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Legendary investigative reporter SEYMOUR HERSH says the White House has changed the targets it plans to attack in Iran. Bush and Cheney have concluded that the public didnt believe their claims about Iranian nukes, so instead they have targeted the Revolutionary Guard Corps arguing that they are attacking Americans in Iraq. Hersh broke the story of the My Lai massacre his report Shifting Targets appears in The New Yorker this week. Hersh will be speaking at UCLALive’s Royce Hall Thurs at 8pm — tickets/info at www.uclalive.org.
Also: Why millions of Americans are looking forward to the end of the world — Nicholas Guyatts light-hearted report from the front line of wacky religious fervor (Observer).
Plus: SUPERCAPITALISM: ROBERT REICH says we need to revive the democratic process to bring capitalism under control with fair taxation, well-funded public education, and organized trade unions. Reich was Secretary of Labor under President Clinton, and now teaches public policy at Berkeley. He’s speaking Thurs. nite at 730pm at Town Hall Writers Bloc in Westwood.
More stuff to read: my piece Clarence Thomas and Rupert Murdoch at the Huffington Post. . .
. . . and my piece John Dean: From Nixon to Bush to Giuliani: Much, Much Worse, also at the Huffington Post
