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Color me skeptical, of course, but what Newsweek reported makes sense . Even if the clerics did not want to invalidate their own authority by removing Khameinei, he—and his subordinate Ahmadinejad—has clearly hurt Iran's interests and reputation, enough so that Montazeri's anti-Supreme Leader ...
World
Iran
Not so much! Apparently it's going to be an "Executive Agreement" in the United States, rather than an actual "treaty" per se, so Congress won't even get a gander at it. [A] major concern with ACTA’s very nature is that it is being designed as an “executive agreement,” rather than as a ...
World
United States
Elizabeth Kolbert's takedown of Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's execrable Superfreakonomics is one of the most elegant and devastating critiques I've read since Matt Taibbi carved up Tom Friedman with that immortal line "Forget the Cinnabon. Name me a herd animal that hunts. Name me ...
Congress
Have you heard about ACTA? The so-called "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement"? If you haven't, and you like this whole "Internet" thing, you damned well better start paying attention. ACTA is a secret anti-"piracy" treaty that has been negotiated over the past few years, most recently in Korea. ...
White House
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Barack Obama
Great. But that's the House, and even there they needed to pass an odious anti-abortion bill as a sop to the idea of conservative dominance . Digby: I knew that after all the sturm and drang over the past few months over the public option, the number one liberal priority in the health care ...
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Health care
Ezra Klein lays it out: Was out of the office for a few hours at C-SPAN world headquarters, but early reports were accurate and Sen. Reid will include a national public option that states could choose to offer to their residents -- or not! -- in his bill. In the Senate, this is about to ...
