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In Tea Party Address, Palin stokes the anti-rights fire

As expected, I disagreed with just about everything Palin said. However, there was one part of her speech in particular that really got my blood boiling: She propagated the lie that the would-be Christmas airline bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, stopped talking after he was read his Miranda rights. The right wing likes to use that talking point to further their belief that... More

America’s Dark Side

Progressive activists and writers continually bemoan the fact that the news they generate and the opinions they express are consistently ignored by the mainstream media, and thus kept from the masses of the American people. This disregard of progressive thought is tantamount to a definition of the mainstream media. It doesn’t have to be a conspiracy; it’s a matter... More

Walk a Mile…

I know you need your sleep now, I know your life’s been hard. But many men are falling, where you promised to stand guard. ~ Leonard Cohen My friend Bernie says he’s suffering from Afghanistan information exhaustion. “During all those months that Obama was dragging his feet about escalating the war in Afghanistan, did you ever get the impression,”... More

As sea level rises so does the level of climate change denial

“We’re simply talking about the very life support system of this planet.”  (Joachim Schellnhuber, Director, Potsdam Climate Impacts Institute, advisor to the German government). The release of more than 320 billion tons of carbon (GtC) from buried early biospheres, adding more than one half of the original carbon inventory of the atmosphere (~590 GtC) to the atmosphere-ocean... More

Video: The New Great Game: The River of Destiny

Iqbal Malhotra, who is a personal friend of the Afghan Ambassador in New Delhi, Mr.Masood Khalili, began planning in April 2001 to bring the real identity of the Northern Alliance to the notice of the world. The world believed the Taliban had overrun almost 90 percent of Afghanistan, and that they had a mind of their own. As The New Great Game shows, this was far from the truth,... More

Not Your Father’s Army

Most of us Americans have a deep and abiding respect and admiration for our country’s fighting men who have served–and are serving–within the US Armed Forces. We appreciate their willingness to put themselves in harm’s way for the preservation of our nation’s liberty and independence. We honor their sacrifice. Indeed, many of us share that sacrifice... More

Book Review: My Father was a Freedom Fighter

Ramzy Baroud’s “My Father Was A Freedom Fighter” is more than a book, it is actually a masterpiece. In an overwhelmingly evoking personal style Baroud manages to bring to light the history of the Palestinian people and their battle with Israel and Zionism. Through the story of the Baroud’s family the book outlines every event in the history of the conflict and reflects... More

Haiti’s Ordeal: A Harbinger For Much of The Third World’s Accelerating Misery

While the world sends food, water, tents, toilets and doctors to Haiti, most American citizens don’t realize that island’s plight dives deeper than a few earthquakes. Haiti symbolizes dozens of the world’s countries that live on the edge of catastrophe.  It won’t take an earthquake to trigger their equation into chaos.  They live on the edge daily.  For example,... More

Mr. Obama, You Need to Forcefully Take the Lead

Mr. President, It is easy to understand that you are beholden to corporate interests in a number of diverse ways, which could limit your sense of options relative to unrestrained fossil fuel use. Yet, we, all together, cannot face run-away climate change, weak support for constructive energy programs, unbridled economic growth, barely regulated free trade, ever expanding resource... More

Exposed: Bernanke’s “Skimming Operation”

The reappointment of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke means that the opportunity for change has passed and the reform movement is dead. It means that and that derivatives trading, off-balance sheet operations, securitization, dark pools and high frequency trading will go on much as they have before. It means that the public will continue to be gouged so that a handful of Wall Street... More

Smoking Guns and Bulls-eyes: Israel rewrote the rules of War for Gaza

On February 3, 2010, The Independent reported that a high-ranking officer who served as a commander during Operation Cast Lead, admitted that Israel’s army went beyond its previous rules of engagement on the protection of civilian lives and “that he did not regard the longstanding principle of military conduct known as ‘means and intentions’– whereby a targeted suspect... More

America Running Blood Red Deficits

But Still Giving Billions To Illegal Aliens… Take a look at these figures:  NBC reported 26 million Americans unemployed or working half time because they cannot obtain a full time job.  Countless millions lost their homes to foreclosures in the past three years.  At the same time, 35 million Americans subsist on food stamps. Yes, you may check Google for that figure. ... More

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