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  • Television: Tales from a couch

    Television: Tales from a couch

    November 4, 2005

    OK, I’ll admit it. I don’t have TiVo. I don’t even have cable. In fact, I really only get one channel perfectly. But am I going to let any of this stop me from telling you...

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  • How imperialism fomented Islamist violence

    How imperialism fomented Islamist violence

    November 4, 2005

    Devil’s Game: How the United States helped unleash fundamentalist Islam Robert Dreyfuss Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, November 2005 Hardcover, 400 pp., $27.50 President Bush has just repeated his foggy-brained assertion that somehow al-Qaida and “communism” are the...

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  • Hurricanes and war

    Hurricanes and war

    November 4, 2005

    Replacing emergency relief with war is not new in world or U.S. history. Even disasters separated by more than half a century have similarities. In the spring of 1952, during the Korean War, a Missouri River...

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  • Using Katrina to exploit immigrants

    Using Katrina to exploit immigrants

    November 4, 2005

    So far, the immigrant-haters have not found a way to actually blame Latino immigrants for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. But there is plenty of immigrant-bashing going on in the wake of the storms. CNN’s Lou Dobbs,...

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  • As in WWII, the president should limit oil profits

    As in WWII, the president should limit oil profits

    November 4, 2005

    The author rightly notes that many Americans are dubious about this president’s war propaganda. Like a growing number of Americans, we reject the Bush policy of global war. But this article has an important point, that...

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