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Posted on September 28, 2008. Filed under: activism, book review, bush, iraq, politics | Tags: Afghan insurgents, Afghanistan, American Taxpayers, anti-American sentiment, bankrupting, bloated military, Chalmers Johnson, CIA, Defense Budget, Energy, failed wars, Hellfire missiles, iran, iraq war, killing of innocent bystanders, Looting, McCain campaign, military, military industrial complex, military personnel, national security, Pakistan, pentagon, Pentagon Bailout Fraud, Shiism, special operations raids, State, Think Progress, ThinkProgress, TomDispatch, Treasury, unmanned drones, Veterans Affairs, wall street, weapons expenditures |
From TomDispatch
Let’s start with the money the Bush administration has already thrown at the war in Iraq. According to the June congressional testimony of William Beach, director of the Center for Data Analysis, the war has cost $646 billion so far. The new defense budget for 2009 tacks on another $68.6 billion for Iraq [...]
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Posted on September 26, 2008. Filed under: book review, porn, pornography, sex, sexualized | Tags: book review, salon, Bitch, Abu Ghraib, broadsheet, female role, females, great satan, porn, porn culture, sexual humiliation, sexuality |
Over at Broadsheet on Salon is a great interview with Carmine Sarracino, the coauthor of: “The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go From Here
You write in your book about the Abu Ghraib scandal. What did it reveal about American sexuality?
What it revealed is that when [...]
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Posted on September 19, 2008. Filed under: activism, book review, bush, iraq, politics | Tags: american revolutionaries, book review, BuzzFlash, Democracy, handbook, monarchal rule, Naomi Wolf, paternalistic, patriotic, politics, privilege, radicals, revolution, unitary authority, wealth |
BuzzFlash.com’s Review (excerpt)
We were big fans and promoters of Naomi Wolf’s last book,
“The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot,” — and Wolf credits BuzzFlash with helping get “The End of America” rolling into the best seller list. In fact, Wolf has contacted us to let us know of her [...]
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