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The ugly truth about "school choice" - AlterNet - Salon.com

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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The roots of Bain Capital in El Salvador's civil war - Mitt Romney - Salon.com

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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How Americans really feel about drugs - Media Criticism - Salon.com

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By David Sirota - Jan. 05 (News Analysis) - As dishonest as this kind of agitprop is, it unfortunately — but predictably — continues unabated. This is, after all, the golden era of agitprop — a moment in which wars are no longer wars, corporations are people

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PolitiFact and the scam of neutral expertise

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jan. 01 (Opinion) - The fact-checking site PolitiFact serves a valuable purpose when it actually performs its stated function: to “help you find the truth in American politics” by “fact-check[íng] statements” from political and media figures. But it undermines its own credibility when it purports to resolve subjective disputes of political opinion under the guise of objective expertise. That’s precisely what it did yesterday in this incredibly sloppy and often factually false analysis of Ron Paul’s condemnation of the new AUMF and detention authorities embedded in the pending Levin/McCain bill. What matters here more than PolitiFact‘s obvious, specific errors is the reason they were led to such error: namely, reliance on supposedly neutral, ideology-free “experts” who are anything but that.

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Professional fact-checking about as broken as professional journalism

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Alex Pareene - Dec. 21 (Opinion) - If I were to, say, swipe your grandfather’s copy of “See, I Told You So” by Rush Limbaugh from his den, and then mail him a gift card good for a portion of the price of an Amazon Kindle, I think your grandfather would be well within his rights to call me a thief and possibly a communist. Politifact disagrees, apparently, as Democrats have been accused of telling the “lie of the year” for arguing that a vote to replace Medicare with a private voucher system does not constitute voting to “end” the program. The government program that would be replaced with a private voucher system. Replacing a thing with something else no longer constitutes getting rid of that thing. FYI. Politifact’s decision, needless to say, frustrated a lot of people. They have been accused of naming this arguably true claim the year’s biggest lie because Rep. Paul Ryan, the man who came up with the Medicare-replacing plan, launched a big letter-writing campaign lobbying for it, complete with a badly lit YouTube video. Paul Krugman and others say that Politifact made this decision in the interest of achieving the illusion of “balance,” because the past couple “lies of the year” have all belonged to Republicans.

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The dark side of counterinsurgency - Afghanistan - Salon.com

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By David N. Philipps David N. Philipps David N. Philipps David N Philipps - Nov. 16 (News Report) - The dark side to U.S. counterinsurgency tactics were on graphic display last week when Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, of the 5thStryker Brigade, was convicted in a military court of three counts of murder, attempted murder and other charges, while deployed in Afghanistan in 2009.

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Wells Fargo is not your amigo

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Tim Fitzsimons - Oct. 29 (News Analysis) - The banking giant preys on minorities while its executives donate to anti-immigration Republicans

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Student loan debts crush an entire generation - Debt

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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The Republican war on science is un-American

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - In his new book, “The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America,” (Bellevue Literary Press), Jonathan D. Moreno delivers an impassioned defense of scientific study. “The alternative to experimental confirmation is, in a word, dogma,” he writes. “Dogmatic statements may have many fine qualities. They may be beautiful, inspirational, and convey a kind of wisdom, or at least the impression of wisdom. But they can never be verifiable and self-correcting in the manner of science.”

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Insiders voice doubts about CIA's 9/11 story - 9/11

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Rory O'Connor, Ray Nowosielski - Oct. 14 (News) - A growing number of former government insiders — all responsible officials who served in a number of federal posts — are now on record as doubting ex-CIA director George Tenet’s account of events leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Among them are several special agents of the FBI, the former counterterrorism head in the Clinton and Bush administrations, and the chairman of the 9/11 Commission, who told us the CIA chief had been “obviously not forthcoming” in his testimony and had misled the commissioners.

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Wall St. Has Poured Millions into the NYPD -- Are They Getting Their Pay Back Now?

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Justin Elliott - Oct. 09 (Investigative Report) - Wall Street finance firms have funnelled millions of dollars into the police department, in an arrangement that critics say compromises the NYPD. Here’s what we know:

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Occupy Wall Street: A historical perspective - Occupy Wall Street

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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How to stop the political insanity

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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A real Wall Street takeover threat

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By David Talbot - Sep. 19 (News Report) - The hundreds of young people who converged on the New York Stock Exchange this weekend are calling their demonstration against Wall Street greed an "American Tahrir Square." While they have a long way to go before they create the tremors that brought down the Mubarak regime, their passion was clearly on display on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. The protestors were gathered in the square at the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street, after police blocked them from the epicenter of American finance a couple of blocks away. Many had spent the night in sleeping bags and insisted they were prepared to spend many more to make their point. "This country is in decline," said Jack Laxson, an 18-year-old Hampshire College student who was carrying a sign that read, "Corporations Run This Country -- Let's Do Something About It."

