Keith Olbermann's Countdown
Jonathan Turley on the Holder Nomination Hearings
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
friday reads
Dan Froomkin on Preznit bu$h's legacy:
He took the nation to a war of choice under false pretenses -- and left troops in harm's way on two fields of battle. He embraced torture as an interrogation tactic and turned the world's champion of human dignity into an outlaw nation and international pariah. He watched with detachment as a major American city went under water. He was ostensibly at the helm as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression took hold. He went from being the most popular to the most disappointing president, having squandered a unique opportunity to unite the country and even the world behind a shared agenda after Sept. 11. He set a new precedent for avoiding the general public in favor of screened audiences and seemed to occupy an alternate reality. He took his own political party from seeming permanent majority status to where it is today. And he deliberately politicized the federal government, circumvented the traditional policymaking process, ignored expert advice and suppressed dissent, leaving behind a broken government.
Paul Krugman: Forgive and Forget?
Glenn Greenwald: Today's FISA ruling: a case study in 8 years of lying and ignorance
Nick Turse: Future Shock at the Army Science Conference
Charles Barkley finally gets that blowjob
Thursday, January 15, 2009
thursday reads
The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, expressed "strong protest and outrage" and demanded an investigation into why there was an attack on the compound of the UN Relief and Works Agency, a well-known location in Gaza marked with blue UN flags.
RIAA withdraws subpoena and discontinues case in Austin, Texas, proceedings targeting Rhode Island students, in Arista Records v. Does 1-22
Brad:What a Cheesy 1980s Teen-Flick Can Teach Us About the Bush Doctrine
Alpine skiing in free fall.
Get It On
R.I.P. Ricardo Montalbán (1920 - 2009)
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
wednesday reads
A senior Bush administration official has admitted that a Guantánamo Bay detainee was tortured by the US military, leaving him in a "life-threatening condition".
Governments indulging in abuse and repression, including the US, are avoiding human rights legislation and international justice by hiding behind the principle of national sovereignty, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warns in a report today.
Brandon Friedman: Reclaiming Army Standards
Tomgram: Prelude to an Inaugural
Han Tran: Why Did the US Leak Israeli War Plans?
Glenn Greenwald: Tom Friedman offers a perfect definition of "terrorism"
The Internet may not be such a dangerous place for children after all.
Liz Langley: Is America's Love Affair with Stupidity Finally Over?
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