Palast Charged with Journalism in the First Degree
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Social Repentance – An interesting perspective
11 SepSOCIAL REPENTANCE
by Rabbi Michael Lerner
You don’t have to be Jewish to take advantage of the Jewish custom of repentance at the High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah begins this year the night of Sept. 22nd and the period of soul searching goes through Yom Kippur on October 2nd). This year every American has plenty of reason to repent – and our society desperately needs a time for collective reflection on how we have gotten to where we are and how we might turn things around.
The rise of the Religious Right as a force in American politics has reshaped America’s ethical discourse in a particularly disturbing way. Over the course of the past several decades the focus of public attention to “sin” has increasingly narrowed to a discussion of issues related to sexuality and reproduction. The “respectable” news media found a way around its previous self-imposed constraints on discussions of sex and its insistence that it was on higher intellectual grounds than the tabloids that were depleting their market-share by dramatizing the sexual faults of Bill Clinton and other elected officials.
5 years post 9/11. Can we save the democracy?
10 SepTwenty Things We Now Know Five Years After 9/11
By Bernard Weiner, Co-Editor
The Crisis Papers
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Read this. Now.
9 Sephttp://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/206303.html
You simply must.
ETA: And when you have done so, go read this.
More on ABC’s Path to 9/11
9 SepTurns out that it was created by Dominionist right wing Christian organizations. Further analysis of the links to Dominionism can be found in the comments to this entry in the community. dogemperor clearly lays out the lines of parentage here.
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Action Alert: ABC’s false docu-drama on 9/11
8 SepABC: Cancel Biased 9/11 “Docu-drama”
by ActForChange
Since publishing our original action alert regarding ABC’s inaccurate and biased “docu-drama” to be broadcast on Sept. 11th, we’ve learned even more disturbing details about the show – which is scheduled to occupy six hours of prime time television, less that two months before an important national election.
An Aging Trans Woman 