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Kyrgyzstan, the former Russian republic best known for producing 90 points on a triple word score, is being wracked by protests over what the opposition saw as rigged elections. Radio Free Europe notes that protesters have managed to take over some cities including Osh and Jalalabad, but the Monitor article says the rebellion is relegated […]

The Ad Council
is running an ad campaign showing the futility and self-damaging effects
of standing up to our corporate masters, and oh yeah, it has
something to do with giving blood, too. These are the guys who run
public service announcements like Smokey the Bear.
Daily Kos
user tyoo7 gives a rundown of what one of these ads sounds like […]

PZ Myers has a lament for America up today on the Street:
Hugo Gernsback’s soaring chrome towers and aerocars were pretty, but a bit much; Cronkite’s picture of savvy engineers and can-do American pragmatism were more realistic, I thought. Like the Flash Gordon rocketships of Gibson’s story, though, they’re also fading away, to be replaced with […]

I was very surprised to read a Columbia University report that the US news media was heavily biased in favor of Kerry and marginally biased against the Iraq war. These are the same guys behind the Columbia Journalism Review, a very highly respected news journal. All I can say is, that’s not the media I […]

Much as I’d like to try writing real articles instead of MLPs, I can’t quite do that for a little less than a month yet. So I’m going to write another MLP, just to make sure you guys don’t get used to my absence. Can’t have that happen, now.
So, what’s up with the world lately?
George […]

We’re not just politics geeks at the Nuke Free Zone. Many of us are
also computer geeks, and we’re interested in the revival of competition
in web browser development. There are now several viable competitors
to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, each of which can claim to be
a better product. Might we soon see the return of the “Netscape NOW”/”Best […]

The Liquid List has a screenshot of CNN’s home page. Sometimes “a thousand words” make a point better than an outraged essay. I took a look at CNN.com today and it’s more of the same, although there’s a headline about the bombing in Beirut. CNN International is better, with more headlines and more of […]

Bush has nominated Paul Wolfowitz to lead the World Bank. Yes, the same guy who didn’t care about al-Qaeda, said there was no history of ethnic strife in Iraq, founded the Office of Special Plans to bubble up the worst Iraq intelligence, declared that France is going to “pay some consequences” for opposing the immediate […]

Most of these links are probably going to die off in a few days/weeks:

Dykes to Watch Out For nails Bush’s dishonesty
Nick Anderson does the same for Iraq and
Social Security

Matt Davies on the bankruptcy bill
David Horsey on the bankruptcy bill,
the auto industry,
and the Jeff Gannon scandal

Kevin Seirs punishes Hezbollah
I Drew This on the Ten Commandments debacle

Whereas the first anti-Syria march was large and the pro-Syria march was huge, yesterday’s anti-Syria protests were hugeR, drawing nearly a million people in the small country. It looks like Syria’s on its way out, in compliance with UNSC resolution 1559 and the demands of a unified West.
Getting this done without violence (so far.. […]