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12 September 2002
Bush's 9/11 Reichstag Fire
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Harvey Wasserman
When Hitler was rising to power in 1930s Germany, somebody did him the favor of burning the Reichstag, the German Parliament. It's widely believed the Nazis torched it themselves.

Hitler's cynical minions turned that fire...
04 September 2002
A Year of the War on Terror
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Alexander Cockburn
A year on, amid the elegies for the dead and the ceremonies of remembrance, there are the impertinent questions: Is there really a war on terror; and if one is indeed being waged, how's it going?

The Taliban are out of power...
27 August 2002
Bush Forest Fire Plan: Log it All ... Chainsaw George
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Alexander Cockburn
George W. Bush, fresh off a brush-clearing operation at his Crawford, Texas, ranch, snubbed the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, Africa, for a trip to Oregon, where he vowed to fight future forest fires by taking a chainsaw to the nation's...
14 August 2002
If War it is, Here's Why
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Alexander Cockburn
Now that Henry Kissinger and Christopher Hitchens are both, at matching levels of pomposity and self-satisfaction, agreed on the desirability of sending in the bombers and finishing off Saddam, I suppose the Bush regime will conclude that...
09 August 2002
Bush's Blacks': Race Traitors?' -- Part Two of Two
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Dr. Manning Marable
A minority tendency of the black middle class has defected to the Republican Far Right, for purposes of career advancement and economic gain. These "race traitors" have become active opponents of the black community's interests.
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08 August 2002
'Bush's Blacks: Race Traitors?' -- Part One of Two
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Dr. Manning Marable
For over one hundred years, the African-American middle class has largely supported what I call "liberal integrationism," the organized attempt to assimilate into the U.S. mainstream to achieve a "color blind" society.

Through...

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