Great SW article....

[KissMyAsscroft]

>I dont do "snips"....that aint my style.....


http://www.seattleweekly.com//features/0346/031112_news_mossback.php

[dofus]

1. Great article.

I keep on reminding people that the Bush people took power in a coup, and people who take power that way don't ever relinquish it voluntarily, particularly not in a fair and free election.

The signs that we are living in a dictatorship grow daily. What does give me hope is the fact that things like DU stay in business. I'm still able to meet with various groups (peace activists, teach-ins) and speak my mind with considerable freedom almost anywhere. I'm not a complete idiot and there are times when I keep my mouth shut. But so far, despite the corporate control of media, it's possible to get real information out there.

[realFedUp]

2. Knute Berger-There's growing proof that America lost the Cold War

Red Dawn
There's growing proof that America lost the Cold War.

by Knute Berger

THE RECENT CONTROVERSY over the CBS miniseries about Ronald Reagan brings to the fore the issue of the Gipper's legacy. The reason he deserves to be on Mount Rushmore, it is argued, is that he won the Cold War by out-poker playing the commies.
But there's mounting evidence that we in fact lost the Cold War. This past week was rich with signs that life in these United States is starting to mimic life in the former Soviet Union.

First, there's the miniseries brouhaha itself. Rather than air the show about Reagan and First Lady Nancy, the network bowed to right-wing pressure and bounced it to the premium cable network Showtime, presumably because cable watchers are less easily offended by the critical portrayal of Alzheimer's patients. Instead of airing the program and taking the heat of bad reviews, it was repurposed purely because it didn't hew to a particular political line. I have little doubt that the miniseries was lousy and involved gross caricatures of historical figures, but isn't that a miniseries' stock in trade? The cancellation of the network broadcast—our version of state-sanctioned TV—was political, pure and simple.

[Eloriel]

3. How about a one-line description of what the hell it's about? n/t