Glenn Greenwald has just written a new book, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Myths of Republican Politics. He has released a long excerpt on Huffpo. Here is a sampling. Great American Hypocrites examines the deceitful, personality-based election tactics the Right uses to build absurd cults of personality around their leaders…
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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?…
Charlie Rose is having such a difficult time listening to his guests, because he has so obviously bought into the standard mainstream media view on the Iraq conflict (which is essentially the view developed by the Bush Administration). He appears simultaneously ignorant yet preachy as two men with genuine familiarity with…
I refuse to use the term "war" when referring to the U.S. occupation of Iraq for these reasons. Do you remember the many politicians and news media personalities who assured us that we needed to go to "war" with Iraq and that it would be easy, fast and relatively painless for American…