Dialogic

• Noam Chomsky: On the Basic Role of (Non-Participatory) Sports

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  For [Chomsky], the basic social role of sports is diversion aimed at "Joe Six Pack," rather than, say, relaxation, aimed at forming and sustaining families, communities, and friends. In the film Manufacturing Consent, for example, he suggests that there is a range of ways [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:09pm EST
  

• Michael Dean Benton: Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story -- Exposing the Ugly Realities of America’s Economic Fairy Tale

  Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story -- Exposing the Ugly Realities of America’s Economic Fairy Tale
  by Michael Dean Benton
  Originally published in North of Center; posted on Smirking Chimp
  
  “There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.”' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:55am EST
  

• Counterspin: David Swanson on health care debate; Bruce Dixon on the 'public option'

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  David Swanson on health care debate
  
  
  
  Making sense of the health care debate. In the past week we've supposedly seen the comeback of public and political support for the public option, in some form or another. We're also told that Democratic majority [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:40am EST