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Humor has long been a sacred political tool. News can be spun or deliberately falsified. Books can be burned. Opposition parties can be marginalized. But the power of laughter can never be completely eradicated. Laughter, like murder, will out the tyrants, the hypocrites, the liars, and any others who abuse publicly-entrusted power. From Aristophanes’ mockery of the Athenian city-state to Bulgakov’s comic portrayal of Communist Russia, satire has, throughout history, allowed political dialogue to escape the bog of slippery words and violent duress. This happens because despite half-truths and full-spins, something...
...Staff Sergeant Raymond L. Girouard, 24, went on trial Tuesday, defending himself against charges of premeditated murder, obstruction of justice and other charges for ordering soldiers in his squad to kill three unarmed Iraqi detainees and conspiring to cover up the deaths. The case is one among several that have inflamed critics of the U.S. The prosecution has also stirred anger among Girouard's hometown supporters, who say he is being made a scapegoat in the case...
...ties between powerful politicians and criminal paramilitaries have brought down eight lawmakers and forced out President Alvaro Uribe's intelligence chief and foreign minister in the last four months. A new U.N. report says extra-judicial killings by the military are rising in the country. Colombia had the highest murder rate of trade unionists in the world and 4,000 disappearances last year, according to Human Rights Watch...
...Only in a country that eight years ago was considered a failed state could that be called progress. But kidnappings are down ten-fold in the past four years, and the annual murder rate has dropped from 28,000 to 17,000. Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos claims that heroin production has been eliminated in the country, once the world's third largest producer, and that coca eradication programs have drastically cut production. The economy is growing at 7%, inflation is low and exports are up. Uribe's popularity has soared to 73% as a result. "The major success...
...Under police interrogation, Tess and Bryan, interviewed separately, gave conflicting stories. Jailed since Feb. 28, Tess and Bryan have been charged as adults. He has been charged with first-degree murder and is under suicide watch. She has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and with evidence tampering. They will enter pleas following an arraignment in May. Meanwhile, their MySpace pages remain active. Tess's page lists more than 1100 comments, both pro and con, a little world of sympathy and condemnation. "Killing ur mom is one thing but leaving her in the f-----g trunk...