David Broder and media culpability for Bush crimes
Link: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/26/broder/index.html
I read David Broder's truly wretched screed yesterday -- in which he demands immunity for Bush officials from investigation and prosecution and attacks those who advocate accountability -- and decided that I wouldn't write about it until today because I didn't want it to infect my Saturday. For purposes of catharsis, I did immediately note on Twitter that Broder's article was "a tour de force of Beltway sickness - even for him"
PermalinkClinton pledges to keep troops in Iraq if violence escalates
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/26/clinton-iraq-us-army-withdrawal
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, made a surprise visit to Baghdad yesterday to reassure Iraqi leaders that the Obama White House would refrain from withdrawing its troops from urban areas if renewed violence continued to worsen.
Swine flu: fears of pandemic rise as Mexico death toll reaches 80S
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/26/swine-flu-outbreak-mexico-pandemic
The death toll from an outbreak of a human swine flu virus has risen to more than 80 in Mexico as new suspected cases have been reported as far apart as Auckland in New Zealand and New York in the United States.
Global alert on deadly flu strain
Link: http://news.scotsman.com/world/Global-alert--on-deadly.5206544.jp
IT WAS feared last night that a deadly new flu strain that has killed dozens of people in Mexico had spread to Britain.
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