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Wisconsin Climate Change Gag Order Part of Multi-Front, Industry-Tied Attacks
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
On April 7, Wisconsin's Board of Commissioners of Public Lands voted 2-1 to ban those employed by the agency from doing any work pertaining to climate change or global warming while doing public lands related work.
Credit where credit's due...but only where it's due: How Can Obama Claim the Alternative to a Nuclear Deal with Iran is War?
By Dave Lindorff
A kudo to President Obama. But just one.
If he manages to pull off an agreement with Iran on limiting that country's nuclear fuel enrichment program in the fact of determined resistance from Republicans, Neocons, the Israel Lobby and the warmongers in both the GOP and his own Democratic Party, he will have finally earned at least some small portion of the gold in his Nobel Peace medallion.
Focus: Hillary Clinton - Mar 30, 2015
RNC on Clinton: 'Even Nixon didn't destroy the tapes' - TheHill
RNC Statement On Hillary Clinton Erasing All Emails From Her Secret Server - GOP
New probe into Clinton's Muslim assistant Huma Abedin started by Senate - Examiner.com
Kerry orders State Department review of records retention amid Clinton email controversy - Fox News
RNC Statement On The Clinton Foundation’s Shady Foreign $$ - GOP
Senator’s questions over Clinton Foundation Nigerian donor spark GOP infighting - Fox News
Clinton family facing RICO racketeering case filed in federal court in Florida - Examiner.com
Fiorina Likely GOP Presidential Candidate, Attacks Clinton - ABC News
VIDEO: Chris Wallace Asks Carly Fiorina About Hillary Clinton & Running In 2016 - Fox News Sunday
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POLL: Hillary Clinton favorability down 12 points since November 2013: poll - Washington Times
VIDEO: CBS Poll Shows Email Scandal Taking A Toll On Hillary Clinton - CBS
POLL: Who would Americans consider voting for in 2016? - CBS News
O'Malley: Democrats shouldn't coronate Hillary Clinton - Baltimore Sun
VIDEO: Former Gov. Martin O'Malley on ABC's This Week - YouTube
Clinton Hiring Raises Question About Future Openings -
Clinton Hiring Raises Question About Future Openings - NYTimes.com
Musical about Bill, Hillary Clinton to make off-Broadway debut - CBS News
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Private Emails Reveal Ex-Clinton Aide’s Secret Spy Network - ProPublica
Hillary, Benghazi, and Those Troublesome E-mails - Breitbart
ARCHIVE: Benghazi attack was preventable: Senate panel - NY Daily News
ARCHIVE: On Benghazi, Hillary Clinton and Four Dead Americans - Breitbart
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Yemen News - Mar 27, 2015
Saudi Arabia threatens ground invasion of Yemen - Telegraph
Yemen conflict poised to escalate as Egypt prepares to send in troops - The Guardian
GCC statement: Gulf countries respond to Yemen developments - The National
VIDEO: Saudi Arabia-led coalition strikes at Houthi targets in Yemen - YouTube
Arab League pledges full support for Saudi-led campaign in Yemen - Yahoo News
Arab foreign ministers agree on joint military force: Arab League chief - Yahoo News
Saudi Ambassador: Iran Revolutionary Guard, Hezbollah Advising Yemen Rebels - ABC News
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Yemen Rebels Protest Saudi-led Airstrikes - VOA
VIDEO: Houthi protesters denounce Saudi Arabia over airstrikes - YouTube
Houthi Official: Yemen Strikes By Saudi Arabia Will Set Off 'Wide War’ - huffingtonpost.com
VIDEO (English): Houthi spokesman: `This aggression unlawful and unjustifiable` - YouTube
Thousands of Houthis Concentrated Along Yemen-Saudi Border - Sputnik International
Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh seen pulling strings as rebels advance - Yahoo News
Houthi Leader Abdul Malik Al Houthi: The Shiite Thorn on Yemen’s side - albawabaeg.com
Houthi Who?: The History of Houthi Alliances - Foreign Affairs
VIDEO (Documentary): The Rise of the Houthis - journeyman.tv
ARCHIVE: The Huthi Ascent to Power - Middle East Institute
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U.S. Backs Saudi-Led Yemeni Bombing With Logistics, Spying - Bloomberg Business
Officials: Saudi-led action in Yemen relied heavily on U.S. intelligence - The Washington Post
US weighs tanker and radar planes for Saudi Yemen op - Business Standard News
Statement by NSC Spokesperson Bernadette Meehan on the Situation in Yemen - The White House
