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Friedman: Killing America Softly With His Song
Tuesday, 21 November 2006, 4:36 pm | Sam Smith
You'd never guess it from the sycophantic obituaries, but Milton Friedman did more damage to American democracy and culture than just about any figure in the 20th century. More >>
Sam Smith: Bush Lost But We Haven't Won
Monday, 13 November 2006, 11:33 am | Sam Smith
I woke up the morning after the election feeling surprisingly glum. It took me awhile to figure out what was wrong. It certainly wasn't that Bush had lost. That was wonderful. Then it hit me. The trouble was that we hadn't won. More >>
Sam Smith: The Bribe That Dares Not Use Its Name
Monday, 6 November 2006, 3:30 pm | Sam Smith
Private campaign financing is a form of bribery, which Merriam-Webster defines as "money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust." NotE that the gift doesn't have to be illegal to ... More >>
Sam Smith: Why Is The Military Sacred?
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 3:53 pm | Sam Smith
ONE OF THE MOST costly and immoral lies of our culture is that the military is a sacred institution. John Kerry recently bumped into this lie while telling a truth, albeit that, as a practical matter, one shouldn't mention a week before the election, ... More >>
Sam Smith: US Campaign Financing (Circa 1999)
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:01 am | Sam Smith
I have three objections to our current system of campaign financing. The first is literary. Being a writer I try to show respect for words, to leave their meanings untwisted and unobscured. More >>
Sam Smith: Running Out Of Change
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 11:18 am | Sam Smith
This is the part of history I don't like. Not the part where people don't know what's happening to them nor the part where they try to do something about it. There's plenty to do in both those parts. No, it's the part where people know there's something ... More >>
Why Smart Growth Isn't As Smart Is It Thinks It Is
Friday, 29 September 2006, 10:44 am | Sam Smith
LIBERALS hate tweaking things until they work right. That's why the Department of Housing & Urban Development ended up as a corrupt, ineffective monster. That's why affirmative action didn't turn out the way it should have. And that's why smart growth ... More >>
Sam Smith: The Role Of Respect In Peace
Friday, 8 September 2006, 12:09 am | Sam Smith
If you deconstruct the language of those who Bush would have us believe form the axis of evil, one finds not so much megalomania as insecurity, hurt feelings, and bitterness over their global inferiority. More >>
Sam Smith: The Hazards Of Estivation
Friday, 25 August 2006, 9:59 pm | Sam Smith
A reader - and Democratic candidate for a New England state legislature - writes: "I have been a subscriber to both Progressive Review as well as Undernews for some time now. Recently the issues have become sporadic and now nothing. As a convert ... More >>
Undernews: Why Peace In The Mid East Is Possible
Thursday, 17 August 2006, 11:51 am | Sam Smith
STEPHEN P PIZZO, NEWS FOR REAL - We've been here before, and I do mean "we," as in the west. The place was Ireland. The year was 1798, then 1803, and again in 1848, and again in 1867. The 45 years between 1803 and 1848 saw the Irish population mobilized ... More >>
Undernews Extract: Middle East Crisis
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 9:46 pm | Sam Smith
LIZ SLY, CHICAGO TRIBUNE - The suburbs are now eerily deserted, their residents having fled in the first days of the war. Hezbollah's headquarters is a collapsed pile of masonry, the buildings housing the group's press office and TV station are gone, ... More >>
Clues Your Country May Be Turning Fascist State
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 9:40 pm | Sam Smith
NOTE: Some of these symptoms are found in non-fascist countries where they should be treated as serious warning signs. On the other hand, fascist states - unlike democratic nations - have many, if not all, of these symptoms: More >>
Sam Smith: Undernews Extracts – Lebanon War
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 3:22 pm | Sam Smith
JUAN COLE, INDYBAY - Matthew Kalman reveals that Israel's wide ranging assault on Lebanon has been planned in a general way for years, and a specific plan has been in the works for over a year. More >>
Sam Smith: Rafting Down America's Real Mainstream
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 12:11 am | Sam Smith
I helped to start the national Green Party some years back because I was looking for a political organization in the American mainstream with which I could feel comfortable. More >>
Sam Smith's Undernews: The Middle East Crisis
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 11:07 am | Sam Smith
THALIF DEEN, INTER PRESS SERVICE - Israel is in violation of U.S. arms-control laws for deploying U.S.-made fighter planes, combat helicopters, and missiles to kill civilians and destroy Lebanon's infrastructure in the ongoing six-day devastation ... More >>
Sam Smith: The Urban Myth Of Urban Reform
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 10:43 am | Sam Smith
As lower income ethnic residents are increasingly removed from America's major cities we find this change cloaked in the language of reform. The changes are described as "revitalization" or "economic development" when, in fact, those being truly revitalized ... More >>
Sam Smith: News Junkie - Jason Leopold
Friday, 16 June 2006, 7:11 pm | Sam Smith
If I were Jason Leopold I probably wouldn't bother to tell you that we had the same publisher since, after all, Process Media (which published Leopold) and Feral House (which published me) are separate operations even if Adam Parfrey is the force behind ... More >>
Undernews: Another Day Of Broken Vote Machines
Thursday, 8 June 2006, 2:41 pm | Sam Smith
ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER - Voters throughout the county reported malfunctioning voting machines and technical glitches Tuesday afternoon. Shirley Filadelfia said none of the voting machines were working at her voting site, the San Juan Capistrano Community ... More >>
Huge Banking Firm's Man Takes Over Treasury Again
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 12:10 am | Sam Smith
REUTERS - President George W. Bush announced on Tuesday that Treasury Secretary John Snow was resigning and that he has nominated Goldman Sachs chairman Henry Paulson to replace him. . . "Hank shares my philosophy that the economy prospers when we ... More >>
Sam Smith: The Politics Of Anger
Tuesday, 23 May 2006, 1:01 pm | Sam Smith
If Americans voted at the same rate that they did in 1964, 17 million more voters would show up at the polls this fall. And most pollsters would not have added them to their equations. The polls would likely be badly wrong. More >>
