "Libel" On "Morning Joe" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Closure, 9/11, War on Terror, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Politics News

I get the feeling that the Cheneys don't actually know what "libel" is, frankly! But I guess if you've spent so much time above the law, it can be pretty difficult to discern.

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Spock vs. Rambo

Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, Truth Commission, Rambo, Guantanamo, 9/11, Spock, 9/11 Commission, Barack Obama, Torture, Dick Cheney, Osama Bin Laden, Cheney Torture, Politics News
Christine Pelosi

Watching President Obama and former Vice President Cheney duel on terror suspects: can Spock replace Rambo in the approach to Gitmo?

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