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David Talbot talks to Kitty Kelley, whose scathing portrait of the Bush family has fired up the Republican camp

09/14/04 " The Guardian" -- After weeks of bracing by the Bush White House, the category 5 storm has hit: Hurricane Kitty. Bestselling author Kitty Kelley's withering portrait of the Bush dynasty, The Family, is landing in bookstores on Tuesday - more than 720,000 copies of it. And the White House is already on high alert. "This book is fiction and deserves to be treated as such," snarled Republican spokeswoman Christine Iverson, as the RNC fired off an anti-Kelley talking-points memo to friendly media assets.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6904.htm

Palestinian suicide bombers have been misguided by extremist ideology, writes Irshad Manji.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/01/1093938998007.html

http:// Is the American dream the world's dream?
Can the American dream of democracy belong to everyone? This week on www.openDemocracy.net, Ramin Jahanbegloo in Tehran exchanges letters with America's foremost political philosopher Richard Rorty asking whether the whole world can claim freedom as its birthright.
OpenDemocracy

The Rodent ...
The difference between A rodent and THE rodent ... The SMH

More on the Windschuttle debate ...
MANY DEEDS OF TERROR ... Naomi Parry

PLUS
Don't miss this ...
Robert Manne, Henry Reynolds and James Boyce will talk about 'Whitewash' - their stance against the revisionism of Keith Windschuttle's book. They will be talking at Hobart Bookshop, on Thursday September 11, at 6pm.

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Rupert Murdoch ...
WHAT DRIVES RUPERT MURDOCH

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Paul Keating on John Howard

AND THERE'S MORE
Greg Hywood (Ex-Age Publisher) on John Howard

(thanks for the links pointer, Crikey.com.au)

AND THERE'S MORE
American Catholic anthropologist Gil Bailie on how the Judeo-Christian tradition offers us a way out of violence