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"The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony."
-- Paul Goodman "The Community of Scholars" (1962)



Bravo to the The New York Times for publishing Adam Hochschild's January 17 op-ed, An Assassination's Long Shadow. The piece marked the 50th anniversary of an event long forgotten in the United States: the U.S.-sponsored removal and murder of a democratically elected leader in Africa. Three days after the murder, our own democratically elected leader--one who would meet a similar fate--was sworn in as the 35th President of the United States.

Sarah Louise Palin; née Heath; born February 11, 1964) i

s an American politician, author, speaker, and political news commentator who was the youngest person and the first woman elected Governor of Alaska.

Julia Margaret Cameron (11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary themes.

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl ( August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party. In the 1970s Riefenstahl published her still photography of the Nuba tribes in Sudan in several books such as The Last of the Nuba.

George Condo (b. 1957 in Concord, New Hampshire, USA) is an American contemporary visual artist.