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04 February 2002
GWB and the Incredible Shrinking FDR
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Norman Solomon
A new media tic -- likening George W. Bush to Franklin D. Roosevelt -- is already so widespread that it's apt to become a conditioned reflex of American journalism.

By now, countless reporters and pundits have...
31 January 2002
The Government and Business
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN -- The State of the Union was fairly surreal Tuesday night. We won the war against Afghanistan, but we're still at war with Al Qaeda, so we have to go attack North Korea.

The big paper-shredders at Enron...
29 January 2002
Enron, Enron, Enron
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN -- The seminal historic event always affects the language. Already we can see that Enron is of this shattering magnitude. A stick-up artist goes into the Jiffy Mart to pull a heist. He whips his heater and says to the clerk, "Put...
24 January 2002
Prisoners and World Trade
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN -- Why do they hate us? Well, scope out the deal at Guantanamo, and see what you think.

We go along for months having a war -- the war in Afghanistan, the war on terrorism, the war to get Osama bin Laden...
24 January 2002
Ashcroft's Media Scam: A Confederacy of Amnesia
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Norman Solomon
Even by Washington's standards, the ability of John Ashcroft to reinvent himself has been a wonder to behold. Just a year ago, squeaking through Senate confirmation as attorney general, Ashcroft found himself shadowed by his own praise...
17 January 2002
A Communique From the Ghost of Mark Twain
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Norman Solomon
I see that I'm damn near legendary now; and since I died long ago, that's safe for all concerned.

The other day, with calendars showing January 2002, a radio was having its usual effect -- until suddenly my eyelids...

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