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Growing up online
PBS / Frontline - By Rachel Dretzin, John Maggio - May. 16 (Special Report)
(Video - 60 mins. - Repeat) Jessica Hunter was a shy and awkward girl who struggled to make friends at school. Then, at age 14, she reinvented herself online as Autumn Edows, a... More »

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Feuding Political Camps in Lebanon Agree to Talk to End Impasse
New York Times - By Robert F. Worth, Nada Bakri - May. 16 (News Report)
The warring political camps in Lebanon agreed Thursday to hold renewed talks in a deal negotiated by Arab diplomats that reopened the country's airport and appeared to end a week... More »

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Man-Made Warming Altering Nature's Clock: Scientific American
Scientific American - By Adam Hadhazy - May. 16 (News Report)
Starving polar bears are eating one another in the Arctic. Flowers are blooming too soon and dying. The ice caps are melting so swiftly that rising water levels will threaten... More »

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America's Frightening Alzheimer's Epidemic - Health and Wellness
AlterNet - By Rebecca Hyman - May. 16 (News Report)
One in eight Americans who are 65 years old or older has Alzheimer's disease, according to the Alzheimer's Association's 2008 Facts and Figures Report (www.alz.org)... More »

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What Went Wrong?
New Republic - By Michelle Cottle - May. 16 (Special Report)
Endings are rarely as joyous as beginnings--and in the case of a long, wearing, and ultimately disappointing campaign, they can be downright brutal... More »

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That oil bubble is not going to burst
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Paul Krugman - May. 16 (Opinion)
After all, a realistic view of what's happened over the past few years suggests that we're heading into an era of increasingly scarce, costly oil. More »

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The other enemy - May 2008
Armed Forces Journal - By Ralph Peters - May. 16 (Opinion)
A fourth aspect of the problem is that our political class either makes promises impossible to keep (the creation of an ideal model democracy in Iraq, for example) or, if in... More »

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Egypt's Facebook Revolution
Washington Post - By Jack Fairweather - May. 15 (Blog Post)
although Facebook activism may not be able to spark protest - at least not yet - it has succeeded in advertising and amplifying Egyptian unrest... More »

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Today's Must Read
Talking Points Memo - By Paul Kiel - May. 16 (Blog Post)
For those who've been watching the Environmental Protection Agency under the Bush administration, you're familiar with the following pattern: the EPA, over the objection of its... More »

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Bush Compares Obama To Nazi Appeasers
Huffington Post - May. 15 (Blog Post)
President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the presidential race, but that stance changed dramatically today during his trip to Israel... More »

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New Study Calls 'Embed' Program for U.S. Media in Iraq a 'Victory' -- for the Pentagon
Editor & Publisher - By Greg Mitchell - May. 14 (News Report)
Debate over the "embedded journalist" program run by the Pentagon since the weeks before the Iraq invasion in 2003 has long raged, with some claiming that it gave... More »

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DeLauro Calls For Investigation Of Defense Dept.
Hartford Courant - By Jesse A. Hamilton - May. 10 (News Report)
Rep. Rosa DeLauro is asking Claude Kicklighter, the inspector general at the Pentagon, to investigate the Department of Defense's potentially furtive influence on military... More »

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Has Lebanon's army struck a deal with Hezbollah?
McClatchy - May. 12 (News Report)
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- With the beleaguered Lebanese army looking on, opposition and pro-government militias traded gunfire in northern Lebanon Monday in a continuation of the... More »

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Pentagon Pundit Scandal Broke the Law
PR Watch - By Diane Farsetta, Sheldon Rampton - May. 11 (News Analysis)
The Pentagon military analyst program unveiled in last week's expose' by David Barstow in the New York Times was not just unethical but illegal... More »

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How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words
Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - May. 10 (Special Report)
On the question of whether the Pentagon maintained an illegal covert domestic propaganda program -- and on the broader question of whether the American media's political coverage... More »

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The Obama campaign's 'unsung hero'
The Politico - By Ben Smith, Avi Zenilman - May. 11 (Comment)
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had just declared victory in the Nevada caucuses when most campaign reporters heard Jeffrey Berman's voice for the first and only time. Berman, Sen... More »

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Jerusalem Diary: Monday 12 May
BBC News - By Tim Franks - May. 12 (Comment)
Balata is now the biggest of the Palestinian refugee camps on the West Bank, a concrete jumble, home to more than 20,000. More »

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A good day for hope
Haaretz - By Yair Sheleg - May. 14 (Opinion)
On the human level, a Jew, as a member of a nation that mourned its destruction for 2,000 years, should have no trouble understanding why Israeli Arabs are mourning. More »

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Israel at 60: Zionism's Fatal Flaw
Religion Dispatches - By Ira Chernus - May. 14 (Opinion)
Perhaps the only fair way to judge any nation is by its own ideals. Israel makes that task easier for us as it was built upon explicit and well-documented ideals... More »

