My Interview With Norman Finkelstein

Fri Mar 6, 2009 7:29 PM EST

This is a transcript of an interview with Norman Finkelstein last November, which was conducted by Atticus Mullikin and arranged and filmed by Bernd Kapeller, Associate Producer at the European Journalism Centre. The video was recorded following Mr.

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Comment Deletion Policy

Fri Mar 6, 2009 7:25 PM EST

In order to more effectively and consistently moderate my own discussion forums, this Comment Deletion Policy will apply to all visitors to my column. Visitors will see a disclaimer among the first comments on my posts that includes a link to this page.

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How home became homeland

Seeded on Mon Sep 8, 2008 2:39 AM EDT (International Herald Tribune)

Roger Cohen laments what the American nation is quickly becoming, and what it could have been. Whatever happened to Lincoln's "last, best hope?"

infrastructure, bush, america, collapse, terrorism, empire, imperialism, roger-cohen

Bush wants to redeclare war in time for the election.

Seeded on Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:28 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Seeded by JoulesBeef (Clipped by Atticus Mullikin)

Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received almost no public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President Bush's defining legacies: an affirmation that the United States is still at war with Al Qaeda.

us-news, politics-as-usual, boo, oh-yeah-we-never-got-bin-ladin

Conservative Andrew Bacevich on the End of American Exceptionalism

Seeded on Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:31 AM EDT (Democracy Now!)

Conservative professor of history and international relations at Boston University and twenty-three year veteran of the US Army, Andrew Bacevich, speaks with Amy Goodman about his new book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. A quote from the interview:

politics, conservative, bush, mccain, iraq, exceptionalism, duty, war

Jon Stewart rips media's false sense of urgency

Seeded on Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:10 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

Seeded by TheJonesGirl (Clipped by Atticus Mullikin)

Case in point: the recent sniping between the presidential campaigns after presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain couldn't remember how many houses he owned. As Stewart watched the campaigns trade attack ads over the comment, he said he thought of President Franklin D.

politics, jon-stewart, cable-news, election-2008

"Contemporary Energy and Military Policies Virtually Indistinguishable"

Seeded on Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:02 PM EDT (www.bloodandoilmovie.com)

A new documentary based on the work of Professor Michael Klare reveals the inextricable link between American foreign policy and energy supply over recent decades. The following is a synopsis of the film from the website.

politics, peak-oil, energy, oil, michael-kiare, war, military, documentary, bush, foreign-policy

Taking Issue With "Why We Fight": A Reaction From the Author

Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:01 AM EDT

WARNING. This is as long as the original article, as I wanted to be as thorough as possible. However, everything is organized under convenient subtitles, so you don't have to read the whole thing if you don't want to. --------------------

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politics, conservatism, liberalism, right, left, culture-war, bush, iraq, philosphy, nazism

Ron Suskind says Iraq Intel Forged

Seeded on Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:14 AM EDT (Iraq Ron-Suskind intelligence war conspiracy Bush )

Terry Gross interview's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind on his allegations that the head of Iraqi intelligence told the British there were no weapons of mass destruction prior to the invasion of Iraq.

politics

Why We Fight...Conservatism: A META, Meta-article

Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:40 PM EDT

*SEPTEMBER 8TH UPDATED DISCLAIMER & WARNING* "Why We Fight" in the title of this article refers to a series of propaganda films made by Frank Capra during the Second World War, which you can link to via my Recommendations.

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liberal, conservative, culture-war, nazi, wwii, meta, propaganda, right, left, philosophy

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Bush's War

Seeded on Wed Aug 6, 2008 6:27 PM EDT (PBS)

One of the best and most extensive documentaries about the Iraq War. It includes interviews with Richard Armitage, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, John Ashcroft, Condoleeza Rice and many others.

politics, frontline, pbs, iraq, afghanistan, bush, war

Thomas Frank's Indictment Of Conservatism

Seeded on Wed Aug 6, 2008 6:04 PM EDT (Fresh Air)

Thomas Frank, discussing his new book, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule. Frank's perspective is that Conservatism has corporatized American government, transforming it into an enormous apparatus for channeling national assets into the private sector.

politics, conservatism, corporatism, cronyism, bush, neoconservatism, book, thomas-frank

An Uneasy America :"Why We Hate Us"

Seeded on Tue Aug 5, 2008 5:46 PM EDT (National Public Radio)

The following are excerpted from a sample chapter on NPR.

politics, why-we-hate-us, dick-meyer, npr, hate, culture-war, book, right-vs-left, 9-11

State of the Vine: What the @!$%# is wrong with everyone?

