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| | Swans Commentary: 2004: The Lost Year, by Eli Beckerman - elib022 |
 | | The ability of the Democratic Party to contain, co-opt and demobilize independent movements of the people is a critical element in allowing the continued destruction of our planet, abuse, discrimination and exploitation based on race, gender, sexual preference and class, and the immense misdistribution of wealth. |
 | | suppression, and disenfranchisement grow, the American public is gearing up for a kick-ass consumer holiday, their opiate being the whiff of that crisp new Twenty or the awesome design of their new transparent plastic American Express card. |
 | | As spring became summer, and the anointment of Prince Kerry grew certain, the peace movement within the United States, and largely without, decided to pin its hopes on this hawkish aristocrat and self-censor itself in one of the most important elections in all of history. |
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