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Foreign policy expert Phyllis Bennis analyzes the importance of the language used by the VP hopefuls.

Phyllis Bennis is a Senior Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. She is the author of Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power.

Her newest book Understanding the US-Iran Crisis: A Primer will be available in September 2008.

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6 comments // The significance of the pitch

  • jc911truth
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      jc911truth  
    • nOBAMAjon, isn't it funny how the truth and those pesky facts have a way of making certain people just shut the hell up? Try working on your wink and sprinkle-in a few doggonits. Maybe that'll help.

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • Actually, I am right.

      Economic aid - donor 2008 Country Ranks

      1 France $12,000,000,000
      2 United Kingdom $10,700,000,000
      3 Japan $8,900,000,000
      4 United States $6,900,000,000
      5 Germany $5,600,000,000
      6 Netherlands $4,000,000,000
      7 Canada $3,800,000,000
      8 Denmark $2,130,000,000
      9 Sweden $1,700,000,000
      10 Norway $1,400,000,000
      11 Spain $1,330,000,000
      12 Switzerland $1,100,000,000
      13 Belgium $1,072,000,000
      14 Italy $1,000,000,000

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • nobajamon, you are totally delusional. The USA doesn't do more to help other countries than any other country, far from it. France spends more on aiding other countries than does the USA, and its population is much, much smaller than that of the USA, for example.

    • 3 years ago
  • dkincheloe
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      dkincheloe  
    • Pinker and Chomsky have been joined by Bennis in pointing to the power of language and rhetoric in indicating the WAY of thinking of most American politicians who, although they're from supposedly opposing parties, share a relatively common agenda....

    • 3 years ago
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