Bill O’Reilly set the frame for an “angry white male” understanding of the bath Mitt Romney took at the polls Tuesday night, even before it was entirely clear to Fox Cable News that their guy was going down. O’Reilly, for all the world like a liberal arts assistant professor, explained it in terms of class, […]
Top Ten Wish List Progressives should Press on President Obama
President Obama’s reelection should mean more to progressives than simply dodging the bullet of a Romney presidency indebted to the Tea Party. Democratic politics has to be more than relief, while playing Russian Roulette, that this time we got the empty chamber. Progressives are a significant wing of the Democratic Party, and if we continue […]
Combining Wind Power And Electric Vehicles In Denmark (Video)
On one of Denmark’s islands, locals are running their electric cars in some part off wind energy. This kind of arrangement is the only viable future for humankind.
Four Middle East crises will face the next President Immediately
American politics is mainly about domestic issues, and the presidential election season has caused a sort of black out of international news on US networks for the most part. But the planet is still out there, even if inhabitants of the large island that is the United States may find it difficult to believer (or […]
Our way-too-Supersized Elections: Engelhardt on BillMoyers.com (Video)
From BillMoyers.com: “Tom Engelhardt on Supersized Politics in the 2012 Election November 5, 2012 If we’ve learned anything from the 2012 race, it’s that American politics have gotten way out of our control. Our guest Tom Engelhardt says that, like our sodas and our military, our elections have become “supersized.” In this web-exclusive interview, filmed […]
Top Ten Coming Disasters: Romney’s America 2016
What will the United States look like in 2016 if Mitt Romney wins? While predicting the future is of course impossible, actually my experience is that if you play out known possible scenarios in your mind, you can often get a fair idea of the likely course of events. 1. Austerity does not work– it […]
Romney: “Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of Iran War” (Goulka)
Jeremiah Goulka writes at Tomdispatch: The Dogs of War Are Barking: Mitt Romney’s Team Wants to Let ‘Em Loose in Iran It’s the consensus among the pundits: foreign policy doesn’t matter in this presidential election. They point to the ways Republican candidate Mitt Romney has more or less parroted President Barack Obama on just about […]
Romney-Ryan: The Real Death Panel (Jamiol Cartoon)
By Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World
How US Drone Assassinations all Began (Woods)
Chris Woods writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) usually gets all the credit for the first US drone targeted killing beyond the conventional battlefield. But it was the military which gave the final go-ahead to kill on November 3 2002. Lt General Michael DeLong was at Centcom headquarters in […]
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