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  • New York Times researcher Zhao Yan gets three years on fraud charge

    08/25/2006 9:36:07 AM PDT · by jdm · 3 replies · 171+ views
    Reporters Without Borders ^ | August 25, 2006
    Reporters Without Borders today condemned the three-year prison sentence which a Beijing court imposed yesterday on New York Times researcher Zhao Yan for alleged fraud while dismissing the original charge of treason and divulging state secrets. “The court cleared Zhao of the treason charge for lack of evidence and it should have done the same with the fraud charge,” the press freedom organisation said. “Zhao is known for his commitment to China’s peasants and the accusations that were brought against him were all ridiculous. We support his sister’s request for an appeal and we call for his provisional release as...
  • Inquiry Opened Into Israeli Use of U.S. Bombs

    08/25/2006 6:53:23 AM PDT · by Words · 20 replies · 551+ views
    The NYTimes ^ | 08.25.2006 | DAVID S. CLOUD
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 - The State Department is investigating whether Israel's use of American-made cluster bombs in southern Lebanon violated secret agreements with the United States that restrict when it can employ such weapons, two officials said.The investigation by the department's Office of Defense Trade Controls began this week, after reports that three types of American cluster munitions, anti-personnel weapons that spray bomblets over a wide area, have been found in many areas of southern Lebanon and were responsible for civilian casualties.Gonzalo Gallegos, a State Department spokesman, said, "We have heard the allegations that these munitions were used, and we...
  • Fairfax Native Says Allen's Words Stung

    08/25/2006 6:48:33 AM PDT · by Sharkman-6 · 77 replies · 1,299+ views
    "Fairfax Native Says Allen's Words Stung" By Fredrick Kunkle Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, August 25, 2006; Page B01 S.R. Sidarth had built an impressive record of achievements for such a young man: straight-A student at one of Fairfax County's finest high schools, a tournament chess player, a quiz team captain, a sportswriter at his college newspaper, a Capitol Hill intern and an active member of the Hindu temple his parents helped establish in Maryland. But for all his achievements, the moment that thrust him into the national spotlight this month came when Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) called him "macaca."...
  • Killing Won’t Win This War [don't let the title fool you]

    08/21/2006 8:13:51 PM PDT · by neverdem · 41 replies · 1,217+ views
    NY Times' Terrorist Tip Sheet ^ | August 21, 2006 | TERENCE J. DALY
    THREE years into the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, everyone from slicksleeved privates fighting for survival in Ramadi to the echelons above reality at the Pentagon still believes that eliminating insurgents will eliminate the insurgency. They are wrong. There is a difference between killing insurgents and fighting an insurgency. In three years, the Sunni insurgency has grown from nothing into a force that threatens our national objective of establishing and maintaining a free, independent and united Iraq. During that time, we have fought insurgents with airstrikes, artillery, the courage and tactical excellence of our forces, and new technology worth billions of...
  • The Osama Card- Expect GOP To Use Terror to Frighten Voters (Eleanor Clift)

    08/19/2006 7:51:34 AM PDT · by Mr. Brightside · 87 replies · 1,430+ views
    Newsweek ^ | 8/19/06
    The Osama Card Expect the Republicans to use the specter of the terror leader to frighten voters ahead of the elections. /snip Democrats have a good chance of winning back one or both houses of Congress, and they’re wondering whether this election’s October surprise could be capturing Osama. Peter Bergen, one of the few Western journalists to interview the terrorist leader, spoke at a panel in Washington this week after a preview screening of a new CNN documentary, “In the Footsteps of Bin Laden.” Bergen said the administration has a pretty good idea where bin Laden is—based in part on...
  • Officer Called Haditha Routine - Marine Said Deaths Didn't Merit Inquiry

    08/19/2006 3:31:24 AM PDT · by dirtboy · 15 replies · 972+ views
    Wash ComPost ^ | 8/19/2006 | Thomas E. Ricks
    The Marine officer who commanded the battalion involved in the Haditha killings last November did not consider the deaths of 24 Iraqis, many of them women and children, unusual and did not initiate an inquiry, according to a sworn statement he gave to military investigators in March. "I thought it was very sad, very unfortunate, but at the time, I did not suspect any wrongdoing from my Marines," Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Marines, said in the statement. I did not have any reason to believe that this was anything other than...
  • Ruling Against Wiretaps Further Sharpens Partisan Divide

    08/19/2006 3:34:49 AM PDT · by dirtboy · 37 replies · 784+ views
    Wash ComPost ^ | 8/19/2006 | Jonathan Weisman
    A federal judge's ruling that the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping is unconstitutional set off a flurry of political responses yesterday, as Republicans tried to keep control of the national security debate amid signs that their own party's ranks may be breaking under the pressure of the Iraq war. President Bush concluded a discussion on the economy with a challenge to Democrats, many of whom had hailed U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's ruling that the NSA's wiretapping efforts violate both the Bill of Rights and federal law. "Those who herald this decision simply do not understand the nature of...
  • Perry's big donors get state posts, business

