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...founder of the liberal group People for the American Way, is a fan, sort of. "Real passion is at such a premium these days," Lear says. "In the land of the sitting and reading dead, Limbaugh's got passion, and thus he's watchable." To columnist Alexander Cockburn (the Nation), Limbaugh's is "a funny act. Humor always helps. But he seems to me the last surviving idiocy of the Reagan-Bush years. It's like those stars that give off light long after they've died. Long after everything Reagan-Bush stood for has collapsed into disaster, the sound...
...only trouble with Reed's sensational tale is that not a word of it is true. That inconvenient fact has not stopped a busy rumor mill in Arkansas from cranking out ever more preposterous allegations, nor has it prevented some credulous journalists, including Andrew Cockburn, a columnist for the Nation, from using Reed as a source for absurdly speculative accounts. None of those who are taking Reed's wild stories seriously seem to have asked why Clinton, a vocal critic of U.S. aid to the contras who even then was considering running for President, would have done risky favors...
...lies" that appear in "the most cited news medium in the U.S." -- the New York Times. As a bonus, the monthly also reports on "hypocrisies, misleading emphases and hidden premises," all for $2.50 an issue. Board members of the institute include such unapologetic leftists as Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn and Ramsey Clark...
...tangled relationship between U.S. and Israeli intelligence services. According to Major General Avraham Tamir, a retired senior Israeli defense official quoted in Dangerous Liaison, the REAGAN ADMINISTRATION approved Israeli arms shipments to Tehran for use against Iraq in 1981, long before the Iran-contra affair. Authors Andrew and Leslie Cockburn say the transfers were part of a strategy to head off Soviet influence in the gulf region. The book also describes in detail Operation KK Mountain, in which the CIA secretly paid Israel as much as $20 million annually throughout the 1960s to operate as its surrogate in the Third...
Although, as Alexander Cockburn says, Saddam Hussein "overplayed the hand allowed by the United States," it is clear whose interests the U.S. government is protecting. Exxon, Texaco, Amoco and friends are the "many Americans" Glaspie referred to, and are the ones who would benefit from a war for control of the world's oil. The people--both American and Iraqi--who would die on the sand have been left out of the reckoning altogether...