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Forbes: hitchens
Forum Post, May, 29 2011
Ross Forbes
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Great piece of writing. Black is the only colour for political sarcasm such as this.Orwell would have been overwhelmed by the shear wealth of material to comment on had he been alive today. Netanyahu's alchemic transformation of fascism i...
Brussel: A needed critique
Forum Post, May, 19 2011
Morton k. Brussel
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Paul, I am much impressed with your intestinal fortitude looking in in detail at the NewHour. I gave that up long ago. Unfortuately, "we" are blackmailed to support it through our local stations—who do some useful programming&mdas...
Yearwood: A Thoughtful Piece
Forum Post, May, 18 2011
Kelvin Yearwood
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I believe this is a good, thoughtful piece. It is interesting to consider that the one place young men and women of the West experience true support, solidarity and loyalty is when they are risking their life, health and minds fighting in dubio...
Weber: Chomsky's "Moral Equivalencing"
Forum Post, May, 15 2011
Mark Weber
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Chomsky's "moral equivalencing" (to coin a word), and Hitchens' moral clarity in refusing to do such, really amounts to this: Chomsky holds that the virtue of a person or regime should be judged by its actions, whereas Hitchens believes the revers...
Weber: Re: In Search of Truth
Forum Post, May, 04 2011
Mark Weber
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I too generally avoid the superficial, mind-imprisoning drivel spewed out by the mainstream media. And I too feel that the writings of Chomsky, Hedges, Paul Street, Sheldon Wolin, etc., have given me what devotees of Vip...
Rissler: Re: In Search of Truth
Forum Post, May, 02 2011
Mike Rissler
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Amen, brother Richard Bluhm and Danny Schechter. We have passed through post-modernism, deconstructionism, and now live in a world of "whatever I want to believe, forget the facts, truth is too difficult." But, of course...
Bluhm: In Search of Truth
Forum Post, May, 02 2011
Richard Bluhm
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Six multinational media corporations sporting interlocking directorates with the military-industrial complex serve to distract and marginalize governance of, by and for the people. A personal sense of betrayal causes me to spurn all mainstre...
Addison: Re: plight not contrite
Forum Post, April, 21 2011
"R" Addison
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I used-to-think before I was 20 that what journalists are doing is easy to report while the hardship part is social-Commentary. The plight of afro-Amers not supporting their own needs for resolve en masse' definitely looks like white-Amers pl...
Schofield: Not so fast
Forum Post, April, 17 2011
Antony Schofield
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The writer's praise for The Guardian is misplaced, as it was they that gave the State Dept. cables to the NYT in violation of a prior agreement with Wikileaks. While the Guardian may have provided better coverage of the cables than the NYT, i...
Jones: Growth
Forum Post, April, 15 2011
Douglas Jones
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It is not only the loss of democracy it is also the mistaken push for further growth seen as essential to pull the system out of recession. Growth as currently organised means the increased use of resources but also as currently organised an incre...
Yearwood: The Mother of all Democracies
Forum Post, April, 15 2011
Kelvin Yearwood
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Mike Prysnor's testimony is moving and succinct. I cannot see how people can fail to see how exposed our political class is now. Of course most do see, but either do not have a voice in the militarised corporate-capital discourse ...
Street: Mike Prysnor's testimony: "The enemy is a system that...."
Forum Post, April, 14 2011
Paul Street
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“I threw families on to the street in Iraq only to come home and see families thrown on to the street in this county in this tragic, tragic and unnecessary foreclosure crisis. I mean to wake up and realize that our real enemies are not in...
Street: Re: NYT Motto
Forum Post, April, 06 2011
Paul Street
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That's very good. In October of 2004 (as Danlel Ellsburg noted in a visit to Iowa City in the summer of 2008), the Times decided that a key story by some of its reporters on Bush II's criminal wiretapping program was unfit for p...
Davidson: NYT Motto
Forum Post, April, 05 2011
Carl Davidson
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Back in my youthful days at the Guardian in NYC, despairing over lies about the Vietnam war, we slightly altered the NY Times motto to: 'All the News that Fits, We Print.'
Watters:
Forum Post, March, 18 2011
Ed Watters
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Although I sympathize with his plight, Mumia's commentary is often trite and superficial. I'm certain that there are many other writers whose work is more deserving of this forum.
Paul: Disgusting
Forum Post, March, 16 2011
Harpreet Paul
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I was horrified to read the New York Times article and completely agree with your sentiments. I am constantly shocked and disgusted by just how prevalent the views expressed in the article are, however. I have heard sentiments th...
Andrews: Re: Actually
Forum Post, March, 14 2011
John Andrews
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Sanda I see that The Observer in the UK was war-mongering again yesterday - nothing new there; Andrew Rawnsley, Nick Cohen and other right wing reactionary trolls - just like Iraq all over again. David Given the amount of arms that has been shi...
Aronson: "paper thin liberalism" indeed
Forum Post, March, 10 2011
Sanda Aronson
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Too bad about the Guardian. Not surprising by NYTimes, sadly.
Moncton: Re: Actually
Forum Post, March, 10 2011
Jonathan Moncton
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A no-fly zone enforced by whom? Pilger's point is that the the US/UK are the last ones that should be intervening given their record. They will not intervene to "prevent a massacre". They will intervene to protect or extend their int...
Jones: Actually
Forum Post, March, 10 2011
David Jones
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Actually much of the opposition is begging for a no-fly zone to prevent a massacre. It's a tricky world John and sometimes liberalism is not imperialism.
