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1. At a public talk someone asks you, "okay, I understand what you reject, but I wonder what are you for? What…
Ben Bagdikian
Ben H. Bagdikian is the author of In the Midst of Plenty: The Poor in America (Beacon Press, 1963), The Media Monopoly (6th Ed., 2000), other books. He is the former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
Bush’s plan to do universal eavesdropping without a warrant is not only trashing American civil liberties. If my experience with past FBI…
A widely used form of DuPont’s Teflon, suspected of being a carcinogen and creating organ damage in animals, is being studied by…
Whenever a politician pulls at our heartstrings, to be generous to the widows and orphans, to act in relief of the poor…
You didn’t have to see Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 to discover that the Bush family, senior and junior, have had a special…
There is an eerie similarity between Leo Tolstoy’s novel, War and Piece, which describes with considerable accuracy Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia…
By Ben Bagdikian The last individual I would associate as tactical twins would be a merchant I once encountered in Tangier,…
We live in a time of clashing cultures and a major mischief in a world where almost every culture aggressively propels its…
“I have here in my hand, a list ….” Senator Joseph McCarthy, Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1946. Senator McCarthy’s list turned…
From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman and beyond, it has been capitalist theology that the driving force of healthy and fairly distributed…