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Protected: Anti-Zionism vs. Antisemitism

Posted in 9/11, England, Iran, Islam, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Middle East, Muslims, Native Americans, Palestine, Politics, USA, Zionism, antisemitism, god, religion, war, world on September 28, 2007 | Enter your password to view comments

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Protected: Ahmadinejad and Bush

Posted in Americans, Columbia University, George W. Bush, Iran, Islam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Muslims, Politics, President, Saddam Hussein, USA, political parties, politicians, war, world on September 26, 2007 | Enter your password to view comments

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“Good” Propaganda is DEAD! (or Masked)

Posted in Americans, Business, FoxNews, George Orwell, Hollywood, Money, Politics, Russia, Sean Hannity, Soviet Union, The Day After, United States, V for Vendetta, WMD, WMDs, advertising, good and evil, movies, nuclear power, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, nuclear winter, propoganda, rants, tv on September 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Keeping with my last post’s theme (whining about contemporary entertainment and its flaws), I thought I’d rant a bit about the absence of “good” propaganda in today’s movie. Why is it that whenever a politician or some faction of pop culture tells a lie, the lie seems to be told for the sole [...]

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Ordinary People and Extraordinary Fear

Posted in 9/11, Afghanistan, Americans, Arabs, Bill O'Reilly, Bush, Chris Dodd, Giuiliani, Haliburton, Iraq, Iraq War, Islam, Middle East, Muslim, New York, Northern Alliance, PATRIOT Act, U.S. military, USA, War on Terror, anti-war protesters, capital punishment, cities, corporations, entertainment, made in China, media, military, nationbuilding, news media, people, post-traumatic stress, prejudice, progress, red states, smear, social class, technology, terrorism, tv, video, war on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

(This blog entry was adapted from a comment I left in a debate triggered by criminyjicket’s blog entry about Bill O’Reilly’s sandbagging of Ron Paul. If you’re looking for intelligent dialog with conservatives who transcend the “jesus Hates Fags” Right and the “nuke everyone who’s skin is darker than my refrigerator” crowd, CJ’s blog [...]

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Look Both Ways

Posted in Bill O'Reilly, Bush, David Shuster, George W. Bush, Hollywood, Money, Politics, Religious Right, academia, blogging, dogs, economics, faith, inequality, movies, politicians, social class, work on September 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »

I realized something just now as I was finishing a poem on my other blog about the disparity between reality & American dreams: I am so sick of the achievement ideology, and especially of politicians who constantly pay it lip service. It is not just misleading to say that anybody can “make it”–it is [...]

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