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QUID PRO QUO
Dec 01, 2009; ... THE QUID: The group CO2 Is Green is running a TV ad campaign to build public opposition to climate change legislation. The commercial claims: "There is no scientific evidence the CO2 is a pollutant. .... In fact, higher CO2 levels than we have today would help the Earth's ecosystems." ...
JUST THE FACTS
Dec 01, 2009; ... 205 political prisoners in Cuba as of February 2009 1,500 Cubans detained in Cuba for political reasons in 2008 2,199 Cubans ...
Note from Editor & Publisher
Dec 01, 2009; ... Dear Reader, In a normal In These Times issue (not a special edition like this one, which includes our first-ever pull-out supplement) the editorial would occupy this space. This month, however, you will find our editorial, "Against the Demons Who Kidnap Information," on page SA ...
letters
Dec 01, 2009; ... Back in the USSR The interview with Barbara Ehrenreich on positive thinking ("The Dark Side of the Bright Side," November) and all the gimcrack movements related to it, reminded me of the much less sophisticated propaganda of the late, unlamented Soviet era. I remember a pronouncement ...
War, Peace and Obama's Nobel
Dec 01, 2009; ... THE HOPES AND prospects for peace aren't well aligned- not even close. The task is to bring them nearer. Presumably that was the intent of the Nobel Peace Prize committee in choosing President Barack Obama. To The New York Times, the prize "seemed a kind of prayer and encouragement by ...