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Lou Dobbs Echoes Meg Whitman: I Didn't Know They Were Illegal Immigrants
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 7) -- Point, counterpoint. In a direct confrontation with the reporter at The Nation who wrote an article titled "Lou Dobbs, American Hypocite" that accused the talk show host of hiring illegal immigrants for years, Lou Dobbs insisted he had done no such thing. Interviewing Isabel Macdonald on his radio program on Thursday, Dobbs contended that he had not knowingly employed any illegal aliens. "Did you say that I hired or my firm hired illegal immigrants?" Dobbs asked Macdonald. "I am saying that for years, undocumented immigrants looked after your show jumping horses, and for ...
Lou Dobbs Employed 'Illegals,' The Nation Reports [VIDEO]
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 7) -- Ex-CNN host Lou Dobbs, potential independent presidential candidate, made a name for himself bashing illegal immigrants and American citizens who hire them on live TV. Now comes the news that he has himself employed such workers, according to the findings of a damning yearlong investigation published in The Nation magazine. Reports Isabel MacDonald: "Dobbs has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of his multimillion-dollar estates and the horses he keeps for his 22-year-old daughter, Hillary, a champion show jumper." MacDonald tracks down several of the ...
Report: US Soldier Killed Herself After Refusing to Participate in Torture
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- On this day seven years ago, Specialist Alyssa Peterson took her own life in Iraq. Just 27, the Arizonian was an Arabic-speaking interrogator. The Defense Department has tried to keep the circumstances of her death a secret, officially describing the incident as a "non-hostile weapons discharge." But thanks to the digging by Arizona reporter Kevin Elston and now, by The Nation's Greg Mitchell, it's clear that Peterson took her own life -- and that witnessing the torture of Iraqi prisoners drove her to do it. In the days preceding her death, Peterson had objected to the way ...
It's Not Just the Taliban in Afghanistan Who Brutally Oppress Women
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 16) -- Time magazine's Aug. 9 cover featured a shocking photo of an Afghan woman whose nose has been cut off and the title of the cover story: "What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan." The implication was hard to miss: If the U.S. pulls out, it will be leaving the country to the Taliban, Islamic fundamentalists who brutally oppress women, among other oppressive practices. But Ann Jones, a humanitarian worker in Afghanistan, takes issue with Time's sensationalism. She actually knows Bibi Aisha, the young woman in the cover photo who is now receiving treatment in the United States. Jones ...
Don't Forget Nagasaki (Even If US Censors Once Wanted You To)
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 9) -- News organizations, including this one, published numerous articles to mark Friday's 65th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. Meanwhile, today's anniversary of the second bombing -- of Nagasaki -- has passed largely unremarked. This despite the fact that the Nagasaki explosion has had a more lasting influence on the nuclear era. The bomb that detonated over Hiroshima was based on uranium; the one over Nagasaki was based on plutonium and rendered its predecessor obsolete. If "it had not exploded off-target, the death toll in the city would have easily topped the Hiroshima total," ...
Report: BP Using Prison Labor for Oil Cleanup
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(July 23) -- BP is hiring prison labor for its oil cleanup efforts, and newly unemployed coastal residents are expressing their outrage, according to a magazine article released this week. "Hiring prison labor is more than a way for BP to save money while cleaning up the biggest oil spill in history," reports The Nation's Abe Louise Young. "By tapping into the inmate workforce, the company and its subcontractors get workers who are not only cheap but easily silenced -- and they get lucrative tax write-offs in the process." Young writes that BP would not confirm that it had hired inmates. ...
Podcast: Ari Melber of 'The Nation'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn today's podcast we are joined by Ari Melber of The Nation. Melber discusses working for John Kerry in Iowa in 2004. We also discuss how a background as a political operative can benefit a reporter. Melber is The Nation's "Net movement correspondent," and thus, we also discuss the differences the blogosphere, including the difference between blogs on the left and on the right. He tells us that "blogs on the right have been focused around single voices, and having less participation from their audiences..." Check out the podcast! Subscribe to "The Matt Lewis Show" on iTunes! ...
Why Sen. Feingold Won't Vote for the Financial Services Reform Bill
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(July 14) -- For years, Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold has been an advocate of increased Wall Street regulation. He was one of only eight senators to vote against the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, a repeal that many credit for encouraging the Wall Street speculation and heavy leveraging that caused the recent financial crisis. He also voted against the Wall Street bailout. If there was a piece of serious financial regulatory legislation in the works, you'd think Feingold would vote for it. But not this time: Surprisingly, he won't be voting for the bill that's set to pass ...
Report: American Hikers Arrested in Iraq, Not Iran
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(June 24) -- It's been almost a year since three young Americans were arrested by Iranian forces as they hiked along the country's mountainous border with Iraq. Authorities in the Islamic Republic claim that Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal were caught last July after illegally entering Iran and are holding them on suspicion of espionage -- a crime punishable by death. The hikers' families have argued that if the trio did cross the border from Iraq, it was simply an accident. But according to a new report in The Nation, the walkers may have been seized as they were on Iraqi ...
Does the Templeton Foundation Promote Science, or Corrupt It?
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyA Presbyterian from small-town Tennessee, the late John Templeton went on to become one of the world's great financiers. In the 1980's he started an eponymous foundation, whose central mission was to re-inject religiosity into science. In an investigative piece in the current issue of The Nation magazine (hat tip Andrew Sullivan), Nathan Schneider worries about how successful the Templeton Foundation has become at fulfilling that goal, especially as its endowment is set to swell to $2.5 billion once John Templeton's estate is settled -- he died in 2008 -- and his son, Jack, moves to put his ...
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