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Schechter: Why We Barely Know What’s Going On
Commentary, June, 15 2010
Danny Schechter
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Defending America covertly has become an ongoing theme for one more TV series. Salute the flag and praise NBC (GE) for its latest effort to persuade the population to accept the kind of secret operations that now drive the war in Afghanistan. The...
Glick: News Flash: Tens of Millions in USA Like Idea of “Socialism”
Commentary, June, 10 2010
Ted Glick
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Here's some information you probably didn't read about in your newspaper or see on the evening news: according to a Pew Research Center poll released on May 4th, "29% [of U.S. Americans] say they have a positive reaction to the word 'socialism'. ....
Solomon: Israel and Harman in Tandem: From High Seas to Airwaves
Commentary, June, 05 2010
Norman Solomon
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When Israel attacked the Gaza aid flotilla, Congresswoman Jane Harman was engaged in a parallel assault. Israel’s government relied on the efficacy of violence; Harman’s campaign was counting on the power of paid media. In both cases, the targets ...
Pearson: The Insidious Bureaucracy in Venezuela: Biggest Barrier to Social Change
Znet Article, May, 20 2010
Tamara Pearson
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Venezuela’s large bureaucracy prevents people, collectively and individually, from controlling their lives and achieving what they are trying to achieve as movements or communities, by requiring exhausting amounts of documents and waiting, by not ...
Jamal: Tea Parties and Fear of the Future
Commentary, May, 19 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
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For every event in society, there are at least two sides; the side seen; and the side unseen.
Boyle: Dean Elena Kagan: Harvard's Gitmo Kangaroo Law School--The School for Torturers
Commentary, May, 18 2010
Francis Boyle
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Not surprisingly, the January 2007 issue of the American Journal of Imperial Law--otherwise known as the self-styled American Journal of International Law but originally founded a century ago and still operated by U. S. War and State Department le...
Landau: GM’s Shell Game
Commentary, May, 17 2010
Saul Landau
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On April 21, the Wall Street Journal published an op ed by Ed Whitacre, CEO of General Motors, claiming GM had paid back the money it had borrowed from the government -- plus interest. GM ads boasted of their rapid repayment of the company’s TARP ...
Chomsky: Rustbelt Rage
Znet Article, May, 11 2010
Noam Chomsky
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On Feb. 18, Joe Stack, a 53-year-old computer engineer, crashed his small plane into a building in Austin, Texas, hitting an IRS office, committing suicide, killing one other person and injuring others.
Bacon: Hundreds of Union Janitors Fired Under Pressure From Feds
Znet Article, May, 11 2010
David Bacon
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Federal immigration authorities have pressured one of San Francisco's major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers. Some 475 janitors have been told that unless they can show legal immigration status, they will lo...
Cohn: Can Kagan Fill Stevens’ Mighty Shoes?
Commentary, May, 09 2010
Marjorie Cohn
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As the Rehnquist court continued to eviscerate the right of the people to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens filed principled and courageous dissents.
Dimaggio: What “Populist Uprising?” Part II: Further Reflections on an “Astroturf Movement”
Znet Article, April, 30 2010
Anthony Dimaggio
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The much-ballyhooed Tea Party “movement” that has arisen to absurdly accuse the corporate and imperial Barack Obama administration with “socialism,” “favoring the poor,” and other “radical leftist” crimes claims to be a decentralized, independent,...
Cohn: Arizona Legalizes Racial Profiling
Commentary, April, 29 2010
Marjorie Cohn
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The conservative "states' rights" mantra sweeping our country has led to one of the most egregious wrongs in recent U.S. history. New legislation in Arizona requires law enforcement officers to stop everyone whom they have "reasonable suspicion" t...
Chomsky: “The Evil Scourge Of Terrorism"
Commentary, April, 27 2010
Noam Chomsky
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The president could not have been more justified when he condemned “the evil scourge of terrorism.” I am quoting Ronald Reagan, who came into office in 1981 declaring that a focus of his foreign policy would be state-directed international terrori...
Street: What “Populist Uprising?” Pt. 1
Znet Article, April, 23 2010
Paul Street
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Facts and Reflections on Race, Class, and the Tea Party “Movement,” Part 1
Chomsky: The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination
Znet Article, April, 20 2010
Noam Chomsky
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The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination
Mercille: Nuclear Insanities
Znet Article, April, 16 2010
Julien Mercille
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Writing in the 19th century, Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin said that the State is “the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity… this explains why kings and ministers, past and present, of all times and all c...
Giroux: A Society Consumed by Locusts
Znet Article, April, 13 2010
Henry Giroux
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As the recent health care debate has made clear, the decades-long conservative campaign against the alleged abuses of "big government" is far from over.
Shalom: The Politics of a Good Society
Znet Article, April, 12 2010
Stephen Shalom
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Parpolity is a proposed model for a political system of a good society. It is a type of direct democracy, using a system of nested councils. Everyone would be a member of a primary council, which would be small enough for face-to-face decision mak...
Baker: Profits on Citigroup Stock: Can They Be the Basis for Financing Stimulus?
Znet Article, April, 10 2010
Dean Baker
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Last month the government announced plans to sell the stock it obtained in November of 2008 as part of its bailout package of Citigroup. The media jumped on the fact that, at the stock's current market value, the government stands to earn an $8 bi...
Boyle: Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies, and Con-Artists: Bush to Obama
Commentary, April, 05 2010
Francis Boyle
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It is now a matter of public record that immediately after the terrible tragedy of 11 September 2001, U.S. Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld and his pro-Israeli Neo-Conservative Deputy Paul Wolfowitz began to plot, plan, scheme and conspire to wage...
