Keith Olberman | Special Comment: Violence and Threats Have No Place in Democracy

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Keith Olberman | Special Comment: Violence and Threats Have No Place in Democracy

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Jared Lee Loughner Identified As Shooter of Arizona Congresswoman,

Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Lee Loughner, John M. Roll, Tullycast

Jared Lee Loughner

 

Glenn Beck Type Finally Snaps: Arizona Democrat Rep. Giffords In Serious Condition After Being Shot By Glock At Point Blank Range; Eight Others in Hospital

Jared Lee Loughtner, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Tullycast

Rep. Giffords Shot in Tuscon




How Madoff's Surviving Son Handles Grief and Scandal

Andrew Madoff

By Stephen Foley in New York

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

THE INDEPENDENT UK


The fiancée of Bernard Madoff’s surviving son has provided a glimpse of life in the shadow of history’s biggest fraud, revealing how Andrew Madoff has thrown himself into music and new business ventures as a whirlwind of recrimination continues to swirl around him.

John Burns' "Ministering Angels" and "Liberators"

George W. Bush, Glenn Greenwald, Iraq

In this week’s New Yorker, Peter Maass — who was in Iraq covering the war at the time — examines the iconic, manufactured toppling of the Saddam statue in Baghdad’s Firdos Square, an event the American media relentlessly exploited in April, 2003, to propagandize citizens into believing that Iraqis were gleeful over the U.S. invasion and that the war was a smashing success.  Acknowledging that the episode demonstrated that American troops had taken over the center of Baghdad, Maas nonetheless explains that “everything else the toppling was said to represent during repeated replays on television — victory for America, the end of the war, joy throughout Iraq — was a disservice to the truth.”

 

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GLENN GREENWALD

Bradley Manning is Accused of Trying Really, Really Hard to Do the Right Thing.

Bradley Manning

It’s hard to write about Bradley Manning. I’ve composed more than one lengthy, impassioned post about Manning, and deleted it; we’ve heard things about or from Manning that we weren’t supposed to hear, and we’ve heard lots of things about Manning that may or may not be the truth, and addressing those things publicly — in any of the various ways that they are actually being construed — may actually put Manning in danger.

But let’s start with the most important thing, something simple: Bradley Manning is accused of trying really, really hard to do the right thing.

Bradley Manning is nobody special. He was an ordinary, unexceptional person, enlisted in the US Military, as many people are, and he allegedly found out that the military was doing something which — though we all might have suspected or feared or heard about it — betrayed its most basic promise.

On Manning