US House Committee saves Israeli aid in foreign aid cut By Ran Dagoni, 21 July 11 12:13 … The US House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday cut the Obama administration’s $51 billion 2012 budget request for the State Department and foreign aid by $6.4 billion, but kept unchanged the $3 billion in military aid for Israel. Commentators …
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Jul 25 2011
It could happen here
Anders Behring Breivik and the influence industry of rage By Eugene Robinson, Monday, July 25, 6:50 PM … The monster who admitted slaughtering at least 76 innocent victims in Norway was animated by the same blend of paranoia, xenophobia and alienation that fuels anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States. Yes, it could happen here.One …
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Jul 25 2011
Just as fantastical
Breivik and His Enablers By Roger Cohen, July 25, 2011 … LONDON — On one level Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian responsible for the biggest massacre by a single gunman in modern times, is just a particularly murderous psychotic loner: the 32-year-old mama’s boy with no contact with his father, obsessed by video games (Dragon …
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Jul 25 2011
Broadband terrorism
Slaughter was killer’s appetiser. It is the trial that is his main course By Dr. Matthew Feldman, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 … The heart-stopping events of 22 July 2011 appear to be the work of a far-right ideologue acting alone – Anders Behring Breivik, 32, who bombed central Oslo and shot down children for more …
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Jul 25 2011
We’re in a frightening place
The news coverage of the Norway mass-killings was fact-free conjecture By Charlie Brooker, Sunday 24 July 2011 22.07 BST … I went to bed in a terrible world and awoke inside a worse one. At the time of writing, details of the Norwegian atrocity are still emerging, although the identity of the perpetrator has now been …
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Jul 25 2011
Taxes have to go up
How the Deficit Got This Big By Teresa Tritch, July 23, 2011 … With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth asking how we got here — from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era, and the promise of future …
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Jul 24 2011
A new twinkie defense
Was I Unfair to The Atlantic? By Matt Barganier, July 24, 2011 … On Friday, I included The Atlantic in a list of sources that “ran with the unsubstantiated Muslim-terrorist angle” immediately after the attacks in Norway. I was referring to a they-hate-us-for-our-freedoms piece about an alleged 2010 plot by three Muslims against Norwegian targets. …
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