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Morning headlines brought to you by Carolyn Kay MakeThemAccountable.com Top Story In U.S. Overtures to Foes, New Respect for Pragmatism
Experts said the Bush administration appeared to have recognized that it had tied its own hands by refusing to talk to Iran, Syria and North Korea.
So now the Bush administration has caught up with thousands of years of history, which has shown that diplomacy is the only way diverse groups of humans can live in peace. Can we hope that the schoolyard bullying method of foreign policy is out? —Caro It’s also the Cheney Doctrine.
Matt Wuerker
The WorldCar bombing kills 10, hurts 20 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb ripped through a bustling shopping district in a religiously mixed neighborhood of western Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding about 20 as the U.S.-Iraqi security operation entered its third week.
Iran's participation at summit uncertain
CAIRO, Egypt - Iran's level of participation remained uncertain Thursday as Iraq pushed ahead with plans to hold a March 10 conference with its neighbors and key Western countries on the Iraqi security crisis.
Taliban official: Bin Laden is alive
LONDON - A senior Taliban commander says Osama bin Laden is alive and in contact with leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, according to an interview aired on British television.
Koreas at odds over North's push for aid in high-level talks
North Korea appealed Thursday for aid from South Korea at high-level talks, but Seoul appeared resistant to promising any major assistance until Pyongyang keeps its pledge to start dismantling its nuclear program. The NationTop Officials Knew of Neglect at Hospital
As far back as 2003, Army's surgeon general heard complaints that soldiers at Walter Reed were lost on the grounds, according to interviews.
Democratic leaders revamp anti-war plan
WASHINGTON - House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn't cut off money for U.S. troops in Iraq but would require President Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military.
U.S. Concedes Uncertainty on North Korean Uranium Effort
The U.S. accused North Korea in 2002 of pursuing parallel paths to a nuclear bomb, using plutonium and uranium. Now, U.S. officials are admitting doubts on the uranium enrichment program.
Wrong again. This is the Keystone Administration. —Caro
Advisers: Bush plan would cost taxpayers
WASHINGTON - President Bush's health insurance proposals would cost taxpayers $526 billion through 2017, according to a preliminary estimate from Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation. MediaDear Laura, it's not one attack a day in Iraq, it's 230
Laura Bush, ace Iraq expert, made a little bit of a whoopsie on Larry King the other night. She said that Iraq was really going well, but that the big bad biased liberal media keeps reporting that one attack a day in an effort to make things look bad. Well, seems it's more like 180 attacks a day, and that's just against our troops. There are 50 attacks a day or so against civilians, making that 230 attacks a day.
Evergreen Slime
ow that we've seen the full rundown of the Clinton Family Foundation, what exactly was the point of article?... It's the classic bogus Whitewater narrative that never actually turns up anything but makes the country think that there just must be "something" there or the media wouldn't report it. We saw a very similar report recently on John Edwards from the same reporter and even the WaPo's limp ombudsman thought it was questionable.
Dowd now believes Gore "prescient" on several issues, despite previously belittling him
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd…, while now praising Gore for being "prescient" on such issues, relentlessly mocked Gore during his 2000 presidential campaign and onward for what she described as Gore's "obsessions about global warming and the information highway."
Bob Somerby weighs in here. —Caro
Former Army Specialist: U.S. Troops ‘Turn To TV And Movies’ For Torture Techniques
Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan recently told the 24 producers that he was concerned that the show’s promotion of illegal torture “was having a damaging effect on young troops.” In a new interview with Newsweek, former U.S. Army specialist Tony Lagouranis, who left the military with an honorable discharge in 2005, confirms Finnegans fears — that U.S. soldiers did take cues from 24 to torture prisoners. Technology & ScienceYouTube to give politicians video boost
WASHINGTON - Politicians have not cherished most of their YouTube moments, those snippets of candid camera video posted on the popular Internet site. Now comes a friendlier YouTube politics.
South Korea expects Internet to spread fragrance
SEOUL (AFP) - An Internet which can deliver smells, a mobile phone battery that lasts two months and micro-robot surgeons are only a decade away, according to a South Korean government report released Wedneday.
Could This Robot Build A House In A Day?
Robots build products from shoes to cars. But building a home without human labor? It has never been done. But one California scientist and inventor thinks he can do it. Will he revolutionize the construction industry?
The Rich See What They Believe
People see what they believe, not vice versa, when it comes to social injustice. And this mind-altering trick of perception keeps moral outrage at bay, especially among the rich, a new psychological study suggests. By reducing outrage, this mental hoodwink also impedes social change because it inhibits people from taking action, allowing injustices to persist. For more headlines, visit MakeThemAccountable.com. |
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