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Iraq
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts"Barack Explores A Subculture" went up last night.Nancy A. Youssef (McClatchy Newspapers) reports:The United States has deployed 300 more troops to Baghdad in the last...
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Deutsche Welle reports:There's already heavy fighting over who is responsible for the current disaster in Iraq.Many see Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as the guilty party, because he neglected to make...
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A film
Do you know what this is from?Woman: But he deals in herring. And he always smells of herring. Do you know he even bought me herring scented cologne? Man: Really? That's probably why the cat follows...
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As C.I. told you, Barack is prepping for possible combat in Iraq
Medea Benjamin has a piece at CounterPunch where she names Barack. I'll give her credit for that.I'll even give her a link.That's all I'll give her because there's much bigger news.As you'll read in...
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All About Fran
Every summer, Third does a summer read edition where people try their hands at fiction:Truest statement of the weekTruest statement of the week IIA note to our readersEditorial: Yeah, Barack lied...
View ArticleLook what was found in Iraq
CBS News reposted an interesting article by LiveScience's Owen Jarus which opens:Life-size human statues and column bases from a long-lost temple dedicated to a supreme god have been discovered in the...
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Why?
Liz Sly@LizSly8hKurds will boycott the Iraqi government in response to Maliki's attack on Kurds. The collapse continues. http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/090720141...
View ArticleThe Emmy f**k up -- an Academy Award nominee can't also be an Emmy nominee...
Marcia here. Elaine called after I cross-posted my latest post to The Common Ills. She told me she'd be thrilled to have it cross-posted here as well "and it could help get the word out and maybe get...
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Judy Collins' In My Life
"What We’re Listening to This Week" is CounterPunch's playlist. There's no selection worth noting. It is worth noting that, as is usually the case, women are absent from the playlists.Why does...
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War
"War set out to build empires—but ended with revolutions" (Tomas Tengely-Evans, UK Socialist Worker):Dave Sherry tells Tomáš Tengely-Evans he wants his new book Empire and Revolution to take on the...
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Oh, the terminally stupid
I read this Tweet and could not stop groaning over the rancid ignorance.Kasai™@Kahsai6hStriking! how Media gives time and respect 2 those who starts a "Fake Iraq War" than One who ends it..breaks...
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The press and Extant
"TV: How Extant won (and so did you)" (Ava and C.I., The Third Estate Sunday Review):What is going on, what's really taking place, is a mystery?On the show.In real life, it was no mystery.Halle's...
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Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch passed away.That really wasn't a surprise.She was 89 and she was miserable.I wouldn't be surprised if she hadn't had a few more years to go if she'd stayed in NYC.That was her town. She...
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Carly Simon's Hello Big Man
"What We’re Listening to This Week" (CounterPunch Sexists).No one worth noting, it's just the usual dicks and a wanna be dick living up to the worst image CounterPunch ever had. Johnny Winter died...
View ArticleFaux-manda
ABC's Revenge is a continuing serial about a daughter's effort to get vengeance on the people who harmed her father, set him up for prison time.The daughter is Amanda Clarke.When she's ready to return...
View ArticleIn protest
I have nothing against the 'people of Gaza' except being bored by the way Information Clearing House and so many other left sites get hijacked by this single story every few months.So this is my mini...
View ArticleCarly's "Hold Out Your Heart"
Theme post tonight. Pick a song from the last ten years that should be a classic.My pick? Carly Simon's "Hold Out Your Heart" (lyrics by Carly, music by Carly and Peter Calo) which first appeared on...
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Senator John Walsh?I don't know what to say.He clearly intended to plagiarize and he wasn't an undergrad.What do you think about it?When you reach his level of education, you not only know it's wrong,...
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James Blake
"What We’re Listening to This Week" (CounterPunch):SALLY TIMMSAs I am off back to Blighty this week, here’s some folk music from England, Scotland and IrelandShirley Collins – The Unquiet Grave from...
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"TV: When All Eyes Are On You" (Ava and C.I., The Third Estate Sunday Review):And it's only getting worse. In fact, last week, he took part in CNN's worst on air moment in years.Cuomo and Peter...
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