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Chris Floyd

Chris Floyd is an American journalist and Truthout UK Correspondent. His work has appeared in print and online in venues all over the world, including The Nation, Counterpunch, Columbia Journalism Review, the Christian Science Monitor, Il Manifesto, the Moscow Times and many others. He is the author of Empire Burlesque: High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, and is co-founder and editor of the "Empire Burlesque" political blog. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Think Piece: Sentimental Education: Academia Signs Up to Track Down Dissent

By Chris Floyd

I. Why is the United States government spending millions of dollars to track down critics of George W. Bush in the press? And why have major American universities agreed to put this technology of tyranny into the state’s hands? At the most basic level, of course, both questions are easily answered: 1) Power. 2) Money.…

I. Why is the United States government spending millions of dollars to track down critics of George W. Bush in the press? And why have major…

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