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Gross Failure of the Media

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Conservative Media, Saddam Hussein, Acorn, Public Policy Polling, 9/11, Media, Iraq, Press, Journalism, Media News
Cenk Uygur

How can over a quarter of the country believe something that is patently untrue, utterly ridiculous, and lacking even one iota of proof?

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Republicans Once Again Shamelessly Exploiting Terrorism For Political Purposes

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Zacarias Moussaoui, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Major Malik Nadal Hassan, 9/11 Attacks, Attorney General Eric Holder, Allahu Akbar, Saddam Hussein, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Rudy Giuliani, Ramzi Yousef, Sean Hannity, 1993 WTC Bombing, Civilian Court, Militray Tribunal, Richard C. Reid, Terrorism, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

Since 2001, 195 cases of terrorism have been uneventfully prosecuted in civilian courts, with 91% ending in convictions, But this little factoid surely won't stop Republicans from exploitative political posturing.

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Iranian Memoir By Freed Prisoner Haleh Esfandiari

The New York Review of Books | Claire Messud | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Women's Rights, Women's Organization of Iran, Lebanon, Evin Prison, Iran Election, Books, George W. Bush, Iranian Government, Hezbollah, Iran, New Books, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Haleh Esfandiari, Prisoner, Saddam Hussein, Cia, Middle East, My Prison My Home, Claire Messud, Saudi Arabia, Iranian Prisoner, Tehran, Woi, Woodrow Wilson Center, Nyr, Books News

In Emin Prison Claire Messud The New York Review of Books "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" by Haleh Esfandiari. Ecco, ...

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"Saddam Hussein" Calls In To Radio Free Iraq

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2009 | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: Saddam, Saddam Hussein, Radio Free Europe, Iraq, Radio Free Iraq, World News

Many people around the world have been cursed with cringe-inducing names (as this BBC story proves). Some, however, are more unfortunate than others. ...

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My Testimony on 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques'

Ali Faisal Al-Lami | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Ahmad Chalabi, Bush Administration Torture, Saddam Hussein, David Petraeus, Paul Bremer, Enhanced Interrogations, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Iraq Contractors, Iraq Torture, Iraq, General Petraeus, Chalabi, Torture, World News
Ali Faisal Al-Lami

In 2008, I was kidnapped from Baghdad International Airport by American civilians with no known affiliation, and was blindfolded and taken to a facility where I was initially interrogated in a hostile way.

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Tikrit Prison Break: Iraq Detains 109

AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Qaida Jail Break, Iraq-Prisoners, Us Forces Leaving Irq, Iraq Tikrit, Saddam Hussein, Al Qaida, Tikrit, Us Forces in Iraq, Iraq Prisoners Break Free, Iraq Prisons, Iraq Security, Iraq, Iraq Prisoners, War in Iraq, Iraq Jailbreak, World News

BAGHDAD — More than 100 prison officials and guards have been detained after 16 prisoners, including five al-Qaida-linked inmates awaiting execu...

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Media Mud Pies: CNN's Embarrassing Response to Fox

Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media

Read More: War on Afghanistan, First Amendment, President Obama, Teabaggers, Chicago, Progressives, Phil Donahue, 9/11, Peace, America, Journalism, Msnbc, Infrastructure, Social Media, Corporate Media, Washington Post, State Senator Obama, Rick Sanchez, Fox, War on Iraq, Jessie Jackson, Washington DC, Netherlands, Barack Obama, Fourth Estate, Afghanistan War, Anti-War, Fox News, Cnn, 9/12, Saddam Hussein, Military Industrial Complex, Tv, Protests, Iraq War, Conservative Right, Glenn Beck, Conservatives, Spain, Media News
Linda Milazzo

In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad.

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Hitler Wants You to Wear a Condom

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Mass Murder, Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Sex, Psa, Genocide, Safe Sex, Adolf Hitler, Condoms, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Sometimes shock campaigns work but this one just leaves me feeling cold. And kinda icky inside.

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A Stupid Made-for-TV Controversy

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservative, Joe Scarborough, President Obama, Controversy, Children, School Message, Education, Media, Liberal, Conservative Republicans, Indoctrination, Republicans, Outrageous Statements, Rhetoric, Saddam Hussein, Msnbc, North Korea, School Speech, Republican Party, Florida, Fox News, Iraq, Glenn Beck, Politics News
Jim Wallis

News cycles thrive on controversy and the extreme, so those elements of our country are continuing to get more and more airtime.

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Rachel Maddow: Her Intelligence is Right

Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Intelligence, Saddam Hussein, Nuclear Weapons, Federal Budget Deficit, Tom Ridge, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Rachel Maddow, Jessica Mathews, Iran, Ted Kennedy, North Korea, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Tom Ridge Rachel Maddow, Rachel Maddow Tom Ridge, Media News
Joe Cirincione

Maddow will not let former officials dodge responsibility for launching an unnecessary war in Iraq. Why do other journalists?

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Andy Card: A Tale Of Two Quotes

Jackson Williams | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, New York Times, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Andy Card, Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, Andrew Card, Politics News
Jackson Williams

George Bush minions are doing quick damage control in the wake of Tom Ridge's revelation that he smelled a rat in White House efforts to raise the terror threat level on the weekend before Bush's '04 reelection.

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Fox News "Can't Get a Straight Answer" from White House

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Karl Rove, Scott Mcclellan, Tony Snow, George W. Bush, David Gregory, Ari Fleischer, Major Garrett, Valerie Plame, Dana Perino, Presidtn Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Saddam Hussein, Niger, Joe Wilson, Health Care Reform, Yellow Cake Uranium, Fox News, Hurricane Katrina, Robert Gibbs, Scooter Libby, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

The hypocritical Republican crybabies at Fox are outraged over a heated exchange last Thursday between Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs and their White House correspondent, Major Garrett.

