In the News Friday, February 6

[MacBeth]

My Response to the New York Times STANLEY I. KUTLER
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The Watergate Transcript Controversy: The Story Behind the Story RICK SHENKMAN
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HNN Hot Topics: The Watergate Transcript Controversy
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UP FRONT

*Pop Culture: TV, news, movie reviews, museum exhibits
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*Quote/Unquote
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*Audio/Video History
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*History Blogroll
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BREAKING NEWS


*Obama admission of mistake rare for presidents
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*Liberal watchdog group says Fox News Channel misrepresented FDR
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*Public-Opinion Researchers Censure Hopkins Scholar Over Findings on Iraqi Deaths
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*Holocaust denial: Vatican shifts into damage control
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*Africa's oldest human sacrifice found in Sudan
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*White House: Obama going to Illinois for Lincoln's 200th
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*Study Reveals Many German Schools Still Named After Nazis
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*Cheney to write his memoirs--and tell all
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*Vatican Demands Holocaust Denier Recant
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*Yours for 1,000 pounds... Oliver Cromwell's death mask, warts and all
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HOT TOPICS

*Watergate hnn.us/articles/61197.html
*Black History hnn.us/articles/9975.html
*Holocaust Denial hnn.us/articles/33111.html
*AMT: What Is It? hnn.us/articles/11819.html
*Book of the Month hnn.us/blogs/62.html
*Website of the Month hnn.us/roundup/57.html
*Presidential Records hnn.us/articles/36054.html
*Inaugural hnn.us/articles/9534.html
*Middle East Crisis hnn.us/articles/58393.html
*Biggest Financial Scandals in U.S. History hnn.us/articles/880.html
*Obama Is Like ? hnn.us/articles/57234.html
*Obama Should Do? hnn.us/articles/56581.html
*Whither Repubs? hnn.us/articles/56996.html
*Obama's Election hnn.us/articles/56581.html
*Meltdown 2008 hnn.us/articles/54603.html
*Freddie/Fannie hnn.us/articles/1849.html
*Election 2008 hnn.us/articles/51144.html
*Barack Obama hnn.us/articles/51399.html
*Bush Worst President? hnn.us/articles/48916.html
*Obama and Race hnn.us/articles/48484.html

ROUNDUP TOP 10!

#1 Sam Tanenhaus: Conservatism Is Dead ... An intellectual autopsy of the movement hnn.us/roundup/entries/61186.html

#2 Roger Morris: The President Behind the Mask
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#3 Jeffrey Wasserstrom: 10 Things That Obama Should Do (To Prepare for Going to Beijing) hnn.us/roundup/entries/61209.html

#4 Arthur Herman: The Return of Carterism?
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#5 Jonathan Zimmerman: On Uncle Sam's role in public schools, Republicans have it backwards hnn.us/roundup/entries/61257.html

#6 Deborah Lipstadt: Double Disaster at the Vatican ... Indepth Analysis
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#7 Carl Sferrazza Anthony: Michelle Obama and the Covert Influence of First Ladies hnn.us/roundup/entries/60985.html

#8 Christopher Beam: He's Lincoln! No, He's FDR! No, He's Polk!
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#9 Norman Solomon: Why Are We Still at War?
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#10 Jonathan Kay: Iraqi democracy is Bush's true legacy
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[MacBeth]

Panetta: Obama Won't O.K. "Extraordinary Rendition"
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Pamela Hess, The Associated Press: "CIA Director nominee Leon Panetta assured senators Thursday that the Obama administration will not send prisoners to countries for torture or other treatment that violates US values as he contended had occurred during the Bush presidency. Panetta said that President Barack Obama forbids what Panetta called 'that kind of extraordinary rendition - when we send someone for the purpose of torture or actions by another country that violate our human values.'"

Watchdogs: Government Overpaid for Wall Street Assets
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Kevin G. Hall and Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers: "The federal government overpaid by about $78 billion for stock and other troubled assets when it bailed out big banks last year, and it lacks sufficient internal controls to police and protect taxpayers' investment in the institutions, government watchdogs said Thursday. The new special inspector general for the bailout effort, formally called the Troubled Asset Relief Program, issued his first report Thursday and said that the Treasury Department needs to put more safeguards in place to protect taxpayers."

Army Reports Alarming Spike in Suicides Last Month
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Pauline Jelinek, The Associated Press: "The Army is investigating an unexplained and stunning spike in suicides in January. The count is likely to surpass the number of combat deaths reported last month by all branches of the armed forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the fight against terrorism. 'In January, we lost more soldiers to suicide than to al-Qaida,' said Paul Rieckhoff, director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. He urged 'bold and immediate action' by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs."