    08/17/2006 10:28:45 AM PDT · by Dubya · 9 replies · 675+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Associated Press
    AUSTIN -- A small group of super-rich political contributors, giving at least $25,000 a year, will put at least $10 million into Republican Gov. Rick Perry's re-election treasury as part of a fundraising corps the campaign calls the Century Council. ADVERTISEMENT Donors pledging at least $100,000 get invitations to private luncheons with the governor, and many are beneficiaries of government business and plum state appointments, The Dallas Morning News reported today. Three Century Council members have lucrative contracts to help build Perry's multibillion-dollar toll-road project. The state has deposited millions in investment funds operated by three other top-tier givers. Sixteen...
  • CNN's Dobbs Cites Liberal Congressman for 'Guts' to Tackle Overspending

    08/15/2006 2:57:02 PM PDT · by freemarket_kenshepherd · 11 replies · 510+ views
    Business & Media Institute ^ | August 15, 2006 | Ken Shepherd
    CNN’s Lou Dobbs attacked the federal government for overspending, heavy borrowing, and poor accounting practices on his August 14 program. Yet in doing so, the anchor actually praised a liberal Democrat criticized for his own spendthrift record. Dobbs introduced the story by correspondent Christine Romans by remarking that “by almost any measure, the federal government is not a very good steward of taxpayer money, to say the very least and to say it as kindly as possible.” Bolstering that argument, Romans featured David Williams of Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) charging that the government practices “the same sort of accounting...
  • McKinney Criticizes Electronic Voting

    08/15/2006 3:05:29 PM PDT · by Xth Legion · 53 replies · 1,360+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 8/15/06 | KATE BRUMBACK
    AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Rep. Cynthia McKinney, in her first public appearance since losing her re-election bid last week, said Tuesday that the black community needs to oppose electronic voting machines, which she warned can be used to steal elections. McKinney also said the state of Georgia should prohibit crossover voting among political parties in primary elections and end its system of runoff elections.
  • Media pushes aside Iraq war for Lebanon

    08/15/2006 1:42:45 PM PDT · by jmc1969 · 13 replies · 338+ views
    AP ^ | August 15 2006 | DAVID BAUDER
    Remember Iraq? Not much has changed with the war there, but it has largely been pushed off front pages and squeezed from television news shows by the conflict in Lebanon and, last week, by the terror arrests in London. Experts are wondering whether Iraq will regain its prominence in the news if the truce between Israel and Hezbollah remains intact. "It is one of the many dangers of covering Iraq and the one that we don't really talk about ... that Americans will lose interest," said Jane Arraf, a former CNN Baghdad bureau chief working as a press fellow at...
  • Three Cheers for Triangulation [TIME's Joe Klein says all bloggers are nuts]

    08/15/2006 11:59:34 AM PDT · by summer · 61 replies · 1,456+ views
    Time Magazine ^ | August 13, 2006 | Joe Klein
    Ned Lamont's victory over Joe Lieberman in last week's Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut precipitated the expected torrent of rubbish from left-wing blognuts and conservative wingnuts. There was a nauseating triumphalism on both sides, the unblinking assertion that this one poorly attended summer primary provided a lesson of earth-shattering significance to the future of American politics. Maybe it did, but I hope not.... ...On the other side, Eli Pariser, the executive director of MoveOn.org and therefore, perhaps, the nation's blognut in chief, proposed the "death of triangulation"—that is, the end of Clintonian moderation—in a Washington Post Op-Ed piece and...
  • 'The Best Guerrilla Force in the World'

    08/14/2006 5:26:32 PM PDT · by Iam1ru1-2 · 45 replies · 1,038+ views
    Washington Post Foreign Service ^ | Edward Cody and Molly Moore
    Analysts Attribute Hezbollah's Resilience to Zeal, Secrecy and Iranian Funding By Edward Cody and Molly Moore Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, August 14, 2006; A01 BEIRUT, Aug. 14 -- Hezbollah's irregular fighters stood off the modern Israeli army for a month in the hills of southern Lebanon thanks to extraordinary zeal and secrecy, rigorous training, tight controls over the population, and a steady flow of Iranian money to acquire effective weaponry, according to informed assessments in Lebanon and Israel. "They are the best guerrilla force in the world," said a Lebanese specialist who has sifted through intelligence on Hezbollah for...
  • The Name America Trusts? (CNN Thinks it's them)

