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Thom Hartmann The Battle Hymn of the New Liberal Media: A Good Business Plan In the last Democratic debate, one of the questioners pointed out that fewer Americans identify themselves as either liberals or Democrats than at any time since before Roosevelt's New Deal. The... Read more |
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Huck Gutman Life in a Fantasy World Fantasy beckons as an easy way to make choices since in its orbit reality is of little or no account. The consequences, however, can be exceedingly painful. Consider George W. Bush, his counselors... Read more |
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Helen Thomas No Wonder Bush Doesn't Connect With the Rest of the Country WASHINGTON -- President Bush recently gave an hour-long exclusive interview to Fox TV anchor Brit Hume, who tossed him a series of softball questions. Among them, Bush was asked how he gets his news... Read more |
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William Greider Lessons of the Blackout The New York-to-Detroit blackout was one of those brief, sensational moments of chaos that leave behind a resonant political message. Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber, Robert Weissman US Bullies Europeans on Chemical Testing Literally tens of thousands of chemicals on the market have never been tested for their impact on human health. The chemical industry thinks this is a good thing. Safety testing is too expensive, the... Read more |
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Barbara Lee Congress Should Veto Misguided Second Installment on Iraq War In the next few days, Congress will be asked to vote on an additional $87 billion appropriation to fund the war in Iraq. This money follows a $78 billion special appropriation in April and a defense... Read more |
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Nancy Snow Arnold Schwarzenegger: Triumph of the People’s Will? I will not fail you, I will not disappoint you, and I will not let you down -- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor-elect of California, October 7, 2003 Read more |
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft How Blair Lost by Winning BATH, England -- On BBC radio the other morning, there was a poignant moment when the Pentagon adviser Kenneth Adelman was talking about the war in Iraq. "It bothers me that people in Britain don't... Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Rush Limbaugh May Teach Conservatives A Lesson The reaction to the drug problem - and drug felonies - recently alleged against Rush Limbaugh highlight sharply the differences between conservative morality and liberal/progressive morality... Read more |
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People Power Another Rant on Little Caesar, the Doctor and the General, K Street and Fading Gray. Read more |
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Gary Olson He Lied. They Died. #305 Spc. Paul J. Sturino, age 21; #306 Spc. Michael Andrade, age 28; #307 Sgt.1st Class Robert E. Rooney, age 43; #308 Capt. Robert L. Lucero,age 34; #309 Spc. Kyle G. Thomas, age 23. For several... Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill Does A Felon Rove The White House? Allegations are swirling that Karl Rove, senior political adviser to President George W. Bush, may have committed a felony by blowing the cover of a CIA operative. CIA Director George Tenet has... Read more |
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Huck Gutman A Riveting American Drama Why is the USA in the Quagmire That It is in Today? The Answer Lies in Domestic Politics, Cowboy Diplomacy and Greed Read more |
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Tom Turnipseed The Legacy of Military Solutions: Live by the Sword and Die by the Sword Military solutions are presently paramount in American politics and the old martial maxim of living by the sword, and dying by the sword is a proverbial truth now haunting the Bush/Cheney... Read more |
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John Buell In Cancun It Was Paeans to the World's Wealthy It was supposed to be a trade summit with a difference. The major sponsors promised to devote themselves to the poor. Nonetheless, the recent summit in the posh resort city of Cancun replayed old... Read more |
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Les Gapay How a Regular Guy Gets Homeless I pull into a campground, pay my fee and pitch my green, two-person tent beneath the trees in the hills above California's southern coast. Someone has left some firewood, and I split it with my ax... Read more |
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Andrew Greeley Big Lie on Iraq Comes Full Circle Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief (director of communications, in the current parlance), once said that if you are going to lie, you should tell a big lie. That may be good advice, but the... Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Might Bush's Blank Check for War Bounce If He Deceived Congress? On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, George W. Bush said what virtually every other senior member of his administration had been going out of their way to refute. " We've had no evidence ," he told CNN's... Read more |
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Kumar Venkat Globalization's Unanswered Questions During the run-up to the World Trade Organization's failed meeting in Cancun, most editorial writers around the world called for an end to unfair farm subsidies and tariffs in rich countries. After... Read more |
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James Carroll Saying 'No!' To The War In Iraq THE CATASTROPHE in Fallujah -- 10 Iraqi policemen killed by US forces acting, as one Iraqi said, "just like Saddam" -- can be the occasion of new recognitions. The normal ecology of war is chaos and... Read more |
