BY SADI RANSON-POLIZZOTTI, tant mieux project (2004) 12 July 1921—13 April 2007 Author extraordinaire Hans Koning was born in Amsterdam and remembers being in high school when the Germans invaded his country on May 10, 1940. Koning, thankfully, managed to escape, and in 1942, he fled to England where he enlisted in The British Army [...]
BY JOHN MAGE A REPORT ON THE CASE OF THE ZHENGZHOU FOUR Dateline: May 2004 | Published by Monthly Review | A fraternal site and a seminal resource for independent leftists When liberal writers Liu Xiaobo and Yu Jie were recently (and briefly) detained by Chinese police, there was a world wide chorus of denunciation. [...]
BY STEPHEN MARSHALL | Originally at Guerrilla News Network /// Dateline: Monday May 21st, 2007 /// THE PREMISE: As Christopher Hitchens’ new anti-God diatribe rules the bestseller lists, GNN co-founder Stephen Marshall is heading to Hay-on-Wye, the world’s premier literary festival in Wales. Marshall’s book, Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing, has been selected for presentation during [...]
Marsha, you write a lot about ‘The View’ a lot. Isn’t that on during the day time? Hey, I work for a living. I hear about ‘The View’ by way of David Letterman’s wisecracks during his monologue (I used to watch ‘Nightline’ but it has deteriorated a great deal with celebrity stories and other fluffy [...]
Dateline: 5.13.07 Re: “They eat horses, don’t they?” May 13 Ed Quillen column. Ed Quillen’s column about the slaughter of horses in the United States for consumption by Asians and Europeans was shocking. Is it “cultural arrogance” to stand by our companion animals and wild stallions? We keep dogs and cats for our pleasure. It’s [...]
BY BENJAMIN ROSS | Originally in Dissent Spring 2007 Newly elected Senator Jon Tester, reports the New York Times, is “your grandfather’s Democrat—a pro-gun, anti-big-business prairie pragmatist whose life is defined by the treeless patch of hard Montana dirt that has been in the family since 1916.” Virginia’s new senator, Jim Webb, is an ex-marine [...]
BY DANNY SCHECHTER [D]espite the many scholars who have validated it, even with some nitpicks, their “model” is ignored in most journalism schools and newsrooms because its real focus is on the powers behind the media… Twenty years ago, a professor of finance at the Wharton School in Philadelphia and a far better known professor [...]
BY LAURIE DAVID | Dateline: 05.18.2007 Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson said about global warming in January, “It is clear that something is going on. It is not useful to debate (the issue) any longer.” If that’s the new company line, Mr. Tillerson, then how do you explain the $2.1 million that ExxonMobil and its corporate [...]
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