Columbo: Somebody killed the Gulf of Mexico, Sir. Your fingerprints are all over the place.
Barack Obama: Sorry Lieutenant. Did you ask Bobby Jindal, Mary Landrieu. or Ken Salazar?
ON AUGUST 8, Keith Olbermann interviewed NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center top scientist Dr. Jay Zwally on the matter of global warming. As Olbermann remarked, now that the evidence continues to mount, with Moscow hitting 104 F, and big chunks of Greenland melting away, even the some of the most rabid climate deniers seem to [...]
Mean-spirited to the bone, and one of the greatest intellectual frauds of modern times–Rand’s success was assured because her deranged ideas were supportive of corporate power and especially hyper-individualism, which keeps people atomized and helpless in the face of plutocratic attacks. Only a capitalist-dominated society could hail a sociopath like Rand. Corey Robin | May [...]
The murder of the oceans: chronicle of a death foretold. Editors’ Note—Problems like these, which in reality have simple solutions, become as tough as advanced cancers when humanity attempts to control them using the rules of the capitalist system, which, incidentally, creates them in the first place. Leaving aside the scandalous question of why we [...]
The Anti-Empire Report Human chauvinism, media cowardice, and the politicians and religious people who cater to this form of species narcissism are directly responsible for the population explosion which continues unabated. Reposted April 27, 2010 by William Blum www.killinghope.org The forbidden “P” word <<—Jon & Kate Gosselin, shameless breeders, are part of the crowd cashing [...]
A highly selective social vision is a sine qua non condition for anyone militating on the Right. As well, of course, a huge mess of personal contradictions… By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, for BuzzFlash On April 10, 2010, the erudite columnist Bob Herbert of the New York Times had this to say about the subject [...]
Obama Revives Clinton’s Disastrous Triangulation Strategy WITH NATIVE COMMENT THREAD (Highly instructive!) by Ted Rall Crossposted with CommonDreams.org “It was Bill Clinton who recognized that the categories of conservative and liberal played to Republican advantage and were inadequate to address our problems,” President Obama wrote in his book The Audacity of Hope. “Clinton’s third [...]
Gingrich: Obama Is the ‘Most Radical President’ Ever Editor’s Note: In this new section, “Annals of Scum”, we simply present the inflammatory nonsense and falsehoods being spread around by figures like Newt Gingrich, which the corporate media continues to treat with respect. Likewise, we remind our readers, those with a strong stomach and the ability [...]
What else could we expect from a polity drowning in engineered confusion? By Steven Jonas. MD, MPH Crossposted with BuzzFlash on Thu, 03/04/2010 First came the “Birthers.” President Obama is not a citizen. He’s a Kenyan, he’s a Muslim, he’s an Indonesian, he’s a Kenyan-Indonesian-Muslim (dunno which is worse so might as well throw [...]
The gushing has begun… Michael Moore: The Great Thing About the Health Care Law That Has Passed? It Will Save Republican Lives, Too…Please, my Republican friends, if you can, take a quiet moment away from your AM radio and cable news network this morning and be happy for your country. We’re doing better. And we’re [...]
It’s time for a radically different type of politics.* By Chris Hedges WE OWE RALPH NADER and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives. Obama [...]
