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George Carlin Recast As A Right Wing Mouthpiece

Shoq — Sun, 23 May 2010 21:52:57 +0000

I just watched…

one my favorite George Carlin clips, after laughing my ass off at the introduction to it on this site, which is another in a long line Alex Jones/Prison Planet conspiracy subsets of the insanity soiling and spoiling this nation.

Such manipulation is getting more common with each passing week, and this one

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Who Broke America

Shoq — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:54:33 +0000

New America Foundation's Barry Lynn (author of Cornered), has a very important article in Washington Monthly called:

"Who Broke American Jobs."

In my view, all of our problems, from campaign financing, to media consolidation, to the government dysfunctionalism and hyper partisanship that is breaking down anything that ever made American a worthwhile

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When Historical Lies Are Allowed To Flourish

Shoq — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:34:58 +0000

Last Spring…

David Neiwert's The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, which sliced and diced the preposterous right wing revisionism of Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism," got a fair amount of attention in the press. Here's a brief taste of it:

And yet, here we are two years later, and it turns out that
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American Fascism: Yeah, Really

Shoq — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:54:21 +0000

Definitions

Fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition. Websters

Fascism: A political regime, usually

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Fascism: The Home Game

Shoq — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:10:04 +0000

Try this at home

Get out a notepad, and spend an hour reading these two articles, which, while pretty general, do a very good job of reciting the bullet points of these eras.

As you read, write down points of interest which you think clearly resonate with our present populist "rebellions." They don't have to be exact

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