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Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundariesnew

Global warming is but one of nine or 10 different ways in which human civilization is threatening to cross boundaries of over-consumption and overuse. These, will undermine the natural foundations on which our civilization is built.
Random Lengths News  |  Paul Rosenberg  |  04-22-2013  |  Books

Busted: America's Right-wing Heroes Mything In Action

Greenwald explores how GOP mythmakers and a compliant, sometimes worshipful media combine to inflate all-too-human right-wing leaders into heroic cultural icons, following the model of pill-popping, draft-dodging adulterer John Wayne, while Democrats are demonized as weak and hapless losers, and substantive issues disappear from view.
Random Lengths News  |  Paul Rosenberg  |  04-04-2008  |  Nonfiction

Mything In Action: An Interview with Glenn Greenwald

Author Glenn Greenwald answers some key questions exploring themes in his forthcoming book, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling The Big Myths of Republican Politics.
Random Lengths News  |  Paul Rosenberg  |  04-04-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Worst President Ever: Here's Why

Greenwald's thesis, simply put, is that Bush's simplistic good vs. evil dualism is fundamentally at odds with America's political traditions.
Random Lengths News  |  Paul Rosenberg  |  07-12-2007  |  Nonfiction

Don't Think of an Elephant — A Donkey Kicks Back

Conservatives have spent the last 40 years developing and promoting their own set of issue frames, frames that have become so powerful through endless repetition that they make it extremely difficult to effectively disagree, author Lakoff argues. Liberals end up saying, “Don’t think of an elephant!” because they haven’t devoted similar resources to developing their own set of frames.
Random Lengths News  |  Paul Rosenberg  |  09-10-2004  |  Nonfiction

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