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Thursday: Bob Woodward's Non-Scoop, and Some Interesting Long Reads37 comments

bostonboomer wrote 2 months ago: Good Morning!! Poor Bob Woodward! The only way he can get attention nowadays is by whining and cryin … more →

Tags: Morning Reads, The Villagers, U S Politics, Barack Obama, Político, Gene Sperling, Richard Nixon, Bob Woodward, Watergate

Ames on Dorner

Fec wrote 3 months ago: From Mark Ames at Alternet: The LAPD’s culture of workplace abuse, retaliation, and wrongful termina … more →

Tags: Employment Disasters

American Assassinations for Dummies1 comment

Fec wrote 3 months ago: From Mark Ames at NSFW: In his first year in office, Carter purged nearly 20% of the Agency’s 4500 e … more →

Tags: Legal Disasters, The Drone War

The Sandy Hook Shooting and Gun Control in the US: Pianosa's man from Massachusetts

yossarian2009 wrote 3 months ago: On December 14th 2012 the second deadliest school shooting in US history took place at Sandy Hook El … more →

Tags: Home, Politics, Culture, Interview, Psychology, Gun Control, School Shooting, adam lanza, US Media

Thought For The Weekend 47

Our Bicycle Lives wrote 3 months ago: “Cyclists should no longer just cope, they should hope.” Mark Ames … more →

Tags: Thoughts, Random Thoughts, Cycling

Conor Friedersdorf: An Almost Irrelevant Man

ffredpalakon wrote 5 months ago: (Almost all supporting text and links, are done through footnotes, so a reader might quickly see the … more →

Tags: Politics, Ron Paul, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, conor friedersdorf, Gary Johnson, rand paul, roger stone

Saturday Reads: The Gun Lobby and Bad-Faith Negotiations25 comments

bostonboomer wrote 5 months ago: Good Morning!! I had a tough time sleeping last night. The past couple of days’ political even … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Morning Reads, U S Politics, Barack Obama, Social Security, NRA, Jonathan Chait, National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre

Bowling Alone for Columbine

camelotkidd wrote 5 months ago: The world hasn’t ended yet, it just sometimes feels like it has. In reading about the terrible … more →

Tags: Newtown, "going postal", bowling alone, NRA, General Electric, Jack Welch

After Sandy Hook: Seeking the Definitive Cause and Solution for Rage Massacres4 comments

kristalklear wrote 5 months ago: Since the horrific events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, numerous and sund … more →

Tags: Economics, Government, Religion, health, Politics, media, military, History, Law

Glenn Greenwald Of The Libertarian Cato Institute Posts His Defense Of Joshua Foust…The Exiled Responds To Greenwald - By Team eXiled - The eXiled

AJ wrote 6 months ago: This is for the Muslim Obama haters that have made Glenn Greenwald their first and foremost advisor … more →

Tags: obama, Salón, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian, Cato Institute, koch brothers, joshua foust, The Exiled

V.S. NAIPAUL IN AMERICA

loosemeatsandwich wrote 6 months ago: I now dread meeting Americans, especially their alleged intellectuals. Because here the intellect, t … more →

Tags: Books, Politics, V S Naipaul, Eldridge Cleaver, Bill O'Reilly, conservatism, Leftism

Malcolm Harris, "pseudo-celebrity," and kulaks4 comments

Ross Wolfe wrote 8 months ago: “Écrasez l’infâme!” ["Crush the infamous!"] — Voltaire So it looks like I am coming real … more →

Tags: Modernity, occupy wall street, Doug Henwood, malcolm harris, Naomi Klein, rachel rosenfelt, New Inquiry, Bhaskar Sunkara, Anthony Galluzzo

Paul Carr's NSFW Corp Picks Up 3,000 Subscribers and Hires 'The War Nerd'--All to Help Save Journalism

ntikuobserver wrote 8 months ago: (Photo: NSFW Corp) In case you haven’t been keeping up with the antics of rapscallion writer P … more →

Tags: gary brecher, james kotecki, john dolan, Leigh Cowart, NSFW Corp, pandodaily, Paul Carr, Sarah Lacy

Punch! Magazine Scraps Editorial Content ... For Now

drosenobserver wrote 8 months ago: Punch!, a Spy-inspired iPad “appazine” that paired long-form journalism with short comed … more →

Tags: Betaworks, George Gurley, jim windolf, Peter Kaplan, Spy Magazine, TechStars, Punch, David Bennahum, Brooke Siegel

NPR Planet Money Host Adam Davidson Under Fire from Rogue Media Ethicists [Updated]

fkamerobserver wrote 9 months ago: NPR’s Planet Money—which was born out of the Peabody award-winning This American Life episode … more →

Tuesday Reads47 comments

bostonboomer wrote 10 months ago: Good Morning!! I was working on this post for a good hour last night, and when I went to save what I … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, The Bonus Class, Morning Reads, U S Politics, Barack Obama, Income Inequality, 2012 Presidential Campaign, crime, hillary clinton

Labor was once central to the liberal imagination; today, not so much.10 comments

Corey Robin wrote 11 months ago: While we’re all arguing about what went down in Wisconsin and about the state of the labor mov … more →

Tags: Political Theory, The Left, Labor/Workplace, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Elizabeth Anderson

On Andrew Breitbart

Billum wrote 1 year ago: Mark Ames, three times the journalist Breitbart even aspired to be, does some delightful dancing on … more →

Tags: Getting Deep, Snippet, exiled, Andrew Breitbart, Weekly Standard

The massacre that nobody noticed

roberthurst wrote 1 year ago: http://exiledonline.com/the-massacre-everyone-ignored-70-striking-oil-workers-killed-in-kazakhstan-b … more →

Tags: Kazakhstan, Chevron, Massacre, Riot, Strike


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