April 10, 2006
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Media Lens: Iraq Body Count – A shame becoming shameful
10 April 2006 — Media Lens John Pilger And A Leading Epidemiologist Challenge IBC Noam Chomsky once observed: “If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you’re doing something wrong.” (www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/pubs/gater/spring95/apr27/chom.htm) One indication that the Iraq Body Count (IBC) project is doing something wrong is that it is deemed, not merely inoffensive, Continue reading
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Springtime in the Republic of Larry By Joe Bageant
10 April 2006 — Joe Bageant -Amid the comforts of empire, the citizens blithely bumble (Author’s warning! Rambling, pointless screed. But it contains some nice cuss words.) YOU SPEAK OF LIBERTY? OF AN ENLIGHTENED POLITY? YOU BEER-SOAKED KNUCKLE DRAGGERS AND PRECIOUS WET-LIPPED LIBERALS WOULDN’T KNOW LIBERTY FROM A CONGOLESE ASS-EATING TAPEWORM! YOU HAVEN’T GOT THE Continue reading
The New Dark Age 