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The "Big Get" Don Hewitt and "60 Minutes" Didn't Get
eileen fleming The creator and producer of "60 Minutes" Don Hewitt, died at 86 on August 20, 2009. In 2001, he wrote: "The formula is simple and it's reduced to four words every kid in the world knows: Tell me a story. It's that easy." "Back in the days… more »
The Prince of Darkness and The Wall
eileen fleming The pugnacious political columnist, Robert D. Novak, nicknamed "the prince of darkness," who died at 78 on August 18, 2009, was the first mainstream media reporter to shine a light on the “Michshol Hafrada” which is Hebrew for the… more »
The Hostage Dream - Loving Oneself at the Expense of Another
By GILAD ATZMON “As a man in a dream who fails to lay hands upon another whom he is pursuing- the one cannot escape nor the other overtake.” (Homer’s Iliad, XX11.) Greece Revisited In his valuable book Looking Awry, Slavoj Zizek offers a Lacanian… more »
WALRUS BULLS BELLOWING ON A BEACH
John Chuckman I am disappointed with the view of some knowledgeable commentators over Scotland’s release of the dying man who was convicted of the Lockerbie-airline bombing. From a purely power-politics point of view, of course, they are right: judging… more »
Drones and Democracy in Afghanistan
By Ramzy Baroud With elections just around the corner in Afghanistan, it might be timely to reflect on the US engagement with that stricken nation and consider just how much foreign intervention has contributed to the prospect and possibility of free… more »
Global Warming: A Classic Case of Alarmism
Dr. David Evans [The big temperature picture. Graph and insight from Dr Syun Akasofu (2009 International Conference on Climate Change, New York, March 2009).] The pattern suggests that the world has entered a period of slight cooling until about 2030.… more »
Iceland says NO to Debt-Slavery
Notsilvia Night Here in Iceland people say, that if the country´s government agrees to give in to British and Dutch blackmail to pay the debts of the private internet-subsidiary Ice-Save of the private bank Landsbanki, we all will become Ice-Slaves. So… more »
America’s Death Squads Inc.
Bill Van Auken The US Central Intelligence Agency contracted the now notorious private security firm Blackwater for a secret program of “targeted killings” against alleged Al Qaeda operatives, according to media reports Thursday. The agency… more »
Marketing new chemical weapons
Neil Davison Article Highlights ■ Incapacitating chemical agents used by law enforcement officials are being given new names to hide their weapon potential. ■ Now being presented as riot control agents, these chemical concoctions have been… more »
The US War against Iraq: The Destruction of a Civilization
James Petras The US seven-year war and occupation of Iraq is driven by several major political forces and informed by a variety of imperial interests. However these interests do not in themselves explain the depth and scope of the sustained, massive and… more »
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