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Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 4:36am.
Dave Lindorff
by Dave Lindorff The teacup tempest over retired Gen. Wesley Clark's self-evident remark about John McCain -- to wit that flying a fighter aircraft and getting shot down and captured is not particularly relevant to the skill set needed to be a president -- raises a larger question: Why do veterans, and particularly the veterans of the criminal and pointless war in Iraq, or the earlier one in Vietnam, automatically get hero status, and why are they seen as naturals to run for higher national office?
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Submitted by findingavoice on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 5:50am.
Ann Davidow
FINDING A VOICE by Ann Davidow
Watching Professor John Yoo and David Addington dance around questions when they appeared before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil Rights was a jaw-dropping experience - - a moment of truth that derived not so much from the answers given by the two subjects of inquiry but rather more from a default position as they wiggled around and away from addressing in a forthright manner what they were asked. Strangely, after his aggressively assertive memos regarding executive power and torture, Yoo was evasive and prone to parsing every statement with comments such as
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Submitted by pmcarpenter on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 8:04am.
P.M. Carpenter
THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter
The logic behind Gen. Wesley Clark's 18-word extemporaneity on "Face the Nation" was so extraordinarily self-evident, the pro-McCain right's expressed hostility to it made me wonder just which side of the political spectrum is actually wedded to political correctness. Said Clark, not as a plotted offering but as a casual response to a direct question: "I don't think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president." Join the club, General. I know of no one who argues it is, although naturally there's an army of right-wing propagandists out there that strongly implies exactly that. I
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Submitted by meg on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 10:31am.
Analysis
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Meg White 
Ah, if only we could survive on Ben & Jerry's ice cream alone. Alas, it's nearly impossible to avoid corn products from Archer Daniels Midland (or paying their corporate welfare with our tax money). But one website, BetterWorldShopper.com, can make it easier to parse the good companies from the bad. And when BuzzFlash decided to pair up their rankings with 2008 presidential campaign finance data, we got a glimpse of where employees of the best and worst companies in the world are dropping donations. The site compiles 20 years of research and ranks global companies on performance in five key criteria: the environment, human rights, animal protection, community involvement and social justice. Companies are grouped into dozens of product rankings from airlines to bottled water. Also, the site created a ten best and ten worst list overall. Technorati Tags: Analysis campaign finance. corporations obama mccain
Submitted by AmyW on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 11:26am.
Alerts
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
by Amy Weiss A federal Court of Appeals in New York dismissed the case of Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian man detained at JFK airport and sent to Syria, where torture is not prohibited, in 2002. He was locked up and tortured for almost a year under the suspicion of being involved with Al Qaeda. The judge dismissed the case because hearing it "would interfere with sensitive matters of foreign policy and national security," and as a Canadian and Syrian citizen who was never actually admitted to the United States, Arar had no rights under due process. Technorati Tags: Alerts torture Maher Arar extraordinary rendition
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 11:54am.
Tony Peyser
VERSE CASE SCENARIO
by Tony Peyer This bold idea steps on GOP toes But it makes a whole lot of sense to me; Just because I once got a DUI Doesn't mean I should run the DMV. Tony Peyser provides daily poems and weekly cartoons for BuzzFlash and also writes the BuzzFlash column, "Blue State Jukebox." He was a daily cartoonist for the L.A. Times from 1994 to 1997. You can e-mail Tony at tonypeyser@yahoo.com. VERSE CASE SCENARIO Technorati Tags: Tony Peyser Wesley Clark John McCain President
Submitted by meg on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 12:09pm.
Alerts
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
by Meg White
"I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true."
--from Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark The prosecution team at Guantanamo is having a tough time lately, but Monday was a double-header. Though war crimes charges were levied against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, accused of plotting the 2000 attack on U.S. Navy destroyer Cole, they might not stick. The defendant is one of three whom the CIA has admitted to torturing. Al-Nashiri said Monday that he had no part in attacking the Cole. He said he confessed to get his interrogators to stop torturing him. Also, previously classified court documents were released Monday that explained a U.S. Court of Appeals decision labeling the detention of a Chinese man captured in Afghanistan unlawful. Earlier this month, the three-judge panel found that the government's assertions of Huzaifa Parhat's enemy combatant status were baseless. Technorati Tags: Alerts torture guantanamo enemy combatant cole afghanistan
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 1:13pm.
Steven Jonas
by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH When Princess Diana was tragically killed in an automobile accident on August 31, 1997, I was vacationing on Prince Edward Island, Canada. (One does have to note that at least it is likely that the crash was accidental, although some sources believe that it wasn't. What is virtually certain, I have to say as a public health physician, is that if the Princess had been wearing a seat-belt, it is very likely that she would still be with us, unless another accident would have befallen her in the interim.) Watching television that morning and for several days afterwards, one had to be taken with the genuine outpouring of sadness and sympathy that flowed forth all around the world, from people in many, many countries. She was treated as some sort of heroine. And who was Diana? An acknowledged beauty with a marvelous smile, married to the English Prince of Wales, with two even-then handsome sons, one of whom would be a future King of England if the monarchy were to last long enough. Technorati Tags: Steven Jonas Russert Journalism Heroes Princess Diana
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