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May 26, 2011 10:48 AM UTC --
German theologian Martin Niemoller was a staunch anti-Communist who supported Hitler's rise to power -- at first. He later became disillusioned, however, and led a group of German clergymen opposed to . . .
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April 15, 2011 09:23 AM UTC --
A unique husband and wife team, Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould have reported for decades on the issues and conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the spring of 1981 they received the . . .
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April 07, 2011 11:32 AM UTC --
I often go to media conferences – such as this week’s National Conference on Media Reform in Boston, where I’ll finally have an opportunity to speak out about hate speech in the media . . .
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April 01, 2011 12:39 PM UTC --
By Richard Bell and Rory O’Connor
If there’s one thing that’s different about the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima and its forerunners at Chernobyl in 1986 and Three Mile Island . . .
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March 28, 2011 10:09 AM UTC --
By Rory O’Connor and Richard Bell
Tsunami is a Japanese word – one sign of the island nation’s intimate relationship with the destructive forces of the ocean that surrounds it. Despite . . .
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March 15, 2011 04:47 PM UTC --
George Orwell argued that controlling language offered the ultimate tool for getting people to accept the unacceptable – such as the catastrophic risks of operating nuclear power plants. In Orwell’s . . .
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February 17, 2011 11:36 AM UTC --
Are you as shocked as I am that even Donald Rumsfeld turns out to be a better supporter of free speech than Hillary Clinton? At least the lying SOB former Secretary of Defense didn’t stand by and . . .
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February 05, 2011 03:22 PM UTC --
For the second week in a row, a top executive of one of the leading international newspapers that recently collaborated with WikiLeaks recounted what it was like to work with the group’s controversial . . .
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February 02, 2011 10:46 AM UTC --
When Need To Know , a new public affairs offering described as “a multi-platform current affairs news magazine, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to newsgathering and reporting,” . . .
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January 10, 2011 06:16 PM UTC --
“It is our right and our duty to criticize the people who have put the fate of our country in peril,” Rush Limbaugh said this week on his syndicated radio show.
Although our country’s . . .
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December 13, 2010 03:25 PM UTC --
What do Richard Nixon, Liu Xiaobo and Julian Assange have in common?
As lawyers for Wikileaks editor-in-chief Assange began preparing for a possible indictment by US authorities, two recent, unrelated . . .
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November 24, 2010 10:53 AM UTC --
A decade ago, I was in India, directing a documentary film about global poverty.
While shooting there, I met a mischievous, roly-poly researcher named Sugata Mitra, who was then working for NIIT, . . .
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October 30, 2010 12:50 PM UTC --
Mr. President,
As the world waits to see just how badly we fare in Election 2010, it’s not too early to look ahead to that all-important contest just around the corner – Election 2012. . . .
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October 21, 2010 12:57 PM UTC --
We all know Bill O’Reilly is a good Catholic boy. After all, the top-rated Fox News (sic) Channel host took the title of his best selling “A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity” from Sister . . .
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October 15, 2010 11:13 AM UTC --
In July, the United States military issued its largest release of raw data ever on deaths during the Iraq war. The Pentagon’s tally of the number of Iraqis killed in that country between . . .
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October 06, 2010 05:30 PM UTC --
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The . . .
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September 23, 2010 01:33 PM UTC --
On August 29, 2008, just prior to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, presidential candidate John McCain announced he had chosen Alaskan governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. . . .
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September 09, 2010 02:04 PM UTC --
Nine long years after 9/11, the battle over the meaning of what happened to our city, our country and our world on that fateful blue-crystal morning continues unabated, with the battleground still the . . .
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August 31, 2010 01:41 PM UTC --
On February 27, 2009, just a month after being elected as an anti-war candidate, President Barack Obama revealed his plans for completing the combat portion of America’s ongoing military involvement . . .
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August 16, 2010 04:18 PM UTC --
Of the many lies George W. Bush told us about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some were larger but none worse than that told about the death of Pat Tillman.
In 2004 – just after Bush’s . . .
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