Philip Brenner and Saul Landau | Farewell, Monroe Doctrine
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Philip Brenner and Saul Landau, Foreign Policy in Focus: "President Barack Obama could swiftly improve US relations with Latin America by announcing the death of the Monroe Doctrine and then presiding over its funeral. Such a statement would cost him little domestically, and win him praise and appreciation throughout Latin America and much of the world. Most Americans don't know the details of this 185-year-old policy and could care less about it. Latin Americans, in contrast, not only can describe the Monroe Doctrine, but they revile it. In effect, it has become nothing more than hollow rhetoric that offends the very people it purports to defend."

Last Guantanamo Trial Is Halted
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BBC News: "The judge in charge of the Guantanamo Bay hearings has ordered an end to the last trial there, the Pentagon says. Judge Susan Crawford made the decision days after Judge James Pohl had refused a request from President Barack Obama to suspend all hearings."

Obama Administration Moves to Heal Rift With Europe
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Ross Colvin, Reuters: "US Vice President Joe Biden will seek to break with the unilateralist tilt of the Bush years by emphasizing cooperation and diplomacy in a major weekend foreign policy speech in Germany, US officials said. His remarks on Saturday to the Munich Security Conference, a gathering of defense and security experts, will be scrutinized for more details on the new administration's policies on Russia, Afghanistan, the Middle East and NATO expansion."

[MacBeth]

Say No to Nukes in the Stimulus Package
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Poor women get breast cancer detection, but not treatmentwww.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1001466

Olbermann to Cheney: 'Leave this country'
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UK | Banish Big Brother: The state's surveillance powers must be curbed, say Lords
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All of Them Must Go
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[MacBeth]

Joseph Stiglitz: Nationalized Banks Are "Only Answer"
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Deutsche Welle: "Nationalized banks are the 'only answer,' economist Stiglitz says. In an interview with Deutsche Welle, Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about nationalizing banks, the outlook for developing countries, and the need for an international financial regulator."

Obama Seeks Nuclear Disarmament Deal With Russia
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Ian Traynor and Luke Harding, The Guardian UK: "The Obama administration is looking for a quick deal between the US and Russia to more than halve their nuclear weapons stockpiles, reversing the Bush White House's refusal to be bound by international treaties."

Giant Dam May Have Triggered Sichuan Quake
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Shai Oster, The Wall Street Journal: "Chinese and US scientists are examining the possibility that a giant dam may have triggered the earthquake that killed some 80,000 people when it struck Sichuan province nine months ago, raising questions about ambitious dam-building projects across China's earthquake-prone western regions."

Dan Bacher | Name Change Won't Alter Resources
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Dan Bacher, Truthout: "The Resources Agency on January 1 adopted a new name, the California 'Natural' Resources Agency, to give the agency a more 'green' veneer. Unfortunately, nothing has changed at the agency that has presided over the collapse of the state's salmon, steelhead and other fish populations. A press release from the agency in late December claimed that the name change was adopted to 'better reflect its mission.'"

Robert Kuttner | President Obama Wants You to Join the Union
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Robert Kuttner, The Huffington Post: "The great union leader John L. Lewis, who headed the United Mine Workers from the '30s through the '50s and helped organize millions of workers into the CIO, used to declare in organizing drives: 'President Roosevelt wants you to join the union.' Roosevelt never said that in so many words, but FDR did strongly back the Wagner Act, giving workers the clear right to organize."

Female Workers May Exceed Males in the US Due to Recession
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AHN: "With mass layoffs in the US taking place in the manufacturing and construction sectors, employed female workers may surpass males since 82 percent of the recorded job losses involved men."

David Lazarus | Health Savings Accounts Are Ill-Advised
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David Lazarus, The Los Angeles Times: "Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's decision Tuesday to withdraw as nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services was a setback for President Obama's goal of reforming the U.S. healthcare system."

"Green" Classes Flourish in Schools
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Sean Cavanagh, Education Week: "Solar-powered cars have barely begun to inch out of test laboratories onto the difficult road to commercial viability. But miniature versions of that technology are already being churned out at Whitmore Lake High School."

The Los Angeles Times | A Vote for DC
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The Los Angeles Times: "Since taking office, President Obama has expressed an unusual interest in the District of Columbia - sometimes a critical interest, as when he ragged Washingtonians about their oversensitivity to winter weather. Obama's engagement with his new home has raised hopes that he will press early and hard to allow district residents a voting representative in Congress."