RussWellen’s NewsCloud Journal http://RussWellen.newscloud.com A NewsCloud community weblog Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:36:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 en World’s worst nuclear proliferator? Better stay away from mirrors http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/10/world%e2%80%99s-worst-nuclear-proliferator-better-stay-away-from-mirrors/ http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/10/world%e2%80%99s-worst-nuclear-proliferator-better-stay-away-from-mirrors/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:36:15 +0000 RussWellen http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/10/world%e2%80%99s-worst-nuclear-proliferator-better-stay-away-from-mirrors/ The Bush administration likes to think of itself as nuclear policeman to the world. North Korea? Put those missiles back in your pants. Iraq? Wipe that nuclear smirk off your face. Iran? No nuclear for you at all.

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]]> http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/10/world%e2%80%99s-worst-nuclear-proliferator-better-stay-away-from-mirrors/feed/ Does Obama advisor Power know a monster when she sees one? http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/07/does-obama-advisor-power-know-a-monster-when-she-sees-one/ http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/07/does-obama-advisor-power-know-a-monster-when-she-sees-one/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:41:57 +0000 RussWellen http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/07/does-obama-advisor-power-know-a-monster-when-she-sees-one/ She’s since become one of Obama’s main foreign policy advisors. Now Ms. Power may have become a “Problem from Hell” (the title of her classic book) for the Obama campaign. But bear in mind that she is likely the last person to toss around the word “monster” lightly. Her book is about genocide!

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]]> http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/07/does-obama-advisor-power-know-a-monster-when-she-sees-one/feed/ Laptop of mass destruction http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/02/laptop-of-mass-destruction/ http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/02/laptop-of-mass-destruction/#comments Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:48:56 +0000 RussWellen http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/02/laptop-of-mass-destruction/ It looks like, even though there isn’t much meat on it, the US will continue to gnaw on the Iran bone. Let’s just hope we don’t crunch through and wind up with splinters in our mouth.

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]]> http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/02/laptop-of-mass-destruction/feed/ Pushing the envelope of journalism until it’s inside-out http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/01/pushing-the-envelope-of-journalism-until-it%e2%80%99s-inside-out/ http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/01/pushing-the-envelope-of-journalism-until-it%e2%80%99s-inside-out/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:55:50 +0000 RussWellen http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/01/pushing-the-envelope-of-journalism-until-it%e2%80%99s-inside-out/ If Afghanistan was Russia’s Vietnam, Chechnya is its Iraq. A candidate for bravest woman of this young century, Anna Politkovskaya paid the ultimate price for her reporting on how much the Chechnyan people have suffered.

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]]> http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/03/01/pushing-the-envelope-of-journalism-until-it%e2%80%99s-inside-out/feed/ Lethal Pinatas: Keeping Cluster Bombs from Kids http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/02/23/lethal-pinatas-keeping-cluster-bombs-from-kids/ http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/02/23/lethal-pinatas-keeping-cluster-bombs-from-kids/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:00:40 +0000 RussWellen http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/02/23/lethal-pinatas-keeping-cluster-bombs-from-kids/ Because submunitions (miniature bombs nested inside the mother bomb) dropped by the US in Iraq, “some shaped like tiny bottles with short ribbons and others that are yellow with tissue parachutes, litter gardens and roof tops,” according to UNICEF. The cute little “bomblets,” as they’ve been called, are child magnets.

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]]> http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/02/23/lethal-pinatas-keeping-cluster-bombs-from-kids/feed/ How Dare Hillary Supporters Shame Us into Supporting Her? http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/02/17/how-dare-hillary-supporters-shame-us-into-supporting-her-2/ http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/02/17/how-dare-hillary-supporters-shame-us-into-supporting-her-2/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:02:53 +0000 RussWellen http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/02/17/how-dare-hillary-supporters-shame-us-into-supporting-her-2/ story photo

Where do Hillary’s supporters get off trying to foist a candidate on us whose foreign policy sell-by date has expired? How dare they make women who choose not to vote for her feel like they’re letting all women down?

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]]> http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/02/17/how-dare-hillary-supporters-shame-us-into-supporting-her-2/feed/ How Dare Hillary Supporters Shame Us into Supporting Her? http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/02/17/how-dare-hillary-supporters-shame-us-into-supporting-her/ http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/02/17/how-dare-hillary-supporters-shame-us-into-supporting-her/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:02:53 +0000 RussWellen http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/02/17/how-dare-hillary-supporters-shame-us-into-supporting-her/ Where do Hillary’s supporters get off trying to foist a candidate on us whose foreign policy sell-by date has expired? How dare they make women who choose not to vote for her feel like they’re letting all women down?

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]]> http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2008/02/17/how-dare-hillary-supporters-shame-us-into-supporting-her/feed/ Un-becoming a citizen http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2007/12/31/un-becoming-a-citizen/ http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2007/12/31/un-becoming-a-citizen/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:45:01 +0000 RussWellen http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2007/12/31/un-becoming-a-citizen/ “Very few Americans actually function as citizens anymore.” Not only don’t most of us care to be reminded of what we don’t know about our government, neither have we much interest in acquiring that knowledge. Furthermore, “That foreign policy stuff is too complicated, man.”

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]]> http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2007/12/31/un-becoming-a-citizen/feed/ Give us your tired, your poor, your Iraqi refugees. . . What? Wait a minute. http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2007/12/28/give-us-your-tired-your-poor-your-iraqi-refugees-what-wait-a-minute/ http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2007/12/28/give-us-your-tired-your-poor-your-iraqi-refugees-what-wait-a-minute/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:29:09 +0000 RussWellen http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2007/12/28/give-us-your-tired-your-poor-your-iraqi-refugees-what-wait-a-minute/ A Democratic candidate for president must break new ground for boldness and rub the plight of Iraqi refugees in our faces. Already it threatens to become as big a stain on our national soul as slavery and our annihilation of the red man.

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]]> http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2007/12/28/give-us-your-tired-your-poor-your-iraqi-refugees-what-wait-a-minute/feed/ Hillary’s telling the truth — that’s the problem http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2007/12/23/hillary%e2%80%99s-telling-the-truth-%e2%80%94-that%e2%80%99s-the-problem/ http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2007/12/23/hillary%e2%80%99s-telling-the-truth-%e2%80%94-that%e2%80%99s-the-problem/#comments Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:13:06 +0000 RussWellen http://RussWellen.newscloud.com/2007/12/23/hillary%e2%80%99s-telling-the-truth-%e2%80%94-that%e2%80%99s-the-problem/ Hillary’s not just talking tough to win votes. For her, war is the option of first resort.

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