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James Carroll Saying 'No!' To The War In Iraq THE CATASTROPHE in Fallujah -- 10 Iraqi policemen killed by US forces acting, as one Iraqi said, "just like Saddam" -- can be the occasion of new recognitions. The normal ecology of war is chaos and... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Big Snapple? Selling the City, Drink by Drink Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg held a news conference on September 9th which was described by the New York Post this way: "Looking more like a pitchman than a politician, the mayor bought an orange-mango... Read more |
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Helen Thomas Declare Victory and Leave President Bush should take advice from a Vietnam-era Republican senator: Declare a victory in Iraq and get out.The late Sen. George Aiken, R-Vt., gave that counsel to both Presidents Lyndon B... Read more |
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Marty Jezer Out of the Streets, Into the Voting Booths One year from now the presidential campaign will be in full swing. Absent a political meltdown (which is not inconceivable), the Republicans will have renominated George W. Bush and the Democrats... Read more |
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Danny Schechter How Media Has Changed Since the Day that 'Changed Everything' Two Years Later Read more |
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Thom Hartmann The Genetically Modified Bomb Imagine a bomb that only kills Caucasians with red hair. Or short people. Or Arabs. Or Chinese. Now imagine that this new bomb could be set off anywhere in the world, and that within a matter of days... Read more |
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James Carroll To Honor the Victims, Let Us Make Peace, Instead of War THE COINCIDENCE of dates is precious to human beings because it creates the impression that underlying the chaos of normality is a structure of order. The passage of time is not a mere matter of... Read more |
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Rachel Shabi The Torturers' Picnic Repressive Regimes Will Be Stocking Up Again at This Week's Arms Fair - and We're Footing the Bill Read more |
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Sheila K. Johnson The Battle of Algiers and Its Lessons I hadn't looked at The Battle of Algiers, that classic 1965 film about urban guerrilla warfare, for at least twenty years, but once seen it tends to linger undiminished in the mind's eye. Made by... Read more |
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Norman Solomon 9/11 Couldn't Eclipse the Truth One of the great media cliches of the past two years is that Sept. 11 "changed everything." The portentous idea soon became a truism for news outlets nationwide. At the end of 2001, the front page of... Read more |
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Jonathan Schell The Importance of Losing The basic mistake of American policy in Iraq is not that the Pentagon-believing the fairy tales told it by Iraqi exile groups and overriding State Department advice-forgot, when planning "regime... Read more |
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Helen Thomas Who's Counting the Dead in Iraq? Remember the enemy body counts during the Vietnam War? Some of those U.S. tabulations were highly exaggerated in an effort to show gains on the battlefield. Well, we don't do that anymore. The... Read more |
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Mark Morford The Big Lie Of Jessica Lynch A $1 Mil Book Deal, Zero Memory Of Any "Rescue" And The Worst Book You'll Read This Year Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Quagmire of Denouncing a "Quagmire" When I hear pundits warn that Iraq is becoming a "quagmire," I wince. "Quagmire" is a word made famous during the Vietnam War. The current conflict in Iraq comes out of a very different history, but... Read more |
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Amy Goodman The US Government Wanted 'To Make an Example Out of Me:' Young Webmaster Heads to Prison for Political Website Judge Bans Him From Associating with Anyone Who Wants to Change US Gov't 'In Any Way' Read more |
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James Carroll Facing the Truth About Iraq THE WAR IS LOST. By most measures of what the Bush administration forecast for its adventure in Iraq, it is already a failure. The war was going to make the Middle East a more peaceful place. It was... Read more |
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Jonathan Schell Ways to Win Events have suddenly and unexpectedly handed the Democratic Party an opportunity to defeat George W. Bush in 2004. His main justifications for his war in Iraq (existence of weapons of mass... Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Ten Commandments -- Are They Fair and Balanced? A national media spotlight has focused on the battle between the Constitution of the United States and some religious fundamentalists who viewed themselves as angels of Montgomery. The removal of a... Read more |
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Andrew Greeley U.S. Sinking in Iraq Quagmire Faced with persistent sabotage and an increase in guerrilla violence, the Bush administration faces unpalatable options in Iraq, especially as the country approaches the beginning of the year before... Read more |
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Naomi Klein Bush's War Goes Global The US President Has Created a Tool Kit for Any Mini-Empire Looking to Get Rid of the Opposition Read more |
