Making ignorance chic
Even dumb blondes used to aspire to knowledge Maureen Dowd / Thursday, October 21, 2010 HOLLYWOOD [print_link] Casanova’s rule for seduction was to tell a beautiful woman she was intelligent and an...
View ArticleCollapsing Empire Watch
An empire in free fall, but most Americans are blissfully ignorant or disbelieve the imminence of the catastrophe By Glenn Greenwald | Salon October 11, 2010 ________________ It’s easy to say and...
View ArticleThe True Richard Holbrooke Legacy
Why De mortuis nil nisi bonum must not apply Dead on December 13 at age 69 after two aorta tear surgeries failed to save him, Western media headlines hailed the man London Guardian writers Ed...
View ArticleThe mother of all paradoxes
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Articles you missed the first time around. For most Americans, the defense of “Americanism” is indistinguishable from the defense of capitalism, aka “the free enterprise system”—its...
View ArticleThe Political Function of PBS
When tedium is totalizing Many J-schools continue to regard PBS’ Mac Neil-Lehrer Report as the gold standard for “professional journalism” but this adoration only underscores the myopic acceptance of...
View ArticleEcosocialism as Holistic Earth Care
ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE | from our classic archives | first posted in August 2010 REPOSTED 4 april 2015 Redefining our role as Environmental Agents AN INTERVIEW WITH JOEL KOVEL | August 16th...
View ArticleDr. J.'s BF Commentary No. 155: The Wages of Hate: The Development of...
By Steven Jonas | Crossposted at http://blog.buzzflash.com/jonas/206 HOMOPHOBIA HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. It turns up in the Old Testament of the Bible as well as in the New. The Republican...
View ArticleReal crossfire: Henwood debates Schiff on the economy
Schiff Vs. Henwood on Economic Crisis The Real News Network (TRNN) staged a debate on Oct. 20 between Doug Henwood and Peter Schiff. The encounter was moderated by Paul Jay, TRNN’s founder and senior...
View ArticleThe War On Terror: Does Anyone Remember…?
The natural consequence of a system of government based on carefully nurtured lies. By Paul Craig Roberts | October 15, 2010 . [print_link] Does anyone remember the “cakewalk war” that would last six...
View ArticleRiding Capitalism to the Bottom
Why Republicans Gain as the Economy Falters By Steve Max | October 13, 2010 [print_link] Overlooked in the recent rise of the Tea Party and the Republican Right is the way these groups have learned...
View ArticleThe strike wave in Europe and the decay of bourgeois democracy
THE GROWING STRUGGLES OF THE WORKING CLASS IN EUROPE and internationally against mass unemployment and government austerity policies are exposing the reality behind the façade of bourgeois democracy....
View ArticleObama Prepares to Triangulate Himself
By BAR executive editor Glen Ford | Wed, 10/20/2010 [print_link] WHAT A GUY! Barack Obama has neutralized Blacks, the white left, and the majority of his own party in service to Wall Street, and some...
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