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Television: Tales from a couch
November 4, 2005OK, 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
November 4, 2005Devil’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
November 4, 2005Replacing 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
November 4, 2005So 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
November 4, 2005The 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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