EMERGENCY BULLETIN from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: (202) 675-2312 or media@dcaclu.org Washington, DC – Following a vote in the House of Representatives sanctioning warrantless wiretapping and handing immunity to telecommunications companies for their role in domestic spying, the American Civil Liberties Union expressed outrage at representatives who voted [...]
A bear tries to run away from police in Claysburg in this screengrab from YouTube. QUESTION: What do you get when you combine— (1) a pathetically unimaginative, careerist bureaucracy, overpopulated with authoritarian personalities; (2) an alarming lack of compassion coupled with pathological fear of social criticism; (3) rampant human supremacist attitudes. ANSWER: The standard posture [...]
A Little Bit Pregnant: The Struggle to Affirm Freedom of Speech in America By Maryscott O’Connor / Dateline: Thursday Jun 19, 2008 Wherein O’Connor, with characteristic panache, tackles one of the most difficult dilemmas in modern politics, the criminalization of speech. Free speech is not an absolute, static concept. Most societies may need to draw [...]
NOTE: This is a classical essay originally penned in 2006 by our associate editor, Jason Miller. We take pleasure in republishing it because, well, the issues he addresses have not changed for the better. —P Greanville (I am dedicating this essay to the memory of the millions of victims of the Capitalist Imperial wars of [...]
By Jason Miller / Originally published on Thomas Paine’s Corner, A Cyrano fraternal blog. 6/17/08 Let’s face it, my fellow freedom and burger loving Americans. It is becoming painfully obvious that our non-negotiable American Way of Life is increasingly under attack. Yet while our meat consumption may be a wedge issue our foes are using [...]
ABOVE: The luck of the Scots-Irish. The McCains wallow in their accustomed plutocratic filth. But the question remains. Reagan, the Clintons, the Bushes, and now maybe even McCain: when will the Scots-Irish curse come to a stop in American politics? NOTE: Wherein Matt Taibbi, speaking like a liberal, weighs in with a good critique of [...]
Making media celebrities such as this notorious mediocrity into popular heroes underscores the lack of true heroes in American culture. By David North and David Walsh The corporate media–never the information marvel their own mythology would have us believe– has sunk to truly revolting levels of corruption and even narcissism, as Tim Russert’s sudden death, [...]
Moore’s SICKO put the spotlight on the nation’s outrageous health “care” system, but little has been done since to advance serious alternatives to the current mess. Dateline: June 13, 2008 PPoh-oh The deliberate idiocies of US health insurance hit home, and although the writer is above the norm in middle class economic “solidity”, the burden is [...]
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