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Bagdikian: Enemies Of The State
Commentary, March, 10 2006
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A brutal idiocy in the Vietnam War was the statement, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
Bagdikian: A Dirty Dupont Secret---Again?
Commentary, December, 21 2005
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A widely used form of DuPont's Teflon, suspected of being a carcinogen and creating organ damage in animals, is being studied by the Food and Drug Administration, according to abcnews.com, but the potential danger to human beings was known to a Du...
Bagdikian: Beware the Widows and Orphans
Commentary, November, 16 2005
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Whenever a politician pulls at our heartstrings, to be generous to the widows and orphans, to act in relief of the poor and the suffering ---- grab your wallet. If major events of the past and continuing appeals from the White House present an act...
Bagdikian: Now Murdoch, Like The Bushes, Needs Saudi Money
Commentary, November, 30 2004
Ben Bagdikian
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You didn't have to see Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 to discover that the Bush family, senior and junior, have had a special relationship with the Saudis for along time (in the film Moore showed that the administration, when they had grounded al...
Bagdikian: Perhaps Hussein Read Tolstoy And BushÕs People DidnÕt
Commentary, December, 04 2003
Ben Bagdikian
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There is an eerie similarity between Leo TolstoyÕs novel, War and Piece, which describes with considerable accuracy NapoleonÕs 1812 invasion of Russia and George BushÕs 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Bagdikian: George Bush and Winning by Losing
Commentary, April, 22 2003
Ben Bagdikian
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The last individual I would associate as tactical twins would be a merchant I once encountered in Tangier, Morocco years ago and President George W. Bush. Bargaining for an item, the merchant mentioned a ridiculously high price. I suggested half h...
Bagdikian: Peace Candles v. Kalashnikovs
Commentary, February, 20 2003
Ben Bagdikian
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We live in a time of clashing cultures and a major mischief in a world where almost every culture aggressively propels its "fundamentalism." Whatever serves the group's purpose, physically, legally, morally, or in romantic fantasy, is justified as...
Bagdikian: Beware the Geeks Bearing Lists
Commentary, December, 26 2002
Ben Bagdikian
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"I have here in my hand, a list ...." Senator Joseph McCarthy, Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1946.
Bagdikian: Whence The National Epidemic Of Greed, Fraud, And Rush To War?
Commentary, November, 09 2002
Ben Bagdikian
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From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman and beyond, it has been capitalist theology that the driving force of healthy and fairly distributed creation of national wealth is greed. There are nicer words for it, but that's the real meaning of our euphe...
Bagdikian: Vague Warnings And Public Panic
Commentary, September, 23 2002
Ben Bagdikian
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The American public, already traumatized by the horrors of September 11, are periodically warned that another such act is on the way. Justified warnings, based on realistic knowledge, are necessary and appreciated. But there is a social cost in ra...
Bagdikian: God vs. The Big Name Droppers, Inc.
Commentary, July, 26 2002
Ben Bagdikian
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There is a famous Washington tableaux in the National Capitol. No, not George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is a repeated public ritual resulting in slight variations of the great classic of our time: seven corporate executives in 1994 stan...
Bagdikian: Why Most Of Us Pay More Taxes Than Our Share
Commentary, June, 09 2002
Ben Bagdikian
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If you have never heard of Vanuatu, or the economics of Andorra and Labuan, then you're one of us millions of ordinary citizens of the United States who, each year, pay a higher percentage of federal income tax revenues than is our true share.
Bagdikian: THE CYNICISM OF SECRECY
Commentary, June, 29 2001
Ben Bagdikian
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Last year the Republicans tried to cast a wider and more punitive net over anyone who violated what they said were "classified secrets." It is a move that is either naive to the point of uneducable ignorance or it is cynical to the point of conte...
Bagdikian: A SECRET IN THE NEWS: THE COUNTRY'S PERMANENT POOR
Commentary, April, 03 2001
Ben Bagdikian
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It can be the best of times or the worst of times, but whether in prosperity or recession, there is one constant in the United States economy--the richest country in the world has maintained a permanent class of Americans who are poor. That is not...
