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leftionthenews commented on the diary post Catching Rachel Maddow’s Drift by David Swanson.
2012-04-04 19:03:16View | Delete

I’m surprised you didn’t flag this: In one of Maddow’s to-do items, the looming threat of a war on Iran appears to receive its only possible mention in the book, as Iran is included in a list of countries where war “is not always the best way to make threats go away.” What “threats” [...]
leftionthenews commented on the blog post Protesters Shot, Arrested, Beaten – In Libya? No, Iraq
2011-02-25 16:43:27View | Delete

There was another country where a peaceful protester was killed today (or yesterday) as well, and this one was a 3-year-old baby girl. The country was Israel, so don’t expect to read about this one in the Western press or see anything about it on TV.

http://lefti.blogspot.com/2011/02/governments-killing-peaceful-protesters.html
leftionthenews commented on the blog post Everything You Know About the French Retirement Controversy Is Wrong – If You Read the Papers
2010-10-25 20:36:16View | Delete

FAIR covered the same thing almost a week ago: http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/10/20/newshour-fails-french-public-too/