06 December 2001
Noam Chomsky -- Saying What Media Don't Want Us to Hear
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Norman Solomon
"If liberty means anything at all," George Orwell wrote, "it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

From all indications, the gatekeepers for big media in the United States don't want to hear...
04 December 2001
Sieg Heil, Ashcroft!
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN -- With all due respect, of course, and God Bless America too, has anyone considered the possibility that the attorney general is becoming unhinged?

Poor John Ashcroft is under a lot of strain here. Is it...
30 November 2001
Geographical Correctness Could Be A Jolt
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Norman Solomon
And now, a news dispatch from the Media Twilight Zone...

WASHINGTON -- There were unconfirmed reports yesterday that the United States is not the center of the world.

The White House had no immediate...
27 November 2001
No Time To Quit Worrying
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN -- Now is no time to quit worrying. Keep up that nail-biting, team. Foreign policy is like chess: It's necessary to think at least three or four moves ahead. According to The New York Times, the Pakistanis are deeply unhappy with...
26 November 2001
A Sweet Message for Americans -- 'We Are Family'
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Norman Solomon
On the magazine cover, the big headline next to Oprah's shoulder is as warm and cuddly as the pair of cocker spaniels in her lap. "WE ARE FAMILY," it says. "Now more than ever: the power and pleasure of feeling connected."
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20 November 2001
Civil Liberties
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN -- WHOA! The problem is the premise. We are having one of those circular arguments about how many civil liberties we can trade away in order to make ourselves safe from terrorism, without even looking at the assumption -- can we...

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