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?
By John Pilger | Friday, September 03, 2010 Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the first world war, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in [...]
Things which don’t go away. Things the American government and media don’t let go of. And neither do I. September 1st, 2010 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Iraq ”They’re leaving as heroes. I want them to walk home with pride in their hearts,” declared Col. John Norris, the head of a US Army brigade in Iraq. 1 It’s [...]
Ed Duvin 31 August 2010 IN ITS MOST DISTILLED FORM, Cicero had it right: philosophy is the love of wisdom. Although every social justice movement relies on sound philosophical underpinnings for its moral foundation, the great ontological and epistemological issues cannot be proven or disproven in the categorical sense. Morality defies proof, and although seeking [...]
The Israeli lobby’s brazen intrigues and naked power are becoming an embarrassment to the American political elite James Petras’ powerful 2006 book titled, “The Power of Israel in the United States” explained the enormous Jewish Lobby influence on US Middle East policies. Often harming American interests, they’re pursued anyway because of its grassroots and high-level [...]
By Black Agenda Report (BAR) editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley | Wed, 08/25/2010 If American whites practiced what many of them preach to Muslims, they would ban themselves from building cultural institutions of any kind in much of the United States, since so many places are sites of depraved atrocities and mass killings of [...]
The Kochs are poster boys for the plutocratic cancer devouring the American republic. By Joe Conason | Posted on Aug 27, 2010 Despite the kaleidoscopic proliferation of political media over the past decade, most of what Americans hear and read about the workings of our democracy can be politely termed superficial. Only very rarely does [...]
For months, US media reports distorted and lied about its severity, running cover for BP and the Obama administration, now practically avoiding the crisis altogether as it worsens. An August 20 Inter Press Service report is revealing, quoting Biloxi, MS fisherman Danny Ross saying hypoxia (depleted oxygen) is driving horseshoe crabs, stingrays, flounder, dolphins, and [...]
A Socialist Stew Prepared for Liberals and Conservatives GAR ALPEROVITZ’S book, America Beyond Capitalism (2004), is of great importance to socialists, despite his casual dismissal of socialism, his equally off-hand use of the Soviet Union to represent the dangers of socialist planning, and his unwillingness to traffic in such stock socialist categories as “capital accumulation,” [...]
Under Uribe and Santos, they’re virulent, security and paramilitary forces “carr(ying) out a significant number of premeditated civilian murders,” fraudulently called “combat” deaths. Killings rage “around the country,” military commanders under pressure to show results by “kill counts.” Stephen Lendman | . Colombia, America’s closest South American ally, is a corrupted narco-state, a repressive [...]
Dave Lindorff | Mon, 08/16/2010 | New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman, in his column today, is right to expose the attacks on Social Security as being the work of right-wing ideologues eager to destroy a government program that works, backed by cowardly Democrats who want to show their fiscal “responsibility” [...]
