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The U.S. finds its troops did not kill 11 civilians in a village north of Baghdad. The Iraqi government says, not so fast. An excerpt: A spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said the report, which cleared the US soldiers of wrongdoing, was unfair. The government will demand an apology and compensation, the spokesman [...]
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Check out the new CBC.ca – the first redesign since 2000, or in terms of web years, the first redesign in a century. :) Here's the launch letter from Sue Gardner, head of CBC.ca. Here's the old CBC.ca look, courtesy of the wayback machine.
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If you don't understand the climate change issue or are dubious about whether the human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases are causing the planet to catastrophically heat up, then you need to see this movie. However, questions on how to make change happen — and who is standing in the way – are given short shrift, in [...]
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Director Deborah Scranton had 10 U.S. soldiers shoot 800 hours of video for her in Iraq. She took that footage, plus 200 hours of footage she shot with them and their families in the States, and the result is a 90-minute film called The War Tapes. She did direct them: Through email and instant messaging. An [...]