U.S. DRONE STRIKES IN PAKISTAN: WE’RE NOT DOING THEM; BUT DAMN THEY ARE DOING GOOD! The U.S. government resists demands to release records on drone strikes, saying there is “no proof” that such a program exists but not hesitating to “leak” operations that are said to kill terrorist leaders. And of course in defining [...]
At a pace much faster than anyone could have projected, the landscape of campaign finance in American politics has undergone a dramatic transformation to a point where deregulated outside groups hold a distinct advantage over individual campaign war chests. The monumental presidential contest of 2012 appears to be the dawn of the super-PAC age in [...]
As the number of Americans seeking assistance from states and the federal government swell to record levels in a sluggish post-recession economy, more and more politicians are actually seeking ways to impede the access to government aid for the poor. The question of how much the federal government and states should be doing to aid the tens of millions [...]
WHEN DID THE “SPONTANEOUS” ARAB SPRING TURN INTO AMERICA’s “IMPERIAL RIGHT” TO FIND “A BALANCE…BETWEEN THE MILITARY AUTHORITIES” AND THE PROTESTERS? (Salon) Glenn Greenwald viciously displays the mounting hypocrisy of the mounting U.S.-role in the latest developments to rattle the middle East in the post-Arab Spring universe. Events on the ground having gotten the best [...]
Americans are still almost a year away from heading to the polls to choose their next president, but significant campaign money is already flowing as the country lurches into its first presidential election since campaign finance regulations were gutted by the Supreme Court. The 2010 midterm contests were noted for the massive infusion of cash [...]
Executives at two giants of the US mortgage industry were fingered by the federal government as perpetrators of fraud in one of the few cases ever to come out of the 2008 financial meltdown despite its consequences nearly bringing down the global economy. And in a political twist, President Obama and his potential election challenger [...]
LAMENT OF A BIBLIOPHILE: U.S. BECOMING A “COUNTRY WITHOUT LIBRARIES.” (NY Review of Books) Blogger for New York Review of Books decries the decline of any kind of political will to maintain the place of the public library in the lives of many members of the public, including himself. Libraries all over the country are [...]
Is the “objective” of all Muslims really to “convert all infidels or to kill them”? Whether that becomes the definition of the Islamic faith may be a deciding factor in the presidential primary campaign of the Republican Party. The race to see which candidate becomes the Republican nominee to face President Obama in November 2012 [...]
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