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		<title>Deadly &#039;Diplomacy&#039;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 223 days left in his presidency, George W. Bush laid more flagstones along a path to war on Iran. There was the usual declaration that "all options are on the table" -- and, just as ominously, much talk of diplomacy. Three times on June 11, the Associated Press reports, Bush "called a diplomatic solution &#8216;my first choice,&#8217; implying there are others. He said &#8216;we&#8217;ll give diplomacy a chance to work,&#8217; meaning it might not." That&#8217;s how Bush talks when he&#8217;s grooving along in his Orwellian comfort zone, eager to order a military attack. "We seek peace," Bush said in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a Little Dissent Is Too Much</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, once in a great while, I&#8217;ve been surprised to cross paths with a journalist at a major TV outlet who actually seems willing and able to go outside the conventional boundaries of media discourse. That&#8217;s what happened one day in the fall of 2005 at the Boston headquarters of the CN8 television network, owned and operated by the corporate media giant Comcast. I showed up for an interview about my book "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death." My expectations weren&#8217;t very high. After all, I was setting foot in the studios [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Clinton and Anger to Burn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In politics, as in so many other aspects of life, anger is a combustible fuel. Affirmed and titrated, it helps us move forward. Suppressed or self-indulged, it&#8217;s likely to blow up in our faces. With the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination coming to a close, there&#8217;s plenty of anger in the air. And the elements are distinctly flammable. As Bob Herbert wrote in the New York Times on June 3, "the Clinton and Obama partisans spent months fighting bitterly on the toxic terrain of misogyny, racism and religion." Herbert doesn&#8217;t spread the blame evenly. And, as an elected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Media Ballad of Gen. Petraeus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gen. David Petraeus is the name. And if he didn&#8217;t exist, a media presence like him would have to be invented. Standing behind the general, of course, is a commander in chief whose highs and lows can be charted with press clippings. After mediocre reviews through most of 2001, he became the media&#8217;s genuine global-vision cowboy, guns about to blaze, atop the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center. Poll ratings spiked, and pundit accolades went into overdrive. Eight months into his presidency, George W. Bush was suddenly FDR without need of a wheelchair. He could read a Teleprompter adequately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPR News - National Pentagon Radio?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Iraqi government continued its large-scale military assault in Basra, the NPR reporter&#8217;s voice from Iraq was unequivocal on the morning of March 27: "There is no doubt that this operation needed to happen." Such flat-out statements, uttered with journalistic tones and without attribution, are routine for the U.S. media establishment. In the "War Made Easy" documentary film, I put it this way: "If you&#8217;re pro-war, you&#8217;re objective. But if you&#8217;re anti-war, you&#8217;re biased. And often, a news anchor will get no flak at all for making statements that are supportive of a war and wouldn&#8217;t dream of making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warfare and Healthcare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s kind of logical. In a pathological way. A country that devotes a vast array of resources to killing capabilities will steadily undermine its potential for healing. For social justice. For healthcare as a human right. Martin Luther King Jr. described the horrific trendline four decades ago: "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." If a society keeps approaching spiritual death, it&#8217;s apt to arrive. Here&#8217;s an indicator: Nearly one in six Americans has no health insurance, and tens of millions of others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it sounded good when politicians, pundits and online fundraisers talked about American deaths as though they were the deaths that mattered most. Maybe it sounded good to taunt the Bush administration as a bunch of screw-ups who didn&#8217;t know how to run a proper occupation. And maybe it sounded good to condemn Donald Rumsfeld and George Bush for ignoring predictions that several hundred thousand troops would be needed to effectively occupy Iraq after an invasion. But when a war based on lies is opposed because too many Americans are dying, the implication is that it can be made right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Honor of My Mother and the Power of Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time my mother was in a hospital, an essay by Thich Nhat Hanh moved in front of my eyes. "Our mother is the teacher who first teaches us love, the most important subject in life," he wrote. "Without my mother I could never have known how to love. Thanks to her I can love my neighbors. Thanks to her I can love all living beings."]]></description>
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		<title>Issues Have Gone Missing in Presidential Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent decades, the news media have shown increasing attraction to style over substance. Under the cover of journalism, endless discussions have pumped up the public discourse with evaluations of candidates as theatrical performers rather than policy advocates. But the current presidential race has brought us to a new journalistic low. The media fascination with story angles seems to be inversely proportional to their substance. For instance, the attentive news consumer knows far more about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s quest to seem likable than about her position on nuclear weapons. We hear far more astute punditry about whether she projects an image [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Channeling Suze Orman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was near the deadline for a column when I glanced at a TV screen. &#8220;The Suze Orman Show,&#8221; airing on CNBC at prime time, exerted a powerful force in my hotel room. And the fate of this column was sealed. Orman made a big splash many years ago on public television -- the incubating environment for her as a national phenom. With articulate calls for intelligent self-determination of one&#8217;s own financial future, she is a master of the long form. Humor and dramatic cadences punch up the impacts of her performances. Seeing her the other night, within a matter [...]]]></description>
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