Blogging the Good Fight...

Military Identifies Media and Warlords as Non-Traditional Threats

Seeded on Mon May 7, 2007 10:56 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)

More on the crackdown on milblogging; domestic threats officially include media.

politics, military, blogging, mother-jones

Amnesty accuses Sudan over arms in Darfur

Seeded on Mon May 7, 2007 10:37 PM EDT (BBC News)

Amnesty International reports that Sudan, Russia and China have violated the UN arms embargo on Darfur. Sudanese government denies claims that they are painting military craft white to pose as humanitarian aid workers, a violation of international law.

russia, china, darfur, amnesty, sudan, un-security-council, world-news

Chief Takes May Day Officers Off Street

Seeded on Mon May 7, 2007 7:18 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

LA police chief decided to apologize for his officers who fired rubber bullets into a crowd of mostly peaceful protesters at an immigration rally.

us-news, police-brutality, immigration-rally, may-day

Iraq, Lies, and Videotape

Thu May 3, 2007 1:15 AM EDT

For those of you who hadn't heard this yet, the new consensus is the Iraq war was based in lies that went unchecked by our "4th estate", the mainstream media.

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media, politics, fcc, documentary, iraq-war, bill-moyers

Tenet: Cheney Distorted His 'Slam Dunk' Remark

Seeded on Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:26 AM EDT (BBC)

Former CIA director George Tenet is interviewed by BBC about his new book, his experience with the Bush administration, and the "slam dunk" comment that he says Cheney twisted into a support for invasion of Iraq.

bush, cheney, cia, politics, iraq-war, george-tenet

Campaign Journalism Is Back, More Evil Than '04

Seeded on Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:47 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Discusses the link between shoddy campaign journalism and the urge to paint personality portraits of presidential hopefuls rather than discuss voting records or policy preferences.

campaign, politics, journalism, dennis-kucinich

Most Katrina Aid From Overseas Went Unclaimed

Seeded on Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:34 AM EDT (Washington Post)

If you couldn't get anymore disgusted with the pure incompetence of our federal government, read on. We had generous donations from Britain, France, Greece, Italy and the government literally couldn't figure out how to put them to use.

new-orleans, fema, hurricane-katrina, us-news, international-aid, national-disasters

High Court Decision Could Raise Abortion's Profile in Campaign

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:26 AM EDT (The Pew Center)

The Pew Center argues that the Supreme Court's decision to uphold a federal ban on partial birth abortion is likely to re-energize the most politically polarizing of debates for the 2008 election.

abortion, politics, supreme-court, planned-parenthood, federal-partial-birth-abortion-ban-act

WA State Session Ends; 33 billion goes into final budget

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:18 AM EDT (The Olympian)

The Washington State legislative 2007 session has ended, the major winners this year were the education budget (1.8 billion additional) and environmental concerns.

politics, washington-state, legislature

Russian ex-President Boris Yeltsin Dies

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:59 AM EDT (BBC News)

Yeltsin was the Russian Federation's first president, in power for 8 years of transition from communism to a more* democratic state with a capitalist economy.

russia, mikhail-gorbachev, soviet-union, world-news, boris-yeltsin

Say What You Want About Yeltsin...

Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:53 AM EDT

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russia, world-news, yeltsin

Politics, Decision Theory and Contradictory Complaints

Seeded on Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:48 AM EDT (http://www.techcentralstation.com)

Some interesting, yet strangely and severely flawed libertarian logic from an associate of the Cato Institute. My problem with this is two fold: 1.

politics, libertarian, cato-institute, terrorist-watchlists, tcs-daily

How the Income Tax System Shortchanges Women

Seeded on Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:33 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

A good argument for getting marriage status out of the tax system-it hurts women.

Money and Media Matters

Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:27 AM EDT

The Internet is a wonderful tool, capable of widespread democratic involvement and news, but the best thing about the internet is that it is extremely cheap to publish political content...

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media, politics, fcc, political-advertising

Kucinich to Introduce Articles of Impeachment Against Cheney

Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:59 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Apparently for Kucinich, impeachment IS on the table.

cheney, politics, republican-party, impeachment, dennis-kucinich

U.S. Attorneys and Voting Rights: The New Watergate

Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:37 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

The connection between the current U.S. attorneys scandal, the disputed elections of 2000 and 2004 and the cover-up of missing emails are explored in contrast of the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon's resignation. Why aren't we talking about impeachment?

bush, rove, politics, gonzales, election-fraud, justice-departments, us-attorneys

How the Income Tax System Shortchanges Women

Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:37 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

A good argument for getting marriage status out of the tax system-it hurts women.

taxes, politics, social-security, feminism, equality

Christian College to Host Gay Activists

Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:35 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)

Unlike most conservative Christian schools, Gordon College has agreed to allow Equality Ride visitors, a group of homosexual student activists, the chance to talk to an audience on campus.

politics, gay-rights, gordon-college, equality-ride, christian-education

Vatican threatens to sue Indymedia over Nazi satire

Seeded on Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:54 PM EDT (Independent Media Center)

Pope Benedict was depicted in a satirical photomontage as a Nazi, referencing his admission that at 14 he had been a member of the Nazi Youth.

brazil, italy, vatican, lawsuit, religion, pope-benedict, freedom-of-expression

A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs

Seeded on Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:06 PM EDT (New York Times)

Discussion of the complications of creating guidelines for blogging in an attempt to root out cyberharassment, including the possibility of barring anonymous posts, which some argue creates censorship.

Ask Not What Your State Can Do For You...

Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:21 PM EDT

In a manner most befitting the Goldwater/Reagan/Bush conservative movement which often sought to hide racism, homophobia and sexism behind a "let the states decide" political rationale, the Washington State Legislature has once again taken it upon themselves to provide some basel …

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gay-marriage, politics, civil-rights, washington-state

Maryland Sidesteps Electoral College

Seeded on Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:51 PM EDT (Associated Press)

The fallout of the 2000 "election" continues almost 2 full election cycles later...Maryland has become the first state to give its electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.

politics, maryland, arnold-schwarzenegger, electoral-college, national-popular-vote, 2000-presidential-election