The United States favors a negotiated solution in Yemen but understands Saudi concerns that led to military action: State Dept - yahoo.com
How U.S. weapons will play a huge role in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen - The Washington Post
Two U.S. Warships Ready to Respond if Needed in Yemen - nationalreview.com
Pentagon loses track of $500 million in weapons, equipment given to Yemen - The Washington Post
Iran-backed rebels loot Yemen files about U.S. spy operations - LA Times
EU's Mogherini says military action not a solution in Yemen - Yahoo News
Russia's Putin to Iran: Immediate ceasefire needed in Yemen - Yahoo News
Comment by the Russia Foreign Ministry on the situation in Yemen - MFA of Russia
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Yemen war clouds raise dangers for top oil shipping route - Reuters
Why Bombing the 39th Biggest Oil Producer Is Roiling Markets - Washington Post
Oil leaps 5 percent, most in a month, on air strikes in Yemen - Reuters
U.S. will work to ensure Bab-el-Mandeb strait remains open: U.S. general - Yahoo News
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Making enemies by droning on and on: It’s Guilt that has US Military and Embassy Staff Fleeing Yemen Like Scared Rats
By Dave Lindorff
I’m the first to admit that I don’t know all that much about Yemen, or about the Houthi rebels who have taken control of Sana’a, the ancient Arab country’s capital, leading to the hasty evacuation of all US military forces (some 250 Special Forces personnel and the staff of the US embassy) from that country located at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
Focus: Hillary Clinton - Mar 21, 2015
Trey Gowdy to Hillary Clinton lawyer: Turn over server to third party - POLITICO
Trey Gowdy Threatens Possible House Action if Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Hand Over Her Server - TheBlaze.com
Text of the letter Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Gowdy sent to Clinton’s attorney - benghazi.house.gov
VIDEO: Chairman Of Benghazi Committee Ask Hillary Clinton To Release Servers Or Else - YouTube
Emails sought of nearly a dozen U.S. State Department workers under Clinton - Reuters
U.S. State Dept. archives fewer emails than previously disclosed - Reuters
Hillary Clinton's State Department wanted to cut back on email saving duties - POLITICO
National Archives, union press State Department for answers over Clinton email - Fox News
It Could Take Up to 30 Years for Hillary Clinton’s Emails to Reach the National Archives - GovExec.com
Feds argue they had no duty under FOIA to search Hillary Clinton's emails - POLITICO
Was Hillary Clinton running her own rogue intel operation? - Washington Times
Clinton's Keystone XL emails sought, ties to TransCanada lobbyist hit - WashingtonExaminer.com
Report: Hillary's Email Server Was in Danger of Being Hacked - newsmax.com
POLL: 54% Think Democrats Should Run A Fresh Face in 2016 - Rasmussen Report
VIDEO: Strong Clinton Supporters Are Worried About The Email Scandal - YouTube
Pelosi: GOP Will Investigate Clinton ‘Whether It’s Her Emails Or Hair’ - CBS
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Exclusive: Despite Hillary Clinton promise, charity did not disclose donors - Reuters
VIDEO: Rand Paul Urges Clinton to Return Foreign Money - YouTube
We asked Clinton donors why they gave. Here's what they said - WashingtonExaminer.com
How the Clintons’ Haiti development plans succeed — and disappoint - The Washington Post
The Clinton Foundation and Haiti Contracts - WSJ
Role of Hillary Clinton’s brother in Haiti gold mine raises eyebrows - The Washington Post
That time Bill and Hillary Clinton went to a voodoo ceremony in Haiti - The Washington Post
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VIDEO: Hillary Clinton: We Really Need Camps for Adults, There is 'Fun Deficit' in America - YouTube
VIDEO: Hillary Clinton Full Keynote Speech to the American Camp Association Conference - YouTube
Hillary Clinton’s ‘fun deficit’ is a real problem for poor kids - The Washington Post
Hillary’s Speaking Fee Could Cost Non-Profit The Camp Association 10 Percent Of Its Budget - townhall.com
Hillary Clinton's unanswered questions on marriage equality - MSNBC
Hillary supporters launch ‘Bill for First Lady’ ad campaign (VIDEO) - New York Post
Welcome to the Clintons’ $11 Million Dollar Mansion in New York State - UFP NEWS
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Takin’ it to the streets (and voting booth)!: Time to Demand Medicare for All and Social Security Benefits We Can Live On!
