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AP’s Today in History for May 16th
President Andrew Johnson survives a key vote at his Senate trial after his impeachment; First Oscars are presented; Actor Henry Fonda born; Singer Sammy Davis, Jr. and Muppets creator Jim Henson die.
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Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below
- End Military Aid to Israel
Ted Rall
- In Chicago, Brutal Killings by the Police Keep Coming
MIKE FRIEDBERG
- Capitalism v. Democracy (w/ Timothy Kuhner)
The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
- Jonathan Kirshner ─ Economic Warfare Begins at Home “Economic Warfare: What Can World War One Tell us about 21st Century Conflicts?”
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
- Corporate CEOs Won the Pandemic
LUKE SAVAGE
- Former Obama Staffer Jay Carney Is Amazon’s Top Flack
ALEX N. PRESS
- Ronald Reagan’s “Welfare Queen” Lie Has Been Resurrected
ANDREW PEREZ & DAVID SIROTA
- Michael Hiltzik on ‘No One Wants to Work!’
COUNTERSPIN
- Massive Resistance to Austerity Regime in Colombia
BAR Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
- Police and the License to Kill
Matthew D. Lassiter
- Freedom Rider: The End of Low Wage Work
Margaret Kimberley
Something to think about over coffee prozac
Japan Ambassador Rahm Emanuel Asks New Hosts For Best Black Site Recommendations
The Onion
TOKYO—Saying that he had done his own research but wanted to get a real local’s point of view, newly appointed U.S. ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel reportedly asked his hosts Tuesday to recommend the best black sites to visit. “So, if I’m hanging out by the American embassy in Tokyo, where are the best places I can go and spend the afternoon watching interrogators coerce confessions out of prisoners in a CIA holding cell,” said Emanuel, while also reminding his guides that he had high standards for clandestine detainment centers, especially after being the mayor of Chicago. “Hey, I’m in a new country, with a new job, and I figure, what’s a better way to get to know the locals than to go straight to a state-sanctioned secret prison or two? And don’t send me to any of those lame underground bunkers you just take the new politicians on their welcome tours. I want to get down and dirty, maybe even torture someone myself.” At press time, Emanuel shocked his hosts by rattling off the names of several black sites they had never even heard of, and handing them classified papers on each of the detainees he wanted to meet.