the U.S. is approaching the precipice without articulating a vision as to what will follow, plunging toward a large-scale war against Iran
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Torture) is the New Normal in America (McCoy)
Alfred W. McCoy writes at Tomdispatch Impunity at Home, Rendition AbroadHow Two Administrations and Both Parties Made Illegality the American Way of Life After a […]
Your Election is being Bought by 47 Billionaires (and they are Buying War, Climate Change)
The Public Interest Group Education Fund and the NGO Demos released a study in early August on the financing of the presidential campaign. They found […]
Uygur: Paul Ryan Created the Deficit
Cenk Uygur of Current TV takes on Paul Ryan’s claims to be a deficit hawk and for small government, showing all the ways that Ryan’s […]
Arabs and the Olympics (Majid)
Anouar Majid writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The 2012 Olympics in London gave us a golden opportunity to assess the condition of […]
Really, America? Really? These are your Top Stories?
Top stories according to google news analytics, 2 pm Monday 8.13.12
You might be Paul Ryan if….
If you admitted that you got into politics because of the impact on you of the philosopher of personal greed and egotism, Ayn Rand, but […]
In Switch, Egypt’s Civilian President Makes Coup against Generals
This is BIG. The BBC says that Egypt’s elected president, from the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, has just ordered the firing of Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi, […]
Paul Ryan was for Big Deficits before he was against them (graphic)
Paul Ryan blames President Obama for the government’s budget deficits, and singles out the stimulus program as the culprit. But stimulus was one-time expenditures, not […]
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