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PangeaDay: Impressions from Brazil
Global Voices - By Paula Goes - May. 11 (Blog Post)
The post below is a full translation of Ricardo Jordão Magalhaes' live updates from PangeaDay in his BIZREVOLUTION blog. Despite having to look after his 5 month old soon, the... More »

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Palestinian-American Reflects on Israel
National Public Radio - May. 16 (Interview)
Palestinian American Nina Cullers and her family lost their home and way of life when Israel became an independent nation in 1948. As Israel marks its 60th anniversary, Cullers... More »

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From literacy to digiracy
Economist - May. 16 (Special Report)
The printed word has fought a rear-guard action against not only computers and television, but also a whole horde of digital upstarts from DVDs and video games to mobile phones,... More »

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Pakistan Defies U.S. on Halting Afghanistan Raids
New York Times - By Jane Perlez - May. 16 (News Report)
Pakistan, he said, should not be saddled with America's mistakes, especially if a solution involved breaching Pakistan's sovereignty, a delicate matter in a nation where sentiment... More »

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Probe into Olmert's Finances Imperils Israeli-Palestinian Peace Outline
Council on Foreign Relations - By Bernard Gwertzman, David Makovsky - May. 15 (Interview)
David Makovsky, an expert on Israeli politics, says there is concern a forced resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert could unravel his efforts on Palestinian peace. More »

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Kuwaiti women battle against odds in election
Middle East Online - May. 15 (Special Report)
KUWAIT - Whether swathed in veils or dressed in suits, Kuwaiti women are campaigning hard to win parliamentary seats in Saturday's election... More »

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City hall of love
San Francisco Chronicle - By Debra J. Saunders - May. 15 (Opinion)
Four years ago in February, San Francisco City Hall was a chapel of love. Mayor Gavin Newsom had announced that - a 2000 voter-approved initiative that limited marriage to... More »

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McCain should be truthful about courts
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Linda P. Campbell - May. 14 (Opinion)
John McCain ought to be ashamed of himself. In his most pandering performance since speaking at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University to prove that he could schmooze even with agents... More »

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Now On to 'Florigan'
Newsweek - By Jonathan Alter - May. 13 (Opinion)
The math is clear: Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for president unless he's caught on tape taking cash from Tony Rezko or vacationing in Hawaii with Louis Farrakhan... More »

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Palestine: Sixty Years of Al Nakba
Global Voices - By Amira Al Hussaini - May. 15 (Blog Post)
Celebrations are under way to mark Israel's 60th anniversary - but for millions of Palestinians whose great grandparents, grandparents and parents were made refugees in the... More »

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Voices without Votes � Edwards Endorses Obama
Voices without Votes - By Jillian York - May. 15 (Opinion)
In a move toward solidarity for the Democratic party, John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama on Wednesday. The endorsement came just a day after Hillary Clinton won 2-1 in the West... More »

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President Bush committed political treason today
Philadelphia Inquirer - May. 15
President Bush went on foreign soil today, and committed what I consider an act of political treason: Comparing the candidate of the U.S... More »

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The other enemy - May 2008
Armed Forces Journal - May. 16
A fourth aspect of the problem is that our political class either makes promises impossible to keep (the creation of an ideal model democracy in Iraq, for example) or, if in... More »

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Energy Program - U.S. Senate Testimony on Gasoline Prices
Public Citizen - May. 16
Faced with these facts, Congress and the White House instead recently passed energy legislation that does nothing to address any of the fundamental problems plaguing America's... More »

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Bush Compares Obama To Nazi Appeasers
Huffington Post - May. 15
President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the presidential race, but that stance changed dramatically today during his trip to Israel... More »

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Today's Must Read
Talking Points Memo - May. 16
For those who've been watching the Environmental Protection Agency under the Bush administration, you're familiar with the following pattern: the EPA, over the objection of its... More »

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Egypt's Facebook Revolution
Washington Post - May. 15
although Facebook activism may not be able to spark protest - at least not yet - it has succeeded in advertising and amplifying Egyptian unrest... More »

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The Cost Of Quitting: How Health Insurance Is Strangling The US Economy
NewsVine - May. 15
Health insurance is increasingly vital to millions of Americans and it is becoming increasingly dear as well. The ranks of the uninsured swelled from 16% in 2005 to 20% in 2006... More »

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Why Bush Must Recognise The Nakba
Aljazeera - May. 15
Sixty years later, the Nakba lies at the core of the Palestinians' identity and of their view of history and justice. Official US ignorance of that, passed down through... More »

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Credibility is not binary
Buzzmachine - May. 14
I've seen a couple of efforts lately to help determine who's credible online and though I understand the need and the motive, these attempts are fundamentally flawed and perhaps... More »

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Can Israel survive for another 60 years?
Slate - May. 13
How long do you think the first set of non-Jews will go on defending Israel from the second lot and from their very wealthy and numerous kinsmen? In other words, Zionism has only... More »

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