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QUEEN OF THE INTERVENTIONIST HAWKS — Vijay Prashad on the selective conscience of Susan Rice, US ambassador to the UN. The New York Times and the fraud of “neutrality”: Lizzie Phelan lays it all out for you. The poor? Don’t you see, it’s their fault. Carl Ginsburg on how Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute sings for his supper.
Events
Cockburn on the Road
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 7.30 pm
The CUNY Grad Center in Manhattan
The Future of Capitalism: Time to talk Alternatives
At CUNY’s Proshansky Auditorium, join Counterpunch co-editor and Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn and CUNY professor and author David Harvey. Moderated by bestselling author and host of GRITtv Laura Flanders.
Proshansky Auditorium
CUNY Grad Center
365 Fifth Ave., at 34th St.
New York, NY 10001
Open to all.
Book-signing reception to follow.
Wednesday, September 23 at 6pm
Raritan Valley Community College, State Route 28 & Lamington Rd
North Branch, NJ 08876
“America in Decline”
The 6 pm event is free and open to all. Go to the Grand Conference Rooms