Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Member Profile

Total number of comments: 4 (since 2013-11-28 16:51:15)

Achoria

Showing comments 4 - 1
Page: 1

  • America's Coming Space Wars (McCoy)
    • Achoria 11/10/2012 at 3:54 am

      "...what are we going to need in the future to make sure that we are safe?"

      Question - why do the policies to make sure that the US is safe coincide so readily with securing military domination of the entire planet?

  • Top Ten Wish List Progressives should Press on President Obama
    • Achoria 11/07/2012 at 8:28 am

      A few extras -

      --- Ending the US commitment to permanent war.

      --- Reducing military spending.

      --- Stopping CIA from expanding further its paramilitary role.

      On subject of women's rights, I'd like to see a constitutional amendment enshrining them, rather than women's bodies becoming political pawns every four years. It's completely unacceptable that basic rights cannot be permanently locked in, and it's a total waste of time, money, and energy that could be spent on other issues.

  • Top Five Signs of Capitalist Dictatorship in the Romney Campaign
    • Achoria 10/31/2012 at 3:45 pm

      I have come to the conclusion, independently, though others have reached the same point, that the Republican mindset is best understood as 'post-truth'. Due to media fragmentation, there has never been less cost to simply manufacturing outright falsehoods for short-run political gain.

      The new lasting post-truth addition to this campaign has been rape, which we are now to understand contains new forms, while women's bodies have also taken on amazing new powers that supersede biology. 'Post-truth' is a pretty easy way to understand the Republican distaste for science, too, as a necessary adjunct to the long-term disposal of the intelligentsia (codenamed 'liberals') as a meaningful threat to the agenda of the business elite (people such as yourself, Dr Cole).

      Along with the manufacture of falsehoods, Romney has also reserved the right to refute his own previous statements, even when they are on the record and made just weeks/months ago, i.e., his comments re: cutting FEMA. When the cognitive dissonance grew simply too large, silence was employed.

      I really urge people who have not done so to watch this clip of Romney brazenly refusing to engage on this simple question:

      link to youtube.com

  • Medley of Grey-Faced Republican Men on Duty of Raped Women to Bear the Child (Video)
    • Achoria 10/28/2012 at 4:45 pm

      I am sure each of these upstanding gentlemen would react with absolute equanimity in the awful case of one of their wives or daughters conceiving a child through rape.

Showing comments 4 - 1
Page: 1

Tweet
Share
Reddit
Email

Primary Sidebar

Support Independent Journalism

Click here to donate via PayPal.

Personal checks should be made out to Juan Cole and sent to me at:

Juan Cole
P. O. Box 4218,
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2548
USA
(Remember, make the checks out to “Juan Cole” or they can’t be cashed)

STAY INFORMED

Join our newsletter to have sharp analysis delivered to your inbox every day.
Warning! Social media will not reliably deliver Informed Comment to you. They are shadowbanning news sites, especially if "controversial."
To see new IC posts, please sign up for our email Newsletter.

Social Media

Bluesky | Instagram

Popular

  • Trumpism holds all Men are Created Unequal and most should be Denied Life, Liberty or the Pursuit of Happiness
  • Misreading and Misrepresenting Iran
  • Trump never saw a Wind Farm in China, but Beijing has half of all Installed Wind Capacity and will Eat America's Lunch in this Industry
  • Why China's Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing
  • The Trump Team's Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

Gaza Yet Stands


Juan Cole's New Ebook at Amazon. Click Here to Buy
__________________________

Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires



Click here to Buy Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


Click here to Buy The Rubaiyat.
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved