Newsweek's Jonathan Alter has an article this week filled with all the standard anti-blogger "pajama" platitudes (along with some praise) and, along the way, Alter writes this:But we're finding [blogging] works better for keeping on top of daily flaps than for learning genuinely new information. …
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Who is doing real journalism?
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The honorable centrist Joe Lieberman
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/22/lieberman/index.html(updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV - Update V) After John McCain sought Pastor John Hagee's endorsement and then heaped praise on Hagee when he received it, a slew of publicity surrounding Hagee's extremist, offensive and outright crazed views forced McCain to repudiate Hagee and reject his endorsement. …
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McCain campaign adopts Bush's respect for free expression
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/21/mccain/index.html(updated below) One of the hallmarks of events at which George Bush appeared was the complete elimination of any dissent. In one of the most notorious cases, three individuals who arrived at a 2005 Bush town hall meeting in Denver with an anti-war bumper sticker on their car and anti-Bush t-shirts …
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EastSouthWestNorth Blog
http://zonaeuropa.com/weblog.htmSlammed: Welcome to the Age of Incarceration Jennifer Gonnerman, The Nation Under Pressure, ISP Admits Secret Web Snooping in Kansas Ryan Singel, Threat Level Language Incest The Linguist Blogger Leaders of the free world Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com The Internet Is No Substitute for the Dying Newspaper Industry Chris Hedges, Truthdig Coverage of 'Netroots' Confab Draws Protest-- Snarky Article Spiked -- Editor's Note Apologizes
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Quick links
http://sideshow.me.uk/sjul08.htm#07222204As should surprise no one, the insurance criminals have their own spiffy front group to convince you that they're already giving you the best possible health insurance, and you wouldn't want to change a thing. Glenn Greenwald on "The honorable centrist Joe Lieberman", who isn't centrist enough to appeal to Jews, who tend not to support right-wing nuts. Eric Alterman alerts us to an exciting story in The Las Vegas Sun about product placement on the news - well, it's Fox, of course, and they have fake coffee from
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People are talking
http://sideshow.me.uk/sjul08.htm#07201649- between the Capitol Hill Gang (including the media), on the one hand, and all of the rest of us, on the other. It turns out that this is true not just of the country, but the whole world, and is as true on the issue of Israel as on everything else. Glenn Greenwald reports: "The worldwide consensus is crystal clear -- citizens want their Governments to be neutral and even-handed in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, not tilted towards either side. And that consensus is shared not just by a majority of American citizens,
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Don’t ask Olympic tourists age or wage, China warns - Guardian Unlimited
http://thewordpressplugin.com/4647/dont-ask-olympic-tourists...s age or wage, steer clear of sex and avoid religion: what many Chinese consider idle chit-chat has now become the latest area of censure in Beijing as it prepares for an influx of Olympic visitors Who is doing real journalism? - Salon Newsweek ’s Jonathan Alter has an article this week filled with all the standard anti-blogger “pajama” platitudes (along with some praise) and, along the way, Alter writes this: But we’re finding [blogging] works better for keeping on top of
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American Torture
http://www.americantorture.com). This verdict was never tested, as the government took Padilla out of the brig and into the court system (where he was convicted in January) before the Supreme Court could rule on his case, but as Glenn Greenwald noted in an article in Salon, the upshot is that the 2005 Padilla verdict still stands. To that extent, all that has changed now is that the Fourth Circuit court has reinforced its former ruling en banc. Al-Marri’s lawyers will doubtless appeal, and, if justice still counts for
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 24th
http://turbott.net/blog/2008/07/25/my-delicious-bookmarks-fo...Secular Web: Atheism, Agnosticism, Naturalism, Skepticism and Secularism - CDI - Center for Defense Information - Security Policy Research Organization - Lively - Experience another dimension of the web - Penny Arcade! - NZGamer.com - NewTeeVee - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - In Which Our Hero - Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong - Steve Jackson Games - Barack Obama | Change We Can Believe In | Home - Twentieth Century Atlas - Historical Body Count
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tarantula mountain
http://tarantulamountain.blogspot.comthe bastards but Pelosi won't do that because she is complicit in the torture war crimes. She was briefed on torture and briefed on NSA and did nothing to stop them. If the truth comes out, she goes down with the rest of them. Don't believe me, then read this. Harper's Scott Horton yesterday interviewed Jane Mayer about her new book, The Dark Side. The first question he asked was about the Bush administration's fear that they would be criminally prosecuted for implementing what the International Red Cross
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Damn. Good. Question.
http://semidi.com/2008/07/24/damn-good-question/good answer
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Daily Reading List.
http://www.theunspunzone.com/opinion/daily-reading-list-15/by Thomas Woods. Little War Criminals Get Punished, Big Ones Don’t by Paul Craig Roberts. Honorable Exit from Empire by Patrick J. Buchanan. Is Obama the ‘Antiwar Candidate’? by Justin Raimondo. Who is Doing Real Journalism? by Glenn Greenwald. Marxism, American Style by Mark Schmidt. ShareThis
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Secretly Ironic
http://www.secretlyironic.comThis really is a very good diagram of the Bush scandals. Some people like to say that “Friends don’t let friends read Slate,” because they tend to ask a lot of the wrong questions, especially about the war. But I think their coverage of health care and finance is good. And I do love a good chart!
