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  • Ending the Impunity of the Bush White House

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    The man in the Oval Office is fond of condemning “killers.” But his administration continues to kill with impunity. “They can go into Iraq and do this and do that,” Martha Madden, former secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, said Thursday, “but they can’t drop some food on Canal Street in New Orleans,…

  • The National Guard Belongs in New Orleans and Biloxi. Not Baghdad.

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    The men and women of the National Guard shouldn’t be killing in Iraq. They should be helping in New Orleans and Biloxi. The catastrophic hurricane was an act of God. But the U.S. war effort in Iraq is a continuing act of the president. And now, that effort is hampering the capacity of the National…

  • Triangulation for War

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    Over the weekend, a spectrum of liberal responses to Cindy Sheehan came into sharper focus. The message is often anti-Bush… but not necessarily anti-war. Frank Rich spun out his particular style of triangulation in the New York Times. While deriding President Bush’s stay-the-course stance, Rich also felt a need to disparage the most visible advocate…

  • Book TV and audio online

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    Norman Solomon spoke about “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" at a benefit for Global Exchange and Media Alliance at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. It was shown on C-SPAN 2 on Book TV. Alternet has posted the audio online as an MP3 that can be downloaded or…

  • Will News Media Help Bush Exploit the 9/11 Anniversary Again?

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    For a long time, the last refuge of scoundrels was “patriotism.” Now it’s “the war on terror.” President Bush and many of his vocal supporters aren’t content to wrap themselves in the flag. It’s not sufficient to posture as more patriotic than opponents of the Iraq war. The ultimate demagogic weapon is to exploit the…