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Gore Vidal

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Name: Gore Vidal

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

The Worst Crimes in UK History

In a time of peace the West is permanently at war. Massive standing armies are continuously fed their natural fare. And, incredibly, the myth of the UK being a peace-loving country is sustained by a ‘liberal’ media who endlessly regurgitate the spurious ... [Published Dissident Voice - May 20 2013]

Entities: Annie Machon, United Kingdom, John McDonnell

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Beyond Brushstrokes -- By Marivic Rufino: ?Let live?

Beyond Brushstrokes -- Marivic Rufino: On land, the resident crabs thrive particularly in a human society with the equivalent two-legged creatures. In a success-driven, materialistic society that adulates celebrities? excesses, and promotes conspicuous ... [Published Business World - May 19 2013]

Entities: Gore Vidal, Rumours, Excretion, Neutralization, Tsunami

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Introducing eBookNation

The Nation, America's oldest political newsweekly, announced the launch of eBookNation, a new digital book initiative designed to make The Nation's most notable contributors, past and present, easily available to readers on tablets, smartphones, and ... [Published Econtent Magazine - May 16 2013]

Entities: Victor Navasky, E-book, Katha Pollitt, Dave Zirin, Jeremy Scahill

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Are media finally doing their job?

Do you remember how World War II started? Don’t tell me “Hitler invaded Poland.” You’ve got to do better than that.The Nazis had “Special Forces” who spoke fluent Polish. They put on Polish army uniforms, sneaked into Poland, then sneaked back into ... [Published WorldNetDaily - May 15 2013]

Entities: Hubert Humphrey, Jay Carney, Pro-Obama

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Why other people are getting jobs and you?re not

Gore Vidal famously said that, ‘whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.’ Much the same might be said when a friend – or ex-colleague – finds a new job and you don’t, especially if you’ve had the misfortune to be out of the market for ... [Published EFinancialCareers.ie - May 14 2013]

Entities: David A Schwartz, Michael Moran, Rob Yeung, Gore Vidal

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

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US and NATO in Afghanistan An Asian Viewpoint

More than eleven years in, the War in Afghanistan has dragged on into a deepening disaster for the U.S. and its NATO allies. The conflict continues to alienate the citizens of the region and apart from a seemingly arbitrary withdrawal date does not have ... [Published The Globalist - May 13 2013]

Entities: Afghanistan, NATO, Taliban

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Marina Mahathir on Malaysia election

We gave every party just enough; not enough to make anybody ecstatic, but enough that they can console themselves that they did partly well. -The Star/ANN For the last year, everything was put on suspended animation. First, because we did not know when ... [Published Asiaone - May 10 2013]

Entities: Marina Mahathir, Malaysia, Elections, Mistrust, Democracy

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

GE13: A very Malaysian result

We gave every party just enough; not enough to make anybody ecstatic but enough that they can console themselves that they did partly well.FOR the last year, it was almost imaginable that we would get to this day, after the general election.Everything ... [Published thestar.com.my - May 09 2013]

Entities: Malaysia, Democracy, Dispensing, Mistrust

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

With a decade's hindsight, what did George W Bush accomplish? | Open thread

Bush's 'Mission Accomplished' moment symbolised for many his presidency's fatal hubris. But history may yet judge differentlyA decade ago today, President George W Bush landed in a jet on an aircraft carrier, shed his flight suit, and gave a speech before ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 01 2013]

Entities: George W Bush, Sean Wilentz, Gore Vidal, Christopher Hitchens

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

If no 'shining city,' US isn't outhouse, either

I immensely enjoyed Fred Reed's April 20 tirade, ["Love, sweet love: World has little for the USA." The FLS seems to have found the curmudgeon's curmudgeon, like Howard Zinn or Gore Vidal on steroids. To say he is disappointed with the United States is ... [Published Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Howard Zinn, Gore Vidal, Pforzheim (Germany), Conquistador, Mexico

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 2 reports

Elaine Stritch Needles Alec Baldwin; Gore Vidal Regrets JFK: Tribeca Fest

Two icons in their twilight all but stole the start of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.Elaine Stritch, 88, who recently bowed out from performing, and Gore Vidal, who died last year at 86, are the subjects of terrific documentaries having their debuts ... [Published Bloomberg - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Elaine Stritch, Gore Vidal, Tribeca Film Festival, Moms Mabley

