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Hollywood
by Gore Vidal
Very Fine, Collector's Copy $200
Washington DC
by Gore Vidal
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Illustration by Karen Spector
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By Robert Scheer — There simply would be no Enron story were it not for the deregulation of the energy market ushered in by Republican politicians.
Posted on Jan 31, 2006
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Illustration by Karen Spector
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By Molly Ivins — As our government renames a civil liberties-trampling spying program and suppresses the results of its own studies, Americans are being left in an information vacuum regarding the true state of our union.
Posted on Jan 31, 2006
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The scoundrels at Enron might finally get their due with the start of the much-anticipated fraud trial in Houston. Check out some of the columns Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer has written over the course of the scandal.
Posted on Jan 29, 2006
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White House photo by David Bohrer
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By Andy Borowitz — Jack Abramoff? Sorry, never knew the guy.... Oh yeah, and while we’re on the topic of bad guys, I don’t know that Bush character either. Photos? What photos?
Posted on Jan 27, 2006
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Illustration by Karen Spector
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By Robert Scheer — In case someone in the Justice Department is reading this, let me hasten to explain why I just clicked on the Victoria’s Secret online catalog photo featuring a certain “Very Sexy Lace & Mesh Garter Belt.” AOL made me do it.
Posted on Jan 24, 2006
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From AOL
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By Blair Golson — AOL’s tasteless feature Hollywood “Babes in Arms” proves that mass media remains unbowed in its pursuit of exploiting war as a sexy, romantic profit center.
Posted on Jan 24, 2006
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By Andy Borowitz — “The last thing you want is a city that a bunch of hungry drunks are going to eat.”
Posted on Jan 24, 2006
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The transcript of the Al Gore speech that’s got everyone talking—as well as links to C-SPAN’s downloadable video of the event.
Posted on Jan 21, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — I’d like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Sen. Clinton for president.
Posted on Jan 21, 2006
71 COMMENTS
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By Robert Scheer — With Al Qaeda and the Taliban on the rise in a country we supposedly “liberated,” Bush is cynically hoping Afghanistan will once again recede from the global stage into unseen anarchy.
Posted on Jan 17, 2006
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By Sheerly Avni — Season five of the hit show “24” opens with a four-part stunner, a thwarted terrorist attack and a true-life nightmare of a new president.
Posted on Jan 17, 2006
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By Marc Cooper — The election of Socialist pediatrician Michelle Bachelet as president is good news for the people of Chile. Especially given the alternatives.
Posted on Jan 16, 2006
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By Sheerly Avni — Memoirist-fraud James Frey brings out the big gun on “Larry King Live.”
Posted on Jan 12, 2006
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By Jon Wiener — Bush rolled out an old canard about Bin Laden and the media rolled over. An inside look at the sticking power of a falsehood.
Posted on Jan 10, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — What irony that those once young Republicans, who hectored their elders about being more vigilant in defending the nation’s taxpayers and security forces, should end up accused of deeply betraying both.
Posted on Jan 10, 2006
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By James Harris — Howard Stern’s move to Sirius just might change the radio business for good. But will the change be for the better? James Harris reports.
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By Sheerly Avni — In “Match Point,” Woody Allen abandons his quirky cosmos for beauty and treachery. Sheerly Avni explores why greatness continues to elude the self-effacing filmmaker.
Posted on Jan 8, 2006
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By Larry Gross — No sooner had Ariel Sharon been rushed to the hospital with a “significant stroke” than the Rev. Pat Robertson informed the viewers of his cable TV 700 Club that this was God’s punishment for Sharon’s decision to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza.
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By James Harris — African Americans are abandoning baseball in droves. But should we care?
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By Robert Scheer — Robert Scheer says Jack Abramoff’s “massive web of corruption” represents the “death throes of the GOP revolution.”
Also, our in-depth report on the scandal.
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By Marc Cooper — The bloody Chilean dictator is a whisker away from trial. Marc Cooper weighs in on the significance of the recent booking of the 90-year-old General Augusto Pinochet.
Posted on Dec 30, 2005
35 COMMENTS
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By Sheerly Avni — “Munich,” Steven Spielberg and the perils of criticizing Israel.
Posted on Dec 29, 2005
36 COMMENTS
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By Robert Scheer — Why is it not bigger news that those infamous Iraqi female scientists once routinely referred to in the media as “Dr. Germ” and “Mrs. Anthrax” have been quietly released from imprisonment in Iraq without any charges being brought by their U.S. captors?
Posted on Dec 27, 2005
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By Dr. Roger Gould — If you’re stressed out by the holiday season, blame it on your family—and then change.
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year. . . .”
Posted on Dec 20, 2005
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By Robert Collier — GOP-led proposal to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge fails.
Posted on Dec 18, 2005
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Newsroom Carnage Continues at The Washington Post
