Against the Grain: Kerry and Evil
How the ultra right tries to get political advantage from the murders of Nicholas Berg, Paul M. Johnson and Kim Sun Il.
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Bush Angers Cuban Americans
The latest anti-Cuban regulations have done much to bring Cubans living in the US together. One issue more than any other has provoked their outrage: the definition of 'family.' New Bush administration regulations announced recently are cunningly designed to starve Cuba of vitally needed dollars and international support.
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Bill O'Reilly's Final Solution: Bomb the Living Daylights Out of Them
To those who object and protest the bombing of civilians and other of the numerous atrocious acts of the Bush people, O'Reilly suggests you just 'shut up' or you will be declared an 'enemy of the state.'
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The Supreme Court and the HMOs
The June 21st US Supreme Court ruling that HMOs are not responsible for medical malpractice even when their decisions and offerings for patient care result in negligent damages should come as no surprise.
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Book Review - The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Bill O’Reilly, by Peter Hart
No one can trust what Bill O’Reilly says. Some television viewers who have seen him consider him to have been more believable at his previous job with another sensationalist program, Inside Edition – one of the very first tabloid 'news' programs.
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The GNU Left
In the Information Technology world, the Free Software Foundation is the organization that struggles against the drive to convert knowledge itself into a capitalist commodity known as Intellectual Property. Today, the FSF and the Linux movement have given rise to an increasing number of politically active programmers, including the Progressive Programmers League.
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The Verala Project and the CIA
There is an amazing attack on John Kerry in Saturday’s (6/19) New York Times, authored by one of the Times’ newly appointed columnists recruited from the ultra-right fringe. David Brooks attacked Senator Kerry for saying the CIA funded and directed Varela Project to destabilize the Cuban government was 'counterproductive.'
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Book Review Essay - Spain Betrayed, by Ronald Radosh
I first met author Ronald Radosh nearly 30 years ago at a convention of historians when he was supposedly on the left. It was a meeting I would come to regret. My dissertation was soon to be published as a book, and Radosh began denouncing it.
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Outsource Bush, not Jobs
'[F]oreign outsourcing of service jobs is good for the American economy' is the mantra of Bush administration officials Treasury Secretary John Snow and Council of Economic Advisers Gregory Mankiw, according to a recent report by Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF).
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Book Review - The Twilight of Equality? by Lisa Duggan
The US, as a model competition state in Philip Cerny’s memorable phrase, does constitute an appropriate case for a thorough study of the neoliberal agenda enshrined after the deliberate disintegration of welfarism beginning in the 1970s.
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