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Extra! Extra! Calling all Nebraska Cornhuskers!
How to watch the Nebraska vs. Wyoming game at 5 p.m today on 403 cable and at the Final Final bar in SF (Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013). Plus: Some inside Nebraska football. By Bruce B. BrugmannWell, today,...
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Solomon: Obama will launch a huge propaganda blitz--and may attack Syria even...
t By Norman SolomonNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep...
View ArticleMeister: The Legislature shows Congress how
Guardian columnist Dick Meister has covered labor and political affairs for more than a half-century as a reporter, editor, author and commentator. Contact him through his website, www.dickmeister.com,...
View ArticleMeister: A Halloween invasion from Mars
Guardian columnist Dick Meister is a longtime Bay Area journalist. "2X2L calling CQ ... 2X2L calling CQ, New York ... Isn't there anyone on the air? Isn't there anyone on the air? Isn't there anyone?"...
View ArticleHalloween 1951 and the good old days in Rock Rapids, Iowa
The tale of what really happened on Halloween Eve in 1951 in Rock Rapids, Iowa. (Updated by popular demand.)By Bruce B. Brugmann Back where I come from, Halloween was one of the most culturally...
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Meister: OK, Nike, pay up!
By Dick MeisterGuardian columnist Dick Meister is a longtime Bay Area journalist. He can be reached at www.dickmeister.com, which includes several hundred of his columns. OK Nike, pay up! You owe...
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Solomon: We met Edward Snowden in Moscow: Please defend his right to travel
(B3 note: Norman Solomon sent out the following message from Roots.org. The message was signed by four Americans who recently visited Snowden in Moscow: Thomas Drake, Ray McGovern, Jesselyn Raddack,...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: JP Morgan cops a $13 billion plea
They touted securities they knew were trash.The government's case plainly showsThey're willing to profit from bucket-shop scams,Although they wear much nicer clothes.Calvin Trillin: Deadline Poet: The...
View ArticleWhere I was on the day President Kennedy was shot
By Bruce B. BrugmannOn Nov. 22, 1963, I was a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal, a famous MIlwaukee daily newspaper always rated among the top ten U.S. newspapers.I was packing with my wife Jean and...
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Dick Meister: The jobless need help. Now!!
By Dick MeisterGuardian columnist Dick Meister, former labor editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through...
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Joe Bulgo: The neglected hero of Pearl Harbor
Joe Bulgo carried l0 sailors to safety on his back from the stricken battleship Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor.By Bruce B. Brugmann(B3 note: reprinted from last year and to be reprinted every year by me for...
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Holiday greetings and an early start to the New Year!
Special graphic for the Bruce blog by Louis Dunn, former Bay Guardian art director, graphic artist, and cartoonist. Selections from his work can be seen at LouisDunn.com
View ArticleSolomon: The CIA, Amazon, Bezo, and the Washington Post: An exchange with...
By Norman Solomon (B3 note: This exchange between Norman Solomon and the Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron followed a Solomon column that dramatized the ethical issues involving the Post...
View ArticleSolomon: Why the Washington Post’s new ties to the CIA are so ominous
American journalism has entered highly dangerous terrain.A tip-off is that the Washington Post refuses to face up to a conflict of interest involving Jeff Bezos -- who’s now the sole owner of the...
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Sue Hestor's 70th birthday party: "We Shall Overcome."
Everyone is singing "We shall overcome." Sue Hestor and Calvin Welch, two pillars of the development battles, are in center left. The photo was taken by Stewart Bloom, the official photographer of the...
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"Monologos de la Vagina" An artistic and cultural triumph at the Brava...
Bravo, Bravo: The ladies of the "Monologs de la Vagina" at the Brava Theater. Eliana Lopez is third in from the right.I had just settled into my seat Friday night at the Brava Theater in the Mission...
View ArticleNorman Solomon: The problem with Obama denouncing a breach of international...
International law is suddenly very popular in Washington. President Obama responded to Russian military intervention in the Crimea by accusing Russia of a “breach of international law.” Secretary of...
View ArticleDick Meister: The real May Day
By Dick MeisterMay Day. A day to herald the coming of Spring with song and dance, a day forchildren with flowers in their hair to skip around beribboned maypoles, atime to crown May Day queens.But it...
View ArticleMemorial Day: Remembering the good old days in Rock Rapids, Iowa, circa 1940s...
Bruce B. Brugmann(Reprinted and updated by popular demand)When I was growing up in my hometown of Rock Rapids, Iowa, a farming community of 2,800 in the northwest corner of the state, Memorial Day was...
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The anti-sunshine gang intensifies its attacks on the Sunshine Ordinance Task...
Sup. Scott Wiener leads the charge against sunshine in City HallBy Bruce B. Brugmann (with special sunshine vendetta chronology by Richard Knee) The Guardian story in the current issue demonstrates...
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