Today, I received a Facebook message from a member of Young Democrats of America, reporting on her participation, and the "information" she received, at NetRoots Nation, an onstensibly "progressive," "liberal,"...
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Site Meter Records Simon and Schuster Interestin Truth About Kos (DailyKos) Blog ProjectThis post is an acknowledgement of the interest that one anonymous user at Simon and Schuster has expressed in learning about the "Truth About Kos (DailyKos)" Project, which I...
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The Secret History of DailyKos' Founder and the Shadowy History of a Big Box Blog Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and The Truth About Kos (DailyKos).Having written letters to the editor of newspapers, including one published in the Boston Globe, and having...
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Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos), the Francis L. Holland Blog and Pam'sHouseBlend.This post is in response to a post I read over at Jack and Jill Politics, entitled, "Jill [Contee] is Headed to Blogging While Brown on Friday."I'd be really interested to know...
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Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos) blog. "Overseas Private Investment Council Press Release (Full Text)"Some of us have wondered what Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) learned at the CIA during his two year "training" period there. SourceWatch.Org Covers...
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Initially, in 2004, when photos of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib in Iraq surfaced, the Bush administration declared the actions shown in the photos to be the work of a few "bad apples" . Since the release...
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" By Farzana Shah Monday, 23 February 2009. In Afghanistan, U.S./NATO have put the blame on Taliban for poppy cultivation to finance their resistance to allied forces. Ironically, it was only in Taliban era when the world had seen a sharp decline in opium crop in...
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Though the breakup of the Soviet Union began early in 1985, liberals haven’t stopped embracing communism. In fact, “hammer and sickle” thinking is gaining ground in the United States, thanks largely to...
Members of the mainstream news media seem to have no interest in Leon Panetta’s past open involvement with the Institute for Policy Studies, an anti-CIA think tank closely linked to the former Soviet Union’s...
Reprehensor of 911Blogger.com analyzes recent news reporting on the Mumbai terror attacks:"Yesterday, Outlookindia.com reported that the CIA's station chief in Delhi approached one of India's intelligence agencies, the Research and Analysis Wing, and passed on a fairly...
Shocked? The CIA provides consulting services for Hollywood filmmakers on their spy flicks, and works to ensure certain details are kept out of films, making them puff pieces instead of exposes. Also, the CIA bought the film rights to George Orwell's "Animal Farm", and funded...
Forensic economists Arindrajit Dube, Ethan Kaplan, and Suresh Naidu just released a study which indicates insiders with access to classified intelligence information engaged in insider trading to profit from CIA-engineered coups against Iran-Mossadegh, Chile-Allende,...
WASHINGTON, May 25 (IPS) - If the administration of President George W. Bush fails to conduct a truly independent investigation of U.S. abuses against detainees in Iraq and elsewhere, foreign governments should...