BY PATRICE GREANVILLE NOW THAT THE OBAMA administration is touting ever louder the need to provide healthcare “for all Americans,” it’s time to put on our doubting caps and subject his proposal to detailed scrutiny, lest the public end up with the short end of the stick, as usual. Citizens concerned about Barack Obama’s true political [...]
US Officials “Rediscover” ISI-Taliban Nexus BY Tom Burghardt LONG CONSIDERED THE REALM OF “conspiracy buffs” The New York Times, citing anonymous “American government officials,” have belatedly “discovered” that Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence agency (ISI) is aiding the Taliban and al-Qaeda. That ISI operatives were reportedly involved in planning the 9/11 attacks, the ostensible reason for the 2001 U.S. [...]
THIS WEEK Charities and rich people have emerged, over recent weeks, as somewhat of a hot-button issue. The Obama administration has proposed limiting the tax deductions the wealthy can take on their charitable donations. Rich people shouldn’t get a bigger deduction on a $100 contribution, as the President argued last Tuesday, than average people. People of ample [...]
FILMS Reichardt’s film confirms the elementary truth that real, engaging drama exists in life, not in the pointless activities of fantasized super-heroes of various shades and stripes. By Joanne Laurier 20 February 2009 Wendy and Lucy by Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy, 2006) is an honest picture of American life—in other words, a very rare occurrence in [...]
“The crisis over sexual abuse by members of the priesthood underscores the profoundly reactionary and anachronistic character of the Catholic Church as an institution. Its corrupt and hypocritical officials, living like kings, preach against sin and vice, oppose birth control and abortion, inveigh against homosexuality, enthusiastically advocate censorship and intellectual repression, universally ally themselves with the powers that be and generally make life miserable for tens of millions of people. …”
FILMS By Joanne Laurier 10 January 2009 Directed by Stephen Daldry, screenplay by David Hare, based on the book by Bernhard Schlink These questions introduce the production notes of The Reader, the new film directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours). The movie, adapted from the 1995 bestselling novel by Bernhard Schlink, attempts to examine the [...]
Duplicity: The essential unseriousness of it By David Walsh 27 March 2009 Written and directed by Tony Gilroy In Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton (2007), George Clooney played a law firm’s “fixer,” called in when one of the firm’s senior partners suffers a mental collapse while taking a deposition in a lawsuit against a large and sinister conglomerate. [...]
The Protests in France and the New Anti-Capitalist Party Nathan Rao France has just gone through another day of mass strikes and protests against the hard-Right government of president Nicolas Sarkozy. The protest action is hugely popular in opinion polls and comes on the heels of another successful but smaller day of action on January [...]
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