Internet Being Manipulated, Deceived by Western Intel Trolls

FOCUS: Juan Cole | Internet Being Manipulated, Deceived by Western Intel Trolls

Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "Now it turns out that Western intelligence agencies who say that they are fighting al-Qaeda are actually spending time trolling the internet, displaying all the same Dark Tetrad characteristics."
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FOCUS: Bill Moyers | The Surrender of America's Liberals

Bill Moyers, Moyers and Company
Excerpt: "Reed tells Moyers, the left is no longer a significant force in American politics."
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Andy Borowitz | Arizona Confronting Awkward Realization That Gay People Have Money, Buy Stuff

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "The state of Arizona found itself in the middle of a conundrum today as it awoke to the awkward realization that gay people have money and buy stuff."
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Charles P. Pierce | The Long, Slow Walk to Prison Reform
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire
Pierce reports: "Almost unnoticed, there has been a rising backlash against the overuse of solitary confinement."
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5 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Be Scared by the Plan to Downsize the Army
Zach Beauchamp, ThinkProgress
Beauchamp writes: "Here's five reasons why cutting the U.S. Army down to size won't threaten American security - or the world's."
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Ralph Nader | Twenty Billionaires Who Could Break the Two-Party Duopoly
Ralph Nader, The Nader Page
Nader writes, "The tightening two-party duopoly has been moving relentlessly in the direction of common funding of candidates by the same privileged interests."
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How TPP Would Harm You at the Drug Store and on the Internet
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future
Johnson writes: "The rigged process in which only giant corporate interests are represented at the talks of course produces results that are more favorable to those giant corporations than to their smaller, innovative competitors and regular people around the world."
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Genetically Modified Babies
Marcy Darnovsky, The New York Times
Darnovsky writes: "An advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration is set to begin two days of meetings tomorrow to consider radical biological procedures that, if successful, would produce genetically modified human beings."
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Ugandan Tabloid Names Gays After Anti-Gay Measure Becomes Law
Krishnadev Calamur, National Public Radio
Calamur reports: 'We told you Monday about Uganda's president signing a controversial bill that makes gay sex punishable by terms of up to life in prison. Well, a day later, a Ugandan tabloid has published a list of what it calls the country's 'top' 200 homosexuals."
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