Journalism

Gore Vidal was a citizen of the republic and a critic of the empire.  “We are the United States of Amnesia,” he wrote in The Nation in 2004. “We learn nothing because we remember nothing.”
More at TheNation.com,HERE.

The news has been full of speculation about why Mitt Romney won’t release his tax returns before 2010. People say maybe it’s because he paid zero taxes one year, or maybe he made a truly stupendous amount of money one year, or maybe they show he stayed at Bain Capital longer than he’s said.

I have a different theory: Romney won’t release his tax returns because they show he’s actually a Muslim born in Kenya. . . . continued at TheNation.com, HERE

Some of the first investors in Mitt Romney’s firm Bain Capital, according to a report on the Los Angeles Times, were Salvadoran families living in Miami with members accused by the US government of funding death squads in the brutal civil war in El Salvador. . . .
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Dear Mr. Romney, I was hoping you could tell me how to get more free stuff from the government, and I see that you took up that question after your speech to the NAACP last week. . . .
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From “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” to “A dream is a wish your heart makes”: Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney are together at last in an unprecedented Disney exhibit at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California.
I had one question: why?
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Not long after the meltdown at Fukushima, workers at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, north of San Diego, discovered radioactive steam leaking into the air. Hundreds of steam tubes had been banging together and vibrating, until one of them sprung a leak, investigators said. And the tubes had been installed less than two years ago. . .
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In L.A.’s Chinatown on Saturday, thousands marched against low-wage jobs.   Tom Morello performed, and Steve Earle sang “I’m thinkin’ ’bout burnin’ the WalMart down”–
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Higher tuition, and freedom from the requirement that the school serve the public:  TheNation.com, http://www.thenation.com/blog/168305/ucla-business-school-go-private-blow-public-university.

“Why I’m Voting Against the California Tobacco Tax Increase on Tuesday”: at TheNation.com, HERE
http://www.thenation.com/blog/168208/why-im-voting-against-californias-tobacco-tax-increase-tuesday

In his history of the FBI as a secret intelligence organization, Tim Weiner didn’t need to take up the question of whether J. Edgar Hoover was gay. But he did: on his very first page he condemns what he calls the “caricature” of Hoover as “a tyrant in a tutu, a cross-dressing crank.” When a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist takes this line of argument, whatever you think of it, it’s news.. . .
. . . continued at the L.A. Review of Books HERE