Monthly Archive: October 2011

Oct
18
2011

Charges against Doctor Implicate Pakistan in Bin Laden Cover up

I wrote before about this poor Pakistani physician, Dr. Shakeel Afridi who is facing treason charges in Pakistan. Dr Afridi is accused of “helping the CIA use a vaccination campaign to try to collect DNA samples from people who lived in bin Laden’s compound.”  The implication seems to be that since he aided the CIA, …

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Oct
05
2011

The Smearing of Amanda Knox Shows Reading News Critically is Critical

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Amanda Knox is not really a political story, but I happened on a well-articulated article about the news reporting of Amanda Knox’s diary. This article by Amanda Knox biographer Candace Dempsey, gives a great example of why it is important to read the news critically. A Ms. Dempsey notes, newspapers have been fond of creating …

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Oct
04
2011

Occupying Wall Street or Preoccupied with Anger?

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I guess I ‘m not a big fan of protests in general. They seem to often be a lot of people complaining about problems without having viable solutions or expecting other people to solve the problems for them.