By Dave Lindorff
With Republicans now in control of both houses of Congress, the current president already on record as supported cuts in Social Security and Medicare, and all signs pointing to the likelihood that the 2016 election could bring us either a neo-liberal or a neo-conservative president, and an increasingly Republican-dominated Congress, it’s time for an aggressive mass movement built around defending and expanding both those critical public funding programs.
Half a century and nothing’s changed: US Refuses to Seriously Tackle Police Brutality and Racism
By Linn Washington, Jr.
The report released in early March by a panel President Obama appointed to examine serious shortcomings in police practices across America, including the shooting of unarmed people, mostly non-white, listed problems and proposed solutions that are hauntingly similar to those found in a report on police abuses released 47 years ago by another presidential panel.
The Coup Americans Don’t Know About, and Washington’s Plan to Destroy Venezuela’s Democracy
By Dave Lindorff
Looking for enemies: Venezuela, the Latest ‘National Security Threat’
By Dave Lindorff
Seriously? Venezuela is a “national security threat”?
That is what President Obama has reportedly declared today in a new executive order.
And how exactly is poor Venezuela, a nation of 29 million, with a small military upon which it spends just 1% of GDP, one of the lowest rates in the world (the US spends 4.5% of GDP on its own bloated military), a threat to the US?
Focus: Hillary Clinton - Mar 7, 2015
Clinton created multiple email addresses on private server, data show (VIDEO) - Fox News
VIDEO: Hacker exposes Hillary Clinton had multiple private emails - Fox News
Source: Top Aides Used Clinton Secret Email Accounts at State Dept. - gawker.com
Clinton Wants You to See Her E-Mails, Except the Ones She Didn't Hand Over - Bloomberg Business
A Hillary Clinton Email That the State Department Could Not Find - The Atlantic
Clinton e-mail review could find security issues - The Washington Post
Clinton Email Domain Hosted by a Company That Was Hacked in 2010 and Had Data Redirected to Ukraine, IP Address Reveals Link to British Virgin Islands - TheBlaze.com
6 questions that still need answers in the Hillary email controversy - The Washington Post
Hacker "Guccifer" first discovered Clinton's backchannel path - The Smoking Gun
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Hillary’s State Dept. Forced The Resignation Of An Ambassador For Using Private E-Mail - TheHill
VIDEO: State Department Briefing: Hillary Clinton Emails - C-SPAN.org
White House alerted to potential Clinton email problem in August - POLITICO
VIDEO: Press Secretary Josh Earnest Asked About Hillary Email Scandal - ijreview.com
Associated Press Threatens Legal Action Over Request for Hillary Clinton Information - NYTimes.com
Benghazi investigation gets boost with Clinton email revelations - Bloomberg
Dems denounce subpoena for Hillary Clinton emails - POLITICO
Emails show Clinton aides running interference during Benghazi attack - Fox News
Dad of SEAL Killed in Benghazi Blasts Hillary Over Records Exposed By JW - Judicial Watch
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POLL: Clinton loses ground against GOP in hypothetical 2016 matchups - McClatchy DC
Clinton Can’t Shake Her Ties to Bob Menendez’s & His Pending Corruption Charges - ammoland.com
Clinton And Menendez’s Deep Ties - GOP
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Potomac Reichstag or ‘Planet of the Apes’?: Hooting American Yahoos on the Benches and Racist Israeli Demagogue on the Podium
By Dave Lindorff
Is it imminent? It’s everpresent: Venezuela’s Continuous Coup
By Alfredo Lopez
When Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma was arrested last week, charged with organizing and leading a coup, the U.S. State Department's spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: "The allegations made by the Venezuelan government that the United States is involved in coup plotting and destabilization are baseless and false. The United States does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means."
