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Growing up online
PBS / Frontline - By Rachel Dretzin, John Maggio - May. 16 (Special Report)
Jessica Hunter was a shy and awkward girl who struggled to make friends at school. Then, at age 14, she reinvented herself online as Autumn Edows, a goth artist and model... More »

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Republican Election Losses Stir Fall Fears
New York Times - By Adam Nagourney, Carl Hulse - May. 15 (News Report)
The Republican defeat in a special Congressional contest in Mississippi sent waves of apprehension across an already troubled party Wednesday, with some senior Republicans urging... More »

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NASA Holds Breath for Phoenix Mars Lander's Touchdown
Scientific American - By JR Minkel - May. 15 (News Report)
"Follow the water" has been NASA's mantra as it has explored Mars for signs of present or past life. It will be no different later this month when the Phoenix Mars... More »

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The Healing Power of Pets - Health and Wellness
AlterNet - By Rebecca Armstrong - May. 15 (News Report)
The importance of regular contact with domestic animals has been highlighted by recent research conducted by the University of Minnesota... More »

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Probe into Olmert's Finances Imperils Israeli-Palestinian Peace Outline
Council on Foreign Relations - By Bernard Gwertzman, David Makovsky - May. 15 (Interview)
David Makovsky, an expert on Israeli politics, says there is concern a forced resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert could unravel his efforts on Palestinian peace. More »

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Egypt's Facebook Revolution
Washington Post - By Jack Fairweather - May. 15 (Blog Post)
although Facebook activism may not be able to spark protest - at least not yet - it has succeeded in advertising and amplifying Egyptian unrest... More »

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Why Bush Must Recognise The Nakba
Aljazeera - By Sandy Tolan - May. 15 (Opinion)
Sixty years later, the Nakba lies at the core of the Palestinians' identity and of their view of history and justice. Official US ignorance of that, passed down through... More »

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President Bush committed political treason today
Philadelphia Inquirer - By Will Bunch - May. 15 (Blog Post)
President Bush went on foreign soil today, and committed what I consider an act of political treason: Comparing the candidate of the U.S... More »

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Race (and West Virginia) Makes the Democrat's Obama Gamble Riskier than Ever
Huffington Post - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - May. 15 (Blog Post)
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has moved heaven and earth to keep race out of his campaign. He had no choice. He knew that if he gave even the faintest hint of a... More »

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Israel: Iranian Grad Missiles Hit Ashkelon Mall
Global Voices - By Gilad Lotan - May. 15 (Blog Post)
Hours after President George W Bush arrived in Israel, Iranian Grad missiles penetrated the roof of an Ashkelon mall. Four people, including a mother and her toddler, were... More »

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New Study Calls 'Embed' Program for U.S. Media in Iraq a 'Victory' -- for the Pentagon
Editor & Publisher - By Greg Mitchell - May. 14 (News Report)
Debate over the "embedded journalist" program run by the Pentagon since the weeks before the Iraq invasion in 2003 has long raged, with some claiming that it gave... More »

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Appeals court hears challenge to uranium mine
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Ben Neary - May. 12 (News Report)
Federal judges expressed surprise Monday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued permits to allow a company to leach uranium out of an aquifer that supplies drinking... More »

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DeLauro Calls For Investigation Of Defense Dept.
Hartford Courant - By Jesse A. Hamilton - May. 10 (News Report)
Rep. Rosa DeLauro is asking Claude Kicklighter, the inspector general at the Pentagon, to investigate the Department of Defense's potentially furtive influence on military... More »

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Pentagon Pundit Scandal Broke the Law
PR Watch - By Diane Farsetta, Sheldon Rampton - May. 11 (News Analysis)
The Pentagon military analyst program unveiled in last week's expose' by David Barstow in the New York Times was not just unethical but illegal... More »

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How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words
Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - May. 10 (Special Report)
On the question of whether the Pentagon maintained an illegal covert domestic propaganda program -- and on the broader question of whether the American media's political coverage... More »

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The Obama campaign's 'unsung hero'
The Politico - By Ben Smith, Avi Zenilman - May. 11 (Comment)
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had just declared victory in the Nevada caucuses when most campaign reporters heard Jeffrey Berman's voice for the first and only time. Berman, Sen... More »

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Jerusalem Diary: Monday 12 May
BBC News - By Tim Franks - May. 12 (Comment)
Balata is now the biggest of the Palestinian refugee camps on the West Bank, a concrete jumble, home to more than 20,000. More »

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A good day for hope
Haaretz - By Yair Sheleg - May. 14 (Opinion)
On the human level, a Jew, as a member of a nation that mourned its destruction for 2,000 years, should have no trouble understanding why Israeli Arabs are mourning. More »

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Israel at 60: Zionism's Fatal Flaw
Religion Dispatches - By Ira Chernus - May. 14 (Opinion)
Perhaps the only fair way to judge any nation is by its own ideals. Israel makes that task easier for us as it was built upon explicit and well-documented ideals... More »

