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Cheney Admits to War Crimes, Media Yawns, Obama Turns the Other Cheek

TruthOut.org - Fri, 2012-01-13 00:00

Dick Cheney is a sadist.

On Sunday, in an exclusive interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News' "This Week," Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration for outlawing the practice, and admitted that the Bush White House ordered Justice Department attorneys to fix the law around the administration's policy interests.

"I was a big supporter of waterboarding," Cheney told Karl, as if he were issuing a challenge to officials in the current administration,

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Goldman Plays, We Pay

TruthOut.org - Fri, 2011-04-22 00:31

The story of the financial debacle will end the way it began, with the super-hustlers from Goldman Sachs at the center of the action and profiting wildly. Never in U.S. history has one company wielded such destructive power over our political economy, irrespective of whether a Republican or a Democrat happened to be president.

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HAITI EARTHQUAKE LIVE BLOG: Who to Follow and What to Read for Breaking Developments

TruthOut.org - Wed, 2011-01-12 15:51

9:15pm PDT: Truthout is wrapping up its coverage for the evening of the earthquake in Haiti. We hope you found this live blog helpful and informative.

You can continue to follow our streaming twitter feed on the right hand side, which includes handpicked tweets from several residents of Haiti reporting what they are witnessing on the ground. Just move your mouse over the tweet to read it and keep it from scrolling.

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Categories: Politics

A Revolutionary Idea About Cattle Ranching

Time Magazine - 8 hours 33 min ago
To save the withering grasslands of America's West some ranchers are implementing an unusual strategy -- have more cattle grazing, not fewer

Democrats Face GOP Election Day Tsunami in House, Senate

Time Magazine - 8 hours 48 min ago
There are still 60 days to go before Election Day but the smart money -- lots of it -- is on the GOP winning very, very big

Why a Ruling on Leaving Water in a Desert Is Troubling

Time Magazine - 8 hours 48 min ago
Do humanitarian motives outweigh laws against littering? A court of appeals leaves the question open

Net Neutrality: Debate Builds Ahead of Midterm Elections

Time Magazine - 8 hours 48 min ago
Already, the sides are gathering their arguments -- some sharper than others -- as the FCC goes on a listening tour of what Americans want from the Web

Florida Senate Race: On Charlie Crist and Flip-Flopping

Time Magazine - 8 hours 48 min ago
Florida Senate candidate Charlie Crist fights flip-flopping charges as the GOP's Marco Rubio surges ahead in some polls and the Democrats' Kendrick Meek appeals to the left

China: Journalist Attacks Hurt Investigative Reporting

Time Magazine - 9 hours 8 min ago
China has long been an unfriendly place for journalists, but two attacks on journalists in Beijing this summer serve as a reminder that the threats to the press can extend beyond censorship to outright violence

Is China Planning a Broader South Pacific Strategy?

Time Magazine - 9 hours 8 min ago
Beijing has entertained Fiji's pariah military dictator while doling out lots of cash and support to other impoverished countries in Australia's backyard

Chinese, Japanese Boats Collide, Tensions Mount

Time Magazine - 9 hours 8 min ago
Diplomatic tensions between China and Japan escalated Wednesday when Beijing called in Japan's ambassador after a Chinese fishing boat collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near a chain of disputed islands and Tokyo arrested the boat's captain

Financial Sheriffs to Monitor Banks, Markets in European Union

Time Magazine - 9 hours 8 min ago
A trio of financial sheriffs will oversee finance in the entire European market

Author Joni Eareckson Tada on Why God Allows Suffering

Time Magazine - 9 hours 38 min ago
In her new book, 'A Place of Healing', disability activist and Christian author Joni Eareckson Tada takes on a question that has vexed the faithful for centuries: If God can heal people, why doesn't He always?

The bleak truth about unemployment

Steven Pearlstein - 13 hours 38 min ago
Somewhere between the rantings of the Republican right, which is peddling the nonsense that excessive government spending is to blame for high unemployment, and the Democratic left, which clings to the false hope that another helping of fiscal stimulus is all that is needed to get millions of...


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Video: Obama realizes futility reaching out to Republicans

Rachel Maddow - Tue, 2010-09-07 21:49

Rachel Maddow talks with The Washington Post's Ezra Klein about Republican willingness to oppose any Obama proposal even if it mirrors their own ideas, and President Obama's apparent realization of the futility of trying to work with his political opposition. (msnbc.com)


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Video: GOP candidates: poor sports or political disarray?

Rachel Maddow - Tue, 2010-09-07 21:48

Rachel Maddow notes the unwillingness of Republican candidates who lose in primary elections to endorse their opponents to unite toward a common political cause. (msnbc.com)


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Video: Shake hands with candidate Christine O'Donnell

Rachel Maddow - Tue, 2010-09-07 21:46

Christina Bellantoni, senior reporter for Talking Points Memo, introduces Rachel Maddow to the unusual positions of tea party-backed Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell. (msnbc.com)


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Video: Anti-Muslim bigotry becomes national problem

Rachel Maddow - Tue, 2010-09-07 21:44

Reverend Doctor Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance, talks with Rachel Maddow about a meeting Attorney General Eric Holder held with U.S. religious leaders on the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in America. (msnbc.com)


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Video: Steele goes the distance

Rachel Maddow - Tue, 2010-09-07 21:43

Rachel Maddow notes that as the midterm election season officially begins, Republican National Committee chairman, Michael Steele, is touring Guam and other Pacific islands that don't even have a vote in the election. (msnbc.com)


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