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The War We Don't Know

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Mark Ames - Aug. 14 (Opinion) - While Russia and America see the conflict in abstract terms about spheres of influence and protecting allies, for Ossetians, who still recall the centuries of massacres Georgians committed against them, it is highly personal. They will still recall the Georgian massacres in the early 1920s, when Georgia was briefly independent, which exterminated up to 8 percent of the Ossetian population.

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McCain, spying and executive power: A complete reversal in 6 months

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - Last December, the GOP nominee was giving answers that were the same as those of the ACLU and Russ Feingold. Now, he sounds like John Yoo and Dick Cheney.

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Love Thy Neighbor

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - By Tim Townsend - May. 06 (Interview) - As a reporter covering religion at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for the last four years, I've been a witness to attitudes and language on my beat that would make veteran political reporters cringe. Even the blog I wrote for the paper, The God Beat, became such a target for corrosive, hateful comments that I was forced to shut it down.

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