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Stephen Colbert Befuddles Some Media Commentators

January 23, 2012
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Stephen Colbert’s super PAC exposes the corporate news media’s incapability to express what would be in normal life circumstances a totally justified sense of righteous outrage. Why do people become upset with the notion of anonymous corporate donors filling the coffers of Super PACS and corporations being considered “people?” It must offend a sense...

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Happy New Year!

January 1, 2012
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Going into the 2012 elections people on the progressive end of the political spectrum need to ask the simple question: How will the first post-Citizens United presidential election affect the outcomes for those desperately seeking social change? The most likely result, unfortunately, is that...

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A “Peace Dividend?” Not Likely

December 19, 2011
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Despite the redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq, during this dismal period of “austerity” the public isn’t likely to see any discernible difference in the government’s misplaced priorities. Our representatives in Washington recently passed a “bipartisan” military budget of $662 billion. That level...

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A Billionaire Comes A’Whinin’

December 7, 2011
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The Wall Street “veteran” Leon Cooperman has written an “Open Letter to President Obama” that provides us with a glimpse into the mindset of our 21st century corporate overlords....

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Ross Douthat’s Hit Job on JFK

November 29, 2011
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Appearing in the New York Times’ “Sunday Review” on the first Sunday following the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is the conservative commentator Ross...

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Occupy Wall Street: American As Apple Pie

November 12, 2011
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Those loud right-wing voices in our political discourse that are trying to make Occupy Wall Street look like something “foreign” to American culture are barking up the wrong tree....

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