Democratic Africa Gets Its First White Leader
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Remarks of President Barack Obama ��� As Prepared for.
The full text of the State of the Union Address, as prepared for delivery, is posted now on Medium and can be viewed here: http://go.wh.gov/SOTUMedium. There is a ritual on State of the Union night. The reporters then start sending it around town to folks on Capitol Hill to get their reaction, then those people send it to all their friends, and eventually everyone in Washington can read along, but the public remains in the dark. This year we change that. For the first time,��.
Dianne Feinstein, Meet the Ghost of Frank Church- and Richard Welch
Writing for The Washington Post, Ruth Marcus added that while the CIAs activities in the Global War on Terror were a stain that ���can never be erased,��� the release of the report would prove to be ���an essential step in minimizing it.��� And The New Yorker.
Conservatives just arent funny: Why the right will never have its own Stephen.
���Fans of the show and its indomitable host (only now defeated by the real-life lure of late-night respectability) have good reason to mourn,��� noted The New Yorker earlier this year, while Salon recently crowned Colbert ���one of the most important.
Lets Talk About Tiananmen Square, 1989 | Hidden.
Many foreign reporters filed live reports directly from the Square, stating clearly that, while gunfire could be heard in the distance, there was no violence in the Square either by or toward the students.. In a well-researched 1998 article in the Columbia Journalism Review titled ���Reporting the Myth of Tiananmen and the Price of a Passive Press,��� the former Washington Post bureau chief in Beijing, Jay Mathews, tracks down what he calls the dramatic accounts that��.
Pamela Wrights Son Was Shot Dead A Month After Newtown. This Is Her Story.
WASHINGTON -- Tyrone Lawsons pictures are still on the wall of his home in Chicago. His clothes are there, too. Every now and then, his mother, Pamela Wright, will take out an old gray T-shirt to remind herself of his smell. She still sees his friends.
Iran Uprising Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 24)
Because of their courage, our City is a stronger city, and home to hundreds of thousands of Iranians -- the largest concentration of Persians outside of Iran. You have all gathered here tonight in. Vargas is the stellar Washington Post reporter who is far and away the best U.S. newspaper writer analyzing how technology is changing our politics and media (Vargas, in his spare time, also does groundbreaking reporting on HIV/AIDS). His story about Iran and technology��.
Mormons mourning Postum: a consumer culture post | A.
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Carrie Fishers Crowning Moment - The Daily Beast
But because Carries birthday was the next day, I thought not of Johnsons 18th-century prose but of the poem she had written herself back in the 20th and only recently posted on her blog and dedicated to all her readers who were going... Although much of the international publicity surrounding the latest hostage drama focused at first on the two Japanese captives, journalist Kenji Goto and his eccentric former assistant Haruna Yukawa, who was killed, the most��.
How Children Orphaned By Ebola Fight For Survival
Even as Promise mourned her parents, a community leader named Kanyean Molton Farley took the children under his wing. Farley did. Some nights her brothers would weep for their mother, and Promise tried to be firm but caring. I tell them Ma and.
Hostages Luke Somers, Pierre Korkie Killed During Rescue Attempt In Yemen
Lucy Somers, the photojournalists sister, told The Associated Press that she and her father learned of her brothers death from FBI agents just after midnight Saturday. We ask that all of Lukes family members be allowed to mourn in peace, she said.
David Sirota: Newspapers Self-Inflicted Wounds - Truthdig
If its a choice between a Filmdrunk.com scoop on Vin Diesels latest movie and a local reprint of the Washington Posts A1 clich�� on the ���hard-charging approach��� and dating strategy of mid-level Obama aide Jim Messina, most of. Regarding ���the best of all possible worlds,��� my father is 80-years-old as well, so I realize what youre not saying is just as important as what you are saying. We can all only hope to age with such grace and courage and wisdom. Take care.
The Washington Monthly
This is why journalist dont need a sheild law, and Americans need protection from reporters like Judith Miller, whereby access is everything - facts are nothing, whereby Americans die in trumpet up wars but its no big deal for todays.. Like if truman had invaded japan to contain communism, then japan had become virulently communist (or, you know all the countries we messed with during the cold war that turned communist after years of US support for repressive��.
LAPD Launch Investigation After Song Mocking Michael Brown Performed At.
LOS ANGELES, Dec 24 (Reuters) - A song poking fun at the killing of black teenager Michael Brown by a white policeman, performed at a retired officers party, has prompted the Los Angeles Police Department to launch an internal investigation, its chief.
Memories of a Slain Colleague, Solid Khalid - NYTimes.com
Several of the correspondents who worked with and knew Khalid W. Hassan, the 23-year-old interpreter and reporter in the Baghdad bureau of The New York Times who was shot and killed on his way to work today, shared their recollections.. Hes Dead,��� a wacky Iraqi television show in which the host wears a giant Afro and star-shaped sun glasses to deliver the grim news of the day; his days of frustration when The Washington Post beat us to a feature story we��.
What Rand Paul Doesnt Get About Intervention
He reiterated his support for the decision to go to war in Afghanistan in 2001 (to be fair, it takes no political courage whatsoever to say this) and also for airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS). But Pauls speech and other remarks continue to.
