Most Valuable Progressives of 2008


	Most Valuable Progressives of 2008

dmegivern

1-2-2009 3:03 PM

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MOST VALUABLE NATIONAL MEDIA PERSONALITIES: Rachel Maddow and Ron Reagan

MOST VALUABLE BOOK (ECONOMICS): James K. Galbraith's The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (The Free Press)

MOST VALUABLE BOOK (INTERNATIONAL POLICY): Mike Marqusee's If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew (Verso)

MOST VALUABLE CLIPMARKS CONTRIBUTOR: masbury

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1-2-2009 9:12 PM

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"MOST VALUABLE CLIPMARKS CONTRIBUTOR: masbury "

Amen

1-2-2009 9:22 PM

ratcatcher2

MOST VALUABLE BOOK (INTERNATIONAL POLICY)
If I Am Not For Myself,
by Mike Marqusee

Reading this book while Israel pounded Gaza, and Palestinian rockets slammed into Sderot, has been like a glimpse of clarity in a climate of chaos. I wanted a copy in the hands of every politician and general, every zealot in the Middle East. If Jewish adolescents got Marqusee's book as a barmitzvah present, there might be a chance of avoiding the repetition of history's mistakes.

Marqusee compares and contrasts his way of being a Jew and a socialist with the life of his...

1-3-2009 5:50 PM

Kelika

MVC (Most Valuable Clipper) - Masbury!

Love It!!!!!

1-3-2009 10:49 PM

dmegivern

I wondered how many would catch the insertion of a Clipmarks winner. I confess...that was not a category.

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