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June 2008
6/26/08
Keith Olbermann flip-flops on FISA to support Obama.
6/23/08
Don Imus still hearts stereotyping African-Americans.
6/20/08
The critique of Tim Russert you likely won't hear Keith Olbermann complain about.
6/19/08
MOVE-ON's "Alex" ad--propaganda everyone can hate.
6/17/08
Glenn Greenwald on UK debate over civil liberties of accused terror suspects.
6/16/08
Some comments on Russertmania or the canonization of Saint Timothy.
6/6/08
Sting to Stewart and Andy: you've made gobs of money, now let me go solo again and make SOUL CAGES 2
6/4/08
A guide to poetry venues: from the POETIX site.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
4:14:00 PM EDT
Feeling Thoughtful

Glenn Greenwald on UK debate over civil liberties of accused terror suspects.


Given the US media tendency to not pay much attention to news from abroad, here's a link to Glenn Greenwald's SALON column about the debate over UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown's recently-passed initiative to lengthen the detention of terror suspects without charges to 42 days from 28:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/15/britain/index.html

Sidebar: This past weekend, CNN did cover a story where secret UK government records were accidentally left in public--for the second time.  But the coverage was rather smirky at best.



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