"For eight years, Condoleezza Rice dealt with the Beltway punditry and the access-craving White House press corps. The reception she got, with a handful of exceptions, was fawning. Which leaves… Read full post »

When Bill Beck was accused of deletions, everybody joined in, in a virtual gang lynching fest.  

When gordo does far worse, nobody seems to notice or mind, thesagejournal who must be sage in the sense of shrub's ranch (cause she sure ain't wise, nor a spice; and is in… Read full post »

MAY 25, 2009 6:43AM

Who is dangerous?

Two choices. Who are the most dangerous people? 

President Obama, who wants to get the rights to keep anybody by his own choice indefinite… Read full post »

I know Chomsky, have spoken with him many times - anyone choosing to take issue best do their homework and check it twice (or more).  

The Torture Memos

Torture has been routine practice from the early days of the Republic

By Noam Chomsky  

There is little that I have add to this.  It is pretty much self-explanatary:

Barry McGuire: "Eve of Destruction"

The eastern world, it is exploding

Violence flarin', bullets loadin'

You're old enough to kill, but not… Read full post »

Robert Fisk: "Most Arabs know this speech will make little difference."

"I suspect that what the Arab world wants to hear is that Obama will take his soldiers out of Muslim lands

Tuesday, 2 June 2009

More and more, it looks like the same old… Read full post »

Yesterday I wrote about "The Lucifer Effect and how lieberman and graham don't want you to see anymore naughty pictures.  Now Obama has once again caved on transparency:

http://open.salon.com/blog/markinjapan/2009/05/11/tier_1a_philip_zimbardo_nuditydegradation_not_gratuitous 

 … Read full post »

Glenn Greenwald has some amazingly compelling remarks to make in his latest blog post in today's Salon.com

(Ironically I'd commented just yesterday to Bill Michtom's excellent post, "wouldn't the media's complicity make them eligible to stand in the dock along with cheney, bush, addington, yoo… Read full post »

Denying that White House policy was directly responsible for the vile abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib has been the central goal of a five-year disinformation campaign by Bush officials. 'Torture Team… Read full post »

I think the last excerpt in the last paragraph in this blog post sums up "nicely" how low we've sunk:

"The group [CCR] is encouraging citizens . . .  to support legislation, such as a proposed bill in New York state that prohibits health professionals from participati… Read full post »

As I could never speak as eloquently as my friend, Bill, can and did on BBE's superlative blog post "Obama proposes Indefinite Preventive Detention without trial":

http://open.salon.com/blog/behind_blue_eyes/2009/05/22/obama_proposes_indefinite_preventive_detention_without_trial

Really big surprise here!  The lies keep coming and coming.  

Is it intentional?  Are they just a bunch of bumbling fools?  

The truth my friends, is the lies keep coming and coming so rapidly, that they want to make you so dizzy that you no longer remember which lie was… Read full post »

usa, usa, usa the crowds cheered at the annual Nathan's hot dog eating contest in Coney Island when when Joey Chestnut finally defeated Takeru Kobayashi after a six year drought for the kings of hot dogs, usa (We DID invent after all, many claim).

Hey savor it while you can… Read full post »

I don't know if anybody has yet mentioned this facet of obama's "truth-seeking," that Scott Horton (Scott Horton, New York attorney specializing in international law and human rights.) whose record is impeccable in following these matters mentioned yesterday:

"But even aside from that,… Read full post »

This post is dedicated to dijon, his more (or less) retarded brother, decimated junior juvenile, and, of course, mr. devious, philos (and all the rest of the prevaricators who lurk in the dark underbelly of self-righteous hypocrisy), who presume to be privy to information unavailable to Mr. Soufan (F… Read full post »