by Don Hynes
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| Vantage Point | Culture and Politics by Don Hynes |
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"No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong.
He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so,
the prejudice will be gone." - Tom Paine
February 20, 2005 Molly Ivins has tracked george bush from his days as governor of Texas. Here she evaluates the president's budget for it's unfailing generosity to the war machine and proposes it's real title "Screw the Children." Justin Raimondo is a libertarian writer @ Antiwar.com who backs up his acidic commentary with an incredible depth of knowledge about contemporary US politics. Here's Justin on "Sex, Lies, and Jeff Gannon - the unmaking of a media whore." The ever reliable Paul Krugman (one of the few real economists commenting on or inside the Bush administration) on "Three Card Maestro" - Alan Greenspan and the betrayal of the American economy. With all the rhetoric about Iran flowing out of Washington, who knew so little about Iraq as to invade it, break it, then wonder why little humpty can't put itself back together, here's a view from Tehran with many of President Khatami's own words, something you'll rarely read in the loyalist press. *** |
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