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Cashing In on the Olympics

by Wayne Barrett | Nov 1, 2012 | Economy, Politics

Event concession holders and colleagues who cashed in on the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics are repaying former Olympics CEO Mitt Romney. Fraser Bullock—the Bain Capital colleague Romney hired as the Salt Lake Organizing Committee’s (SLOC) chief operating officer—and his family have provided Romney $210,275 in political contributions. Bullock also “bundled” an additional $568,897 from […]

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Eternal Wakefulness

by Gene Seymour | Nov 1, 2012 | Books, Politics

Reviewed: Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War by Edmund Wilson (Norton, 848 pp., $37.95). Fifty years after its publication, it’s still easy to understand why Edmund Wilson’s Patriotic Gore got people all hot and bothered. Wilson devoted about 800 pages to “the literature of the American Civil War,” and at first blush, it […]

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Romney’s Olympic Events: Deception and Dirty Politics

by WS Editors | Nov 1, 2012 | Politics

The 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics were the beginning of Mitt Romney’s second act in politics, a fresh audition before the public after losing a Senate race to Ted Kennedy in 1996. Although the Romneys owned a $5.25 million home in Park City, Utah, it was a temporary move. The day after the closing ceremony, […]

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Why Is Failed Iraq Neocon Dan Senor Dictating Romney’s Foreign Policy?

by Wayne Barrett | Oct 15, 2012 | Foreign Policy, Politics

The explanation for Mitt Romney’s Middle East madness is hiding in plain sight. Dan Senor has become Romney’s “lead” advisor on the region, matching one blank slate with another. Senor’s only real foreign policy experience is his 15 months in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 as “senior adviser” to Paul Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), the […]

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Educating Dan Senor

by WS Editors | Oct 15, 2012 | Media, Politics

The New York Times list of “well-known and polarizing figures in public education” on the board of the new advocacy group StudentsFirstNY includes: former D.C. School Superintendent Michelle Rhee; former New York School Superintendent Joel Klein (now working for Rupert Murdoch); Eva S. Moskowitz, who now runs a charter-school chain; former Mayor Ed Koch, and “venture […]

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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

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“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024”Variety

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