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February 21, 2011
Huffington's Plunder
The sale of The Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million, and the tidy profit made by principal owner and founder Arianna Huffington, who was already rich, is emblematic of the new paradigm of American journalism.
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February 15, 2011 Shirley Sherrod Strikes Back
February 14, 2011
Fight for a World Without Coal
The writer and philosopher Wendell Berry, armed with little more than a copy of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and his conscience, has been camped out for three days with a handful of other activists in the governor's outer office in Frankfurt, Ky.
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February 8, 2011
Chris Hedges: 'Death of the Liberal Class' on Book TV
Author, journalist and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges takes his bracing argument from his latest book, "Death of the Liberal Class," about the takeover of U.S. liberal organizations and institutions by the corporate state, to Powell's Books in Portland, Ore., in this Book TV clip.
February 6, 2011 Recognizing the Language of Tyranny
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February 6, 2011
Recognizing the Language of Tyranny
The corporate state does not have a Politburo or raving dictator, but it shares one aspect with despotic regimes and the collapsed empires that have plagued human history.
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January 30, 2011
What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt
Our failures in the Middle East have consequences. We are soaked with the stench of these regimes.
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January 24, 2011
Where Liberals Go to Feel Good
The Liberal Class' solution to the bleak political landscape is the conference, where liberals go to feel good about themselves again. Forget about reclaiming and reelecting President Obama—worry about resisting him.
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January 10, 2011
Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich
All polite appeals to the formal systems of power will not end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We must physically obstruct the war machine or accept a role as its accomplice.
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January 6, 2011 Washington Loves a Paradox
January 2, 2011
'The Left Has Nowhere to Go'
"The more outrageous the Republicans become, the weaker the left becomes," Ralph Nader said when I reached him at his home in Connecticut on Sunday.
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December 27, 2010
2011: A Brave New Dystopia
The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." It turns out they were both right.
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December 21, 2010
Hedges, Stone and Moore on Hollywood's Love of War
Who knew that Hollywood and the Pentagon sometimes shoot from the same storyboard, so to speak—one that casts war, and America's role in same, in the best possible light (not to mention camera angles)? A lot of people, actually, including filmmakers ...
December 22, 2010 Speaking Ill of 'the Best and the Brightest'
December 21, 2010 Foreign Policy Review Suggests a Losing Effort
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