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Normal states don’t deny their citizens the right to freely emigrate. They don’t use official propaganda channels to produce books, videos and games that praise the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks (yes). They don’t conceal the outbreak of a deadly virus like SARS. They don’t hold millions of peaceful oppositionists, minorities and low-level criminals in a vast slave-labor camp system (known as “Laogai”). They don’t systematically torture and kill practitioners of a meditation sect (Falun Gong). And, of most...
...that the corporate elites have won during the past three years. This is Dean's real theme, a unified-field theory of Republican depravity. Jobs, the elderly, the economy, budget discipline, the environment--all have suffered because of Bush's crony capitalism. Dean recently produced a fabulous piece of propaganda, a leaflet called Common Sense for a New Century, after Tom Paine's famous Revolutionary War tract. "We face a growing threat to our liberty and justice in America today," he writes. "Thomas Jefferson and James Madison spoke of the fear that economic power would one day seize political power...
...last July by President Jacques Chirac after a series of conflicts and expulsions involving young Muslim women wearing head scarves in public schools. A 1905 law banned religious symbols from state schools, but legal rulings since the late 1980s narrowed the interdiction to those constituting "intimidation, provocation, proselytizing or propaganda." The codified secularism proposed by the panel would ban from schools not only head scarves - which many Muslim women believe the Koran requires them to wear - but also Jewish yarmulkes and large jewelry crucifixes, while permitting "discreet" religious tokens. The panel also suggested that some Muslim and Jewish holidays...
...said part of the impetus for the rally was a feeling that the debate over abortion had become nothing more than a feud of propaganda...
...than any faction,” Vendler said. “His poems came out as national statements.” She added that his ambivalence did not please everyone. “The poetry,” she said, “was not an unqualified piece of propaganda...