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HOLLYWOOD AND THE CIA — Film historian Ed Rampell details Hollywood’s entangled relationship with the CIA and the Pentagon; HOUSES OF THE DEAD: Nancy Kurshan exposes the cruel human rights offenses taking place inside America’s vast gulag of Control Unit Prisons; BROTHERHOOD OF SUMMER: David Macaray charts the history of the most powerful union in the US: the Baseball Players Association; TAR SANDS COME TO AMERICA: Steve Horn explains how the Keystone Pipeline debates have diverted attention from Big Oil’s other plans to transport Alberta’s oil into the US. PLUS: Jeffrey St. Clair on CONSTITUTIONAL ENTROPY; Mike Whitney on HOW THE BANKS TARGETED BLACKS; Chris Floyd on THE RISE OF BRITAIN’S TEA PARTY; Kristin Kolb on THE NEEDLE AND THE DAMAGE DONE; Kim Nicolini on the FILMS OF WILLIAM FRIEDKIN; and Lee Ballinger on POETS VS. THE ONE PERCENT.
Archives from October 2004
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“When America puts our troops in combat, I believe they deserve the best training, the best equipment, the full support of our government.”
So declaimed President George Bush at a campaign rally earlier this month in Manchester, New Hampshire, 10 mont...
“Mesa is like Kerensky.” Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
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I read two articles on Sunday that made quite an impact. The first was a Thomas Friedman column. Reading Friedman is always an interesting, usually an angering, experience. This one didn’t anger me right off the bat, but his thesis disturbed me. Fried...
I won $4.00 betting on Muhammad Ali when he fought the pre-grill George Foreman for all the marbles in the wee hours of a 1974 Zaire morning. This was a time when most white kids would regularly root for Ali to lose…so I took advantage of such nonsense an...
George Bush, the Commander-in-Chief, tells lies. Dick Cheney, the man who runs the Commander-in-Chief, tells lies. Donald Rumsfeld, the man responsible for US defense except when things go wrong, tells lies. So why should the US military do an...
Translated by Joe Bryak On finis...
Last May a number of "investigative journalists", hacks who make up stories on the basis of rumors leaked by un-named "reliable sources", had a field day with the claims about a secret Saudi plan to help President George W. Bush’s re-elec...
Dear Pat Buchanan, I have often admired your writings, in particular your strong articles before and after the Iraq invasion. You spoke out when others did not. You wrote powerfully against globalization, the hollowing out of America, of the trade defici...
In some respects, it was surreal. On the other hand, it’s only to be expected this election season. Either way, it made me shudder. With the elections mere days away, John Kerry has been darting back and forth across the country like a rabbit on spee...
On a blatant campaign of exploiting 9/11, and a subversive campaign to undermine the nation’s civil liberties, George W. Bush expects to win a second term. Jingoism is encouraged; dissent is not tolerated. As Texas governor, Bush established "pr...
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?"...
My Grandma always used to say, "It’s not over until it’s gone." She was talking about chicken salad, the kind she specialized in that put me on the road to vegetarianism. The main ingredient was a chicken (something about that size, anyway) c...
The CIA Should Wear a Ski Mask When They Use This Excuse Time Magazine reported that the Bush administration had a plan to use the CIA to funnel money to candidates it favored in the forthcoming Iraqi elections. The rationale given was that Iran was probab...
"Nader Voters Favor Kerry Over Bush by 3-to-1 Margin," screams a Nation press release announcing the results of their recent poll, October 24, 2004. Playing gotcha politics, the Nation’s John Nichols claims it proves "Nader’s Flawed Calc...
I read my 1st history book at age 7, & since then I’ve only gotten worse. I never miss family reunions. Its a bum day if I don’t set foot in a museum. In Dallas for a lecture, I hopped to the Kennedy assassination museum. (I didn’t tell them ...
It has been said that people pretty much get the government they deserve. There is more than a little justice in the observation. Pat Buchanan has given a last-minute endorsement to George Bush’s re-election. One is tempted to class his words, qualifi...
Phil Leveque of Molalla, Oregon, is the first doctor in any of the states that have legalized marijuana for medical use to lose his license for recommending it. Leveque received a formal notice of revocation from the Board of Medical Examiners Oct. 20. He has 30 d...
Iman al-Hams was a 13-year old refugee schoolgirl who was executed — after being wounded — by an Israeli platoon commander on the sad sands of Rafah. According to testimonies given by soldiers in the same company to the mass Israeli daily Yediot...
Everybody in Israel is talking about the Next War. The most popular TV channel is running a whole series about it. Not another war with the Arabs. Not the nuclear threat from Iran. Not the ongoing bloody confrontation with the Palestinians. The talk ...
Some seventy lights of the liberal intelligentsia–some my long-time friends and political associates–recently signed a petition calling upon voters in contested states to vote for John Kerry, despite their "strong disagreement with Kerry on Iraq a...