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 Paul Street No one should claim they were fooled by candidate Barack Obama – least of all, Black people. “Obama’s political team has always taken an official position of cowardice on race.” His avoidance of racial realities is long-standing. The president’s supporters simply ignored the evidence of their own eyes and ears, and [...]
Why Christians should care about animals On Animal Welfare Sunday, worshippers should reconsider their kinship with their fellow creatures, says Andrew Linzey SO THE CAMDEN COUNCIL IS NOT GOING TO ALLOW a St Francis of Assisi poster to be displayed in its public buildings (News, 18 September). The poster gives details of a weekend of [...]
By JEFF COHEN For the new year, let’s resolve: Don’t defend Democrats when they don’t deserve defending. And that certainly includes President Obama. Let’s further resolve: Put principles above party and never lose our voice on human rights and social justice. When we mute ourselves as a Democratic president pursues corporatist or militarist policies, we only [...]
Chlorinated tap water is bad for you, research shows, but bottled water is no solution, either EarthTalk® From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I am very concerned about the amount of chlorine in my tap water. I called my water company and they said it is safe just let the tap run [...]
By Glen Ford Created 12/22/2009 The Pentagon has methodically insulated its wars from most of U.S. civil society. “For the United States, war has devolved to a matter of contracts, a multi-trillion dollar cash cow for corporations, a self-perpetuating financial bubble that feeds the planet’s most dangerous and nonproductive, useless classes.” The mercenary is the [...]
Who are these Mexicans who disturb the tranquility of the USA enough to necessitate a wall to separate the two North American peoples? Who are literally “dying” to get into fortress USA? What is their country like that they so readily abandon in order to work in Yankee supermarkets and California orchards, on New York [...]
Iraqi child killed in allied bombing. Another unnecessary death. How many are needed to wake up Americans from their jingoist stupor? The true decency of our people in uniform is revealed in moments like these when the smug brainwash is broken and the masks begin to fall. An awakened consciousness is more dangerous to the [...]
OpEds— BY PETER PAVIMENTOV, Senior Editor Large scale protests in the shadow of power buildings are easily contained as all governing classes have learned to control the impact of such demonstrations by using stealth, violence and propaganda. So perhaps the road is to learn the guerilla tactics from the overlords, like in the unfortunate occupied [...]
Crosspost with CounterPunch.org December 24, 2009 Obama, Progressives and the Press “The ones that upset me the most are the so-called leaders of the “progressive” movement like Tom Hayden, CODEPINK and Michael Moore who very enthusiastically endorsed, worked for, voted for, and raised money for Obama, and NOW are beginning to speak out against his [...]
FOR THE PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY Crosspost with http://tpjmagazine.us/jonas232 By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH – Dateline: December 20, 2009 Many of us on the Left, whether that’s the Democratic Party Left or the Real Left, are becoming increasingly disturbed, upset, concerned, what-have-you, with the behavior of President Obama in office. We are surely [...]