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Tribeca Review: 'Gore Vidal: The United States Of Amnesia'

It took director Nicholas Wrathall seven years—and following Vidal to Ravello, Italy, Los Angeles, New York City, and even Havana, Cuba—to make his documentary. It finally screened this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival, and the film spans Vidal’s ... [Published Gay.com - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Gore Vidal, Homosexuality, Burr Steers, United States, Dick Cavett

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Introducing eBookNation [Published Econtent Magazine - May 16 2013]
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Pourquoi les autres décrochent un job, et pas vous [Published EFinancialCareers Belgium - May 14 2013]
Why other people are getting jobs and you?re not [Published EFinancialCareers.ie - May 14 2013]
Stage review: Bette Midler gets to make fun of ... [Published Reading Eagle - May 14 2013]
Carnett: Speech by any other accent would sound... [Published Daily Pilot - May 13 2013]
US and NATO in Afghanistan An Asian Viewpoint [Published The Globalist - May 13 2013]
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Distant Intimacy: An object lesson in knowing w... [Published Chicago Reader - May 10 2013]
Marina Mahathir on Malaysia election [Published Asiaone - May 10 2013]
James Lecesne to be Honored by Paramus Foundation [Published Paramus Patch - May 10 2013]
‘I don’t want to be normal’ [Published Spectator - May 09 2013]
GE13: A very Malaysian result [Published thestar.com.my - May 09 2013]
But When This Grand Cause of Terror Makes Its A... [Published Crooked Timber - May 08 2013]
Candice Bergen knocks on wood to retrieve her past [Published Buffalo News - May 07 2013]
Still a Country Girl [Published Daily Beast - May 06 2013]
Contentment queen finds a happy medium [Published Canberra Times - May 03 2013]
Kennedy, the Lobby and the Bomb [Published Voltaire Network - May 02 2013]
Sweet Dreams: A Party for Julian Schnabel at th... [Published New York Observer - May 01 2013]
With a decade's hindsight, what did George W Bu... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 01 2013]
Five Saturday Films at The Independent Film Fes... [Published Somerville Patch - Apr 29 2013]
Meera Menon wins inaugural Nora Ephron Prize at... [Published KeralaNext.com - Apr 29 2013]
If no 'shining city,' US isn't outhouse, either [Published Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star - Apr 29 2013]
LIZ SMITH: She'll "Eat You Last" ... [Published New York Social Diary - Apr 29 2013]
Good Guy or Bad? [Published LewRockwell.com - Apr 27 2013]

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But When This Grand Cause of Terror Makes Its A... [Published Crooked Timber - May 08 2013] The Half-Made World and The Rise of Ransom City are both rich books, full of pleasures for the reader; but the pair of them are also, to an unusual degree, in the business of being deliberately frustrating, of withholding from readers a set of expected ...
People Who Love the Second Amendment Hate the C... [Published The Moderate Voice - Apr 23 2013] Shutterstock It’s almost axiomatic at this point that those who most loudly decry violations of the second amendment will gladly sacrifice nearly any other amendment for the sake of national security. The most recent example of this principle is ...
Interview with James Wood [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Apr 12 2013] James Wood is arguably the most celebrated, possibly the most impugned, and definitely the most envied, literary journalist living. By his mid twenties he was the chief book reviewer for The Guardian. From there he moved to America’s The New Republic, ...
It’s actually not pronounced mänster [Published The League of Ordinary Gentlemen - Apr 07 2013] Yeah, so this bugged me.Over at Balloon Juice , DougJ says that he’s glad that pundit Michael Kelly is dead and wishes that he’d died younger. Anticipating the need for a straw man in advance, he then notes“Of course, when some establishment asshole ...
I am glad that Michael Kelly is dead [Published Balloon Juice - Apr 06 2013] And I wish he’d died younger. I recommend this piece from TNC : There’s a kind of writer who gets his kicks writing bad reviews of music and books. You see that same spirit in Kelly’s mocking of Paul Krugman, Kurt Vonnegut, and Janeane Garofalo, or ...