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The Republican Menace
Like a cancer in remission, the vanquished enemies of democracy in America continue their lamentable existence, now as offstage agents of fear and doom. We did not need to wait long for a taste of their duplicitous tactics: citing the Constitution, FOX News anchor Chris Wallace claimed that Obama was in fact not sworn in as [...]
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Tags: Fox News, inauguration, Oath of Office, Obama
Burn Baby Burn
As 2009 begins, the financial downturn is starting to affect us all. The New York Times has just published a persuasive meditation by Michael Lewis on what the meltdown and bailout hoax reveals about the American financial model. An excerpt:
The Madoff scandal echoes a deeper absence inside our financial system, which has been undermined not merely [...]
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Chutzpah
A brave Iraqi reporter has eloquently expressed the opinion of millions – if not billions – of citizens of the world (including some Americans).
From the article on France24:
An Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes and an insult at George W. Bush, without hitting him, as the US president was shaking hands with the Iraqi premier at [...]
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Tags: Bush farewell
No Money for Auto Industry
So the people who engineered ecological monstrosities like the Hummer are not going to get their hoped-for corporate welfare package. Breaks my heart, that.
I’d say the defeat of the latest attempt to make US taxpayers pay for the sins of blatant corporate mediocrity and greed deserves a little celebration…
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Tags: auto bailout
I Got the Bailout Blues
I didn’t understand the reasoning behind the last bailout, and I sure don’t get the need for this one. Let’s hope the radical Republicans (!) manage to sink it…
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Tags: bailout, kleptocracy
It’s Morning in America
My peoples, what can I say? Obama’s victory took us off into that bright, glowing place that we only get to visit about once every decade. Granite walls collapsing into dusty puddles, the innocent dancing of my son to an unknown song, a quiet moment of humble and well deserved victory, love.
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Next time you travel to the US, think twice about what you take with you – your files may be contraband:
In opening the 25 June hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights, subcommittee chair Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.) said, “Over the last two years, reports have surfaced [...]
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A midweek cartoon
From the acid-penned genius known only as Mr. Fish:
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For Bastille Day
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
These words, from “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, are engraved on a tablet within the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York [...]
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Dead on the Fourth of July
Today saw the passing of former US senator Jesse Helms, right wing supporter of death squads in El Salvador, opponent of federal spending on AIDS research, bosom buddy to big tobacco, enemy to the arts, and recalcitrant southern racist. In varied dark and twisted ways, Helms incarnated the worst, most inbred aspects of American [...]
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