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Yesterday’s Democracy Now on Pacifica was excellent. Jose Ramos Horta, the hero of the East TImorese resistance, was talking about suddenly becoming an “insider”, attending the WEF meetings, and learning all the nuances about “the other”. Unfortunately, Jaggi Singh kept interrupting him. The anti-globalization crowd needs to ball gag that kid and lock him in [...]

Huey Freeman made the cover of the new issue of The Nation. Huey, if you haven’t seen Boondocks, is a ‘toon. Huey’s one of the few people in the media, real or fictional, asking questions about the War on Terrorism.

Here’s something Dave and I agree on: Russ Feingold should be president.

This is a rather long entry, which starts in one place and ends in another, so hold off on the flames until you read the whole thing.
Noam Chomsky replies to Christopher Hitchens’ op-eds on The Nation’s web site from the past couple of weeks. Hitchens called Chomsky out for comparing the WTC attack to Clinton’s [...]

Christopher Hitchens has been berating fellow leftists (I suppose present company is included) for even thinking that the WTC/Pentagon attacks had anything to do with what the US has done in the Middle East.
Let’s pause a moment to appreciate Mr. Hitchens in action.
And this is precisely, now, our problem. The Taliban and its surrogates are [...]

The cover of the 1 October issue of The Nation.

[ via Cyn Gonsalves ] Madison’s own John Nichols edits a web log version of his “The Beat” column for The Nation.