The Democratic Presidential Race: A View from Pennsylvania
As a resident of Pennsylvania, I can only express a sense of shame for the large number of white voters here who bought Clinton’s subtle racist message.
by Dave Lindorff | 05.09.08
Serving the System: Corporate Control of U.S. Would Continue Under Obama—Though Obama may be the best of our choices, disabuse your illusion that he will be free to act against the "corporate-authoritarian political system"
Seven of the Obama campaign’s top 14 donors consisted of officers and employees of the same Wall Street firms charged time and again with looting the public and newly implicated in originating and/or bundling fraudulently made mortgages.
by Chris Floyd | 05.08.08
A Republican for Barack
I no longer consider myself a conservative or a Republican. Both terms have been completely corrupted and rendered meaningless by Cheney, Bush and Limbaugh.
by Ted Lang | 05.06.08
'Beware the Terrible Simplifiers'
Behold the double standard: John McCain sought out the endorsement of John Hagee, the war-mongering, Catholic-bashing Texas preacher, who said the people of New Orleans got what they deserved for their sins. But no one suggests McCain shares Hagee’s delusions....
by Bill Moyers | 05.05.08
Thinking About Voter Registrations
The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Indiana photo ID requirement caused me to research voting requirements. I was shocked by what I learned.
by Fred Cederholm | 05.05.08
U.S. Military Coordinated Day Of Prayer Events With Christian Right Group—For a number of years, the National Day of Prayer has been all about promoting fundamentalist Christianity.
The National Day of Prayer activities appear to violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibiting individuals from using the machinery of the state to promote any form of religion.
by Jason Leopold | 05.01.08
John McCain Won’t Be Looking for the Union Label
McCain, in agreement with Bush, has voted against protecting overtime pay and for trade deals that consistently send American jobs off-shore, often to countries where sweat shop labor is common.
by Walter Brasch | 04.30.08
Put Him Out With the Pastor!
When Wild Bill was facing his darkest days, the Clinton spin cycle churned out consolatory support and sound bites that “condemned the sin, but not the sinner.”
by Ron Callari | 04.30.08
Clinton Courted Racists in the Pennsylvania Primary
Clearly no candidate can be blamed if bigots simply happen to vote for them, but Clinton, in this campaign, is guilty of deliberately seeking the votes of bigots.
by Dave Lindorff | 04.25.08
Groundbreaking Book Documents Widespread Election Fraud; Warns Elections Vulnerable to Theft
"There's that all-too-human tendency to turn a blind eye to enormous threats because they're just too devastating to acknowledge. Better, therefore, to pretend they don't exist,” says author and voting fraud documenter Mark Crispin Miller.
by Jason Leopold | 04.24.08
Campaign 1988 Lives!
The Clinton campaign has reduced American politics once more to the level of questioning people’s patriotism and linking them through guilt by association to controversial figures.
by Robert Parry | 04.24.08
Triviamongering in the U.S. presidential race
The candidates have provided the information voters need about their positions on important issues—on their websites. Don't expect to get it from the U.S. media.
by Paul J. Balles | 04.24.08
Hillary Clinton's Monstrous Threat
Threatening to "obliterate" a country's people, who are civilians and have no say over what their government does, is pathological.
by Dave Lindorff | 04.23.08
Brilliant Disguise: Bush Torture, Obama and The Boss
A leader truly interested in the collective destiny of his nation would not be "nuancing" questions of torture and war crimes. He would instead be making it a a burning passion to "undo the terrible damage done" by the Bush Regime – and by its bipartisan predecessors in imperial arrogance.
by Chris Floyd | 04.21.08
The Clintons, Triangulating with China—
Bashing “Chinese money” in public, accepting it in private
Any role played by Bill Clinton in dealings between a Chinese state-owned company and a U.S. company should be vetted during a presidential campaign.
by Margie Burns | 04.19.08
American Hegemony Is Not Guaranteed
With Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea threatened by American hegemonic belligerence, it is not difficult to imagine a scenario that would terminate all pretense of American power.
by Paul Craig Roberts | 04.18.08
Are the Clintons Playing Joe McCarthy?
Rather than demonstrating moral consistency by rejecting Joe McCarthy-like tactics, the Clintons have embraced them, tarring Obama with guilt by association, even when it’s a Kevin Bacon-style two or three people removed.
by Robert Parry | 04.18.08
The Weather Underground 'Theme'
While nearly all politicians shade the truth now and then, some utterly disdain the truth, a category that includes George W. Bush and increasingly Hillary Clinton, as she made clear again in Wednesday night’s debate on the strange topic of Vietnam-era Weather Underground leader William Ayers.
by Robert Parry | 04.17.08
Would Obama Hold Bush Accountable?
