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May 21, 2012 07:42PM - OpEds: What Is ObamaCare?
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“supporting the troops”
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Remembering Herbert Schiller
FIRST IN OUR CRITICAL COMMUNICATIONS SERIES—
” How can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?”
THAT’S A QUESTION MORE PEOPLE SHOULD ASK IN THE UNITED STATES BUT WHICH FEW DO, INCLUD… Read full post »
Over The Hill: Why We Need To Be In All Media
By Danny Schechter, Author of Blogothon
News Dissector Danny Schechter on the imporance of books and reaching people you disagree with though the media they watch, read and listen to.
Danny S.
When do you feel like you are over the hill?
 When you get letters like this one from… Read full post »
Too Much: Chronicles of Inequality [21 May 2012]
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Here at Too Much we like numbers. But the best ripostes against apologists for inequality sometimes carry no numbers… Read full post »
OpEds: What Is ObamaCare?
By Paul Craig Roberts
While we think Obama's healthcare reforms are a betrayal of the public interest, and deserve to be scrapped to start anew with a clean slate, this absolutely deranged view of the program by tooconservative.com (a Northern Virginia Republican pod) is sheer and absolute
… Read full post »OpEds: Gary Sinise “supporting the troops”
Bob Smith
“I’m kind of sick of celebrities who go around hugging and entertaining the troops without realizing they’re also selling the wars.”
Sinise: He apparently never saw Born on the Fourth of July, Coming Home, or All Quiet on the Western Front. All Hollywood produ
… Read full post »Double whammy by Paul Craig Roberts
Editor’s Note: Below we present two of Paul Craig Roberts’ provocative columns. A certifiable establishmentarian, a “system mechanic”, a self-defined conservative, Craig Roberts served at one point under the scoundrel Ronald Reagan (who, phony that he was, seems quaintly genu
… Read full post »
Tribunal finds Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their lawyers guilty of war crimes
By
Kéllia Ramares-Watson
Justice Robert H. Jackson, at Nuremberg. What would he have thought of Bush's crimes? And can you judge a whole system?
…the ultimate step in avoiding periodic wars, which are inevitable in a system of international lawlessness, is to make statesmen responsible… Read full post »
ARCHIVES: Roger Waters’ The Wall Live tour: A comment from a reader
Terrence
McGovern, WSWS.ORG
(13 October 2010)
Waters in Barcelona,
2011
Editor’s Note: Do NOT miss the addendum, a piece outlining Waters’ views on animals, hunting and other morally significant issues. The mark, indeed, of the well-cushioned, and essentially politically ignorant… Read full post »
‘Human Rights Won’t Get in the Way’: The Selling Out of a Chinese Dissident
By Dave Lindorff, This Can’t Be Happening
Sold out and sell-out: Chinese people's lawyer Chen Guangcheng and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
There are two truths about the US that come clearly to the fore in the current diplomatic blow-up between the US and China over the case
… Read full post »In The Name Of My Father
On May 1, after a day of May Day activities on the streets and avenues of Manhattan, my wife and I and a troop of other OWS celebrants marched into
… Read full post »Myanmar learns the lesson of Libya
 By Stephen Gowans, What’s Left
Myanmar Railway minister talks to journalists on May 19, 2012. The regime—according to the West, is beginning to act "reasonably."
Strike Myanmar from the regime change list. Only two years ago, the resource-rich country located between India
… Read full post »Dropping Planes, Not Bombs: US Attack on Iran with F-22 Stealth Fighters would be Laughable
The Iranian military must be enjoying the latest spectacle of Pentagon waste and bungling.
Only a few weeks ago, the US attempted to ramp up the pressure on Iran by deploying to the Persian Gulf at the Al Dhafra Air
… Read full post »So… Bill O’Reilly Despises Progressives, But He’s Okay with Liberals… Progressive Leaders Comment
Big Bill: A big bag of hot toxic air, and a mean-spirited bastard to boot.
O’Reilly said, literally, “I despise progressives.” He then went on to say something, and this in not necessarily the literal quote, “but liberals are okay.” So I asked leading prog
… Read full post »
Once again, all eyes on Greece
THE GREEK AFFAIR: SYMBOL OF THE CRISIS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
OR PARADIGM OF EUROPE’S SALVATION
It is an ironic twist of history that Greece, the cradle of Western culture, today, 2500 years after the acme of Hellenic glory, appears on the stage of history in the best
… Read full post »
BOOKS: Warnings about subterranean, ugly worlds
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My first exposure to the story occurred when I was
much more
naive about international relations, economics, the new
colonialism
… It seemed unbelievable that anyone would
go to that
amount of trouble to manipulate events, or that a few
people would have
that much consolidated power. Cons… Read full post »
Syria and Iran in Focus
by Stephen Lendman
America’s longstanding agenda targets both countries. Israel wants regional rivals removed. Washington wants independent regimes replaced by pro-Western puppet ones.
All options are considered, including war. For months, saber rattling targeted Tehran. Multiple rounds
… Read full post »ARCHIVES: A very sick country
David Michael Green
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So.
It looks now like the regressive majority on the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement, his health care bill.
That is so fitting.
LEFT: Tendentious logo circulating among deranged rightwingers. We only wish the Obama
The Message of the Charles Taylor Conviction: Don’t Cross Us
“…this case directly raises the question of whether the judicial process can be fashioned into a political tool for use by powerful nations to remove democratically elected leaders of other nations that refuse to serve as their handmaidens and footstools.†[1]
By Stephen Gowans,… Read full post »
Why Obama and Romney Will Compete to be Cheerleaders for U.S. Imperial Dominance
Clearly, come November, whoever wins or loses, the national security state will be the true victor in the presidential sweepstakes.
Now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, the media is already handicapping the presidential election big time, and the neck-an… Read full post »
Colonized by Corporations
By Chris Hedges, TruthDig
In Robert E. Gamer’s book “The Developing Nations†is a chapter called “Why Men Do Not Revolt.†In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent their fury on a political puppet, someone w
… Read full post »The United States: An Impoverished, Delusional Society
Special—
… Read full post »When Europeans resist corporate austerity measures, they are struggling to avoid “being forced to live like most Americans, at the total mercy of the rich.†The U.S. safety net hardly exists. The “American way of life†is a state of profound insecurity and social disconne
Glen Ford—Make the Choice: Wall Street or Society
 
by Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford
… Read full post »The liberal reformers are once again talking about tinkering with Wall Street’s economic and political stranglehold on society. “The reformist debate accepts the inevitability of private capital as the engine of economic – and, there
Bruce Dixon: Obama’s No-Risk Drive-By On Gay Marriage
The president’s announcement favoring the right of same sex couples to marry is long overdue and better than nothing. But it doesn’t make him a fearless warrior for human rights, any
The meaning and necessity of revolution in the 21st century
by
Jerome Roos on May 11, 2012
ROAR MAGAZINEÂ
The protests by Spanish indignados are replicated and resonate in every corner of Europe, with the brave Greeks providing their own example.Â
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The global day of action on May 12 will mark the resurgence of our resistance. But what is the
… Read full post »INDISPENSABLE READS: Can the environment be “fixed”?
ANNALS OF SCIENCE
THE CLIMATE FIXERS
The New Yorker. Thank you, The
New Yorker for publishing articles of this quality.
Suggested
by Gloria Stevenson  | With select commentary
threads
Is there a technological solution to global
warming?
Geoengineering holds out the promise of artificially rev
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com