Category: Culture
Corporate Crooks in the Dock | Health Care Bandits | Outfoxing Fox
by WS Editor | Aug 1, 2004 | Media, PoliticsEnron’s End Run—It’s over. Nearly three years after the collapse of Kenneth Lay’s internally robbed Texas energy company, its former chief executive officera campaign contributor to and friend of President Bush, who called him “Kenny Boy”—has finally been indicted and led into court in handcuffs. He is free on bond. He has pleaded not guilty, […]
Nader’s Role | Washington Monument Spy-Cam | TV Wasteland
by WS Editors | Mar 15, 2004 | Media, PoliticsA Broiler or a Spoiler?—The presidential candidacy of Ralph Nader as an Independent—he and the Green Party have split—raises again, as it did in the 2000 election, the question of whether his searing whacks at the Bush administration will offset the Democrats’ fear that Nader will take away enough votes in November to throw the […]
Media Merger Mania | Recommended Reading | Bush’s Numbers Sink
by WS Editors | Mar 1, 2004 | Media, PoliticsYet Another Media Monopoly—The Comcast Corporation, already the largest cable-TV titan, with 22 million subscribers, is planning to tighten its hammerlock on what news and entertainment Americans can receive. It is trying to buy the Walt Disney Company, which includes the ABC radio and television network, and Disney’s movie studio and theme parks, for $56 […]
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Dancing in the Dark: Steps to Avoid a Constitutional Coup in the 2024 Election
By Mark Medish and Joel McCleary
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The Wide Angle: Is a UFO Hoax a Ticking Time-bomb for Biden?
By Dave Troy
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How Christian Nationalists, Big Oil and the Big Lie Seized the Speaker’s Gavel
By Anne Nelson
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