Archive for the 'Freedom of Press' Category

Book Review: “America’s Stolen Narrative” by Robert Parry

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

“Nixon Camp Sabotages Viet Peace Talks” — Had the story under that headline been published in real time, Richard Nixon might have lost the 1968 election, and the Vietnam War would likely have ended years earlier. Now, with Robert Parry’s latest book, “America’s Stolen Narrative,” a full telling of that story has been published, and […]

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Human Rights for Non-Human Entities: Nature and the Corporation

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Pacha Mama Some countries in the Western Hemisphere have given constitutional rights to non-human entities — with opposite effects on their democracies. While Ecuador and Bolivia stand to strengthen their democracies by declaring human-like rights for Pacha Mama, that is, Nature, the United States, has weakened its democracy by giving human rights to the business […]

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Past Fighters for Democracy Give Hope for Today

Friday, December 31st, 2010

The days after the winter solstice, when the once-receding sun has turned and begun its walk back towards the people of the North, have for ages been marked by holidays and rising hopes.1 Now, as we go through the Great Recession, with a battered middle class and government under the sway of big corporations, we […]

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Reagan Spawned Bush II Catastrophes

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

While President Reagan has many highways, buildings and the Washington National Airport named after him, President George W. Bush has so far had only a try at naming a sewage plant after him — to symbolize cleaning up the mess he left.40 Yet many of the catastrophes of Bush flowed from the policies and tactics […]

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Rushmore Wind Carried Warnings for Today

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

In the 1990’s right-wing talk spread to nearly every radio dial in the United States, and, day-after-day, pelted liberal-thinking citizens with scorn, and railed against use of government to help the people — even knocking long-established programs such as the minimum wage and social security.x70×71×72 Behind that barrage, a Republican majority rode into Congress, and […]

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