Glenn Beck's Demagoguery, Right Wing Extremism, an
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Glenn Beck's Demagoguery, Right Wing Extremism, and Racism
Op_ed
By Stephen Lendman
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
At a time of 24-hour news and a proliferation of television and radio talk shows featuring hatemongers and demagogues like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck may stand out as the most unhinged and extremist of all as evidenced by his jihad against anyone to the left of his views, disadvantaged minorities, Muslims, Latino immigrants, and progressive change in some of his most outlandish comments,..
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Israel "punished and terrorised" civilians in Gaza in a disproportionate attack in its three-week war on the territory earlier this year, a United Nations report has found.
The chairman of the US Federal Reserve has said that the country's recession "is very likely over" but that the economy will probably take some time to heal fully.
