Senator John McCain (R-AZ) played shameless politics during a hearing on Tuesday on the US withdrawal from Iraq. McCain more or less called Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta a liar to his face when Panetta explained that negotiations with the Iraqi government to keep some US troops in that country faltered on the issue of […]
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Puncturing the Pipeline
Conventional wisdom has it that the next election will be fought exclusively on the topic of jobs…
NYPD Attack on OWS and the End of the First Amendment
Not only did the police, at the orders of billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg, abruptly move on the protesters, they are alleged to have deliberately kept the press away, which is clearly unconstitutional if true. The US constitution prohibits Congress from restricting the right of citizens to assemble peacefully and to petition for redress of grievances. […]
Only Green Energy Can Save Yemen
No one gives any credence to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s pledge on Monday to step down in 90 days, since he’s made such commitments before and reneged on them. The Yemeni revolution shows no sign of subsiding, but it so far has not been strong enough to displace the president, who has ruled as […]
Muslim- and Liberal-Hater Breivik Confronted by Survivors in Open Court
Norway’s mass murdered Anders Behring Breivik, a right wing white Christian supremacist who has confessed to killing 77 Labor Party youth activists and allegedly wounded 151 others, appeared in open court on Monday. The BBC reports: “One of those who witnessed his shooting spree on Utoeya was 20-year-old Bjoern Ihle from Oslo. “He aimed at […]
Herman Cain Painfully Clueless on Libya
Herman Cain more or less admits that he has no idea what he would have done about the Libyan Revolution and no idea whether his criticisms of Obama on the conduct of the Libya War are well grounded or not. Cain keeps saying he’d have others do an assessment for him, but our experience with […]
GOPers Promise you War on Iran & Torture & Poverty
Saturday’s Republican debate, sponsored by CBS and the National Journal, revealed a Republican field that is promising war on Iran and a revival of the use of torture, as well as horrible relations with the new governments in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya (according to Herman Cain, they have gotten “out of hand,” and he and […]
No, that wasn’t an al-Qaeda Flag over Benghazi
I asked a Libyan scholar about the silly urban legend going around that an “al-Qaeda” flag flew from a government building in Benghazi recently. Here is what he said: ” I looked up the mentioned flag, it appears to be a black flag with the shahada [Muslim profession of faith] in it. A black flag […]
Arab League Sets Syria for Suspension
The Arab League initiated the suspension of Syria’s membership on Saturday, giving Damascus three days to cease shooting down Syrian demonstrators or else the country would be isolated, with AL members withdrawing their ambassadors and Syria losing its voting rights in the body. Aljazeera English has video: This step is the second taken this year […]
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