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• The Long War on Terror: Obama Administration Plays Politics with Guantanamo

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 606
  This article from Nick Baumann at Mother Jones is filled with political-insider information, but I think it is a significant marker of how the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has moved from an Obama pledge in January 2009 to a site for internal Administration struggle in November. I learned ...
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• Mother Jones Speaks Out for Convicted Caricaturist

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  Mother Jones spoke last night at a meeting at the Berkeley Theatre to protest the sentencing of Carlo de Fornaro to one years hard labor after conviction on a charge of libel for caricaturing a Mexican editor and politician, Rafael Reyes Espindola, in his book published last year.
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• Inside a Prison Outside the Law

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 136
  Mother Jones {MoJo} Drumbeat brings the link to the site for the book The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the LawRead exclusive excerpts from narratives by the attorneys who have represented Guantanamo Detainees, at above linkAbout The Guantanamo LawyersThis new book contains over 100 personal narratives ...
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• Troops called out in Bloomington Normal Illinois, Mother Jones appears!!!

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 144
  Troops called out in Bloomington Normal Illinois Mother Jones appears!!! Mother Jones played key role in 1917 streetcar strike Pantagraph.com: May 12, 2007 By Bill Steinbacher-Kemp Archivist/Librarian, McLean County Museum of History BLOOMINGTON — Mother Jones , the ...
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• Escolars Sushi Swindle

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: blue marble — Authority: 135
  If youre not a foodie, eating raw fish seems like a risky endeavor even when its labeled properly. But researchers from Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History found this week that high-profile sushi restaurants have substituted tuna with escolar , a fatty bottom feeder that can cause diarrhea ...
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• Taylor Swift Dominates The American Music Awards…And The News Cycle

  
  The 9513 — Authority: 432
  Taylor Swift swept last night’s American Music Awards, beating out Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Eminem and Kings of Leon to claim the title of Artist of The Year. Swift also took home Favorite Pop/Rock Female, Favorite Country Female, Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist and Favorite Country Music Album. Taylor Swift, ...
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• Mother Jones Exposes Tea Party Front Group AAPS

  
  Plunderbund — Authority: 560
  The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Sounds official, right? Most whack front groups do. Mother Jones does a great job of exposing these fools for what they are:Yet despite the lab coats and the official-sounding name, the docs of the AAPS are hardly part of mainstream medical society. Think Glenn ...
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• Super-Credible Oliver North Slams ‘Cap and Tax’ in Hilarious Fundraising Letter

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 565
  Brad Johnson reports : Lt. Col. Oliver North (Ret.) has launched a new war against the “cap and tax” plans of President Barack Obama and the “socialists in Congress.” North — when not serving as a Fox News correspondent — runs the Freedom Alliance, an organization supposedly dedicated to “defending the ...
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• Jumping the Snark

  
  The Art of the Prank — Authority: 427
  Jumping the Snark by Dave Gilson Mother Jones November/December 2009 In an age of Yes Men, flash mobs, birthers, and fake pundits, is the prank dead? What’s a good prank worth? How about $2 billion? That’s how much Dow Chemical’s stock value dipped in just 23 minutes on the morning of December 3, 2004, ...
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• Fucking Obama and his compromise bipartisanship bullshit.

  
  vegansaurus! — Authority: 565
  Remember when everybody made a big stink about Michelle Obama’s organic vegetable garden? Remember how tons of progressive yuppies thought it was, like, the coolest thing ever? Well, evidently, just because the Obamas don’t want their arugula drenched with hormone-altering chemicals and toxic sludge doesn’t ...
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• Mark Bittman and MoJo: A Tasty Recipe

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: riff — Authority: 125
  When food writer ( How to Cook Everything , Food Matters ) and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman read our March/April " Lets Grow America! " special report on food security, he was so jazzed by it that he got in touch to offer his services to raise money for Mother Jones . How could we say no? Thats how ...
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• Friday, November 6, 2009

  
  Rising in Phoenix — Authority: 129
  “Police raid shooting suspect’s Killeen apartment,” by Victor O’Brien for the Killeen Daily Herald, November 6… http://www.kdhnews.com Bell County SWAT teams barricaded and evacuated a downtown Killeen apartment complex where Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan lived before authorities say he killed 13 people and ...
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• What If Congress Can’t Pass a Climate Change Bill Before Copenhagen?

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 613
  Okay, I know that we’ve kinda beaten this point nearly to death with innumerable blunt objects, but it bears repeating that the United States needs a climate change bill in place before going to the Copenhagen Conference in December, as our negotiators are not allowed to promise in a treaty anything that our ...
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• Another deadline passed and no election law

  
  The Common Ills — Authority: 507
  I have written to the head of the UN expressing concern over the possibility of "free and fair" elections taking place in Iraq next January. Repeating the much-publicised vote-rigging seen in Afghanistan, since the last national Iraqi election in 2005, political factions have placed supporters on the Iraqi Electoral ...
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• Will Brazils Greening Efforts Displace Indigenous Populations?

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: blue marble — Authority: 135
  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva earlier this month announced that Brazil will cut its deforestation rate by 80 percent by 2020, a move he said would reduce the countrys carbon dioxide emissions by 4.8 billion tonnes. Thats significant, especially given that Brazil is one of the biggest contributors to ...
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• #311 Unexpected leadership, totally expected treachery (Podcast)

  
  Best of the Left Podcast — Authority: 113
  Click here to show/hide the flash player. Edition #311 Act 1: Nancy Peloci, you’ll burn in hell for this – Wait Wait don’t tell me Act 2: Rebranding health reform – Countdown Act 3: Franken kicks conservative ass – The Young Turks Act 4: Much to commend, much to condemn – The Progressive Act 5: ...
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• Weve Got You Covered: Magazines.com Top 10 News & Political Magazines

  
  Blog Magazine — Authority: 126
  Even though this is an off-year Election Day with only a few elections happening, weve got politics on the brain so weve rounded up the top 10 news and political magazines as determined by Magazines.com customers. Many titles in the top 10 are well-known titles, including the number one spot held by Time magazine. ...
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• Iran: Is Three-Month Investigation of Hikers Enough?

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  Its been more than three months since Mother Jones contributor Shane Bauer , along with his friends Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, was arrested by Iranian authorities while hiking near the Iranian-Iraqi border in northern Kurdistan. Though Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Iranian courts should ...
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• Star-studded L.A. premiere of ‘Precious’

  
  D210 TV | Dallas Texas | Entertainment | Celebrity News and Events — Authority: 150
  “Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire” has got a red carpet treatment in Los Angeles. The premiere, held on Sunday, November 1 at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, was a part of the drama movie’s participation at AFI Fest 2009, which runs from October 30 to November 7. Many of the cast members were present ...
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• More Torture Docs Could Be Released Friday

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 743
  Nick Baumann at Mother Jones reminds us that the Obama administration promised earlier this month to do its best to review about 224 more documents that might be responsive to the American Civil Liberties Union’s Freedom of Information Act longstanding requests for documents relating to the torture, abuse and ...
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