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Do Governments Need The Media to Bring Criminals to Justice?

Eric Blinderman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Saddam Hussein, Mullah Krekar, Nuremberg, Ansar Al-Islam, Norway, Saddam Hussein Tribunal, Amnesty International, Iraq, The Simpsons, America's Most Wanted, The Wanted, Najmuddin Faraj Admad, Nbc, Media News
Eric Blinderman

America's Most Wanted has successfully bridged the gap between entertainment and law enforcement; The Wanted attempts to do this on an international scale.

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Must it be Business as Usual as the People of Iran Hang in the Balance?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Saddam Hussein, Twitter, Lindsay Graham, World News, Siemens, Switzerlan, Khameni, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Iraq, Obama, Facebook, Merkel, Ahmadinejad, Iran, Austria, Schumer, Germany, United Nations, Youtube, Wiesel, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Citizen lobbies and elected representatives have to ask this simple question: do we have to do business with people who do business with the Mullahs?

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Random Thoughts for a Monday Morning

Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Stimulus Plan, Goldman Sachs, Pat Buchanan, Saddam Hussein, Cia, Bailout, General Motors, Nancy Pelosi, Twitter, George W Bush, Chuck Schumer, Sarah Palin, Eric Cantor, Sonya Sotomayor, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

For sure, let's not focus on the eight years it took Bush to destroy the economy when we can blame Obama for not fixing this colossal mess in his first 5 months.

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History Has Not Yet Judged Bush

James Denselow | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Legacy, Robert McNamara, Iraq, War in Iraq, George W. Bush, Kurds, George Piro, General David Petraeus, Fbi, Paul Bremer, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Saddam Hussein, Robert Gates, Ryan Crocker, Politics News
James Denselow

Certainly Bush's rewriting of his Iraq legacy will be helped by his decision to reverse his earlier policies, abandoning the idealism of the top-down reinvention of Iraq, for reality-based pragmatism.

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Bush Library: Saddam Hussein's Personal Handgun To Be On Display

Guardian | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Saddam, George Bush, Saddam Hussein, Saddam's Pistol, Bush Library, Saddam's Gun, World News

George Bush is not a man who does irony. It's not in his personal vocabulary. Take the exquisite irony behind the story of Saddam Hussein's gun....

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Iraq: Saddam Grave Field Trips Now Banned

AP | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Saddam Hussein, Saddam, Saddam Hussein Grave, Iraqi Government, World News

BAGHDAD — Iraq's government has banned all organized visits to Saddam Hussein's grave in the village of Ouja, the dictator's birth place north o...

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Bush May Put Saddam's Gun In His Presidential Library

New York Times | Don Van Natta Jr. | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Saddam Hussein's Gun, Bush Library, Saddam Hussein, George Bush Presidential Library, Politics News

Many American presidents have kept prized possessions within reach during their White House years. Franklin D. Roosevelt cherished a 19th century ship...

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'W' Is for Withdrawal

Robert Koehler | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: National Sovereignty Day, Iraq War, Saddam Hussein, u.s. Troop Withdrawal, Nouri Al Maliki, World News
Robert Koehler

To pretend that Iraq is sovereign is just the latest insulting verbal Quonset hut the Washington military-political-media establishment has constructed for its own temporary shelter.

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Saddam And Bush Had Same Position On Geneva Convention:

Michaelmoore.com | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gulf War, Saddam Hussein Geneva Convention, Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein George Bush, George W. Bush Geneva Convention, Iraq Geneva Convention, Politics News

Saddam Hussein vs. George W. Bush on the Geneva Conventions FBI Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, March 13, 2004 [...] (S) Regarding limitations pla...

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US Troop Withdrawal From Iraq: Your Thoughts, Your Stories (POLL)

Huffington Post | Morgan Korn | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Saddam Hussein, u.s Pullout, u.s. Iraq War, Iraq War, Baghdad, u.s. Troop Withdrawal, U.S. Troops, Iraq, American Troops, Poll, Us Toop Withdrawal, War Wire, World News

**** Scroll down for a poll U.S. troops must withdraw from Iraqi cities and towns by June 30 as part of the Status of Forces Agreement that was ratif...

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How The FBI Broke Saddam - Without Using Torture

The Daily News | James Gordon Meek | Posted 07.27.2009 | World

Read More: Saddam Hussein, Hussein, Saddam Hussein FBI, Saddam Hussein Interrogate, Fbi, World News

Where were Iraq's WMD? How close was Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda, really? These were vital - but still unanswered - questions when the Iraqi despot wa...

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Obama's Doublespeak on Iran

Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Dennis Ross, Obama Iran, Suicide Bombers, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Us Israel Policy, US-Iran Relations, Iran, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Hilary Clinton, Dennis-Ross-Iran, Saddam Hussein, Zionism, National Security Council, Israel Iran, World News
Ismael Hossein-zadeh

In terms of actual policy measures, President Obama and his foreign policy team have not taken any steps to reverse or mitigate the hostile policies their predecessors put into effect against Iran.

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Iraqi Officials Start Referring To Maliki As "Master," Reminding Some Of Saddam Era

New York Times | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: House of Saddam, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, Foreign Affairs, Maliki Master, Iraqi Government, Saddam, Master Maliki, Saddam Hussein, Nouri Al-Maliki, Maliki, Al-Maliki, Nuri Al-Maliki, Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, Advocacy, World News

Iraq's civilian leaders held a meeting on Thursday with the 300 top Iraqi military commanders from around the country to discuss the withdrawal of Ame...

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