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ReThink Interview: Daniel Ellsberg -- the Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks, Part Two

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

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The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

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Obama Should Speak to Schoolkids About Studying

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Television, Reality TV, Obama Speech, The Godfather, Kindle, Intellectual Curiosity, Shalom in the Home, War and Peace, Barack Obama, Machiavelli, Obama School Speech, Politics News

The loss of intellectual curiosity, and the death of reading, among our kids is a serious crisis as our children gravitate away from the written word and toward the visual image.

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Odd News

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment

Odd News and a new play: watch the preparatory video for Strauss at Midnight by Jeff Dorchen.

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Cheney: Chief of Churls

John Seery | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, CIA Interrogations, Bush Administration Torture, Carl Schmitt, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo, Enhanced Interrogations, Cheney Torture, Hobbes, Taxi to the Dark Side, Machiavelli, Dick Cheney, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News

It's becoming clearer and clearer that official acts of cruelty had little to do, either in intent or effect, with enhancing national security or producing reliable intelligence.

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What Spies Think of Panetta

Keith Thomson | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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I conducted a poll about what spies thought of the Panetta choice. The results: "Obama was wise" to choose someone out of the torture loop to run the CIA. But there's a problem.

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Dr. Rove Will See You Now, Gov. Palin

Jackson Williams | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin's Pregnancy, John McCain, Karl Rove, Bush's Brain, Bristol Palin, Machiavellian Politics, Washington Post, Sarah Palin, Machiavelli, Politics News

A speculation: We all know Karl Rove has been a master political manipulator for three decades. Best sellers have been written about it. His favori...

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Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Europe, Pakistan, Czechoslovakia, Balance of World Power, Hitler, Czarist Empire, Germany, Washington Post, Natural Gas, Saakashvili, Turkey, Communist Revolution, Czarist Russia, Russia Georgia War, Medvedev, Machiavelli, Tajikistan, Fall of the Soviet Empire, India, Trans-Caucasus Pipeline, The Washington Post, Russian Empire, Free Markets, Nazi Germany, Caspian Sea, World History, Oil Pipeline, Market Reforms, Napoleon, Azeri Chirag Gunashli Oil Fields, Putin, Iran, Kgb, Nato, 1917, Financial TImes, Balance of Power, Ukraine, Missile Defense Shield, Russia, Collapse of the Soviet Empire, Caucasus Mountains, World Power, Kazakhstan, Mikhail Saakashvili, Yeltsin, Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, Afghanistan, Mediterranean Sea, South Ossetia, Kremlin, Uzbekistan, Mt. Elbrus, Black Sea, France, Czar, Moscow, Georgia, Oil, Soviet Empire, New York Times, Realpolitik, Alexander Yeltsin, China. 1917 Communist Revolution, Cease-Fire, Baku, Shevardnadze, Turkmenistan, Ceyhan, Kygyzstan, Azerbaijan, Sudetenland, Tbilisi, Machiavellian, Balkan, Home News

No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.

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Some Questions for the MSM To Ask About the War in Georgia - and The US Role

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Georgia Fighting, John McCain, Georgia War, South Ossetia, Mccain, South Ossetia Fighting, Russia Fighting in Georgia, Machiavelli, Bush, Politics News

Why haven't any citizens or government officials from the autonomous Province of South Ossetia been interviewed by the MSM?

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Reading The Pictures: Barack Obama, Master Manipulator

Michael Shaw | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media

Read More: David Brooks, Barack Obama, Machiavelli, New York Observer, Michael Powell, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, 2008 Election, Media News

If the corporate media starts to latch on to this "Chicago boss" theme, you can expect a lot more photos, pulled out of context like this, to flesh out the picture.

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By Any Means Necessary

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, White House, Al Gore, 3 a.M., Swiftboating, Chicago, November, John Corzine, Contributors, Bush, Willie Horton, 2008, Richard Nixon, Reverend Wright, Pat Buchanan, Joseph Welch, Florida, John McCain, Karl Rove, Joe Mccarthy, Michael Bloomberg, Texas, 2000, Presidency, Machiavelli, Boss Tweed, Decency, Lee Atwater, Ross Perot, Campaign Funds, Skullduggery, Moralist, Realpolitik, $270 Million, Lyndon Johnson, Steve Forbes, Bring Us Together," Howard Beale, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, "Landslide Lyndon, Hypocrite, Politics News

Barack Obama has gone back on his word, Barack Obama is a hypocrite ... I couldn't be happier. Truth is, if what's necessary to win in November is some outright cheating, I'd be all for that, too.

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