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At some point reporters have to decide whether they are journalists or whores.

Those are just the sort of people that make me cringe while traveling in Europe.

Who says Homeland Security can’t be funny?

If he’s so pro-American and anti-international law, why is Richard Perle suing the New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh for libel in the UK?

Sofitel removes French flags from hotels.

Remember the story about Iraq possibly getting material for a dirty bomb from Nigeria? Which company “lost” the material in the first place? Cheney’s own Halliburton.

Government agencies opened a package mailed between two Associated Press reporters last September and seized a copy of an eight-year-old unclassified FBI lab report without obtaining a warrant or notifying the news agency. [via Atrios]

Get Your War On 21 has arrived.

The U.S. and Pakistan are now involved in kidnapping and interrogating children.

British news sites are seeing unprecedented traffic from US readers as Americans turn to Old Europe for Real News. [via Boing Boing]