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New Republic Editor Evokes Fringe Email "Clinical Narcissism" Smear

Morgan Warners | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Email Chain Letter, Tnr, Joe Klein, Obama Muslim Email, Joe Klein TIME, Obama Email, Marty Peretz, The New Republic, Narcissism, Swampland, Sam Vaknin, Barack Obama, Nazi, Obama Communist, Communism, Nazis, Smears, Obama Nazi, Obama Muslim Smear, Media News
Morgan Warners

A famously hawkish supporter of Israel, New Republic editor Marty Peretz's accusations about the president mimic the message of a fringe ring-wing email that I got my hands on.

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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanhenhaus, Civil Rights Movement, Joe Mccarthy, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, Willam F. Buckley Jr., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sarah Palin, Communism, Martin Luther King, John Birchers, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam War, Benjamin Disraeli, New York Times, African Amercans, Rick Perry, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Soviet Union, Books News
Joseph A. Palermo

Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.

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Exorcising America's Diplomatic Demons

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Communism, Islamist, Afghanistan, Terrorist, Cold War, Iran, Red Scare, China, Politics News
Robert Scheer

What we need is for Obama to pull a Nixon and attempt to cut a deal with Tehran as well as with competing forces in Afghanistan that meets their nationalist aspirations and our security interests.

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The Return Of McCarthyism: Hysteria In Action On The Right (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Van Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Liberals, President Barack Obama, Marxist, Mccarthyism, Sen. Joe McCarthy, Chris Matthews, Alan Keyes, Edward R. Murrow, Michelle Bachmann, Communism, Video, Fidel Castro, Sean Hannity, Job, Bill Ayers, Mash, Racism, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Czars, Politics News

***UPDATE 9/22/09*** I haven't found another embeddable version yet, but sharp-eyed reader Mark points out that you can watch the video here. ***UPDA...

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Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Documents Radio/TV Diva Gertrude Berg Popular from Great Depression Through McCarthy Era

Penelope Andrew | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chris Milanos Downey, A Majority of One, Ed Asner, African-Americans, Actresses, Aviva Kempner, Catholic-Americans, Emmy Award, Red Channels, Richmond-Virginia, Documentary Film, Tony Award, Gertrude Berg, Jewish-Americans, Rosalind Russell, Aphrodite Palans Andrew, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Communism, The Black List, Screenwriters, Red Scare, Philip Loeb, Huac, Socialism, Susan Stamberg, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg, Women Directors, Norman Lear, Radio, The Rise of the Goldbergs, Greek-Americans, The Goldbergs, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg underscores a unique moment in our history when the Jewish experience crossed over into households composed of African Americans and Midwesterners, as they all listened to The Rise of the Goldbergs.

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Tea Party Protester: "We Think The Muslims Are Moving In And Taking Over" (VIDEO)

Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Birthers, Dick Armey, Freedomworks, Washington D.C., National Mall, Communism, Video, Independents, 9/12, Spending, Gop, Muslims, Protester, Socialism, Health Care, Tea Party, Tea Party Video, Teaparty, Nbc Tea Party, We Think the Muslims Are Moving in and Taking Over, Muslims Are Moving In, Tea Party Photos, Politics News

UPDATE (8:43 p.m. EST): NBC has replaced this woman's comment about Muslims with a less inflammatory comment: "I'm scared to death for my country. I ...

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Just Listen -- Obama's Education Speech to Children

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Obama Speech, Education, Mark Goulston, Education Reform, Barack Obama, Communism, President Obama, Blazing Saddles, Fearmonger, Right Wing, Capitalism, Town Hall Meetings, Living News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

Over and over again, we see the right wing steadfastly digging their heels in before gathering, listening to and evaluating all the facts regarding going to war, education and health reform.

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The Man Who Changed the World: An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev

Ginny Dougary | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Politics, Communism, Glasnost, Perestroika, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian Oligarchs, World News
Ginny Dougary

Mikhail Gorbachev is still a man who strides the global stage -- and maintains a keen interest in domestic politics. I spoke to him about power, presidents, Putin and life after Raisa.

