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President George W. Bush has long preferred illusion to reality. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda," Bush explained of his approach at a public forum in 2005. For Bush, there are no real problems, only political problems. The only crises are when poll numbers fall.
[Note: TowardFreedom.com Editor Benjamin Dangl won a 2007 Project Censored Award for his coverage of US Military Operations in Paraguay.]
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One of the only reader-funded, collectively run, professional hard-news sites on the Worldwide Web says it will close its doors on Saturday, September 30 if it does not secure the funding needed to continue daily publishing. For the past three years, The NewStandard has provided a refreshing alternative to the corporate media, fearlessly tackling the underreported, misreported, ignored and buried stories of our times, always from a public-interest perspective.
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Dwight Macdonald would have been 100 this year, 2006. Had he lived, he would have been asked to say a few words about the state of the world, about the editing of political journals, and about the state of American culture. His replies would have been short and satirical. As he wrote "Great ideas can only be expressed in a great style. There is no such thing as a clear message delivered in a confused style." He was a master of the short essay.
On the May 23rd edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight, correspondent Casey Wian characterized Mexican President Vicente Fox's visit to The United States as the "Vicente Fox Aztlan tour." In doing so, Wian dredged up an old conspiracy theory: reconquista, or the belief that Mexicans seek to retake the Southwest by mass immigration.
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