The perils of false equivalencies and self-proclaimed centrism
BY GLENN GREENWALD
Even when sincere, liberals miss the mark by a wide margin. Most liberals are not serious students of politics or history, nor do they understand how the two chief opposing classes—capitalist and working people—interact. By his pretentious and painfully egotistical actions Jon Stewart illustrates the limitations of centrism, and why centrism, so easily derailed into irrelevancies, can never cure a serious crisis.
BY GLENN GREENWALD | SUNDAY, SEP 19, 2010
(updated below)New York Times,Thursday:
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McClatchy, June 18, 2008:
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Robert Jackson, Chief Prosecutor, Nuremberg Trials, Closing Statement:
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The central crime in this pattern of crimes, the kingpin which holds them all together, is the plot for aggressive wars. The chief reason for international cognizance of these crimes lies in this fact.
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