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This Film is an Idiot's Version of Naomi Klein's Masterpiece

Johann Hari | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Chile, Debt, Depression, Salvador Allende, Naomi Klein, Mixed Economies, Apartheid, Conservatism, Michale Winterbottom, Capitalism, Pinochet, Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Communism, Freedom Charter, Channel 4, Margaret Thatcher, Anc, Shock Doctrine, Cia, World Bank, Tianamen, Imf, Milton Friedman, Soviet Union, World News
Johann Hari

Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is one of the most important political books of the past decade. But Michael Winterbottom's "adaptation" for film is garbled and mumbled to the point of meaninglessness.

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The New McCarthyists: Fear and Smear

Michael Likosky | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Carolyn McLarty, Ann Coulter, City of Norwalk Parking Authority, Ron Kaufman, Metro Goldline, Peggy Lambert, Kim Lehman, Cathie Adams, De Carlson, Blacklisting, LAZ Parking, Lilly Nunez, Marxism, Betti Hill, Demetra Demonte, Alfred Cunningham Bridge, Solomon Yue, Republican National Committee, Alameda Corridor, Chicago Parking Meters, Rush Limbaugh, Dorchester Tunnel, Balfour Beatty, Jeff Kent, WIllies Lee, Lou Dobbs, Donna Cain, Dulles Airport Expansion, Jim Bopp, Jon Voight, Peter Ricketts, Edward R. Murrow, Randy Pullen, Communism, New McCarthyists, Gio Cicione, Cindy Costa, Brian Sullivan, Sean Hannity, Joseph McCarthy, Linda Herren, Steve Scheffler, Fox News, Glenn Beck, North-Antelope-Rochelle-Mine, Vinci, Socialism, Helen Van Etten, Highway 130, David Norcross, Politics News
Michael Likosky

New McCarthyists conjure "socialism," "communism," "marxism," and other "shocking labels" to drum up hate-mongering.

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Van Jones: The Partisan Politics of Mutually Assured Distraction

Beau Friedlander | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Nash Equilibruium, Game Theory, Van Jones Resigns, Green Jobs, Aces, Mad, Health Care Reform, Katrina, White House Special Advisor, Jeremiah Wright, 9-11, Van Jones, Mutually Assured Destruction, Climate Bill, Politics News
Beau Friedlander

Van Jones was the best person for the job he just relinquished. He would have helped Republican lawmakers in their districts. He would have created jobs. He would have made a difference.

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Cleaning Some of the Fox Off of Van Jones

David Roberts | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Communism, Swiftboating, Fox News, Community Organizing, Glenn Beck, Van Jones, Green News
David Roberts

If the conservative movement were smart it would claim Van Jones as one if its own. But then, it's not smart. It's Glenn Beck.

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Obama's Meaningless War

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Vietnam, Taliban, Lyndon Johnson, Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Communism, Obama War in Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Meaningless is the right term for the Afghanistan war, because our bloody attempt to conquer this foreign land has nothing to do with its stated purpose of enhancing our national security.

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HUAC: Americanism

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Soviet, Bozo of the Day, Spies, Anniversary, Bozo Sapiens, Constitution, Scandal, Incompetence, Politics News
Michael Kaplan

Cynically magnifying trivialities; bluster and innuendo; guilt by association; shameless grandstanding ... wouldn't it be nice if these were considered un-American activities?

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Remembering the Nazi-Soviet Pact After Seventy Years

Robert Gellately | Posted 09.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Russia, Communism, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Stalinism, Osce, World War II, Soviet Union, Home News
Robert Gellately

On August 23, 1939 Stalin's agreement with Nazi Germany gave Hitler the green light. That signal was important at the time and seventy years later there is no reason for Russians to deny it.

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Abolish the Nazi-Commie Nightmare of Public Firefighting

David Quigg | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Fascism, Communism, Nazis, Firefighters, Public Option, Satire, Health Care Reform, Socialism, Health Insurance, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, House Guests, Satirists, Politics News
David Quigg

If we seize this moment, if we maintain this momentum, we can give our children an America free from the totalitarian, communist abomination of public firefighting.

