Thursday, August 18, 2005

GOP Propagandists Renew Efforts to Blame 9-11 on Clinton

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The current debate over whether the findings of a Pentagon anti-terrorism task force had been given to the 9-11 commission has resulted in r...
Wednesday, August 10, 2005

ERODING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

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The title of this article may seem alarmist, but the facts more than support it. Andrew Bacevich, a scholar not known for liberalism, says t...
Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Waiting for Jeffersonian Democracy in Iraq

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After the First Gulf War, General Colin Powell ridiculed the idea that if Saddam Hussein somehow disappeared "some Jeffersonian democra...
Friday, July 01, 2005

Santorum and DeLay's K Street Project

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When Republicans took control of Congress in 1995, Senator Rick Santorum and Tom DeLay initiated their K Street Project. The object was to f...
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Monday, June 27, 2005

THE PENTAGON'S NEW BIBLE

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Last year, the Pentagon advertised for a printer to produce 10,000 copies of a Bible that would contail "Army provided photographs and ...
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Thursday, June 23, 2005

FLIPPING ELECTIONS

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Tallahasee computer programmer Clinton Curtis has testified that before the 2000 election Tom Feeney, a Congressman and former Speaker of th...
Sunday, June 05, 2005

How Fair Was the Election of 2004

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While the 2004 vote was still being cast, a possibly tipsy New York Republican Representative Peter King appeared on the White House lawn wi...
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Friday, April 29, 2005

The New Right in Historical Context

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The right-wing populism of the New Right shares many characteristics with the right-wing populism in Europe and right-wing populism in the A...
Thursday, April 28, 2005

The New Right, Right-Wing Populism, and Displaced Economic Anxiety

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Historically, movements for social change have often been instruments of status groups that felt an intense need to assert and legitimize th...
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Sunday, April 17, 2005

RIGHT-WING POPULISM: THE GOP'S MOST POTENT WEAPON

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After the 2004 defeat of John Kerry, many concluded that it was how one spoke about cultural issues that made the difference, and that Georg...
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Thursday, October 21, 2004

Abu Ghraib, the American Gulag, and Bush Policies

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Several months ago, a Reserve sergeant was sentenced to eight years in prison for his part in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. No one of high...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Who can Believe Condi?: The Bush Administration Put Counterterrorism on the Back Burner Bfore 9/11

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It is appropriate that Condi is on the road defending the Bush record on terrorism. The trouble is she has bent the truth so many times, she...