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April 30, 2007

Racketeering for fun and profit

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

If war is a racket, then these guys must be racketeers.

April 29, 2007

One's creepy; the other's not

Not Creepy

"Buying the War" examines the press coverage in the lead-up to the war as evidence of a paradigm shift in the role of journalists in democracy and asks, four years after the invasion, what's changed?

If you missed the April 25th broadcast, you can watch it here - Bill Moyers Journal: Buying the War

Creepy