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Does Vance have the steel to go after Strauss-Kahn? - First Post

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Did a man ever look jauntier than Dominique Strauss-Kahn a month ago, any woman more effervescent than the loyal wife at his side, Anne Sinclair? The rape charges that had doomed his prospective run for the French presidency were in tatters, ...

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Apocalypse Nigh? - CounterPunch

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In these scandal-sodden weeks it's been tough to write passionately about the fight here over deficit reduction. I look up from some wearisome bulletin on the latest maneuvers of the Gang of Six and here's Tristane Banon's mother ...

US deficit: the End is Nigh (or possibly not) - First Post

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In these scandal-sodden weeks it's tough to write passionately about deficit reduction. I look up from perusal of Pentagon cost overruns and here's Tristane Banon's mother admitting to consensual, albeit "clearly brutal" sex with ...

NATO's Debacle in Libya - CounterPunch

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After three and a half months of bombing and arms supply to various rebel factions, NATO's failure in its efforts to promote "regime change" in Libya is now glaring. Obviously NATO's commanders are still hoping that a lucky bomb ...

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NATO's Debacle in Libya - truthout

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NATO's failure in efforts to promote "regime change" in Libya, after two and a half months of bombing and arms supply to various rebel factions, is now glaring. Obviously NATO's commanders are still hoping that a lucky bomb may kill Moammar Gadhafi, ...

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Libya: David Cameron's other misjudgment unravels - First Post

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David Cameron can thank Rupert Murdoch, even the wretched Andy Coulson, for one ironic blessing. The Prime Minister's appalling misjudgment and obstinacy in hiring Coulson has so dominated headlines these past days that an equally staggering ...

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All the Publisher's Men - truthout

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The darker moral moments for America's press came in the 1940s and 1950s: Billy Wilder's 1951 "Ace in the Hole" and Alexander MacKendrick's unforgettable 1957 film, "Sweet Smell of Success." Burt Lancaster played a character modeled on the hugely ...

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All the Publisher's Men: Murdoch and the NoW - First Post

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Billy Wilder's 1951 film Ace in the Hole and, six years later, Alexander Mackendrick's unforgettable film, Sweet Smell of Success, with Burt Lancaster playing a character modelled on the hugely powerful gossip columnist Walter Winchell, caught exactly ...

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Pure Victims, Real Human Beings - CounterPunch

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Straight from Riker's Island to the Elysée? There's a political arc worthy of Brecht and Weill! Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been sprung from house arrest in Manhattan and his supporters in France are agitating for his re-insertion ...

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Social Democracy is Dead - truthout

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How many nails does it require to forever whack down the coffin lid on European social democracy? It's a political tradition once animated by socialist principles, though in practice social democratic parties have invariably taken the side of capital ...