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Hold Onto Your Underwear: This Is Not a National Emergency

And yet here’s the strange thing: thanks to what didn’t happen on Flight 253, the media essentially went mad, 24/7. Newspaper coverage of the failed plot and its ramifications actually grew for two full weeks after the incident until it had achieved something like full-spectrum dominance, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. In [...]

The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear

The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. Its three one-hour parts consist mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis’s narration. The series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and has subsequently been broadcast [...]

Rep. Alan Grayson on the War and Health Care

Alan Grayson talks about health care and the wars, costs in terms of money and lives ($3T and thousands of lives, American and others), Al Qaeda, and the perpetuation of death and debt. “How do we ask an American soldier to be the last to die in Afghanistan and Iraq?” he asks, paraphrasing the same question [...]

Alan Grayson: Republicans “probably wish there were a Nobel Prize for fear”