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- Report: A tale of two very
different Swedens
August 17, 2012 08:18PM - The American Way
August 16, 2012 09:01PM - The ultimate target is Russia:
Is Washington Deaf As Well as
Criminal?
August 16, 2012 08:23PM - Ecuador to Washington and
Britain: Go to Hell
August 16, 2012 05:41PM - Brutal repression of
Mapuche—Chile’s native
people—continues [Spanish]
/Represión de Mapuches se
agudiza
August 16, 2012 03:46PM
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- “Thank you for your
perceptive comment,
Libby.”
May 11, 2012 04:58PM - “The first thing is to
realize our own strength: we
ARE the
majority,
overwhelming…”
September 03, 2011 03:15PM - “Could you explain your
question? It makes no sense
the way it
is now, unless
you…”
August 19, 2011 12:35PM
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America’s Great Health Care Takeaway
The Election March of the Trolls
August 29, 2011
By Chris Hedges
Illustration by Mr. Fish
We have begun the election march of the trolls. They have crawled out of the sewers of public relations firms, polling organizations, the commercial media, the two corporate political parties and elected office to fill the airwaves with… Read full post »
The Real Obama
CounterPunch Diary
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN, Counterpunch
The White House that shook in last
Tuesday’s earthquake has been home to its
present incumbent for 32 months. Obama wasn’t
around to watch the furniture shake. He’s up on
Martha’s Vineyard for the third year in a row,
with Michell
Iceland says “NO!” to bankster deal
(CNN)Â –
Iceland’s voters overwhelmingly rejected a deal to pay
billions of dollars it owes to the United Kingdom and the
Netherlands, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
 With around 90 percent of votes counted, just over 93
percent said no and just under 2 percent said yes. Not en… Read full post »
Believers Think We Need Religion to Behave Like Good, Moral People — Here’s Why They’re Wrong
By Adam Lee, Crosspost with AlterNet
Childish, Aryanized cartoon version of Jesus. A moral philosopher, yes. A God, no.
The most common stereotype about atheists, the most common reason why religious people fear and distrust us, is the belief that people who don’t believe in God have no… Read full post »
3 Things That Must Happen for Us To Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy
By Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet
Transforming the United States into something closer to
a democracy requires: 1) knowledge of how we are getting screwed;
2) pragmatic tactics, strategies, and solutions; and 3) the
“energy to do battle.â€
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The majority of Americans oppose the corporatocracyÂ… Read full post »
Now it’s the tar sands oil pipeline. The betrayals never end.
All the Protesting for Naught? Welcome to Tar Sands Nation
Alberta's tar sands fields. An ecological outrage. Now the plague will cross the whole continent.
I guess Bill McKibben’s protests and arrests against US approval of a pipeline to allow dirty Ca… Read full post »
WikiLeaks cables expose Washington’s close ties to Gaddafi
Editor’s Note: Gaddfi’s ignominious fate at the hands of US-controlled goons ia not entirely without precedent; it’s the norm for discarded “strategic assets” in lesser countries. Gaddfi is preceded by Saddam Hussein, and, of course, Panama’s Noguera, who currentl
… Read full post »
Richard Dawkins on Rick Perry’s nincompoop’s belief in creationism
Governor and probable next president Rick Perry: “Evolution is just a theory.” (and 62% of Americans agree with him)
Texas governor and GOP candidate Rick Perry, at a campaign event this week, told a boy that evolution is â€just a theory†with “gaps†and that in Texas they teach â
… Read full post »
AN UTTERLY CORRUPT POLITICAL CLASS: A Nuclear Disaster in the Making
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Notice to our audience: All comments suspended until further notice due to spamming and defamation/harassment threats. Check Facebook’s Links for the Wild Left for comment threads on our artic… Read full post »
When You Play the Plutocrats’ Game, They Win: On Civility and Half Measures
By Kristine Mattis
One of the Democrats in the recall elections said in an interview that she did not like the recent changes in Wisconsin government, because things had become so divisive and people could not compromise. Given the current state of affairs, I would say that compromise is not
More Jobs are Not the Solution; the Earth Needs Fewer
By Kristine Mattis
When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
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The rape of Libya
By Bill Van Auken, Senior Analyst, WSWS.ORG, a socialist organization
As usual, the US/Western media played a crucial proopaganda role, “assassinating” the character of the Libyan leadership so as to whitewash and conceal the true objectives of the “humanitarian mission.”—Ed
… Read full post »
Orange Jumpsuits/Double Standards
In
Great Britain, convicted looters are being dressed
in orange jumpsuits and made to clean up areas
damaged by recent riots. The law-and-order crowd on both sides of
the Atlantic cheers this “riot payback scheme,” even
when applied to offenders who/… Read full post » THE GUGA HUNT: When will this world be free of “respectable cruelties”?
