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When Was The Last Time A Mexican Cut Your Pension?
Tuesday, 23 May 2006, 1:01 pm | Sam Smith
Whenever a new crisis develops in an election year and it's not nature's or the stock market's fault, the odds are pretty good that it's not a crisis. More >>
Bush Calls Up National Guard To Help In Campaign
Thursday, 18 May 2006, 10:19 am | Sam Smith
SAM SMITH, The abuse of the National Guard for political purposes is not unique to George Bush. Ronald Reagan, for example, used the scam of training to mobilize National guard troops for his war against Nicaragua. More >>
Undernews: The Road Grows Shorter
Monday, 15 May 2006, 12:09 am | Sam Smith
It is not easy to recognize fascism if you haven't been there before. Our eyesight is blurred by everything from cultural optimism to psychic denial. But news of the NSA's mass spying on American's phone records - in number of victims, at least, perhaps ... More >>
The Unanswered Mail Of Insecure Males
Friday, 12 May 2006, 3:06 pm | Sam Smith
SAM SMITH - What drives American foreign policy as much as - if not more than - ideology is male insecurity mitigated occasionally by women secretaries of state trying to prove that they can act just as insecurely as males. It is a foreign policy led by ... More >>
Undernews Goes Behind The Goss Gloss
Tuesday, 9 May 2006, 11:57 am | Sam Smith
Undernews: Behind The Goss Gloss - An extract from the daily Undernews newsletter compiled by Prorev.com Editor Sam Smith More >>
Sam Smith: Flotsam & Jetsam
Friday, 5 May 2006, 12:21 am | Sam Smith
THOSE WHO WATCHED 'West Wing' this week will recall that President-Elect Santos and his wife are looking for a school for their children. They wisely passed on St. Albans - purveyor of three Bushes plus a Kerry and Gore - as too "stuffy." After a brief ... More >>
Sam Smith: The Hazards Of Cleaning The Attic
Tuesday, 18 April 2006, 12:17 am | Sam Smith
I'M A LITTLE LEARY of the planes to renovate the National Museum of American History. There seems to be a notion abroad that the problem with museums is the space they're in when, in fact, it's often more a matter of what's on the walls and on the floor. More >>
Sam Smith: No Dreams On H Street
Wednesday, 5 April 2006, 11:34 am | Sam Smith
IT'S STRANGE HOW SOMETIMES it's the little stories that get you. For example, this morning, April 4, I read Paul Schwartzman's article in the Washington Post metro section about Capitol Hill's H Street strip: More >>
Sam Smith: Why We Need History
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 12:21 am | Sam Smith
Now that Frances Fukuyama has rediscovered history, the Nation Magazine's Katrina Vanden Heuvel would like to put it to bed again. In the best tradition of the establishment's view of "civil discourse" - i.e. avoiding the real issues - Vanden Heuvel suggested ... More >>
On The Care And Feeding Of Unsolved Mysteries
Tuesday, 21 March 2006, 11:06 am | Sam Smith
We recently ran an excerpt from the History News Network about a controversial article on the JFK assassination written for the Nation magazine by Max Holland. We included, with certain gratuitous glee, a snipe of two at the Nation which has long struck ... More >>
Sam Smith: Integrity Doesn't Need A Law
Monday, 13 March 2006, 1:25 pm | Sam Smith
THERE IS A WIDESPREAD ASSUMPTION that once the Bush mob leaves office, things will get better. I'm not so sure of that. After all, America has been deteriorating since the Reagan administration took office regardless of who was in the White House. The ... More >>
Sam Smith: Music & Politics
Monday, 13 March 2006, 1:23 pm | Sam Smith
WHEN he was 25, Colin Wilson wrote The Outsider, a book about those who see too deep and too much. I suspect some of you are here tonight. Wilson tells of a Jean Paul Sartre character who lives alone in a hotel: "There is his ordinary life, with its ... More >>
Sam Smith: Premature Aging
Friday, 3 March 2006, 1:42 pm | Sam Smith
One of the most striking changes in Washington culture over recent decades has been the disappearance of radical youth and their replacement by a culture of elite, young, right libertarians coming to the capital intent on increasing their own capital, ... More >>
How Washington Thinks And Why It Doesn't Work
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 10:32 am | Sam Smith
In trying to figure out why Washington takes such a different view towards the security of business class and the security of cargo containers it occurred to me that most policy makers don't travel by container ship. More >>
Sam Smith: The Real Holocaust Denial
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 10:32 am | Sam Smith
THE jailing of Holocaust denier David Irving in Austria is a reminder of how easy it is to imitate evil even as one excoriates it. The law that convicted Irving is of the sort the Nazis would have invoked, albeit for far different purposes, and ... More >>
Sam Smith: Getting Reacquainted With Al Gore
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 2:30 pm | Sam Smith
SAM SMITH - Al Gore's remarkable speech on Bush's illegal wiretapping - combined with his earlier criticisms of the Iraq war and his longstanding attention to the dangers of climate change - make him the only major Democratic figure, save Russ ... More >>
Sam Smith: Why You Want To Talk With Terrorists
Monday, 16 January 2006, 11:47 am | Sam Smith
Bush's history is as bad as his politics. Of course, there can be peace with so-called terrorist organizations; it's just a matter of whether one waits the better part of a century like the British in Northern Ireland or you start talking and negotiating ... More >>
Sam Smith: A Confederacy Of Doers
Monday, 12 December 2005, 12:00 am | Sam Smith
I had never been invited to dinner by Ralph Nader before, so I figured I'd better check it out. The hall where the drinks were being served could have been at any one of the scores of events Washington was throwing that night, but the difference ... More >>
Sam Smith: The Democrats' Israeli Conundrum
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 4:00 pm | Sam Smith
SAM SMITH - History has a way of coming up with the wrong things at the wrong time. For example, just as Hillary Clinton is gearing up for her 2008 presidential run, increasing numbers of Democrats are diverging from her on Iraq. While she hasn't ... More >>
Sam Smith: Blowin' In The Wind Of Cultural Decay
Friday, 14 October 2005, 11:32 am | Sam Smith
Thomas Jefferson saw it coming. He warned, "From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. More >>
