2012 archive
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Apr 27 2012
Our crime was looking like the people
We Japanese Americans must not forget our wartime internment
By George Takei, Friday 27 April 2012 15.15 EDT … Seventy years ago, US soldiers bearing bayoneted rifles came marching up to the front door of our family’s home in… [more]
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Apr 27 2012
Third-rate wingnut talkshow host
This supremely Republican supreme court
By Scott Lemieux, Friday 27 April 2012 15.41 EDT … The 2008 elections represented a decisive repudiation of the policies of George W Bush and the Republican party. Yet, conservative Republicans still control the… [more]
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Apr 27 2012
Coordinated, systematic racial discrimination
Christians of the Holy Land
By Ben White, 26 Apr 2012 06:36 … A recent report by CBS show 60 Minutes on “Christians of the Holy Land” has received a lot of attention, not least for the embarrassing contribution by… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/04/27/coordinated-systematic-racial-discrimination/
Apr 27 2012
Flammable pool of toxic paranoia
The Ghost of Joe McCarthy in Today’s Republican Party
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, April 26, 2012 … We’ve talked at times about George Orwell’s classic novel 1984, and the amnesia that sets in when we flush… [more]
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Apr 27 2012
An alternative vision of capitalism
The Self-Made Myth: Debunking Conservatives’ Favorite – And Most Dangerous – Fiction
By Sara Robinson, April 25, 2012 … The self-made myth is one of the most cherished foundation stones of the conservative theology. Nurtured by Horatio Alger and… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/04/27/an-alternative-vision-of-capitalism/
Apr 26 2012
Climate change in Arkansas
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