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Joel Bleifuss

“You know I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things,” said George Bush, as reported in the June 5 New York Times.

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Joel Bleifuss, a former director of the Peace Studies Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is the editor & publisher of In These Times, where he has worked since October 1986.

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