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?
Lincoln’s and TR’s association with the Republican Party has given it a respectability it hardly deserves. FOR MOST OF ITS EXISTENCE since the end of Reconstruction following the election of 1876, the Republican Party has been the party of reaction in the United States. In fact, the only reason that Rutherford B. Hayes, the GOP [...]
Annals of the Dumb Tube BOSTON LEGAL, David E. Kelley, producer “Indecent proposals” AN UNEXPECTED LOOK AT “AMERICAN DEMOCRACY” CHECK OUT this excerpt from Boston Legal (Season 4, #19), an award-winning dramedy that frequently surprised audiences for its unusually spot-on descriptions of life in these United States. In this episode, one of the segments focuses [...]
Emergency Legislation Needed People have called this catastrophe Obama’s Katrina. They’re wrong. It’s much worse than Katrina. It’s worse, not only because of the damage we’ll be seeing as the oil does it’s damage to sea life, estuaries, breeding grounds, jobs, industries, families and entire ecosystems, but also because of the massive failure of leadership [...]
Wherein the author zeroes in on a political impasse produced by the ongoing clash between status quo propaganda and reality, as indoctrinated publics around the globe grope for answers in the midst of confusion and deliberate misinformation. We’re adrift in a capitalist ocean… By David Michael Green Editor’s Note: We are in perfect agreement [...]
The more it changes…the more it stays the same. A “reform” calculated to pacify the masses, who in turn must rely on the media to judge whether the new bill does the job or not. Under the best of circumstances this is a next to impossible job for most reporters, since few understand Wall Street [...]
More Kabuki theater for the gullible masses The lawsuit will accomplish exactly nothing Dateline: 19 April 2010 By Patrick O’Connor and Barry Grey The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a civil case Friday against giant investment bank Goldman Sachs charging “fraudulent misconduct” in relation to $1 billion of worthless sub-prime mortgage securities Goldman [...]
Putin and Hu visit Hugo Chavez; Barack Obama to visit Gloria Estefan By Charles Hardy in Caracas / April 12th 2010 Note: THIS A DISPATCH FACILITATED BY WILLIAMS CAMACARO, TO WHOM WE EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE When President Obama met with the other American presidents in Trinidad last year, I was filled with hope [...]
In his writing, a true “Prince/President” has to appear “compassionate, faithful, humane, religious” without actually being any of these things. He should go to Cairo to tell Muslims they have a beautiful faith, yet address them in a way only a colonialist could do, using Arabic words to thrill them, a sort of Ich bin [...]
“It is Obama who will instigate a conflict that the much-hated Bush would not.” Created 04/06/2010 By Black Agenda Report editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Peace Prize winner in the White House continues to beat the drums of war with Iran, in perfect synch with the corporate media orchestra. “The New York Times [...]
In a Washington permeated with cynicism and contempt for the people, anything is possible. By David Michael Green So Barack Obama got his change. Other people can even believe in it if they want. I regret to say I remain unimpressed. And that’s about the nicest way I know how to put it. In fairness, [...]