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A Somber Anniversary
The Nation - By Avi Shlaim - May. 9 (Opinion)
Israelis approach the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of their state in a subdued and somber mood. More »

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McCain: I will win Iraq, kill bin Laden and start President's Question Time
The Times - By No author listed - May. 15 (News Report)
John McCain declared yesterday that within four years of being elected president he would have won the Iraq war, killed or captured Osama bin Laden, halted the nuclear ambitions... More »

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BBC NEWS - Middle East - Press marks Palestinian 'Nakba'
BBC News - May. 15 (Special Report)
Press marks Palestinian 'Nakba' The Palestinian press is in a mournful and bitter mood as it reflects on the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel - seen by Palestinians as... More »

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Senate Votes to Block FCC's Cross-Ownership Rule Change - 5/15/2008 8:43:00 PM - Broadcasting & Cable
Broadcasting & Cable - By John Eggerton - May. 15 (News Report)
The Senate Thursday night voted, without debate, to invalidate the Federal Communications Commission's Dec. 18 decision to loosen the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule. Sen... More »

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Kuwaiti women battle against odds in election
Middle East Online - May. 15 (Special Report)
KUWAIT - Whether swathed in veils or dressed in suits, Kuwaiti women are campaigning hard to win parliamentary seats in Saturday's election... More »

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Response to the New York Times on Islam
Religion Dispatches - By Hussein Rashid - May. 14 (News Analysis)
Edward Luttwak writes in a May 12 New York Times Op-Ed that Sen. Barack Obama is an apostate from Islam and will therefore harm our relations with the Muslim-majority world... More »

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The Neural Buddhists
New York Times - May. 13 (Opinion)
In 1996, Tom Wolfe wrote a brilliant essay called "Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died," in which he captured the militant materialism of some modern scientists... More »

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Now On to 'Florigan'
Newsweek - By Jonathan Alter - May. 13 (Opinion)
The math is clear: Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for president unless he's caught on tape taking cash from Tony Rezko or vacationing in Hawaii with Louis Farrakhan... More »

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Forget the two-state solution
Los Angeles Times - By Sree Makdisi - May. 11 (Opinion)
Sixty years after Israel was created and Palestine was destroyed, then, we are back to where we started: Two populations inhabiting one piece of land... More »

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Palestine: Sixty Years of Al Nakba
Global Voices - By Amira Al Hussaini - May. 15 (Blog Post)
Celebrations are under way to mark Israel's 60th anniversary - but for millions of Palestinians whose great grandparents, grandparents and parents were made refugees in the... More »

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Bush Compares Obama To Nazi Appeasers
Huffington Post - May. 15 (Blog Post)
President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the presidential race, but that stance changed dramatically today during his trip to Israel... More »

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Can Israel survive for another 60 years?
Slate - May. 13
How long do you think the first set of non-Jews will go on defending Israel from the second lot and from their very wealthy and numerous kinsmen? In other words, Zionism has only... More »

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President Bush committed political treason today
Philadelphia Inquirer - May. 15
President Bush went on foreign soil today, and committed what I consider an act of political treason: Comparing the candidate of the U.S... More »

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Clinton's Biggest Mistake
Real Clear Politics - May. 15
Clinton's first and biggest mistake, which eventually led to her undoing, can be summed up in a single question: how and why did her campaign miss Obama's association with... More »

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A good day for hope
Haaretz - May. 14
On the human level, a Jew, as a member of a nation that mourned its destruction for 2,000 years, should have no trouble understanding why Israeli Arabs are mourning. More »

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US Elections from an Iranian Perspective
Voices Without Votes / Global Voices - May. 8
Iranian bloggers have launched a far-ranging debate about the elections in the United States at the time when such discussions are not seen in mainstream media. More »

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Why Bush Must Recognise The Nakba
Aljazeera - May. 15
Sixty years later, the Nakba lies at the core of the Palestinians' identity and of their view of history and justice. Official US ignorance of that, passed down through... More »

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Credibility is not binary
Buzzmachine - May. 14
I've seen a couple of efforts lately to help determine who's credible online and though I understand the need and the motive, these attempts are fundamentally flawed and perhaps... More »

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The Cost Of Quitting: How Health Insurance Is Strangling The US Economy
NewsVine - May. 15
Health insurance is increasingly vital to millions of Americans and it is becoming increasingly dear as well. The ranks of the uninsured swelled from 16% in 2005 to 20% in 2006... More »

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Federal rules give corporation-backed conservative radio all the local voices - sacbee.com
Sacramento Bee - May. 11
Why are corporate dollars the sole arbiter of what information we the people get to hear on publicly owned airwaves? The answer is policy-makers, with campaigns financed by those... More »

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How Actual Journalism Works, Part 2
Pruning Shears - May. 15
This week saw a claim of how reporting is supposed to work along with an example of the same. It should surprise no one that the latter was more impressive. More »

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