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Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll Have a Dictatorship Soon in the US’ by Tim Teeman
A conversation with Gore Vidal unfolds at his pace. He answers questions imperiously, occasionally playfully, with a piercing, lethal dryness. He is 83 and in a wheelchair (a result of hypothermia suffered in the war, his left knee is made of titanium). But he can walk ("Of course I can") and after a recent performance of Mother Courage at London's National Theatre he stood to deliver an anti-war speech to the audience.
'Empire of Illusion' by Chris Hedges Reviewed
Real power in America doesn't reside in citizens, or the government, but in corporations.
So argues Chris Hedges in his new book, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Nation Books).
Hardly a revelation.
Anticorporate jeremiads have become a dime a dozen in this, the year of our economic discontent.
Corporate America by Richard Sharp
The whole idea of free market capitalism is that it serves consumers best. When governments or state enterprises get involved, they screw it up. That's what we've been fed since Ronnie and Maggie for almost 30 years. The recent economic meltdown only confirms my uneasy feeling that, as citizens, consumers and employees, we have come to expect and accept a system that isn’t what it’s trumped up to be.
Naomi Wolf's New Book 'Give Me Liberty' Is A Patriot's Treasure by Richard Sharp
Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, by Naomi Wolf, Simon and Schuster, 376 pages, Paperback, $13.95
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