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Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal reflects on the United States of Amnesia, speaking about patriotism, the NSA domestic surveillance programs, corporate America, Presidential powers and more. "Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to seize California has an American government been so nakedly predatory" comments Vidal.
January 31, 2006 "Gore Vidal Delivers State of the Union: Let the Powers That Be Know There is Something Called We the People of the U.S. and all Sovereignty Rests in Us.
In advance of President Bush’s state of the union address later tonight, author Gore Vidal delivers his own traditional state of the union address. We hear Vidal speak about patriotism, the NSA domestic surveillance programs, corporate America, Presidential powers and more.
January 25, 2005 "Gore Vidal on Bush’s Inaugural Address: The Most Un-American Speech I’ve Ever Heard
We take a look at President Bush’s inaugural address with Gore Vidal, one of America’s most respected writers and thinkers and the author of more than 20 novels and 5 plays. Vidal says, “If the United States does go abroad to slay dragons in the name of freedom, liberty and so on, she could become dictatress of the world, but in the process she would lose her soul.”
May 21, 2004 "Gore Vidal on the United States of Amnesia
Acclaimed author Gore Vidal’s new book is called “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia.” We spoke with Vidal recently about the Bush Administration historical memory, and 9/11. In his book Vidal writes that, "Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to seize California has an American government been so nakedly predatory".
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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
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