The Independent
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The Independent is a British compact newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media. It is nicknamed the Indie, with the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, being the Sindie. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily newspapers, with a circulation of 261,193 in November 2005 according to the UK Audit Bureau of Circulations. The paper was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Medium audience (100-500K) (English)
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International
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Left
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Independent News & Media | public_corporation | Managers: Simon Kelner
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London, United Kingdom
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Kaizar Campwala
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Dec 6, 2006 - 1:28 PM PST
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Toxic munitions 'may be cause' of baby deaths and deformities in Fallujah
Evidence was growing this weekend that babies born in the Iraqi city of Fallujah – scene in 2004 of one of the few set-piece battles of the invasion – are exhibiting high ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
The three fallacies that have driven the war in Afghanistan
A bloody escalation in the war is more likely to fuel jihadism than thwart it. If Obama is serious about undermining this vile fanatical movement, it would be much wiser to ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Pressure piles on Karzai as Afghan waiting game drags on
Yet even hardened cynics say they have been surprised by the level of electoral fraud. Angry and disenchanted, they say a result – any result – would at least let people ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Republicans, religion and the triumph of unreason
This tendency to simply deny inconvenient facts and invent a fantasy world isn't new; it's only becoming more heightened. It ran through the Bush years like a dash of bourbon ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
The brutal truth about America’s healthcare
They came in their thousands, queuing through the night to secure one of the coveted wristbands offering entry into a strange parallel universe where medical care is a free ...via Drudge Report -
Lying about Iraq made me quit, press officer claims
Having to peddle "government lies" about the safety of soldiers in Iraq led to a Ministry of Defence press officer suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, an employment ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The insanity and enduring racism of the American right
As we gloomily maintain the deathbed vigil for a Government whose end cannot come soon enough, it is the opposite end of the life-cycle that fixates US politics. Fittingly ...via AllTop -
Taliban running school for suicide bombers
Pakistan said yesterday it had rescued 20 young boys who were among hundreds recruited by the Taliban and brainwashed into becoming suicide bombers at a secret indoctrination camp.Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Is the party over for the Republicans?
The White House is lost, scandal is rife and a certain lady in Alaska has resigned her governorship. The Republican Party is, by any measure, a mess. Can it bounce back? Only ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Democracy hangs by a thread in Honduras
The international group of right-wingers who staged the coup d'état against the democratic government of Honduras on 28 June are watching their plot fast unravel. There is ...Posted by Leo Romero
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The real reason Obama is not making much progress
So far, Obama has tried to co-opt the corporations into his agenda by ensuring they will profit from any changes, but this inevitably waters down the proposals, often to the ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
World on course for catastrophic 6 degree C rise, reveal scientists
The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again
In the mosques across the city, I hear a fringe of young men talk dreamily of flocking to Afghanistan to "resist". Yet this whisper never has an immigrant accent. It shares my ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Accept the facts – and end this futile 'war on drugs'
The prohibitionists are – from the best intentions and the highest motives – unleashing a catastrophe. Human beings have been finding ways to get stoned or high since we ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
We broke the law, admits CIA agent convicted of rendition
In an interview earlier this year with an Italian newspaper, Mr Lady was candid about the seizure of the cleric. "Of course it was an illegal operation," the newspaper quoted ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Britain rules out climate treaty at summit
Although there are various stumbling blocks, there is no doubt that the continued lack of a serious American offer on cutting its greenhouse gas emissions and providing ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
America is performing its familiar role of propping up a dictator
it's part of a dreary pattern. US forces were participating in a civil war in Vietnam while claiming they were supporting democracy and the sovereignty of the country. In ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Oscar-winning director: why I'm leaving Scientology
Haggis, who wrote Crash, Million Dollar Baby, and the last two James Bond films also registered his anger at the church's alleged "disconnection" policy, complaining that it ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Caught in the crossfire of war against the Taliban
Gul Hassan is incandescent with rage. As the Pakistan military mounted its most ambitious anti-Taliban offensive yet, the farmer and his family were not ready. "Bombs were ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
From North Carolina, a model of how to transform education
In small numbers, in an ordered environment, these poor children can quickly be brought up to the level of the rest, and indeed exceed them in many cases. But when they form ...Posted by Chris Finnie
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