Here’s why we need an alternative press: Compare Doug Ireland’s piece today in the L.A. Also not to be missed: Sixteen minutes into the interview, Ireland’s comments on the Unfortunately, the Democracy Now! Here’s why we need an alternative press: Compare Doug Ireland’s piece today in the L.A. Weekly, “Mike Chertoff’s Dirty Little Secrets,” about the nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security — as well as Ireland and Elaine Cassel’s comments about Chertoff in interviews this morning on Democracy Now! — with Eric Lichtblau’s piece on Chertoff in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWeekly,
\nSecretary of Homeland Security — as well as Ireland and Elaine Cassel’s comments about Chertoff
\nin interviews this morning on Democracy
\nNow!<\/B><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A> — with Eric
\nLichtblau’s piece<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> on Chertoff in The New York Times.<\/P>
\n
\nappointment last week of black reactionary Claude Allen as Georgie Boy’s chief domestic policy
\nadviser. Allen’s appointment is even more chilling than Chertoff’s nomination, Ireland believes,
\nbecause it signals “the aggressive nature across the board” of a second Bush regime. Ireland
\nspeaks of the billions of dollars in faith-based initiatives as, in effect, a “religious tax” and sees
\nwould-be “Bush theocracy.”<\/P>
\n
\n“Michael Chertoff: Ashcroft’s Top Gremlin,” is dead. (Maybe somebody at Counterpunch will
\nrevive it, please?) In the meantime, here’s a