The Supreme Court and “Playing Politics:” The Upper Upper House of the U.S. Legislature ANNOTATED NEWS, CITIZEN TOOLS, CULTURE & CRITICISM Comments Off Jul 142012 By STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPHSimulpost with BuzzFlash James Madison, “Father of the American Constitution” and its Bill of Rights. Ah yes, now the Grand Old Tea Party is screaming about “politics” and the Supreme Court. How could Chief Justice Roberts betray them on the “man from Kenya’s” health care reform act? (Actually, as a number of observers have pointed out, there is a poison pill on the Commerce Clause in Justice Roberts’ supposedly “liberal” majority opinion, but that is another matter.) At first blush, according to the Right (and they often don’t go any farther than first bluish) he was just “playing politics” and that was a terrible thing. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
“Democracy Now” and the “Progressive” Alternative Media: Valued Cheerleaders For Imperialism and War ANNOTATED NEWS, IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE, IMPERIALISM, PROPAGANDA, VIDEOS 1 Response » Jul 142012 By Finian Cunningham, Global Research, The former headquarters of Democracy Now! in the classic old firehouse building in Chinatown, New York City. The major Western mainstream media outlets have been running a “shock and awe” propaganda offensive against the Syrian government of President Bashar Al Assad for nearly 16 months. The misinformation has been unrelenting, monolithic, unverified, one-sided and, frankly, increasingly preposterous. With the suppression of mounting facts that Western governments are waging a covert war of aggression in Syria, the Western public is right to treat the conventional media sources with skepticism and outright contempt. Such media are seen as “politicized” and “unreliable”, serving a naked imperialist agenda for Western regime change. In a word, they are damaged goods. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