Focus: Hillary Clinton - Feb 27, 2015
Green groups divided on Hillary Clinton's oil interest ties - Reuters
Hillary Clinton Won’t Talk About Keystone. And Greens Are OK With That. - NationalJournal.com
Hillary Clinton’s Complex Corporate Ties - WSJ
Clinton foundation received up to $81m from clients of controversial HSBC bank - The Guardian
No Crudités, but Hillary Clinton Still Has a Long List of Demands for Speeches - NYTimes.com
Hillary’s State Department OK’d Bill Clinton’s big-money speeches - POLITICO
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Psaki defends Clinton Foundation donation - The Washington Post
VIDEO: Psaki: Ethics Deal Broken By The Clinton Foundation? No problem - whitehousedossier
White House dodges questions on Clinton Foundation donations - Washington Times
VIDEO: White House spokesman dodges questions on Clinton Foundation donations - YouTube
Carly Fiorina criticizes Clinton over foundation money - Yahoo News
VIDEO: Carly Fiorina Ramps Up Hillary Clinton Attacks - YouTube
Clinton Foundation: 2010 donation broke Obama administration agreement - CNN.com
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POLL: Clinton leads big in Iowa, new poll finds - Bradenton Herald
POLL: Hillary Clinton leading all of her potential Republican candidates - Public Policy Polling
Hillary Clinton Will Run 'As a Female Candidate' in 2016 - Reason.com
As senator, Clinton paid women 72 cents for each dollar paid to men - Washington Free Beacon
VIDEO: Fox News Covers Free Beacon Report on Hillary's Equal Pay Hypocrisy - YouTube
Hillary Clinton dinged for 'All Madam President's Men,' her near all-male staff - Washington Times
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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: Libya a 'magnet' for terrorism - Washington Times
Libya: Hold Policymakers Accountable For Another Washington War Gone Bad - forbes.com
Full Text of the State Department Benghazi Documents Obtained by Judicial Watch - Judicial Watch
Full Text of the Pentagon Benghazi Attack Docs - Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch: Pentagon knew truth on Benghazi at start and tied attack to Qaeda affiliate, Clinton did not take any steps to coordinate with the military and protect the killed Americans (VIDEO) - newsmax
VIDEO: Judicial Watch president talks ‘smoking gun’ emails on Benghazi - TheBlaze.com
London mayor: Hillary Clinton thinks Europe is being ‘wimpy’ against Putin - The Washington Post
Hillary Clinton: Can 'never condone' what Edward Snowden did - Washington Times
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Republicans and Many Democrats are on the attack: If We’re Going to Defend Social Security We Need to Understand It
By Dave Lindorff
The Republican-dominated Congress, with the help of a cadre of sell-out conservative Democrats in both chambers, are gearing up to attack Social Security again, under the guise of “saving” the program.
Civilization and barbarism: It Takes a Life Cult to Beat a Death Cult
By John Grant
We have to address the political grievances terrorists exploit.
-- Barack Obama
No more AUMFs! No more ‘unitary executives’!: We’re Already Losing Our Democracy and All Our Freedoms to the 2001 AUMF
By Dave Lindorff
Critics of President Obama’s proposed Authorization for Use of Military Force AUMF) against ISIS have been focused upon its deliberately obfuscatory and ambiguous language, which they rightly note would make it essentially a carte blanche from Congress allowing the president to go to war almost anywhere some would-be terrorist or terrorist copycat could be found who claims affinity with ISIS.
