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 […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety
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The Wide Angle: “Project Russia,” Unknown in the West, Reveals Putin’s Playbook
By Dave Troy
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The Wide Angle: Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse
By Dave Troy
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What Does Putin Have on Trump?
By Bob Dreyfuss
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The Wide Angle: Stop Musk Now Or Face Certain Collapse
By Dave Troy
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Trump and Musk Advance to the Rear and May Lead the Rest of Us Straight to Hell
By Michael Winship