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Al Jazeera International Could Be Good for America, Say Backers

NEW YORK – While not as heavily debated as it was during the invasion of Iraq, the name Al Jazeera still carries plenty of unsavory associations in the United States. The international news network, coming soon to America, aims to change all that. Arab-language Al Jazeera claims to be an …

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The Flipside of News

I wonder what would happen if for one day we turned reporting on numbers upside down. For example, report that 99.9998 percent of all planes — commercial and commuter — landed safely last year without incident. Or that 95.3 percent of Americans are working. Or that 92 percent of all …

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Who's Behind the Bombing?

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is placing the blame for the Samarra mosque bombing at the feet of the U.S. and Israel. According to Reuters, the Iranian leader told a sympathetic crowd, “These heinous acts are committed by a group of Zionists and …

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