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These are my links for 10/16 through 10/18:

Insanely Useful Web Sites | Sunlight Foundation - broad range of information available to track government and legislative information, campaign contributions and the role of money in politics.
Spitting on the troops - Hullabaloo - The political activists who metaphorically spit on the troops today are on the right.

These are my links for 10/15:

Revealed: the man behind court attack on Gore film | UK News | The Observer - The Observer has established that Dimmock’s case was supported by a powerful network of business interests with close links to the fuel and mining lobbies.
ACLU: DoD sought citizens’ bank records - Army Times […]

These are my links for 10/14:

Ex-Commander Says Iraq Effort Is a ‘Nightmare’ - WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 - In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top commander of American forces there called the Bush administration’s handling of the war “incompetent” and said the result was “a nightmare with no end”
Marines Press […]

These are my links for December 13th through October 13th:

A mother’s call to action - Washington Blade - Judy Shepard: Nine years after my son was killed, gay youth remain vulnerable.
Sliming Graeme Frost - Paul Krugman: All in all, the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, […]

“As far as I can tell, America has never fought a war in which mercenaries made up a large part of the armed force, as is the case in Iraq.
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And the danger out-of-control military contractors pose to American forces has been obvious at least since March 2004, when four armed Blackwater employees blundered into Fallujah […]

“David Petraeus is a political general. Yet in presenting his recent assessment of the Iraq War and in describing the “way forward,” Petraeus demonstrated that he is a political general of the worst kind—one who indulges in the politics of accommodation that is Washington’s bread and butter but has thereby deferred a far more urgent […]

More than 75 percent of them were due mistaken identity. Great Q&A with the Innocence Project director about those releases and why the photo line up system doesn’t work.
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I read about the famous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment in college just a few years after it took place. Even then (soooo many years ago!) it was understood to be an extremely important event in the understanding of human psychology — although the experiment itself was aborted quite prematurely. The experiment’s director, Philip Zimbardo, has […]

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