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Olbermann: ‘Beginning of the End of America’

Keith Olbermann Addresses the Military Commissions Act in a Special Comment Anchor, ‘Countdown’ | MSNBC | Updated: 3:00 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2006 Watch video clip here (run-time 8:41) We … Continue reading

20 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Sowing the Seeds of Fascism in America

Author Stan Goff, a retired 26-year veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, sounds a warning call that many of the historical precursors of fascism—white supremacy, militarization of culture, vigilantism, … Continue reading

20 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Republic is Dead, Long Live the Republic

Year One of the Empire Bush: Resistance is Illogical Juan Cole 18 October 2006 Bush and a supine, cowardly Congress shredded the US Constitution on Tuesday, abolishing the right of … Continue reading

19 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Tony Judt: Outspoken and outcast

Alterman on Judt – I’m a fan of both. UPDATE in the Jewish Week by Editor-at-large Larry Cohler-Esses: ‘L’Affaire Judt Rattles ADL; High-Brows Snub Foxman‘ (20 October) by Eric Alterman … Continue reading

14 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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