That concerns me greatly, because while conservatives and today's so-called progressives remain completely divergent in their views toward governance, in terms of intellectual disposition, they've become different sides of the same coin. I've often heard it stated that the regimented intolerance of reactionary conservatism was reminiscent of Nazi Germany. That may, or may not be true. But if it is, it must also be acknowledged that the intolerant regimentation of many contemporary radical 'progressives' represent the USSR, at best. That's the primary reason that the conservatives' reckless campaign of rampant disinformation is winning the battle over reasoned and logical thought. So many contemporary progressives have taken on the conservative mindset of anger before contemplation, and ...
[...] the United States should support Muslim reformists and liberal intellectuals who are considered credible and authentic within the Muslim societies, irrespective of their political leanings (pro-Western or not). [...] there is clearly a dearth of progressive publishers in many Muslim states, whereas conservative and extremist writers (religious as well as political) have many avenues to get their works published. [...] there is an urgent need to encourage expansion of progressive and liberal publishing houses in Muslim states.
David Brock, an ex-conservative media insider, today announced the launch of Media Matters for America, a new Web-based, not-for- profit progressive research and information center dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Media Matters for America puts in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor the media for conservative misinformation -- every day, in real time -- in 2004 and beyond. Conservative misinformation is any news or commentary presented in the media that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda. In the 1990s, as a conservative media insider, I saw firsthand the damage done to our democracy when conservative misinformation masquerades as journalism," said Br...
From the 1940s until the late 1960s, formalist criticism functioned to appropriate modernist art to the market interests and conventional sensibilities of the art world. By its judgments of taste, it certified the worthiness of art objects for markets, facilitating processes of the reception of artworks as commodities. Tekiner explains how the formalist art criticism associated with Clement Greenberg function symbiotically with art marketers to uphold conservative agendas and to mask the progressive content intended by many modern artists who construe their transcendental subjects as signifiers of freedom, and their art works as expressions of liberated imagination during the stultifying conformism of postwar North America.
News Advisory: Editors of leading political magazines -- former neoconservative Francis Fukuyama of American Interest, Bill Kristol of the conservative Weekly Standard and Michael Tomasky of the liberal American Prospect -- will join the founding editors of a new progressive publication in a panel discussion June 20 to mark the launch of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. At the event to be held at the National Press Club, the editors of Democracy will release the first issue of the journal, unveil new progressive ideas and lead a discussion on the role of ideas in politics today.
In a case that unites conservative and progressive causes, the state's highest court Wednesday heard arguments in a potentially transformational lawsuit that seeks to end the hundreds of millions of dollars doled out by the state annually to private companies in the name of economic development. The suit, filed by Niagara Falls financial planner Lee J. Bordeleau and 49 others in an anti-tax group, challenges the underpinnings of what critics say is a long-standing -- and illegal -- "corporate welfare" system at the Capitol.
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Rigell's conservatism RE "DUBIOUS conservative," letters, May 26: The writer labels GOP primary candidate Scott Rigell a "moderate progressive, even though he professes conservative ideals.
The "left wing of the possible" takes a different shape in each state. In Massachusetts it's the Mass Alliance which by itself and together with member groups like Neighbor to Neighbor and Boston DSA has been successfully moving the Massachusetts State Legislature in a more progressive direction. Georgia Hollister Isman, political director of the Mass Alliance, writes in the January 2007 issue of Boston DSA's Yankee Radical that in last fall's elections for state legislature, every retiring progressive was replaced by a progressive, incumbents who stuck their necks out for economic justice were reelected even in allegedly conservative districts, and a few new champions of civil rights and economic justice took seats for the first time. DSAers around the country followed the story of the...
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