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(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 29, 2018 Douma Blackout
What your embedded mass media don't want you to know about the latest "chemical attack" in Syria.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 1, 2008 Capital Murder in Texas
Is Bush subject to the death penalty under the laws of Texas?
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 14, 2019 Down to Earth
Multiple reports by airline pilots of design defects in new, improved Boeing 737 were suppressed by government and media, resulting in scores of deaths of unwitting travelers.
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Fort Hood Mystery
How did one guy manage to shoot 43 people in a roomful of soldiers who have been carefully trained to bear any risk to protect each other from harm?
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Censored: Media Consolidation Debate
Major broadcasters have turned their backs on the debate over media consolidation, as has the ink-on-paper press, and no wonder: their branch of the entertainment industry is the sole beneficiary of the FCC's unpopular deregulation move, and they'll be forever beholden to the reluctant regulators if any part of it gets through.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, November 30, 2007 Rules of Engagement: Cowardice Codified
The bravest soldier becomes a coward when he follows an order to shoot unarmed people. The slaughter reported in this week's news of people on a Baghdad bus that didn't stop for soldiers at a roadblock is a case in point.
(14 comments) SHARE Friday, April 11, 2008 Yoo Disbarment Sought
The National Lawyers' Guild has called for the disbarment of John Yoo, the former Justice Department attorney who authored the notorious "torture memorandum," used to justify the illegal imprisonment and maltreatment of prisoners held by American military authorities as "unlawful combatants."
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 7, 2019 Metamorphosis
How accusations of prejudice can elicit prejudice.
SHARE Friday, January 4, 2008 Connecticut Congressman Dodges Impeachment Questions
Congressman John Larson responded in writing to the 12 questions posed by Greater Hartford Impeach several weeks ago, but he supplied answers to none of them.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 20, 2008 All In for Rotten AIG
The proposed "bailout," is actually a vast transfer of wealth from the have-nots to the haves. Ask your congressman who's pocketing all this money (somebody is), and you'll discover it's people with too much money--including no small number of Arabs, Asians and Europeans--who risked some of it to make more. They suffered a modest loss, and they're turning it into a panic so they can loot our treasury.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 21, 2008 Bill of Rights Toilet Paper in Army Lawyers' Latrine?
It's very likely that some federal judges will have occasion to review the Sixth Amendment rights of criminal defendants when the cases now pending before the so-called military commissions at Guantanamo prison reach them. The accused--six Arabs said to have been involved in the events of September 11, 2001--have been denied each and every right enumerated by the Sixth, and they're on trial for their lives.
SHARE Tuesday, August 14, 2007 Why Our Failing Infrastructure Isn't News
When the ceiling of a mine or a bridge over the Mississippi or a Brooklyn steam pipe or a New Orleans dike fails catstrophically, that's news. But when information comes to light warning of such a failure before it happens, that's not only not news, it's fodder for the censors.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 17, 2012 T&A Club
I'm thinking of starting a torture and assassination (T&A) discussion group. Along with the central issue--the propriety or impropriety of T&A--we'll talk about the tactics themselves: the purposes, processes and proper application of torture and assassination.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 8, 2007 Oh, Bomb 'Em, Obama
President Barak Obama, in possession of "actionable intelligence," would order our armed forces to drop bombs on Pakistan. His recommendation betrays him as a would-be dictator.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 16, 2007 Tyrants' Prosecution in Focus
By taking impeachment "off the table," the Speaker of the House of Representatives seems to believe that she's sparing the nation a gross-out of monumental proportions, and she may be right. Daunted by the prospect of extended hearings, the Speaker might be disposed to put impeachment back on the table if she considered what prosecutors do in cases involving multiple offenses.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 19, 2007 Scared Silly in the Homeland
Looks like Director Chertoff's gut feeling has spread throughout the commercial media. NPR, ABC, CNN, and the others can't seem to talk about anything but the threat of terrorism. It's a wave of hype that's transparent in its purpose: to scare the hapless people of the homeland silly.
SHARE Monday, December 17, 2007 Endtimes for Half-Measures: Radical Policy for the Near Term
It's possible, maybe even likely that we will see a radical shift in public opinion and political activity over the next few years. Our youth and their kids, who will fall victim to a catastrophe of our making if we don't act, take precedence over all else. Damn the consequences of revolution if it improves their chances!
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, November 9, 2007 Neocrats OK Fascist AG
Senate Democrats Charles Schumer, Diane Feinstein, and four others teamed up with the entire Republican caucus to subvert the rule of law yesterday by appointing an openly fascist lawyer to serve as attorney general.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 19, 2007 Imperial Courts Safe with Mukasey
We waited all day for this question: "Judge Mukasey, there's every reason to believe the last attorney general and the president have violated federal laws, precipitating a crisis of confidence in the Constitution of the United States and the rule of law itself. What are you going to do about that?"
