NPR News: National Pentagon Radio?

While the Iraqi government continued its large-scale military assault in Basra, the NPR reporter’s voice from Iraq was unequivocal this morning: “There is no doubt that this operation needed to happen.”

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What's This About a Ceasefire? I thought it was The Surge

BAGHDAD, March 25 -- Gun battles erupted between Iraqi security forces and Shiite armed groups in the southern oil city of Basra on Tuesday as the government launched a security offensive against the feuding militias that have turned the city into one of Iraq's most dangerous zones.

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Brazil demonstraters block access to dam to protest utility

Anti-privatization protesters demonstrate at auction of CESP, the major supplier of electricity to South America's largest city.

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Getting It Wright

Obama’s words implicate the press in the stagnation of our national discourse on race—and, as such, in our inability to overcome the entrenched racial divides that Obama unearthed in his speech with the spade of personal experience.

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Mr. Obama’s Profile in Courage

What is evident is that Barack Obama not only cleared the air over a particular controversy — he raised the discussion of race and religion to a higher plane.

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Obama Speech On Race: Full Text

History in the making. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the likely next President is about to deliver a speech that could be historic as a symbol of an America that is starting to move beyond racial divisions. Here's the full text.

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War Made Easy: Tales of a Prostituted Press

Those well-paid journalists who were cozy with powerful officials, as well as the on-air reporters with nice hair and make-up surrounded by flashy graphics, all got it just as wrong as the Bush administration—with disastrous consequences.

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Pentagon Cancels Study Finding No Saddam-al Qaeda Link.

The Pentagon on Wednesday canceled plans for broad public release of a study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the al Qaida terrorist network.Rather than posting the report online and making officials available to discuss it, as had been planned, the U.S. Joint Forces Command said it would mail copies of the document to reporters — if they asked for it. The report won't be posted on the Internet

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Truth, The American Way, and the Department of Justice

Far from being the gatekeeper of the nation’s legality and the custodian of its ethics, the Justice Department has emerged as the single most corrupt institution on the Washington landscape.

-- Scot Horton

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WSJ.com - Opinion: Inflation Alert

It's looking too much like the early '70s for comfort.

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Some Questions on Spitzer

I think these question requires answers despite the outcome for spitzer. Nobody is going to make the mistake of fighting for this guy when he makes these sorts of clintonian mistakes, but these questions need answers.

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Pentagon Review Finds No Link Between Saddam and Al Qaida

An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.

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House Democrats Defy White House on Spying Program

Defying White House demands to pass a surveillance measure to expand domestic spy powers and provide legal immunity for companies that assisted the government with warrantless eavesdropping, House Democrats are drafting a new proposal that refuses to grant immunity.

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Paul Krugman: The Face-Slap Theory

Friday’s employment report — which was so weak that it had many economists declaring that we’re already in a recession — was bad news. But it was actually less disturbing than what’s going on in the financial markets.

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Telecom Companies Try to Buy Their Way Out of Trouble

One of the drafters of the 1980s telecom FISA legislation that granted telecoms immunity for cooperating with the Government in spying IF THEY OBTAIN WARRANTS, wants to sue.

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Another Reason Not to Vote For Hillary

Hillary shows more of that great "experience" in 2006 as she votes against a ban on landmines/cluster bombs. Obama votes for the ban.

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A Math Problem Hillary Can't Come Back From

For all the restless reporting the cable channels do about the Democratic contest being neck and neck, the math doesn't lie: the game is over.

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U.S. economy loses worse-than-expected 63,000 jobs in Feb

U.S. employers cut payrolls for a second straight month during February, slashing 63,000 jobs for the biggest monthly job decline in nearly five years as the labor market weakened steadily, a government report on Friday showed.

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Democrats Try to End Impasse Over Delegates

The fate of the Florida and Michigan delegations has emerged as a battleground that could be as important to the candidates as April’s Pennsylvania primary.

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2008 May Test Clinton's Bond With McCain

Au contraire. Clinton and McCain are two heads of the same two-headed snake: the big money special interest lobby military industrial complex. Compliments of 1776Forever at DU http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=101913&mesg_id=101943

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Cost of Iraq War Now Beyond Human Comprehension

even if you were or are in favor of the war, this will boggle your mind.it's in the trillions. and counting.

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Catapulting the Propaganda on PAA

On February 24, 2008, The White House posted an argument attempting to contradict Pelosi's points against the necessity of passing the Protect America Act to amend FISA.

"What" they are attempting to defend here is not clear, other than their own ability to violate the Constitution with impunity.

Vt. towns put Bush, Cheney on arrest list

Brattleboro and Marlboro, two tiny Vermont towns, have indicted Bush and Cheney, putting them on a list of offenders to be arrested should they ever set foot in their city limits.

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ABC News: Vt. Towns Approves Bush 'Indictment'

Voters in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for what they consider violations of the Constitution. More symbolic than anything, the items sought to have police arrest Bush and Cheney if they ever visit Brattleboro or nearby Marlboro or to extradite them for prose

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