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Afghaniscrewed: How I Spent My Fall Vacation

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Village Voice - By P.J. Tobia - Mar. 31 (Special Report) - Like many Americans, I never questioned the justness of our Afghan adventure. Basic logic: We invaded central Asia because of the horrors of 9/11. The Taliban sheltered bin Laden. They let Al Qaeda plot in safety. We had to kick their ass. But eight years later, we're still there, and I had no idea why. Conversations with smart people in the U.S. got me nowhere. They talked of "geopolitical ramifications" and "bookending Pakistan." What the hell does that mean?

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What Cooked the World's Economy?

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Village Voice - By James Lieber - Jan. 28 (Special Report) - It's 2009. You're laid off, furloughed, foreclosed on, or you know someone who is. You wonder where you'll fit into the grim new semi-socialistic post-post-industrial economy colloquially known as "this mess." You're astonished and possibly ashamed that mutant financial instruments dreamed up in your great country have spawned worldwide misery. You can't comprehend, much less trim, the amount of bailout money parachuting into the laps of incompetents, hoarders, and miscreants. It's been a tough century so far: 9/11, Iraq, and now this. At least we have a bright new president. He'll give you a job painting a bridge. You may need it to keep body and soul together.

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The Book of Sarah (Palin) - News - Village Voicepage 1

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Village Voice - By Wayne Barrett - Oct. 08 (Special Report) - THE $12.5 MILLION sports complex and hockey rink that is the lasting monument to Palin's two terms as Wasilla mayor is also a monument to the kind of insider politics that dismays Americans of both parties.

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Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Village Voice - By David Mamet - Mar. 12 (Opinion) - I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind. As a child of the '60s, I accepted as an article of faith that government is corrupt, that business is exploitative, and that people are generally good at heart.

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The Clintons' Grim Fairy Tales

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Village Voice - By Tom Robbins - Jan. 28 (Editorial) - Here was Bill Clinton up in New Hampshire, his hair now silver-gray, leaning comfortably against the lectern, microphone in hand, surrounded by rows of rapt students and framed against a giant blue banner for his wife's campaign.

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Rudy Giuliani's Five Big Lies About 9/11

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:01:55 -0700

Village Voice - By Wayne Barrett - Aug. 07 (News Analysis) - Nearly six years after 9/11, Rudy Giuliani is still walking through the canyons of lower Manhattan, covered in soot, pointing north, and leading the nation out of danger's way. The Republican frontrunner is campaigning for president by evoking that visual at every campaign stop, and he apparently believes it's a picture worth thousands of nights in the White House.

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Having Won a Pulitzer for Exposing Data Mining, Times Now Eager to Do Its Own Data Mining

Tue, 01 May 2007 15:32:17 -0700

Village Voice - By Keach Hagey - May. 01 (Opinion) - Barely a year after their reporters won a Pulitzer prize for exposing data mining of ordinary citizens by a government spy agency, New York Times officials had some exciting news for stockholders last week: The Times company plans to do its own data mining of ordinary citizens, in the name of online profits.

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Green Tide

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:06:00 -0800

Miami New Times - By Rob Jordan - Mar. 07 (Special Report) - Just as the sun was reaching its highest point in the sky, Lou Greenwell realized he could see again. During a morning spent paddling across Blackwater Sound just off Key Largo, Greenwell, 70 years old, had begun to wonder if there was any end to the shadowy mass that stretched in every direction across the once-transparent waters. Then, in the shallows on the sound's far west side, little sand sharks appeared below the suddenly clear surface. Not-so-little barracudas rushed around Greenwell's banana-yellow kayak. One shark rested under a mangrove root, heedless of its visitors. Greenwell was headed toward the Bogies, one of his favorite spots on earth. This narrow waterway has been a regular stop in the 40 years he's been swimming, fishing, diving, and kayaking the waters of Florida Bay. Forming a perfect canopy, massive, gnarled mangroves reached across the narrow passage as if longing for each other's embrace. Tiny warblers hopped from branch to branch, dancing between shadows and shafts of light. "You can get your prayer book out here," Greenwell said softly. "It's like a chapel." It was in this chapel not long ago that Greenwell had a transformative experience. Leading a group of fellow kayakers in silence, he came upon something massive and still. With a swirl of water and mud, it became two massive things: a manatee and her baby, shyly making a delayed getaway. "It was the cutest thing," he said.

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The Slut Shot

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:31:20 -0700

Village Voice - By Tristan Taormino - Aug. 17 (Opinion) - Conservatives are winning most of the battles over sex education. Abstinence-only programs have gained such a hold that I've lost hope of people under 18 getting honest, useful information about sexuality in a public school classroom. The right wing's refusal to teach teens or provide contraception to them is supported by flawed ideas: (1) To acknowledge that young people are sexual beings robs them of their innocence; and (2) if we give them sexual information and make condoms, latex gloves, dental dams, and birth control easily available, they will run out and have sex because we encouraged them. When the FDA approved the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine earlier this year, women's-health and reproductive-rights advocates braced for another battle engaging sexual freedom, choice, and consent.

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Fatal Trek

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:08:45 -0700

Village Voice - By Kathryn Belgior - Jul. 11 (News Report) - Every day for a year and a half, Julia Siverls practiced an eclectic Korean style of yoga called Dahn. She started each morning with meditation and breathing exercises, then sandwiched her day job as a college professor between hours spent as a Dahn volunteer—teaching classes, distributing recruitment flyers, or researching potential locations for new centers. Julia approached her spiritual life with the same diligence she applied to everything else. Having grown up in a rough Brooklyn housing project, she went on to stack up not one but two master's degrees and a doctorate. A certificate dated July 14, 2003, signifies her crowning achievement in yoga: becoming a master instructor. Sadly, Julia could not attend the graduation ceremony held in Sedona, Arizona, at the Ilchi Meditation Center, a resort-style compound that serves as Dahn's U.S. headquarters. On July 12, at the age of 41, she died on a nearby mountain while training to be a Dahn master.

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Al Qaeda's L.A. Plot? Yawn.

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:16:13 -0800

Village Voice - Feb. 09 (News Report) - Mondo Washington Al Qaeda's L.A. Plot? Yawn. . . The really scary news? Airport security is still so bad by James Ridgeway February 9th, 2006 4:08 PM WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Bush's revelation that the U.S. and its allies broke up a 2002 al Qaeda plot to seize an airliner and fly it into the tallest building...

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