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15
Jul

WASHINGTON MUTUAL STOCK WORTH LESS THAN A MOCHA AT STARBUCKS

US PARANOIA—ON THE BORDERS, ON THE TERROR LIST, ON AMTRAK | FREDDY AND FANNIE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS | IS WAMU NEXT? | THE DEBATE ABOUT BOMBING IRAN–NOT WHETHER BUT WHEN | THAT NEW YORKER CARTOON ALL OVER THE NEWS | 911 MOVIE OPENS IN NEW YORK | MORE


15
Jul

THE BOMB IRAN DEBATE: YES, NO, MAYBE

Sam Gardiner reports:
For three weeks we have seen almost a daily escalation of rhetoric to and from Iran. It seems to have started with the New York Times revelation that Israel had conducted a military exercise that was reported to be a practice of a strike on Iran.
The rhetoric has involved […]


15
Jul

CAN YOU TELL A BOOK BY ITS COVER?

THAT NEW YORKER COVER

The Bad Frame: Why Are the New Yorker, Salon and Other Liberal Media Doing the Right’s Dirty Work?
By Don Hazen
AlterNet Posted on July 14, 2008
New Yorker magazine hits the newsstands today with a
shocking cover — a caricature of Barack and Michelle
Obama depicting the presidential candidate in a turban,
fist-bumping his wife who […]

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