Clinton and Obama have shied away from the issue of holding George W. Bush and his top aides accountable for war crimes, torture and other offenses. But – under questioning on April 14 – Obama agreed that, if elected, he would have his Attorney General initiate an investigation.
by Robert Parry | 04.16.08
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Fallujah Revisited: Bush, Petraeus Prepare 'Cleansing' of Sadr City
The preliminary assault on Sadr City has already begun, of course. As the BBC notes, in the last seven weeks around 1,000 people -- most of them civilians -- have already been killed by the Bush-Petraeus "surge" into the area.
by Chris Floyd | 05.09.08
Lost E-Mails Obscure 'Plame-gate'
“I've reached the conclusion that it's time to call for a special prosecutor. We now have official White House statements that federal laws are being broken, and I don't see any way for this to be resolved without escalation.”
by Jason Leopold | 05.10.08
Shoot, Kill, Lie, Repeat: America's New Moral Universe
When even the scapegoats escape justice, what possible hope can there be that the perpetrators and abettors of the Nazi-like war crime in Iraq will ever pay the price -- or even suffer the slightest trouble -- for their monstrous outrage?
by Chris Floyd | 05.09.08
Willing Executioners: America's Bipartisan Atrocity Deepens in Somalia
Until we have a politics that considers the fate of all people to be just as important as the fate of "Americans", there will be no end to this cycle of atrocity and terror, no end to ruin and revenge, no real change, no matter who is elected.
by Chris Floyd | 05.07.08
The Terror Master: Bush Orders Covert 'Surge' Against Iran, with Dem Support
As we have noted over and over, the fomenting of constant war, bloodshed, chaos – and crippling domestic debt – is not folly to the Bushists and the elite interests they represent. It is pure profit because they never, ever have to face the consequences of their filthy ambitions.
by Chris Floyd | 05.05.08
American and Israeli War Crimes: Same Atrocities, Different Responses
Bush’s and Cheney’s so-called War on Terror is actually a War of Terror, being waged against the people of such places as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia. At least in Israel, some citizens are willing to call such behavior criminal, and to demand a halt to it.
by Dave Lindorff | 05.01.08
Halliburton Bribe Case Haunts Cheney
Dick Cheney’s tenure at Halliburton ended eight years ago, but a federal investigation of alleged bribes from a company subsidiary to Nigerian officials lingers from the Cheney era, raising questions about what the Vice President knew or should have known.
by Jason Leopold | 04.30.08
The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian War
Why do the American people and "their" representatives in Congress continue to tolerate a criminal Bush Regime that uses lies and propaganda to mask its acts of naked aggression, war crimes under the Nuremberg standard?
by Paul Craig Roberts | 04.29.08
Getting Over Scalia
A thug is a thug, regardless of his ethnic identity, whether his thuggery is perpetrated at the point of a gun or the point of a pen.
by William Betz | 04.29.08
The Torture Election
It would seem then that the Bush Administration has only two choices: cut a deal with the candidates on torture -- or eliminate them from the race, one way or another.
by Chris Floyd | 04.28.08
The Clock is Ticking for A US Attack on Iran
Clearly this is all madness, but it is also predictable madness. The Bush/Cheney regime is finishing out its last year as the most disastrous, most unpopular, most loathed presidency in the nation's history.
by Dave Lindorff | 04.28.08
The Bush Team's Geneva Hypocrisy
Newly released U.S. government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva Convention’s protections of war captives, stand in stark contrast to the outrage some of the same officials expressed in the first week of the Iraq War when Iraqi TV interviewed several captured American soldiers.
by Jason Leopold | 04.28.08
New Terror War Atrocity: Beheading the Innocent for Bush in Somalia
The Bush-Zenawi "regime change" operation is itself a massive and ongoing act of state terrorism, one that dwarfs any of the outrages perpetrated by Islamic extremists.
by Chris Floyd | 04.25.08
Glorious Fruits of the War for Civilization
Today Hillary said that the US gave Iraq "the precious gift" of freedom....
by Chris Floyd | 04.23.08
VA Tried to Conceal Extent of Attempted Veteran Suicides, Email Shows
Ira Katz, the VA’s mental health director, said the VA has identified nearly 1,000 suicide attempts per month among war veterans treated by the VA.
by Jason Leopold | 04.22.08
What About the War, Benedict?
Not since WWII, when the Reich's bishops swore personal oaths of allegiance to Hitler (as did the German Supreme Court and army generals) have the papacy and bishops acted in such a fawning, un-Christ-like way.
by Ray McGovern | 04.21.08
American Hegemony Is Not Guaranteed
With Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea threatened by American hegemonic belligerence, it is not difficult to imagine a scenario that would terminate all pretense of American power.
by Paul Craig Roberts | 04.18.08
Updating Sami Al-Arian - His Ordeal Continues—The Bush administration disdains the law
Conduct and actions by the US government continue to be vile and barbarous.
by Dave Lendman | 04.18.08
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Thinking About Strategies
In my dictionary, when the ultimate goal achieves bad things; we don’t have a strategy, we have a conspiracy.
