Daily Archives: February 7, 2003

PLEASE VOTE NOW TO SAVE DAVID CLENNON’S (AND EVERYONE’S) RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH

Posted on February 7, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Please go immediately to Tom Tomorrow’s site (http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2003_02_02.html#000188) and vote on whether David Clennon should be fired for saying some unkind things about Dubya on CBS. Amazingly, right now the vote is 2:1 in favour of McCarthyist action. Right now! … Continue reading →

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DO CORPORATIONS HAVE TOO MUCH POWER?

Posted on February 7, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Some interesting articles lately about how municipalities in Pennsylvania and California are using municipal laws and ballot initiatives to ‘dismantle corporate rule’ — see e.g. (http://ishcon.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=51) and (http://www.monitor.net/democracyunlimited/) Other than zealots like Ralph Nader and Noam Chomsky, the media, academia … Continue reading →

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IS THE TIDE TURNING AGAINST WAR?

Posted on February 7, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Maybe it’s my admittedly-biased news filters, but three items in today’s news make me believe that, outside the Bush die-hards, opposition to war is growing and the trend will be hard to reverse: 1. Blair’s ‘evidence’ shown as fiction ( … Continue reading →

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FEED YOUR HEAD

Posted on February 7, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Before Aaron Sorkin focused his full time and attention on The West Wing, he wrote a quirky half-hour comedy called Sports Night. While it was a critical success, it was a commercial failure, and fans can now buy the full … Continue reading →

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VOICE OF REASON

Posted on February 7, 2003 by Dave Pollard

I’m delighted that Camille Paglia has come out of the cloisters of academia long enough to pontificate on Iraq with Salon.com (http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/02/07/paglia/index.html). Say what you want about her intellectual pretentiousness (and her side-comment on the shuttle disaster as a Greek-style … Continue reading →

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