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The debacle of the clash of civilizations in the Texas raids upon the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints continues past the point of severe justice. Whatever Samuel Huntington thinks, no one wins such wars.
Savagery exists now, played out with the goading of the news media, in 24/7 mode, driven to make news of the most lurid [...]

Randi Rhodes of Air America, speech to the 50th Anniversary party of “PEACE ACTION of Michigan” on November 11, 2007.
DO not miss this. It is the most honest REAL discussion of what is really happened over the past seven long years.

This “blast from the past” stands as a stark reminder of the chorus corporate controlled media, coordinated talking points and hyperbolic name-calling that manged to shout down anyone who presented reason and fact in the face of the drumbeat to attack Iraq.
This little piece contains all the now classic tactics so shamefully employed against the [...]

I have ceased to wonder who our National media are actually working for anymore folks. Newsweek has long appeared to me as a premier apologist for the Iraq War and Bush Administration policies. Someone bought me a subscription to the News magazine about 3 years ago. I could have just as well done without it. [...]

Having been a journalist for more than thirty years, I’m used to politicians lying to me: either to make themselves sound better or denegrate their opponent. But Rep. Chris Cannon and Sen. Orrin Hatch have taken falsehood and inaccuracy to a new, pathological level.
Hatch, seen here claiming he discovered Great Salt Lake, either fibbed or [...]

Ask the average citizen or child if they know that lying to ruin someone’s reputation is wrong and could get you in big trouble and they’ll probably say yes. However, a jury of their peers says that didn’t stop some ostensibly intelligent and honorable adults, including several from Utah, from doing exactly that. Now, after [...]

As anyone who traverses the blogoshpere knows, few if any political blogs attempt to be bipartisan by inviting contributing authors without regard to political pursuasion. Frankly, OneUtah is the only one of which I am aware.
Our vision for OneUtah is to replicate the town square. Contributing authors are qualified exclusivily by their demonstrated, responsible commitment [...]

The main storyline of the Democrats gaining majorities in the House and Senate seems to have caused the traditional media to conclude that e-voting is not as big a threat to democracy as many people have claimed. For a more realistic view, check out this article in Computer World by Brad Friedman of [...]

Reposted from August 31st 2006
On Wednesday August 30th I expected George W. Bush to speak to the American Legion National Convention as his office had announced in earlier in the month. As the day approached for Bush’s visit we learned that the American Legion would also be visited by Secretaries Rice and Rumsfeld. It was [...]

According to previous Salt Lake Tribune polls a majority of Utahns ardently support President Bush and his claims about bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq. It appears however, that they do not support democratic values, at least, here at home. >A poll released Monday by the Salt Lake Tribune showed that a whopping 45% of [...]

To the reader: I wonder if anyone else had seen of heard other suggestions about this? - Cliff
By Reuven Koret - July 31, 2006
It was to be a perfect Hollywood ending for Hezbollah. Just as the Israeli bombing of the village of Qana in 1996 brought a premature end to Israel’s Operation “Grapes of Wrath,” [...]