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This is the quintessence of falling empire: billions and billions on war while the nation rots. Robert Reich writes on his blog: “We are not debating what’s happening to our nation. We are not creating jobs for the long-term unemployed. … Continue reading →

and ditched that copy of The Faerie Queene that’s sat on her night table? We haven’t heard much from her since her mediated endorsement earlier this week. Does she realize what this war is going to do to Democratic prospects?

The Institute for Public Accuracy has a fascinating and utterly damning dissection of the way that the warmongers around Obama, including Kerry, were cheerleading the totally fake claims made by GW Bush concerning Hussein and Iraq. In other words, “the … Continue reading →

War hunger destroys people’s integrity with a savage bellicosity of its own. The war hasn’t even started yet, and it’s already expanding, even as we’re told it will be “limited.”  David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt describe in The New … Continue reading →

That’s what John Kerry offered to Congress this week, and that’s William Rivers Pitt calling it for what it was on truthout.com.

Jon Stewart is as incredulous as the rest of us how the most moronic, incompetent and dishonest hot air balloons– aka “experts” in “mainstream” media land–get inflated all over again and paraded out on cable TV to comment on Syria.

He knows this war will sink Obama’s presidency!

The palpable desperation on the part of much, if not most of the “mainstream”news media–the urgency of coercing the public once again–derives in part from the fact that there is so little time to marshal support.  It’s not like the … Continue reading →

Clinton’s rabid attempts to prove her testosterone count was one reason she lost the Democratic nomination in 2008.  Her support for the looming disaster in the Middle East will likely cost her it in 2016. And I mean, really, not … Continue reading →

It’s incredible:  This is a country with millions of hungry, of dispossessed, of un- and under-unemployed, as well as millions of working poor. And strikes against Syria is what the President and his team want to to go to the … Continue reading →