News & Views | 01.30.08 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:44:57 -0500 (EST)

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Wednesday 01.30.08

Headlines...

Study Calls Into Question Taser Use, Animal Cruelty
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6721/

Security Council Loses Credibility Over Iran, Israel
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6735/

John Edwards to Quit Presidential Race
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6720/

Video Reveals Violations of Laws, Abuse of Cows at Slaughterhouse
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6731/

Story About Petition-Drive to Charge Bush, Cheney with War Crimes Generates Flame War
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6722/

Claimants Tiptoe Around Lucrative Antarctic Rights
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6734/

US Justice Chief Refuses to Call Waterboarding Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6745/

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Views...

John Nichols | With a Last Call to Action, John Edwards Will Exit the Race
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6737/

Tom Engelhardt | Looking Up: Normalizing Air War From Guernica to Arab Jabour
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6724/

Robert Weissman | The Shameful State of the Union
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6725/

Robert Scheer | Obama, Clinton and the War
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6730/

Simon Jenkins | The 'War on Terror' Licenses a New Stupidity in Geopolitics
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6732/

Pat LaMarche | How Easily Offices Are Stolen in the US
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6727/

Katrina vanden Heuvel | Slavery in the Union
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/30/6744/

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Newswire...

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Says Attorney General Refuses to Condemn Waterboarding as Torture to Protect President and Other High Level Administration Officials Against Potential Criminal Prosecution
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0130-07.htm

Human Rights First: Leading Rights Group Rejects AG's Testimony On Waterboarding, Legality of CIA Program
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0130-10.htm

NARAL Pro-Choice America: Anti-Choice Activist Should Not Get Lifetime Judgeship
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0129-17.htm

Greenpeace Turns Nation's Most Iconic Landmark Into Memorial to Failed Climate Legacy
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0129-16.htm

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