Why is This NY Congressional Election All About Israel?

What about the economy, jobs, the environment, reaffirming the rights of workers, preventing NY jobs from going overseas? Nope, none of that matters apparently. The special election to fill Anthony Weiner’s vacated congressional seat has turned into a contest of who can love Israel more, complete with some good old-fashioned racial/religious politics and Islamophobia: In […]

AIPAC to Send 81 Members of Congress to Israel

This is how the game works. AIPAC pays to have members of Congress go on a “fact finding” trip to Israel to “educate” them and from that time forward, those members of Congress will know the rules; it’s pay-for-play. People with diverse opinions about foreign policy relating to the Middle East need not apply. It’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Fox News Headlines Vs. Real News Headlines

This is via Buzzflash. It shows how Fox spins certain headlines to, shall we say, appeal to their own unique audience. Here are a few of the samples but go here to check them all out, they are too funny: Actual Headline: Fox News Headline: Actual Headline: Fox News Headline: Actual Headline: Fox Headline: Actual […]

Friends of Bibi VERY Angry at Jewish Democrats

I don’t know if there is something in the water or if someone blew a dog whistle, but over the past two weeks the conservative media have been out in force tring to convince the Jewish community that if they are Democrats and they support Obama in 2012, then the terrorists will win and Israel […]

Representative Peter Kings Invokes the Ghost of McCarthy

So much for progress or learning from history. The McCarthy hearings on “unamerican activities” became a foil for ruining the careers and in some cases imprisoning people whom the US government (and J. Edgar Hoover) didn’t agree with- many of the suspected Communists happened to be Jewish intellectuals and leftists so it was a great […]

Was Fox News Watching the Same Peaceful Revolution in Egypt That the Rest of Us Were?

Many in the GOP and almost everyone at Fox News have made it clear that freedom and democracy are just empty, hollow politically expedient tools to use to whack one’s political opponent over the head with. Anyone can stick a flag pin on their lapel and claim to be a patriot but it takes real […]

Sarah Palin Tweets on Egypt

This was apparently “Breaking News” on Fox News: Not “congratulations to the people of Egypt for standing up for the principles I myself espouse” but her usual negative snark. I guess in Sarah Palin-world Egypt is exactly the same as Iran because, well, they’re all Muslims so what’s the difference? The fact that one is […]