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The theft of the American pension

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Thomas Rogers - Sep. 18 (Interview) - America is in the midst of a retirement crisis. Over the last decade, we've witnessed the wholesale gutting of pension and retiree healthcare in this country. Hundreds of companies have slashed and burned their way through their employees' benefits, leaving former workers either on Social Security or destitute -- and taxpayers with a huge burden that, as the baby boomer generation edges towards retirement, is likely to grow. It's a problem that is already affecting over a million people -- and the most shocking part is, none of this needed to happen.

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Newt Gingrich and "the food stamp president"

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Joan Walsh - Sep. 08 (Opinion) - Newt Gingrich doubled down on his clever new slur against President Obama as "the food stamp president." He tried the line in a Friday speech to the Georgia Republican convention, and he used it again on "Meet the Press Sunday." It's a short hop from Gingrich's slur to Ronald Reagan's attacks on "strapping young bucks" buying "T-bone steaks" with food stamps. Blaming our first black president for the sharp rise in food-stamp reliance (which resulted from the economic crash that happened on the watch of our most recent white president) is just the latest version of Rush Limbaugh suggesting that Obama's social policy amounts to "reparations" for black people.

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The "Shock Doctrine" Comes to Your Neighborhood Classroom

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By David Sirota - Sep. 06 (News Analysis) - "Let's hope the fiscal crisis doesn't get better too soon. It'll slow down reform." -- Tom Watkins, a consultant, summarizes the corporate education reform movement's current strategy to the Sunday New York Times.

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The words you'll never hear Michele Bachmann say: "I was wrong"

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Eric Black - Aug. 16 (Opinion) - In early 2007, I got a tip that led me to something pretty strange -- well, somewhere between delusional or apocalyptic, really -- that Rep. Michele Bachmann had said, on tape and beyond dispute about an important national security matter, in a podcast interview with a St. Cloud reporter.

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The right's non-reaction to the London riots - Salon

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - Aug. 09 - The right's non-reaction to the London riots Salon In theory, the SEC has another big weapon it could use, Sarbanes Oxley . Since Sarbanes Oxley became law in 2002, Sections 302, 404, and 906 of that act have required executives to establish and maintain adequate systems of internal control within their ... and ...

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The disturbing copy-and-paste habits of Russell Pearce

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Jeff Biggers - Aug. 03 (News) - The self-proclaimed architect of Arizona's "papers please" immigration law has regularly borrowed significant portions of text from the writings of hard-line white nationalists, fringe anti-immigrant activists, and others whose views far fall outside the mainstream.

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How the U.S. Government uses its media servants to attack real journalism

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jul. 17 (News Analysis) - Earlier this week, the truly intrepid investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill published in The Nation one of the most significant political exposés of the year. Entitled "the CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia," the article documented that the CIA uses and effectively controls a secret prison in Mogadishu, where foreign nationals who are rendered off the streets of their countries (at the direction of the U.S.) are taken (along with Somali nationals) to be imprisoned with no due process and interrogated (by U.S. agents). Although Somali government agents technically operate the facility, that is an obvious ruse: "US intelligence personnel pay the salaries of intelligence agents and also directly interrogate prisoners" and are "there full-time," Scahill reported.

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Can Obama shame Republicans on the debt ceiling?

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Joan Walsh - Jul. 12 (Opinion) - Is President Obama proving his political genius by floating a plan for a $4 trillion deficit cut deal to lift the debt ceiling, offering entitlement cuts that will enrage parts of his base knowing he'll never face their wrath, because far-right Republicans will never take the deal? It could be.

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The day the drug war really started

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Jonathan Easley - Jun. 19 (Interview) - On June 19, 1986, 25 years ago Sunday, University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died of cocaine intoxication. Many believed the 6-foot 7, 220-pound small forward possessed a level of talent equal to that of Michael Jordan, and only two days earlier he'd been selected as the No. 2 overall pick in the NBA draft by the reigning champion Boston Celtics.

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In a pure coincidence, Gaddafi impeded U.S. oil interests before the war

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jun. 11 (Opinion) - When the war in Libya began, the U.S. government convinced a large number of war supporters that we were there to achieve the very limited goal of creating a no-fly zone in Benghazi to protect civilians from air attacks, while President Obama specificall

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The joys of repressed voyeuristic titillation

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jun. 07 (Opinion) - There are few things more sickening -- or revealing -- to behold than a D.C. sex scandal. Huge numbers of people prance around flamboyantly condemning behavior in which they themselves routinely engage. Media stars contrive all sorts of high-minded justifications for luxuriating in every last dirty detail, when nothing is more obvious than that their only real interest is vicarious titillation.

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