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Articles that reference McCarthyism

  • Pro-Israel Lobbyists Seek to Influence Coverage of Mideast (May 25, 2002)
    ...isco-based Tikkun magazine, said the pressure campaigns are a form of "McCarthyism that is attempting to prevent the American media from telling any part of...
  • Political Dissent Can Bring Federal Agents to Door (February 8, 2002)
    ...the anecdotal evidence deeply troubling. "All of this speaks to the new McCarthyism, where political dissent is being equaled to treason," Mr. Steinhardt says...
  • Standing Up for Dissent (September 23, 2002)
    ...ar I activists who looked to Wisconsin Senator Bob La Follette, critics of McCarthyism who celebrated Maine's Margaret Chase Smith's statement of conscience or f...
  • The Truth About Sept. 11 (September 5, 2002)
    ...c assaults on the Bill of Rights, old-fashioned oil wars and a cynical neo-McCarthyism whereby those who question Bush and the Republican Party are smeared as "a...
  • It's Empire Versus Democracy (September 10, 2002)
    ...a way of backfiring when, unchecked by effective dissent, they go too far. McCarthyism began to unravel when the Wisconsin senator started searching for Communis...
  • Port Huron at 40 (August 5, 2002)
    ...this freezing indifference bred by affluence, conformity and the legacy of McCarthyism. The independent sociologist C. Wright Mills had written a compelling essa...
  • The NYPD Wants to Watch You (December 18, 2002)
    ...'s tenure, Freeman says, 191 workers had lost their jobs. "The context was McCarthyism, but the impact was really to delay unionization." By the 1970s, betwe...
  • Trading On Fear (July 12, 2003)
    ...nd world war brought the internment of Japanese-Americans and the cold war McCarthyism. These examples pale compared with the uses of fear to justify mass killin...
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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.