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Danny Schechter Marching on Washington and Moving in the Movement Remembering What It Was Like Four Decades Ago Read more |
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John Buell Shedding Light on the Massive Power Blackout For want of a nail, a ship was lost. As this tale suggests, concerns about technological interdependence preceded the digital age. Amidst war, the loss of a few sailing ships could end the political... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Grassroots Democracy in Iraq, American Style BAGHDAD -- Majid Muhammed Yousef yearns for democracy. As an Iraqi Kurd, he and his family suffered tremendously under Saddam Hussein. After the US overthrew Saddam, Majid was grateful and excited... Read more |
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Robert C. Byrd Unprepared for Peace in Iraq As the situation in Iraq continues to spiral out of control, an anxious nation watches. Despite assurances to the American people that our troops would be welcomed with open arms as liberators, U.S... Read more |
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Robert C. Byrd Trouble Brewing: The Doctrine of Pre-Emption is Beginning to Look Like a Doctrine of Provocation Remarks delivered on the floor of the Senate on Aug. 1, 2003 Read more |
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Helen Thomas No Mercy in Ashcroft's Brand of Justice Attorney General John Ashcroft doesn't have enough to do, hunting down terrorists. With the help of a rollover Congress, he now has a new and bigger club to go after federal judges who impose lighter... Read more |
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Tom Turnipseed The Iraq War Could Become The Greatest Defeat In United States' History The Bush/Cheney administration's military invasion of Iraq could become the greatest military defeat in United States' history. U.S. troops are being attacked daily by increasingly diverse forces in... Read more |
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky Young People Are Speaking -- Is Anyone Listening? I'll be casting my first vote for president in 2004, because I don't know if my generation and the world we were supposed to inherit will survive another four years of the Bush regime intact. There... Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Eli Whitney Started Spiral Toward Sprawl with Fast Gun If children ask why the sky is blue and where babies come from because blue skies and babies are backdrops to their world, it must be a matter of time before they start asking where sprawl comes from... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Make the Recall Count The upcoming California gubernatorial recall election (the first ever) has been described as a "circus," a "farce," "wacky" and "show business." More reflective observations have described it as a... Read more |
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Norman Solomon Arnold Twists Adam Smith Arnold Schwarzenegger recently went out of his way to tout the views of an 18th-century economist long revered as an icon by GOP politicians. "I am more comfortable with an Adam Smith philosophy than... Read more |
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Marty Jezer Liberia And American Interventionism Weeks have past since George W. Bush toured Africa and said he was thinking about sending American peacekeeping forces to help stop the civil war in Liberia. The United Nations has requested... Read more |
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James Carroll America's Habit of Revenge ''ALTHOUGH THE WAR did not make any immediate demands on me physically, while it lasted it put a complete stop to my artistic activity because it forced me into an agonizing reappraisal of my... Read more |
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Marty Jezer Bob Hope: Court Jester I've always been a sucker for comedy. In my system of values, a bad joke is better than no joke. In my hierarchy of heroes, there is no one braver (at least in the field of non-life-threatening... Read more |
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John Buell The Politics of Drug Wars Conservatives complain that government metastasizes like cancers. Programs create new demands for services even as problems grow. This critique hardly fits such popular and effective programs as Head... Read more |
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Steve Perry The Bush Administration's Top 40 Lies about War and Terrorism Bring 'em On! Read more |
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Helen Thomas Bush's Vietnam-sized Credibility Gap WASHINGTON -- President Bush has a huge credibility gap stemming from his exaggerated rhetoric that led the United States to attack Iraq. The Bush hype recalls the Lyndon B. Johnson era when LBJ's... Read more |
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Blair Bobier Kids, Don’t Try This at Home! Should the Green Party Run a Presidential Candidate in 2004? YES! Read more |
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Norman Solomon Green Party Taking the Plunge for 2004 For the 2004 presidential race, the Green dye is cast. "The Green Party emerged from a national meeting ... increasingly certain that it will run a presidential candidate in next year's election, all... Read more |
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Robert Alison Yes, We'll Have No Bananas - Thanks to Selective Breeding, our Favourite Fruit can Neither Reproduce nor Defend Itself from Disease The banana is about to disappear from store shelves around the globe. Experts say the world's favourite fruit will pass into oblivion within a decade. No more fresh bananas. No more banana bread. No... Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Ari & I: July 14, 2003 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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Jim Lobe Iraq: Anatomy of a Quack-Mire How could such smart people get so much wrong? "I really do believe we will be greeted as liberators," U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney declared on television just as U.S. troops were massing along... Read more |