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, September 21, 2007 Lynch Mobs Still Control Cracker Justice
The man who prosecuted three white college athletes on charges that they raped a black stripper was disbarred for prosecutorial misconduct, unlike the man who is prosecuting six black high school students for attempted murder over a schoolyard brawl.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 15, 2007 Admiration Society Meets Idol in Journalistic Simulation
The reporters joked with him. They laughed at his wisecracks. He evaded their questions, instead bloviating endlessly to cut down on the number of questions they could ask. He mocked them. Press conference? It was an insult to responsible Americans.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 17, 2008 The George and Charlie Show
Between Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, the designated inquisitors, not a single intelligent question was put to either candidate during ABC News' so-called "debate" in Pennsylvania last night.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 12, 2007 Don't Regulate. Confiscate.
The Supreme Court says that the Constitution forbids us from legislating a limit on the amount of money people can spend to manipulate public opinion. Fortunately, it doesn't limit our authority to tax wealth, even when our purpose is to limit the political power of those with too much of it.
SHARE Wednesday, December 30, 2009 Adjoining Plots
Suppose that the president of the United States received intelligence that a very dangerous man was hiding in a house in a foreign country. Would it be OK for the president to get in touch with the authorities in that country and ask them to drop a bomb on that house?
SHARE Thursday, December 6, 2007 Alarms Censored, Polluters Sanctioned, Ignorance Recompensed
The prospect of catastrophic climate change wasn't news to informed citizens, who have been following the story for the better part of 25 years, but it seems to have come as a shock to the embedded mass media. Now, the bill comes due for a generation of journalistic malpractice.
SHARE Tuesday, July 17, 2007 Newark Ploy Will Backfire on Federal Prosecutor
The U.S. Attorney for New Jersey gives the public every reason to believe that he is manipulating the prosecution of former Newark mayor Sharpe James for political advantage, and the defendant's lawyers are likely to remind him of that regularly while the case is pending. The federal prosecution of this popular African-American politician could be a case study in the destruction of the federal prosecutorial function.
SHARE Thursday, July 26, 2007 A Summer Spoiled
The real reason Pelosi, Conyers, and the others don't have impeachment on the table is that it would spoil their summer. We've stopped counting dead and maimed GI's, but you can be sure that many thousand summers will be spoiled because of the war our thuggish leaders wage as a political diversion. Find a way to spoil your Congressman's summer.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Wright Wronged. Wrong Righted?
Jeremiah Wright is the hapless victim of neobigots, paid promoters of a popular racism that proceeds not from the presumed superiority of the white race but from its presumed inferiority.
SHARE Thursday, December 13, 2007 What Else is on Those Tapes?
Obstruction of justice may well have been an important motive for those who erased the videotaped interrogations (and torture) of two arab prisoners, but that doesn't rule out other motives. Why is there no discussion of the possibility that the tapes were destroyed to suppress the contents of the interviews, to keep the public from knowing what the prisoners actually said?
SHARE Monday, October 1, 2007 Majority Rule Scatters Dems
The good news is that the Democratic party won a majority in the last congressional election. That's also the bad news. If upper-case Democrats ever acted in concert, things might change, and we can't have that. And so Dems are split on every important issue, and lower-case democrats are beginning to ask what the hell is going on.
SHARE Sunday, September 30, 2007 Malfeasance Digest
We seem to be witnessing the formation of the formation of a coalition in Congress made up of Republicans and just enough Democrats to ensure that the will of the people can't be done.
SHARE Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Ringer Departs U.S. Attorney's Office
Rachel Paulose, a beneficiary of the political pogrom that cost the last attorney general his job, will be relieved of her duties as U.S. attorney for Minnesota amid charges of mismanagement and misconduct lodged by her subordinates.
SHARE Thursday, August 2, 2007 Impeachment Surges in Northeast
Impeachment advocates from various parts of the Northeast converged on Worcester yesterday to devise strategies and tactics for the summer and beyond. Billed as a summit conference, the event was a morale-builder for leaders of a movement most mainstream observers consider futile.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 30, 2007 Blowing in the 911 Wind
A country is attacked within its own borders, and its leaders pay no price, but are instead given additional powers? In all his travels, Lemuel Gulliver never saw such utter foolishness.
SHARE Monday, July 9, 2007 Summer Fun for True Patriots
It will be a long, hot summer for the thugs who run our country, and a time of vindication and satisfaction for lovers of peace and justice.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, September 28, 2007 Presidential Idolatry at C-SPAN
Let's acknowledge that most of our presidents have been narcissistic autocrats whose leadership injured the country.