Tue Aug 5, 2008 10:31 AM EDT

By Mykola Bilokonsky (Clipped by Atticus Mullikin)

So, in case you missed it, Newsvine has gone insane. I'm not going to catch you up on everything, if you don't know what I'm talking about then please just walk away - you'll thank me.

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technology, newsvine, state-of-the-vine

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Should organizations anonymously seed Newsvine?

Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:32 PM EDT

The title of the article was The rise of Obama, the "democratic" Party and hate - Where we went wrong with our children and our friends, and I went into the conversation to address the opening sentence...

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anonymous, newsvine, privacy, newsvine-community

Berzelius "Bush" Windrip and the March of the Toady Patriots

Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:01 AM EDT

In 2000 I read a battered library copy of Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here. I lived in Vermont, where the novel was set. It was February, snowy and very cold.

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bush, fascism, toady-patriotism, patriotism, nationalism, right, left, despotism, history, third-reich

It CAN Happen Here

Seeded on Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:24 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)

Article by Joe Keohane

politics, sinclair-lewis, it-cant-happen-here, bush, fascism, dictator

Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt

Seeded on Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:17 AM EDT (The Modern World)

A 1995 selection from the article Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco

politics, umberto-eco, fascism, despotism, philosophy, nazis, fascist

Nation 2.0

Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:46 AM EDT

This article was written by Atticus Mullikin and was originally published on the European Journalism Center's Magazine section on March 12, 2008 ------------------------------

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politics, nation, nationalism, eu, european-union, globalization, kosovo, balkans, web-2-0, democracy

US Covert Operations May Be Inciting War in Iran

Seeded on Tue Jul 1, 2008 3:46 AM EDT (NPR's Fresh Air)

Terry Gross Interviewing Seymour Hersh

politics, seymour-hersh, fresh-air, iran-invasion, covert-operations, war, bush, cia, iran, middle-east

None Dare Call It Treason

Seeded on Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:56 AM EDT (The Nation)

A 2001 article by Vincent Bugliosi

politics, bush, bush-v-gore, vincent-bugliosi, supreme-court, iraq, war

Renowned Attorney Vincent Bugliosi Seeks "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder"

Seeded on Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:47 AM EDT (Democracy Now!)

Seeded by Aunk (The Cultural Health Guy) (Clipped by Atticus Mullikin)

Vincent Bugliosi is one of the most successful prosecutors in this country, with a record including 21 murder convictions without a single loss. With a new book, he outlines his case for "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder."

us-news, bush, murder, book, court-attorney, law, constitution, war, iraq, mental-health

On the Borderlands of the 4th Estate II

Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:23 AM EST

This article was written by Atticus Mullikin and was originally published on the European Journalism Center's Magazine section on February 13, 2007. ----------------------------------

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politics, media, journalism, conspiracy-theories, conspiracies, vietnam, iraq, iran, bush, secrecy

A Night of "Marxist Bull@!$%#!"

Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:17 AM EST

I wrote this essay about a year ago, although it was never published, after attending a lecture by Henryk Broder given at the University of Maastricht in February of 2007.

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history, henryk-broder, maastricht, university-of-maastricht, observant, karl-krauss, islam, muslims, europe, islamism

The Arctic: An Icy Parable

Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:12 AM EST

This article was written by Atticus Mullikin as an epilogue for a dossier on the website EU4Journalists.eu. It is republished here by Atticus Mullikin with permission.

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science, arctic, oil, environment, iea, esa, thermohaline-circulation, gulf-stream, europe, russia

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