Editor’s Note: It’s usually one of the telltale signs of a conservative character—the natural reverence for tradition.
… Read full post »
Problem is, most traditions are bad, often disgusting historical anachronisms, respectable cruelties whose only value is to please the most backward or powerful
Disaster capitalism swoops over Libya
THE ROVING EYEÂ /Â Asia
Times    Â
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By Pepe
Escobar
Think of the new Libya as the latest spectacular chapter
in the Disaster Capitalism series. Instead of weapons of mass
destruction, we had R2P (“responsibility to protect”).
Instead of neo-conservatives, we had… Read full post »
The Lesser of the Evils: Hindsight is 20/20, but McCain Shudda Won
Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
I will not be voting for Obama in 2012 regardless of who the GOP candidate is and, admittedly with 20/20 hindsight, I now fully believe that over the long haul our nation would have been better off had McCain won in 2008, yes, even with that nit-wit
… Read full post »
Idiot Wind: The Eternal Return Of The Politics Of The 1970s
By Phil Rockstroh
Even after Nixon was exiled to San Clemente, and the nation’s citizenry was induced to take up the mantra, “the system worked…time to move on…Our long national nightmare is over” — Americans remained uneasy, clinging to the casuistry that we were mere bys
… Read full post »
NATO’s Libya War: A Nuremberg Level Crime
By Stephen Lendman
Justice Jackson: One of the best jurists the US has ever produced. Although he served on the Supreme Court, he never graduated from any law school.
The Nuremberg Tribunal’s Chief Justice Robert Jackson (a US Supreme Court Justice) called Nazi war crimes “the supr… Read full post »
The Corporate King Memorial and The Burial of a Movement
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR columnist Jared A. Ball
The newly unveiled MLK Memorial is designed to ensure
that “King be forever separated from his
anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and anti-patient work for a
genuine revolution.†The great
leader’s image and narrative have
Freedom Rider: How to Remember 9/11
By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
In a few weeks, it all begins again: the howling
scream-whine of a narcissistic nation oscillating wildly between
fits of megalomania and depressive woe-is-me-ism.
“Will there be calls for a true investigation
into what the government
CBC: Impotent, Irrelevant, and Tied to the President in 2012, Even If Obama is the Black Herbert Hoover
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why does the Congressional Black Caucus, forty of the most senior members of the House of Representatives, pretend that touring the country with a phony, embarrassing “job fair†is a substitute for the massive jobs and poverty-reduction programs th
Fracking & earthquakes: an inescapable connection
Injecting High Pressure Water Deep into Rock Bed by Atlantic CouncilEarthquakes in the nation’s capitol are as rare as hen’s teeth. The epicenter of Tuesday’s quake was in Mineral, Virgi… Read full post »
OpEds // Libya War: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
By Stephen Lendman √
The corporate media always leave the war’s illegality unexplained, and why fought – never for humanitarian reasons or liberation. Â Instead, numerous propaganda pieces [have] left readers misinformed, in the dark, and unaware why America ever goes to war, let alone
… Read full post »
Why Are We Baiting the Bear?
By Patrick J. BuchananÂ
Is the Senate trying to reignite the Cold War?Â
If so, it is going about it the right way.
Before departing for a five-week vacation, the Senate voted to declare Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be provinces of Georgia illegally occupied by Russian troops who must get… Read full post »
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
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