Commentary

Obama Must Toss the Bums in Treasury Out, End the Wars, and Start Leading

Obama Must Toss the Bums in Treasury Out, End the Wars, and Start Leading »

If you are sitting in class taking a test, and you’ve chosen to sit amongst your bone-headed, slacker friends, don’t turn to them for help when you can’t figure out of any of the answers. They may all tell you the same thing, but they’ll all be wrong. That’s the situation President Obama finds himself in today in the White House. Having surrounded himself with the very Wall Street con men who set up the...

November 19 2009 / 2 comments / Read More »

Commentary

KSM and MSM »

KSM and MSM

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the corporate "mainstream" media make quite a pair. We're hearing a very "balanced" debate over whether KSM should be tried...

Nov 19 2009 / 3 comments / Read More »

Commentary

The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society »

The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society

You may have missed it in the mainstream news media, but statistical societal indicators are reading red across the board. Before exposing the root...

Nov 19 2009 / 6 comments / Read More »

Law

Nearly 15,000 Enter Into Settlement With IRS Over Foreign Accounts »

Nearly 15,000 Enter Into Settlement With IRS Over Foreign Accounts

The Justice Department and IRS announced that over 14,700 taxpayers have come forward to report previously-undisclosed foreign bank accounts under the voluntary disclosure program...

Nov 17 2009 / No comment / Read More »

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Commentary

‘Ludicrous Propaganda’ Driving Afghanistan Debate »

‘Ludicrous Propaganda’ Driving Afghanistan Debate

Let's set aside for a moment the ludicrous propaganda that maintains that the reason we occupy other people's countries is to impose democracy on them. Let's assume we're imposing the rule of elite experts. Even so, even on those terms, here are some...

Nov 17 2009 / 2 comments / Read More »

Nation

Gun Violence Shows Now Signs of Abating »

Gun Violence Shows Now Signs of Abating

The total number of Americans shot dead each year is three times that of all U.S. troops killed in Iraq in six years of fighting. There is rage in our hearts; there is war in our streets. A big factor in the homicide rate is...

Nov 17 2009 / 1 comment / Read More »

Commentary

Rush to Judgment: Talk Radio’s ‘Truth Detector’ Blows a Fuse-Again »

Rush to Judgment: Talk Radio’s ‘Truth Detector’ Blows a Fuse-Again

It wasn't unusual that Rush Limbaugh went ballistic on his show, Nov. 13. He does that several times a day. It wasn't unusual that he mixed a few facts with opinion and outright lies in his three-hour daily show. Fact checking for the man who...

Nov 16 2009 / 4 comments / Read More »

Commentary

President Obama: Don’t Lecture China on Censorship »

President Obama: Don’t Lecture China on Censorship

President Obama, in his visit to China, held a “town meeting” with Chinese students in which he praised openness and lectured them on the value of freedom of information, saying that he is a “supporter of non-censorship” and that open access to information was a...

Nov 16 2009 / 2 comments / Read More »

Commentary

‘Don’t Panic, It’s just a Documentary’ »

‘Don’t Panic, It’s just a Documentary’

Opening my e-mail, the other day, after coming back from seeing "Collapse" for a second time, I'm immediately inundated with links to a new article on the Guardian's website: "Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower. Watchdog's estimates of reserves inflated says...

Nov 15 2009 / 11 comments / Read More »

Nation

Happy Birthday, Gitmo »

Happy Birthday, Gitmo

Much has occurred today with regards to Guantanamo Bay and many decisions are yet to come. But there is another milestone worthy of note: Today marks the eighth anniversary of the creation of the legal foundation for the prison and the second-tier justice system established...

Nov 13 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Nation

Jumping the Gunman »

Jumping the Gunman

The recent reporting on Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, is a classic run-and-gun investigative story in which dozens of reporters badger officials to disclose a new fact (which gets you on page one) or two new...

Nov 13 2009 / No comment / Read More »
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