Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
BILL MOYERSThe corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
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Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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This “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
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I believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
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The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch’s empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.
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