We’re saddling up for a firewood safari, but I just caught this piece by Jeff Sparrow in Counterpunch on my way out the door. He pretty succinctly dismantles the current atmosphere of trying to interpret the riots arising from the release of that pathetic movie outside of the wider context of US intervention in the [...]
Finally some creeping legitimacy for the fucking retards.* According to Adam Serwer in Mother Jones, congress is considering 2 measures to mandate disclosure of internal memos outlining the legal justification for killing (by drone) Americans overseas without charge or trial. Problem is that the potus has yet to acknowlegde that such a memo exists. The [...]
One of Barack Obama’s college professors, one Roberto Unger, has made a smallish splash in the news recently by declaring his conviction that Obama’s defeat in November is essential. His reasoning is nothing like that of the GOP mouthpieces, if the word “reasoning” is applicable in a context like that, indeed it’s quite the reverse. [...]
Here’s House Homeland Security Chairman, the delightful Peter King (R-NY), in an interview with Candy Crowley of CNN; Because I’m on the Intelligence Committee, I can’t officially acknowledge that we have a drone program — I’m not concerned [with the casualty rate]. My belief is that when you’re in war — and we are in [...]
As we bump along into the summer, the political landscape is as barren as it usually is at this stage of the game. Thank heavens I don’t make a living out of having to write about this stuff, because almost everything that the media is obsessed with now seems perfectly diversionary to me, first of [...]
A little while back we had David Swanson’s ten excellent reasons for attacking Iran. He’s back in his usual wry fashion with 10 genius reasons to continue keeping troops in Afghanistan. I’m liking this guy, even as our political events are now almost irretrievably beyond parody; 1. When you’re setting a record for the longest [...]
Now comes a video of Libyan “rebels” caging people and forcing them to eat the Libyan flag; People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the old Libyan flag. “Eat the flag, you dog. Patience you dog, patience. God is Great,” screams a voice off-camera [...]
… to attack Iran. From David Swenson; 1. Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that’s a war crime. War crimes must be punished. 2. My television says Iran has nukes. I’m sure it’s true this time. Just like with North Korea. I’m sure they’re next. We only bomb places that really truly [...]