Rebeccas War Dog of the Week: WWII Correspondent Ernie Pyle Loved MWDs
The caption (which sadly gets cut off) posted on the Marine Corps site reads: Ernie Pyle (left), war correspondent who recently left the battlefields of Europe to cover the Pacific Theater of war, gets acquainted with two types of Devil Dogs.
���Well, its their fault for bringing their kids into a battle.
And after they wound the Iraqi photo-journalist, they fly around a while waiting for an excuse to re-engage; they seem to admit he was unarmed when they hit him, and therefore cant shoot further unless he shows a weapon.. Washington Post reporter David Finkel described the incident ��� and the video ��� in great detail in his September 2009 book, ���The Good Soldiers���... Will somebody please go to CNN and look at how they have santitized this entire video.
Steve Jobss Touching Phone Call to Errol Rose, Father of.
As the world mourns Steve Jobs, construction worker Errol Rose recalls the day the Apple CEO phoned to comfort him after his son was murdered in the robbery of an iPod... Although much of the publicity surrounding the latest hostage drama focused on the two Japanese captives, journalist Kenji Goto and his eccentric former assistant Haruna Yukawa, who was killed, the most important prisoner held by ISIS from the organizations own point of view probably is the��.
Watch and Read President Obamas Entire 2015 State of the Union Address
The reporters then start sending it around town to folks on Capitol Hill to get their reaction, then those people send it to all their friends, and eventually everyone in Washington can read along, but the public remains in the dark. This year we.
US Cooperated Secretly with Syrian Kurds in Battle Against Islamic State
After Islamic State made Kobani a test of its ability to defy U.S. air power, Washington intervened more forcefully than it had initially intended to try to stem the groups momentum. In doing so, the U.S. crossed a Rubicon that could herald a more.
2014: September - December Political Notes - Richard.
Perhaps kennel companies should be required to take care to detect nighttime air conditioner failures in time to do something to save the dogs, but prosecuting hapless employees is not the way to establish such a regulation. 30 December 2014... The US is posting blimps near Washington DC to scan for cruise missiles up to 340 miles away. Thats a good... Reporters Without Borders supports the Japanese journalists that are challenging the state secrecy law.
Japan mourns Goto as caring and courageous reporter
. the poor that drove the work of journalist Kenji Goto. The news of his killing in a video purportedly by Islamic State militants sent Japan into shock and mourning Sunday, days after his plight as a hostage in Syria united many people in praying.
President Orders Review of US Hostage Policies
WASHINGTON���The Obama administration is undertaking a review of how it handles cases of U.S. citizens held captive by extremists abroad, according to a letter from a top Pentagon official made public Monday, a move that follows criticism from some.
I will not be returning to Ferguson | Ryan L. Schuessler
**Addition: After being accused of not doing any work in Ferguson, and having never once contributed to the reporting coming out of there, I politely ask you to read what I have written:... why dont you be the one to get the stories that are not being told.. go to the church.. film the people bringing food water first aid ect.. I am sure there is a lot you.. Norwegian journalists, japanese, british and more asshat american reporters than you could shake a stick at. When we��.
Reposted: The high price of writing about anti-social forces.
In the sixteen years Ive been covering organized crime in Japan, Ive never met anyone more courageous or inspiring���or anyone who actually looked as much like a pit-bull in human form. Igari-san. In an article published in the Washington Post, I wrote how he had sold out his own group to the FBI in order to get a visa for the United States so he could receive a liver transplant at UCLA... I have to take care of my sources.. Its the only way I know how to mourn.
WATCH | President Obamas entire State of the Union Address
The reporters then start sending it around town to folks on Capitol Hill to get their reaction, then those people send it to all their friends, and eventually everyone in Washington can read along, but the public remains in the dark. This year we.
Face the Nation Transcripts December 28, 2014: Sullenberger, Bratton, Giuliani.
We will get the latest on Asia Air Flight 8501, an Airbus 320 flying to Singapore with 162 people on board that lost contact with air traffic control after taking off from Indonesia.. interview with Laura Hillenbrand, author of the bestselling book.
The messengers have been killed - Creative Loafing Atlanta
Reporter Gary Webb. Scores of journalists have been sacrificed by their bosses and employers. I can count about four dozen among scribes I have known. A few have died, and all have had their careers wrecked. They fell. Nick Schou, whose biography of Webb, Kill the Messenger, serves as the basis for the film, states what happened in LA Weekly: The New York Times, Washington Post, and L.A. Times each obscured basic truths of Webbs Dark Alliance series.
How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America
Take the three films he helped make in 1972, just after coming back from his Berkeley exile: as an actor, he spun Lady Sings the Blues off its melodramatic axis, so that it became much more than a formula biopic. As part of the.. He looked out at.
May I Quote You, Mr. President? | Global Research
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Washingtonpost.com : This Mob Is Big in Japan �� �� �� ���������������������. It also marks the end of mourning.. Before the Washington Post article came out in May of 2008, she was so worried that she started crying when she saw me and I was truly touched that anyone could care so much. I wrote. One of the cops wives at the party told me that her husband (the cop with the glasses) is embarrassed for you having to do what he and the others dont have the courage to.