In "A Red in the House," Stephen Fleischman tells of the political landmines in the mainstream media that marked the Cold War era.

"Although the Communist Party disintegrated out from under me in the mid-1950s, I found Marxism a valuable tool for analyzing the political and economic world around me.

During those thirty years, I worked with the best in mainstream broadcast journalism--Walter Cronkite, Ed Murrow, Fred Friendly, Dan Rather, Howard K. Smith, Eric...

In "Short Jabs to the Head," the jabs are my words (each 1000, more or less) after being rope-a-doped on the Internet, and now aimed at your head, hoping to make an impact. I don't expect a knock-out every time-but I'm hoping .

Left Hooks, are essays and stories of the leftward persuasion, hoping to achieve the same objective.

"Short Jabs to the Head" should give you detailed close-ups of various aspects of the Bush Administration, like looking through someone's photo album who lived it.

No Storm Troopers here, no Gestapo, no Sturm und Drang.

In America, fascism creeps in on...

In "A Red in the House," Stephen Fleischman tells of the political landmines in the mainstream media that marked the Cold War era.

"Although the Communist Party disintegrated out from under me in the mid-1950s, I found Marxism a valuable tool for analyzing the political and economic world around me.

During those thirty years, I worked with the best in mainstream broadcast journalism--Walter Cronkite, Ed Murrow, Fred Friendly, Dan Rather, Howard K. Smith, Eric...