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The Pariah Economy & The Rise Of Social Bigotry
Friday, 4 February 2005, 3:55 pm | Sam Smith
The economies of developed countries no longer demand the amount of work by most of their citizens that helped to create the myth of capitalism. Changes in technology, outsourcing, and labor intensiveness have made and will continue to make a growing ... More >>
Sam Smith vs Fox News' Bill O'Reilly - Smackdown
Wednesday, 2 February 2005, 2:17 pm | Sam Smith
Reader Chas Edwards used the right word when he described your editor's appearance on the Bill O'Reilly show as a ''smackdown,'' for television of this variety has far more in common with professional wrestling than with professional journalism. ... More >>
Sam Smith: History's Hints For Democrats
Tuesday, 1 February 2005, 1:20 pm | Sam Smith
A study of the past brings forth some strong hints of how the Democrats might recover from their present difficulties. More >>
Sam Smith: How Much Do We Learn From Evil?
Monday, 31 January 2005, 11:04 am | Sam Smith
The 60th anniversary observance of Auschwitz brings back a question that periodically lurks in the corner: how much do we really learn from evil? More >>
What The Christian Right Forgets About The Bible
Thursday, 27 January 2005, 11:52 am | Sam Smith
Our text for today is found in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel. When Samuel got old he appointed his sons as judges over Israel. As so often occurs with nepotism this didn't work out: the offspring taking dishonest gain and bribes and perverting justice. More >>
Sam Smith: Getting Through The Bad Times
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 12:59 am | Sam Smith
Logic has failed us, theories have failed us, technology has failed us, policy has failed us, diplomacy has failed us, our military, our leaders in government, media, and the intelligentsia. . . even our faith seems to have failed us. More >>
Sam Smith: Politics & Despair
Monday, 20 December 2004, 11:24 am | Sam Smith
THE ELECTION has spread discouragement and despair among many decent and thoughtful people. And for those in the business of pursuing the truth journalistically, there has been another blow: the suicide of investigative reporter Gary Webb, the victim ... More >>
Sam Smith: Wind Shift In Washington
Friday, 17 December 2004, 12:44 am | Sam Smith
There's been a noticeable shift in the political wind in Washington. Not the Washington familiar to most but in the second Washington, the one that serves the first and comes out last. More >>
Sam Smith: The Gary Webb Case
Thursday, 16 December 2004, 3:32 pm | Sam Smith
The death of investigative reporter Gary Webb has brought an unusually strong reaction from readers, some of whom feel he was assassinated and many more of whom feel he was rottenly treated by his media colleagues for his expose of CIA - drug trade connections. ... More >>
Sam Smith: The Homeland, Bad Times & Bothering
Thursday, 2 December 2004, 11:08 am | Sam Smith
As we move towards - and even surpass - the fictional bad dreams of Huxley and Orwell, it is helpful to remember that these nightmares were actually the curse of the elites, and not of those who lived in the quaint primitive manner of humans rather than joining ... More >>
Sam Smith: Counter-Journalism Update
Tuesday, 23 November 2004, 11:27 am | Sam Smith
THE WASHINGTON POST is back with another piece of blog-bashing , this time by its pollster Richard Morin over questions being raised concerning the accuracy of the vote count. As we have noted, attacking people for asking good questions is a form ... More >>
Sam Smith: Morning Sickness
Monday, 22 November 2004, 11:25 am | Sam Smith
I ADMIT THAT I don't do my best media criticism before 7 AM while prone and subject to relapses into a unpredictable somnolent state where no one is trying ever so creatively to tell me what's important. More >>
Sam Smith: Counter Journalism
Wednesday, 17 November 2004, 10:55 am | Sam Smith
THE DISPARAGING ATTITUDE of major media - from the NY Times and the Washington Post to NPR - towards Internet coverage of election fraud is not just bad journalism. More >>
Sam Smith: Blame It On The Blogs
Monday, 15 November 2004, 2:19 pm | Sam Smith
SAM SMITH - The NY Times has picked up where the Washington Post left off with a misleading story headed "2004 Vote Fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried." The story is of a genre the wise reader should approach with the greatest ... More >>
Sam Smith: It's The Internet's Fault Again
Monday, 15 November 2004, 12:54 am | Sam Smith
DON'T WORRY FOLKS, nothing wrong with the count. It's just all those people on the Internet getting excited again. At least that's the inner monologue of the piece of establishment psyops in the Washington Post headed ''Conspiracy Theories About ... More >>
Sam Smith: Watching The Count - Recovered History
Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 6:29 pm | Sam Smith
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, NOVEMBER 1988 - More than half the ballots cast on Election Day were highly vulnerable to fraud and error according to two reports recently released by the Urban Policy Research Institute and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. More >>
Sam Smith: Media Myths And Conservative Tears
Tuesday, 9 November 2004, 12:22 am | Sam Smith
THE MYTH George Bush won a mandate in the election . The right way to put it is that George Bush won an extremely narrow victory over John Kerry More >>
Sam Smith: The Bin Laden Tape
Tuesday, 2 November 2004, 12:23 am | Sam Smith
The new bin Laden tape (click for transcript) is by far the most interesting, and perhaps most important, of the numerous dicta released from that quarter. More >>
Sam Smith: Faith-Based Conversation
Thursday, 28 October 2004, 11:53 am | Sam Smith
Encouraged by our two leading presidential candidates I decided to also try to have a conversation with the Father Almighty. I got through without any trouble. More >>
Sam Smith: Battle Of The Bulge
Friday, 22 October 2004, 12:53 am | Sam Smith
SAM SMITH - The failure of the archaic media to evince more than a passing interest in the matter of the bulge in George Bush's back is an excellent example of a preeminent characteristic of the contemporary press: cowardice. More >>
