The Israeli assault on peace flotilla

“Operation Justified Vengeance”: Israeli Strike on Freedom Flotilla to Gaza is Part of a Broader Military Agenda by Michel Chossudovsky ORIGINALLY: Global Research, May 31, 2010 <<< An Israeli naval vessel patrols beside one of six ships bound for Gaza. {Photograph: Reuters) They came by sea and air, shattering the peace of a Mediterranean night. Shortly [...]

What the hell is wrong with the Democrats?

The party embraced globalization while its union allies were cut down. By THOMAS FRANK  FEBRUARY 24, 2010 It’s no secret that the tea party faithful regard the Obama administration as a Constitution-shredding tyranny. But in a profile of the movement published last week, the New York Times reported the surprising news that many of the [...]

George Will: a pompous defender of wealth and privilege

Ruling elite mouthpieces like George Will earn mountains of cash and fame for their service to the powerful, who in the final analysis are their enablers. By David Walsh //  20 May 2010 [PRINT_LINK] NOT TO PUT TOO FINE A POINT ON IT, Washington Post columnist George Will is a pompous windbag, one of the [...]

The Financial REFORM As A Game Of Three Card Monte

You Always Think You Are Going To Win Until You lose By Danny Schechter Author of The Crime Of Our Time We live in a three card monte world. Follow the money as it moves from one shell to another. Now guess where it is. Most of us don’t know the hand can be quicker [...]

Tea Party Crazy Has a History

Editor’s Note: Paranoia and sheer stupidity in American politics and society are far from new or extraordinary.  One might  say their predominance is one of the things that set America apart from the rest of the world, and especially its cultural cradle, Europe. By William Blum May 12, 2010  [print_link] If you shake your head [...]

The Salazar Quotient

How Big Oil Bought the Interior Department By BILLY WHARTON May 12, 2010 [print_link] Big oil and coal interests seemed to have reached their high point with the re-election of George W. Bush in 2004. He was a well-heeled oil man, as firmly committed to the military seizure of the world’s oil spigot, as he [...]

Gulf Eco-Catastrophe, Far Worse than Katrina, More Like a Hiroshima

THE OBAMA GULF CATASTROPHE: Emergency Legislation Needed People have called this catastrophe Obama’s Katrina. They’re wrong. It’s much worse than Katrina. It’s worse, not only because of the damage we’ll be seeing as the oil does its damage to sea life, estuaries, breeding grounds, jobs, industries, families and entire ecosystems, but also because of the [...]

ELENA KAGAN: Obama still clinging to old liberalism's kool-aid

Obama’s natural choice of Kagan For one thing—an important thing about such an important post—the woman is a certifiable careerist, a “pragmatist”, and compulsive “achiever” in the establishmentarian approved sense. And we know what that means when it comes to standing up for real principles. If this woman doesn’t turn out to be a disaster, [...]

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