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Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: After Difficulty Events Foreign Given Information Iraq Like Military Mistakes Place Policy Reliable Unpredictability

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Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Additional Collapse Coming Covering Economic Financial First Found Fully Gains Government Income Out Percent Real Recently Recession Recovery Released Statistics Straight Top Year 1 Percent

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If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Average Baseball Chain Financial Folks Food Food Chain Hope Income Mets Million Nearly Newspapers Next Next Year Pinnacle Team Those Very Were Who Without Would Year

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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: America Few Great Just Newspapers Percent Range Were Years Years Ago

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President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: About Conservatives He Hear Lower Lowered More Obama President President Obama Raised Reagan Taxes Than Them Time Today Were You

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Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Actually Back Before Current Evidence Facts Force Full Gained Ignore Inconvenient Ironically Legacy Mania Nation Noted President President Reagan Reagan Right-Wing Tendency True Unwelcome

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Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Against Face System Us

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Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Agree Anger Easy Impatience Inspiration Movement Occupy Occupy Wall Street Street Tactics Understand Wall Wall Street Well Whether

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Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: American Children Five Living Number Over Poverty Rising

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Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

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Topics: Always American Current Degree Distrust Government May Situation Some Unprecedented

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 14th, 1960

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