    08/07/2006 6:37:03 AM PDT · by pissant · 40 replies · 1,048+ views
    Hugh Hewitt.com ^ | 8/7/06 | Hugh Hewitt
    Early last evening, for reasons that I don’t recall, I had CNN on. As is the network’s wont, the anchor-person was tediously touting CNN’s allegedly extraordinary abilities to cover the Israel-Hezbollah war. CNN’s long-standing conceit is that while Fox gets better ratings, for hard news there is no place else to go but CNN. Part of CNN’s coverage of the war includes reliance on the local networks of the region. CNN monitors these networks; when they have images of sufficient newsworthiness, CNN passes these images along on a real-time basis. Among the networks CNN relies on for its unique brand...
  • CNN Equates Fears of Jewish Americans with Those of Homegrown Hezbo Supporters

    08/05/2006 5:52:25 AM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 27 replies · 667+ views
    CNN/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    by Mark Finkelstein August 5, 2006 - 08:33 The moral relativism never ends at CNN. In the wake of shootings by a Muslim at a Seattle Jewish center that left one person dead and others injured, CNN somehow managed to equate the fears of American Jews that there could be other such incidents . . . with the fears of American supporters of Hezbollah. The focus of 'Safe at Home?' segment narrated by CNN's Kelli Arena on today's Saturday Morning show was indeed the aftermath of that Seattle shooting, and how Jewish groups around the country are expressing fears and...
  • CAN PLEAS FOR PEACE DEFEAT A CULTURE OF TERRORISM?

    08/04/2006 6:30:39 PM PDT · by neverdem · 11 replies · 601+ views
    NY Times via Kansas City Star ^ | Aug. 02, 2006 | DAVID BROOKS
    There are victory markers strewn across southern Lebanon commemorating the last time Israel withdrew from that land. While reporting a piece for The New Yorker a few years ago, Jeffrey Goldberg would come upon them by the roads. One brightly colored sign, written in both Arabic and (rough) English, marked the spot where “On Oct. 19, 1988 at 1:25 p.m. a martyr car that was booby-trapped with 500 kilograms of highly exploding materials transformed two Israeli troops into masses of fire and limbs.” Busloads of tourists would take victory tours and stop at the prominent sights. Before the current war,...
  • To Help Israel, Help Syria

    08/04/2006 8:11:46 PM PDT · by Hadean · 38 replies · 985+ views
    New York Times ^ | 8-5-2006 | ANDREW TABLER
    Damascus, Syria IT is hardly surprising that when discussing the Lebanon crisis, President Bush tends to couple Syria’s role with Iran’s. After all, Damascus and Tehran have spent the better part of the last year deepening their ties, culminating in a June military cooperation agreement. But the United States may well have leverage in Syria that it lacks in Iran. If it is true, as it is reported to be, that Washington seeks to drive a wedge between Hezbollah’s two backers, the Bush administration would do well to modify its democracy agenda to include support for Syrian reform. Syria has...
  • How Lebanon Rescued Me (traitor alert)

    08/04/2006 8:48:09 AM PDT · by van_erwin · 35 replies · 1,352+ views
    Salon ^ | Aug. 04, 2006 | Alia Malek
    How Lebanon rescued meI fled America for Beirut's cultural freedom. Now I watch as bombs destroy my refuge -- and the best hope for a viable Middle East democracy. By Alia MalekAug. 04, 2006 | In March 2003, I fled to Beirut, Lebanon, wanting to escape the made-for-TV war on Iraq, the monotony of Washington, and the man who had become my boss, John Ashcroft. Naturally, in this era of pretexts, the convergence of those events was itself also just an excuse. Even if my job as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department had...
  • A Christian for the N.Y. Times

    08/03/2006 10:17:02 AM PDT · by SirLinksalot · 28 replies · 1,271+ views
    WorldNetDaily ^ | 08/03/2006 | Joseph Farah
    A Christian for the N.Y. Times -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 3, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Joseph Farah -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who says the New York Times is anti-Christian? Why just the other day, I read a beautiful profile of an evangelical mega-church pastor from Minnesota. You could just tell the reporter for the Times loved the Rev. Gregory A. Boyd. It isn't Christians the Times loathes. It's just right-wing Christians. And so does the Rev. Gregory Boyd. Boyd has some interesting ideas – given that he claims to base his beliefs on the same Bible I read. But let's start with abortion...
  • Bush’s Embrace of Israel Shows Gap With Father

    08/02/2006 11:29:14 AM PDT · by Sabramerican · 66 replies · 1,416+ views
    N YTimes ^ | August 2, 2006 | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
    WASHINGTON, — When they first met as United States president and Israeli prime minister, George W. Bush made clear to Ariel Sharon he would not follow in the footsteps of his father. The first President Bush had been tough on Israel, especially the Israeli settlements in occupied lands that Mr. Sharon had helped develop. But over tea in the Oval Office that day in March 2001 — six months before the Sept. 11 attacks tightened their bond — the new president signaled a strong predisposition to support Israel. “He told Sharon in that first meeting that I’ll use force to...