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  • Democrats need to end Iraq war

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    Nearly three years ago, the front page of the Marin Independent Journal told about the death of a 25-year-old Marin man in Iraq. The story quoted his grief-stricken girlfriend. "Everybody should know he didn’t die in vain," she said. "He died as a hero." In the wake of such tragic deaths, it may seem that…

  • Bowing Down to Our Own Violence

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    Several days after the mass killings at Virginia Tech, grisly stories about the tragedy still dominate front pages and cable television. News of carnage on a vastly larger scale — the war in Iraq — ebbs and flows. The overall coverage of lethal violence, at home and far away, reflects the chronic evasions of the…

  • Awful Truth About Hillary, Barack, John… and Whitewash

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    The Pentagon’s most likely next target is Iran. Hillary Clinton says “no option can be taken off the table.” Barack Obama says that the Iranian government is “a threat to all of us” and “we should take no option, including military action, off the table.” John Edwards says, “Under no circumstances can Iran be allowed…

  • Marketing War

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    Last month, I had the pleasure of chatting with media critic Norman Solomon at the Pine Cone Diner near his home in Point Reyes Station. We exchanged pleasantries about how lucky we are to be living in the ecologically buxom North Bay. Then we got down to discussing the matter at hand: exactly how our…

  • The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV

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    by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon It’s become a TV ritual: Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate Martin Luther King’s death, we get perfunctory network news reports about “the slain civil rights leader.” The remarkable thing about these reviews of King’s life is that several years – his last years – are totally…