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Marty Jezer Not A Vietnam-like Quagmire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference recently in which he attacked media prophets of doom and gloom for suggesting that the administration's war against Iraq is a Vietnam-like "... Read more |
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Huck Gutman Supreme Court Issues Watershed Decision on Gay Rights IN a stunning decision, the US Supreme Court struck down laws against homosexual practices. On 26 June 2003, it emphatically and unequivocally reversed an earlier decision by declaring that a Texas... Read more |
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James Carroll Bush's War Against Evil IN THE GOTHIC splendor of the National Cathedral, that liturgy of trauma, George W. Bush made the most stirring - and ominous - declaration of his presidency. It was Sept. 14, 2001. ''Just three days... Read more |
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John Buell The Politics of Class War The centerpiece of President Bush's "economic stimulus" plan, ending the so-called double taxation of dividends, is unlikely to have much immediate impact. Its contribution to long-term growth is... Read more |
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Danny Schechter What Do Americans Know? Not Very Much Millions of Americans accept what they are told and think they understand what they see. And what they are told and what they see is most often news as a manipulated commodity. But the facts that... Read more |
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James Carroll Why You Love America IT WAS THE POINT of fireworks when you were young. In those days, each backyard had its own celebration of the Fourth of July, and your dad, like all the others, presided over the lighting of the... Read more |
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Gary Olson Iraq Eerily Starting to Look a Lot Like Vietnam I recently returned from a lengthy trip to Europe, where I had extended conversations with strangers from several countries. Although I didn't experience any hostility toward Americans per se,... Read more |
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Huck Gutman On Science, War, and the Prevalence of Lies THE USA in many ways has a laudable history. Among the high points in its development was the establishment of the oldest written constitution in the world, a document that established a vibrant and... Read more |
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Helen Thomas Bush Fundraising: Post-Tax Cut Payback From Rich? President George W. Bush is trying to scoop up an historic $200 million at political fundraising events to kick off his reelection campaign -- even though he has no challengers in the Republican... Read more |
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Huck Gutman Why Bush Ignores the Numbers Figures about the American economy give some people headaches. Recognizing this, President Bush would rather talk about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq -- which have never been found -- than... Read more |
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Nancy Snow We’re Caught in a Trap We can't go on together, with suspicious minds And we can't build our dreams, on suspicious minds Read more |
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Huck Gutman Eight Steps To Free Media On June 2, the Federal Communications Commission decided, by a partisan 3-2 vote, to "deregulate" the media. Gone are restrictions preventing newspapers from owning television stations; limits on the... Read more |
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Helen Thomas Dems Have Shot In '04 -- If They Don't Go Wobbly Doubts About Bush's Postwar Credibility Could Lift Left Read more |
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Bill Moyers This is Your Story - The Progressive Story of America. Pass It On. Text of speech to the Take Back America conference sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future June 4, 2003 Washington, DC Thank you for this award and for this occasion. I don't deserve either,... Read more |
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Huck Gutman Like Déjà Vu All Over Again ERNEST HEMINGWAY once wrote, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." The novel is one of the classics of the American literary tradition, in part... Read more |
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Ka Hsaw Wa Court Is Villagers' Only Hope If an American company assists in and benefits from gross human rights abuses committed by its business partners, should it be held liable and accountable? Read more |
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Naomi Klein Downsizing in Disguise Why is Paul Bremer Hacking Away So Viciously at Iraq's Public Sector? Read more |
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Helen Thomas Report Lambastes Justice Department WASHINGTON -- Hats off to Justice Department inspector general Glenn Fine for nailing the department's abuse of illegal immigrants in the name of fighting terrorism. Fine, an appointee of former... Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Fabrications as Magic Potion Toward the end of "Rambo III," the last of the great war comedies, Rambo and his latest POW catch are surrounded by about half the Soviet army, somewhere in Afghanistan. All seems lost. But poet-... Read more |
