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Dennis Kucinich: Obama administration presiding over transfer of wealth from the mass to the upper few
Day: April 12, 2011
Our Hypocrisy Ridden Foreign Policy: Jailed Journalists by Sibel Edmonds
by Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
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Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
April 12, 2011
Turkey Is the Country with the Most Imprisoned Journalists
Uzbekistan boils activists: we are okay with it. Heck, we even support ‘the Boilers. ’Azerbaijan tortures and murders journalists and activists: we are totally fine with it; in fact, we consider them our great ally. When Syria engages in human rights violations, we call them ‘evil.’ Continue reading
Dear William and Kate: Cut the Crap; This Is Our Home! By Gary Corseri
By Gary Corseri
Featured Writer
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April 12, 2011
Image by Ben Sutherland via Flickr
“Beware of these eyes. … I’m the devil in disguise.”
“Take all you can get… and give as little as possible.” — Mae West (in “I’m No Angel”)
Dear William and Kate,
A thousand apologies for this tardy response to your late-arriving invitation! (I must confess, after my first question, “Why me—a humble-as-kippers American poet?,” my second question was: “In this era of girdle-tightening austerity, why the gilded note; would some churls think that ‘bad form’?”)
Taking Progressives for Granted by Ralph Nader
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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
April 12, 2011
When liberals and progressives have nowhere to go, New York’s new Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo can move toward the corporatist-right of the political spectrum with impunity. Brandishing an inherited $10 billion state deficit, Cuomo has earned the following description in the April 7th edition of The New York Times:
“He has clashed with unions, who he believes have helped drive the state toward bankruptcy. He has been praised by prominent conservatives like Sarah Palin and Rudolph W. Giuliani. And he has taken thousands of dollars in campaign money from the New York billionaire David H. Koch, who with his family has helped finance the Tea Party movement….
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (2009)
Note: replaced video Sept. 14, 2014
Norman Finkelstein giving a talk at Suffolk University in Massachusetts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
American Radical is the probing, definitive documentary about Jewish-American political scientist Norman Finkelstein. A devoted son of holocaust survivors, an ardent critic of Israel and US Middle East policy, Finkelstein has been steadfast at the centre of many intractable controversies, including his denial of tenure at DePaul University. Called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational street-fighting revolutionary by others, Finkelstein is a deeply polarising figure. From Beirut to Kyoto, the filmmakers follow Finkelstein around the world as he attempts to negotiate a voice among both supporters and critics.
War and Media Disinformation: The “Rambling Three Page Letter” by Felicity Arbuthnot
by Felicity Arbuthnot
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12 April, 2011
“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.” – George Orwell.
Reflecting on George W. Bush’s speech to the nation, forty eight hours before the (19th March 2003) invasion of Iraq, Professor J. Gregory Payne, of the Department of Communication Studies, Emerson College, Boston, Mass., reflected that his stance: ” … furthers the perception that the United States has appointed itself the sheriff of the world, who decide, on our own, what is needed, and precisely when to keep what the sheriff determines, to be ‘order.’ ” (i)
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