This is what corporatocracy looks like!: Trading US Democracy for Corporate Profits with TPP
By Dave Lindorff
If you want to get a good understanding of how thoroughly corrupted and sold-out our government in Washington is, you need only look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the latest in a series of trade “deals” that is heading towards passage right now, and that, like its predecessors, NAFTA and CAFTA, as well as the World Trade Organization, will be sucking jobs out of the US for years.
Obama the war president -- War: Where 69¢ of Each Tax Dollar Goes
By Dave Lindorff
The Nobel Peace Laureate President Barack Obama, the guy who once campaigned claiming one US war -- the one against Iraq -- was a “bad” one, and the other -- against Afghanistan -- was a “good” one, turns out to be a man who, once anointed commander-in-chief, can’t seem to find a war he doesn’t consider to be a “good” idea.
Enbridge Gets Another Federal Tar Sands Crude Pipeline Permit As Senate Debates Keystone XL
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
On January 16, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave Enbridge a controversial Nationwide Permit 12 green-light for its proposed Line 78 pipeline, set to bring heavy tar sands diluted bitumen ("dilbit") from Pontiac, Illinois to its Griffith, Indiana holding terminal.
Where’s the US ‘Syriza’ party?: Greek Voters Have Tossed a Grenade into the Banker/Bureaucrat-Controlled European Establishment
By Dave Lindorff
There is certainly exciting news from Greece today, with confirmation that the leftist coalition party Syriza has won a decisive victory, and, with the help of just one small party, the Greek Independence Party, is assured of a parliamentary majority. That means Syriza’s dynamic marxist leader, the 40-year-old former student radical
Alexis Tsipras, will shortly become Greece’s prime minister, pledged to undo years of crippling austerity and to turn Greece back into a real democracy, instead of a scene of corporate pillage.
Phony baloney: Picking Apart Obama's "Progressive" State of the Union Speech
By Dave Lindorff
There were two times Republicans broke into fervent applause during this lame duck president's seventh State of the Union speech: the first was when he called for passage of "fast track" authority to negotiate and send to the Senate a Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact -- basically a NAAFTA for the Pacific region; the second was when he noted that he "won't be running for president again."
Federal Court Order: Explosive DOT-111 "Bomb Train" Oil Tank Cars Can Continue to Roll
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
Heather Zichal, Former Top Obama Energy Aide, Named Fellow at Industry-Funded Atlantic Council
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
Heather Zichal, former top climate and energy aide to President Barack Obama his top aide in crafting his 2008 presidential campaign energy platform, has joined the industry-funded Atlantic Council as a fellow at its Global Energy Center.
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A cultural essay: Dirty Harry Goes To Iraq
By John Grant
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
-George Orwell
Back in 1979, reviewers liked to point out that Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now was so plagued with difficulty and confusion (the star suffered a heart attack during shooting and a devastating typhoon destroyed all the sets) that the making of the film paralleled the reality of the Vietnam War itself.
Beyond Vietghanistan
By Martin Luther Obama Jr., as dictated to David Swanson
Text of "Beyond Vietghanistan: A Time To Break Treaties"
By Rev. Martin Luther Obama Jr. - January 19, 2015
Speech delivered at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City.
I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because the Republican Congress leaves me no other choice. I join you in this meeting because I am in partial yet profound agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietghanistan. The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart, if not my brain, and I found myself in sympathy with your desires when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has not come for us in relation to Vietghanistan. The solemn duty of our brave troops in that troubled nation is to carry out the orders sent by their commanders, and the solemn duty of those in Washington making critical decisions is silence.
Let me be clear, the beauty of the words I've quoted is beyond doubt but the mission to which they call us is an impossibly difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men and women do not have the right to assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor should the human spirit move without great difficulty, if at all, against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding Democratic Party. Moreover when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must cherish that uncertainty, wallow in it, treasure it, shed tears over it, and then do what the military and its profiteers want done.
