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Michael Scheuer, formerly with the CIA and author of Imperial Hubris, defends the practice of “rendition” — which is shipping terrorism suspects to countries with robust interrogation practices. Some excerpts: AS Congress and the news media wail about the Central Intelligence Agency's “rendition” program – its practice of turning suspected terrorists over for detainment and questioning [...]
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There is a major retrospective of the work New York photographer Diane Arbus, the biggest in 30 years, on at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. An excerpt from the NYT review of the show: TEENAGER in a straw boater, with big apricot-shaped ears, thin lips and matching bow tie, gazes out from the photograph, whose date [...]
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Scott Taylor, publisher of Esprit d'Corps magazine and a former Iraq hostage himself, throws cold water on the notion the U.S. could have deliberately targeted Italian journalist Guiliana Sgrena. It's, uh, more that they would target anybody on the roads late at night, so she shouldn't take it personally. :) Some excerpts from his commentary [...]
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Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a reformist former vice-president of Iran, now an adviser to the current president, talks with BBC online about his blog. Some excerpts: When did you start thinking about launching a website? I became familiar with the internet in 1993 or 1994. At first I just used it to get information, but then I [...]
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The Toronto Star's Chantal Hebert took time out from flogging PM PM to aim a few lashes at Conservative Leader Stephen Harper. Some excerpts: The budget debate should have highlighted the strengths of a potential government-in-waiting. Instead, it turned into a game of chicken between the opposition parties with the Conservatives running around like hens with their [...]
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