Marching Backwards: The Spectacle of Fear

TruthOut by John Cory | Oct. 3, 2009 (Opinion)

Glenn Beck is not original, nor was Joe McCarthy. The "red scare" of McCarthyism was merely the recycled red scare of the 1920's, when Attorney General Mitchell Palmer and his right-hand assistant, J. Edgar Hoover, conducted warrantless raids on union halls and labor organizations deemed socialists or communists for their suspected anti-American, anti-corporate beliefs. Full Story »

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by Naomi Isler - Oct. 3, 2009

History is always useful, especially for those who haven't lived through some of it. What the article omits is how the country got out of the fear induced overreactions. And it omits the role of the Democrats in fearmongering in the so called Solid South.

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