ORZALA ASHRAF: What would you expect from those children who lost their feet or their arm or their mother or their father during that kind of bombing? What would you expect from them? Do you expect them to join the peace process? Do you expect them to say, “I have...
On Security, Obama’s ‘Coalition of the Willing’ Takes Shape
In a vote of 258-163, the House of Representatives passed a broad package of measures entitled H.R. 2892 "Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes." The "other purposes" really...
Arianna Huffington: Iran a Major Threat – Greenwald Disagrees
Arianna Huffington is leading the neo-liberals in their pile-on against Iran. Here she, and WAPO's Jonathan Capehart, go up against Glenn Greenwald:
Poverty and Polarization of Media Foreign-Policy Debate
A very good insight of what could be called the “Beltway Bubble†on foreign-policy thinking can be gained by a study of the September 19 National Journal’s “Insiders Poll†in which 115 Democratic and 116 Republican “insiders†ranked prominent columnists,...
Ron Paul on the Anti-Iran Hysteria
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) explains:
GE On the Anti-Iran Bandwagon
In another ominous sign in the run-up to war with Iran, General Electric announced earlier this month that it was jumping on the bandwagon of hawkish non-profit "American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc." (ACANI) signing a pledge to never conduct business in the...
Vidal Turns Against Obama: ‘We’ll have dictatorship soon’
Gore Vidal supported Barack Obama for President, but now says "America is rotting away," under the new President. Read the full interview with the Times of London.
Best “V for Vendetta” Tattoos
From the Small Press Expo cartoonist show this weekend in Bethesda, MD - a tribute to the greatest political movie of this century: [full size versions of photos available here]
The Heavy Hand of the State
Hey everybody, check out this awesome interview of James Bovard by Judge Andrew Napolitano about the lawless, and near-lawless, abuse of American persons by the FBI - specifically those arrested and charged last week for merely lying to feds while the subjects of...
Today ACORN, Tomorrow … Lockheed Martin? Northrop Grumman?
Not much can top a federally-funded ACORN associate telling a (supposed) prostitute how she can launder her income -- on camera. Except for maybe this: or this: Those are guards from the federally-funded ArmorGroup, which has a $184 million contract to protect our...


