12 December 2006
Tinker Bell, Pinochet and the fairy tale miracle of Chile
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Greg Palast
Chile’s former military dictator General Augusto Pinochet died today at the age of 91.

Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother, Tinker Bell and General Augusto Pinochet had much in common.

All three performed magical good...
11 December 2006
Muslim war
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The horror of 78 Muslim men who were forcibly tied up, laid out like logs in army trucks, crushed until their eyes bled and they suffocated to death, has not been forgotten despite the coup regime's apology.
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08 December 2006
Monitor elections in Timor-Leste with ETAN!
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John M. Miller
In spring 2007, Timor-Leste will hold its first national elections as an independent nation. Join ETAN in supporting free, fair election in Timor-Leste!

Voters across the country will choose their parliament and president....
08 December 2006
Permanent bases and temporary presidents
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David Swanson
Did you notice something about the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group Report?  It recommends all sorts of changes, all of them far short of actually ending the war, but it recommends them all to the same person responsible for the disastrous...
08 December 2006
The Baker Boys: stay half the course. Iraq Study Group or Saudi Protection League?
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Greg Palast
James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the "Iraq Study Group" have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not.

Baker's Two Big Ideas are:

1. Stay half the course. Keeping 140,000 troops in Iraq is a...
08 December 2006
Flirting with fascism on CNN Headline News; Host Glenn Beck threatens Muslims with concentration camps
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Marvin Wingfield
The New York Times (12/4/06), profiling new CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck, called him "brash" and "opinionated," with an "unfiltered approach." The conservative talk-radio host-turned-cable news announcer, the paper reported, "take[s...

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