Book Review: Great American Hypocrites

Summary: An eviscerating critique of how the Republican party has won elections by obscuring actual issues with phony controversies, aided and abetted by a shallow and insipid media. At times Greenwald's denunciations are repetitive, but he provides more than enough infuriating examples to amply justify his evident anger. Glenn Greenwald's…

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1,000 veterans per month attempt suicide, far more than Veterans Administration admitted.

According to McClatchy, the Veterans Administration withheld inconvenient information regarding the number of veterans who have attempted suicide: The Veterans Administration has lied about the number of veterans who've attempted suicide, a senator charged Wednesday, citing internal e-mails that put the number at 12,000 a year when the department was…

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The daily cost of the Iraq occupation: $720 million

What is a meaningful way of understanding the immense amount of money the United States spends in Iraq each day? This simple video by American Friends Service Committee compellingly gets this point across. How does one most fairly frame this issue of what the United States is spending in Iraq?…

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