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Helen Thomas There Must Be Weapons Of Mass Destruction In Here Somewhere The Central Intelligence Agency is investigating the accuracy of the Bush administration's conclusions that Iraq represented an imminent and direct threat to the United States. The administration... Read more |
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Caroline Arnold The Map is not the Territory In the end, the success or failure of the roadmap depends on how we talk about it. If our discourse is framed by the premise that Palestinian violence is the primary problem, the roadmap does not... Read more |
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Helen Thomas Nothing Sweeter to Bush than Revenge WASHINGTON -- Revenge must be very sweet, considering the hard-nosed approach the Bush administration takes toward those who opposed the president's decision to invade Iraq. President Bush's personal... Read more |
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Danny Schechter Calling for a Media Crimes Tribunal In the best of all possible worlds, there would be a war crimes investigation into this dreadful war. And a media crimes tribunal should accompany it, investigating the sins of commission, omission and blinkered patriotism. Read more |
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Helen Thomas U.S. Rearms While Telling Others To Disarm WASHINGTON -- While the United States tells other nations to disarm, the Bush administration appears eager to take steps toward expanding our nuclear arsenal. At the behest of the administration, the... Read more |
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Andrew Greeley It's Time for Bush to Tell the Truth After the 1961 Bay of Pigs disaster, when the CIA tried to invade Cuba and failed, President John Kennedy took personal responsibility and ordered an independent investigation. The incompetent... Read more |
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Huck Gutman After Iraq: Dark Roads THE war in Iraq is over. US President George W Bush has proclaimed victory. At present, his administration it is trying to govern and reconstruct post-war Iraq. But the results are sorry. Crime is... Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Move Over, Right Wing Radio - the Liberals Are Coming NEW YORK - A political explosion happened this weekend in New York, and it may be the big one that gives Karl Rove nightmares. It could mean the end of George W. Bush's seemingly unending ability to... Read more |
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Arundhati Roy Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (Buy One, Get One Free) Presented in New York City at The Riverside Church May 13, 2003 Sponsored by the Center for Economic and Social Rights In these times, when we have to race to keep abreast of the speed at which our... Read more |
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Caroline Arnold Let's Talk... You buttered my toast on the wrong side. my son, aged four, 1969 From the Middle Ages onward Western literature contains occasional references to curious objects called `rat-kings.' Considered... Read more |
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John Kampfner The Truth About Jessica Lynch Her Iraqi guards had long fled, she was being well cared for - and doctors had already tried to free her. John Kampfner discovers the real story behind a modern American war myth. Read more |
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Marty Jezer Have Road Map, Need Drivers The Middle East road map to peace is like a backcountry dirt road in Vermont. You can't get there from here. The United States, along with the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations (the "... Read more |
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James Carroll The Absolute Weapon LAST WEEK the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to allow the development of low-yield nuclear weapons -- a reversal of a ban that had been in effect since 1993. According to press reports, the... Read more |
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William Greider Rolling Back the 20th Century George W. Bush, properly understood, represents the third and most powerful wave in the right's long-running assault on the governing order created by twentieth-century liberalism. The first wave was... Read more |
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Nancy Snow When Truth is a Dangerous Thing Last fall I attended a small intimate dinner for eight women on the luxurious Westside of Los Angeles who came together to honor Boston Globe war correspondent Elizabeth Neuffer. We were a few miles... Read more |
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Howard Zinn My Country: The World Our government has declared a military victory in Iraq. As a patriot, I will not celebrate. I will mourn the dead -- the American GIs, and also the Iraqi dead, of which there have been many, many... Read more |
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Michael Schwalbe Lessons in Death, Born in the USA Young American men are the most violent group in the industrialized world. In 1992, after the first Gulf War, the homicide rate for American men between 15 and 24 was 37.2 per 100,000. That's ten... Read more |
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft Weapons of Mass Distortion The concept of WMD is dishonest. When they are in friendly hands we call them defense forces Read more |
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Andrew Greeley U.S. Miscalculates in Iraq Watching the Shiite Muslims marching through Karbala and Baghdad last week brought back uncomfortable memories. It was Iran in 1979 and 1980; Jimmy Carter was president, and the insufferable Walter... Read more |