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I have set up a new group/community on Daily Kos for the Monterey Bay Area, entitled, appropriately enough, Monterey Bay Area Kossacks.
The purpose of the group is to discuss topics and issues of
by jtg
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on Sun Feb 14, 2016 at 05:07 PM PST
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WHAT: Delivery of petition and Valentine's Day flowers to Spanish Embassy
WHEN: 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: 2375 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Gael Murphy, gael at codepinkalert.org
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11:00 ...
by David Swanson
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on Sat Feb 12, 2011 at 07:49 AM PST
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If you've wanted to be part of a powerful effort to bring Bush-era officials to justice for their crimes, now is your chance. We've joined a national effort to reach out to the people of Spain, ...
by David Swanson
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on Thu Feb 10, 2011 at 06:42 AM PST
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by Michael Leon
Just off the phone with a veteran who told me U.S. soldiers and Marines often take ...
by MAL Contends
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on Mon May 03, 2010 at 08:53 AM PDT
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INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED
Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International ...
by David Swanson
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on Tue Jan 19, 2010 at 02:02 PM PST
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There is opposition to the appointment of Alberto Gonzales as visiting professor (for a salary of $100,000) in the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University. That opposition is ...
by coyotebanjo
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on Sat Aug 01, 2009 at 10:36 AM PDT
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We've got news breaking this afternoon that Bush's secret surveillance programs extended beyond the warrantless wiretaping that's been described earlier.
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by chapel hill guy
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on Fri Jul 10, 2009 at 11:52 AM PDT
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The Torture Debate and the Innocence Project
There is a worthwhile and productive debate going on in our society about two major issues: the utility, morality and techniques of torture as ...
by demosthenes2007
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on Tue Apr 28, 2009 at 10:02 AM PDT
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The MSM must make clear that the two CIA reports Dick Cheney asked to make public were written years *after* the torture of KSM and others became publicly known. These reports were concocted, under ...
by Sharon Wraight
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on Mon Apr 27, 2009 at 01:44 PM PDT
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Ummm. Spy on Members of Congress. Spy on members of his own administration?
Todays NYT reports that we finally have some clear sense of the line that Alberto Gonzales wanted to cross but could not ...
by demosthenes2007
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on Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM PDT
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Harper's Magazine's Scott Horton has reported that although the decision to commence prosecution of six former Bush administration officials for torture was delayed until a meeting between Obama and ...
by Ralph Lopez
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on Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 11:27 AM PDT
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In my opinion (and you might disagree, which is fine), the worst thing that G.W. Bush and his evil minions did was their attempt to get rid of Habeas Corpus. This principle, sometimes called “...
by Dbug
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on Sun Apr 05, 2009 at 08:22 AM PDT
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The NYTimes has just published a story announcing that "a high-level Spanish court has taken the first steps toward ...
by naknak
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on Sat Mar 28, 2009 at 01:29 PM PDT
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Environmental groups from around the country expressed disappointment in President-elect Obama's choice of Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) as Interior Secretary. According to media reports, including ...
by bigwildlife
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on Wed Dec 17, 2008 at 09:37 AM PST
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News.com reports that Facebook, the "less cluttered" social networking site has hired Bush administration attorney Ted Ullyot as ...
by vought
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on Mon Sep 29, 2008 at 09:42 PM PDT
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The DOJ just released a 400 page report entitled An Investigation into the Removal of 9 U.S. Attorneys in 2006
I'm sure this report ...
by lawstudent922
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on Mon Sep 29, 2008 at 11:03 AM PDT
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In the spirit of "you reap what you sow," I just noticed this tidbit in WaPo and had to share it. It is certainly not earth shattering or "breaking," but as my grandmother used to say, It warms the ...
by etherapy
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on Sun Sep 28, 2008 at 02:40 PM PDT
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In last Monday's New York Times, David Sanger and William Broad wrote a front-page article about the CIA's involvement in the ...
by lukery
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on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 06:42 AM PDT
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Hi,
When Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land Is Your Land" the sentiments expressed weren't mainstream. In fact the lyric was considered to be communist. Now the song is sung in every grade school ...
by hairylarry
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on Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 05:04 AM PDT
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Wow. At Last.
The Times just published an article about this ...
by Gorette
18 comments
on Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 09:22 AM PDT
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