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Daily Archives: October 14th, 2009

‘North Korea Fires Five Missiles’ – What they don’t tell you By Bruce Gagnon

14-Oct-09

North Korea did indeed fire five short-range missiles, and they did indeed declare a navigation ban in waters off its eastern and western coasts, but the problem with the Post story is what they did not tell the reader. And this missing piece of information just so happens to explain why North Korea has taken the measures that they have taken.

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Media Activism Update: NYT: “FAIR Had a Point” Paper’s public editor agrees with activists

14-Oct-09

In response to FAIR’s September 22 action alert, New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt agreed (10/11/09) that the paper’s September 20 article about Medicare for all excluded supporters of a single-payer healthcare system.

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Constitutional Hypocrisy By Joel S. Hirschhorn

14-Oct-09

The situation we face today is that all 50 states have submitted over 750 applications for a [Constitutional] convention, considerably more than enough to trigger the constitutional mandate that Congress convene an Article V convention. How could Congress get away with this kind of unconstitutional behavior?

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Fidel: Humanity is an endangered species

14-Oct-09

I would have liked to talk today about the exceptional Peace without Borders concert that took place in the Jose Marti Plaza de la Revolucion 24 hours ago, but brutal reality obliges me to write about a danger that is threatening not only peace but also the survival of our species.

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If we want Policy instead of Speeches By Cynthia McKinney

14-Oct-09

President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was not the only news yesterday. And in my opinion, it’s not even the biggest news. It’s not even the saddest news. But it does provide us with some critical information as we move forward. The three-part question for us, tonight however, is “What are we moving forward TO; is that the place we want to go; and if not, what do we do about it?

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