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As I was looking over WWI posters on Google Image to help illustrate some of Jane Addams’ arguments about opposition to war in my Twentieth Century American Political Thought class, I discovered this poster from WWI. Back then what counted as a genuine atrocity was something that would probably not even merit a news story…

Recent years have seen the mainstream media’s ability to serve the public by keeping tabs on Washington wither under the combination of corporate priorities, over paid and lazy talking heads, and sophisticated manipulation by the President’s media managers. It had become almost as if we had a state owned media, but because it was “privatre”…

“If I catch anyone who leaks in my government,” Bush tells Chrétien in March, 2002, “I would like to string them up by the thumbs — the same way we do with prisoners in Guantanamo.” George Bush to French prime minister Jean Chrétien with thanks to Digby Perhaps this quotation explains why Bush wanted so…

Not only can we not trust current Republican politicians with our Constitution (signing statements, torture, habeus corpus), our government (Katrina, suppression of science), our military (Iraq) or our money (Abramoff, Iraq, the deficit, the economy), you can’t trust Republicans with our kids (Predator Coverup). Come to think of it, I am not sure the picture…
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