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America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

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I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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Out Rivers Sacrifice Work
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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Country Democracy Independent
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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Fire House Years
I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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Angry Bears Country
If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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Bark Basements Supposed
Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.
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Moving Overboard Predator Standing
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People
The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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Bargain Ease Longer Ordinary People
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
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Grassroots People Thinking
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Country Hyperbole Johnson Oxygen
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Journalism Libel Mistakes
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents

America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

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America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

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