Gregg Muttitt writes at Tomdispatch: Mission Accomplished for Big Oil? How an American Disaster Paved the Way for Big Oil’s Rise — and Possible Fall — in Iraq By Greg Muttitt In 2011, after nearly nine years of war and occupation, U.S. troops finally left Iraq. In their place, Big Oil is now present in […]
Top Five Worst Planks in GOP Platform
These are the promises that the Republican Party is making to us if it wins: 1. Outlawing abortion altogether, with no exceptions for the life and health of the mother, incest or rape. 2. Preventing the Department of Homeland Security from monitoring far right-wing hate groups (Republican House majority leader John Boehner said that the […]
Syrian Official: Resignation of al-Assad on the Table
Admittedly, the Baathist government of Bashar al-Assad could go on faltering for a long time. And it is very hard to know what is going on inside Syria, since few journalists are allowed in and those who sneak in are operating under very diificult conditions and are sometimes killed by the regime, whether deliberately or […]
Hurricane Isaac may Threaten RNC convention of Climate-Change Deniers in Tampa
Hurricane season comes every year in the Mexican Gulf, so it is no real surprise that a tropical depression in the Atlantic may well turn into Hurricane Isaac, and that it in turn may menace the Republican convention in Tampa, as attendees gather this weekend. The party has contingency plans were that to happen. But […]
Dear Rep. King: Meet a Pregnant Rape Victim
Following in Rep. Todd Akin’s footsteps, evangelical extremist Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said today of pregnancy from rape, “Well I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way, and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.” It is estimated that some 32,000 American rape […]
Islamic Shariah & Todd Akin/ Paul Ryan on Abortion & Legitimate Rape
The troubles of Rep. Todd Akin, Republican candidate for the senate in Missouri, derive from his absolute opposition to abortion, even in cases where a mother’s life is in danger or in cases of incest and rape. The ‘personhood’ bill he co-sponsored with Paul Ryan would have had the effect of making all abortions for […]
On Real Gender and Racial Equality (Gloria Steinem Poster)
Anonymous Billionaires are Stealing Your Election with Attack Ads
It would be bad enough, as I reported last week, that 47 billionaires were responsible for the lion’s share of individual Super PAC contributions. It turns out that the Super PACs aren’t even the biggest players. The biggest players are the dark money PACs, which do not have to reveal the sources of their funding. […]
Top Ten Paul Ryan Falsehoods, Gaffes and Outrages, First Week
1. Ryan’s position opposing abortion even in cases of rape, and his attempts to define cytoblasts as legal ‘persons’ (which would outlaw all termination of pregnancies and some forms of birth control) came under scrutiny when Republican Todd Akin, running for the Senate in Missouri, provoked a furor. Akin said he opposed abortion even in […]
© 2025 All Rights Reserved