PARIS AP — Nearly 60 countries signed a treaty on Tuesday that bans governments from holding people in secret detention, but the United States and some of its key European allies were not among them.
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Today in Moronia
- Sandia chemists find new material to remove radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel
- The lowly groundhog: long may they Live
- American Apparel refuses to give prize to woman who won their photo contest
- Huge pythons are wiping out Everglades mammals
- Teach your child how to survive being arrested at school
- Gingrich urges students to get jobs, but his wife and family paid for his school
- Paul Krassner’s Lunar New Year predictions for 2012
- Welfare drug testing bill withdrawn after being amended to include lawmakers
- Coming for science: Why I orgasmed in an MRI scanner
- Miss America: auditioning for center stage
Today’s News
Current events.
Almost 60 nations — but not U.S. — sign treaty to ban forced disappearances
Are GOP Iraq debate tactics causing leadership split?
US News & World Report reports: The day after Senate Republicans effectively blocked debate on an anti-”surge” resolution, some in the caucus are growing increasingly alarmed over indications that they are losing the public relations battle to the Democrats. The Los Angeles Times says that although Republicans continue “to insist…that they simply want a...
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Slaughter and spin in the battle for Najaf
As with so much else in the blood-soaked annals of the Bush Administration’s disastrous Babylonian Conquest, it appears this neat story masks a far grimmer, grubbier truth: a mass slaughter of civilians, caught in the toxic fog of hair-trigger tension, sectarian hatred and violent political ambition unleashed by the U.S. invasion. Go to original...
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Journalists in the gunsight
55 world journalists killed in 2006 in USA, 34,000 lost jobs during 2001-2006 It’s not been a good time to be a journalist. Outside the United States, reporters literally take their lives into their own hands to cover dangerous stories.
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Bush slashes aid to poor to boost Iraq war chest
Bill for Iraq conflict will soon overtake Vietnam $78bn squeeze on medical care for elderly and poor
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