Some, like Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Jeffrey Sterling, and dozens more have already begun to break the silence of the night. They have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must intensify their suffering as a lesson to others. We must crush them with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must crush them. And we must rejoice as well, for surely this is the first time in our nation's history that a significant number of its religious leaders have chosen to move beyond the prophesying of peace and justice to the high ground of humanitarian war and liberal imperialism with a permanent footing unlimited in time or space. Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movement well and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around during the never-to-be-looked-back-upon era of those great Americans, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney.
Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the last promises of my campaigns and the last pretenses of legislative or legal checks on warmaking, as I have called for routine normalization and renaming of the destruction of Vietghanistan, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: Why are you speaking for more war, Dr. Obama? Why are you joining the voices of those who have never been given a Nobel Peace Prize? War and civil rights don't mix, they say. Aren't you hurting the cause of your people, they ask? And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live, a world in which evil foreigners must be confronted by the most profitable racket ever devised, or we must abandon all future elections to the domination of the Republican Party which will do exactly these same things without my eloquence.
In the light of such tragic misunderstandings, I deem it of signal importance to try to state clearly, and I trust concisely, why I believe that the path from Chicago, Illinois, -- the place where I began my political career -- leads clearly to this sanctuary tonight.
I come to this platform tonight to make a passionate plea to my beloved nation. This speech is not addressed to Kabul or to the Taliban. It is not addressed to Syria or to Russia.
Nor is it an attempt to overlook the ambiguity of the total situation and the need for a collective solution to the tragedy of Vietghanistan. Neither is it an attempt to make the new government of Vietghanistan a paragon of virtue, nor to overlook the role it can play in a successful resolution of the problem. While the Vietghanistanese may have justifiable reason to be suspicious of the good faith of the United States, life and history give eloquent testimony to the fact that conflicts are never resolved without massive and relentless force beyond anyone's estimation of the limits of sanity.
Tonight, however, I wish not to speak with Kabul, but rather to my fellow Americans, who, with me, bear the greatest responsibility in extending a conflict that has exacted a heavy price on both continents, especially our own. Let me tell you how we have suffered from these wars of President Bush's and how we must continue to suffer for decades to come.
For in the words of that old agency spiritual, this war will last, this war will last, thank god almighty, this war will last.
Congressional Democrats have an ‘inaction plan’: Taking a Meaningless Progressive Stand in Congress
By Dave Lindorff
The Democrats are showing their true colors now that they have lost control of both houses of Congress.
Suddenly, with the assurance that they don’t have to worry about being taken seriously, the “party of the people” has come forward with a proposal to levy a 0.1% tax on short-term stock trades, particularly on high speed trading.
‘A bizarre excursion into the surreal’: Is the Islamic State Really Such a Psychological Enigma?
By John Grant
By all means let’s mourn together; but let’s not be stupid together.
-Susan Sontag
The costly debacle known as the Iraq War put the US government in a tough spot that's now exacerbated by the rise of the Islamic State in Anbar Province and western Syria.
Cops prove they aren't really needed: NY's Mayor Should Fire All Protesting Cops and Apply Payroll Savings to Better Things
By Dave Lindorff
A huge number of entitled, mostly white cops in New York City, who have apparently been engaging in a two-week job action to protest their boss's (that's Mayor Bill deBlasio's) support for protesters against the police killing of Eric Garner, a black man busted for selling "loosie" cigarettes on the street on Staten Island, may be unintentionally offering the public a demonstration of their own irrelevance.
The demise of mainstream journalism, Chapter II: Philadelphia Inquirer Pimps for Philly Cop Chief
By Dave Lindorff
When I was starting out as a reporter back in 1972, working for a little family-owned daily, the Middletown Press in central Connecticut, I had editors and a publisher who demanded the best from us. If I was covering a story -- whether it was a police blotter report, a town meeting, or a controversial decision by a local zoning board -- and I failed to ask an important question, I inevitably got a call from the editor telling me to get it answered and inserted into my article.
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