SHARE        Monday, July 28, 2014
Flight MH17: Europeans Play Pig in the Middle he EU will stop short of directly penalizing Putin, hoping they can entice, cajole, or force him to strike a bargain by turning his wealthy supporters against him. But, far more than Washington, the Europeans appear to believe that some sort of rapprochement is possible.

SHARE        Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Iraq crisis: divide-and-rule in defence of a neoliberal political economy The recent meteoric ascent of ISIS in Iraq, having been largely contained by around 2010, is closely tied to its newly acquired position in Syria. There, it has trained fresh fighters, amassed advanced weapons and found new financial resources to an extent unimaginable without de facto western support.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Nine Reasons Our Foreign Policy Makes Us Look Like Complete Hypocrites We have an economy that rewards the rich for being rich, and punishes the poor for being poor. Is it any wonder that foreigners scoff at Americans who say their country is the best in the world? Let's take the log out of our own eye before we talk about the speck in the eye of other countries.

SHARE        Wednesday, March 5, 2014
How to Defuse the Ukraine Crisis Incriminating footprints in Ukraine look all too familiar, from Secretary of State John Kerry's complete lack of credibility on international law to phony democrats like the National Endowment of Democracy, conservative warmongers like John McCain, and neocon interventionists like Robert Kagan and his wife Victoria Nuland, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 27, 2014
You Do Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows Once the scientists have detected changes in weather, the bigger challenge is to see if they can attribute any part of them to man-made increases in greenhouse gases. This requires sophisticated computerized models on which the scientists can simulate what the climate would be with and without those man-made increases. Its collaborators will now be able to answer questions that their science could not previously even ask.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 22, 2014
Chelsea Manning acceptance statement of Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence There is a distinct difference between citizens, in which people are entitled to rights and privileges protected by and from the state, and subjects, in which people are placed under the absolute authority and control of the state. In essence, this is the difference between tyranny and freedom.

(9 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Paul Craig Roberts -- Fed:They Do Not Have Any More Gold Roberts contends that America's gold is "mainly gone." That's right, a former Assistant Treasury Secretary who is the father of Reaganomics, says, "They obviously don't have any because, if they did, they would have given Germany's gold back. If they had any, they would let people audit the vaults."

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 18, 2013
President Obama: Reject Keystone XL, Promote Clean Energy Developing the Canadian tar sands is destroying our continent's great northern forest at a terrifying rate. It is producing enough carbon pollution to wreak havoc with our climate for decades to come. And the pipelines that carry this dirty fuel are a direct threat to our nation's own drinking water supplies. Tar sands oil is exactly the type of dirty oil we can no longer afford.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 20, 2013
Team Leader Suddenly Remembers Manning Insulted the Flag Specialist Jirhleah Showman was Manning's team leader prior to deployment in Iraq. During a counseling session with Manning, Showmen said she asked Manning why he joined the military and he replied, "To get an education." Showmen testified that she then looked at Manning, tapped the flag on her shoulder, and asked, "What does this mean to you?" Showman said Manning told her that the flag did not mean anything to him.

SHARE        Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The Trial of Bradley Manning: Day 18 The Army is still seeking an expert witness to counter Professor Benkler's testimony on Wikileaks operating as a media organization. The judge was not pleased that the Army wasn't already prepared to counter Benkler's testimony before the trial began. There was no ruling on whether the "unknown" witness is allowed.

SHARE        Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Don't Trust Humanitarian Wars Most Americans do not want to go to war and they do not want either the radical Shia or the radical Sunnis to win. But, fully in character, Professor Obama won't sell that understanding to his fellow citizens just in case he decides to change his mind. How do you run a democracy that way? But whoever said that American foreign policy is run democratically? At least not yet.

SHARE        Sunday, June 23, 2013
This Really Is Big Brother: The Leak Nobody's Noticed s with all informant systems, especially ones that "profile" for certain behaviors deemed to be a threat to the state, only the most conformist will thrive. It's a recipe for disaster if one is looking for any kind of dynamic, creative thinking. Clearly, that is the last thing these creepy bureaucrats want.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 24, 2012
VIDEO: Israel's War on Truth Russia Today's Abby Martin highlights the Israeli Military's bombing of media buildings and targeting of journalists, including the RT office in Gaza, and calls out the Israeli government to for making veiled threats to RT's headquarters in Moscow.

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 3, 2008
Who Needs the GOP? Supporting HIllary with Anti-Obama Message I got this email from a lady who I'm just guessing is a Hillary supporter. The way she supports Hillary-- not by saying good things about Hillary, but by bashing Obama.

SHARE        Thursday, January 24, 2008
Obama Files a Nevada Complaint These reports suggest the possibility of activity conducted in violation of Party rules and the rights of voters-activity that, as the volume and distribution of those complaints indicate, may have been planned and coordinated with the willful intention to distort the process in the favor of one candidate, Senator Clinton.

SHARE        Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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SHARE        Friday, March 23, 2007
Bush Era Bumper Stickers humor

SHARE        Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Huge Day on Fired Prosecutors Story more ethics complaints, new revelations make this a blockbuster story