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America: Incarceration Up, Education Down
America incarcerates more of it’s citizens than any other country in the world. With only 5% of the world population, America has more than 25% of the world’s prisoners. America is either the country with the most criminals in the world, the country that has become the greatest police state in the world, or the country whom, with profit as the motive for all that is done, has found a way to exploit it’ population through incarceration for monetary gain.
VBS Guide to North Korea
From the second that VBS creator Shane Smith steps foot into Kim Jong Il's sheltered country, he realizes that everything he is about to encounter is a carefully constructed facade..
Awal Gul, Guantanamo detainee, dead at 48
Gul was one of about 172 men still being held at Guantanamo despite promises by President Obama to shut down the detention center.The U.S. military considered Gul "an admitted Taliban recruiter." The United States designated him one of the 48 "indefinite detainees," which meant he would not be repatriated or put on trial.
( Taliban recruiter. It must be confusing when your boss decides you are 'the enemy.' When one considers all the howling about 'insurgency' and 'treason' and 'human rights'...one should remember that 'when you don't have anything, call them names' is just still playing childrens' games. Not that 'reporting' tells you much worth believing regardless.
Moxy Fruvous on reporting The War in the Gulf : "And we learned so much more about 'the good guys'." )
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Anderson Cooper Effect
CNN journalist Anderson Cooper was one of many victims of violence by Mubarakoids who turned Tahrir Square into a battle zone. Cooper was beaten by thugs, as were other members of his crew. A BBC crew was arrested, blindfolded and taken into custody for several hours before being released.
When the goons of the Mubarak regime, some salaried and others contracted, mounted a campaign of violence and mayhem, journalists were singled out for attack. This mirrored the regime’s internet and cell phone blackouts as a desperate means to stop information from flowing out of the country. The journalists in Cairo are tapped into protester networks, and have conveyed information being tweeted by people they are following, thus amplifying the information of those on the front lines of the protests. And because this information is coming from “trusted journalists,” the folks reporting from New York and Washington have had to adjust their own discourse and rhetoric to validate their colleagues on the ground. America’s greatest source of TV news, independent-media Democracy Now, got “mainstreamed” when its Egyptian-born Senior News Producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous flew back to Cairo on Saturday. His reporting was so invaluable and insightful that he was featured on two MSNBC programs on Monday (The Rachel Maddow Show and The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell).
- Everything Is Illuminated
- بيان شباب معتصم بالتحرير [Declaration: Egyptian Youth Protesting in Midan al-Tahrir]
- 9 am in Cairo after a Hellish Night: A Brief Report of Cautious Triumph
- The "Anderson Cooper Effect" on American TV Reporting from Cairo (Updated Feb 3)
- Into Egypt's Uncharted Territory
- Military and Intelligence at Egypt's Democratic Dawn
- Jordan: The Limits of Comparison
- Egypt on the Brink: The Arab World at a Tipping Point?
- Why Mubarak is Out
- Egypt and the Future of the Corporate Grid
- Singing for the Revolution
- Jerusalem's Protracted Demographic Transformation
- The Poetry of Revolt
- Open Letter to President Obama in Support of the Egyptian People
- Omar Suleiman, the CIA's Man in Cairo and Egypt's Torturer-in-Chief
- Let's Not Forget About Tunisia
- Dead-Enders on the Potomac
- Saudi Arabia's Silent Protests
- Why Mubarak Won't Go
- Egypt Now: Moving to the Next Level as Protests Continue (Updated)
- “Our Assessment Is That the Egyptian Government Is Stable”: Thinking of Cairo from New York (Updated)
- Impromptu: A Word
- My Mother and My Neighbor's Dog on the Tunisian Revolution and Its Aftermath
- Tunisia's Glorious Revolution and its Implications
- Cartoons: Tunisia and Recent Events
EPA (Finally) Regulates Rocket Fuel in Tap Water
A 2009 analysis by EWG of the nation's drinking water found 315 pollutants in water, 202 of which have no legal limit in tap water.
10 Wild Materials That Could Help Save the Earth [Slideshow]
Google Launches Global Online Science Fair [Video]Jan 11
Purdue University Cancels Coal Project Thanks To Student Pressure
Manchin Claims Coal ‘Doesn’t Get A Penny Of Subsidies’
As Ryan Avent writes: "economics is clearly moving beyond the carbon-tax-alone position on climate change, which is a good thing. If the world is to reduce emissions, it needs technologies that are both green and cheap enough to be attractive to economically-stressed countries and people. And a carbon tax alone may not generate the necessary innovation."
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