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Corazon Aquino , better known as “Cory” Aquino, died at a hospital in Manila on Friday at the age of 76. Aquino, who became the first female president of the Philippines in 1986, was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2008. “Cory” Aquino became an icon of democracy when she assumed the presidency in the “People Power uprising, ending Ferdinand Marco’s two-decade rule. Aquino was reluctantly catapulted into politics after the 1983 assassination of her husband, Senator Benigno Aquino,

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By Matt Brunson BURMA VJ *** DIRECTED BY Anders Ostergaard STARS “Joshua” Back in 1988, ordinary Burmese citizens who were tired of their country being run by a military regime staged a massive protest, an act of protest that led to the slaughter of thousands of innocent people by the barbaric ruling class. A similar uprising occurred again in 2007, and Burma VJ provides inside access to that clash, even though all media coverage of events transpiring in that impoverished country is

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During the Green Revolution in Iran, you should really be reading two sites every hour:The Dish by Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic.Liveblogging the Uprising by Nico Pitney at the Huffington Post.Both have been amazing. Watching history happen there and on Twitter has been one of the more memorable historical experiences of my life, and it has revealed to me that our traditional media is dead. What did Larry King talk about last night? American Idol. And this is not a partisan thing, becau

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Two days in, Iran rages in post-election chaos. What may be the newest member of the nuclear club is in the midst of an uprising, but watching the cable networks, one wouldn’t know. As of last night, Fox News was running taped programing on Bernie Madoff and MSNBC was re-running it’s meat grinder of Maddow and Olbermann. At least I think they were, I was a little blasted. Nothing like drunk-viewing the Shia proletariat as it tosses molotov cocktails. Sunday shows come on, I figure we’ll see

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Two days in, Iran rages in post-election chaos. What may be the newest member of the nuclear club is in the midst of an uprising, but watching the cable networks, one wouldn’t know. As of last night, Fox News was running taped programing on Bernie Madoff and MSNBC was re-running it’s meat grinder of Maddow and Olbermann. At least I think they were, I was a little blasted. Nothing like drunk-viewing the Shia proletariat as it tosses Molotov cocktails at the thought and religion police. For one

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