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Brilliant Multi-Analysis of the Bin Laden Assassination

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Here is my commentary on today’s offering from CommonDreams.org. If you use only one other source of news and commentary it should be CommonDreams.org. It’s free; from time to time they will ask you for a small donation. I have highlighted the commentary provided by Glenn Greenwald. In my opinion, the best writer on the web. Read it all – it makes a grand synthesis of the thinking brought forth by the assassination of Osama bin Laden. Read, assimilate, and learn. tfk Wanted Dead or Alive Published on Thursday, May 12, 2011 by CommonDreams.org by Robert C. Koehler When President Obama, summing up the killing of Osama bin Laden, said, “Justice has been done,” the problem wasn’t simply that he misspoke — justice, after all, can only emerge at the end of an impartial judicial proceeding — but that, in so misspeaking, he hit the emotional bull’s-eye. “Justice has been done.” We got him, America! Oh yeah, sweet! Who...

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Three Anniversaries Best Not Forgotten

Three Anniversaries Best Not Forgotten

On May 1st there will be three anniversaries to mark. First, the International Worker’s Day (also known as May Day) originated in 1886 in Chicago and is a national holiday in more than 80 countries. The second marks the publication eight years ago of the Downing Street Memo in The London Times which provided the first solid evidence of Bush’s decision to invade Iraq regardless of any U.N. action. The last is the anniversary of President Bush’s arrival as the copilot in a Navy S-3B jet on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to announce we had won his war. The selection of an aircraft carrier for Bush’s speech was brilliant. There was live TV coverage from the flight deck of the perfect tail-hook landing. The plane was labeled ‘Navy 1’ and ‘George W. Bush, Commander in Chief’ was printed under the cockpit window. At first hearing it seemed to be an important speech for the American people, indeed...

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Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid

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A new survey of American voters shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. Yet another study has been released proving that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation. So the more you watch, the less you know. Or to be precise, the more you think you know that is actually false. This study corroborates a previous PIPA study that focused on the Iraq war with similar results. And there was an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that demonstrated the break with reality on the part of Fox viewers with regard to health care. The body of...

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March 19, 2011 A Day for Country-Wide Sadness and Mourning

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Today, March 19, 2011 marks the eighth anniversary of our invasion of Iraq.  Please read my Editorial that was published in the local regional newspaper on February 24, 2003, four weeks before the invasion.  I pointed out all the reasons that should have kept us from this criminal venture which has cost us at least three trillion dollars, so far.  That’s $3,000,000,000.00!!! There were a number of reasons the administration and other interested parties put forward (all of whom stood to make money from this war they so lusted after).  How many of you remember?   How many of you believed?  Anybody remember what Bush’s motivation was?  As the announcement he made one Sunday morning on of a “talk” shows (they don’t call them “think” shows”) Bush was going to be a “war president.”  He said that all of the successful presidents were war presidents and he was going to be a successful president because he was going to be a war president.  He...

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