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Political Observer on George Will and the selective use of cultivated political outrage

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/libya-and-the-potemkin-alliance/2011/06/17/AGdQ2UZH_story.html ‘America’s intervention in Libya’s civil war, the most protracted and least surreptitious assassination attempt in history, was supposed to last “days, not weeks,” but is in its fourth month and has revealed NATO to be an increasingly fictitious military … Continue reading

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Life sentences for Bahrain activists – Middle East – Al Jazeera English

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Define American: Jose’s Story

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Episode XCIII of The American Political Melodrama:Queer Atheist on candidate John Huntsman, the Mirage of Moderation

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/21/huntsman-s-gay-rights-shakeup.html?om_rid=De4wA2&om_mid=_BOAeUMB8cA9gDk The American Psyche was pushed into political irrationalism by September 11th with the assistance of the Neo-Fascists, Neo-Conservatives, and War Mongers who pounced on the opportunity to pursue the American Imperial Dream of Endless War and the concomitant project … Continue reading

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A. Whitney Ellsworth, New York Review Publisher, Dies at 75

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/books/a-whitney-ellsworth-new-york-review-publisher-dies-at-75.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimesarts&seid=auto#

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Episode XCI of The American Political Melodrama:Richard Haas writes off Europe by Political Observer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-europe-no-longer-matters/2011/06/15/AG7eCCZH_story.html It is hard not to feel a certain welling contempt when reading Mr. Richard Haas’ latest opinion piece ‘Why Europe no longer matters’ in The Washington Post. Here is a public intellectual, the president of the council of foreign … Continue reading

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Book Review – House of Exile – By Evelyn Juers

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/books/review/book-review-house-of-exile-by-evelyn-juers.html?pagewanted=1&ref=world#

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Russia’s Best-Known Gay Activist Has an Uphill Fight

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Elena Bonner, Widow of Sakharov, Dies at 88

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With executive pay, rich pull away from rest of America – The Washington Post

via washingtonpost.com ‘According to the CIA’s World Factbook, which uses the so-called “Gini coefficient,” a common economic indicator of inequality, the United States ranks as far more unequal than the European Union and the United Kingdom. The United States is … Continue reading

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