Chewing the Buddha

Greg Palast by Greg Palast | Aug. 18, 2008 (Opinion)

That May, we left just as the streets were filling with Tibetans demonstrating for freedom. They would never be seen on US TV. Not then, not now. NBC will interrupt the Beijing Summer Olympics only to broadcast its millionth ad for McDonald's.

George Bush is there; says he was thrilled that the Chinese dictator, Hu Jintao, invited him and Laura and the kids to lunch. I doubt if they dined on a barley Buddha. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 19, 2008

Palast weaves a 1993 trip to Tibet into the symbol of bush attending the Olympics in China.

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