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Rupert Murdoch Gave Up His Australian Citizenship In Order To Buy Television Stations In The United States, Which Is Symptomatic Of The Way Murdoch Operates. Everything Is For Sale, Including His Birthright. The Mirror Is Not Read By Soccer Hooligans. It's Read By Ordinary People Of This Country. That Comment Is Simply Patronizing. But To Be Criticized By The Moonies And Murdoch In One Breath Is Really Just A Fine Moment For Me.

Since September 11, The Mirror Has Reached Back To Its Roots, And Decided, It Seems, To Be Something Of Its Old Self Again. I Received A Call Asking If I Would Write For It Again, Which I've Done. It's A Pleasure To Be Able To Do That. It's Become An Important Antidote To A Media That Is, Most Of It, Supportive Of The Establishment, Some Of It Quite Rabidly Rightwing. The Mirror Is Breaking Ranks, And That's Good News.

The Major Western Democracies Are Moving Towards Corporatism. Democracy Has Become A Business Plan, With A Bottom Line For Every Human Activity, Every Dream, Every Decency, Every Hope. The Main Parliamentary Parties Are Now Devoted To The Same Economic Policies - Socialism For The Rich, Capitalism For The Poor - And The Same Foreign Policy Of Servility To Endless War. This Is Not Democracy. It Is To Politics What Mcdonalds Is To Food.

It Is Time We Recognized That The Real Terrorism Is Poverty.

The U.s. Is A Cosmetic Democracy.