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Chechen Terrorists and the Neocons

Coleen Rowley Consortium News
The revelation that the family of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings was from Chechnya prompted new speculation about the attack as Islamic terrorism. Less discussed was the history of U.S. neocons supporting Chechen terrorists as a strategy to weaken Russia.

Big Tent

Clay Bennett gocomics.com

Friday Nite Videos -- April 19, 2013

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Scientists create a see-through brain. Boston Marathon suspect interrogation may answer many questions. Lewis Black on the moocher class. Brubeck's 'Take Five' with sitar and tabla. Glenda Jackson's 'tribute' to Baroness Thatcher. Documentary film: Ain't I a Person?

The See Through Brain

Scientists have come up with a way to make whole brains transparent, so they can be labelled with molecular markers and imaged using a light microscope.

Ain't I a Person?

The focus of this award-winning documentary film is the stories of the poor (and near-poor) about how they manage their lives and families. More information here.