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Newsweeks socialism
February 20, 2009Newsweek’s Feb. 16 issue features the provocative cover story, “We are all socialists now.” What a change. After almost two decades of being told, “We are all capitalists,” people who are losing their jobs, their homes...
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Black-and-white TV
February 20, 2009Forty-five short years ago I sat at my TV And in that grainy image, I witnessed tyranny. I saw the dogs and hoses And the men at either end. I was ashamed at what I witnessed...
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Che reminds us why we fight
February 20, 2009For months I couldn’t wait to finally see Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour, two-part epic “Che” about the heroic victories and military defeats of revolutionary guerilla fighter Ernesto Guevara. As a youth the iconic image of Che was...
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‘Smoke Signals’ director Chris Eyre finds a new creative outlet
February 20, 2009Los Angeles, CA - Multi-award winning Native American director/producer Chris Eyre brings an indie director's sensibility to prime time television in the third season of NBC's 'Friday Night Lights.'
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Guess what? The New Deal worked!
February 19, 2009Since the economic crisis we're now in is being compared to the Great Depression, the solutions being offered are being routinely compared to the New Deal. Republicans in particular have been quick to pronounce the New...
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