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...were true, irrelevant. Unfortunately, this malicious incident is not isolated. Fox News Channel and its affiliates have a history of mischaracterizing Democrats and bolstering Republicans. In another glaring instance, Fox News correspondent Major Garret failed to share with viewers damning sections of a Senate report on the federal government??s response to Hurricane Katrina in March of 2006. While the other three major networks reported on the reports castigation of the White House, the Department Of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense, Garret only talked about sections criticizing Federal Emergency Management Agency...
...against speaking to the press, and an agreement not to press charges against U.S. government. Officials at Guantánamo have faced increasing pressure—and Supreme Court orders—to try the individuals being held. This first trial, however, is hardly reassuring; rather, it highlights the government??s lack of transparency and its failure to adhere to reasonable standards of justice. The prisoners detained at Guantánamo are, according to the Bush administration, among the most dangerous of America’s enemies. Given the recent threats of terrorism against our country, suspected terrorists...
FROM THE ARCHIVES "The Big Freeze" (June 9, 2005): In spring 2005, Cambridge announced a “Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness in Cambridge.” But several seemingly insurmountable obstacles lay in the city’s path including local real estate prices, the federal government??s limited definition of “chronically homeless,” and the number of poor individuals who continually flock to the city from across the Greater Boston area...
...company of Petrochina), the Oil and Natural Gas Company of India, and Petronas. Gould told me that his company pays $13.2 million every year to the Sudanese government and Sudan’s former finance minister Abda Yahia el-Mahdi has said that more than 70 percent of the government??s share of oil profits is spent on defense. Though it’s difficult to say with certainty without accounting records, if this proportion holds true for Schlumberger’s payments, almost $10 million goes from Schlumberger to a genocidal army...
...decades of research on terrorism—involving confrontations with IRBs, Harvard, and the federal government??shed light on the special obstacles faced by academics hoping to study sensitive issues...