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Spike Lee: 'Barack changes everything'
Lee lays it down for the Guardian Ever since a college project filming riots in New York in 1977, Spike Lee has used his movies to provide an alternative commentary on life in his home country. Here, he tells John Colapinto what the future holds now that Obama has torn up the script for African-Americans…
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A fight to the death?
Why Israel went to war in Gaza by Chris McGreal in Jerusalem, The Observer, Sunday 4 January 2009 ‘Are you a target if you voted for Hamas?’ Last night Israel sent its ground forces across the border into Gaza as it escalated its brutal assault on Hamas. As a large-scale invasion of the Palestinian territory…
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Truths and hope
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sends us You Can’t Fix What you Don’t Acknowledge-Can I get an Amen? I am pleased to present this guest essay from my friend and colleague, Tyrone Nelson. A former school board candidate,Tyrone Nelson is well known in the greater Richmond Community. He is the pastor of the Sixth Mount…
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Presumption
I have no problem whatsoever with Caroline Kennedy being named to the United States Senate seat from New York that Hillary Clinton will be vacating if she is confirmed as the new Secretary of State. In fact, I could offer a couple of powerful argument why Ms. Kennedy should be named (and I will later…
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Like I said . . .
Patrick Fitzgerald, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is a public menace. He makes it hard for people to exist and behave as they normally would in their natural habitat. Rod Blagojevich, Tony Rezko and others were doing only what came natural when Fitzgerald decided to stick…
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According to Google
At least its Analytics application, no one is seeing this post. The photographer is a Michael Castielli and this image is licensed by Creative Commons in his name. Is this cat fierce? He certainly has a fierce visage. Or, is it curiousity, which, as you know, they say killed the cat. Unless I’m getting that…
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Wacko Jacko's Mask of Zorro
Michael Jackson steps out in his most bizarre outfit yet By Simon Cable He has never lacked creativity when it comes to fashioning a ‘disguise’. But Michael Jackson’s latest effort is remarkable, even by his standards. With his trademark trilby hat and a black eye mask, the troubled 50-year-old looked a dead ringer for Zorro.…
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"A passion for justice"
The Fed Who Blew the Whistle Is he a hero or a criminal? by Michael Isikoff NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Dec 22, 2008 Thomas M. Tamm was entrusted with some of the government’s most important secrets. He had a Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance, a level above Top Secret. Government agents had probed…
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How not to win a war
Report Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders By JAMES GLANZ and T. CHRISTIAN MILLER BAGHDAD — An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by…
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Rich's indictment
Two Cheers for Rod Blagojevich By FRANK RICH ROD BLAGOJEVICH is the perfect holiday treat for a country fighting off depression. He gift-wraps the ugliness of corruption in the mirthful garb of farce. From a safe distance outside Illinois, it’s hard not to laugh at the “culture of Chicago,” where even the president-elect’s Senate seat…