The Remarkable Synergy of Energytomorrow.org, John McCain, and Calls For Offshore Drilling Originally published at francisrants.com / June 17th, 2008 ||| [print_link] Anybody who has been watching cable news over the last several weeks will notice new ads being put out by theAmerican Petroleum Institute (API), talking about “securing America’s energy future” and inviting us to go to their [...]
By David Walsh In mid-January, Judge Susan J. Crawford, a lifelong Republican and senior administration official in the Bush Administration, publicly admitted that the treatment of prisoners in Guantánamo and other CIA/Pentagon-run facilities “met the legal definition of torture.” Dateline: 28 January 2009 || [print_link] CONSIDERABLE EFFORTS are being made in various quarters to [...]
[print_link] Let us all note that while the GOP is a political association dedicated to advancing the interests of big business and the plutocracy in general, concretized in the so-called “Military-Industrial-Media” complex, which is deeply intertwined with the political class of the US, the Democrats, supposedly the alternative, are similarly beholden to the same oligarchic [...]