01 September 2004
Random notes from the heartland – Bush in Columbus
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Bob Fitrakis
The Nationwide Arena doors opened at 1:00. There would be a four-hour wait before the prodigal son returned to his ancestral home, Columbus, Ohio.

Forget about Kennebunkport, Maine. That’s where George Herbert Walker of...
29 August 2004
The Columbus sniper, video games and the new Manchurian Candidates*
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Bob Fitrakis
Alleged Columbus serial sniper Charles McCoy, Jr. was a fugitive from justice, but when he was captured in Las Vegas, he had his trusty PlayStation2 with him and the videogame Getaway to advise him on how to shoot people while on the run....
26 August 2004
Rope-a-dope
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Alexander Cockburn
Didn't John Kerry ever read about rope-a-dope? Karl Rove must be kicking his heels with merriment at the way the horse-faced son of Boston is tangling himself up in the Swift boat comedy. A couple of weeks more and I reckon Kerry will...
20 August 2004
Bush's hole-in-head nuke cronies re-open door for terror apocalypse
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Harvey Wasserman
George W. Bush's big-money backers at Ohio's infamous FirstEnergy electric monopoly are re-opening the door for a nuclear apocalypse by terror or incompetence (whichever comes first). In classic Bush style, they are trashing public...
20 August 2004
Freedom Summer’s 40th Anniversary
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Dr. Manning Marable
This summer marks the fortieth anniversary of several extraordinary events in American history – which the national media and, more curiously, the African-American political establishment have largely ignored.  These events fundamentally...
15 August 2004
Kerry, Nader and the Greens need to kill the circular firing squad
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Harvey Wasserman, Bob Fitrakis
It's time for the Kerry, Nader and Green campaigns to get locked in a room until they disarm the circular firing squad and focus on the real enemy, George W. Bush.

Especially in swing states like ours, the endless wrangling...

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