Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 18 Jan. 2007

Thursday, 18 January 2007, 2:37 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:
Antiquities: Suzan Mazur Interviews Hecht's Partner Bruce McNall On The Bronze Boy
Iraq: Graham Reid - The Writing On The Wall
Iran: Robert Parry Finds More Evidence Of A Looming War With Iran
Law: Jason Leopold Previews The Scooter Libby Trial
American Coup: Voting Machine Problems Cross State Boundary
Media: David Swanson Addresses The Failure In Contemporary US News Journalism
Western Hemisphere: Toni Solo On The Return Of John Negroponte To Diplomacy
MORE SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:

Antiquities: Suzan Mazur Interviews Hecht's Partner Bruce McNall On The Bronze Boy

- "Where's Bruce McNall?" It was the question on everyone's lips at the June 1990 Sotheby's auction in New York of the Hunt antiquities, which McNall had sold to brothers Bunker and Herbert -- and again in November at the New York Hesperia Arts sale. The Hesperia auction liquidated Bruce McNall's and Bob Hecht's Rodeo Drive Summa Gallery antiquities stock. The major players feasted, with signed ancient art among the lots and estimates low. See... Mazur: Hecht's Partner On The Roman Bronze Boy [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00171.htm

Iraq: Graham Reid - The Writing On The Wall

- There is a famous saying: Those who do not learn from history are condemned to keep watching it re-run on CNN. And that's pretty much how I feel tonight after watching the current American president address his people and tell them that more of their sons and daughters were going to be sent to Iraq. See... Public Address 12/01/07 - The Writing On The Wall [1] MORE IRAQ SURGE REACTION:

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Iran: Robert Parry Finds More Evidence Of A Looming War With Iran

- At a not-for-quotation pre-speech briefing on Jan. 10, George W. Bush and his top national security aides unnerved network anchors and other senior news executives with suggestions that a major confrontation with Iran is looming. See... Robert Parry: The US-Iran-Iraq-Israeli-Syrian War [1] MORE ON THE POSSIBILITY OF WAR WITH IRAN:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00156.htm
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Law: Jason Leopold Previews The Scooter Libby Trial

- Opening statements in the criminal trial against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, are still a week away, but the special prosecutor has already provided a preview into the government's case against the ... See... Leopold: Preview - Fitzgerald's Case Against Libby [1] MORE RULE OF LAW vs BUSH NEWS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00194.htm
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American Coup: Voting Machine Problems Cross State Boundary

- The Election Contest filed by Democrat Christine Jennings and her attorney Kendall Coffey creates complications that could blow the electronic voting world to pieces. In the simplest terms, the Jennings Florida 13th Congressional district case requires ... See... Wrong Winner Chosen Twice by Same Voting Machine [1] MORE FLORIDA-13 NEWS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00173.htm
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Media: David Swanson Addresses The Failure In Contemporary US News Journalism

- By any serious standard of journalism, impeachment should be in the news right now. This illustrates the worst problem with our media. It's not how they cover stories. It's how they do not cover stories. See... David Swanson: If Beal Street Could Talk – Part 2 [1] & David Swanson: If Beal Street Could Talk – Part 1 [2] . Earlier.. Why We Need a National Conference for Media Reform [3] & Land of Enchantment and Impeachment [4]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00174.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00172.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00168.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00146.htm

Western Hemisphere: Toni Solo On The Return Of John Negroponte To Diplomacy

- To accompany President Saddam Hussein's lynching the Bush regime announced that death-squad manager nonpareil John Negroponte is to take over the post of deputy Secretary of State to hapless Condoleezza Rice left vacant by Robert Zoellick in 2006. See... Toni Solo: John Negroponte and Tupac Katari [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00169.htm

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