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Destroying Latin America: Journalist Mary O’Grady on Populism, Protectionism, and Prohibition

Posted on April 29, 2012 by kwc

Mary O’Grady Reason TV “The inequality produced by liberty: This, for the socialist, is the soft underbelly of pro-market rationale and the best place to attack,” says C, a columnist who covers Latin America for the Wall Street Journal. “I … Continue reading →

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Chris Hedges challenges NDAA in court

Posted on April 5, 2012 by kwc

RT Last week the case against the National Defense Authorization Act was presented to a judge in New York. One of the plaintiffs in the case has decided to sue the Obama administration claiming that by simply doing his job … Continue reading →

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Chris Hedges’ Empire of Illusion

Posted on January 28, 2012 by kwc

Source: The New School Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. In it, he charts the dramatic rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. … Continue reading →

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(UPDATED*) The Atlantic: Why GM foods are dangerous. Oh? Some cry foul.

Posted on January 12, 2012 by kwc

Source: MIT This week The Atlantic, accelerating away from its old persona as a sharp but thoughtful monthly magazine with an East Coast Ivy League ethos and into the hurry-up-and-shock-me world of on line journalism, posted a story sure to … Continue reading →

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James Delingpole: Great Britain, the Green Movement, and the End of the World

Posted on December 19, 2011 by kwc

This week on Uncommon Knowledge columnist James Delingpole discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, the European Union, the Green movement, and socialized medicine.