NBC Continues to Push Pentagon’s Military Propaganda

Glenn Greenwald has been tirelessly cover the mainstream corporate media’s perpetual fear-mongering with respect to war with Iran. At a time when few people consistently hold the media elites accountable, Greenwald is one of the few that simply won’t let go of this- he is like a dog with a bone and we are much […]

Elizabeth Warren Interview with Rachel Maddow

This is from last night. It’s from YouTube and was divided up into two parts, both of which are below. I do think that Warren will generate a lot of national buzz and that she will be able to raise money from states outside of MA. On the flip side, with Warren in the race […]

Yes She Is!

Elizabeth Warren is running for the Senate in Massachusetts. Here is her website. I will volunteer and knock on doors and make phone calls- whatever it takes- to make Massachusetts blue again. It’s time to elect a Democrat that is true to progressive, democratic principles and who stands up for the working/middle class.

Government Wastes Billions of Taxpayer Dollars in the Post-9/11 Security Feeding Frenzy

This is a disgrace. But hey, so long as the word “security” can be applied, who cares about billions of dollars going down the drain with nothing to show for it? That has NOTHING to do with so-called “out of control government spending.” No, the real problem is poor people who milk the system with […]

Obama Pushing Job-Killing Free Trade Agreements that He Opposed as a Candidate

Here’s what Candidate Obama said about these lousy trade deals at in 2008. See here and here. There are three short videos at the link that are really worth watching because it shows what a bunch of BS this administration is selling us. Experts say these trade agreements will result in net job losses as […]

Quote of the Day

“No risk of that, no risk.” — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner during an interview in April, discussing the risk of the U.S. debt being downgraded.

The Rich are Getting Richer, the Middle Class is Disappearing But Hey, the Military Industrial Complex is Doing Well!

We are a nation in decline. Defense spending continues to increase, labor unions and public employees are being scapegoated for our economic problems, the tax code favors the rich and on and on. Some millionaires in the U.S. paid zero income tax as did many of the largest U.S. corporations. And no, those defense “cuts” […]

The National Security State: If We Keep This Up The Terrorists Win

The events of 9/11 have spawned an understandable focus on security, however, the extent of fear-mongering, Islamophobia and ongoing curtailment of civil liberties, along with the meteoric rise of an unwieldy national security state which operates like a secret government within a government, is at odds with the principles and values of representative democracy. The […]

Don’t Ever Forget What the Media Is: Corporate

The media is only as liberal as the conservative multinational corporations that own it. It is no secret that MSNBC has endeavored to be the more liberal version of Fox News, a questionable gambit that is more of a concession to race-to-the-bottom journalism than anything else. While I happen to be quite progressive, I never […]

Obama Administration Desperate to Keep Troops in Iraq

Iraq was never about weapons of mass destruction, it was about oil, re-making the map of the Middle East in the West’s image and securing military bases of operation in the region to fight other wars- like with Iran: But in recent months, the U.S. has let it be known that it is willing to […]

Barack Obama and His Corporate Friends Toss Elizabeth Warren Under the Bus *updated*

Barack Obama is not a progressive and he never was. During the 2008 election he simply told the liberal base what they wanted to hear. He made Hillary Clinton out to be a Republican-lite candidate but in the end, he’s the one that is a DINO (Democrat in Name Only). He gets frustrated when people […]

Time for Responsible Cuts to Defense Spending

Anyone who is serious about dealing with the deficit but who takes all defense spending off the table, isn’t really serious about deficit reduction. Instead, they are simply interested in using the debt debate as a pretext to cut social programs they never liked to begin with, all the while watching out for their corporate […]

FoPo Link Dump: Or News the MSM is Ignoring

I’ve run across a few stories over the last few days that I’ve noticed have received very little coverage in the U.S. mainstream media. Here they are: ~Violence against Palestinians by Settlers is up 152% while violence against Israelis via terrorist attacks [by Palestinians] is down 96%. That number does NOT include the increasing violence […]

South Sudan Declares Independence But Still Has a Long Road to Haul

It’s certainly an incredible milestone and hard-won. Probably the best resource for Sudan is the website of the Enough! Project, which tends to not rely so much on “unnamed government sources” like the MSM does. In fact, here’s a short primer on the history of the conflict. I’ll admit, I’m no expert on the conflict […]

News Round-Up

On this day in history, July 10, 1509, theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, was born France. Some news bits: ~Elizabeth Warren for Senate? ~The GOP has predictably rebuffed the President’s so-called Grand Bargain, which is really a Grand Capitulation to corporate interests on the backs of the middle class, so […]

U.S. Militarism and Women’s Rights

This is a subject that I’ve been interested in for a long time. I’ve always had a hard time rationalizing certain feminist principles with the United States’ hawkish foreign policy. How can we as a country proclaim our unyielding support for women around the world while at the same time advocating military solutions to almost […]

Is the US Response to Mass Rapes and War Crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo Driven by Politics?

NY Times columnist Nick Kristoff is right- the crimes taking place in the DRC are among the most under-reported in the world. It’s almost as though the DRC doesn’t exist. When was the last time you heard a story about the never-ending conflict there? Probably the last time was when Secretary Clinton bravely went to […]

Obama’s Afghanistan Speech: Underwhelming

President Obama’s incessant need to try to please everybody is annoying. As usual, he has tried to split the baby and is bringing an insignificant number of troops home over a period of about two years. Given that his 2009 “surge” added 30,000 troops, he will only be bringing an extra 3,000 troops home to […]

What We Have Given Up to Fund the War in Afghanistan in 2011

The Iraq War was based on a lie and the war in Afghanistan has become a boondoggle of epic proportion and yet we are still in both countries (and a few new ones!), with no clear endgame in sight. The administration admits that there are around maybe around 50-100 Al Qaeda members in Afghanistan and […]

OT: Mental Health Break: John Stewart on Fox News Sunday

This is good. I wonder if Chris Wallace realizes how clueless and out of touch he sounds? There is just nothing cool about Chris Wallace- not his voice, not his clothes and not that bizarre thing on top of his head. The media is only as liberal as the huge corporate interests that own them. […]