Columns
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 Kasich's quixotic crusade
by Bob Fitrakis
Former Chair of the House Budget Committee John Kasich of Ohio formally declared his candidacy for governor of Ohio June 1, 2009. His timing could not have been worse. As a Congressman, Kasich championed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and worldwide free trade. Now he announces for governor of Ohio, as General Motors files for bankruptcy. It will be interesting to see how Kasich, who focused recently on eliminating Ohio�s income tax, plans to explain how his free trade policies that sent tens of thousands of Ohio jobs to Mexico and China will help the state weather what looks more and more like a Depression.
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 Big Nuke's desperate radioactive hoax in impoverished Ohio
by Harvey Wasserman
Job-starved southern Ohioans are being promised a shiny new nuclear plant. But the announcement has come with a cruel reminder, and the scent of a desperate hoax.
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 Will the United States really bomb Iran?
by Alexander Cockburn
"They're about taking out the entire Iranian military." This particular spine-chiller comes from Alexis Debat, excitingly identified as "director of terrorism and national security" at the Nixon Center. According to Debat, the big takeout is what the U.S. Air Force has in store, as opposed to mere "pinprick strikes" against the infamous nuclear facilities.
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 Column 86: Black Radio Entertainers
by Thomas Fleming
Jazz owes a lot of its popularity to the
phonograph, going back to the early days, when
Thomas Edison invented the musical box that
brought jazz to people who lived outside of the
areas where jazz musicians played. Through
phonograph records, they could hear the music of
such people as "King" Joe Oliver. He was the
first of the legendary great trumpet players to
come out of New Orleans, the city where most
experts in the field say that jazz originated. Jazz
was played in the whorehouses in that city, and
Louis Armstrong credits Oliver as being one
person from whom he learned his style of playing
trumpet.
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 Molly Ivins (1944-2007)
by Molly Ivins
Molly Ivins, the liberal Texas columnist best known for her down-home humor and biting wit, passed away on Jan. 31, 2007. We at Creators Syndicate are deeply saddened by this loss to us individually and to newspaper readers around the world.
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 Racializing Obama
by Dr. Manning Marable
From the beginning of Barack Obama's quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, there were African-American critics who accused him of not being "black enough." Ironically, some of those questioning his ethnic credentials were neoconservatives, or apologists for the Republican Right Wing.
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 Words and war
by Norman Solomon
It takes at least tacit faith in massive violence to believe that after three decades of horrendous violence in Afghanistan, upping the violence there will improve the situation.
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 SATIRE: 'Who Would Jesus Debate?' Leaked White House Transcript
by Lee Waters
PRESIDENT BUSH: Dammit, Turdblossom, I told you these debates were wrong. Why do I have to answer to some liberal homosexual Senator. Why does Dick have to sit with that wimp ambulance chaser. It sends a mixed message. It tells people we have a system whereby God’s leaders are subject to questioning.
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