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Webバージョン  |  アップデート設定  |  登録解除 いいね ツイート 転送 http://endofsecrets.blogspot.com It’s Official: Iran’s Presence in the Region a Threat to U.S., According to Congress and Obama Posted by andrea on 5 January, 2013 Alex Main While Congress struggled to approve legislation to avert the much-hyped “fiscal cliff”, a bill addressing “Iran’s growing hostile presence and activity in the Western Hemisphere” quietly and smoothly swept through both houses before the end of the legislative session.  The bill, which requires the State Department to develop a strategy to address the Iranian regional “threat”, was read more Think Media Consolidation Is Good for Journalism? Think Again Posted by andrea on 5 January, 2013 Josh Stearns The Federal Communications Commission is pushing a plan to gut its 30-year-old newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership ban. This proposal would allow one company to own a local paper, two TV stations and up to eight radio stations in a single market. Advocates of more media consolidation argue that allowing TV stations and newspapers to merge is critical to cutting costs and saving local journalism. read more Remembering Guatemala Posted by andrea on 5 January, 2013 Frida Berrigan In 1995, I was on a bus in Guatemala. It was crowded. Not rush-hour-A-train-in-NYC crowded. No, this was inhaling-the-air-the-person-next-to-you-just-exhaled crowded. Whole-families-to-a-seat crowded. Crushed together so close, you could count the ribs of the person in front of you. School-bus-meant-for-50-children-carrying-200-people crowded. read more Philosophy and Football Posted by andrea on 5 January, 2013 Christopher Brauchli The toe bone’s connected to the foot bone, The foot bone’s connected to the anklebone The anklebone’s connected to the leg bone, Now shake dem skeleton bones! — Children’s song read more Save Social Security: Paul Krugman for Treasury Secretary Posted by andrea on 5 January, 2013 Robert Naiman Many American liberals and economic populists are on guard in the wake of the fiscal cliff deal between Congress and the President on taxes and revenue, because what Washington expects to negotiate in the next two months is cuts. With the "sequester" automatic Pentagon cuts postponed rather than canceled, we're still operating in the framework of the Budget Control Act, which mandated $1.2 trillion in reduced projected government debt over ten years. The deal on revenue took care of half of that. The Washington understanding is that the other half will come from cuts. read more Guns and Drugs: We Can Curb Gun Violence by Ending the War on Drugs Posted by andrea on 5 January, 2013 Michelle Chen When a hail of bullets extinguished dozens of lives at an elementary school last month, the ugly consequences of the nation’s gun culture shot into the media spotlight. The debate around gun control in the aftermath of Newtown has yielded confused policy proposals like further militarizing schools, or preemptively tracking mentally ill people. read more Blocking VAWA, GOP Keeps Up the War on Women Posted by jon on 4 January, 2013 Erika Eichelberger Interstate 5 runs down the middle of California’s San Joaquin Valley for hundreds of miles. On either side are dusty rows of almond, peach and orange trees. In the summer, the ground is tan and dry. Telephone poles measure out the time for passing cars, their sagging power lines scalloping out to a vanishing point on the horizon. Somewhere almost halfway from San Francisco to Los Angeles is a town called Huron. read more 登録変更 | 登録解除

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