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...young to see the first series when it aired. Once I was old enough, I didn't want to - after Star Wars, which revealed the stunning truth that spaceships could actually get dirty, Trek looked a little out of date. Nothing gets old fast like the future. (See TIME's 1994 cover story on Star Trek...
...truth of what is happening in Afghanistan was laid out during recent gatherings held by the advocacy group Iraq Veterans Against the War, during which vets testified to the brutality that is an everyday part of the occupation. Hamid Karzai's government is just like the puppet regimes the U.S. set up in South Vietnam. And as in Vietnam, civilians are being massacred by U.S. troops. The media will deny it until, like My Lai, it becomes too big to be denied. While I heartily disagree with its policies, even the Taliban would be better for Afghanistan than...
...keep up on movies, but I've never heard of two of this year's selections: Sita Sings The Blues, and Nothing But The Truth. Why haven't I heard about these, and why have you chosen them for the festival...
...presidential nod on Tuesday toward the creation of what some are calling a "truth commission" to ferret out the origin of the harsh interrogations is likely to get renewed traction. Democrats Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Representative John Conyers of Michigan, who head the two congressional judiciary committees, have argued for such a panel, modeled on the widely respected one that studied 9/11. Having sparked the current conflagration by releasing the memos, Obama can only hope that creating such a commission could tamp it down - and keep this political firestorm from sucking up the valuable political oxygen he needs...
...enlistee named Christian Wurtemburg, a Swiss national, turned up dead - tortured and garroted. British journalist Paul Jenks began investigating Wurtemburg's death and was shot dead as well. (British journalist John Sweeney made a movie about the deaths in 1994 for Channel 4 called Dying for the Truth...