Friday, February 29, 2008
Right now, deep in the GOP dungeons, they're planning their racist, disgraceful assault. Whatever will it be? (sfgate)
It won't be easy. Because at the same time, they must make their own unlikely candidate, a feisty but fuzzy 71-year-old war hawk whose entire campaign is apparently now being fueled by a giant hunk of Cold War phlegm, the nauseating notion that not only is a perpetual state of war and aggression desirable for America, but is actually essential to a healthy and functioning nation, they must make John McCain's musty, patriarchal brand of regurgitated Republicanism seem fresh and visionary and not horribly regressive and embarrassing.
Wish them luck. Or, you know, don't.
So then, here's the fun little game all progressives can play until the election itself. Assuming Obama gets the nod, just how will they attack him, smear him, paint him as an evil and untrustworthy force for the nation, the way they did Al Gore and John Kerry? How nefarious, racist, draconian will they get?
The Department of Pre-Crime (Mother Jones)
New dangers of non-mainstream political thought
New dangers of non-mainstream political thought
Thursday, February 28, 2008
The Iraq war has cost the US 50-60 times more than the Bush administration predicted and was a central cause of the sub-prime banking crisis threatening the world economy, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Inside the world of war profiteers. (Chicago Tribune)
U.S. soldiers are fighting only for the sustainability of lucrative back-room deals for Republican-connected war contractors.
U.S. soldiers are fighting only for the sustainability of lucrative back-room deals for Republican-connected war contractors.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Boy, George Bush sure does hate Europeans
The US Transport Security Administration has also asked the European airlines to supply personal data on "certain non-travelling members of the public requesting access to areas beyond the screening checkpoint".
The AEA said this was "absurd" because the airlines neither obtain nor can obtain such information. The request was "fully unjustified".
If the Americans persevere in the proposed security crackdown, Brussels is likely to respond with tit-for-tat action, such as calling for visas for some Americans.