Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]
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Jon Stewart v. Hannity on Bundy & Law Enforcement: “Proportionality”
Jon Stewart examines whether Sean Hannity really is concerned, as he says, only with the disproportionate use of force by law enforcement, in the Cliven […]
The Cost of Whistleblowing: Being consigned to the Minimum-Wage Underclass
(By Peter van Buren via Tomdispatch) There are many sides to whistleblowing. The one that most people don’t know about is the very personal cost, […]
GOP Divided on Whether to Support Cliven Bundy’s “Negro” Remarks
Cliven Bundy wonders if blacks were ‘better off as slaves’: Republican supporters start fleeing (via The Moderate Voice) More responsible Republicans are now starting to […]
The Coming Holy War over al-Aqsa Mosque/ Temple Mount in Jerusalem
Events of the past week in Jerusalem are extremely troubling, and indeed for the past four months. The al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site […]
Is Obama right that America’s Future is in Asia, not the Middle East?
(by Juan Cole) Barack Obama, brought up in Hawaii and having lived as a child in Indonesia, is the first Pacific president, and his current […]
FCC Plots Murder of Blogs on Behalf of Billionaire Media Lords
Breaking: FCC Will Announce the Death of Net Neutrality Tomorrow (via Americans Against The Tea Party) If you thought corporations played a big role in […]
GOP: Giving CDC money to study Gun Violence would be “Funding Propaganda”
(By Lois Beckett via ProPublica). After the Sandy Hook school shooting, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) was one of a few congressional Republicans who expressed a […]
Can Afghanistan’s Vibrant Democratic Press Survive?
(By Olof Blomqvist) The presidential election has shown Afghanistan’s increasingly mature media scene at its best – hopefully not for the last time. Afghanistan’s vibrant […]
IRS Targeted Liberal Groups More Than Tea Party: Newly Released Records
Think Progress obtained a series of IRS documents via the Freedom of Information Act that contradict Republican claims that the IRS targeted only conservative Tea Party groups for scrutiny because of their political beliefs. The 22 “Be On the Look…
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