John Forbes Kerry won the televised duel with George Bush in Miami — both on demeanor and on points. The question is,…
Doug Ireland
Doug Ireland is a veteran radical journalist who has been a columnist for the Village Voice, the Paris daily Liberation, the New York Observer, New York magazine, and a number of other publications. He is currently the U.S. correspondent and columnist for the iconoclastic French political-investigative weekly Bakchich, the contributing editor for International Affairs of Gay City News (New York's largest queer weekly), and a longtime contributing editor of In These Times. His blog, DIRELAND, is at http://direland.typepad.com
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