Recent weeks have brought yet another sad chance to watch badly laid plans in Afghanistan go haywire…
Romney ads anger Latinos, Slam Santorum for Sotomayor Vote
Political Ticker is reporting that Latino voters in California are annoyed with GOP front runner Mitt Romney over his ads attacking rival Rick Santorum for voting in 1998 to confirm Sonia Sotomayor for the district court. That vote, the radio ads allege, put her on the way to becoming a justice of the Supreme Court. […]
Big Coal and Big Oil Wipe Kiribati off the Face of the Map
The first country to face being wiped off the map by climate change is Kiribati in the South Pacific. Its 100,000 residents live on flat atolls only a few feet above sea level, and they are already beginning to be inundated. The government is making plans for everyone to emigrate to Fiji. I guess it […]
Iran’s Leader Seeks Control of Internet
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, having strengthened his position in the Iranian parliament, is moving to try to control the internet in Iran. He has appointed a committee including lame duck president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, officials from the Revolutionary Guards Corps, the head of the supreme court, and the speaker of parliament. The Iranian state has in […]
Dear Rick Santorum & MSM: We’re just Not that into You
From Current TV, current home of Cenk Uygur and Ketih Olbermann: A twitter feed analysis shows that the US public was not nearly as interested in the themes promoted by the Santorum condidacy as you would have thought from the wall to wall cable news coverage:
Obama slams GOP for casual war talk re Iran, stresses Costs
President Barack Obama, in his Super Tuesday news conference, explained his thinking on Iran and tensions between it and Israel. The most impressive thing he said was, Now, what’s said on the campaign trail – those folks don’t have a lot of responsibilities. They’re not Commander-in-Chief. And when I see the casualness with which some […]
Tomgram: Eyal Press, Chilling Dissent on Wall Street
What’s worse: to be persecuted and indicted for trying to expose an act of wrongdoing — or to be ignored for doing so?
Omar Khayyam (51)
I was deep asleep when a wise man said to me, ‘The rose of joy never bloomed for anyone from slumber! What are you doing? Life is short! Hit the bar, since you’ll get plenty of sleep when you’re six feet under. Translated by Juan Cole from Whinfield 51
The N. Korea/ Iran Nuclear Connection Fraud
The wingnuts are all in a tizzy about some German news article alleging that North Korea carried out a nuclear test for Iran. As with the Niger uranium story that helped underpin the Iraq war, it is all hype and there is nothing to it. Adam Cathcart has carefully traced the story to its origins. […]
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