Thursday items

Written by: Gerry L on Nov 20, 2008 6:41 AM EST

Thursday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ November 20th,  2008

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What Must Be Done Now!
America's media asymmetry -- tilted from vacuous mainstream to ideological right -- contributed to today's crises and must be addressed for real change to be possible, writes Robert Parry.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/111908.html

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How Our Gutless Media Helped Trigger the Credit Crisis

By Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review
http://www.alternet.org/story/102963/

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Moderation in the Pursuit of Justice Is No Virtue

by Joseph L. Galloway

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/19-3

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Ariz. Governor Said to Be Pick For Homeland Security Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/20/AR2008112000050.html?hpid=topnews

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What’s So Special About a Team of Rivals?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/opinion/20oakes.html?_r=1

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Professor Cole comments on al-Qaeda’s tape about Obama…

Zawahiri: Obama is the anti-Malcolm X

http://www.juancole.com/

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Obama brings US in from the cold

In a landmark speech, the next president pledges to revive Kyoto Protocol and end American isolationism over climate change

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/obama-brings-us-in-from-the-cold-1026303.html

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Is Robert Scheer right to question the Clinton economists????\

Change We Can Bank On

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081118_change_we_can_bank_on/

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"It Could Be Structured By Cows And We Would Rate It": How The Ratings Agencies Helped Cause The Financial Crisis.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/it_could_be_structured_by_cows.php

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A Clinton Administration

Tom Engelhardt: Given the appointees Barack Obama has decided on so far, you might think Hillary had been elected.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/384908

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Enviromentalists win first round in Waxman-Dingell battle

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/politics/story/56156.html

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Franken Gains in First Day of Counting, Media Plays Fast and Loose with Numbers, GOP Prepares for the Worst...

http://www.bradblog.com/

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A who's who guide to the people poised to shape Obama's foreign policy.

This is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House

By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/107666/

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Rewarding War Crimes

Robert Dreyfuss

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/384294

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Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in Texas

Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in Texas indictments alleging prisoner abuse

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Arraignment_set_for_Cheney_Gonzales_in_1120.html

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A reminder of important details:  matters structural and procedural

The Impeachinator

Watchdog Fein

By Harvey Silverglate

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/72384-Impeachinator/

and

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/37783

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Are Pentagon Nerds Developing Packs of Man-Hunting Killer Robots?

By Scott Thill, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/107580/

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Report: US Uses Aid to Promote Non-Humanitarian Goals

http://www.truthout.org/111908S

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from and about ‘over there’

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Sarkozy's fervor for summit meetings raises hackles in Washington

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/business/global.php

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Why the U.S. blinked on its troop agreement with Iraq

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/56182.html

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Iraqis want walls torn down

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/theiraqinvasionfiveyearson/2008/09/2008927125547609921.html

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Yesterday's Traitors

by Uri Avnery

"I believe that the Israeli Obama will find fertile ground for peace. I would like to be present at his victory rally at Rabin Square."

http://world.mediamonitors.net/headlines/yesterday_s_traitors

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Peace and Solidarity

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence,

'How to Argue and Win Every Time'

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