FRANK SCHAEFFER: How I (and Other “Pro-Life” Leaders) Contributed to Dr. Tiller’s Murder Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and other rightwing mouthpieces have lied, shouted, slandered, and agitated for decades against progressives, and inflamed the passions of nutjobs on the right with impunity. How long is this to be tolerated? Constant extremist hate mongering by fundamentalists [...]
Carefully cultivated American Zionism is the principal obstacle to a just settlement of the Palestinian question. Said and sister in 1940. Born in Jerusalem, Said was 5 when this picture was taken. By Edward Said This is Part 1 of a special 3-part series. THIS IS THE FIRST ARTICLE in a series on the misunderstood [...]
Crossposted with The Nation May 26, 2009 The Silence of MoveOn.org is defeaning. Are we seeing here another sign of liberalism’s inescapable limits? By Tom Hayden The expanding wars in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border—the so-called “tribal areas”—now threaten the very stability of Pakistan The most powerful grassroots organization of the peace movement, MoveOn, remains silent as [...]
The Anti-Empire Report By Bill Blum | Originally published on November 04, 2008. This is a repost due to timeliness. When it comes to cold-blooded criminality, the White House has little to envy a mafia den. Obama and McCain: As usual the bourgeois system presents us with no real choices, except for downright criminal and [...]
S • A • T • I • R • E TORTURE? WHAT TORTURE? WE NEED MORE TORTURE BY GARY CORSERI “What they regard as Tao is not Tao, and what they consider as right is often wrong. [They] do not really understand Tao, but understand some of it. … They are able to worst [...]
BLIND JUSTICE? THE ARGUMENT OVER JUDGE SOTOMAYOR By Rowan Wolf, Senior Editor, Cyrano’s Journal Online. I HAVE HAD IT WITH THE ONGOING CANT regarding Sonia Sotomayor. Not surprisingly, what has moved to the forefront of the so-called “discussion” are two related fabricated issues: “identity politics” and “blind justice.” My brain has circled round and round [...]
OBAMA HOLDING FORTH ON NORTH KOREA ON 5.25.09. Sanctimonious declarations are a favorite tool of the nation’s Demagogue in Chief. |||
North Korea’s “crime” was the desire to develop a nuclear deterrent against US aggression. If such actions are a violation of international law, then what were the 1,054 nuclear tests by the US? If nuclear missiles endanger the people of Northeast Asia — and never minding the fact that the US had nuclear missiles stationed in South Korea for years — then what should one infer about the presence of US nuclear submarines that ply waters near North Korea ?
DEMONSTRATORS FACE OFF LONDON POLICE RIOT SQUADS DURING G-20 2009 FINANCIAL SUMMIT. The Masters of the Universe are finding more and more resistance to their plutocratic designs, no matter how they couch their rhetoric. ||| A few weeks ago, like everyone in mid-Wales, I received a local policing summary from the Dyfed-Powys force. It contained a section headed Terrorism and Domestic Extremism. “Work undertaken is not solely focussed on the threat from international terrorists. Attention has also been paid to the potential threat that domestic extremists and campaigners can pose.” I lodged a freedom of information request to try to discover what this meant. What threat do campaigners pose?”
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