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Heroin smuggler: Drugs were for grandma
UPI - 29th Dec 2010DETROIT, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Authorities in Detroit said an airline passenger accused of Smuggling $50,000 worth of Heroin into the country said the drugs were for his ailing grandmother. Federal investigators said Stevan Patong Thao, 53, of Oklahoma…
Read more >>The Early Word: Senate Showdown
The Caucus - 21st Sep 2010Senate Democrats are going to try to take up the annual defense bill on Tuesday, which this year could also include a Repeal of the Militarys dont ask, dont tell policy and provide a path to Citizenship for certain Illegal Immigrants. Politicos J…
Read more >>Dan Rather's Day of Reckoning
The Weekly Standard - 20th Jul 2010What if, some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new …
Read more >>The Dictionary of American Empire-Speak
TomDispatch - 24th Jun 2010[ Note to TomDispatch Readers: This week, the website Foreign Policy In Focus , whose work I greatly admire and whose co-director John Feffer is a TomDispatch regular , will be using this piece to kick off its new strategic focus on Empire. FP…
Read more >>Chalmers Johnson on the CIA and a blowback world
TomDispatch - 15th Jun 2010No longer will Dick Cheney have to pay visits to Langley, Virginia and lean on CIA analysts to produce the kind of Intelligence a Veep might need; not now that the President has his man, Republican loyalist Porter J. Goss, heading up the Agency, …
Read more >>Media Dishonesty Matters
American Thinker - 14th Jun 20107. Pham Xuan An , Time (1960's). Communist spy reporter. Pham Xuan An was a "Viet Cong colonel who worked as a reporter for U.S. News organizations during the Vietnam War while also spying for the Communists... He was the first Vietnames…
Read more >>Profiles: Rough Rider :
The New Yorker - 14th Jun 2010In April, 2005, Sam Zell travelled to Abu Dhabi to meet Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed alNahyan. Zell is best known as a realestate Magnate, whose reputation has been enhanced by the sale, last February, for thirty-nine Billion dollars, o…
Read more >>John Feffer: Obama: Is He Nixon Reborn?
The Huffington Post - 31st May 2010Richard Nixon was the greatest peacemaker in U.S. history. He orchestrated the historic opening with Beijing. And he presided over the most significant Arms Control treaties of the détente period: the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the ABM …
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