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Re: America is on the Brink of Fascism! Jesse Ventura

2008-08-13T16:47:37Z

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Salman Rushdie - Machiavelli's Bad Rap

2008-08-12T10:30:36Z

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Award-winning novelist Salman Rushdie discusses Niccolo Machiavelli, arguing that the infamous Italian political philosopher does not deserve the bad reputation he is often given by popular culture.

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Born in Mumbai, India, Salman Rushdie is an outspoken novelist. After a decade working as an ad copywriter, Rushdie had a breakthrough with the publication of his second book, Midnight's Children. The book received critical acclaim and was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981.

His latest novel, The Enchantress of Florence, about a bewitching Moghul princess and her Florentine exploits with such historical characters as Machiavelli, is due out this June - City Arts & Lectures

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-British novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize.Much of his early fiction is set at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between the Eastern and Western worlds.

His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), led to protests from Muslims in several countries, some of which were violent. Faced with death threats and a fatwā (religious edict) issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground, appearing in public only sporadically.

In June 2007, Rushdie was appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to literature. In 2007, he began a five-year term as distinguished writer in residence at Emory University.

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the kasumi Oh Really!!! remix

2008-08-08T11:03:08Z

The official kasumi remix of the über-obnoxious mouth-piece of the Bush administration, Bill O'Reilly.

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Happy 60th Anniversary Birthday, ISRAEL!

2008-08-29T22:48:22Z

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Dream on, Karl

2008-08-29T22:41:05Z

Karl Rove tosses in the towel and we review the damage he's done.

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What Barry Says

2008-06-11T21:31:10Z

The business of America is business.

This video, from a few years ago, describes the war corporatism that seeks economic security under the pretense of national security.

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Naomi Wolf - The Bush Administration's "Watch List"

2008-06-10T09:33:33Z

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Progressive author and columnist Naomi Wolf compares the Bush Administration's anti-terrorism "watch list" to citizen surveillance tools used by authoritarian governments.

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Naomi Wolf talks about "The End of America."

Naomi Wolf, the bestselling author of "The Beauty Myth," "Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change The 21st Century," "Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood," and others, will discuss and sign her new book "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot." This book cuts across political parties and ideologies, and warns us - with the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlets - that we have little time to lose if our children are to live in real freedom. - Tattered Cover

Naomi Wolf was born in San Francisco in 1962. She was an undergraduate at Yale University and did her graduate work at New College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Her essays have appeared in various publications including: The New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Ms., Esquire, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She also speaks widely to groups across the country.

Naomi Wolf is co-founder of the Board of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an organization devoted to training young women in ethical leadership for the 21st century. The institute teaches professional development in the arts and media, politics and law, business and entrepreneurship as well as ethical decision making.

She lives with her family in New York City.

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The Brutal Reality of America's Police State

2008-07-31T06:31:54Z

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John Dean - Authoritarians and the Bush Administration

2008-06-07T09:34:14Z

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Former Nixon aide John Dean discusses the concept of the authoritarian personality and how it relates to the current Bush Administration. He also theorizes on its possible implications for the ongoing War on Terror.

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John Dean discusses "Conservatives Without Conscience."

Over a decade ago, John W. Dean, a former White House counsel, and the late Arizona Senator Barry M. Goldwater began a joint inquiry into what was happening to conservatism. At the time, the movement was first becoming increasingly radical, religious, and self-righteous. When Senator Goldwater's health precluded his continued work on their planned book, the project was set aside. But Dean did not stop searching for answers to their questions, particularly the failed effort by conservative Republicans to overturn the 1996 presidential election by impeaching President Clinton. Dean's interest is in understanding why conservative Republicans are doing what they are doing, and he found the striking explanation for the behavior of contemporary conservatives in the empirical studies of social scientists, who have been studying authoritarianism since World War II.

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Joe Conason - The War on Terror as "Permanent War"

2008-06-07T09:35:16Z

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Author Joe Conason discusses the concept of "permanent war" as it relates to authoritarian governments, and argues that the Bush Administration's War on Terror constitutes a modern incarnation of this theme.

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Joe Conason discusses his most recent book "It Can Happen Here."

Political columnist Conason maintains that bit by bit, essential liberties and constitutional protections are being diminished or discarded. Americans of all persuasions must ask, where will it end? This is his chilling answer. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Harper's, The New Yorker, and many other publications. - Book Passage

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Robert Dallek - Nixon vs. Kissinger

2008-06-07T09:36:34Z

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Historian Robert Dallek describes the frequently contentious relationship between former President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

This program contains explicit language.

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Robert Dallek discusses "Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power" at Politics and Prose Bookstore.

In this epic and revelatory joint biography, one of the most distinguished historians probes the lives and times of two unlikely leaders whose partnership dominated the world stage and changed the course of history. - Politics and Prose

Robert Dallek, born May 16, 1934, is a prominent American historian with a specialism of American Presidents. He is a Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA and Oxford. He has won the Bancroft Prize and numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching.

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American Fascist - Watch It!

2008-06-09T03:30:48Z

Chris Hedges, who is a great American journalist and probably one of the most brilliant too, reads an excerpt from his new book that is extremely powerful. Watch it.

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