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NATO: Rights Key to Afghanistan’s Security

Tweet Widget Facebook Like NATO governments at the May 20-21, 2012, summit in Chicago should endorse measures to bolster oversight and accountability of Afghan security forces and to protect women’s...
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‘Left, Right & Center’: Facebook Goes Public

Facebook made its much-anticipated initial public offering. TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts had second thoughts about a $10 million negative ad campaign against President Obama. The G-8 convened at Camp David. And JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon...
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CDC Urges ‘Boomers’ to Get Tested for Hep C Infection

Did you know? May 19 is “National Hepatitis Testing Day” and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all baby boomers, the group believed to account for 75 percent of hepatitis C infections in the United States, get...
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Chicago Police Accused of Planting Evidence on "NATO 3" Protesters

Lawyers for three protesters arrested on terrorist-related charges ahead of the Nato summit accused police of entrapping them and encouraging an alleged bomb-making effort.
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Entrapment of Cleveland 5 and the NATO 3 is nothing new

FB.Event.subscribe('edge.create', function(response) { _gaq.push(['_trackEvent','SocialSharing','Facebook - like button',unescape(String(response).replace(/\+/g, " "))]); }); by Jake Olzen. The old trope of the bomb-throwing anarchist...
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Late Late Night FDL: Mark of the Mouse

Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks -- Mark of the Mouse. This Hanna-Barbera cartoon first aired on January 22, 1959.
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This week in the War on Women: Damn broads are greedy, lying whores

Praise great Gaia for the awesome perks of being a woman! Sure, we women may have once been second-class citizens, but ever since the radical feminists destroyed the patriarchal structure of our society and totally ended sexism forever, usurping all...
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Late Night: Shalersville Speaks Out Against Fracking

One of the recurring themes environmental activists have been hearing at the local level is that fracking is a state-level issue and that municipalities have limited ability to address it. That has been true in Portage County, Ohio generally, and...
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Republicans and the state of denial

Visual source: Newseum Austerity champions and deficit fetishists in the Republican Party have pushed economic policies that hurt the vast majority of Americans. John J. Drew at the Taunton Daily Gazette gives an overview of how these policies are...
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Israel Training Birds to Spy on Turkish Farmers, Says New Conspiracy Theory

Counterterrorism officials were called in after worried locals found a bird wearing a metal band reading "Israel."
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FDL Book Salon Welcomes Paul Krugman, End This Depression Now!

It is an honor and a pleasure to have Paul Krugman at the Lake this afternoon for a conversation on End This Depression Now! Dedicated "To the unemployed, who deserve better," the book is a condemnation of the policies and mind-set that have...
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Cardboard Britain: the UK at Mexico's Festival of Cultural Friendship, Jeremy Fox

Mexico City's historic avenue Paseo de la Reforma  is hosting its annual Festival of Cultural Friendship. Far from a proud display, the UK's booth shows a national identity in very bad health. Between 12 - 27 May, Mexico...
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Drone filmmaker denied visa

Glenn Greenwald writes: Muhammad Danish Qasim is a Pakistani student at Iqra University’s Media Science and is also a filmmaker. This year, Qasim released a short film entitled The Other Side, a 20-minute narrative that “revolves around the...
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A Dissenters’ Digest for May 13-19

Dissenters' Digest takes a look back at the week's stories covering whistleblowers, watchdogs, and government accountability.
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Why Is Trayvon Martin Dead?

Many lawyers, including myself, have focused the discussion in the George Zimmerman case on who initiated aggressive physical contact, because there is no law that prohibits a person from approaching another person and asking them what they are...
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BREAKING: NAACP Endorses Marriage Equality

The board of the NAACP, the “nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization,” endorsed marriage equality at a meeting this afternoon. The move comes 10 days after President Obama announced his support of same-sex marriage....
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Open thread: Failure, injustice and cowardice

What's coming up on Sunday Kos ... William Galston talks 2012 election with Daily Kos, by DemFromCT Two Daily Kos/SEIU polls show why Americans Elect failed, by Chris Bowers Billionaire donors drive anti-teacher, pro-testing education reform...
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Daily Kos Elections Weekend Digest: The state/national divide persists in battle for the White House

For the first time in recent history, Mitt Romney actually held the advantage in the majority of national polls released this week, besting the Democratic incumbent in five of the nine national polls dropped this week. President Obama, however,...
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Matt Miller Celebrates the Stinking Corpse of Americans Elect

Matt Miller is the perfect embodiment of the Washington punditry. In his weekly column in the Washington Post he complains about being a victim of the "False Equivalency Police." These would be the people who point out that many of the assertions...
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A Night at the Vibrator Museum

Early vibrators were hand-cranked, two-person jobs -- and prescribed by doctors. How far we've come since then.
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