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China's Miracle Economy: Have the Chinese Become the World's Greatest Capitalists?

Ellen Brown | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Monopoly, Banking Crisis, Communism, Wall Street Bailout, Capitalism, China Economy, World News
Ellen Brown

To the extent that China's stimulus plan is working better than in the U.S. and the U.K., this seems to be because the government is using the banks for public ends, rather than allowing the banks to use the government for private ends.

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The Red Dawn Remake: The Chinese Are Coming! The Chinese Are Coming!

Disgrasian | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Russia, The Outsiders, Connor Cruise, Xenophobia, Teen Movies, C. Thomas Howell, Red Dawn Remake, Cold War, The Cold War, Mujahideen, Communism, 1980's Movies, Insurgents, Tom Cruise, Guerrilla War, Red Dawn, China, Cuba, Patrick Swayze, Soviet Union, Entertainment News
Disgrasian

Remakes are generally never as good as their originals, but what really worries me about the Red Dawn remake is that the foreign invaders this go-around are apparently going to be...Chinese.

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Was Izzy an Agent?

D. D. Guttenplan | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Kgb, Communism, I.F. Stone, Ron Radosh, Spies, National Security Agency, Cold War, Media News
D. D. Guttenplan

I've always had a soft spot for Ron Radosh. This may seem surprising, particularly since Radosh just penned an attack on me, my I.F. Stone biography, ...

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Dangerous: Michael Jackson and I.F. Stone

D. D. Guttenplan | Posted 08.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Communism, Jews, Dance, I.F. Stone, Indiana, African Americans, Entertainment News
D. D. Guttenplan

Because mud sticks, I was going to kick off here by examining the so-called evidence for the charge that I.F. Stone, the legendary radical journalist,...

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'Comrade Couture' Documentary Revisits Germany's Communist Creativity

Der Spiegel | Caroline Winter | Posted 07.18.2009 | Style

Read More: Communism, Germany, Documentaries, Fashion, Berlin Wall, Style News

Most think of East Germany as having been drab, gray and boring. But an underground fashion scene did its best to spice things up. A new documentary t...

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Supreme Court: No Re-Trial For "Cuban Five" Convicted Of Spying

AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fidel Catro, Castro, Ruben Campa, Communism, Cuban Five, Gerardo Hernandez, Cuban 5, Supreme Court, Antonio Guerrero, Anti-Castro, Miami, Rene Gonzalez, Luis Medina, Cuba, Politics News

MIAMI — Cuban exiles said Monday they were relieved the Supreme Court refused to review the convictions of five intelligence agents for the comm...

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"No Sense of Decency" Welch v. McCarthy: A Smear Undone

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Joseph Welch, George Clooney, Dwight Eisenhower, Joseph McCarthy, Edward R. Murrow, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

The dramatic moment marked a turning point in the so-called McCarthy Era. It came during one of the first nationally televised Senate hearings, known as the Army-McCarthy hearings.

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Tough Love for Israel

Murray Fromson | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, West Bank, Communism, Arabs, Ariel Sharon, Egypt, Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama Cairo Speech, China, Barack Obama, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Jerusalem-Israel, Israel, Shanghai-China, Beijing-China, Washington-Utah, Palestinian Authority, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, World News
Murray Fromson

Obama told the leaders of Hamas that they must recognize Israel's legitimacy as a precondition for peace. That's tough medicine for the Palestinians to swallow and even tougher for Netanyahu to believe.

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A Cause for Comedy: A Cause for Mild Alarm

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 07.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Fascism, Communism, Slumdog Millionaire, Causecast, Marxism, A Cause for Comedy, Socialism, Islamo-Fascism, Nextaid, Comedy News
Jonathan Daniel Harris

Here's the concept. A bunch of idealistic flower people put down their peace pipes for one minute and decide to host a comedy show. You, the sucker, go and shell out $10 of your hard-earned scratch to watch an hour of penis jokes or something. Here's the communist part: they take the money earned from the show and give it to some not-for-profit organization!

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