Commentary

Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh?

Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh? »

Ordinary, average, struggling Americans might be scratching their heads over the news today, as the Labor Department reports that unemployment is up by four-tenths of a percent for the month to a record 10.2 percent, fully three-tenths of a percent higher than economists had been forecasting, and stocks do what? Rise by a quarter of a percent! What’s going on here?...

November 7 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Politics

Congress Won’t Vote On Single-Payer Health Care »

Congress Won’t Vote On Single-Payer Health Care

Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-New York, has agreed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not to have a floor vote on his Medicare for All bill....

Nov 6 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Commentary

Bigger Disaster Looms in 2010: Democrats Crash and Burn in Virginia and New Jersey »

Bigger Disaster Looms in 2010: Democrats Crash and Burn in Virginia and New Jersey

It would be easy to read too much into the few statewide races that were decided last night, but I think it’s fair to...

Nov 4 2009 / 1 comment / Read More »

Nation

Chomsky: Iraq Invasion ‘Major Crime’ Designed to Control Middle East Oil »

Chomsky: Iraq Invasion ‘Major Crime’ Designed to Control Middle East Oil

Political activist Noam Chomsky says that although President Obama views the Iraq invasion merely as “a mistake” or “strategic blunder,” it is, in fact,...

Nov 3 2009 / 4 comments / Read More »

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Politics

Controversial Patriot Act Provisions Appears Set For Reauthorization »

Controversial Patriot Act Provisions Appears Set For Reauthorization

It appears that reapproval of controversial provisions of the Patriot Act may happen soon – evidently with a green light from the Obama Administration and over strong objections from human rights and civil liberties groups. Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the USA Patriot...

Nov 2 2009 / 2 comments / Read More »

Commentary

Country Joe, Kenny Rogers and Obama »

Country Joe, Kenny Rogers and Obama

Country Joe McDonald said it best in his iconic "Fixin' to Die" Rag: "Oh, it's one, two, three, what are we fightin' for? Don't ask me. I don't give a damn." In fact, we were fighting for nothing in Vietnam. It was a war that...

Nov 2 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Torture

Ali al-Marri, The Last US ‘Enemy Combatant,’ Receives Eight-Year Sentence »

Ali al-Marri, The Last US ‘Enemy Combatant,’ Receives Eight-Year Sentence

So it’s finally over. Ali al-Marri, a legal US resident from Qatar, who was held as an “enemy combatant” on the US mainland for five years and eight months without charge or trial, was finally sentenced in a federal court last Thursday. The prosecution was...

Nov 2 2009 / 1 comment / Read More »

Torture

Judge Orders DOJ To Turn Over Abu Zubaydah’s Diaries to Defense Attorneys »

Judge Orders DOJ To Turn Over Abu Zubaydah’s Diaries to Defense Attorneys

Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee captured after 9/11, is expected to finally gain access to diaries he wrote during the years while he was being brutally tortured at secret black-site prisons by CIA interrogators. A federal court judge has ordered the government to turn...

Nov 1 2009 / No comment / Read More »

World

Six Uighurs Go To Palau; Seven Remain In Guantanamo »

Six Uighurs Go To Palau; Seven Remain In Guantanamo

As first reported by the Associated Press, six of the remaining 13 Uighurs in Guantánamo have just arrived on the Pacific island of Palau, where they have been given new homes. The AP’s source said that, overnight, police were guarding the house where the men...

Oct 31 2009 / No comment / Read More »

World

Will Guantanamo Prisoners Be Released to Georgia? »

Will Guantanamo Prisoners Be Released to Georgia?

In September, in an interview with Fox News, President Mikheil Saakashvili explained that Georgia was “absolutely” willing to host prisoners from Guantánamo. “You know, whatever we can do to help America in its war on terror, we will do,” he said....

Oct 30 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Commentary

Our Out-of-Whack Economy and the Happy Talk Propagandists »

Our Out-of-Whack Economy and the Happy Talk Propagandists

If you listen to the happy-talk folks at Treasury and the Fed, and on the tube, you’d think things had finally turned a corner. The economy grew at a 3.5 percent annualized rate in the third quarter ended Sept. 30. “The Economy is Back in...

Oct 30 2009 / No comment / Read More »
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