by Fred Cederholm | 05.12.08
Portrait of an Oil-Addicted Former Superpower—
How Rising Oil Prices Are Obliterating America's Superpower Status
As far as the oil exporters are concerned, we're now just another of those hopeless oil addicts driving a monster gas-guzzler up to the pump -- and they're perfectly happy to collect our cash which they can then use to cherry-pick our prime assets.
by Michael T. Klare | 05.08.08
Thinking About Subtleties
“Eternal vigilance” in not only the price we pay for freedom, it is also what we must all do to truly know the price we are actually paying for the things we purchase. Like so many households across America we are finding that there is just too much month left at the end of the money!
by Fred Cederholm | 04.28.08
The Oil Vice—One cannot ignore the feedback loop of the nexus of Big Oil and the defense establishment.
It costs about $100 million a day to protect OPEC oil around the world, primarily with our naval power.
by J. Russell Tyldesley | 04.23.08
The US Economy and the Costs of War
Is the Iraq War to blame for America’s long-term economic decline and for the current economic crisis?
by Dave Lindorff | 04.22.08
Thinking About Shakiness
While the media may have focused on the anomalies of a cluster of hundreds of unexplained quakes off the coast of Oregon and the Friday morning 5.2 shaker in Southeastern Illinois, the real “shakiness stories” should have chronicled the further downward slide of the US Dollar relative to the other major world currencies.
by Fred Cederholm | 04.21.08
Sixty Years of Palestinian Displacement, Occupation and Suffering
It's encouraging to know that well over half of all Europeans rank Israel "the biggest threat to world peace" according to a 2003 European Commission poll. Israel is a pariah state. That's the view of millions around the world in spite of dominant media efforts to say otherwise.
by Stephen Lendman | 05.05.08
Feeding Moloch: Last Barriers to War on Iran Come Down
The consequences of attacking yet another country for trumpted-up reasons don't seem to matter at all. What really matters is the militarist, elitist agenda of global domination -- in a word, empire -- that has driven America's "bipartisan foreign policy establishment" for decades.
by Chris Floyd | 05.02.08
The Iranian Chessboard—Five Ways to Think about Iran under the Gun
by Pepe Escobar | 05.01.08
Blood Diamonds, Blood Oil and Blood Food
People in Haiti are eating mud cakes because of the soaring food prices, the people in Gaza have no electricity; in Afghanistan, the only royal visit they receive is of a British prince dressed in military gear going to kill on Afghan soil.
by Pablo Ouziel | 05.01.08
Denying Palestinians Free Movement in the West Bank
Illegal Israeli settlers are heavily protected, isolated from their Arab neighbors, able to travel on for-Jews-only roads, live in Jewish-only communities, and get all the conveniences of a modern state that denies them to non-Jews in a country claiming to be a model democracy.
by Stephen Lendman | 05.01.08
The Ignored Lessons on the Stupidity of War
Albert Einstein considered it a symptom of madness to repeat again and again doing something that has already failed and to expect a different result every time.
by Uri Avnery | 04.30.08
Breaking the Silence - Israeli Soldiers Speak
Israel must no longer be exempted from international law, from being allowed to flaunt it brazenly, from ignoring over five dozen UN Resolutions going back decades.
by Stephen Lendman | 04.24.08
What the Iraq War is about
Bush's “war on terror” is a hoax that serves to cover US intervention in the Middle East in behalf of “greater Israel.”
by Paul Craig Roberts | 04.23.08
Green Scare State Terrorism
The Green Scare term refers to legal and extralegal government actions against animal liberation and environmental activists. Activists equate Green Scare to earlier Red Scare periods after WW I and II when the government used various schemes to incite fear, and sanction witch hunt prosecutions.
by Stephen Lendman | 04.28.08
Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World
By diverting crops for fuel, prices have exploded, and five "Ag biotech" giants are exploiting it. Their solution - make all crops GMO, tout it as a way to increase output and reduce costs, and claim it's the solution to today's soaring prices and world hunger.
by Stephen Lendman | 04.21.08
WORLD FACING HUGE NEW CHALLENGE ON FOOD FRONT—Business-as-Usual Not a Viable Option
If food security cannot be restored quickly, social unrest and political instability will spread and the number of failing states will likely increase dramatically, threatening the very stability of civilization itself.
by Lester R. Brown | 04.16.08
Single-Payer FAQ
Recapturing the overhead lost in the current "non-system" and making it available for actual health care would mean that we can afford comprehensive care for everyone.
SOURCE: Maryland Physicians for a National Health Program (MD PNHP) and Maryland Universal Health Care Action Network (MD UHCAN) | TIMELESS
THE GREEN
Excellent reference to cool green resources.
SOURCE: Robert Redford's Sundance Channel | TIMELESS
What is Global Warming, and what can citizens do about it?
By burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil and clearing forests we have dramatically increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere and temperatures are rising.
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