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Journalists and their good friends in the White House

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - It's actually difficult to find a news story of any significance that isn't shaped at its core by the incestuous, deeply affectionate relationship between the Government and the establishment media.

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Georgia at War: What I Saw

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Huffington Post - By Bernard-Henri Levy - Aug. 20 (Blog Post) - The first thing that strikes me as soon as we are out of Tbilisi is the strange absence of military force. I had read that the Georgian army, defeated in Ossetia, then routed in Gori, had withdrawn to the capital to defend it. I reach the outskirts of the city, moving forty kilometers on the highway that slices through the country from east to west. But I see almost no trace of the army which has supposedly regrouped in order to fiercely resist the Russian invasion.

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Ambushed

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Aug. 20 (Blog Post) - After Jenna Kern, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church, decided to write an Op-Ed piece for Newsday questioning whether shock jocks and hate speech contributed to the recent murderous shooting spree in a U-U church in Tennessee, the haters started to come after her as well.

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Goodbye Musharraf, hello Taliban

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Asia Times - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - As if on cue, the Taliban launched two of their most daring attacks in Afghanistan on the day that Pervez Musharraf resigned as president of Pakistan, opening up a political vacuum in that country and throwing into doubt its continued cooperation in the United States' "war on terror".

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God's warriors are multiplying, for our foul luck

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Daily Star (Lebanon) - By Raja Kamal - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - Time is not on the side of peacemakers in the Middle East. Even relentless optimists are giving up. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become increasingly overshadowed and orchestrated on both sides by extreme and uncompromising religious groups that view their political mandate as holy and sacred.

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Does Bush Believe McCain Was Tortured?

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Atlantic Monthly - By Andrew Sullivan - Aug. 20 (Blog Post) - In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar? According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured.

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Is it Time to Lower the Drinking Age

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Associated Content - By Carl Benjamin, Justin Pope, Barbara Rodriguez, Kavita Kumar - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - College Presidents want to lower the drinking age to reduce binge drinking.

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McCain Outspending Obama By Hundreds Of Thousands In Many Core Battleground States

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Talking Points Memo - By Greg Sargent - Aug. 19 (Blog Post) - The McCain campaign has outspent the Obama camp by hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in some cases by as much as a million dollars or more, in virtually all of the nearly dozen battleground states where both campaigns are up on the air, according to a firm that tracks national advertising.

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Gifted Children: How to Bring Out Their Potential

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Scientific American - Aug. 19 (Opinion) - Highly gifted children solve the most varied thought problems faster and more thoroughly than those with more average aptitudes do. Because these children speed through the regular curriculum for their grade, they need additional intellectual stimulation while they wait for the rest of the kids to learn the basics. Two central approaches are used to satisfy the educational needs of such children: acceleration and enrichment...

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A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

AlterNet - By Andy Lechter - Aug. 19 (Advocacy) - Shroom opens with a serviceable overview of the biology and chemistry of psychoactive mushrooms

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