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by Max R.
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September 01, 2010, 10:49pm
Michael Winship writes:Watching Glenn Beck's performance Saturday at his "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, DC, I thought of the novelist Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry, the charlatan evangelist who seduces most of those around him with his hearty
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by davidswanson
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September 01, 2010, 8:35am
By David Swanson
FACT CHECK: Is Iraq combat really over for US?
By CALVIN WOODWARD and ROBERT BURNS (AP)
WASHINGTON — Despite President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies ahead.
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by Max R.
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August 31, 2010, 2:05pm
Robert Jensen writes:About halfway through Saturday’s “Restoring Honor” rally on the DC mall, I realized that I was starting to like Glenn Beck.Let me explain. It’s not that I really liked Beck, but more that I experienced his likeability. Whether
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August 30, 2010, 3:02pm
Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett write for Counterpunch:In any case, our lucky Neo Julian Assange was only able to enjoy his fugitive-from-justice status for a few hours. By noon, the charges were already dropped, and he was free to be defamed from
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August 29, 2010, 2:29pm
The Kochs have the Tea Party on their string. It's always been amusingly ironic to me when the rightwing rank-and-file call others "sheeple." Once again, this irony is made plain as day. As Frank Rich writes in "The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea
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