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Cleaning Up the Nation
Austin Bay:
If Air America were a conservative radio network its corrupt funding trail and cynical abuse of a poverty program would be front page news at the NY Times and full-time mega-scandal at
Rank Materialism
Freedom. I am now the proud new owner of a Gateway 6020GZ laptop, perfect for students and others with limited means. I can now go into a Starbucks or a Barnes & Noble and look like I'm doing some
Fallujah Fonda
Uh-oh. From the Telegraph comes this exciting news:
Jane Fonda is returning to anti-war activism and embarking on a cross-country tour to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.
Acros
John Pilger: Partner in Terrorism
In an outrageous piece of terrorist propaganda appearing on the cover of today's New Statesman, John Pilger puts the blame for the 7/7 London attacks not on the terrorists, but rather on Tony Blair:
Death of a Hostage
One of the Italian hostages taken in Iraq was reportedly killed on a video that somehow got into Al-Jazeera's possession. "An Iranian delegation had been headed to Baghdad to try to win their release." Yeah, well they'd be the experts at hostage-taking. Send a thief to catch a thief, the saying goes.
The tape was accompanied by a statement from a previously unknown group calling itself the Green Battalion, which threatened to "kill the three remaining Italian hostages one after the other, if their demands are not met," Al-Jazeera said.
The statement, read by an Al-Jazeera anchor, accused Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of caring more about his "masters in the White House than his own people."
Disgusting all around.
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