Iraq War Logs from Wikileaks were made public yesterday and document 109,000 deaths, including 66,000 civilian deaths, of which 15,000 were previously unknown. The more than 390,000 field reports from US military reveal the truth about the Iraq War from 2004 to 2009, which Wikileaks’ Julian Assange hopes will correct attacks “on the truth that occurred before the war, during the war, and which [have] continued on since the war officially concluded.”

Like the whole of mainstream media, CNN stinks and they know it. They are aware of how their shows distort the political reality and divide the American public at a time when we desperately need unity. But they still can’t help themselves. Let’s just turn them all off.

Despite recent polls indicating major support for candidates who could provide an alternative to the Democrats or Republicans, incidents against candidates running in the 2010 midterm election continue to persist. One of the most recent incidents is the arrest of California gubernatorial candidate Laura Wells.

It’s natural to feel good about buying a product from a company that is contributing money to a good cause like breast cancer prevention. But what are we buying into? And is it part of the problem?

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That ruling suggests that opinioned bloggers are also journalists, Chapman said.

“I can think of no case where a blogger would be treated differently (than a print journalist under the law),” Chapman said.

It’s Fox News rather than gotcha videos that let new candidates avoid the media.

Comedian actor Russell Brand was arrested at Los Angeles airport after pushing a photographer. But immediately he was released from police after paying $20,000 bail.

It’s time to admit that the Tea Party is less interested in some ideal of libertarianism that is rarely practiced in the real world and is indeed about promoting the patriarchy.

Written by Amanda Marcotte for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Thursday, September 16, 2010! Happy early Constitution Day, softcore porn for Christine O’Donnell, and Ohio’s corrupt incompetence.

“What I would like to know is, Why in the hell do a bunch of Rednecks get all weepy over the idea of the Twin Towers falling in New York when it was full of a bunch of bankers and lawyers? These were people they hate in a city that they hate,” asks SpitfireOFatj via YouTube.